# New girl on the block. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 15, 2014, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-girl-on-the-block/693184 "2014-07-15T17:31:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-girl-on-the-block/693184/21 "2014-07-16T08:49:59Z")
> [@stui\_magpie](#): > > Welcome aboard. > > I personally managed to dodge the official welcome but I have done my share of lurking in corridors so if someone approaches you with a goat and a snorkel, RUN. > > As far as the board itself goes it’s a bit of an eclectic mix of people and views from all over the place, so it’s definitely not boring. > > Ok, sometimes it is but then someone starts a poll. Or puts up a pic of their cat. > > Anyway, Enjoy the ride. He’s a fucking troll…don’t listen to a word he says! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-girl-on-the-block/693184/22 "2014-07-16T09:51:38Z")
What was your major at Northwestern University? Living on the North Side? ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-girl-on-the-block/693184/23 "2014-07-16T13:25:21Z")
_slips on his rubber gloves and begins laying out the instruments_ Welcome to the SDMB! Those straps too tight? Gooood. Now just relax… Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-girl-on-the-block/693184/24 "2014-07-16T13:28:57Z")
Hello there! We require tribute. Alcohol is acceptable currency. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-girl-on-the-block/693184/25 "2014-07-16T13:37:32Z")
Don’t listen to any of these so called “people”. The only one you need pay attention to is me. Until then, I’ll be napping for about 9 or 10 hours. Maybe more… ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-girl-on-the-block/693184/26 "2014-07-16T13:41:27Z")
> [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](#): > > We require tribute. Kids these days. . . Everyone knows you should bring pie. Welcome. . . Checks OP again, notices capitalization and correct spelling. OK, this may be a keeper. Good enough! Take the second left corridor, and enjoy! ---
**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:** [July 16, 2014, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-girl-on-the-block/693184/27 "2014-07-16T13:46:05Z")
But she seems nice. Do we really want to fix that? Poor kid will never see calamari again without PTSD… ---
**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:** [July 16, 2014, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-girl-on-the-block/693184/28 "2014-07-16T14:16:59Z")
I find it curious the OP hasn’t come back; did someone give her ice cream? ---
**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:** [July 16, 2014, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-girl-on-the-block/693184/29 "2014-07-16T17:26:55Z")
She better come back. I haven’t finished all the paperwork yet I’ve already started entering her into the system with what I’ve got. ---
**Author:** ![Vita\_Beata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@Vita\_Beata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vita_Beata)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-girl-on-the-block/693184/30 "2014-07-16T17:29:48Z")
Greetings Missyevelyn, Hope you will enjoy posting here. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-girl-on-the-block/693184/31 "2014-07-16T17:33:22Z")
> [@missyevelyn](#): > > Hi everybody. My name is Michelle (but my friends call me Missy). > > I’m a 2008 graduate of Northwestern University, and now working in Chicago at a non-profit. Been a reader of the Chicago Reader for years (I love it), and one of my friends suggested this very forum to me. Looks very progressive from just browsing it a bit; love it. > > Hope to get to know a lot of you, it’s been a while since I’ve been on a good message board. 🆒 You’ll get nowhere around here, with an attitude like that. ---
**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:** [July 16, 2014, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-girl-on-the-block/693184/32 "2014-07-16T22:06:36Z")
> [@swampspruce](#): > > I find it curious the OP hasn’t come back; did someone give her ice cream? One doesn’t _give_ people the ice cream. The ice cream makes its own decisions. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-girl-on-the-block/693184/33 "2014-07-16T22:11:14Z")
In Doperville, ice cream gets _you_. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-girl-on-the-block/693184/34 "2014-07-17T00:50:33Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > She better come back. I haven’t finished all the paperwork yet I’ve already started entering her into the system with what I’ve got. This is why we can’t have nice things. Has anyone, ever, in the course of SDMB history, ever bounced in with a chirpy introductory thread (and some other rather odd threads about nekkidness and such) and actually stayed? Or is this a clear predictor of “hi thx bye” and never seen again? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-girl-on-the-block/693184/35 "2014-07-17T01:00:20Z")
The Squid is being greased in Olive Oil, & will be ready shortly. ---
**Author:** ![Hopeful\_Crow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/da6949/32.png) [@Hopeful\_Crow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hopeful_Crow)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-girl-on-the-block/693184/36 "2014-07-17T03:23:18Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > In Doperville, ice cream gets _you_. Not if _I_ get it first! Come to mama, little ice cream, you. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2014, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-girl-on-the-block/693184/37 "2014-07-17T03:33:52Z")
> [@Hopeful\_Crow](#): > > Not if _I_ get it first! Come to mama, little ice cream, you. :: the ice cream shrieks and scurries into a corner :: :: the room is shaken with the thudding footfalls of something large coming closer :: ---
**Author:** ![Hopeful\_Crow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/da6949/32.png) [@Hopeful\_Crow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hopeful_Crow)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-girl-on-the-block/693184/38 "2014-07-17T07:01:43Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > :: the ice cream shrieks and scurries into a corner :: > :: the room is shaken with the thudding footfalls of something large coming closer :: Something large? Honestly! I’m quite petite, you know! ::Thump:: I can’t help it if I have big ::Thump::bones. Didn’t anyone teach you any ::Thump:: manners? Why I oughta…Wait… ::THUMP!:: Oh. You didn’t mean me. You meant… ::THUMP!!!:: You know, I have been putting on a few pounds lately. I don’t need all that ice cr… ::THUMP!!!:: It’s right behind me, isn’t it? :eek: The nice monster can have the ice cream. I gotta go. K, thx, bye! ---
**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:** [July 17, 2014, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-girl-on-the-block/693184/39 "2014-07-17T14:05:53Z")
Thanx **Crow** , you just made my day. Oh oh, should have whispered that… ---
**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:** [July 17, 2014, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-girl-on-the-block/693184/40 "2014-07-17T15:05:04Z")
> [@Hopeful\_Crow](#): > > The nice monster can have the ice cream. I gotta go. K, thx, bye! So _that’s_ what happened to the vat of Cockroach Cluster I lost last week! How interesting! I don’t think I’ve ever seen ice cream with that expression. It’s almost like– [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-girl-on-the-block/693184.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-girl-on-the-block/693184.md?page=3)