Subject: Welcome!
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Posted on: 2013-02-03 01:52:00 UTC
Glad to meet you! I'm always happy to see affirmed Tolkien and PTerry *holy horns* geekfans. :D Have a bag of pebbles and a Random Shiny Object.
Do hang around on the Board some more!
Hi there, fellow not-so-newbie! I, too, have been familiar with the PPC for years before showing up on the Board!
A fellow ex-Classics student, eh! I do not have a degree in Classics (mine is in Political Science), but I have taken my share of Latin and Greek classes, so allow me to add "salve and khaire to my previous "hello."
Oh yeah, your present! Let me see...have a copy of Richard Lederer's Anguished English series! It's sure to make you laugh. (Seriously, if you have access to those books IRL, I suggest that you give them a read.)
Hi, have some fudge!
Plant dyes? I just snagged an 1840s dye journal as reference material for this May's Costume Con entry, I'm not dying the dress fabric myself (nowhere near enough time for that, and home-dying in the apartment building's laundry room would be a Bad Idea), but it's a good way to document the color of wool I'm using.
That sounds utterly fascinating. I don't suppose there's any chance of you making the journal content available online?
Welcome to the Board! Please have some of my home-made rock-solid muffins. Never eat those. And also some cotton candy and chocolates.
Dwarf bread?
What's it made out of?
Welcome to the Board! Have some of my hydrophobic water to commemorate the event. May or may not have been inspired by Discworld!
*Rises from the dark pit of schoolwork*
Hi there! It's always nice to see someone new around here, even if you are only partially new. It's always nice to have another discworld fan around; I myself am in the middle of Maskarade. Have a sequined wizard's hat and enjoy your stay!
*Decends back into the pit so that she can finish her math homework*
OK, I'll admit that I'm failing to parse the compound in brackets. Is it dog-Latin, or just something really obscure? Also, I'm not sure how I feel about formal second person forms - it makes me feel old! (The first time in France that you get madame instead of mademoiselle in a shop is a body-blow.)
Ah. It's not the right grammatical formation: you'd want some sort of participle rather than the infinitive for the verb. You'd also have to decide if the name means she flutters because she's shy, flutters in a shy manner, is shy about fluttering, or something else, because they'd all need slightly different syntaxes. Finally, it would probably be a phrase rather than a compound. Translating MLP into Latin could actually be a really good exercise.
Hi there! Pleased to meet you! Have some yarn dyed in Sue colors! The dye was made from Sue-plants with speshul properties.(You know, the kind that magically heal people and stuff like that.) Watch out, though. It's very glittery and painful to look at.
I always wondered what the make-up berries in the original series would do to cloth.
Welcome a-Board! The more Tolkienists we have here, the better. And Discworld is pure awesome.
I like cooking as well. We can ignore the fact that I can't actually cook. I do it nonetheless. And Latin is great, I wanted to take a course of Latin next semester, but can't now. *sigh*
As a welcome gift - hm... a handmade rug portraying a war between Tolkien dragons and Discworld dragons. Be careful, they have already tried to burn it down to escape. :)
My money is on the Tolkien dragons. I don't think a swamp dragon explosion would be more than an annoyance to, say, Ancalagon. I'm still impressed at the quality of the tapestry: was it worked from life?
Welcome to the PPC! I took high school Latin, and I've forgotten most of it by now. Have some Bleepka.
Have a swamp dragon, feed it coal regularly and try not to startle it. Mirrors are a bad idea.
Thankyou everyone for the presents and the welcome: I'm feeling a good deal less self-conscious now, and you may never get me to shut up again!
I present to you this gift: a virtual durian. Eat it, throw it at Sues, or simply try to touch it with a 10 feet pole, it's your choice. A fine stink bomb, or the heavenly smell on Earth, no one can decide.
As an amateur Tolkien fan, I'd like to know, have you read The Silmarillion? I had given Ulmo sharks as his animal, just like Manwe had eagles, long story. Do you think it's possible?
Also, I am now a fan of Total Drama too, and had been looking for beta readers. If you'll help me here, I'll be glad.
Bad! No world dominating! Bad!
/Capulet
/Montague
/Cowardly Capulet
COME AT ME, BRO.
Wait, no, that'd be weird.
...How about 65% of our conversations turn out. Being siblings is a crazy thing sometimes.
Cool! Hurray for Shakespeare-quoting sibling!Boarders!
~DF
Although we would deny it if we could get away with doing so, methinks. Sibling rivalry, y'know. :D
In fact, Kitty was the one who convinced me to join the Board.
I think for a while we were like... One of what, three sibling groups?
I forget who it was, but I think there was a pair of sisters...?
She uses the name Apricot. However, she's been lurking more than posting. This means she knows more about the PPC than the community knows about her. (Bit creepy, in my opinion. I keep trying to convince her to post more.)
...Well, I was pretty sure you were a sibling, but I fogrot who your sibling was. I WAS HALF RIGHT, SHADDUP, DON'T JUDGE ME. -flails-
What even is fogrot, I don't even...
...a mispronunciation of foie gras, doesn't it? Or maybe I accidentally created a Sue color. 'A particularly nasty shade of fog gray. This color tends to emit a smell like rotting Twinkies.'
Welcome aboard, Stripes. We're the good crazy, we swear.
Us? Crazy? I'm truly, deeply hurt by that, Riese. You wound me.
/sarc
I love you people!
My fondest memories of doing Shakespear at school related to the fact that most of us caught on to the innuendos and dialect rather faster than our teacher (she was definitely Lit not Lang). You can get a lot of crap past the radar in that situation.
But also, NOT rise to the occasion?
(Oh-ho-ho-ho!)
I preferred Hamlet, to be or not to be honest.
Is that the porter's speech?
But hey: it goes to show that even Shakespeare rehashed jokes and gave shout outs, thereby solidifying that there is nothing wrong with doing so.
You know - if anybody thought there was.
Have a cough drop. :) No need to be nervous, we love newbies! Also, here's a fluffy hat in your favorite color.
Greetings, new friend! Have a ball of yellow yarn! It's colored with dye from onion skin!
Welcome! Have a box of Bleep-Blaps. They're like tic tacs, but with bleeprin!
...I'm probably completely wrong, though.
~DF
It's how Pinkie Pie welcomes Cranky Doodle Donkey to Ponyville.
/needs a life
Makes sense--I know absolutely nothing (ok, very, very little) about MLP. I mainly guessed as I did because of those two fandoms' prevalence in the PPC in general. (Also, the sequence sounds like it could have potentially come from one of them)
...*is trying to resist the urge to try and find the sequence on Youtube*
~DF
Thankyou for the cake and the bafflement.
Nice to have you around! That is a really nifty degree and Latin is very cool.
Welcome gift...? How about a Generic Dagger, good for use in any fandom?
Glad to meet you! I'm always happy to see affirmed Tolkien and PTerry *holy horns* geekfans. :D Have a bag of pebbles and a Random Shiny Object.
Do hang around on the Board some more!
Have a welcome apple!
(Warning: potentially poisoned. Don't eat it if it's blue.)