# Somewhat new member **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 29, 2017, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhat-new-member/797594 "2017-09-29T15:19:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![laurieb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/51bf81/32.png) [@laurieb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/laurieb)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhat-new-member/797594/1 "2017-09-29T15:19:01Z")
Hi, my name is Laurie. I live in Chicago, and have been on here for the past month or so. Thought it would be a great time to introduce myself. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhat-new-member/797594/2 "2017-09-29T15:31:12Z")
Welcome to the Dope! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhat-new-member/797594/3 "2017-09-29T15:32:13Z")
Hi…rule: watch your punctuation and spelling. There are harasses here who get really bent about it! ---
**Author:** ![laurieb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/51bf81/32.png) [@laurieb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/laurieb)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhat-new-member/797594/4 "2017-09-29T15:51:39Z")
Thanks for the heads up! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhat-new-member/797594/5 "2017-09-29T15:58:40Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Hi…rule: watch your punctuation and spelling. There are harasses here who get really bent about it! (emphasis added) Harassers, you mean. Yeah, welcome to the dope! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhat-new-member/797594/6 "2017-09-29T16:01:40Z")
Guten tag, laurie. ---
**Author:** ![BobBitchin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@BobBitchin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobBitchin)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhat-new-member/797594/7 "2017-09-29T16:09:59Z")
Glad you joined. Welcome,😃 ---
**Author:** ![laurieb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/51bf81/32.png) [@laurieb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/laurieb)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhat-new-member/797594/8 "2017-09-29T16:14:00Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Guten tag, laurie. Guten tag auch für dich! Do you speak German? I was born in Germany in '86, my family moved here when I was 11. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhat-new-member/797594/9 "2017-09-29T16:16:52Z")
> [@laurieb](#): > > Guten tag auch für dich! > > Do you speak German? I was born in Germany in '86, my family moved here when I was 11. Wir gingen zusammen in den Kindergarten, erinnern uns? ETA: no, ich spreche kein deutsch. Just joking. ---
**Author:** ![laurieb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/51bf81/32.png) [@laurieb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/laurieb)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhat-new-member/797594/10 "2017-09-29T16:23:36Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Wir gingen zusammen in den Kindergarten, erinnern uns? > ETA: no, ich spreche kein deutsch. Just joking. We probably didn’t go to Kindergarten together, lol. 🙂 Thanks for the welcome! ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhat-new-member/797594/11 "2017-09-29T16:24:13Z")
Hi laurieb. You can tell the cool people around here by the lack of capital letters in names. Welcome! ---
**Author:** ![laurieb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/51bf81/32.png) [@laurieb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/laurieb)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhat-new-member/797594/12 "2017-09-29T16:29:15Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Hi laurieb. You can tell the cool people around here by the lack of capital letters in names. Welcome! Haha, thanks. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhat-new-member/797594/13 "2017-09-29T16:29:50Z")
What does the b stand for? ---
**Author:** ![laurieb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/51bf81/32.png) [@laurieb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/laurieb)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhat-new-member/797594/14 "2017-09-29T16:32:55Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > What does the b stand for? My middle name. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhat-new-member/797594/15 "2017-09-29T17:25:54Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Hi…rule: watch your punctuation and spelling. There are harasses here who get really bent about it! One dot is a period (or full stop, depending on your location). Three is an ellipse. Two don’t mean anything. Tsk. ---
**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:** [September 29, 2017, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhat-new-member/797594/16 "2017-09-29T17:55:55Z")
Welcome, welcome! Would you like some ice cream? It’s fresh! (Or at least it had _better_ be, because we haven’t had a proper Welcome thread in a while and the last time we had ‘vintage’ ice cream, it wasn’t so much ‘fresh’ as ‘frisky’, and it escaped before we could get the lid back on the container, and last I heard the assistant janitor found it in one of the greenhouses trying to mate with the corpse-flower plant. But that is all in the past now.) ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhat-new-member/797594/17 "2017-09-29T17:59:58Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Hi laurieb. You can tell the cool people around here by the lack of capital letters in names. Welcome! ditto ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhat-new-member/797594/18 "2017-09-29T18:01:28Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Hi laurieb. You can tell the cool people around here by the lack of capital letters in names. Welcome! Wait, they told me _extra_ capitals were the mark of coolness. And welcome, **laurieb**. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhat-new-member/797594/19 "2017-09-29T18:17:36Z")
That’s What I Was Told Too! ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhat-new-member/797594/20 "2017-09-29T18:27:41Z")
Welcome **laurieb**. I’ve seen a few of your posts. I think you’ll fit in here just fine. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhat-new-member/797594.md?page=2)