Is that what the pie is for, 'cause I left it in my other pan— ARGGH! IT’S EATING MY HEAD! GETITOFF GETITOFF GETITOFF!!!
Well I don’t have a g/f at the moment so that’s no problem, but I’m not so sure I want to be marked as a sucker…
get it… sucker marks?
Well I thought it was funny…
[QUOTE= The squid is hungry and you’ll be feeding him.
Don’t worry, your girlfriends won’t think they’re hickeys. They look nothing like sucker marks, I promise.[/QUOTE]
Ooohh, that tickles…
Damn, I liked that hand :smack:
Fry
Aw man! The initiation has already started! I’m late!
frantically yanks the lead-rope on the goat
Oops… that was a bad idea. Get the backup goat!
Anyway, welcome to Gundam_Cricket and Like Fry. Enjoy your stay.
Stop whining! Back when I was initiated, I’d have KILLED to get a good squidding! You kids these days!
Oh, single at the moment? That’s fine…the squid’s not the jealous type anyways.
It’s okay. We’ll still keep you.
It’s okay, there’s two of them (newbies, at least). You can exact your pain…er…initiation as well.
Can I just say that I absolutely love this place?
Oh and welcome Like Fry and Gundam_Cricket !!
It’s better in French.
Good not to be disappointed.
Welcome Gundam_Cricket, are you a team, a weird mech or an insect?
Jim
Glad to see you’ve been activated! Welcome to the Himalayas!! I mean, the Straight Dope.
Will the lack of disapointment cover my lack of pie?
Is it a white gundam_cricket robot?
Fry
Perhaps a team of weird insect-styled mechs?
Since Fry explained his name, I might as well explain mine!
Many moons ago at the ripe age of 17 I worked at a LAN gaming cafe, and several of us went to one of those websites that would supposedly take your real name and assign you a secret spy name. On a whim I input mine and out came Gundam Cricket. Being a fan of the Gundams of anime fame, and not (at the time*) being adverse to crickets I went with it and it’s just sort of stuck through the years. Does this make me a dork? Absolutely, but in all honesty it’s just the icing on the cake of my other dork-defining hobbies.
*I have since come to loathe crickets, as they somehow always manage to find their way into my room and decide to serenade me while I’m trying to sleep. They’re like a hydra; as soon as I remove one, two more replace it. :mad:
Ahh, dork defining hobbies, my favorite.
Fry
<Whew!> I was nervous there for a second. I have a coworker whose real name is just one letter off from “Like Fry”. For some strange reason, I’d rather not have coworkers here.
But, I don’t work at motorcycle dealer, so welcome!
For me yes, but I cannot speak for the Charter Members or 99’ers. 
So mech was a decent guess, I use to play battle-tech ages ago and I thought they were refered to as Gundams by the hard-core players. At first I thought it was a Cricket team however.
Why, what have cow-orkers ever done to you on the dope? 
Okay, LOUNE has the squid, Scuba Ben’s working on the backup goat. I’ve got the lime jello. I think we’re ready to start.
Welcome, initiates. May your ceremony be. . .interesting.
No worries Hal, Im a bit far away from you, being in the PDX area.
Anyone spot my grammar/typo error way back up top, should have been watched, not watch :smack:
How can I fix it?
I remember hearing about a con that had a bunch of fandom fill a bathtub with lime jello for none other than Asimov, though I have no way to corraborate this story.
Thanks for the warm welcome, umm, let me rephrase that, Thanks for the sticky, sucky, bleety, welcome, with desert included… :dubious:
At this rate, im never going to get these warranties filed, too many recalls…
Alex
Somehow I doubt that the jello is for desert… but all the same I as well appreciate the warm welcome! One of the main reasons I personally won’t mind shelling out the fifteen bucks next payday is due to the warm, laid back attitudes of the dopers!
Just do what I do: put them in a filing box under someone else’s desk and claim they were trying to hide the files from you so you’d get fired!
On an unrelated note, I’m looking for a new job…
Well, maybe im just hoping its jello shots to prepare us for the initiation, or at least jello so we can eat while in casts.
[QUOTE=Just do what I do: put them in a filing box under someone else’s desk and claim they were trying to hide the files from you so you’d get fired!
On an unrelated note, I’m looking for a new job…
:p[/QUOTE]
Yea, good idea, except, while my title is warranty manager, I only manage myself, decrepit parts, and lots of paperwork. Plus, I have the only non-connected office here, so none of my paperwork can go anywhere else by accident 
Sorry about the job.
Fry
Oh I was joking about the job part! Well, I AM looking for a new job, but not because I’ve been sacked or am in any real danger of it… just sick of temping.
Regarding editing posts: I don’t think guests can edit their posts, so your spelling and grammatical mistakes (as well as mine) will just have to hang out there as a testament to how poorly skilled we are at the english language.
To all others: Should we be signing any sort of a waiver for this initiation…? Oh wait, didn’t see the injury stemming from initiation indemnification clause in the ToU when I first agreed to it, my bad! Carry on!