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Topic: There are too many weird newbies here
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Alphaman |
posted 06-17-99 12:33 PM ET
Well there are.Just look around.
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Dreadnought
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posted 06-17-99 12:34 PM ET
I hope I don't quilify.Hmmmmm maybe not as weird, but stupid.... |
Stasis Archon
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posted 06-17-99 12:36 PM ET
Am I a newbie?At least I'm weird. |
Roland
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posted 06-17-99 12:48 PM ET
Weird veteran, definately, and proud of both... |
Stasis Archon
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posted 06-17-99 12:53 PM ET
When exactly do you become a vet? |
DeVore
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posted 06-17-99 12:56 PM ET
When you longer have to ask when......../Dev |
Alphaman
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posted 06-17-99 01:11 PM ET
Well the people above my post are actually quite normal. I was referring to the influx of total whack-jobs to this forum lately.If something doesn't happen soon the forum will collapse under the weight of the collective stupidity. |
Provost Harrison
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posted 06-17-99 01:17 PM ET
Me? |
Stasis Archon
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posted 06-17-99 01:25 PM ET
Harrison: 210 posts in two weeks? How did you do it? |
Hugo Rune
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posted 06-17-99 01:28 PM ET
Not you, Rick, not you. I get his point, however.But seriously: Haven't there always been? Look back at Domk, chrisk, Freddz, KoRN MaN, and even you, A-man (Admit you were an asshole in the beginning), and it can be seen that this is not a new phenomenon. |
Provost Harrison
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posted 06-17-99 01:43 PM ET
How do I do it? By having absolutely nothing else to do! I have finished my finals and, shall we say, have a window in my schedule now and again! (my schedule is more like a glasshouse ) |
Picker
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posted 06-17-99 01:50 PM ET
Surely not me aman? |
Alphaman
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posted 06-17-99 02:30 PM ET
Arrrgh!User "Hugo" can remember past. Past = Aman was knob. Statement not true. Zzzglarb.... User "Alphaman" offline. ----------------------- Anyway, that may have been true but I was successfully rehabilitated and now am a constructive member of the community. Plus, I was never this stupid. The fact that there is a bug that makes one thread become two is not helping either. ---------------------- PS - no, not Picker. User "Picker" = good. Its more of a collective moronicness that permiates the very fabric of the forum. Hard to explain. Will post full explanation later. |
Q Cubed
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posted 06-17-99 04:19 PM ET
oddball transcendii i am.doubt me you will me not sane? crazy we all are. |
President Korian
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posted 06-17-99 04:26 PM ET
I agree. We must rid ourselves of the monstrosity know as "HARDMAN." |
Eris
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posted 06-17-99 04:35 PM ET
Hey! wHat'S WroNG wiTH bEInG wEiRD?Eris (who is, after all, fairly new here) |
Spider
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posted 06-17-99 05:12 PM ET
Multiple are Q^3? strange is this....Spider Don't try to out-Planetmind me.... |
Frodo83
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posted 06-17-99 05:16 PM ET
Well, I've noticed a lot of new people in the last couple of weeks. I'm not complaining, because it helps me shed my own "newbie" status. |
Trappist
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posted 06-17-99 05:35 PM ET
What's considered worse? To be weird, or to be new?Did anyone else have to suppress a snort of mirth when they saw the title of this thread next to the originator's name?
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Koshko
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posted 06-17-99 11:51 PM ET
We're all a little weird. The World is better that way. Normal is boring. |
Alphaman
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posted 06-18-99 08:11 AM ET
Trap - Well you know how much I hate to pull rank on ya, but this is my 573rd post here while you my friend, are on your 77th.So I thank you for not snorting, mate. |
Resource Consumer
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posted 06-18-99 09:15 AM ET
Me? Weird, New and completely safe to know.Resource Consumer - never nerve stapled a fly - |
Stasis Archon
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posted 06-18-99 09:18 AM ET
Weird, been here longer than some people who have more than twice as many posts as I do.Stasis Archon -Often nerve gased Miriam- |
Alphaman
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posted 06-18-99 11:01 AM ET
Becoming a 'regular' here on the forum is a function of both "number of posts" and "time since first post".If either of these is way bigger than the other than it obviously doesn't count. In case you are wondering where I got that from, some of you may remember the rather lengthy discussion we had about this a while back in the "Newbies vs Vets" thread. The above statement I made was the conclusion I drew from that discussion. |
OhWell
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posted 06-18-99 11:51 AM ET
No offense Aman, but when you first started posting here you had a lot of people upset too. |
jig
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posted 06-18-99 11:56 AM ET
Ooohoo, let it go. Yeaeeaeh, let it show... Can you feel it? Moving and moving and Moving in my soul.Something goin' on in my soul. |
Hugo Rune
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posted 06-18-99 02:12 PM ET
Everywhere I look, jig is posting a song lyric.Well, Everybody knows about the bird, and it's a bird-bird, the bird is a word, and it's a bird bird bird, the bird is a word, Well don't you know about the bird, Well everybody knows that the bird is a word! |
Trappist
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posted 06-18-99 02:43 PM ET
A-Man. If being new is undesirable can I just point out that I appear to have been here first?It isn't undesirable in my opinion. However you have to admit that you're on shakey ground calling anyone a "weird newbie". Anyway- I aim for quality over quantity... |
Picker
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posted 06-18-99 03:34 PM ET
He's talking about some specific newbies that have just shown up, like hardman. |
OhWell
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posted 06-18-99 03:44 PM ET
Pick,Not throwing stones here, but when Aman first showed up on the forum - before your time - he created quite a stir. He has reformed nicely and is now, quite the responsible forum member. Maybe some of these new guys will do the same. Although I will admit that some of the stuff from HARDMAN is hard to take. I have to my eyes while I read it.
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OhWell
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posted 06-18-99 03:46 PM ET
Uhh, that was "have to close my eyes". Doh! |
CarniveaN
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posted 06-19-99 12:33 AM ET
hmm... is it that time again? For what you may ask... for your death! MHUAHAHAAHAH!!!!ehm, so yes, is it time for a forum war again? die newbies die no? ok, I'll shut up now Carny -- I still qualify as weird, don't I? |
Alphaman
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posted 06-19-99 06:12 AM ET
Execute program: "Erase past"Program commencing. . . . . . Unable to complete. Human forumers possess skill "long term memory" Unable to terminate files held in "human brain" User Aman destined to serve life sentence for crimes committed as a newbie. DOH! |
Resource Consumer
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posted 06-19-99 06:18 AM ET
If we can't defined Newbie in any concrete sense (Alphaman's rather subjective equation notwithstanding) can we define "weird"?And leave the H-word out of it - he goes right of the scale. Resource Consumer - stoned and confused - |
Philip McCauley
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posted 06-19-99 09:32 PM ET
And the only technically 'normal' person I've ever met was a person from the town in Illinois of the same name. |
OhWell
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posted 06-21-99 08:02 AM ET
�User Aman destined to serve life sentence for crimes committed as a newbieAman, I did not mention your early posts just to dump on you or keep you in �jail� for newbie "crimes". I had two reasons: First I wanted to point out that people, as in your case, can change. Second, I just wanted to remind you of the rocky start that your posing career got off to so maybe you could cut these other guys a little slack. If someone new starts posting crap maybe there is a better way to handle it than a flame war. You took quite a bit of heat early on. You could have gotten mad and left, but you stuck with it and �reformed�. I respect that. By the powers invested in me by the state of confusion, I hereby grant user Alphaman a full and complete pardon for any and all perceived or actual crimes committed as a Newbie. This court is adjourned...
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DCA
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posted 06-22-99 09:50 AM ET
There are too few weird newbies here. Normal people are boring - "no normal person has ever created anything of value or persistence"! So there.DCA, Boxing's a lot like ballet, except they don't dance, there's no music, and they hit each other. |
DanS
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posted 06-22-99 10:09 AM ET
I hereby state that the Court in which OhWell sits as a judge has no jurisdiction over my thoughts, posting habits, etc. Aman, I still think you should pull a Hugo Rune and change your name ("the poster formerly known as Aman"). Unfortunately, none of us forget. |
OhWell
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posted 06-22-99 11:04 AM ET
DanS,As I mentioned, I preside in the State of Confusion. Specifically the First District Court of Appeals. As you are, obviously, confused about my jurisdiction I must, in fact, have jurisdiction over you. Admit this or I will have no choice but to sight you for contempt!
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Alphaman
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posted 06-22-99 11:59 AM ET
OhWell - Woohoo. I'm free! No longer having to spend my days in back breaking labor. Thank you Judge.DanS & OhWell - This kind of stuff confuses me. Dan says "change your name and start over - we never forget". OhWell says "I respect your reformation". Aman says "what the hell? Is there no way to please everyone?" |
OhWell
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posted 06-22-99 12:14 PM ET
�Is there no way to please everyone?" No. If you try, you will go crazy. Don�t worry too much about it.
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eNo
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posted 06-22-99 01:43 PM ET
A newbie thread? Why didn't anybody tell me? |
Picker
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posted 06-22-99 01:46 PM ET
Weird and proud of it."I gotta be me" |
DanS
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posted 06-22-99 01:49 PM ET
I'm confused.... DOH!!! |
sandworm
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posted 06-22-99 06:49 PM ET
Living proof that you don't have to be a newbie to be weird, although it helpssandworm |
Natguy
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posted 06-26-99 01:40 PM ET
I think of myself as a sort of uppernewbie. I'm certainly not a vet, but I'm also no brand-new newbie. Are there any parameters on newbieness/vetness? I can't access my own profile, or those belonging to others...Anybody know what my figures are? Wait, don't tell me, I think the small numbers would depress me, as although I read lots of posts, I don't make too many. |
Pinko34
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posted 06-26-99 09:20 PM ET
Do you become a vet over time or by the # of posts you make? |
Pinko34
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posted 06-26-99 09:23 PM ET
Natguy: You have made ten more posts than me and that is after I make THIS post. I now have made 107 posts. |
jig
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posted 06-26-99 11:38 PM ET
Pinko: You become a vet when you no longer have to ask if you've become a vet. |
Dreadnought
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posted 06-26-99 11:44 PM ET
So Jig.......I'm not gonna ask if I'm a vet.....so.......I'm........a vet? I don't know if 149 posts would grant me title of vet, but what the hell. |
OldWarrior_42
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posted 06-27-99 12:06 AM ET
Dreadnought and all... you are what ever you wish to be... who cares what others think and what is the difference between vet or new if you are enjoying conversing with people and they respond in kind. Dont worry about times posted or when I registered or what this guy thinks of me.. Screw that and be yourself and whatever that is that you want to be. Just my opinion though cause I dont care if I am a newbie or vet. As popeye says I am what I am and thats all that I am. |
jig
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posted 06-27-99 12:13 AM ET
Now, thats the spirit! |
Alphaman
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posted 06-27-99 01:19 AM ET
Lets all post our total number of posts. I have 617 including this one. |
Dreadnought
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posted 06-27-99 01:37 AM ET
152, including this one.OldWarrior- Just becuase I asked if I'm a veteran or not doesnt mean I'm someone who is swayed by what people think of me. In fact I don't give a damn what people think of me, on the internet or in real life. Thanks for the post anyway, it gave me a warm, fuzzy felling inside |
OldWarrior_42
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posted 06-27-99 01:45 AM ET
Cool buddy.....just that I see alot of guys on here who care if they are called vet or not and I dont think they should care. So great for you and glad to make you feel fuzzy warm and ****. And BTW, thanks for the TA kingdoms review. I appreciated it. |
OldWarrior_42
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posted 06-27-99 01:51 AM ET
OH yeah and Aman....I dont know how many posts I have ...I do not check and dont care...but I have at least 3 anyway...(on this thread). If you want to read my profile and post what I have then you are welcome to do so. Personally I dont bother reading profiles and such. |
Alphaman
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posted 06-27-99 07:58 AM ET
622 now. Including this one. WooHoo!Go go go! First to a million wins. Bwahahahahahahahaa! |
JohnIII
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posted 06-27-99 08:01 AM ET
I do, but I'm not bothered by no. of posts, age, IQ, etc. John III |
eNo
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posted 06-27-99 04:24 PM ET
600 something... |
OldWarrior_42
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posted 06-27-99 10:27 PM ET
I looked... okay Aman..you have some strange sneaky power that convinced me somehow that I just had to look. And now I have been looking at so many profiles in the past day that I am amazed at the diversity of these forums. Actually it is pretty cool to see. And I have alot more than I thought I would but must have accumulated most over the past 2 weeks being out of work...Otherwise I usually dont have the time to reply to everything I would like to. Yes you put an idea in my head and I couldnt get it out like the way you sometimes get that freakin song stuck in your head and hum it all day to yourself. You are an evil dr doom. Let me leave you with a little something to get stuck in your head Let me tell ya little story 'bout a man named Jed A poor mountaineer barely kept his family fed And then one day he was shootin' at some food And up from the ground came a bubblin' crude Oil that is..black gold ..Texas tea... You know the rest keep on hummin'. |
DerekM
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posted 06-28-99 08:46 AM ET
This would be 239 for me, although I had to change my user name back when the forums totally crapped out.When did Imran leave? (I have to admit, I took off for a short while due to boredom, but recently some of the posts have been a little more interesting.) |
Alphaman
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posted 06-28-99 01:50 PM ET
Dr DoomDang! Thats a good username. Lemme get that "edit profile" thingy... Aman plays mind games with OldWarrior |
GaryD
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posted 06-29-99 05:14 AM ET
Just to say I often look at profiles, but rarely to see how many posts. I'm just nosey as to what part of the world the poster claims to come from. |