# Welcome Back Duck Duck Goose. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 24, 2000, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-duck-duck-goose/42592 "2000-11-24T23:27:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![oldscratch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-duck-duck-goose/42592/1 "2000-11-24T23:27:04Z")
I just want to say that I’ve missed you. Welcome back, hope you stick around. I even started a thread about you a little while ago inquiring your whereabouts. ---
**Author:** ![\_hijack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/c0e974/32.png) [@\_hijack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_hijack)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-duck-duck-goose/42592/2 "2000-11-24T23:32:46Z")
His whereabouts is at my thread named by me for me and about me. Not that this is all about me. It’s about time. Time and tide wait for no man, and no man is an island. ---
**Author:** ![Nymysys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f6c823/32.png) [@Nymysys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nymysys)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-duck-duck-goose/42592/3 "2000-11-24T23:44:38Z")
/hijack/ Fearsome Foursome (at least one of them) strikes again! /hijack/ ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-duck-duck-goose/42592/4 "2000-11-24T23:45:45Z")
Ha! Validation! I’m a Real Person, someone started a thread about me! Hooray! 😃 You can thank Juno’s Goon Squad (Charles Ardai, presiding Thug) for finally offering Web Access at the one-time-only low, low price of $4.95 a month. I had Juno Free Internet before, but I had to leave in September when they took away my local Web access number (no way am I gonna pay long-distance charges for 6 hours of SDMB every day). So we just had e-mail. It was like in those stories where the electricity goes out and the family gets reacquainted, they pull out the Parcheesi board, light a fire, etc. I always hated those stories. I found myself having to have actual conversations with my children. Ewww. But Juno finally sent out an e-mail manifesto to all subscribers last Monday that said, basically, “Okay, all you freeloaders, out there dialing up Juno Free Internet, starting December 4 we’re gonna make it real tough for you to get on-line. We’re gonna add some more ad banners, we’re gonna kick you off a lot more during peak periods, and worst of all, we’re gonna keep yammering up into your face about this until you subscribe. So you can put up with even more BS–or you can click here.” So I clicked. Upside, no ad banner. Downside, still slow. Upside, cheap Web access. Downside, still slow. Upside, the Better Half can look at his car ads and computer MBs without having to schlep down to the public library. Downside, still slow. So, I’m extremely pleased to be back. Nice to see that nothing has changed at all. And at this end, we have resumed the familial squabbling over whose turn it is to do Internet. Just like old times… And if I once again disappear abruptly, it will be because the estimable Mr. Ardai will have disappeared back into whatever interdimensional black hole it was that gave birth to him, taking his meshugginah ISP with him. P.S. You know, **[hijack]** if you keep drinking Nyquil like that, you can get serious liver damage, or even die. Really. An acetominophen overdose destroys your liver. But hey, sorry you’re feeling under the weather. Chicken soup is good. Also a cold mist vaporizer. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-duck-duck-goose/42592/5 "2000-11-24T23:58:17Z")
😃 ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-duck-duck-goose/42592/6 "2000-11-25T00:57:52Z")
Welcome back, DDG. Please resume your usual level of posting, effective as of _now_. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-duck-duck-goose/42592/7 "2000-11-25T01:01:11Z")
Hello Duck Duck Goose, nice to meetcha. Any friend of scratchie’s is a friend o’ mine. If you’re not careful, he’ll assimilate you into his posse. Welcome back! ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-duck-duck-goose/42592/8 "2000-11-25T01:13:36Z")
Nice to have you back. Bit amazing that you were able to stay off this drug for so long… ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-duck-duck-goose/42592/9 "2000-11-25T01:22:15Z")
HI DUCK DUCK! Welcome Back! ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-duck-duck-goose/42592/10 "2000-11-25T01:26:09Z")
Hello Duck Duck Goose! My 17th favourite poster is back! Glad to see you have rejoined us. In your honour, I will include my little-used sig line that you courteously dug out for me from a dusty poetry book. Stick around longer this time! I personally enjoy reading your posts. * * * [sub]It did depend on _one_ indeed; Behold him, – Arnold Winkelried! There sounds not to the trump of fame The echo of a nobler name. (James Montgomery, _The Patriot’s Password_)[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![\_hijack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/c0e974/32.png) [@\_hijack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_hijack)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-duck-duck-goose/42592/11 "2000-11-25T01:29:13Z")
**AHA! The secret of the fine print is revealed at last!** * * * [sub]It did depend on _one_ indeed; Behold him, – Arnold Winkelried! There sounds not to the trump of fame The echo of a nobler name. (James Montgomery, _The Patriot’s Password_)[/sub] \*\* [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![\_hijack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/c0e974/32.png) [@\_hijack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_hijack)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-duck-duck-goose/42592/12 "2000-11-25T01:31:19Z")
Oh, yes, and hi to Goose. My 17th favorite poster too I guess, but who’s counting 😕 ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-duck-duck-goose/42592/13 "2000-11-25T01:37:41Z")
Welcome back **Duck Duck Goose** _again_ (I posted an earlier “welcome back” in ' **scratch** ’s “Where’s Duck Duck Goose?” thread also). And to the aptly named **[hijack]**: Really, **DDG** ’s medical advise was sound, dear. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-duck-duck-goose/42592/14 "2000-11-25T01:45:35Z")
Welcome back, **Duck Duck Goose**! ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-duck-duck-goose/42592/15 "2000-11-25T01:59:12Z")
Hi, DDG, glad you’re back! Here’s wishing good Juno ju-ju for you (May your connections be solid and with few busy signals). ---
**Author:** ![Anti\_Pro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Anti\_Pro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anti_Pro)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-duck-duck-goose/42592/16 "2000-11-25T02:08:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Duck Duck Goose \* > \*\*It was like in those stories where the electricity goes out and the family gets reacquainted, they pull out the Parcheesi board, light a fire, etc. I always hated those stories. I found myself having to have actual conversations with my children. Ewww. > > \*\* That was my biggest giggle all day!! Welcome back! ---
**Author:** ![aenea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@aenea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aenea)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-duck-duck-goose/42592/17 "2000-11-25T04:06:19Z")
Finally! Sheesh! 😃 We missed you! Glad to see you back! ---
**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-duck-duck-goose/42592/18 "2000-11-25T04:08:47Z")
Welcome Back DDG! ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-duck-duck-goose/42592/19 "2000-11-25T05:40:15Z")
Hi again DDG. Woo and furthermore hoo. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-duck-duck-goose/42592/20 "2000-11-25T07:07:11Z")
Welcome back DDG. Nice to read ya again. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-duck-duck-goose/42592.md?page=2)