Another n00b to this board
 

Another n00b to this board, I am also a denizen of SDMB and found this place via a thread posted over there.

So, me, such as I am;

No cats, cats are okay, I just don’t want the responsibility.
No dogs, same as above.
No pets, same as above.
Very mild drinker, holidays usually, maybe one beer with a meal at a restaurant.
No children.
Never been married. I would have years ago, now I’m glad that didn’t happen.
Have lived alone most of my adult life, not very social.
Mentally ill; general anxiety disorder. I can get really freaked out by the strangest stuff.
I prefer pie.
I am much more a potential victim then a pirate or ninja.
Not the worlds best driver.
Male equipment, like girls.
Think that folks that get freaked out about LGBTQ issues aren’t secure in their own sexuality.
Clowns, I don’t see the fascination, can’t see the fear either.
Guns; If people want them they should be able to get them. I think there should be very through background checks. I also think that there should be universal gun registration and individual owner licensing.
I am a much better follower than a leader when I believe in the mission / end goal,
however, the end does not justify the means.
I find Mr. Trump to be most unpalatable.
When someone annoys you, it’s easiest to just ignore them.

Observed, GB is much more free form than SDMB. Folks here are much freer in mocking others, so it’s imperative to hold your peace.

What else, this is now getting into TL/DR territory and will get mocked mercilessly.

reksfzilno

Hi there, new guy! I'm old, but I've been MIA for like 3 years or something like that so it's almost the same as being new. Welcome!

We actually prefer it if you mock right back. Calling people cunts and questioning their mother's virtue is considered polite discourse around here. I recently called people "vermin" for not agreeing that mint chocolate chip is the best ice cream flavor and nobody batted an eye.

Anyway, welcome aboard. What does you name mean?

I'm probably the last person that should be rolling out the Welcome Wagon, but whatevs.

Welcome.

Peace and Love, Peace and Love

Welcome!

Pizza or bread?
Phaser or lightsaber?
Squid or goat? :D

Welcome to the board, Reks. How do you pronounce your name?

Welcome! I've only been here a few days myself, but so far it's a decent place to hang out. If you need a lab partner, let me know.

Excellent! Newbie chops for dinner tonight!
:: strops knife ::

Clowns with pies?

Slander! Libel! Liar liar pants on fire! Do not besmirch our bad name, sir!

But you were talking to Rat Diva at the time, no?


Welcome. The restroom is over there, next to the statue of a leering giraffe.

That's not a statue.

Hiya Rek! :)

No. They let me in, so it's pretty much a dive bar where they shiv you for being a Breadite.

But welcome Rek!

Welcome to the veldt, noobs.

In my experience, fitting in with this crowd is not the sort of thing that normal decent folk strive to achieve.

Which is good, because we hate those fuckers.

Have some cake! :cake:

Thanks for that.


And welcome! :hug:

Welcome, reksfhzfz! You'll find that people here aren't really that mean as long as you're not a complete idiot or an admin.

And the admins are generally pretty nice in that they will often set people up with super easy jokes.

There's a difference between those two?

_{ETA: Thanks. :D}

SALUTATIONS

Would you like to join the Society for the Prevention of Raisins?

Just don't let them set you up with a date.

Just sayin' Man.

Sign me up!

Having read your resume in its entirety, I have determined that you are a leftwingnut tending heavily toward the liberal and progressive.

Please, let me buy you a beer. Or a raspberry iced tea.

Plus, and besides, I hereby move that we require all newbies to post their resumes in much the same manner as Mr. ... um ... Rex-fuh-zill-no here. Do I have a second?

I'll second it.

maybe we can take up a collection and get Rek at least one more vowel. :science:

Jag, I thought you were anti-raisin :dubious:

You just have to try to keep grapes from being turned into raisins. By drinking nothing but wine. :science:

The question here is: will we ever be able to train Reks?





I'll be in my bunker.

Hello RekSniffles, welcome!

Me too - do we get newsletters?

If he or she stays on track, who knows.

Whoa - quadruple post, what the heck.

Time to cool those chatty fingers. Sorry.

Welcome!

May I please direct you to scroll down to the megapoll forum to vote on the best alcoholic beverages. There are a lot of people voting wrong. For example, right now, water is winning!

Omnibus reply;
 

Hey Giraffes,

Omnibus reply;

Well, I’m not as old as dirt even if I feel that way sometimes, mid 60’s, between that and no TV in the last 20 years and very little before, I don’t get a lot of the stuff that is being alluded to all over the ‘net.

My primary OS is Linux Mint, I do have a separate Windows machine. I am not a Linux geek, I just didn’t like the way that every time Windows came out with a new release your old programs might not work. Whew, another sign of a creaky old brain.

Lucifer, FWIW, I’m agnostic about a “creative intelligence” and don’t accept any of the claims for divine inspiration for any “Holy Book”. So, as far as your namesake, can’t demonstrate it one way or another. BIG SIGH, family of origin, sibs now, can’t understand.

Khampelf, I took my RWN, substituted some letters and dropped others. So, as far as I know it doesn’t mean anything, my pronunciation FWIW; Rex · sf · zil · no? I think Anacanapuna could be on the right track too.

<High jack: Why do few take the left track? Ans: ‘Cause the chicken didn’t cross the road in that direction. Alt ans; Because it’s the road less traveled. End high jack>

Dogbutler, What is a Breadite?

Random Precision, As a greatly simplified generalization; I know of some decent folk, they’re not normal. I know of some folk who seem to believe they are normal, they’re not decent.

Clowns to the left of me, Well you can’t please ‘em all, I can’t please myself a great deal of the time.

Radical Edward, What’s the Society for the prevention of Raisins?

JackieLikesVariety, Please see my reply to Khampef.

Anacanapuna, I strongly suspect your user name has something to do with the making of Puns, just my thought.
Guinness or Young’s Double Chocolate Stout if you please.
Refrigerator tea, oh glorious tea. Put you tea of choice in a pitcher, add water, sweeten to taste, can get too strong if left in the fridge too long. I have as many as three pitchers in the fridge at a time.

Thank you to all the others who replied, if I haven’t answered your question, sorry and indicate what you would like to know.

reksfzilno

So - we can just call you Sniffles right?

That's what we correct virtuous truthy Pizzafarians call those wrong sorry misguided bread lovers.

It comes from an old Three Stooges bit, which should be a good indicator of when I stopped growing up.

What's a matter U is a fine, fine place for learning, too bad I couldn't attend.

Really, I can't tell when folks are serious or not. I am however aware that I don't always make the best decisions or make the most sense. and worst board sin of all make too long posts.

As far as this board, I am going to have to lurk for a much longer period and I likely will not have more than half a grasp of the unspoken "rules".

Respectively

reksfzilno

Don't lurk, just dive right in, you're fittin' right in.

The reason unspoken rules are unspoken is that they're made up on the fly.

I must heartily agree with my esteeemed colleague. Dive right in, All the stale jokes will make sense in time, or more likely, you'll just get used to them.

We used to ask, without context, "Which is better, bread or pizza?" Those who answer correctly are called breadites, those with limited imaginations are called Pizzafarians. It means nothing much, but it lead to other dualities to explore like Pirates or Ninjas. We made up a whole Meyer-Briggs personality test parody with silly questions.

Keep posting, eh? I like the cut of your jib.

I've been here since almost day one and I don't understand half of what these people are on about.

We do not speak of the unspoken rules because the unspoken rules are unspeakable.

By the way, hi.

Most of us, sadly, have gone off the rails

Fify.

Don't worry about it. Truth is, we spend most of our time clowning around. Often the place looks like the detention room where they send all the class clowns. "Serious" discussions can get a bit intense at times, but even there one sees sparks of humor. (And often as not, even serious threads ride off into the sunset on a trail of bad puns.) We tend not to have much patience with trolls and the like, but it is obvious you are not that sort. (Spammers, on the other hand, are just mercilessly laughed at.)

So go ahead and ride into to fray. I think you'll do fine. Sure, it will take awhile to catch on to our running jokes, but don't let that worry you.

Heck, just look at our Smiley collection. That sums us up nicely.

Or read the Unboxed thread start to finish. That'll keep you busy for a hot minute.

I'm pronouncing the OP's name in my head like "Rex-if-I-know."

<not kidding> You should post lots. In truth, you seem pretty cool.</not kidding>. <kidding>So much so that I have to wonder why you would hang around here! <kidding.> <ridiculously obscure and silly> Also, wombats :wombat::wombat:</ridiculously obsure and silly>

Now I won't be able to read it any other way. Sort of like And-a-can-of-tuna.

Yep, that's how I read that one too.

And that, in fact, is what it means.

Course, now Puna's gonna be mad at us for stealing his thunder. But don' worry. Those bolts he will hurl at us are just fabric ends from Jo-Ann.

Puna's one chintzy sew-and-sew.

I'd be careful of needling him.