Newbie questions

[mondonico]

Sorry for the dumb questions, but can someone explain "pinging" and "bumping" to this newbie?

[VRWC_minion]

Secret handshake ?

[Carolina]

Just don't show him the secret handshake.

You could always show him the one from LAST year.

[knarf]

... or tell him how to qualify for the decoder ring.

[occam's chainsaw]

Welcome to Freerepublic. I am relatively new around here, too.

As a newbie, don't expect too much of a warm welcome. Newbies are met with suspicion and insults by some around here. Don't let them get to you - most Freepers I have encountered are good people.

[Mudboy Slim]

I like cheese...MUD

[Sabertooth]

And this, mondonico, is Sabertooth's overworked ping list.

Wanna know what a Brady Boomer is?

[Mudboy Slim]

"Newbies are met with suspicion and insults by some around here. Don't let them get to you - most Freepers I have encountered are good people."

With all the Lefty Trolls joining to disrupt, of course Newbies are met with suspicion, but the insults are only hurled when the Newbies expose themselves as Arrogant Know-It-Alls or Blatant Lib'ral Disruptors.

FReegards...MUD

[riley1992]

You remember 'The Bump'? No, not that one. Get your mind out of the gutter. The dance.

[TexasNative2000]

The title of your post says "Newbie questions", however I only see one question on your post.

That's a de-merit. Drop and give me 20!

[WIMom]

Did you know .........

• It is impossible to lick your elbow.
• A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.
• A shrimp's heart is in its head.
• People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a milli-second.
• In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand (or attempted to do so - apart from Bones ).
• It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
• A pregnant goldfish is called a twit
• Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphagetti Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
• On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.
• More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
• Rats and horses can't vomit.
• The ''sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick'' is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
• If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they will pop out.
• Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
• Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
• If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
• In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
• The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
• Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
• A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
• 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
• In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• Cat's urine glows under a black-light.
• Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

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  I bet you tried to lick your elbow!

[vikingchick]

pong

[Billthedrill]

Don't listen to Occam's_chainsaw - he's a newbie Liberal disruptor.

[WIMom]

[Sabertooth]

Ignore vikingchick if she tries to tell you table tennis was invented by Scandinavians.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Report to the hazing thread immediately!

[SusanUSA]

Welcome to Free Republic, you two! Glad to have you here. :-)

I'll be very grateful to you both if, once you've got the bumps and the pings worked out you DO NOT appropriate Sabertooth's ping list!LOL!

It's very, ...well, it's very....large and very popular. But with everyone getting into the act, it becomes too much of a good thing. Tah tah and Happy FReeping!

[vikingchick]

But it was, wasn't it?! :)

[Sabertooth]

I only dance in the gutter.

[VRWC_minion]

Don't let them get to you - most Freepers I have encountered are good people.

Don't get out much, do you.