# I'm back...so what's new around here? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 19, 2012, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-so-whats-new-around-here/644527 "2012-12-19T15:05:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2012, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-so-whats-new-around-here/644527/41 "2012-12-22T05:18:48Z")
I wrote a novel, solved the world economic crisis, developed clean fusion power, and had a nice bath. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2012, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-so-whats-new-around-here/644527/42 "2012-12-22T06:13:30Z")
We had avatars. There was a huge brouhaha that spilled over from ATMB into IMHO, and then GD, and then the Pit. It cause so much trouble the overlords turned them off again. But it was really cool for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2012, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-so-whats-new-around-here/644527/43 "2012-12-22T09:37:17Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I wrote a novel… And apparently, Spielberg is turning it into a movie! ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2012, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-so-whats-new-around-here/644527/44 "2012-12-22T12:04:29Z")
lol i was just gooogling new things to do and i found out about your trip to south carolina. ive always wanted to visit south carolinia before is it a good place to visit and are all the people realy nice there like you see in the movies like that one movie i think with a bunch of women called steel magnifilois. southern people are so nice and i really hope to meet a few like them some day. are you form the south too or do you just vist ohtr people there? also there arent very many dead celebritis from the south LOL OLOL LOL. maybe your death pool should includ more of them this year lolololol. do you think obama is really a muslim because thats what a lot of southern people believe and yeah hes at the end of his first term bat a lot of people dont thnk he shohuld even be allowed to be prisident in the first place becuz hes from kenya lolol i dont think thats tru but maby thers some truth to it all? younever know the world is a crazy place. ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2012, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-so-whats-new-around-here/644527/45 "2012-12-22T13:53:22Z")
Where to even start… when I last posted my kids were still in High School, and now… well it’s Saturday. Where does the time go? And as far as that bender goes… don’t let it get you down. I was three days sober when I fell off the wagon. Now I just take it minute by minute and I seem to be doing ok. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2012, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-so-whats-new-around-here/644527/46 "2012-12-22T15:15:10Z")
Holy cow, it’s Saturday again. Can you believe how time flies? Next thing you know it’ll be Sunday. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2012, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-so-whats-new-around-here/644527/47 "2012-12-22T15:18:15Z")
Who? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-so-whats-new-around-here/644527/48 "2012-12-23T03:17:32Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > And apparently, Spielberg is turning it into a movie! I hear Tom Cruise will be starring in it! ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-so-whats-new-around-here/644527/49 "2012-12-23T04:21:40Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I hear Tom Cruise will be starring in it! Really.. you didn’t see it in it’s first run. It wasn’t Tom Cruise.. it as Jim Carrey. It didn’t do so well. The book was much better. You can find the DVD version in the clearance bin. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-so-whats-new-around-here/644527/50 "2012-12-23T05:59:02Z")
Ah, too late - they tossed them out already. Hey, the sequel is out now! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-so-whats-new-around-here/644527.md?page=2)