I proudly consider myself an AJP, although I did start a thread that stretched for a couple pages (favorite hard liquor). But only once. I presume this doesn’t disqualify me.
I think you’ll be disqualified if someone comes in and recognizes you as the one who started that thread. Actually, except for “Ask the Gay Guy”, I don’t remember who started most of the threads I’ve enjoyed. So I guess that’s not a criterion. Criteria. I don’t know. Whatever.
brachy pokes her head in to see if she can be an auxilliary too.
“I, brachy, started only one thread of no consequence.”
“I only read the titles in GD.”
“I can provide facts, but only about certain, obscure topics - nothing deep.”
“The only person who knows I’m on here is my sister Kiffa and she knows because she can’t reach me by phone when I’m online.”
“I contribute to threads asking about toilet paper habits.”
I’ll be out on the deck awaiting confirmation of my auxilliary status.
um, excuse me…is there a training program for single-digit-post-count persons aspiring to be average joe posters? Will I be relegated to a lower level of the poster hierarchy for having two posts on the favorite bumper sticker thread? I don’t even know what MPSIMS stands for…if anyone needs me, I’ll be taking a nap.
brachy yells in from the deck “Hi Callina, welcome to the boards! Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share!”
I am so average, I used post #1 to answer the favorite beer thread (rolling rock) and #2 to tell you to consider me an average poster. I don’t have witty comebacks, I often hit send before realizing my posts make no sense, but I am an EXCELLENT, ABOVE-AVERAGE, KICK-ASS lurker.
:::goes off to find a corner. OH MANNNNNN all the corners are full! anyone wanna share?:::
I’ve only started one thread, which was a question that I don’t know how I could have been dumb enough to ask. Actually, I might have started one more but it must have been so dull that I can’t remember it.
I’ve noticed that a lot of the time when I post, nobody else posts in that thread for sometimes a day or two (eons on the time scale of this board).
I checked that high-post-count thread and I was about #600. There are people who joined the same month I did who have 10 times as many posts as I do. I would have a lot more but 90% of the time I reread my post before hitting submit and I realize that what I’ve written is inane and pointless, even by Average Joe standards - so I erase it.
The Average Joe Poster Team: our colors are beige and . . . tan. Just remember, beige matches everything.
I’ve been registered over a year and still don’t have 100 posts, nor have I ever started a thread…
Do I qualify?
what ascrivey said…
miss bunny…beige and tan? Are we average joe posters or UPS?
Maybe olive green and tan (too MASH for me though)
I am another solid-citizen, nobody’s enemy, nobody’s favorite, perfectly ordinary Average Jane Poster. Finally, a clique I can belong to!
Catrandom, who has killed more threads than you’ll ever see, sonny!
We’re coming together, us Averageosities. Can’t you feel the love? I sure can. (It’s way past my bedtime.)
So our color is beige? Cool.
Anyone up for creating a slogan? A motto to know us by?
How about a holiday? Hallmark can make us some blank greeting cards.
Do I count? If not being mentioned at DopeFests or favorite poster threads or SDMB laminated list threads or (etc.) counts, then I’m in.
drewbert, I’ve just gotta say that you boosted yourself out of elibility for this club just by the sheer brilliance of your application post. If any of you out there missed it, check this out.
And brachy, I know you’re here. Chin up!
I’m trying to decide if I belong here… mostly yes, but the one thread I started is actually doing pretty well. Other than that, I mostly feel like I’m talking into a vacuum. Maybe I should try my hand at flaming?
BigGiantHead!
You did have one very successful thread and it’s still going strong. But it’s a natural, I think. People like to explain why they chose the moniker they picked (and I, for one, like to read about it). I dunno…
…brachy goes to mull this over, but pleased at the confirmation that she was expected to be found in this group. A sense of mundane belonging comes over her…
and I’m an Average Jo Poster
Hello, I’m vandal, and yes, I am your average Joe poster… and damn proud of it!
Do you have a sub-group for way-below-average posters?
I have never started a thread, but I have finished quite a few.
If I miss a few days (weeks, months) no one ever posts a “What happened to old whatshisname” thread about me.
I am not on anyone’s (published) list of favorite this or thats.
I am not witty or funny, I can’t debate worth a damn and my flames wouldn’t burn if they were soaked with gasoline.
I have no opinions of my own, humble or otherwise, and my mundaneness is unmatched. I don’t even have a signature line and the few I have tried were just stupid.
When I stand against a wall, feeling wistful and wanting to join in, I always face that wall so that no one will think I am trying to impose myself on them.
Please find a place for me, if not in your hearts, at least in your Average Joe Association.
AJPs: Putting The “M” In MPSIMS.
AJPs: Always Getting In The Middle Of Things.
(Variation on the above) AJPs: Keeping The Internet Bell Curve Stable Since 1973.
AJPs: At Least We Don’t Suck.
Change that last one to
AJPs: We Don’t Suck. It Takes Too Much Energy.
AJP Official Ice Cream: Vanilla. On Saturdays, vanilla with sprinkles.
AJP Official Flame: You suck! I think. Okay, maybe you don’t. Ow! Stop hitting me!
I’ll second the beige & tan for the AJP official colors, too. Perhaps a uniform is in order? Maybe a nice beige T-shirt, and some tan Dockers? Or would actual Dockers be too flashy? We could probably get some Docker knock-offs at K-Mart or something…