# Just Saying Hi... I'm New **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 3, 2013, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293 "2013-10-03T20:11:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/21 "2013-10-03T21:28:40Z")
I’m not new here, but, I am new to the ways of the people here. They frighten me. But, I do know that when a new member introduces himself, he is to bring presents to the first 25 posters after him. Welcome. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/22 "2013-10-03T21:34:57Z")
Party! New guys bring the beer, right? ---
**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:** [October 3, 2013, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/23 "2013-10-03T22:02:52Z")
> [@Capt\_Kirk](#): > > If you wish come and join us in the MMP (Monday Morning Post). There is one going on all week every week, the MMP FAQ is at the top of this forum. We are friendly and happy to have newcomers. It is a good place to get a feel for the Dope IMHO, plus you get a nickname. > > Cheers > > **Capt** You get a nickname? I’ll have to go check this out. 🙂 > [@M253-The-Invader](#): > > An all week Monday… hmm. I’m sure to certain working people that sounds like horror. It also sounds like a full-time hangover (joking). > > Thank you for the invite. Now I can really not do the Paleo Florida web work I have vowed to do. I also have a football pool to not get results and post. Oh happiness. I see you get what the Dope is really all about already. 😃 Welcome, all you new folks! Have fun! ---
**Author:** ![M253-The-Invader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@M253-The-Invader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/M253-The-Invader)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/24 "2013-10-03T22:03:27Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Hm. Follow my family tree back to the 1400s and you end up in Denmark. A great likelihood of Haplogroup I1 (pure and original European) and then a further breakdown to M253 or a couple of others. ---
**Author:** ![M253-The-Invader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@M253-The-Invader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/M253-The-Invader)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/25 "2013-10-03T22:07:13Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Welcome, welcome, welcome! Glad to have you with us. Than you Professor. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/26 "2013-10-03T22:33:13Z")
Welcome - we’re happy to have you joining us! ---
**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:** [October 3, 2013, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/27 "2013-10-03T23:14:50Z")
Welcome, welcome, welcome! Would you like some ice cream? There are enough of you to catch it this time. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/28 "2013-10-03T23:18:22Z")
Welcome! Don’t mind the goat and the squid you see in the corner. We’ll get to that soon enough. Did Marley give you your complementary (and totally temporary and “accidental”) banning yet? Also, don’t forget to head on over to ATMB (About This Message Board) and accuse the mods of circling the wagons. They love that! ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/29 "2013-10-03T23:20:55Z")
> [@M253-The-Invader](#): > > I guess I’d remark that a specified thread be established stating: New To The Forum… thanks I’m here anyway. > > To answer questions before they arrive. M253 is a genetic group where M253 is a mutation different enough to change it from its original assignment: Haplogroup I1. M253 originated in Denmark around 5000 years ago. It was named “The Invader” by British geneticists because it came to Britain by way of invaders from Denmark and Frisia (what is now Holland), as well as Germany. Roughly 400 years later the Vikings from Scandinavia invaded bringing more M253. I think the ability to watch the movie series “Saw” and other so-called bloody horrors are thanks to the head-chopping distant relatives of mine. > > I had a DNA analysis done by Genographic Project, it showed M253 big time and right there. Present in every Germanic tribe, M253 was taken south across Europe to Constantinople and to Rome where that genetic group got to having a party and sacked the city. > > [/FONT] Soooo…you come from the land of the ice and snow, from the midnight sun where the hot springs flow? Then you are, I presume, proficient in blunt weapons, navigation, and singing of your imminent arrival in the afterlife? ---
**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:** [October 3, 2013, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/30 "2013-10-03T23:53:42Z")
Hello, I’m Happy. You can call me Happy. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/31 "2013-10-04T01:38:33Z")
Always nice to have new folks to talk to. Enjoy your stay. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/32 "2013-10-04T02:55:06Z")
I, for one, welcome our new **M253** overlord. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/33 "2013-10-04T05:04:46Z")
welcome. P.S. watch out for people with vowels in their user name, they’re all nuts. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/34 "2013-10-04T07:53:57Z")
Welcome! (It’s the middle of the night and I’m only up because I can’t sleep – got nothing witty to add. Oh well.) ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/35 "2013-10-04T13:55:00Z")
Is there a genetic group 666? If not, there should be. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2013, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/36 "2013-10-04T16:51:24Z")
> [@Kenm](#): > > Is there a genetic group 666? > > If not, there should be. Shhh! We’re not allowed to talk about that! If they know I’ve mentioned this, they’llarrrgggghhh… _thud_ ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/37 "2013-10-04T21:19:00Z")
HAha, The squids got **Sunspace**. Welcome to the SDMB; Pay no attention to the three headed dog at the door, feel free to look around and have a glass of pink champagne. BTW, **M253** why do you have my bathrobe, pray tell? Oh, wait, mine’s the red terrycloth… ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/38 "2013-10-04T21:21:29Z")
No pressure here at all. Just remember that you can check out any time you want… ---
**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:** [October 5, 2013, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/39 "2013-10-05T01:02:32Z")
> [@swampspruce](#): > > The squids got **Sunspace**. Tentacles! Why is it always _tentacles?!!_ ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/40 "2013-10-05T02:13:39Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > No pressure here at all. Just remember that you can check out any time you want… Good luck leaving, though. And on behalf of all of us to all you noobs… \*We accept them! One of us! One of us! Gooble-gobble, gooble-gobble! - 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293.md?page=3)