I know a St. John's alum (Santa Fe). Oh um that's not what I meant to say when I came in here.

I was just going to comment that even the delurker thread meant for lurkers is hard to keep up with!

Hello to all the recently re-delurked. There are so many variants of us. It's fun.

PS One of my favorite days-long conversation in Natter was, how do you use a fork and knife?

PPS My high school best friend went to St. John's! 2 years at Annapolis, 2 years in Santa Fe. Gorgeous campuses.

PPPS Because I read this thread in print, and it was a little hard to keep track of everyone in print, I actually do have a list of the new people & their delurking post #. Shall I transcribe and post it? (and... g'night for tonight.)

Oh instead of just saying hello I should say stuff about me, right? So I'm Kiba, and I came here many moons ago when we were trying to save Firefly, at which point I was a senior in college/graduate student. And after that I taught Latin for 5 years and disappeared from Buffistas for a while, and now I'm in grad school again (this time library school) and decided to drop back by.

So, that's me. And look how very under the wire I made it into this thread.

Another librarian! Cool.

See, this is why I lurk. I checked in this afternoon, and then just now, and my first post was 1340. The last is 1492. Columbus sailed the ocean blue, and I don't think I can keep up! I leave it up to you all to come up with a rhymne. Whatever. I work for a messenger company, and due to the bay bridge closure, it's been hell, and my brain shut down, along with the bridge, at about 11:30am.

Serial comma: yes. From Stephen Colbert: "Hey, semi-colon, comma or colon, pick a side, we're at war!" (or is it..) Elipses...yes! Olives: yes. Muffallottas (or whatever) I don't think so, due to colliflower. I don't like it, so why should I spell it correctly? Celantro: In moderation. Especially on El Faralito burritos.

But more to the point, I really due appreciate this board and thread. I'll try to post in some of the TV threads. I have a life that is such that, I have time to come here, but then, I have to go away for a few days. Then I'm hopelessly behind.

My board name is not my real name. It's both my grandmothers' maiden names.

I look forward to the "2009 can kiss my ass" thread, and who knows, maybe next year I'll do one of the secrete Santas (can't this year). And if I don't make it into other threads, see you next year.

And I love that this community, and it IS a community, exists.

Not cereal, but PBR.

I find it comforting that, if I should have to move across the country for some reason, I could post in "Press," and have Buffistas in a 100+ mile radius, offering meet me, show me around, etc. It's good to know.

Hi, Kiba! Hi, Fern!

P-C, I don't know if you've read it

Oh, I've read it. Quentin Compson is my homeboy.

billytea, I'd like to see the pet carbon footprint study. Do you have a link? While I once felt virtuous about reusing my neighbor's newspaper bags for pick-up, I was struck my Phillipe Cousteau's quote stating that every single piece of plastic ever manufactured, in the history of petrochemicals, still exists. I'd love to find a better option.

Here's one news item about it: [link] The people who did the work on this are a couple of New Zealanders; apparently their work was published in New Scientist. (I suspect it's quite contentious, especially since they entitled their book "Time to Eat the Dog".)

Kiba Rika!

That is all.