Do you remember how you felt

[MissHoneychurch]

when you were a n00bie??

Just wondering as we have a lot of new DUers these days. At least I see quite a lot.

[Shell Beau]

1. Yep! Kinda nervous!

:)

[MissHoneychurch]

3. Afraid no one would talk to you

and that you will never be a part of all the funny people here

[Shell Beau]

29. Exactly!

[AirmensMom]

2. I think it took at least three months of lurking

before I had the nerve to post. :shrug: Call me a wimp, go ahead. :hide:

[billyskank]

7. Hey!

:hug:

:loveya:

[AirmensMom]

14. BILLY!

Where are you these days? Still out and about, or back home? :loveya: :hug:

[billyskank]

21. Still out and about

I fly home the day after tomorrow. :hug:

[AirmensMom]

25. Oh ...

but you're having a blast, right? :bounce:

I hear u4ic loves her pictures. :loveya: :hug:

[billyskank]

32. I'm having a groovy time

I have soooo many photographs to show you guys.

I'm looking forward to starting your picture too. :loveya:

[AirmensMom]

85. I CAN'T WAIT!

:bounce: :woohoo: :yourock:

And I can't wait to see the photographs! I'm so glad you're having such a good time! :loveya: :hug: :grouphug:

[MissHoneychurch]

13. I lurked a long time also

I was afraid no one is going to talk to a German

[billyskank]

15. Wait.....you're German?

:o


























:P

[MissHoneychurch]

19. LOL

:P



Last time I checked yes .... :rofl: Not my fault!!! And I did NOT vote for Angie!!!

[AirmensMom]

20. Sure we will.

It's just that most of us can't do it in German. :P

What made you think that?

[MissHoneychurch]

37. Í don't know much

about American politics and felt I was utterly out of palce here. But the Lounge just sucked me up.

[AirmensMom]

42. Well, you know enough

to realize what bozos we have in charge. I, for one, am glad to have you! :bounce: :loveya: :hug:

[MissHoneychurch]

49. I am more than happy to be here myself

I mean I am here since 1 1/2 years. Almost daily. I think that proves it.

And I am sooo happy I met you :hug: :loveya:

[AirmensMom]

53. Me, too!

:loveya: :hug:

I haven't been here for a year yet, but I think it's coming up (I COULD look at my profile and see when it is ...). I actually might have registered under a different name several months before then, but then I forgot my name and my password so decided to start all over. Of course, I could have imagined it. :shrug:

[MissHoneychurch]

59. August 19th 2005

so your anniversery is coming up :)

I posted under another name first but then decided I didn't like the name and registered under MissHoneychurch May 1st 2005. But with my other name it was someone in January 2005 that I registered

[AirmensMom]

70. You're right!

:bounce: Well, August is a big month for us -- birthdays and anniversaries all over the place! Time to party! :party: :toast:

I like your name now. :D I bet the other one was cool, too, though. :loveya:

[MissHoneychurch]

77. The other one was boring

ffm172

ffm stands for Frankfurt
172 for my b-day

MissHoneychurch is sooo much cooler

[AirmensMom]

81. What a difference!

You are right, MissHoneyChurch is MUCH cooler ... and it's WAY cool! :loveya: :hug:

[MissHoneychurch]

84. I remember

that I talked with Joani about it and debated which name to chose. I believe the other name on the list was Granny Weatherwax form the Terry Pratchett Disc World series. Or it was a name that I use as a password now, so I won't tell ya.

[AirmensMom]

87. You chose wisely.

:D

OK, fine ... you don't have to tell me your password. :rofl:

[MissHoneychurch]

89. Thank you

:D

I won't ask for yours either :rofl:

[billyskank]

4. DU was a far different place when I was a newbie

Far fewer members, and much cooler-tempered.

[Mutley]

6. Hey billy!

:hug:

[billyskank]

9. !!!

:woohoo:

:*

:hug:

[MissHoneychurch]

16. Since when are you a member????

Inquiring minds wanna know :)

:hug:

[billyskank]

23. Early 2002

I was lurking since 2001. :hug:

[MissHoneychurch]

31. WOW

that is really quite a while. Glad you kept stickin around :hug:

[AirmensMom]

40. It's because

we're all so freakin' frustrated after 5+ years of you-know-who sqatting in the White House, starting wars, trashing the constitution, getting everyone on the planet mad at us ... etc. :banghead:

[Mutley]

5. Yeah. I was intimidated and overwhelmed.

I felt a little invisible. I just kept plugging away, though, and I think I'm pretty well established now. :silly:


Hi MissHoneychurch. :hi:

[billyskank]

10. We all love you now

:D

[Mutley]

17. Woohoo!

:woohoo:

:*

And you as well. :D

[MissHoneychurch]

24. I think my first post

was in a kitten thread :rofl:

[Mutley]

34. I started in GD:P.

I don't think I even knew the Lounge existed until someone mentioned it. It's been my favorite place on DU ever since. :D

[MissHoneychurch]

41. I jumped right into the Lounge

once in while I post something in GD but mostly I only read there

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. My dear MissHoneychurch.......

I remember it as though it were yesterday!

I remember coming into the Lounge, and looking around at all the threads......

And wondering who on earth all these people were....

And how did I make friends electronically? I was truly intimidated!

I saw many people talking, and I was afraid to break in........

But I did start talking, hesitantly, cautiously.........

And little by little, I did make some friends.....

And now I know a lot of people, and my life will never be the same!

:bounce: :bounce:

[billyskank]

12. yivver girl claims to have 'discovered' you

:D

:hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

28. My dear billy!

Yes, I believe she did......and her help got me propelled into the view of the Lounge......

She is a Lounge pillar!

Lovely to see you today, sweetie!

:hi:

:hug:

[billyskank]

35. Always nice to see you too, Pegs

:hug:

[MissHoneychurch]

50. I know what you mean

it was the same here

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

11. Yep. It sucked.

[MissHoneychurch]

52. But you are here now

and aren't a newbie by far anymore. And we love your lizzards

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

65. Yep, they're very photogenic.

They should go to DU meetups and such.

[MissHoneychurch]

68. But you should be afraid

that the other DUers would rather talk to your lizzards than to you :rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

18. Scared. To. Freakin'. Death.

I still feel that way. :scared:

[Call Me Wesley]

33. Boo! (nt)

[MissHoneychurch]

45. Awww

are you afraid of tha??? :spank: .... Oh wait, you LOVE that :rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

74. Nah, I'm cool with that

I'm petrified over the possibility of making a grammatical error. :scared:

[MissHoneychurch]

78. Ahhh

the grammar police :rofl:

But somehow I doubt that with you being an editor

[Oeditpus Rex]

90. That hardly makes me immune

But it does make me more sensitive about it. :blush:









I'm also scared to death of women.

[MissHoneychurch]

92. I guess I should feel worse about it than you

I mean the grammar not the women :rofl:


Another thing: you barely talk to me these days. I feel neglected :cry:

[Oeditpus Rex]

100. That's because I'm mesmerized

by your charm and radiant beauty, and thus rendered nearly speechless. :loveya:

[MissHoneychurch]

102. LOL

You really made me laugh out loud. You always find the right htings to say

:loveya: too

[Jara sang]

22. I shun n00bs. They are bad luck.

j/k

[johnnie]

26. Yup

It was squishy

[ZombieNixon]

27. Rash and foolhardy.

I registered and started posting within five minutes of discovering the site. It was all well and good for a month or so; I was a relatively unknown quantity in GD. Then the election hit and just couldn't stand all the infighting afterwards, so I took a break. Then I moved into the Lounge in about January 2005 and it's been all downhill from there. :D

[MissHoneychurch]

75. Nothing goes over the Lounge

and it would be something amiss without you.

When I read this comic, I thought of you ....

[jobycom]

30. Yeah. I was pretty mean to old-timers back then...

[MissHoneychurch]

76. And now you are only mean to newbies?

:rofl:

[jobycom]

99. Only the ones who deserve it!

[Call Me Wesley]

36. I'm still one.

I'm not feeling differently. :P

[billyskank]

38. Is Heidi still calling you a n00b?

She promised! :D

[Call Me Wesley]

43. No, she now calls me a

m00d. ;)

:hi: How goes?

[billyskank]

46. Sounds like progress to me

:D It goes well, thank you. Just a couple more days now before I fly back east. :hi:

[Call Me Wesley]

47. Enjoy your time then!

Did you take pictures? :hi:

[billyskank]

54. So many!

I'll have to separate them out into different threads. :)

[Call Me Wesley]

57. I'm sure looking forward to them!

:bounce:

[AirmensMom]

48. But how does it FEEL?

I've seen you lock threads, so I KNOW you're not scared of us. :D And you have the most excellent kitty! :loveya:

[Call Me Wesley]

55. THAT's exactly how it feels!

:hug: How are you? Everything's fine here, except for the heat wave we have to endure, or sweat through ...

[AirmensMom]

58. Fine here, thanks!

:hug:

We have a new kitty, but he'll live outdoors. I have to get a picture of him. He's a real sweetheart. :loveya: I'm hopeless when it comes to kitties. :shrug:

[Call Me Wesley]

69. I'm looking forward to the picture!

I'm sure he's a sweetie. :hi:

[AirmensMom]

72. He's sleeping under a bush now.

Recovering from his little boy surgery. I actually did take a few pics, but I haven't uploaded any of them yet ... can't remember where the cable is. :hi:

[MissHoneychurch]

62. For that

you moved up on the ladder quite fast ....

Gerade noch ein n00b und jetzt auf der Bühne ein m00d :rofl:

[Call Me Wesley]

71. I'm quite impatient.

;) And an overachiever. I just can't Merkel around ... :rofl:

[MissHoneychurch]

79. You are rather give back rubs???

:rofl:

[Call Me Wesley]

83. Uhhmmm,

not to her, though. :scared:

[MissHoneychurch]

88. Not???

Ann Coulter maybe???

[Call Me Wesley]

95. Are you trying to get

on my black list? ;)

[MissHoneychurch]

96. Why would I do that???

Buddie, friend, fellow European ... oh wait, Switzerland isn't in the European Community

:hug:

[Call Me Wesley]

98. LOL!

Not yet. Not yet. But we have all these nifty bi-lateral contracts! :woohoo: And we have Schröder! Nyah nyah!

[MissHoneychurch]

101. Yeah, those darn

Schengen Abkommen :rofl:

But I have to admit I always went to Switzerland to get gas when I lived near the border. Now I don't drive my car that often anymore.
Do you really believe Switzerland will become a member of the EU?

[Call Me Wesley]

103. It will.

It might take some time, as it already does, but I don't think there's a way around it. Not like this, actually. If it would be for the French speaking part, we would already be in.

However, with neighbors from Frankfurt and Munich, I already feel being a part of the EU here ... :)

[LSK]

109. Welcome to DU!!

:hi:

[RevCheesehead]

39. I was terrified that I'd say something wrong and get banned.

Now, not so much. ;)

[AirmensMom]

44. You?

What could you possibly say wrong? It's ALLOWED to be in love with Keith O! :D

[RevCheesehead]

56. I read the rules over and over...

for a couple of weeks. And I lurked.
My hands were shaking as I made my first post.
From that moment on, I entered a whole new world.
I felt like Alice in Wonderland.

Oh, the innocence!
Oh, the innocence lost!! :rofl:

[AirmensMom]

63. And NOWHERE

did it say, "Thou shalt not be a K.O. fan". At that point, you knew you were home free.

I actually posted without reading the rules. :wow: But I did think I'd blow up the whole site with my first post. You know ... hit some special spot in the server's memory that makes the whole thing come to its knees. Trauma left over from breaking so many computers at work, I suppose. :shrug:

Ha! You'd never guess we were scared if you saw us now! :rofl:

[Call Me Wesley]

51. Nah ...

Just post this quickly ten times! :)

[RevCheesehead]

60. Sugar Plum!!

Someone told me yesterday that I was Swiss. As in cheese.
Because I'm holy. O8)



:loveya:

[Call Me Wesley]

66. Hmmm, wouldn't that make you

neutral, then?

Holy Moly!

:hug:

[MissHoneychurch]

64. Not afraid to say something wrong

or to get banned when saying something wrong? :D

[RevCheesehead]

113. Both.

O8)

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

61. Someone asked what would happen if they told a person to go to LemonParty

Not knowing what it was, I googled it :scared:

[MissHoneychurch]

67. Hey!!!

A newbie!!! :rofl:


:hug:

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

73. That was a long while back (about 600 posts ago)

I've never fully recovered. Then a week or two after that, someone posted a question about goatse. I googled that too :scared:

You may be noticing a trend here :P

[MissHoneychurch]

80. So you are the one

that brought us all the google ads!!! Ha!!! Gotcha!!!

[WCGreen]

82. Nope.....

[MissHoneychurch]

86. Aww come on

I don't believe ya

How are you doing?

[WCGreen]

91. Good.....

And I was stiffened by the banter in the Lounge....

[MissHoneychurch]

93. Which you jumped right into

I know you long enough now that I know you are of the banter clique :rofl:

[Guava Jelly]

94. actually I do

I posted for a few years but mainly in the political forums
But just under a year ago I had traumatic things in my life and I needed someone to talk to.
So I started posting here in the lounge.
People were so nice to me off the bat .
Giving me advice. Some excellent some not so good.But they listened..And i fell in love with the lounge.
Hell I am here every day.

[MissHoneychurch]

97. I like that

honestly.

People here are supportive unless they are silly. I read a lot of your threads, even though I am not posting much in them.

[Guava Jelly]

104. thank you

I've read many of your post also.
yet this is probably the first time we ever swapped words.
almost newbiesq isn't it.
:)

[MissHoneychurch]

106. I believe you are right

except that I posted my pic in your pic thread (does that count?) :rofl:

[Guava Jelly]

108. I am sure it does count

I am such a picture whore!
I just like to know what people look like that i am talking to.

[MissHoneychurch]

110. Hey, I am not better

I enjoy showing myself off :rofl:

And I allow myself to say that you have every right to show yourself off. I saw your before/after pic in the diet thread. Hat up!!

I also enjoy looking at the pics and knowing what the others look like. It makes DU and the Lounge more real. Does that make sense?

[Guava Jelly]

111. Makes all the sense in the world

and thank you :)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

105. When I was a newbie, it was late February 2001, so

just about everyone else was a newbie, too.

[LSK]

107. yes

I didnt want to rock the boat. I didnt want to loose the priviledge of being able to post on this great website. I still feel that way a little bit.

It took me a long time before I really start jumping on in there.

[redqueen]

112. yep! i joined during the primaries in 2003

baptism by fire!

[crim son]

114. I'm not a newbie, but I look like one. And I don't like it!

:cry:

[MissHoneychurch]

116. Post more

come to the Lounge and post away :)

:hug:

[grannylib]

115. I do...it was not as strange here as it was in some of the Yahoo chat

rooms when I first got a 'puter...now some of that was WEIRD.
Some of the folks were really fun and friendly and I really enjoyed their company, but some of them were...bizarre...and not in a good way!

[Robeson]

117. I've been a noobie twice....

...I had a few posts here very early in this sites history, then my computer crashed, I didn't remember my password or what name I had been posting with, and really didn't come back to the site for a while. Then sometime later, I joined again, and have been more active. The first time I kind of felt like a "newbie", but the second time, I felt like I knew the "lay of the land", since I had been here earlier.

[MissHoneychurch]

118. You know it was the same for me

except between my first and second time there wasn't such a break. I just changed my name.

But I heard it changed a lot between the early days and now.

[BlueIris]

119. It took a week or so for me to post. Then the Kerry folks found me

and gave me a star and then I posted more.

[MissHoneychurch]

120. I got my first star from KitchenWitch

and then when I changed my name from Joani. I don't know though who updated my star this year. Whoever it was - I am more than grateful.

[wildhorses]

121. i was scared to death, paranoid as hell and, felt like the

biggest idiot on the planet who somehow found my way into some kind of super sophisticated jet stream where everyone was a member of Mensa and drinking martinis...
:scared::hide::scared:

[MissHoneychurch]

122. LOL

interesting way to describe it. But I know exactly what you mean. "Am I clever enought to keep up with all those cool folks her?"

[SKKY]

123. I won't consider myself anything other than a n00bie...

...until I've reached 2,000 posts. That seems to be about the right number. But, yes, my first
posts were a bit "challenging", probably more for the reader than for me.

[Fox Mulder]

124. Yes.

I was nervous as hell.

[GalleryGod]

125. Honestly- it was so long ago, I don't remember.

DU 2001-2004 was a much better place, I know that.:smoke: