Hey Oldtime DU'ers: Dont forget to welcome the Newbies...

[elehhhhna]

most of them , anyway!

Lotsa new members popping up on threads -- some super insightful, interesting, and just plain funny posts.

WELCOME NEWBIES! Better late than never!

[zanne]

1. Yeah--most of them.

Enough said.

[question everything]

27. My sentiments

Was debating one of them last night, until the thread was locked.

I realized s/he was a newbie, but was obvious s/he came to DU to promote a specific agenda and posted some really bizarre things. I just could not bring myself to welcome him/her... and no one else did, either, even the ones that agreed with his/her post, even recommended for the greatest page.

[blonndee]

2. It's really amazing how many have happened to find

us all at the same time, isn't it? And they seem to know us so well already!

[The Wielding Truth]

13. Maybe ....... V released on video this week and they are no longer afraid.

[Norquist Nemesis]

16. It sure is amazing

From the looks of it, 'someone' has a huge phonebook! One of them said they got an email to come here and start posting.

[unpossibles]

3. welcome all!

[MichaelHarris]

4. Hiyaaaa newbies

Wanna buy a Y3K patch?

[stepnw1f]

5. Hello Newbies

Ask us questions anytime... don't be shy.... knowledge is power!

[im10ashus]

6. Oh, you mean the several that have shown up since like, yesterday?

I've seen them everywhere. Lot's of tombstones too.

[sabra]

7. remember we were all once newbies :-)

welcome!

[TahitiNut]

10. What's this "we" shit?

Hell, I remember when DU was exchanging stone tablets by Dinosaur Express.

[hfojvt]

15. and yet

you were not here for 9/11. (neither was I, but some were)

[elehhhhna]

18. We used smokesignals here in the west

[TahitiNut]

21. No wonder it took so long for me to register!

Secondhand smoke! Yikes!

[TahitiNut]

8. The DU Motto: "We Eat Our Young!"

[hfojvt]

14. not all of them

they just have to run a gauntlet



it's the initiation tradition, kinda like earning a black belt

show you're metal

[niyad]

24. how does one show one is composed of metal??? show your mettle???

[hfojvt]

25. turn up the volume

"I am IRON MAN!!!"

Those made of metal, such as the Steel General, must surely have mettle. Like the Tin Man, they don't believe in spooks.

Does not a deliberite grammer error provide comic relief?

[BooScout]

9. I welcomed one this morning.......then I sent an alert on him....

He was a member for at least 15 minutes and then he went poof!

[TahitiNut]

11. Yum! Barbecued!

(slurp!)

[Norquist Nemesis]

17. Yeah, it's sad

From the looks of it, they come here on 'a mission' to engage (as in guns ablazing) instead of interaction and discussion.

I'd bet they're emailing back to the original instigator or posting on some site that they're all signed up to get action alerts and whining about being a victim.

[elehhhhna]

19. "zot" rings a bell for some of 'em.

[sevenleagueboots]

20. .....never lead with your right.....it invites a sucker punch every time..

....by the way .. i have a question: is DU that undemocratic?

[porphyrian]

12. Can we haze 'em instead? - n/t

[malaise]

22. These last few days have been

way too funny. Too often I've reached the thread long after these 'winning hearts and minds' posts have been deleted. There's no greater fun than being on a thread live with alert activity .

[catmandu57]

23. I sold my car complete with DU sticker

to my brother, one of the conditions was that he leave the sticker on. They're many moons younger than me and get around, hopefully, people see it and check us out.
Usually, when the registrations come in bunches we've been talked about by some rightwing mouthpiece, and the newbies turn out to be foul smelling trolls, but, not all of them so welcome home newbs, now get out there and kick some elephant ass.

[unpossibles]

26. good point

and even though I am a cynic, some part of me likes to hope that for every few (10? 50?) tombstones, there may be one or two who after reading the info on here, thinks about it, and has a change of heart.


Ok, so maybe for every 100....

it amuses me how some are pretty good at hiding out for a bit, and can actually have intelligent conversations, even while arguing, then others don't seem to understand the word "subtle" at all...