# Welcome to "Cafe Society" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 29, 2001, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713 "2001-08-29T15:21:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713/1 "2001-08-29T15:21:05Z")
Wecome to our new forum : “Cafe Society.” This forum is for discussion about the Arts : music, movies, literature and so forth. We hope that this will be a popular forum as we’ve seen discussion of this sort popping up both in IMHO and MPSIMS and though a proper forum would be desired. I’d also like to take the opportunity to welcome Ukelele Ike as my co-moderator of this forum who I’m sure will do a wonderful job and should have his first PIT thread any minute now. 😉 Enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713/2 "2001-08-29T15:37:03Z")
Nice place you’ve got here. Roomy. I like the tasteful knick-knacks scattered all about. Oooh! A high-back leather reading chair with my name on it in the corner. Thanks guys! ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713/3 "2001-08-29T15:38:12Z")
Very nice place. I’ll be on the porch swing if anybody needs me. ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713/4 "2001-08-29T15:40:30Z")
Cool. A virgin forum. I’ll be on the couch, with my notebook in hand so I can continue working on my novel. Pay no attention to me or to the tortilla chips that may have scatterd on the floor. [sub]How did they cajole you into doing this, Uke?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713/5 "2001-08-29T15:40:32Z")
::Sitting around waiting until they open up the Penthouse Forum:: ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713/6 "2001-08-29T15:42:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eutychus55 \* > \*\*who I’m sure will do a wonderful job and should have his first PIT thread any minute now. 😉 > \*\* Check. Pit thread activated. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713/7 "2001-08-29T15:48:49Z")
Eeeagh! Well, this really is a nice idea, although I’m a bit bemused about the SDMB Movie Club being one of the two threads moved to this new forum. People are gonna start having expectations of me, y’know? Sooner or later I’ll be exposed for the sham I am… ---
**Author:** ![Necros](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/necros/32/11086_2.png) [@Necros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Necros)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713/8 "2001-08-29T15:50:04Z")
I’m just waiting for the first thread to be wrongly placed in this forum. The forum description is amazingly self-explanatory to me, so I’m looking forward to gaining some perpective from the land of the brain dead where it’s not. ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713/9 "2001-08-29T15:50:18Z")
Here’s [the link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=84327) to Athena’s ode to Uke. ---
**Author:** ![ultress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@ultress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultress)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713/10 "2001-08-29T15:56:48Z")
How nice. Ike I hope you got your butt covered, you’ll need it. Congrats! ---
**Author:** ![Pucette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@Pucette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pucette)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713/11 "2001-08-29T15:57:31Z")
Great! A forum exclusively devoted to discussing the arts. I have a question though. What about creative writing, and stuff like that? Does that still go in MPSIMS? If it belongs here, could it be added to the forum description? I know there are a lot of writer dopers… ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713/12 "2001-08-29T15:58:06Z")
Hmmm…I like. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2001, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713/13 "2001-08-29T16:06:21Z")
Very nice. I’ll have the Madagascar Vanilla and a biscotti. I’ll be on the porch reading _Cleopatra’s Palace_ ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713/14 "2001-08-29T16:07:19Z")
:: standing :: :: applauding :: :: cheering :: :: kneeling :: :: begging to be a moderator too :: 🙂 AND, I already have a post in here and I didn’t even know it, thanks to a moved thread. I’m a frickin’ natural. How much do you guys get paid again? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713/15 "2001-08-29T16:11:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lno \* > \*\*Eeeagh! > > …sham I am… \*\* [DrSeuss] Sham I am? Sham I am? I do not like that Sham I am [/DrSeuss] ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713/16 "2001-08-29T16:13:29Z")
Wow. Nice mix of Art Deco and Rococo (and a wee bit of Syroco, too). I think I’ll be here awhile. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713/17 "2001-08-29T16:46:26Z")
Wonderful! Bravo! I’ve found my home at SD. I’m always scanning for the literature and film threads. I’ll have a latte and curl myself into a deep plush couch, waiting for the trailers to begin. Or someone to discuss Garp with. Or even Smutty Nose and Spinal Tap (will those threads be moved here?) I’m a happy girl. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713/18 "2001-08-29T16:52:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by screech-owl \* > **Nice mix of Art Deco and Rococo (and a wee bit of Syroco, too)** Really? I saw it as a combo of Outsider Art, speed metal, and Dada. ---
**Author:** ![caircair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@caircair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caircair)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713/19 "2001-08-29T17:17:03Z")
This is wonderful! A great place to relax, share ideas, discuss, etc. I’ll just grab a book and curl up in that corner by the fireplace for now. Me, a book, sunflower seeds, and a frosty mug of root beer. Life is good! ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713/20 "2001-08-29T17:26:10Z")
Discussing The Arts? Oops! Must be here by accident. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713.md?page=2)