# New account! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 21, 2006, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-account/349340 "2006-03-21T20:47:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bubastis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d07c76/32.png) [@bubastis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubastis)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-account/349340/21 "2006-03-22T00:12:02Z")
You are aware of the New-Member-Pays-Bubastis-ten-dollars stipulation, right? Ah, blow me a kiss and we’ll call it even. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-account/349340/22 "2006-03-22T00:31:45Z")
Welcome! You might want to cruise over to About this message Board and read the thread on [terms and in jokes on the board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=320298) Then when you read penis ensues it will make sense Rule 5 DNFTT use the report post function instead. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-account/349340/23 "2006-03-22T00:42:22Z")
Welcome **fungyrl**. I’m guessing you lurked a while, read a lot of threads and thought, hmmm… this is a kinda fun place. That’s what I did. I second or third or fourth or whatever the advice to read the stickies for each forum and read especially the stickies for ATMB, you’ll learn a lot there. This is a fun, weird, mean, great, wisdom enhancing, time wasting place to be. Enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-account/349340/24 "2006-03-22T00:51:11Z")
**fungyrl** , Welcome. The _party_, (remember it’s not hazing) won’t take that long as long as **Hal Briston** brought everything, like the candles, crayons and kitten-claw trimmings. He usually forgets those. You may have already found this, but, here is the “manual” [Page 1](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=103503) [Page 2](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=320298) [page 3](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=106617) [Vb code appendix](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/misc.php?do=bbcode) In these pages, you’ll find the answers to almost any question from “What is a 1920’s style death ray?” and “Who is Opal, and why am I saying hi to her?” to “How do I make a spoiler box?” So, sit back, relax, kick off your shoes, if you like. We’ll take GOOD care of you. [sub]hehehehehe[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-account/349340/25 "2006-03-22T02:16:11Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > **fungyrl** , Welcome. The _party_, (remember it’s not hazing) won’t take that long as long as **Hal Briston** brought everything… Sheep? ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-account/349340/26 "2006-03-22T02:34:10Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Sheep? Oh, come on, give it a rest. Just drop it already. Quit tormenting poor Hal, you _know_ he didn’t post it on purpose. (Plus, I heard he had a nasty breakup at the farm last night, so really, don’t get him started…) ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-account/349340/27 "2006-03-22T02:40:11Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Oh, come on, give it a rest. Just drop it already. Quit tormenting poor Hal, you _know_ he didn’t post it on purpose. > > (Plus, I heard he had a nasty breakup at the farm last night, so really, don’t get him started…) So _that_ explains it. It was a spurned sheep getting revenge. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-account/349340/28 "2006-03-22T02:44:07Z")
farms hath no fury like a spurned sheep. but anyways, welcome, new girl. love, learn, lust, and um…limber… i’ve go tno clue what that’s supposed to mean, though. i highly suggest you do it, though. ---
**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:** [March 22, 2006, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-account/349340/29 "2006-03-22T03:08:47Z")
:: **Sunspace** dashes out of Room Seven, pursued by a tentacle :: Back! Back, fiend from the watery depths!! _whack whack thud crash splat drip drip_ :: ahem :: Sorry about that. I was… on a conference call. :: reads OP :: Hmm. I suppose you could describe the welcome ceremony as ‘filling one in on the ropes’. Interesting turn of phrase. I’ll have to add it to the book. Anyway, welcome, **fungyrl**! 🙂 As previously mentioned, our welcoming buffet is in Room Nine. (Please ignore the noises from Room Eight. We’ve… um… rented it out as a sound-effects studio. [sub]Yeah, that’s it. Sound-effects studio.[/sub]) Lots of good advice in this thread. I’ll just add that losing your marbles can actually be a very relaxing and even invigorating experience! [sub]Psst! **Hal**! You forgot the shower caps! Or are they over next to the air chest again?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-account/349340/30 "2006-03-22T03:11:01Z")
**Sunspace** , [del]we actually need to meet up at the coffee shop this weekend, send me an email[/del] where are the jelly pops? You told me we’d have jelly pops for the… well… you know! ---
**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:** [March 22, 2006, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-account/349340/31 "2006-03-22T03:32:48Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > **Sunspace** , [del]we actually need to meet up at the coffee shop this weekend, send me an email[/del] where are the jelly pops? You told me we’d have jelly pops for the… well… you know! [del]Email sent[/del] Aren’t they in the air chest next to the other stuff? ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-account/349340/32 "2006-03-22T16:19:34Z")
[QUOTE=Greenback] Read a lot at the start. Each thread you read will help your descent into the madness Sorry, not true. I’ve been here for a good while now and I’m perfectly scrumptious tongue mystery hat took my red hippie noodle. Naked pool frogs? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-account/349340/33 "2006-03-22T16:28:02Z")
> [@Amazon Floozy Goddess](#): > > > [@Greenback](#): > > > > Read a lot at the start. Each thread you read will help your descent into the madness > > Sorry, not true. I’ve been here for a good while now and I’m perfectly scrumptious tongue mystery hat took my red hippie noodle. Naked pool frogs? I obscar yuor froogles. scrumptious tongue mystery is not & never has been a Prefect. iJm ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-account/349340/34 "2006-03-22T16:55:18Z")
> [@What Exit?](#): > > I obscar yuor froogles. scrumptious tongue mystery is not & never has been a Prefect. > > iJm :dubious: Oh yeah? you aren’t supposed to use that kind of language for catpop overs the moon in June at a wedding veil of darkness! OOoops, sorry, I forgot. ---
**Author:** ![Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cornelius_Tuggerson)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-account/349340/35 "2006-03-22T17:15:45Z")
> [@What Exit?](#): > > I obscar yuor froogles. scrumptious tongue mystery is not & never has been a Prefect. > > iJm Just beware **fungyrl** - not all ignorance is bad, some things out there are unknown and, by the mercy of this universe, unknowable to us humans. Sometimes if you have to ask then what you don’t know will melt your brains and turn you into a mumbling wreck… ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-account/349340/36 "2006-03-22T18:02:17Z")
> [@fungyrl](#): > > I will bring the pie… but beer sounds better Hey, who told you the secret password? 😉 ---
**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:** [March 22, 2006, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-account/349340/37 "2006-03-22T18:44:38Z")
> [@Amazon Floozy Goddess](#): > > …I’m perfectly scrumptious tongue mystery hat took my red hippie noodle. Naked pool frogs? :: breaks into sweat :: :: fans self :: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-account/349340.md?page=1)