# I love the people on these boards.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-people-on-these-boards/301080
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 25, 2005, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-people-on-these-boards/301080 "2005-04-25T22:27:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Vision\_of\_Love](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vision_of_Love)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2005, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-people-on-these-boards/301080/1 "2005-04-25T22:27:23Z")
I will be totally honest and say that when I first stumbled upon the SDMB, I was debating whether or not I should actually register. You guys all seemed intelligent and well-spoken, and I thought, with my posts amongst yours, I’d sound unintelligent. You see, I can’t write essay-long posts that are also entertaining. Maybe with a few years… 😛
Eventually, I signed up. I did not make an “I’m new!” thread, thinking you guys would look down on that kind of thing and mark me as a poster that would not last more than a month.
I don’t really have a presence here, but I think I’ve comfortably settled in, thanks to the kindness of the Dopers.
I registered on another forum a few days ago (I visit far too many, and I don’t know why I registered) and after one post, I don’t even know if I’m going to post again. They weren’t rude or anything, but they weren’t welcoming either. I browsed the other subforums to see if there was a place I could be a better fit in, but I didn’t find anything.
It seems like there’s a place for almost everyone here. That’s why I like it. You’re all so welcoming too, which I appreciate. You give people a chance and don’t ignore or taunt posters who don’t type in proper caps, or for other unimportant things like that.
So, um, thanks. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2005, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-people-on-these-boards/301080/2 "2005-04-25T22:31:46Z")
I’ve tried other forums too. And my posts dry up or never even happen. (except one which has a good photography sub-forum).
Yep, great place! {{{Group Hug}}}
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### Author:  [@klintypooh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/klintypooh)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2005, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-people-on-these-boards/301080/3 "2005-04-25T22:32:45Z")
You’re welco… Oh, I’m newer than you.
Errrrm carry on soldier.
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### Author:  [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2005, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-people-on-these-boards/301080/4 "2005-04-25T22:35:07Z")
I think once you get past the newbie stage, you don’t have to sweep and mop the SDMB floor every night.
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2005, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-people-on-these-boards/301080/5 "2005-04-25T22:41:02Z")
> [@Vision of Love](#):
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> Eventually, I signed up. I did not make an “I’m new!” thread,…
Hmmm…do we have a Statute of Limitations on initations?
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2005, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-people-on-these-boards/301080/6 "2005-04-25T22:59:10Z")
HEY!
Who grabbed my penis?
I left it right here.
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2005, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-people-on-these-boards/301080/7 "2005-04-25T23:28:09Z")
**Vision** ~~you’re cool with us.
🙂
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2005, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-people-on-these-boards/301080/8 "2005-04-26T00:26:11Z")
> [@Vision of Love](#):
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> You see, I can’t write essay-long posts that are also entertaining.
Short and pithy carries the day. Yeah, that’s my story.
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### Author:  [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2005, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-people-on-these-boards/301080/9 "2005-04-26T00:39:25Z")
> [@Chefguy](#):
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> Short and pithy carries the day. Yeah, that’s my story.
Agreed.
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2005, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-people-on-these-boards/301080/10 "2005-04-26T01:07:05Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#):
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> Hmmm…do we have a Statute of Limitations on initations?
Nope!
**snaps on latex gloves**
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### Author:  [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2005, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-people-on-these-boards/301080/11 "2005-04-26T03:24:35Z")
I figure I should thrown in my $.02, given my somewhat rare situation of returning to the SDMB after a three and a half year absence.
Cent #1) You’re damn right. This is the best board on the Internet.
Cent #2) Seriously, don’t worry about sounding intelligent. Just like anywhere else, be yourself.
Cent #3) Hi, Opal! 😃
beverage of choice for anyone who saw that coming
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2005, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-people-on-these-boards/301080/12 "2005-04-26T03:28:47Z")
You know, a list _can_ be just two items.
😛
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### Author:  [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2005, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-people-on-these-boards/301080/13 "2005-04-26T03:38:19Z")
Oh, I know, but that joke is too priceless.
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2005, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-people-on-these-boards/301080/14 "2005-04-26T04:41:13Z")
Well, given what happened with the last few initiations (the squid, the Monster Bread, and the “Death Rays” being only the beginning), I’m not sure we should _have_ another initiation. At least until we figure out how to handle the inevitable …‘incursions’.
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### Author:  [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2005, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-people-on-these-boards/301080/15 "2005-04-26T04:52:29Z")
> [@Sunspace](#):
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> Well, given what happened with the last few initiations (the squid, the Monster Bread, and the “Death Rays” being only the beginning), I’m not sure we should _have_ another initiation. At least until we figure out how to handle the inevitable …‘incursions’.
We can’t anyway till Little Ed remembers to order more goats.
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2005, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-people-on-these-boards/301080/16 "2005-04-26T05:36:42Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#):
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> We can’t anyway till Little Ed remembers to order more goats.
Yeah, Mariah has developed quite a taste for them…
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### Author:  [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2005, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-people-on-these-boards/301080/17 "2005-04-26T06:12:48Z")
Does goat consumption have an adverse effect on squid?
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### Author:  [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2005, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-people-on-these-boards/301080/18 "2005-04-26T06:16:17Z")
I love one of the people on these boards. The rest of you clowns, I can take or leave.
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### Author:  [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2005, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-people-on-these-boards/301080/19 "2005-04-26T06:19:38Z")
Don’t use the c-word!
_shudders in horror_
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### Author:  [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2005, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-people-on-these-boards/301080/20 "2005-04-26T11:32:52Z")
hehehe. I was watching Toys the other day and my 32 year old future sister in law was reading a book next to me. She looked up just in time to see a c\*\*\*\* like toy filling the whole large screen. She shrieked and jumped so high she spilled her coffee in her lap 😃 Of course, she also elbowed me in my back, right above my recent surgery incision so I got my comeuppance for laughing at her ☹
I also love this place. I always know that if I’m in a bad mood, someone here will make me laugh til I cry. The best though is when my fiancee calls me from work to direct me to a thread because reading it made him snarf his coffee (big coffee drinkers in his family).
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