# Welcome my housemates to the SDMB! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 24, 2001, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-my-housemates-to-the-sdmb/83438 "2001-09-24T02:15:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-my-housemates-to-the-sdmb/83438/1 "2001-09-24T02:15:41Z")
The collective that is the Straight Dope has assimilated two more souls. Please give a hearty Doper welcome to **jkusters** and **thomasm** (who won’t respond anyway, 'cause he’s a wimp). I love 'em! Don’t you? I knew you would… Esprix ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-my-housemates-to-the-sdmb/83438/2 "2001-09-24T02:21:47Z")
Welcome, **jkusters** and **thomasm**! ---
**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:** [September 24, 2001, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-my-housemates-to-the-sdmb/83438/3 "2001-09-24T02:24:38Z")
How could we not? **jkusters** ’s post in your Pit thread still has me giggling. > [@](#): > > Can’t sleep, tramp will kill me. Can’t sleep, tramp will kill me. Can’t sleep, tramp will kill me. Can’t sleep, tramp will kill me. Can’t sleep, tramp will kill me. Can’t sleep, tramp will kill me. Can’t sleep, tramp will kill me. … 😃 **thomasm** can’t be all bad. Even if he is too wimpy to post. 😉 Welcome to you both! ---
**Author:** ![Ayesha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@Ayesha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ayesha)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-my-housemates-to-the-sdmb/83438/4 "2001-09-24T02:28:32Z")
Welcome, welcome, welcome. Any housemate of Esprix a housemate of… err, considered a friend of mine. And yeah Esprix after seeing jkuster at work in the pit I love him too. I’m sure thomasm isn’t a whimp, he’s just shy. He’ll talk to us in his own time, won’t you dear ? Unless you have been revealing board secrets about the newbie hazing, sacrifices and goat sex again Esprix. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![jkusters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/fbc32d/32.png) [@jkusters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jkusters)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-my-housemates-to-the-sdmb/83438/5 "2001-09-24T02:36:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ayesha \* > Unless you have been revealing board secrets about the newbie hazing, sacrifices and goat sex again Esprix. 😛 \*\* Nah, he went over all of that when we first met in IRC something like, oh mi god, 10 years ago. -JOhn. ---
**Author:** ![thomasm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/50afbb/32.png) [@thomasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thomasm)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-my-housemates-to-the-sdmb/83438/6 "2001-09-24T03:32:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jkusters \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Ayesha \* > > Unless you have been revealing board secrets about the newbie hazing, sacrifices and goat sex again Esprix. 😛 \*\* > > Nah, he went over all of that when we first met in IRC something like, oh mi god, 10 years ago. > \*\* No, that was actually about the Unitarian Universalist initiation process. Michael ---
**Author:** ![atypicalcarl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@atypicalcarl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atypicalcarl)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-my-housemates-to-the-sdmb/83438/7 "2001-09-24T03:42:33Z")
I just got here myself, but welcome jkusters and thomasm! ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-my-housemates-to-the-sdmb/83438/8 "2001-09-24T03:56:43Z")
Welcome to the both of you! ::MsRobyn goes into the kitchen and makes tea cakes with fifties in them for **jkusters** and **thomasm** so they’ll spill the dirt on 'Sprix 😃 :: Robin ---
**Author:** ![deepbluesea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ba9def/32.png) [@deepbluesea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deepbluesea)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-my-housemates-to-the-sdmb/83438/9 "2001-09-24T07:38:45Z")
Well, what I see here is that **Esprix** has just recruited spies for the folks of the SDMB. No more will it be a secret that he’s spent the last 22 hours in his bedroom with an Asian boy and a vat of custard. No more will it be a secret that he’s wearing hot pink underwear with happy faces and hearts on them - nor will it be a secret who _gave_ him said underwear. And at long last we’ll find out exactly why he has that heart/groundhog/electric swing tattoo in a place usually only seen by the boys in his bedroom. In short, **jkusters** and **thomasm** , if you play your cards right, your time here on the SDMB could be not only fun and informative but also profitable. Not to mention useful the next time you need to determine whose turn it is to do the dishes. Yes, boys, welcome aboard. (And **Esprix**? Thanks for showin’ them the way. I know _I_ have been wondering about that tattoo for quite some time.) ---
**Author:** ![Doobieous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Doobieous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doobieous)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-my-housemates-to-the-sdmb/83438/10 "2001-09-24T07:44:47Z")
Welcome Dark overlords of Esprix’s mortal soul! ---
**Author:** ![dobbinaire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@dobbinaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dobbinaire)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-my-housemates-to-the-sdmb/83438/11 "2001-09-24T12:11:18Z")
Welcome, **jkusters** and **thomasm**. ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-my-housemates-to-the-sdmb/83438/12 "2001-09-24T15:10:52Z")
Very big welcome! Everybody should have a multiple Doper household. And yea, the Pit beginnings made me laugh! ---
**Author:** ![Ross](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@Ross](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ross)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-my-housemates-to-the-sdmb/83438/13 "2001-09-24T21:43:37Z")
[approaches with grace and style] Welcome, friends of Esprix. [smiles darkly] You have chosen a strange and narrow road. [smiles oddly] It is to be hoped we will make ourselves good friends to you, over time. [smiles goofily] And that once I finally persuade my luddite family to join us y’ll pretend t’be my disciples! YEEEHAAA! Whoopwhoopwhoopwhoop! [immediately arrested] [again] ---
**Author:** ![Cyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@Cyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyn)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-my-housemates-to-the-sdmb/83438/14 "2001-09-25T00:05:37Z")
I hope you have a very good time. I do. ---
**Author:** ![MrVisible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-my-housemates-to-the-sdmb/83438/15 "2001-09-25T05:14:52Z")
Welcome to the boards, guys. Please be aware that it’s standard procedure to install hidden cameras throughout members’ homes, for security reasons. Personally, I put on little shows for them all the time. ---
**Author:** ![jkusters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/fbc32d/32.png) [@jkusters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jkusters)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-my-housemates-to-the-sdmb/83438/16 "2001-09-25T05:20:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MrVisible \* > \*\*Welcome to the boards, guys. Please be aware that it’s standard procedure to install hidden cameras throughout members’ homes, for security reasons. > > Personally, I put on little shows for them all the time. \*\* Oh, do tell. DO TELL. No, really, DO TELL. 😉 -JOhn. ---
**Author:** ![thomasm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/50afbb/32.png) [@thomasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thomasm)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-my-housemates-to-the-sdmb/83438/17 "2001-09-28T02:14:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jkusters \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by MrVisible \* > > \*\*Welcome to the boards, guys. Please be aware that it’s standard procedure to install hidden cameras throughout members’ homes, for security reasons. > > > > Personally, I put on little shows for them all the time. \*\* > > Oh, do tell. DO TELL. > > No, really, DO TELL. 😉 > > \*\* Forget the telling. When can we see the pictures? No, not ours. MrVisible’s. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-my-housemates-to-the-sdmb/83438/18 "2001-09-28T07:47:15Z")
Eh, **jkusters** cracked me up in chat, so he’s okay in my book. Hi to you too, **thomasm**. ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-my-housemates-to-the-sdmb/83438/19 "2001-09-28T08:03:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ayesha \* > \*\* > Unless you have been revealing board secrets about the newbie hazing, sacrifices and goat sex again Esprix. 😛 \*\* Um, was there something I missed? I mean I really like it here and all, but, uh… Well, anyway! WELCOME GUYS!!! jkusters, loved your “Tramp will kill me!” I’m sure thomasm will make his mark as well. You DO plan on spilling ALL of Esprix’s deepest, darkest, secrets, right?! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-my-housemates-to-the-sdmb/83438/20 "2001-09-28T09:05:08Z")
Welcome to the SDMB. You won’t be leaving. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-my-housemates-to-the-sdmb/83438.md?page=2)