# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![4everkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/76d3ee/32.png) [@4everkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/4everkid)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/101 "2008-09-03T19:54:32Z")
Eureka! After years of silently watching from outside the window, I have finally reached the SDMB inner sanctum! I must admit, I feel a bit naughty. Now that I’m in, I have nothing to intelligent say… yet. So for now, I will paste the big scarlet “N” to my forehead and proudly perform the Newbie Dance Of Glee! ---
**Author:** ![4everkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/76d3ee/32.png) [@4everkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/4everkid)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/102 "2008-09-03T19:55:46Z")
Eureka! After years of silently watching from outside the window, I have finally reached the SDMB inner sanctum! I must admit, I feel a bit naughty. Now that I’m in, I have nothing to intelligent say… yet. So for now, I will paste the big scarlet “N” to my forehead and proudly perform the Newbie Dance Of Glee! ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/103 "2008-09-03T21:07:02Z")
I was only gone for a few months, but it’s still good to be back. Really nice to see some old faces back, too. _waves_ ---
**Author:** ![freekalette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@freekalette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freekalette)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/104 "2008-09-03T21:20:08Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > **Gyrate** : Spreadsheet slavey, fortysomething, American male living in London. Married with one (very very new!) babychild. > > Politics: Slightly vaguely leftish for the UK, which probably means somewhere left of Trotsky by US standards, but generally disgusted by all political parties and willing to be persuaded on individual issues. Able to differentiate between political positions on issues in an ideal world and pragmatic realpolitik achievability. Fiercely opposed to the neocons for their tactics rather than specific policies. > > Religion: born and raised agnostic, but think Hitchens and Dawkins need a good slapping. > > More interested in culture than sports, cooking than cars, bad puns than flirting, and rational discourse than dogma. > > **Warning!** Poster has been known to filk. Hey, how _you_ doin? 😉 I don’t know you, but filking and bad puns are a’ight in my book! ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/105 "2008-09-03T21:55:53Z")
I did a year with the p2p, but I’ll come back for free pie. Now I’ll wait in ambush for a GQ I can address. ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/106 "2008-09-03T22:18:54Z")
Holy cow, it’s nice to see some of these names again. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dosipede](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dosipede](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dosipede)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/107 "2008-09-03T22:21:07Z")
Fan-freakin’-tastic. When I was employed and worried about meeting deadlines, I chose not to subrscribe. I’m fairly new at this business, and there’s already enough to distract me on the net. I was happy to lurk. When I was unemployed, I needed every red cent I could get my grubby fingers on. I was happy to lurk. Now that I have this new job with even less forgiving deadlines, the dope goes free-to-post. Are you people trying to get me fired?! ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2008, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/108 "2008-09-04T02:13:48Z")
Yo! What up??? Zette 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gotterfunken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/58956e/32.png) [@Gotterfunken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gotterfunken)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2008, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/109 "2008-09-04T05:52:29Z")
I subscribed for the first year, but let my membership lapse because I was a poor, procrastinating student. Besides, I was always more of a lurker than a poster–no one will remember me–and couldn’t convince myself that the subscription fee was justifiable. To (re)introduce myself: Male, 36 years old. Single. No kids. One cat. Memphis, Tennessee (used to live in Florida) Art Historian (and gainfully employed as such, believe it or not). Political views: pretty far to the left, though more of an anarcho-syndicalist nature than Marxist. And I’m a hopeless Europhile regarding most topics–whether it’s history, travel, film, cuisine, art, sports, or what have you. I just hope I don’t come across as “that guy” who’s backpacked through Europe once and now thinks everything European is somehow inherently superior to anything in the U.S. No, really, I’ve _always_ felt that way (and I’ve done several trips to Europe…and only one of them was a “backpacking” trip). 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2008, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/110 "2008-09-04T06:13:05Z")
Aha! Free posting! Finally! I’ve recognised a lot of old, familiar names in this thread and elsewhere. Hopefully this will liven things up a bit! ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2008, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/111 "2008-09-04T17:15:59Z")
**Frodo** lives! Welcome back to everyone else too 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![FallFast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba9def/32.png) [@FallFast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallFast)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2008, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/112 "2008-09-04T23:35:18Z")
I havn’t done this in a long time. Feels really good too!🙂 ---
**Author:** ![JonScribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@JonScribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonScribe)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2008, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/113 "2008-09-04T23:54:09Z")
Present. And just too cheap to renew my subscription last year when it expired. Just in time, too; have you guys heard about this Sarah Palin chick? ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/114 "2008-09-05T12:34:01Z")
My god, it’s like 2004 in here. Welcome back, folks. ---
**Author:** ![Sunglasses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5fc32e/32.png) [@Sunglasses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunglasses)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/115 "2008-09-05T14:28:58Z")
[quote=“SpasticKitty, post:28, topic:461687”] Yaay! **snip** Not that I think anyone would ever remember me, but just a quick update on my life: **snip** QUOTE] I remember you, dear. I’m the mother of your high school sweetheart. I remember you fondly and I hope you read this. Congratulations on your marriage and all the best to you and your new husband. ---
**Author:** ![big\_alex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e56c9b/32.png) [@big\_alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/big_alex)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/116 "2008-09-05T14:42:34Z")
Wohoo! When I read we were going to free posting I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to log in as I thought I’d forgotten my password. The 4th go of trying I got it right. Anyway: Alex 24 Reading back my old posts it would appear that I have put on one and a half stone in weight, got a job and vastly improved my musical taste since I last posted. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/117 "2008-09-05T16:17:58Z")
Geeez, I can’t believe all the ghosts I’m seeing. Truly good to see you all again. Welcome back!! What I don’t get, and maybe some of you can answer this, is how did you all find out about the free posting so fast? Been lurking the whole time or was there a mass mailing? The change just went into affect and it seems like you all came back lickitty split! ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/118 "2008-09-05T18:35:24Z")
> [@Uncommon\_Sense](#): > > Been lurking the whole time Speaking for myself, I have been reading the whole time I couldn’t post. That reminds me, I need to go search for a GQ thread and post about the sexual pleasure of female fruit flies. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/119 "2008-09-05T18:49:39Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > Speaking for myself, I have been reading the whole time I couldn’t post. That reminds me, I need to go search for a GQ thread and post about the sexual pleasure of female fruit flies. You’ve been pleasuring yourself with female fruit flies? [QUOTE=Hedley Lamarr] Kinkyyyy. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/120 "2008-09-05T19:04:23Z")
> [@Uncommon\_Sense](#): > > Geeez, I can’t believe all the ghosts I’m seeing. Truly good to see you all again. Well put. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687.md?page=7)