# Welcome the newbies! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 18, 2003, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-the-newbies/182794 "2003-06-18T21:55:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Elza\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-the-newbies/182794/1 "2003-06-18T21:55:25Z")
Okay, I’ve never opened one of these before, but since a very good friend of mine just started posting on the SDMB, I wanted to welcome her and all of the other newbies who’ve just started here. I know there are at least two others - although their names are escaping me and I can’t remember what thread I saw them in - and I’m sure there are more. Since it’s hard enough to keep names straight around here, it might be easier if you folks just check in and say hi:), and for all the older Dopers to get to know you (and welcome you!) And yes, I wanted to give a special welcome to one of my best friends who’s decided to post here - she’s my Canadian friend that I went to visit this weekend - and who I nearly didn’t get to see because of American Airlines - **Special Agent Jazz**. She’ll probably kill me for singling her out:D , but I’m glad she’s here! Ava ---
**Author:** ![Searching\_For\_Truth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Searching\_For\_Truth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Searching_For_Truth)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-the-newbies/182794/2 "2003-06-18T21:59:02Z")
Welcome, **Special Agent Jazz**. I’m sure that since you’re **avabeth’s** friend, you’ll get some funny looks, but don’t let that get you down. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-the-newbies/182794/3 "2003-06-18T22:04:20Z")
My name is -NCB- and I’m a Dope-aholic Hi, -NCB- ---
**Author:** ![Elza\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-the-newbies/182794/4 "2003-06-18T22:05:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Searching For Truth \* > \*\*Welcome, **Special Agent Jazz**. I’m sure that since you’re **avabeth’s** friend, you’ll get some funny looks, but don’t let that get you down. 😉 \*\* Oh, she’s used to it;). Then again, so am I…HEY! STOP HITTING ME! 😃 Ava ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-the-newbies/182794/5 "2003-06-18T22:14:54Z")
Oh yeah… Hi, **Jazz** y. Do you like it here so far? Word of warning, **Manhattan** hasn’t been taking his meds.\* So watch out! \*he’s been giving them to me! ---
**Author:** ![Elza\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-the-newbies/182794/6 "2003-06-18T22:24:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NoClueBoy \* > \*\*Oh yeah… > > Hi, **Jazz** y. Do you like it here so far? > > Word of warning, **Manhattan** hasn’t been taking his meds.\* So watch out! > > \*he’s been giving them to me! \*\* Wait, he’s been giving them to YOU? What was all the damn money I sent him through PayPal for, then? That’s it. Does Cecil take complaints? :stomps away angrily after hijacking her own thread: Ava ---
**Author:** ![Haddock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Haddock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haddock)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-the-newbies/182794/7 "2003-06-18T22:32:00Z")
Don’t suppose they come much fresher in the newbie stakes than me, with my 1st post… Hi everybody. ---
**Author:** ![Padmaraga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@Padmaraga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padmaraga)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-the-newbies/182794/8 "2003-06-18T22:44:44Z")
Thanks for the welcome. This is my 3rd day here, and I think this place is, to quote the kids, “da bomb” (or is that expression out, already? Whadda I know - I don’t have kids.) There’s so much here I feel like I can never get to it all - especially with the speed of the site - sorry to grouse, I know it’s free for me, I shouldn’t complain, but I just get frustrated sometimes when it takes so long to open something or to post. I hope my tendency toward run-on sentences and parenthetical phrases doesn’t wear out my welcome. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-the-newbies/182794/9 "2003-06-18T22:47:30Z")
Hi, **Haddock** ; welcome! Welcome also to **Special Agent Jazz**! [sub]No one had a party for _me_ when I was new – effin’ candy-ass newbies, I had to walk barefoot through the snow, uphill both ways, when I made my first few posts.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-the-newbies/182794/10 "2003-06-18T23:09:14Z")
Me too, **twick**. That’s we we treats’em rough when they first get here! Har har har! Uhhhh, yeah. Welcome newbies! ---
**Author:** ![Elza\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-the-newbies/182794/11 "2003-06-19T01:39:59Z")
Welcome, **Haddock** and **Padmaraga**! Aww, **twickster** , I had to clean the shoes of every Doper in the Pit after I made MY first thread. You ever cleaned Coldfire’s shoes? I don’t recommend it without a gas mask. Ava ---
**Author:** ![Special\_Agent\_Jazz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@Special\_Agent\_Jazz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Special_Agent_Jazz)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-the-newbies/182794/12 "2003-06-19T01:46:50Z")
I’m sooooo going to kill you **avabeth**. I really am. The moment I see you again. LOL. Thanks so much for the welcome! 🙂 Welcome to other newbies as well! ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-the-newbies/182794/13 "2003-06-19T01:50:27Z")
Watch out for that **avabeth**. They calculated grades weirdly in her school, so she might not be as smart as she looks. Or maybe smarter. Or maybe it’s me. Maybe I’m not as smart as she looks. ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-the-newbies/182794/14 "2003-06-19T02:01:23Z")
Whoa! **APJ** alreay has 14 posts! Look out **Q.E.D.**!!! Ok. Lame joke. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-the-newbies/182794/15 "2003-06-19T02:03:15Z")
Just got here myself. Thanks for the warm welcome. Been lurking a while and (at my wife’s coaxing) decided to register and get involved in some things. Been reading SD off and on for years, mostly after a search sent me there. Trivia and odd stuff mostly. Looks like the popularity of the SDMB means others have similar tastes. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-the-newbies/182794/16 "2003-06-19T02:15:48Z")
Did we ever figure out what a collection of Dopers should be called? Yup, we’re a fun crew. Welcome, **Zeldar**. ---
**Author:** ![Secret\_Squirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@Secret\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Secret_Squirrel)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-the-newbies/182794/17 "2003-06-19T02:20:09Z")
Thanks for the welcome. I just found you guys and think these boards are great!!! ---
**Author:** ![jweb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71c47a/32.png) [@jweb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jweb)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-the-newbies/182794/18 "2003-06-19T02:30:34Z")
Just out of curiousity, when do you lose newbie status? I’m relatively new around here, but I’m not sure if I’m still considered a newbie or not. ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-the-newbies/182794/19 "2003-06-19T02:35:26Z")
Welcome to all the newbies! 🙂 F\_X ---
**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-the-newbies/182794/20 "2003-06-19T02:40:41Z")
I’ve often wondered that, **jweb**. I’ve been told its a “zen” thing. 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-the-newbies/182794.md?page=2)