# new-ness! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 27, 2002, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123 "2002-10-27T17:00:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/101 "2005-04-20T19:40:20Z")
All _right!_ Hot squck-on-squck action! _makes wah-wah guitar noises with his mouth_ Hm. I wonder if anyone would pay to see pictures of _this_ on the internet… ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/102 "2005-04-20T19:45:48Z")
> [@Daithi Lacha](#): > > _makes wah-wah guitar noises with his mouth_ Wait…you’re a guy? All these revelations are too much for me to handle! ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/103 "2005-04-20T19:52:56Z")
What the… No, no, no, no, no, no, no! This is _not_ what I designed the RoboSquck for! :: sets remote control to “mangle” :: Ok, _now_ we’re getting somewhere. :: watches feathers fly :: ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/104 "2005-04-20T20:14:26Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > What the… > > No, no, no, no, no, no, no! This is _not_ what I designed the RoboSquck for! > > :: sets remote control to “mangle” :: > > Ok, _now_ we’re getting somewhere. > > :: watches feathers fly :: Wow. :eek: Poor girly Squck. Jeez **Hal** , deny the RoboSquck his only pleasure. Spoilsport. ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/105 "2005-04-20T20:17:48Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Wait…you’re a guy? Well, it’s either that or [I’m](http://teemingmillions.com/profiles/images/daithi/daithi_photo0.jpg) an alarmingly hirsute lesbian… Say, is the RoboSquck supposed to be making the sound of a blender set on “frappe?” ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/106 "2005-04-20T20:21:30Z")
It’s going to explode! Run for your lives! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/107 "2005-04-20T20:44:27Z")
> [@Daithi Lacha](#): > > Well, it’s either that or [I’m](http://teemingmillions.com/profiles/images/daithi/daithi_photo0.jpg) an alarmingly hirsute lesbian… > > Say, is the RoboSquck supposed to be making the sound of a blender set on “frappe?” I am not going to confess to \*anyone \* that I had to go look up _hirsute_. For the rest of you who don’t want to confess, it means: \*Covered with hair; hairy. \* I’m surprised, definitely. I always took you as a slightly older woman - maybe in her 40’s. I had a whole image of you. Brown hair fading to gray. Three kids. Etc. And here you are, a rather cute guy who IS ABOUT TO BE EATEN BY THE ROBOGOAT! ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/108 "2005-04-20T20:48:25Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Run for your lives! Meh, why bother. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/109 "2005-04-20T20:50:13Z")
> [@harmless](#): > > Meh, why bother. 😛 Run for your afterlives??? ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/110 "2005-04-20T20:53:20Z")
Oh, for the love of Zeus-- _grabs **Daithi Lacha** out of the way, just as the RoboGoat crashes into the wall behind them with a loud clang and clatter_ It’s coming after us-- _as it gets to its feet, snorting and stamping_ –and I don’t think it wants to eat us! :eek: Everybody run _now!_ ---
**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:** [April 20, 2005, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/111 "2005-04-20T21:01:29Z")
[off] In the interest of completeness, I should post the link to the previous initiation thread, in which, among other things, the Squck, Monster Bread, and the Vale of Dreams are introduced. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=310597&page=1&pp=50](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=310597&page=1&pp=50) That thread in turn links to an earlier one. All in all, it starts to build up a disturbing picture of… events… around here. I’m sure some enterprising young grad student will eventually seach the boards for other initianton threads and write a theses that wil in the Nobel Prize in Abnormal Psychology or Mad Science or something… [/off] :: **Sunspace** regains consciousness and looks around. :: _AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!_ ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/112 "2005-04-20T21:05:29Z")
Thank you for that most enlightening dissertation, **Sunspace** , now RUN! _hauls him up and away from the path of the rampaging RoboGoat_ ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/113 "2005-04-20T21:08:33Z")
OK, **Kythereia** , that’s _how_ many times you’ve saved me, now? My hero! _titters_😛 ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/114 "2005-04-20T21:09:01Z")
Oooo! RoboGoat is back! Looks like we’re gonna have a little three-way battle action… Hmmm…waitasec. Since I’m controlling the RoboSquck (I actually built the remote with a port for a PS2 controller), who’s got the remote for the RoboGoat? :: checks back pocket :: Oh yeah…forgot that I picked that up. Well, I’ll just set him to “random destruction” and see who remains standing. Now, back to the remote controlled fun! Check it out… _[up-up-square-up-triangle-down]_…hehehe…now my little RoboSquck is in “fire-breathing” mode! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/115 "2005-04-20T21:10:01Z")
: boldly steps out in front of the rampaging thingy and holds up a hand : **STOP**! I command you! ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/116 "2005-04-20T21:10:57Z")
> [@Daithi Lacha](#): > > My hero! _titters_😛 Careful, now… **Kythereia** might not appreciate you playing with h…oh…wait… ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/117 "2005-04-20T22:55:24Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > :: checks back pocket :: > > Oh yeah…forgot that I picked that up. Well, I’ll just set him to “random destruction” and see who remains standing. Hmm. :: thinks back :: > [@Hal Briston](#): > > On the plus side, however, I did just have \*\*Anaamika \*\* rummaging around in my pockets. Oh yeah! :: sidles up to \*\*Hal \*\* :: Hey, baby, whatchoo doin’ tonight? Wanna have some fun? :: surreptitiously tries to pick \*\*Hal’s \*\* pocket :: ---
**Author:** ![Improbability](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Improbability](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improbability)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/118 "2005-04-20T22:56:49Z")
> [@The Weird One](#): > > I would just like to say that this is the longest welcome thread I’ve ever seen, nevermind that the person you’re welcoming has vanished under mysterious circumstances. It’s clear that from now on, newbies wishing to make a strong first impression should start a welcome thread, get banned and disappear. I’m still here! I just really can’t keep up with all the posting yet! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/119 "2005-04-20T23:04:10Z")
> [@Improbability](#): > > I’m still here! I just really can’t keep up with all the posting yet! 🙂 Aren’t you shackled to a chair? Oh dear. Someone had better let her out, I’m busy trying to get the remotes from **Hal**. I mean, _trying to cozy up to **Hal** _, of _course_. That hot stud. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2005, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123/120 "2005-04-20T23:38:51Z")
And I’m just wondering what the hell happened. As far as I can tell, we’ve got at least two marriages, three divorces, a battle amongst the gods, and a couple of Genetically-Engineered Impossibilities as a result of this thread. Oh… and, welcome, **Improbability**. You may be able to blank some of these memories out after a time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ness/134123.md?page=7)