[Edited to try to make my loooooong post look a little less long by being only one post and not two.]

I delurked on TT in Jan of 2001. (Tom W. delurked on the same day I did.) I was lurking since I found TT through the articles on the whole Columbine/Graduation Day II disaster. I almost delurked then to offer my tape of GD II, but then I got shy.

I think in the first week I accidentally spoiled people and mispelled Betsy's name, so I was a bit careful of saying anything after that.

I lurked over at TT and WorldXing for a LOOOONG time (I think I came in at the second Buffy thread on TT). Finally de-lurked after the Phoenix went live, not too long before the Nilly tour (though I think it was closer to the debut of Wonderfalls and the Angel finale - I can't keep track of which came when except that the viewing party at Jon B's for the Wonderfalls debut was my first F2F Buffista event).

Joe got here first and would. not. shut. up. about these damned "Buffistas". I Google'd, lurked for about a day. Just enough time to read some of Joe's posts and then freak him out by repeating the same conversations, but with my work friends names instead. I think it was the prom conversation in Natter round about June of 2002.

Then, I just barged in the party, ita named me Empress, and now, I'll go away when you pry my keyboard and my tiara from my cold, dead hands.

Delurked on TT in Buffy 5x5, after wandering around terribly confused in the Attic for about a week and a half. (The link I'd followed on Salon originally led me to the archived first or second thread, and it took me several days to figure out where the current conversations were happening. I was not so wise in the ways of the interwebs as I am now.)

I posted once in TT Buffy 1, maybe once in Buffy 2, and slowly worked my way up to the brisk pace of posting that I now do.

02:06 pm Pacific Time - Feb 24, 1999 - #900 of 4014

That seems to be my first (and only) post in TT Buffy 1. And then I know I was super lurky for a long, long time.

So people kept writing that there were too many references to USA history, that they were too heavily pointed-at, that diluting them or putting them in the background could have been enough and subtler, and I suddenly realized that I wanted to say that, no, it was just the exact amount and lighting for a stranger from another country, history and language to follow it all.

Hey, I remember that! I was (one of?) the one(s?) complaining about that!

Who was the spikeloost story about again? It always makes me laugh whenever I think of it, but I can't remember who it was about.

I delurked in 2003, I think, as a Wonderfalls fan. I think P-C and Kristin showed up around when I did.

It would have been really fun to talk about Buffy, while it was airing, with ya'll.

Who was the spikeloost story about again?

Ellen.