# New poster, three year lurker **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 28, 2012, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-three-year-lurker/642419 "2012-11-28T23:57:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![andrewbub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@andrewbub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewbub)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-three-year-lurker/642419/1 "2012-11-28T23:57:13Z")
Greetings, My name is Andrew. I’ve been reading the dope for about three years now, and it is on my regular browsing rotation. There is just so much content here, that I got enough out of the site to not even need to post. I found most times that there is such a wide variety of members here, that my opinions or knowledge are often already posited in a thread. I’m a cook by profession, so I’ll chime in on cooking related threads mostly, and I’m also an avid PC gamer, having built and broken PCs since I was thirteen years old. Time to join the fray… ---
**Author:** ![2gigch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2gigch1/32/3313_2.png) [@2gigch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2gigch1)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-three-year-lurker/642419/2 "2012-11-29T00:08:27Z")
Welcome Andrew! ---
**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:** [November 29, 2012, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-three-year-lurker/642419/3 "2012-11-29T00:25:25Z")
About damned time. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-three-year-lurker/642419/4 "2012-11-29T01:16:31Z")
Hello **andrewbub**. Be welcome. Enjoy your stay. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-three-year-lurker/642419/5 "2012-11-29T01:29:43Z")
**KILL THE NEWCOMER!!!** Oh wait, no. No, hold on a minute. I have this written down somewhere, I’m sure of it. Oh, there it is. **Welcome!** (yeah, that’s it) **Welcome the newcomer!** Sorry about that whole ‘kill you’ bit ---
**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:** [November 29, 2012, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-three-year-lurker/642419/6 "2012-11-29T01:40:34Z")
Welcome, welcome! Please, have some ice cream. It’s mustard-flavoured. Somewhat experimental, but it seems quite congenial so far, and hardly anyone has suffered serious side-effects. (The protrusions on the first test subject were more amusing than serious.) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-three-year-lurker/642419/7 "2012-11-29T01:46:52Z")
More professional cooking advice is sure welcome. Most of us are accomplished amateurs, with a few exceptions. There’s at least one professional baker on the board, whose user name is, oddly enough, **Baker**. ---
**Author:** ![andrewbub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@andrewbub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewbub)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-three-year-lurker/642419/8 "2012-11-29T01:48:48Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > More professional cooking advice is sure welcome. Most of us are accomplished amateurs, with a few exceptions. There’s at least one professional baker on the board, whose user name is, oddly enough, **Baker**. Is it odd that there’s another Portlander cook on the board? I don’t think so, this place is foodie heaven. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-three-year-lurker/642419/9 "2012-11-29T02:25:19Z")
Welcome! Talking food is always fun! And I think we can all agree that baking bread is the best smell in the world! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-three-year-lurker/642419/10 "2012-11-29T03:58:31Z")
> [@andrewbub](#): > > Is it odd that there’s another Portlander cook on the board? I don’t think so, this place is foodie heaven. Do you work at one of the better-known places here? Even the carts here serve better food than the restaurants in many cities. ---
**Author:** ![andrewbub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@andrewbub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewbub)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-three-year-lurker/642419/11 "2012-11-29T04:10:25Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Do you work at one of the better-known places here? Even the carts here serve better food than the restaurants in many cities. i recently got a job at an italian place in NW portland off 23rd. i’d rather not say the name , anonymity and all. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![dirty\_hippie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@dirty\_hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirty_hippie)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-three-year-lurker/642419/12 "2012-11-29T05:43:30Z")
Another “long-time lurker, first-time poster” here also! Well, my lurking history doesn’t go back three or even two years–in fact, not even one. I discovered this site earlier this year when I did a Google search on the guy who was attacked by chimps in Africa. Then the search got me to a human-monkey hybrid and some other weird monkey topics. A number of very interesting articles or posts, rather, came from SD. I was surprised such a site exists for the purpose of personal enlightenment and the sharing of everything useful and useless, high brow and low brow, funny and serious. I’ve been reading threads here for a number of months and just recently registered because at some point I will start a thread about something. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-three-year-lurker/642419/13 "2012-11-29T05:53:44Z")
Welcome, both of you! (Do we still use Maria the squid for initiations?) ---
**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:** [November 29, 2012, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-three-year-lurker/642419/14 "2012-11-29T05:55:38Z")
Hello, **dirty hippie**. Have you heard about [the monkeysphere?](http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html) 🙂 ---
**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:** [November 29, 2012, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-three-year-lurker/642419/15 "2012-11-29T06:05:01Z")
Welcome to ya both. We promise to be gentle with you. Unless you’d prefer otherwise, of course. ---
**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:** [November 29, 2012, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-three-year-lurker/642419/16 "2012-11-29T06:26:26Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Welcome, both of you! > > (Do we still use Maria the squid for initiations?) Actually, it’s kind of the other way around. _twitch_ ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-three-year-lurker/642419/17 "2012-11-29T10:18:12Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Actually, it’s kind of the other way around. > _twitch_ I’ve been here so long, I thought we still used the goat for the initiations! Get off of my lawn! ---
**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:** [November 29, 2012, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-three-year-lurker/642419/18 "2012-11-29T12:42:10Z")
Let’s put **andrewbub** , the squid and the goat together in a kitchen and see who cooks up who. 😃 Iron Chef Straight Dope Edition! ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-three-year-lurker/642419/19 "2012-11-29T12:45:35Z")
> [@dirty\_hippie](#): > > I was surprised such a site exists for the purpose of personal enlightenment and the sharing of everything useful and useless, high brow and low brow, funny and serious. If you browse here long enough, you’ll find brows of many different heights, bro. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-three-year-lurker/642419/20 "2012-11-29T14:57:20Z")
> [@andrewbub](#): > > i recently got a job at an italian place in NW portland off 23rd. i’d rather not say the name , anonymity and all. 🆒 Lot’s of good places in that part of town. We have _A Cena_ here in Sellwood, which is good Italian. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-three-year-lurker/642419.md?page=2)