# Welcome to a new Doper, Cattitude! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 9, 2007, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-a-new-doper-cattitude/399234 "2007-04-09T00:02:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-a-new-doper-cattitude/399234/1 "2007-04-09T00:02:26Z")
She’s made the leap from Guest to Member, and herewith a welcome: Hello to our new member, **Cattitude** I like what I’ve seen of your attitude Well-spoken, polite Knows the wrong from the right Not the least bit enamored of platitude. 😃😃😃 Who else is newly hatched among our flock? Who else needs a welcoming limerick? Don’t be shy, I love doing this. 😉 Anybody else want to play? Limerick, haiku, sonnet, quatrain? An epic to cast the Iliad into the shade? ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-a-new-doper-cattitude/399234/2 "2007-04-09T00:05:29Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] She’s made the leap from Guest to Member, and herewith a welcome: Hello to our new member, **Cattitude** I like what I’ve seen of your attitude Well-spoken, polite Knows the wrong from the right Not the least bit enamored of platitude. 😃😃😃 Who else is newly hatched among our flock? Who else needs a welcoming limerick? Don’t be shy, I love doing this. 😉 Anybody else want to play? Limerick, haiku, sonnet, quatrain? An epic to cast the Iliad into the shade? [/QUOTE] [sniffs] I never got a limerick…[/sniffs] ---
**Author:** ![WriterChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@WriterChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WriterChick)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-a-new-doper-cattitude/399234/3 "2007-04-09T00:08:57Z")
Welcome **Cattitude**! I’m new too. I’ll take a haiku please. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-a-new-doper-cattitude/399234/4 "2007-04-09T00:20:19Z")
Oh! **IvoryTowerDenizen** How sad you’re an overlooked citizen Of the rollicking Dope. But wait – there’s still hope; If I just can come up with something that rhymes cleverly with the first two lines and fits in with the metric scheme and isn’t something as obvious as “Pitizen”. 😃 ```auto **WriterChick** appears Clothed in snowy raiment of Newness. *splash* Sorry! ``` ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-a-new-doper-cattitude/399234/5 "2007-04-09T00:28:22Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] Oh! **IvoryTowerDenizen** How sad you’re an overlooked citizen Of the rollicking Dope. But wait – there’s still hope; If I just can come up with something that rhymes cleverly with the first two lines and fits in with the metric scheme and isn’t something as obvious as “Pitizen”. 😃 [/QUOTE] Hope you didn’t blow a gasket! Hmmm… citizen, rhymed with denizen… how about: menacin’ 🆒 (I’m supposed to be writing a lecture on sphingolipids. gadzooks I’m easily distracted tonight…) ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-a-new-doper-cattitude/399234/6 "2007-04-09T00:29:52Z")
Welcome to the Dope. It is candy coated crack. Inhale: now you’re fucked. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-a-new-doper-cattitude/399234/7 "2007-04-09T00:31:44Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] Welcome to the Dope. It is candy coated crack. Inhale: now you’re fucked. [/QUOTE] word ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-a-new-doper-cattitude/399234/8 "2007-04-09T00:45:16Z")
Welcome to the Dope, **Cattitude**! I love your username! I have a lot of that around here… I didn’t get a limerick, either. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-a-new-doper-cattitude/399234/9 "2007-04-09T00:55:36Z")
**SnakesCatLady** – here’s one for you And I hope that you haven’t been blue At your former neglect. Am I right to suspect That your home is a veritable zoo? ---
**Author:** ![Tess\_Trueheart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Tess\_Trueheart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tess_Trueheart)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-a-new-doper-cattitude/399234/10 "2007-04-09T00:56:50Z")
Aww I want one too! ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-a-new-doper-cattitude/399234/11 "2007-04-09T00:57:47Z")
[QUOTE=SnakesCatLady] Welcome to the Dope, **Cattitude**! I love your username! I have a lot of that around here… I didn’t get a limerick, either. [/QUOTE] There once was a proud Cat Lady Who was attached to Snake, her baby she shouted with pride and a grin so wide Unless her name I have misunderstady. (damn, I gotta get back to work…) ---
**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:** [April 9, 2007, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-a-new-doper-cattitude/399234/12 "2007-04-09T01:00:08Z")
There once was a Doper, quite new Whose limericks stopped at line two. 🙂 Welcome, **Cattitude**! We have a welcoming banquet laid on in Room Four. Please ignore the sounds from Room Three. We’re …stress-testing the PA system. Yeah. That’s it. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-a-new-doper-cattitude/399234/13 "2007-04-09T01:01:59Z")
[QUOTE=IvoryTowerDenizen] (I’m supposed to be writing a lecture on sphingolipids. gadzooks I’m easily distracted tonight…) [/QUOTE] Sphingolipids: Wee :dubious: Protectors of cell surface 🙂 Disorder: Gaucher’s. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-a-new-doper-cattitude/399234/14 "2007-04-09T01:05:22Z")
[QUOTE=Tess Trueheart] Aww I want one too! [/QUOTE] Dear Tess, your heart is so true Sent off her suitors, so blue She told them, don’t mope For I’ll see you on the Dope And there, I’ll only have eyes for you. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-a-new-doper-cattitude/399234/15 "2007-04-09T01:06:30Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] Sphingolipids: Wee :dubious: Protectors of cell surface 🙂 Disorder: Gaucher’s. ☹ [/QUOTE] OK- well that’s done! Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-a-new-doper-cattitude/399234/16 "2007-04-09T01:08:19Z")
[QUOTE=Tess Trueheart] Aww I want one too! [/QUOTE] **Tess Trueheart** – Dick Tracy’s main squeeze Lost her pop to the mob! Tell us, please, Is a camera your passion Or some other fashion Of comically shooting the breeze? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-a-new-doper-cattitude/399234/17 "2007-04-09T01:09:45Z")
[QUOTE=IvoryTowerDenizen] OK- well that’s done! Thanks! [/QUOTE] Oh, well, no need to get bogged down in minutiae, eh? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-a-new-doper-cattitude/399234/18 "2007-04-09T01:24:39Z")
So, can I feign newness and get a heroic poem dedicated to my sweetness or do I have to sulk? Do I have to do that thing with the goat, the squid, and the midget dressed in a bikini again? ---
**Author:** ![enigm4tic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@enigm4tic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enigm4tic)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-a-new-doper-cattitude/399234/19 "2007-04-09T01:40:32Z")
man, I never got a limerick either ☹ ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-a-new-doper-cattitude/399234/20 "2007-04-09T02:06:44Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] Do I have to do that thing with the goat, the squid, and the midget dressed in a bikini again? [/QUOTE] The midget filed a union grievance after the raspberry syrup incident and PETA has been making dark insinuations about our use of the goat, so I’m not sure where the standard initiation rites stand, legally, at the moment… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-a-new-doper-cattitude/399234.md?page=2)