# I thought I was a newbie, but Noooo! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 6, 2005, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-a-newbie-but-noooo/298065 "2005-04-06T17:47:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sneezy5660](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@sneezy5660](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sneezy5660)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-a-newbie-but-noooo/298065/1 "2005-04-06T17:47:52Z")
Last night I decided to leave lurkerdom and finally join the Straight Dope. I entered my e-mail addy, and all the other info, and clicked sumbit. I don’t remember what the message that popped up said, but basically the addy had already subscribed to the Dope. My reaction was 😕 , I don’t remember joining, and i certainly don’t remember starting a thread. Apparently I was googling Mojo, tried to comment on it, and goofed it up. Since I never gooof things up 😃 I don’t know what was wrong with my 'puter. Anyway, here I am whether you guys are ready or not! ``` Sneezy ``` ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-a-newbie-but-noooo/298065/2 "2005-04-06T17:50:16Z")
Sounds like a glitch in the server–looks like you made it through all right 😉 Welcome aboard! _snogs_ Now, are you ready for… _the initiation_? ---
**Author:** ![sneezy5660](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@sneezy5660](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sneezy5660)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-a-newbie-but-noooo/298065/3 "2005-04-06T18:01:23Z")
Initiation? I don’t need no steenkin’ initiation! Besides, I like goats. Barbecued goats, that is. Mmmmm…cabrito. Calamari, not so much. Kytheria, there is no way I can keeo up with your post count! You go girl! ``` Sneezy ``` ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-a-newbie-but-noooo/298065/4 "2005-04-06T18:21:23Z")
> [@sneezy5660](#): > > Initiation? I don’t need no steenkin’ initiation! Awwww, in’nt that cute…he thinks he’s got a _choice_ in the matter! \ ---
**Author:** ![sneezy5660](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@sneezy5660](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sneezy5660)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-a-newbie-but-noooo/298065/5 "2005-04-06T18:25:51Z")
Hal honey, hates to break it to ya, but I’m female! As for RGmVI, BRING IT ON! It is no match for my West Texas Nucular Cattle Prod! ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-a-newbie-but-noooo/298065/6 "2005-04-06T18:26:46Z")
Uh oh, **Hal**. Look at **sneezy5660** ’s join date vs. yours. Since his join date is earlier, doesn’t the RGmVI’s auto-initialization software seek the _newest_ member present? If I was you, I’d run. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-a-newbie-but-noooo/298065/7 "2005-04-06T18:29:38Z")
> [@sneezy5660](#): > > Initiation? I don’t need no steenkin’ initiation! Besides, I like goats. Barbecued goats, that is. Mmmmm…cabrito. Calamari, not so much. > > Kytheria, there is no way I can keeo up with your post count! You go girl! > > ``` > Sneezy > > ``` That…ain’t…the _end_…that the squid is…_involved with_, **sneezy**. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![sneezy5660](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@sneezy5660](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sneezy5660)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-a-newbie-but-noooo/298065/8 "2005-04-06T18:35:27Z")
Bosda, did you ever see a really bad movie called, Grim Prarie Tales? One of the episodes involved a woman who, if someone had sex with her, she ate him! From that end! Just sayin is all. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-a-newbie-but-noooo/298065/9 "2005-04-06T18:41:02Z")
I’m sorry, I just had to laugh at “_PowerFelch_”! Someone please take that as a doper name. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-a-newbie-but-noooo/298065/10 "2005-04-06T22:35:55Z")
> [@sneezy5660](#): > > Kytheria, there is no way I can keeo up with your post count! Repeat after me: Quality over quantity. Post counts aren’t really a big deal to most people. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-a-newbie-but-noooo/298065/11 "2005-04-07T02:55:58Z")
> [@sneezy5660](#): > > Kytheria, there is no way I can keeo up with your post count! You go girl! > > ``` > Sneezy > > ``` Yes, you might say **Kyth** ’s post count _dwarfs_ **sneezy** ’s… However, when RoboGoat Mark VI’s newest vict … er, _associate_ … reaches post #5660, her screen name will include her post count! None of us all-alpha, no-numeric members can say **that** about ourselves… Welcome, **sneezy5660**! ---
**Author:** ![sneezy5660](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@sneezy5660](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sneezy5660)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-a-newbie-but-noooo/298065/12 "2005-04-07T03:31:07Z")
Dang Sternvogel, appararently I need more sleep, because I had to read your message twice before I got the dwarf joke! I think I’m getting a cold, and the only way I can sleep is sitting up in the recliner. Actually I didn’t pick the name for the dwarf, I have bad allergies, and I sneeze all the time! Usually 10-12 times in a row! Think I’ll head for the recliner now. Night! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-a-newbie-but-noooo/298065/13 "2005-04-07T03:41:53Z")
:: sploosh :: :: a quick flash of tentacular motion :: :: bubbles :: :: **Sunspace** went out the _other_ door in the squid room and hasn’t been seen for a while. Mariah is getting restless :: ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-a-newbie-but-noooo/298065/14 "2005-04-07T04:05:02Z")
:: **Sunspace** enters the room, accompanied by **Feydeau** :: I’m back. There’s some pretty weird stuff going on [downstairs](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=6029599&postcount=107). **Daithi Lacha** went through a door nad hasn’t come back yet. So… um… how’s the squid? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-a-newbie-but-noooo/298065/15 "2005-04-07T04:06:42Z")
Oh, and welcome, **sneezy5660**. Enjoy your stay. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-a-newbie-but-noooo/298065/16 "2005-04-07T11:39:33Z")
**wheels in the trebuchet, hands sneezy a shower cap** Welcome! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-a-newbie-but-noooo/298065/17 "2005-04-07T12:29:55Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > **wheels in the trebuchet, hands sneezy a shower cap** > > Welcome! You forgot the 55 Gallon drum of Canola Oil… ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-a-newbie-but-noooo/298065/18 "2005-04-07T12:58:41Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > You forgot the 55 Gallon drum of Canola Oil… :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-a-newbie-but-noooo/298065/19 "2005-04-07T15:26:18Z")
I got the canola oil, I knew we had left it in PA the last time we did an initiation. ---
**Author:** ![sneezy5660](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@sneezy5660](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sneezy5660)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-a-newbie-but-noooo/298065/20 "2005-04-07T17:29:01Z")
Hi all, I’m finally back. My pesky “real life” interfered, and I had errands to run. I had to ride the bus to do them, so it took a little longer. Shower caps, canola oil, and trebuchets? I don’t recall this in the membership agreement. I think since I really joined in 2003, I shouldn’t get an initiation. isn’t there a statute of limitations on these things? I believe so! Mariah the squid should be allright as long as she doesn’t start singing! 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-a-newbie-but-noooo/298065.md?page=2)