# The last word **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 28, 2000, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580 "2000-12-28T22:48:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 27
**Author:** ![Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fairy_Princess_Kitty)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/521 "2000-12-30T01:27:03Z")
_hugs all her wonderful jello pit friends_ Ummm… lastI checked it was length of stay and/or 500 posts… I think Kitty ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/522 "2000-12-30T01:30:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AngelD112 \* > \*\*Wow. I’ve never been part of a clique, especially not a clique with power. This is kinda cool. \*\* Power? Because we are Holders of The Last Word? Cool. Don’t forget, we also have a mascot. Who else can say that? ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/523 "2000-12-30T01:31:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fairy Princess Kitty \* > \*\*_hugs all her wonderful jello pit friends_ > Ummm… lastI checked it was length of stay and/or 500 posts… I think > \*\* Well, according to Grean Bean (I think), it’s . . . (posts/months) + (months\*100). If that quantity is greater than 400, you’re no longer a newbie. The problem with that is that we have people like **handy** who have scores of like 3.5 million for that. Mine is only about 1100 or so. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/524 "2000-12-30T01:33:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arden\_Ranger \* > \*\*Don’t forget, we also have a mascot. Who else can say that? \*\* Every high school, 4-year-college and some department stores. But look out freemasons and Illuminati! The SDMB Newbie-esque clique is ravaging MBs and servers from Cali to the Cnary Islands! Do you have what it takes to survive the impact? ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/525 "2000-12-30T01:34:31Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by iampunha \* > \*\*Well, according to Grean Bean (I think), it’s . . . (posts/months) + (months_100). If that quantity is greater than 400, you’re no longer a newbie.\*\* Oh, cripes, math _shudder_. Hmm, a power clique, this is nothing like H.S. for me then 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AngelD112](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@AngelD112](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelD112)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/526 "2000-12-30T01:37:13Z")
I’m not a newbie anymore. I have 517.4. Wow! We have a mascot, and don’t forget…in about 28 hours we made an 11 page thread. I’m telling you, that has to be a record. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/527 "2000-12-30T01:38:18Z")
Someone just tried to steal the Last Word and didn’t get jumped in the Jello Pit?! Demerits! ---
**Author:** ![Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fairy_Princess_Kitty)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/528 "2000-12-30T01:38:55Z")
Ummm, iampunha, buddy, you have 1180ish and I have umm… 706, that means anyone who has been here more than 4 months isn’t a newbie. Alrighty Kitty ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/529 "2000-12-30T01:40:47Z")
_sniff_ I’m so proud of you girls _sniff_ :: wipes away tears with paw :: And so honored to be… Official Jello Pit Plaything & Mascot [sup]TM[/sup] 😛 ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/530 "2000-12-30T01:41:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fairy Princess Kitty \* > \*\*Ummm, iampunha, buddy, you have 1180ish and I have umm… 706, that means anyone who has been here more than 4 months isn’t a newbie. Alrighty > \*\* Yup. Grean Bean said this was the basic premise behind the whole thing. So I have 1180 or so, but Welfy has around 2200, if not more. Keep on posting and that number’ll rise, baby! ---
**Author:** ![AngelD112](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@AngelD112](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelD112)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/531 "2000-12-30T01:41:54Z")
Maybe A\_R is right, maybe Iampunha is trying to steal it from us by being nice and playing up our victory. Iampunha, what are your intentions? You’ll have to join us in the jello pit. ---
**Author:** ![Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fairy_Princess_Kitty)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/532 "2000-12-30T01:45:11Z")
::curls up with DW:: Don’t cry, tears are bad for the jello. Kitty ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/533 "2000-12-30T01:46:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AngelD112 \* > \*\*Maybe A\_R is right, maybe Iampunha is trying to steal it from us by being nice and playing up our victory. > Iampunha, what are your intentions? You’ll have to join us in the jello pit. \*\* Gee . . . and me not wearing a shirt or anything . . just ski-ish pants. I’m not trying to steal it from you, honest![sub]Because it was never YOURS in the first place, you meddlin’ kids![/sub] ::joins A\_R, dire wolf and FPK in the jello pit, distracting them long enough for Nocturne to grab TLW:: ---
**Author:** ![Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fairy_Princess_Kitty)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/534 "2000-12-30T01:49:00Z")
_pounces on the badbad person and steals the last word_ DW sic 'em! Go get him honey! Kitty ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/535 "2000-12-30T01:49:16Z")
Take more than one iampunha to distract us! It’s still ours! ---
**Author:** ![Sapphire\_Bullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@Sapphire\_Bullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapphire_Bullet)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/536 "2000-12-30T01:49:18Z")
[sub] hopefully noone will notice me! it’s mine now!!![/sub] ---
**Author:** ![AngelD112](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@AngelD112](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelD112)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/537 "2000-12-30T01:49:42Z")
I knew it was a trick. Jump him girls! ::Dives into jello-pit, and wrestles last word away from Iampunha:: Its Ours, again!! We should have some sort of official closing ceremony, saying it belongs to us…or this’ll go on forever. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/538 "2000-12-30T01:50:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fairy Princess Kitty \* > \*\*_pounces on the badbad person and steals the last word_ > DW sic 'em! Go get him honey! > \*\* I much prefer root beer to honey, as you’d KNOW if you weren’t SUCH A NEWBIE!😉 And now maybe I have the last word again, for a short time? ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/539 "2000-12-30T01:51:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AngelD112 \* > \*\*I knew it was a trick. Jump him girls! > ::Dives into jello-pit, and wrestles last word away from Iampunha:: Its Ours, again!! > We should have some sort of official closing ceremony, saying it belongs to us…or this’ll go on forever. \*\* You know one of the Mods will come in, claim it and close the thread unless we can bribe 'em. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580/540 "2000-12-30T01:51:32Z")
While all that is going on, I sit calmly by the Jello pit playing with my half of the Last Word 😃 Don’t worry, Arden, I’ve been watching. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580.md?page=26) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-word/47580.md?page=28)