# Welcome me with open arms -- I demand it! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 16, 2004, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-me-with-open-arms-i-demand-it/275043 "2004-11-16T12:23:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-me-with-open-arms-i-demand-it/275043/41 "2004-11-17T01:41:14Z")
My shoulders are kinda stiff and sore from all the painting I’ve been doing, but I welcome you anyway. ---
**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:** [November 17, 2004, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-me-with-open-arms-i-demand-it/275043/42 "2004-11-17T02:18:13Z")
Welcome, **LoganDear**! Don’t worry about the goats. It’s all[sub]fn[/sub] a[sub]o[/sub] harmless[sub]r[/sub] in-joke[sub]d[/sub]. ---
**Author:** ![Keapon\_Laffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@Keapon\_Laffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keapon_Laffin)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-me-with-open-arms-i-demand-it/275043/43 "2004-11-17T02:21:48Z")
> [@June](#): > > Welcome me with open arms – I demand it! Sigh. The things we have to do. _Keapon dashes into the morgue. Roll d20. And successfully returns with 5 arms._ So here I stand, holding an arm in each hand, 2 arms in my pockets and the final arm down my back (eww, its clammy). Welcome, **June**! Icck. Time for a bath. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-me-with-open-arms-i-demand-it/275043/44 "2004-11-17T02:51:45Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > You can’t (technically) start a sentence with “just”, Mr. Goat Minister. Gaudere’s Law strikes back. 😉 That wasn’t a sentence. It was a conversational aside. Right? ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-me-with-open-arms-i-demand-it/275043/45 "2004-11-17T03:09:03Z")
I for one welcome our new summery overlord. Welcome **June** , we look forward to you busting out all over. (Might want to email a Mod and have them de-activate your old SN; only allowed the one you know) ---
**Author:** ![Phantom\_Dennis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/51bf81/32.png) [@Phantom\_Dennis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phantom_Dennis)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-me-with-open-arms-i-demand-it/275043/46 "2004-11-17T09:51:41Z")
> [@LoganDear](#): > > Hi **June** , and **Nordic**. I’m kinda new here too… and I don’t post much for the same reasons… geez, I’m already feeling stupid. I have the same problem June, it takes me so long to edit my posts, and by the time I’m done, it doesn’t make any sense. :sigh: I used to be so good with words. This place intimidates me. Welcome aboard, **LoganDear**. I agree that the intimidation factor of this board is very high. On other boards I have much less trouble posting, probably because I feel at least as intelligent as (if not smarter than) the average poster. Here, I’m merely average at best. There’s probably some maxim or quote that could succinctly illustrate my feelings on the matter, but I can’t think of anything relevant at the moment. Maybe someone can help me out. How about, “I’d rather be an average King than an outstanding peasant”? ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-me-with-open-arms-i-demand-it/275043/47 "2004-11-17T10:12:16Z")
> [@June](#): > > There’s probably some maxim or quote that could succinctly illustrate my feelings on the matter, but I can’t think of anything relevant at the moment. Maybe someone can help me out. How about, “I’d rather be an average King than an outstanding peasant”? Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reign in hell, then serve in heav’n. Milton, Paradise Lost, Book i, 1.261 ---
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-me-with-open-arms-i-demand-it/275043/48 "2004-11-17T10:36:27Z")
You should be SO good that iampunha hasn’t welcomed you with open arms and other things yet. Anyway,I’m the resident forum stalker 🙂 Prepare to run. Fast. Very fast ---
**Author:** ![Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Licentious_Ectomorph)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-me-with-open-arms-i-demand-it/275043/49 "2004-11-17T11:52:22Z")
> [@June](#): > > There’s probably some maxim or quote that could succinctly illustrate my feelings on the matter, but I can’t think of anything relevant at the moment. Maybe someone can help me out. How about, “I’d rather be an average King than an outstanding peasant”? Or how about, “I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy?” Works for me…I find a little liquid courage makes it much easier to hit that “Submit Reply” button. 😃 Then again, it also makes me start sentences with “or.” ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-me-with-open-arms-i-demand-it/275043/50 "2004-11-17T13:12:15Z")
> [@Nordic](#): > > Then again, it also makes me start sentences with “or.” I start sentences inappropriately _lots_ of times when I’ve had nothing stronger to drink than coffee. And I don’t care. 😛 Or, if I do care, I don’t let it stope me. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-me-with-open-arms-i-demand-it/275043.md?page=2)