Posted on 08/20/2004 5:57:29 PM PDT by Indy Pendance
All you newbies whose screen number is over 100,000 (plus infinity, or minus a couple thousand), this thread is for you. What's it like to be 'new' here? Are you welcomed? What do you think of FR? Do you feel 'part of the gang'? This thread is for you. Lay it on us.
If FR allowed avatars, I'd have Alfred as mine...I look like him except the space between my front teeth isn't quite as big.. q:-|=
By the way, I'll be posting a thread in the coming days, where you'll be able to cast a ballot for your favorite "Scourge" FR persona.
Keep your eyes peeled for that one.
Sounds like fun...be sure to ping me (<---that's always sounded a little obscene to me)
Me too.
Ping?!
Very naughty, if you ask me.
95959
Ah, newbie. I've been here since July 2000 (actually before that) and still hardly anyone replies to me. Even when I give them interesting answers to all our problems. The real test is are you going to reply to this post?
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The pings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of rabbles,
And by opposing end them? To hie: to freep;
No more; and by a freep to say we end
The whining and the thousand unnatural shlocks
That infest their party, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To hie, to freep;
To freep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that freep of a lifetime what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of dems,
The kennedy's wrong, kerry's contumely,
The pings of hate, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would kerry bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus lack of conscience does make cowards of them all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action. - Soft you now!
The fair Terazzza! Saucy, in thy orisons
Be all her sins remember'd.
Changes are in bold
Indie Since 2001-07-01
*G* ~~~ Good name btw...
I can't believe this thread is still going!
I will.
Before that, he was just a mediocre poster.
I can't believe this thread is still going after I've posted to it. I've killed as many threads as the Mods have by just posting to them./lol
The real separating of newbies from oldies is who remembers "A+ Bert" and "Ash Alert" and those that don't.
Yes, you're profiling... :) I look if they signed up in the past couple months.
I remember that, remember 'close your tags'? Some of those threads were a riot!
airborne #39506
WELCOME NEWBIE!
Gee, thanks, this is my first thread .... (Honestly, I found FR on CSPAN during the March for Justice and was hooked)
"and have improved my debating skills immensely."
My only regret was I didn't sign up for an account for 2 years. I was nervous and intimidated by all the wealth of knowledge here.
But, I don't feel THAT bad, my husband just got an account last week (so I can ping him to threads). He's been a faithful lurker since 1998.
Mine too.
All of my computer skills, or lack thereof, is a result of trial and error.
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