Subject: Newbie Pack Phenomenon
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Posted on: 2012-12-14 09:04:00 UTC
Actually, I think the reason for it is probably that once somebody braves up to introducing themselves, other lurkers notice and it gives them more confidence to do the same, because they're not the only one.
Hi. I'm... relatively new here. By that, I mean: I've been lurking here for ages, but never really posted anything, so no one knows me.
I have some baked/fried sunflower seeds, if someone is interested. *Offers the paper bag*
I think they are fried, but I always get confused when it comes to cooking terms in English.
It's nice to meet you, and thank you for the sunflower seeds! In return, I present you with your very own Awake!
Please enjoy this self aware-adjective and give it a few servings of espresso and love* each day.
*Can be substituted with small doses of CAFfeine(TM)
Thanks!
*trying to figure out what to do with Awake*
/ba bum tss
Do you know how long I have waited to make that pun?
TWELVE YEARS
IN AZKABAN!
Okay, obviously I need to sleep... It's finals week this monday and I have had four hours of shuteye in the past three days. Naptime!
Sorry if I scared you off!
xD Don't worry. I'm not that easy to scare away.
I just went through two exams this week, so I know how you feel.
*mutters* Free time 'til January... YAY!!!
My first finals week ended yesterday, so I know how you feel.
Anyway, have a crate of Bleepka. You'll need it eventually.
'Cause I could really use some sleep.
Anyway, it wasn't really 'finals', just a prerequisite exams for me to be allowed onto the finals in January/February.
Here, lurker: have some cool shades, a bead, and a handful of Guatemalan currency. You can have a small wad of rubber bands too.
Thanks.
'Ello, 'ave a squig an' some fungus beer. Oi'd give you some flash gubbins, but OI need's dem for a projekt so 'ands off or else Oi'll stomp ya... sorry about the orky talk, I've been spending too much time working on my 40k stuff the glue fumes and bad cold are going to my 'ed. Oh Zoggit, dere Oi go again.
:)
Thanks.
I'm new here too, but still I present you my gift:
A brand new shotgun.
May you kill many Sues with it :D
Oh you mean ''tostadas'' right?
To be honest, I'll never known the proper English term for that either :/
Thanks for the seeds though ;)
PD:Oh, by the way, where are you from? I'm from Venezuela :D
I'm curious, maybe you're from there too?(Or Latino America, same thing :B)
It's just that, since English is not your native tongue...
Thanks for the shotgun! I can only offer this glowing ball in return. If might not do much, but it still looks awesome.
As for tostadas, I don't even know what that is. Checked the wikipedia, but nothing there is what I was offering. I literally meant fried "sunflower seeds", the kind that would make SO pissed.
As for where I'm from - Serbia. It's "same thing" for most other ex-Yugoslavian countries, though some people wouldn't agree with me.
Cool! I'm putting it in my desk :D
Oh I meant ''semillas de girasol tostadas''
Semillas de girasol=Sunflower seeds
Tostadas=I've never know the English term for it.
From Serbia huh? ..
Wow that's pretty far away from here :B
I didn't even knew that country existed until sixth grade xD
I'm sorry for the Spanish and all,is a bad habbit of mine assuming that most of the people that don't have English as their native language are from South America or Spain ..''
Silly me D:
Hi, have some fudge!
And cooking terms can get confusing. Normally "fried" is with some sort of fat in a pan on the stovetop, and "baked" is in the oven with no fat, but all those restaurants and family recipes for "oven-fried chicken" disagree.
Maybe it's oven-fry because they DO use fat in the oven?
Just guessing...
Thanks for fudge!
Don't let the SO catch you with those. As a Newbie gift have a bunch of Generic Cupcakes.
I've been warned. They're hidden in a safe spot, but if someone still wants them... Just ask.
And the cupcakes are yummy. Thanks!
Have a set of universally pretty armour to celebrate; it might also be handy for hunting 'Sues.
YAY!!! Now I don't have to make my own for LARPing! ^_^ And it's so shiny!
A fellow LARPer, hmm? I did a bit at university - so fun!
Yup. Though I haven't been in a real event yet. We have only one regular gathering in my country and it's during the school year, while I can't afford going to the neighboring countries.
Still, training with the group is real fun. ^_^
Welcome to the Board! Have some of my hydrophobic water to commemorate the event. Doesn't comply to VSEPR theory!
/chemistry
With chemistry in different language, I was forced to look up what VSEPR theory is.
Thanks, though!
Have some lemming repellent. You may need it.
Thanks!
Congratulations on breaking the lurker-silence.
Thank you.
Greetings, new friend!
Have a Worry Seed! Keep it under your pillow, and you'll never be able to sleep! Think of the FREE TIME!
Oof... I have a better idea. Though... does it work on dogs as well?
Though I don't know how much writing a dog could do, even if it didn't sleep anymore . . .
Nah, I like sleeping. I just need something to train my dog off the bed. And I was thinking... maybe, if it couldn't sleep on the bed, it would give up on going on it.
I think everyone lurked for a while before joining. Good to see you! Have a fluffy hat in the color of your choice.
Thanks.
*puts on the olive-green hat with orange polka dots*
What the apple did you just appleing say about me, you little apple? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy apple, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-apple, and I have over 300 confirmed apples. I am trained in gorilla apple and I'm the top apple in the entire US armed apples. You are nothing to me but just another apple. I will wipe you the apple out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this apple, mark my appleing apples. You think you can get away with saying that apple to me over the apple? Think again, apple. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of apple across the USA and your apple is being appled right now so you better prepare for the storm, apple. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your apple. You're appleing dead, apple. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can apple you in over seven hundred apples, and that's just with my apple hands. Not only am I extensively trained in apple combat, but I have access to the entire apple of the United States Apple Corps and I will use it to its full apple to wipe your miserable apple off the face of the apple, you little apple. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" apple was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your ...ing apple. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn apple. I will apple all over you and you will drown in it. You're appleing dead, apple.
Good to see you, second newbie of the day. You have just helped to demonstrate what I like to call the "Newbie Pack Phenomenon". For some reason, newbies tend to come in twos and threes, even if they've never met or heard of the other newbie before. It's a rather curious trend, but it's been around for a while.
But, that doesn't mean I'm going to give you any less of a welcome! Although, you might want to hide those sunflower seeds; the Sunflower Official probably wouldn't take to kindly to them.
For your newbie gift, I present to you this bottle of Bleepnog, in order for you to help us celebrate the holiday season and our filk-fest down below. It's probably made of eggnog and Bleeprin, but I'm not quite sure, seeing as I just invented it. Have fun!
Actually, I think the reason for it is probably that once somebody braves up to introducing themselves, other lurkers notice and it gives them more confidence to do the same, because they're not the only one.
Hiding the seeds would be quite a feat, though... I think I have a minor addiction to them.
And thanks for the bleepnogg. I'll put it next to the biscuits and try it when I feel more adventurous.
I'm KittyNoodles! Have some holiday Bleepnerds (in bleen, wilver, and high pink!)
Thanks!
Did you lurk for 5-6 years before peeking in? Less? Then I'll be keeping my trophy. :D
Velcome, velcome! Don't mind the strange brown stains on the carpet; you see how they sparkle? That's Sue blood. Have a heavy-duty-size bottle of Bleeprin, you'll need it.
Less. three years tops.
Mind if I cut out that sparkly part? It'll be a cool thing to decorate my niece's nursery with.
And thanks for the Bleeprin. I've encountered something that is either written by a 6-year-old or a troll. And I was masochistic enough to read through it all.
Lovely!
Yeah, sure.
Troll. Saying it was written by a six-year-old is an insult to six-year-olds. :P What is the fic, by the way? I also have a masochistic streak a mile wide, it's why I'm still here.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8778167/1/
No capitalization, no punctuation, canon characters out of canon...
The power of Tolkien COMPELS thee! The power of Tolkien COMPELS thee! Get thee BEHIND me, foul embodiment of evil! The power of Tolkien COMPELS thee! The power of TOLKIEN--
*thwack*
This is Eroeda. KittyNoodles is fine, she just has a bump on her head roughly the size of the rest of her head.
Well, it's as possible as Aragorn being Sue's father, then suddenly appearing and claiming his love for her. Her fathers reappears later on, but it's not stated whether he's Aragorn or someone else...
So... Yeah.
Don't try to make sense in Sue-fics. Especially if the said fic is written by a troll.
...would have quite a bit to say about Aragorn's behavior in this trollfic...
But at one point he is killed in battle, kills Goromior, is killed again, then ostensibly dies of heartbreak... All in the space of one or two paragraphs.
I'm sorry to intrude,but I was just curious...
And I read that....
THAT THING SUCKS SO MUCH!IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE!
I've never seen one so bad since ''My inmortal'' :/
I mean, Goromir, Milkwood??
Evenbetterstar??x__x And everyone is so out of character!
The hobbits crying at her feet??REALLY?
End of angry rant~
I hope you use the shotgun that I gave you to torture and kill that Mary-Sue.
Peace and Rockets.
Givala ;)
TROLLLLLL
TROLLLLLLLLLL IN THE DUNGEON
thought you ought to know...
Yeah, it's a troll. Saying that was written by a six-year-old is an insult to six-year-olds; it takes effort to be this terrible. WOW.
I used to lurk myself. Many of us started out as lurker. But we are glad that we made the leap to full Boarders and welcome you into the ranks as well.
How about some biscuits to go with the tea?
I guess it's a normal thing to start off just lurking.
As for those biscuits... They don't bite, do they?
*takes biscuits carefully*
Welcome to the PPC! You can leave your sanity at the door, as you won't be needing it here. You should also read the Constitution (link on top of the Board). The Original Series and the Wiki are recommended reads too, and you're more than welcome to drop by in the IRC channel (link on top of the Board, too) and say hi.
Last but not least, a gift, that is a cup of tea. Just don't let the leaves eat you.
I'll pack the sanity in the box, before leaving it, though. Simply because I like packing things into boxes.
Constitution and The Original Series have already been read and wiki is being consulted whenever I feel like it.
And thanks for the tea leaves! I think they'll get along well with my cacti! Good thing there's a window sill between the plants and my room.