If a lurker falls in the forest...
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These are stone killers, little man. They ain't cuddly like me.
Jayne ,'The Train Job'
Bureaucracy 4: Like Job. No, really, just like Job
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: Jon B, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych, msbelle, shrift, Dana, Laura
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billytea - Aug 16, 2007 3:36:27 pm PDT #1171 of 6786
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
sarameg - Aug 16, 2007 3:58:11 pm PDT #1172 of 6786
Somewhere I think I have my first posts. God, I was obnoxious. There's a COMM somewhere where I think I re-delurked, because I know I left for a lot of the WX era because I hated the interface. I know I hit TT in late 1997/early 1998.
God.
Kate P. - Aug 16, 2007 4:04:12 pm PDT #1173 of 6786
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Aw, I always love when we start talking about our roots! My first post was right before OMWF aired, and I spelled "cemetery" wrong. Nobody pointed it out, but I was horribly embarrassed. Luckily you all let me stick around anyway.
amych - Aug 16, 2007 4:08:43 pm PDT #1174 of 6786
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Ha! I roughly share timeline with Plei and SA and Kate P., which is of course a great honor.
Luckily you all let me stick around anyway.
Not that I was in any position to do otherwise, but I always knew you'd turn out smart, typos or not.
billytea - Aug 16, 2007 4:09:27 pm PDT #1175 of 6786
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Aw, I always love when we start talking about our roots!
Now I want a picture of Kate with the caption "My roots, let me show you them."
Kate P. - Aug 16, 2007 4:15:30 pm PDT #1176 of 6786
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I roughly share timeline with Plei and SA and Kate P., which is of course a great honor.
Really? I knew that Plei and SA turned up around the same time as me, but I think I thought that you'd been around for a long time already when I came along. Funny! edit: and dude, you're right, that is *excellent* company.
Now I want a picture of Kate with the caption "My roots, let me show you them."
Ha! ...which totally reminds me that I need to redye my hair. t /natter
esse - Aug 16, 2007 4:18:42 pm PDT #1177 of 6786
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Ha! I roughly share timeline with Plei and SA and Kate P., which is of course a great honor.
I delurked shortly after Plei, within a month or two. I remember the moment, too--I was in my "independent study" in my high school library and with much trepidation and lack of capital letters, I made my first post.
Vortex - Aug 16, 2007 6:20:14 pm PDT #1178 of 6786
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I don't think I ever lurked. I just jumped right in with both feet. but, that was the earlyish days of TT where our culture wasn't so clearly defined.
billytea - Aug 16, 2007 6:24:36 pm PDT #1179 of 6786
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I lurked, back on TT. I was running with a different crowd at the time, over on the Faith and Spirituality forum. Checking out the Buffista action was a side interest.
§ ita § - Aug 16, 2007 6:35:21 pm PDT #1180 of 6786
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I remember what it took for anyone to pay attention to me. Posting a picture with super short hair. Got Hec's attention, anyway.
The rest is history.