# WOW i can post again! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 2, 2008, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687 "2008-09-02T15:36:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/41 "2008-09-02T19:38:29Z")
It’s been long enough that my name probably isn’t familiar to anyone anymore, but it’s good to be back (even though the board is calling me a “guest” - not that I care). Just to recap, as others have in this thread: I was a long-time member in the days before pay-to-post and have intermittently lurked since then. I’m a professional copy editor, early forties, living in Dallas. Married almost 17 years, two kids (age 14 and 5). Since the old days, I left editing, went back to school to get a teaching certificate, tried to find a job as an elementary-school teacher, failed. (Here in Texas, you have to either have experience, speak Spanish, or be willing to work in a dangerous area, and I was 0 for 3.) I eventually realized that it was time to hang it up and go back to editing, which I did last December. I’m also the creator of a moderately popular webcomic called [Scandal Sheet!](http://scandalsheet.comicgenesis.com) that’s now in its sixth year. After a series of gaps in the update schedule (including a three-month hiatus this spring), I started updating again at the beginning of June and haven’t been late with an update since. Check it out. I look forward to wasting more time here in the days to come! ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/42 "2008-09-02T19:40:37Z")
> [@Anonymous\_Coward](#): > > Would I be showing my age if I put forward the name **handy**? I’m 52, and I don’t get the reference. ---
**Author:** ![Shark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Shark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/43 "2008-09-02T19:40:52Z")
Wow! I guess I should post now that I have the chance again. I never was a prodigious poster before the pay-to-post era, but I’ve been hanging out and watching all the shenanigans for a long, long time now. And you thought nobody was looking when you posted that thing that you posted that one time. Shark ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/44 "2008-09-02T19:47:10Z")
> [@Anonymous\_Coward](#): > > Would I be showing my age if I put forward the name **handy**? I’m 52, and I don’t get the reference. ---
**Author:** ![Shark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Shark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/45 "2008-09-02T19:46:46Z")
Wow! I guess I should post now that I have the chance again. I never was a prodigious poster before the pay-to-post era, but I’ve been hanging out and watching all the shenanigans for a long, long time now. And you thought nobody was looking when you posted that thing that you posted that one time. Shark ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/46 "2008-09-02T21:38:46Z")
Not that I expect many of you to remember me 🙂 Physical Location: Phoenix Frequents forums: Cafe Society, IMHO, BBQ Pit, and sometimes MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/47 "2008-09-02T21:51:07Z")
Not that I expect many of you to remember me 🙂 Physical Location: Phoenix Frequents forums: Cafe Society, IMHO, BBQ Pit, and sometimes MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/48 "2008-09-02T22:12:14Z")
> [@XJETGIRLX](#): > > Huh, whaddaya know. I can post. Welcome back. 🙂 Welcome back everyone in here who has returned. > [@Mauvaise](#): > > Not that I expect many of you to remember me 🙂 > > Physical Location: Phoenix > > Frequents forums: Cafe Society, IMHO, BBQ Pit, and sometimes MPSIMS. How could I forget someone I had lunch with? Welcome back, **Mauvaise**. ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/49 "2008-09-02T22:19:45Z")
> [@Mauvaise](#): > > Not that I expect many of you to remember me 🙂 > > Physical Location: Phoenix > > Frequents forums: Cafe Society, IMHO, BBQ Pit, and sometimes MPSIMS. _tacklehug_ And hi **Chef Troy!** ---
**Author:** ![Asylum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@Asylum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asylum)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/50 "2008-09-02T22:22:28Z")
Ah, I’ve missed posting on this board. I paid the first two years, but money got tight. What happened to the quick reply box? ---
**Author:** ![torie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@torie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torie)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/51 "2008-09-02T23:48:56Z")
I’m back too! Does anyone remember me? I haven’t posted since 2005 or so. Money got tight and I just got regular internet back recently. Since I have been gone, I’ve 1. Gotten married. 2. Had my son. 3. Got knocked up again 4. Quit work to be a full time mom. Nothing else important happened in the interim. ---
**Author:** ![luvtinayothers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@luvtinayothers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luvtinayothers)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/52 "2008-09-02T23:51:24Z")
What??!! I can post? For free? Really? I joined years and years ago and have been lurking without posting. This is weird. I can post at SDMB. I don’t know what to post first. ---
**Author:** ![torie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@torie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torie)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/53 "2008-09-02T23:51:29Z")
I’m back too. Does anyone remember me? I haven’t posted since 2005 or so. Since I was last a poster I have…Gotten married, had my son, got knocked up again, and quit work to be a full time mom. Nothing else important happened in the interim. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/54 "2008-09-02T23:54:58Z")
I lurked from May until now, because I figured it wouldn’t be too long before the boards went free. GOD it’s good to be able to post again! Reading those political threads and not being able to say anything was driving me fucking crazy! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/55 "2008-09-02T23:55:53Z")
Welcome back! Did you bring me anything?? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/56 "2008-09-02T23:59:37Z")
So it says I last visited in 2004… anyone want to give me a quick recap. And I do get the reference to Handy (deaf poster). It is more about board age than physical age. If posters don’t remember him I doubt they remember Melin. Good to be back. There were several times when I thought I bet Dopers would know, but I didn’t want to waste my 15 days until I had a really important question. ---
**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/57 "2008-09-03T00:03:25Z")
Yay!!! I can post too! ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/58 "2008-09-03T00:07:14Z")
I remember you. I think you were the one who reassured me I could save the egg whites for the next day without poisoning my family (some dinner where I needed the yolks one day and the whites the next… or vice versa). ---
**Author:** ![Turpentine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Turpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turpentine)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/59 "2008-09-03T00:22:42Z")
Damn, look at us all coming out the woodwork. I remember a whole lot of you… ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/60 "2008-09-03T01:20:24Z")
> [@Rasa](#): > > _tacklehug_ Awww! One of my favourite people!! 🙂 Thanks to Idle Thoughts as well for a remembering welcome. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687.md?page=4)