Well, I just wanted to say a big THANK YOU to Exgineer, because after lurking for over a year, you have finally encouraged me to register!
Like everyone else said, I’ve found the prospect of trying to find my place on this board pretty daunting - everything moves so fast, and so many people have really strong characters, that you wonder if you’re going to “fit in” with everyone else.
This thread is really reassuring, I now know that there are many others out there in the same position! So yay! My first post - I can’t promise to post that often, but at least I can now!
Look forward to speaking to you guys more often!
BTW, this post took me about 10 minutes to write - for some reason, I’m really nervous!
We’ve drawn another one to the dark side, folks. Welcome to the boards, TJay, you’re gonna’ have a swell time. There’s no need to be nervous, just go ahead and post. If you ever post something and end up regretting it, just recite your new mantra:
“Exgineer probably did something worse. I’m still better than him.”
I ain’t lurked no time. Pretty much, I’ve come on to the boards to take over the world and make you all my personal slaves. Or taxpayers… or whatever the popular PC term is these days.
All I know is that when I hit twenty-five posts I’ll have to quit and register again under a new identity. Lurkman, QuitePeeper, QuiterThanAnAntPissingOnCotton, ThePosterWhoWasn’tThere, @, ±=, or some such nonsense.
But it would work better if we were penguins. Hmmm…Lurking Penguins…
Ooh, a Monty Python reference and a band name all in the same breath. Damn, I’m getting good at this.
I post rarely because:
A. the aforementioned “well, damn, he just said that 8 times better than I ever could, so there’s no need to say ‘me, too’” and annoy the hamsters.
B. My ridiculously low post count, which marks me as the greenest of newbies, even though I’d lurked for months before registering.
C. The whole kill-the-thread thing–I hate causing pain and suffering to innocent threads.
D. The fact that both my typing and spelling suck.
And E. The dread fear that I will say something incredibly dumb and disgrace m’self forever in front of the least ignorant people on the planet.
A. Don’t worry about the “me too” posts. Look back through this thread. Lots of people said the same thing, but they all said it in different ways. Get it?
B. The only way to get over it is to post. Kind of a Catch-22, but if I did it, so can you.
C. How many do you think I fell guilty about killing. It happens. No big problem.
D. Wlecome, partner. [sub]See that?[/sub]
E. Look up a few posts and find TJay’s new mantra. You’re welcome to use it to.
Here is another lurker reporting in. Although I’ve been here since October,2001, I have a small post count. I’d like for people to look forward to my uninspired posts. However, I doubt that there are even five members who know who I am. My proudest moment here was the time CrankyAsAnOldMan seconded my pitiful thought concerning Michael Bolton.
Even though I’ll have a hard time breaking 100 posts, I still visit the Boards every day. The SDMB is an intregal part of my life. A good 90% of my internet time is spent here.
Some day I hope to learn to do things like proper coding. Perhaps if I ever master that, more posts will be forthcoming.
You people are the greatest. I love this place.
Mona Lott
I see that I’ve spelled “integral” wrong. I don’t know how to go back to fix it.
I’ve been reading this amazing board since 1998 or 99. When did SDMB begin?
I have posted twice before with a different username shortly before the board crashed, so this isn’t really my first. Does anyone know if there is any way to know how many registered users have yet to post?
Ooh, a lurker takeover! I’ll bring the beer and potato chips and reminisce for the good old days (about 6-8 months ago) when I was still a lurker.
Mona Lott, I remember you, but how could your username be forgotten?
Innanna, let me count how many times I’ve said something dumb and disgraced myself in front of the boards. Let’s see…one…two…three…takes off socks…nineteen…twenty…ah, forget it!
TJay, I write most of my posts like thus:
Compose post. Preview. Change a bit of the wording. Preview again. Change more wording. Preview again. Sit on it for 30 minutes. Sigh deeply, shut eyes and click submit reply. Cringe, expecting to be skewered in the BBQ Pit.
Just wait, you’ll be as nervous with your 10,000th post (not like I’d know about that, though) as with your first.
Beer and chips sound good to me. We’ll just sit back in the shadows, relax and wait until everybody else has fallen into the Pit. Then we strike. Sort of a passive takeover deal. I’m thinking of changing my middle name to “Gandhi”.
Your post is dated Saturday night/Sunday morning at 1:52 AM GMT. So I can confidently say that I was in a State of Inebriation, just outside Oblivion, laughing, like an idiot.
Of course, if I’d known you were posting, I would have dropped everything.
I don’t consider myself a lurker, and I have been around for a while, but I don’t think that I am very “recognizable” on the boards. I guess the benefit is that likely no one has many preconceived ideas about me or my posts. Other than that of “who the heck is this guy?”
GAH! Where did that sharpy thing come from. C minor, regular, common-or-garden, C minor with nothing sharp about it.
If you want an excuse, I post elsewhere where emphasis is added #thus#, and I’d half forgotten where I was and failed to preview (like a good poster should).
Why is it left to me to correct myself? This is ruining my low-post count.
