# Newbie here! Welcome me! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 23, 2003, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie-here-welcome-me/150344 "2003-01-23T02:13:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ChiChiDame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@ChiChiDame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiChiDame)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie-here-welcome-me/150344/1 "2003-01-23T02:13:28Z")
Hi! I’m new to the Straight Dope. Happy to be here. I’m a 17 year old high school senior from Seattle. Any similar folks out there? Anyway. I’m happy to be here! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie-here-welcome-me/150344/2 "2003-01-23T02:20:58Z")
Welcome! I hope you enjoy your experience here at the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![Kamikazee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Kamikazee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamikazee)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie-here-welcome-me/150344/3 "2003-01-23T02:24:20Z")
about as dis-similar as can be… Old, (have a kid in HS), and about 3000 miles to the east of you. but anyway welcome, have fun ---
**Author:** ![ChiChiDame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@ChiChiDame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiChiDame)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie-here-welcome-me/150344/4 "2003-01-23T02:25:46Z")
I hope I can contribute to this bustling cyberculture. ---
**Author:** ![cadolphin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c37758/32.png) [@cadolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cadolphin)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie-here-welcome-me/150344/5 "2003-01-23T02:28:34Z")
hiya ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie-here-welcome-me/150344/6 "2003-01-23T04:53:59Z")
You’re welcome. And you’re not alone. The average age of the posters here is mid 30’s (I know this thanks to an IMHO thread) but there are lots of teenagers. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie-here-welcome-me/150344/7 "2003-01-23T05:03:34Z")
As with **Kamikazee** , I’m similarly dissimilar; high school was several decades ago, Seattle is far away and I’d surprise more than a few people if I picked a user name with “Dame” in it. But, welcome aboard **ChiChiDame** , I look forward to swapping thoughts with you. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_The\_Diver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Buck\_The\_Diver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_The_Diver)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie-here-welcome-me/150344/8 "2003-01-23T05:10:22Z")
[WC Fields] Go away, kid. Ya bother me. [/WC Fields] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie-here-welcome-me/150344/9 "2003-01-23T08:21:37Z")
As the one-time self-appointed board welcomer and founder of the [Welcome Wagon](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=68583&highlight=Welcome+Wagon) thread\* I’d just like to remind you that you’re not allowed to participate in or open any threads until you have at least 100 posts. \*That link goes to the second Welcome Wagon, in which is a link to the first Welcome Wagon. The link is for self-promotion purposes only and to give you an idea about what passes for welcoming around here. Please do not post to (and thus bumping) the Welcome Wagon thread as it is unofficially closed. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie-here-welcome-me/150344/10 "2003-01-23T10:37:18Z")
A hearty welcome to the SDMB from way down south, **ChiChiDame**. Oh, and **Crunchy Frog** , I must have missed the memo on that “rule” you quoted. Dang, I hate it when I don’t get th’ newsletters. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie-here-welcome-me/150344/11 "2003-01-23T16:00:32Z")
Welcome, **ChiChiDame**! We’re all very excited to meet you, I’m sure! Yay for new blood! Oh, whoops, I’ve said too much… Love, Kn(not 17, not in high school, not from Seattle, sorry… but I make great oatmeal-raisin cookies!)ckers P.S.: Are folks from Seattle called “Seattleites”? 'Cause they should be. ---
**Author:** ![Da\_Bartender](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@Da\_Bartender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Da_Bartender)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie-here-welcome-me/150344/12 "2003-01-23T16:04:28Z")
Hey, I’m a newb too, 18, second Seimester of College in Internet Tech. at Fanshawe :)\>- ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie-here-welcome-me/150344/13 "2003-01-23T16:15:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Da\_Bartender \* > \*\*Hey, I’m a newb too, 18, second Seimester of College in Internet Tech. at Fanshawe > > :)\>- \*\* Why hello there! Glad to have you and **ChiChiDame** aboard. Now some invasive privacy busting questions: What are your genders, How did you find the straight dope, Which forum do you think you will be using the most often, Does my butt look fat in this outfit? What do you want to be when you grow up? Do you want to say hi to **Opal**? And the granddaddy of all questions: What is your favorite color? ---
**Author:** ![ChiChiDame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@ChiChiDame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiChiDame)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie-here-welcome-me/150344/14 "2003-01-23T17:10:12Z")
Well, Meatros Female. I was really just surfing around. I don’t know, but I usually am pretty mundane and pointless. No, not at all! I don’t know yet. I’m going to the University of Washington next year. Um…Hi, Opal? Green…no, blue!