# Welcome! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [March 11, 1999, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome/16 "1999-03-11T05:25:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 1999, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome/16/1 "1999-03-11T05:25:00Z")
Hi, folks, and welcome to the “Comment on Cecil’s Columns” folder. Though the Boss is still far from comfortable with this computer thing, we’ve persuaded him to check in periodically to read your comments about his columns, and respond if the spirit moves him. He has this idea that your comments will mostly consist of remarks such as “Nice job, O awesome one.” We are sure no one will disillusion him. Happy posting. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 1999, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome/16/2 "1999-03-11T07:15:00Z")
“Nice job oh awsome one.” ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 1999, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome/16/3 "1999-03-11T20:45:00Z")
## I’m a bit disappointed that this forum wasn’t dubbed “The Dark Territory” or somesuch. But times being what they are … /^…^/ IrRev. Batty ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 1999, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome/16/4 "1999-03-12T19:56:00Z")
Hello. I have been reading Cecil ever since his first book came out! The BEST! However, does anyone know if he has ever answered a question I always wondered about? Why people cannot have green or blue hair? Thank you! Love ya all… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 1999, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome/16/5 "1999-03-16T07:27:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Why people cannot have green or blue hair?Thank you!Love ya all… Obviously you haven’t seen a bleached blonde go swimming in chlorinated pools. * * * Suze – what AM I doing? – anne * * * Play Peak-a-boo at the RedCam [http://209.96.200.193/](http://209.96.200.193/) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 1999, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome/16/6 "1999-03-20T00:09:00Z")
You said you weren’t gonna let them hang me. They hung me ☹ Glad you’re in a place where we can visit and share some witticisms. Tell me what I need to know to survive? My ammo is dry but my sense of humor is still keen. John the cyberain54 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 1999, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome/16/7 "1999-03-21T13:55:00Z")
Hey John…nice to se you’ve arrived in one piece… OK, I’ll admit that I have yet to make a meaningful post on this MB. But I’m workin’ on it! Pippy ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 1999, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome/16/8 "1999-03-21T16:03:00Z")
Hi Pip. Looks as if no one else has posted anything meaninful yet either, so don’t feel bad. How have you been? JOHN Le Cyb * * * For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 1999, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome/16/9 "1999-03-21T20:07:00Z")
Hey you two–how come you’re exchanging idle chit-chat here in the _Comment on Cecil’s Columns_ Forum? If I understand the zen of this particular message board, then, using the analogy of this message board as a house of intellectual intercourse, this forum is the Library. In other words, this is the place to exchange, in hushed and awed tones, our thoughts about Cecil’s brilliant columns, or Ed’s unfortunate munging of same, as appropriate. (Although, given the amount of heavy lifting Ed has to do–the house’s handyman/piano player, so to speak–I guess it wouldn’t hurt to compliment him on occasion, so long as it doesn’t go to his head). The happening place you want to be, where you can freely converse with each other and many other like-minded individuals, is the MPSIMS Forum, which is the message board’s Rec Room, so to speak, continuing the housing analogy. :::colons::: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 1999, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome/16/10 "1999-03-21T23:25:00Z")
So much for C&P, which, by the way, does not distress me. Whitetho, idle chit chat is leagues above what I have seen, your post notwithstanding, since I happened onto these hallowed boards. Would you exscind all forms of colloqy outside the juvenescent MPSIMS romper room? Pippy, kind words from you and I slumber on a bed of saffron. Ahhh, you slake my woes. Cyberian54 JOHN * * * For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 1999, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome/16/11 "1999-03-22T21:29:00Z")
\<\< Would you exscind all forms of colloqy outside the juvenescent MPSIMS romper room?\>\> Yep. That’s why there IS an MPSIMS. This new format has some strengths, but one weakness is the inability to see who’s posted and skip stuff. So I’d strongly encourage that if you want to have a two-person conversation, you find another arena to do it. Hmm? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 1999, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome/16/12 "1999-03-23T02:49:00Z")
[[[[[[[[Yep. That’s why there IS an MPSIMS. This new format has some strengths, but one weakness is the inability to see who’s posted and skip stuff. So I’d strongly encourage that if you want to have a two-person conversation, you find another arena to do it. Hmm?]]]]]]] CKdex Aren’t you and I having a two person conversation now? Anymore than two and it’s a speech . 🙂 Well, Dex let’s discuss something, OK? You get to choose. John the Cyberian54 * * * For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 1999, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome/16/13 "1999-03-23T16:45:00Z")
Anything you want to discuss, please do so in an appropriate folder. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 1999, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome/16/14 "1999-04-05T23:36:00Z")
re: blue/green hair–we do! We Do! But YOU DON’T, EARTHLING! * * * ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 1999, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome/16/15 "1999-04-06T04:01:00Z")
Hey, Whitetho. You said we’re engaged in “intellectual intercourse”? Is that some strange way of telling us that we’re f\*\*ked in head? Just kidding. Had to say it. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 1999, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome/16/16 "1999-04-07T05:26:00Z")
Since this thread is going nowhere, I’m closing it. ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2001, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome/16/17 "2001-06-09T02:21:42Z")
As the earliest thread still extant on the SDMB, I’d say this one deserves to stay. ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2001, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome/16/18 "2001-06-10T06:52:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ed Zotti \* > \*\*Since this thread is going nowhere, I’m closing it. \*\* Weird. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2001, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome/16/19 "2001-06-10T16:02:11Z")
IIRC some closed threads became unlocked in the conversion. Only the two newer posts show up under “review topic”. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2001, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome/16/20 "2001-06-11T04:55:51Z")
Neidhart, thank you for reviving the “Welcome Mat” of the CoCC Forum. 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome/16.md?page=2)