# newbie **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 27, 2000, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie/16465 "2000-04-27T10:49:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Xploder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a183cd/32.png) [@Xploder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xploder)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie/16465/1 "2000-04-27T10:49:00Z")
Might as well join in and say hello to all! I’ve been using (and abusing) computers since the old Texas Instruments days, am a rabid Frank Zappa, Yes, ELP, Bela Flec fan and sometime musician. Play guitar, piano, banjo, bass, drums and sing somewhat. Spent 10 years in the Army in Germany and the Middle East. Served in Desert Storm with distinction. Divorced AND handled my own case AND got full custofy of all three of my kids. Remarried to a wonderful lady. Kind of opinionated but so is every body else around here. 🙂 Started reading Straight Dope in Germany and have NOT been able to stop. Any advice - good, bad or indifferent is always appreciated. Am not a troll and won’t like sock puppets until cloning is a reality… 😛 Abby something…Abby Normal Young Frankenstein ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie/16465/2 "2000-04-27T10:56:00Z")
Welcome aboard, Combustable One 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ultress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@ultress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultress)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie/16465/3 "2000-04-27T11:02:00Z")
Welcome aboard, jump right in. * * * \*\* _Sigh_. So many men, so few who can afford me \*\* _Original by Wally_ _I’ve learned that if someone says something unkind about me, I must live so that no one will believe it._ Homepage: [www.superlativeandsassy.com](http://www.superlativeandsassy.com) Occupation: Temptress Location: Ultra, California Interests: surpluses, excesses, abundances, extras, lagniappes _profile by UncleBeer_ ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie/16465/4 "2000-04-27T15:46:00Z")
Welcome! Please allow me to introduce myself… * * * Yer pal, Satan [http://www.raleighmusic.com/board/Images/devil.gif](http://www.raleighmusic.com/board/Images/devil.gif) _I HAVE BEEN SMOKE-FREE FOR: Two weeks, four days, 13 hours, 46 minutes and 41 seconds. 742 cigarettes not smoked, saving $92.87. Life saved: 2 days, 13 hours, 50 minutes._ ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie/16465/5 "2000-04-27T16:00:00Z")
Happy to have you xploder. * * * One of the few to be personally welcomed to this board by Ed Zotti. Yours truly, aha ---
**Author:** ![Xploder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a183cd/32.png) [@Xploder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xploder)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie/16465/6 "2000-04-27T16:13:00Z")
I just re-read my post and boy do I sound about as bland as unflavored yogurt or what? sheesh. * * * this is a fake sig ---
**Author:** ![Xploder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a183cd/32.png) [@Xploder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xploder)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie/16465/7 "2000-04-27T16:14:00Z")
Oh yeah…thanks for the welcome all. 😃 😃 😃 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie/16465/8 "2000-04-27T16:21:00Z")
Welcome aboard. Thank you for this opportunity to gratuitously inflate my post count. Also, it sounds like you may have a pretty good idea about the board already. That is a good thing. Sit back and enjoy the running jokes, sexual tension, and double entendres that have become a hallmark of our happy home. * * * Well, honey just tastes better when it comes from a bear’s head. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie/16465/9 "2000-04-27T16:27:00Z")
I first saw xploder in the “Porn Czar” thread. xploder and I live in the same city. Cool, huh? We’ve emailed a few times, and this has led me to believe that xploder is a _really, really nice guy._ So you guys better be nice to him, okay? Because we’re from Flint, and you don’t want to mess with people from Flint. We’re worse than Detroiters. (xploder: I just talked you up really good, okay? Now go forth and don’t make me look bad. :D) * * * Cristi, Slayer of Peeps I made my husband join a bridge club. He jumps next Tuesday. (title & sig courtesy of UncleBeer and WallyM7!) ---
**Author:** ![Xploder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a183cd/32.png) [@Xploder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xploder)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie/16465/10 "2000-04-27T16:51:00Z")
“Also, it sounds like you may have a pretty good idea about the board already. That is a good thing. Sit back and enjoy the running jokes, sexual tension, and double entendres that have become a hallmark of our happy home.” Well, I HAVE been lurking for quite a while now 🙂 I just never bothered to register until very recently. > [@](#): > > Originally posted by Cristi: > \*\*I first saw xploder in the “Porn Czar” thread. xploder and I live in the same city. Cool, huh? We’ve emailed a few times, and this has led me to believe that xploder is a _really, really nice guy._ So you guys better be nice to him, okay? Because we’re from Flint, and you don’t want to mess with people from Flint. We’re worse than Detroiters. > > (xploder: I just talked you up really good, okay? Now go forth and don’t make me look bad. :D) > > \*\* CRISTI IS THE MOST AWESOME POSTER ON THIS BOARD!!! I bow before her magnificience and majesty. I’d eat a mile of dead skunk butts to see her in person!!! Oops…guess I shoulda turned my brain to Army mode OFF. * * * this is a fake sig ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie/16465/11 "2000-04-27T16:55:00Z")
> [@](#): > > CRISTI IS THE MOST AWESOME POSTER ON THIS BOARD!!! I bow before her magnificience and majesty. I’d eat a mile of dead skunk butts to see her in person!!! Now _that,_ for any and all newbies on the board, is **the** way to get yourself in good here. You don’t have to say nice things about me, but if you just pick a reg, bow before his/her majesty, and eat a few dead skunk butts, you’ll be juuuuust fiiiiine. 😃 * * * Cristi, Slayer of Peeps I made my husband join a bridge club. He jumps next Tuesday. (title & sig courtesy of UncleBeer and WallyM7!) ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie/16465/12 "2000-04-27T23:08:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Mullinator: > **Sit back and enjoy the running jokes** Of course, friends may call him Mully instead of “running joke” 😃