# Introduction-first post **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 22, 2011, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduction-first-post/593649 "2011-08-22T12:54:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![beachbetch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@beachbetch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beachbetch)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduction-first-post/593649/1 "2011-08-22T12:54:59Z")
Hi guys. I’m a long time lurker, first time poster. Long time as in, I can remember reading SDMB on my giant Dell monitor that took up my whole desk and waiting (impatiently) for each thread to load with my super-slow dial up. Late 1990’s I guess that was. Finally bit the bullet and joined as a guest and soon to be subscribing member. I am awed and humbled by the intelligence of the posters on this board. I consider myself smart/well-read/open minded…but when I need a dose of reality, I can come here and have my own ignorance fought by truly gifted posters. I joined after all this time as a lurker because my favorite posters are dying. I read about the deaths of people who I felt like I knew and was sad that I had never actually conversed with them or told them how much I respected and admired them. Now it’s too late. I don’t like having regrets. I have very few in my life. So here I am. Good to meet you all. Be gentle. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduction-first-post/593649/2 "2011-08-22T13:05:01Z")
Howdy **beachbecth**. Don’t know that I’ll be much use in helping fight your ignorance; much too mired in my own… Man, you lurkin’ long time! ---
**Author:** ![beachbetch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@beachbetch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beachbetch)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduction-first-post/593649/3 "2011-08-22T21:11:55Z")
Hi 6. Thanks for the welcome. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduction-first-post/593649/4 "2011-08-22T21:45:14Z")
Hello and Welcome! ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduction-first-post/593649/5 "2011-08-22T21:58:44Z")
Welcome to the madness. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduction-first-post/593649/6 "2011-08-22T22:42:57Z")
Hello **beachbecth.** Be welcome. Enjoy your stay! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduction-first-post/593649/7 "2011-08-22T23:00:38Z")
> [@beachbetch](#): > > Good to meet you all. > > Be gentle. > > 🙂 Heh. When I read your screen name, the first thing I thought of was [the Shoes video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCF3ywukQYA). 🙂 [warning: music video, adult language, but pretty tame, not to mention funny] Oh yeah, welcome aboard. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduction-first-post/593649/8 "2011-08-23T00:02:56Z")
Howdy. The amazing thing is that for the most part, everyone here knows everything. We’re just really careful to make it look like we have a specific expertise. I think someone has a bag of available specialties…feel free to grab one and contribute. Now who did we leave that bag with… -D/a ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduction-first-post/593649/9 "2011-08-23T01:45:53Z")
Hiya stranger! 😉 Another sane, friendly voice is most definitely welcome. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduction-first-post/593649/10 "2011-08-23T02:33:04Z")
Welcome! I envy your locale. Warm sand, cold drinks, seagulls screaming at the waves to hurry up with the tide. Perhaps one lone Cessna lazily pulling a banner for some club/bar holding ‘Corona Night’. Just add the sound of a cheap FM radio, the fragrance of sunblock, and the unmistakable smell of 1000 tons of pale tourists roasting in the sun and I’ll think I’m on vacation. ---
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduction-first-post/593649/11 "2011-08-23T04:37:17Z")
> [@beachbetch](#): > > Good to meet you all. > > Be gentle. > > 🙂 Gentle, sure sure, no problem. Just hang out here for a bit, we’ll be right back. “Hey, grab the small squid from the back! Yeah, we got a new-- what? No, not the rhinocerous. That’ll never fit. And see if the goat’s ready whil-- huh? It did? Well that’s just perfect. Listen, just find something comparable, with the right number of ridges. I’ll get the damn mop later, we’ve got something to attend to here!” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduction-first-post/593649/12 "2011-08-23T15:31:06Z")
> [@beachbetch](#): > > I joined after all this time as a lurker because my favorite posters are dying. [Checks pulse…] _Whew!_ I’m glad I’m not a favourite poster! ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheField](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@LilyoftheField](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheField)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduction-first-post/593649/13 "2011-08-23T18:54:46Z")
> [@beachbetch](#): > > I am awed and humbled by the intelligence of the posters on this board. > > 🙂 Hmmm…well, apparently we haven’t met! 😛 Welcome to the board - pull up a comfortable point of view (feel free to change it without notice!) and settle in… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![beachbetch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@beachbetch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beachbetch)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduction-first-post/593649/14 "2011-08-23T23:58:31Z")
Thanks for the welcome guys…looking forward to posting here. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduction-first-post/593649/15 "2011-08-24T00:04:16Z")
> [@beachbetch](#): > > Thanks for the welcome guys…looking forward to posting here. FYI, every time I see your username, my immediate thought is “beachbelch”. I think of burping up sand. 😛 I’m sure you’re enthralled. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduction-first-post/593649/16 "2011-08-24T00:44:48Z")
Saw your post in the **Doughnut Thief** thread and meant to include you in the welcome to “all the new folks.” But you deserve one of your own! Welcome, and enjoy. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduction-first-post/593649/17 "2011-08-24T00:53:51Z")
Soup’s ready! Get your soup he-yah! ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduction-first-post/593649/18 "2011-08-24T04:17:28Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > Soup’s ready! Get your soup he-yah! What’s the Soup du Jour? -D/a ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduction-first-post/593649/19 "2011-08-24T04:29:33Z")
> [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](#): > > What’s the Soup du Jour? > -D/a Same soup we have every day! And no French in this thread! No soup for you! 10 days! ---
**Author:** ![beachbetch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@beachbetch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beachbetch)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduction-first-post/593649/20 "2011-08-24T10:52:30Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > Soup’s ready! Get your soup he-yah! Wha? Must be a SDMB thing 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduction-first-post/593649.md?page=2)