I feel so old. I remember when I first found the Straight Dope. I got stuck in an argument about Star Trek with a fellow named George and never left. Well, until AOL sent us away… RL things came up around there, and I sort of lost where we were meeting. I’m really freaked out. How did the MPSIMS thread become an entire subcategory?! Anywho… I’m rambling. So I was thinking about the Straight Dope and I started to miss it. And, I wanna come hoooommme! Is anybody who remembers me still here?
Zil
I wish someone would respond. Wilson, I spelled “home” wrong. You know you want to yell at me. Are you here Wilson? What about all the “new” people , who have probably been here for years. Hi! Are you anything like the old people? Do any of you want to buy bricks to throw at each other? (I sell bricks, you know…) I’m lonely. I think I’m going to read the bored thread. That looks boring.
Zil
Well I suppose I’m way to new to say “welcome back,” so I’ll just say, “Hi.”
Hi, Zil. Long time no see. I was thinking about you the other day.
I don’t know you from Adam, but welcome home anyway!
Zil!!! Have you been promoted to Admiral, yet?
Nice to see you around.
What Mephisto said.
Also too young, OK, make that too new, to say Welcome back, but welcome anyway. Heck you do sound homesick for SDMB!
Hello. Let me be the first to welcome you to my very own empire here on the web. I have a few simple rules, and if you follow them (and I know you will) you will find your stay here to be both enjoyable and profitable.
All threads must begin with the sentence, “All hail Eonwe, supreme ruler of the internet.”
Any discussions about Star Trek must acknowledge that the holy trinity of Kirk/Spock/McCoy is immensely mightier than any other grouping from the other series.
Any reference to Opal belongs third in any list.
The second Tuesday of every month is designated “Leader Day”, during which no less than 1/3 of all threads must contain at least a passing reference to me.
Any attempt at thwarting my rule (this means you, Scylla and Fenris) will immediately result in my calling you a “goat-feltching, groundhog-loving monkey butler.”
Things have obviously changed a bit since the old AOL days, but if you follow these simple rules, I think you’ll find yourself right at home here.
Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back.
(Yeah, we tease him a lot 'cause we got him on the spot.)
Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back.
Zilly, I like your name
Welcome to the new SDMB…probably a bit different than the old board, which I’m too new to have experienced. But, let me say this: If you were addicted to the board in it’s early days…have fun now!
Jman
Hello Zilly, did they have hijacks on the old board? Just in case I’ll show you what the look like.
Spritle that song came on the radio while I was driving to work today. Also Horshack is fighting Screech on the next celebrity boxing.
Lynn and Peri! What were you thinking about me? Was it bad? Not admiral Peri, never Admiral. I’m actually a science officer now and an wizard elf and a druid named Cheeseman and an Aes Sedai Initiate and a Cariheinin noble lady… Eonwe, I can almost agree with rule #2, but I reserve the right to dig Hoshi from Enterprise. Rule #3 implies that Opal is around. Hi Opal!!! Why on earth would you want to feltch, let alone a goat?! and what’s a hijack?
I saw the message from Ed Zotti. That was exciting! Ed Zotti is really Cecil Adams, you know.
Zil
Welcome, Zilly. I’m too new to remember you, though.
By the way, a hijack is when you suddenly change the subject in a thread.
::ahem:: Zilly, you could be given 30 lashes in the Pit for this kind of crack!
We’ve never met but welcome back into the fold.
We’ll give you the Reader’s Digest version…
(1) Since you’ve been gone, The Great and Powerful Cecil has posted exactly 100 times. Ferchrissakes, he still a newbie.
(2) We’re a much larger community now. The server is on major overload and there’ve been huge debates over pay-to-post priveleges.
(3) There’ve been several bannings of posters whose names we won’t mention here.
(4) handy has exceeded 10,000 posts. :eek:
(5) There have been several budding romances and even wedding bells between dopers.
(6) We’ve had a buncha babies, dogs, and cats.
(7) And about a million other things I can’t remember right now.
Hey, Zil! I saw the username and wondered if it was you. And lo and behold, it is!
(And you know what? I met Ed Zotti!!!)
Well I’ll be damned! It’s Commander Zil!!!
Howdy! Where you been keeping yourself all this time?
AHunter3, you changed your handle if you recognize me. (Or you were a newbie when I left.) Who were you? Kyla! Hi! You met Ed? Wooooowww… One time, he emailed me. That was cool.
I have been keeping me in Japan. I then I finished high school, and now I’m in college in San Jose. For those of you who remember me from when I was 13 and a lowly ensign, I’m all growed up. When I wake up again today, I move into my apartment, which I can afford without my parents. The PG&E bill is in my name, and so is the lease! (You didn’t really care, but it is the MPSIMS thread…)
Cecil’s posted one hundred times?! WOW! That’s like if a god looked down on you and threw you a donut or something.
Pay to post?! I see why the site is so slow now. I suppose that’s technically an argument for another board.
Zil
Howdy.