The Welcome Thread: Newbie introductions; departing and returning members I - Page 27

trolls' bane · 11-23-2005, 11:55 AM

Welcome new hard to pronounce name member (*Copy+Paste*), Faerdhinen.

VERY cool av, in fact if you ever change avatars, let me know so I can save that one

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No, he came here and got confused with...well, everything. Too much of a shock, I guess, 49 members to 3,800 something members (whatever, just a guess).

Faerdhinen · 11-23-2005, 11:59 AM

LoL, thanx. Sure ya can copy it, but I had to come up with something and I couldn't find anything else ... Too many pics make you confused.

trolls' bane · 11-23-2005, 12:03 PM

How did you do that?

I feel like I'm not in geosynchrous orbit anymore.

Faerdhinen · 11-23-2005, 12:24 PM

How did I make what?

If you mean avie, I didn't make it myself, I'm not that genious.

Quote:

I feel like I'm not in geosynchrous orbit anymore.

LoL

trolls' bane · 11-23-2005, 12:30 PM

Wow...I thought my Jedi Outcast av was cool. Soon I'll go back and get one that has Kyle Katarn on it.

Spock · 11-23-2005, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Faerdhinen

Hey everyone ... Since I'm new here I feel like I must introduce myself (LoL, how did I manage to figure this out?) and so - hello! And for all those who wonder who I am - I'm a girl.

Well, First-I hope you've brought your towel.

Then, you could have wound up here at the direction of a friendly tree (Ent).

There's lots to read and somethings to leave alone (much like the trip to Mordor) and I hope you're travels with us are pleasant.

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Have you ever noticed how some days you just get washed over by the sense of cosmic emptiness and lack of meaning?

trolls' bane · 11-23-2005, 01:07 PM

Spock, nice sig, but again, that isn't your sig, is it, because it shows up on the reply to thread page. So, yes!

Spock · 11-23-2005, 01:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by trolls' bane

Spock, nice sig, but again, that isn't your sig, is it, because it shows up on the reply to thread page. So, yes!

trolls' bane · 11-23-2005, 01:13 PM

Exactly!

Spock · 11-23-2005, 01:18 PM

And now: "Good night Mrs. Kalabash, where EVER you are".

trolls' bane · 11-23-2005, 01:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Spock

And now: "Good night Mrs. Kalabash, where EVER you are".

That one's worse than the last!

Spock · 11-23-2005, 01:26 PM

Not really, just more obscure.

trolls' bane · 11-23-2005, 01:29 PM

Oh...
I just replied to a post by Zeak on HVEL. He was wondering which threads I post in, so I gave him a list, so maybe he will join after all.

Faerdhinen · 11-23-2005, 04:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spock

Well, First-I hope you've brought your towel.

Then, you could have wound up here at the direction of a friendly tree (Ent).

There's lots to read and somethings to leave alone (much like the trip to Mordor) and I hope you're travels with us are pleasant.

Yes, I've remembered about the towel in the very last minute.

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has a few things to say on the subject of towels.

A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to- hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

Hence a phrase which has passed into hitch hiking slang, as in "Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is." (Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)

trolls' bane · 11-23-2005, 04:17 PM

Okay...

Spock · 11-23-2005, 04:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Faerdhinen

Yes, I've remembered about the towel in the very last minute.
[I]
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has a few things to say on the subject of towels.

Your profile showed your interest and thus my post.

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I only know as much about myself as my mind can work on under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.
.......H.H.G.T.T.G.

trolls' bane · 11-23-2005, 04:52 PM

Oh yeah? Well "Things are definitely getting better. Maybe not as good as yesterday, but certainly better than tomorrow!"--W. K. Harmann et. al., Second Half of Russian Joke

Tamuril Sirfalas · 11-24-2005, 03:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Faerdhinen

Hey everyone ... Since I'm new here I feel like I must introduce myself (LoL, how did I manage to figure this out?) and so - hello! And for all those who wonder who I am - I'm a girl.

hello and welcome!!! i hope you have fun here and im sure you will feel welcome!!

The last sane person · 12-02-2005, 01:13 PM

Hehe, love the towel post! Froods Unite! Welcome to the moot!

ItalianLegolas · 12-03-2005, 11:34 PM

Alrighty, I've been gone for a long time, just wanted to drop in and say hi to everyone, I hope LCoU and Wayfarer and of course Val are still here, 3 of the most intelligent people I've had the pleasure of discussing LOTR with.
In case anyone cares I've been gone because I got caught up and addicted to Counter-Strike, and went into a league with my Team, soon we'll be making lots of money (hopefully

). Then I tore myself away from the books and the computer long enough to get myself a gf who is everything to me. But every good thing comes some bad, my parents are going through a divorce, and especially at this time of year with Christmas coming up and what-not it's very tough for my little sister and my mother.
If any of you guys play CS and want to pub around, you can go on gametigerand type in the name I usually play under, Tolkienfanatic of course.
IL

11-23-2005, 11:55 AM	#521
trolls' bane Entmoot Secretary of the Treasury Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Campsite-by-Giraffe Posts: 5,408	Welcome new hard to pronounce name member (Copy+Paste), Faerdhinen. VERY cool av, in fact if you ever change avatars, let me know so I can save that one . No, he came here and got confused with...well, everything. Too much of a shock, I guess, 49 members to 3,800 something members (whatever, just a guess). __________________ KI6PFA Amateur Radio Operator

11-23-2005, 11:59 AM	#522
Faerdhinen Hobbit Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Lost in Middle-Earth Posts: 23	LoL, thanx. Sure ya can copy it, but I had to come up with something and I couldn't find anything else ... Too many pics make you confused. __________________ "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams

11-23-2005, 12:03 PM	#523
trolls' bane Entmoot Secretary of the Treasury Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Campsite-by-Giraffe Posts: 5,408	How did you do that? I feel like I'm not in geosynchrous orbit anymore. __________________ KI6PFA Amateur Radio Operator

11-23-2005, 12:30 PM	#525
trolls' bane Entmoot Secretary of the Treasury Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Campsite-by-Giraffe Posts: 5,408	Wow...I thought my Jedi Outcast av was cool. Soon I'll go back and get one that has Kyle Katarn on it. __________________ KI6PFA Amateur Radio Operator

11-23-2005, 01:07 PM	#527
trolls' bane Entmoot Secretary of the Treasury Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Campsite-by-Giraffe Posts: 5,408	Spock, nice sig, but again, that isn't your sig, is it, because it shows up on the reply to thread page. So, yes! __________________ KI6PFA Amateur Radio Operator

11-23-2005, 01:13 PM	#529
trolls' bane Entmoot Secretary of the Treasury Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Campsite-by-Giraffe Posts: 5,408	Exactly! __________________ KI6PFA Amateur Radio Operator

11-23-2005, 01:18 PM	#530
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	And now: "Good night Mrs. Kalabash, where EVER you are". __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

11-23-2005, 01:26 PM	#532
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	Not really, just more obscure. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

11-23-2005, 01:29 PM	#533
trolls' bane Entmoot Secretary of the Treasury Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Campsite-by-Giraffe Posts: 5,408	Oh... I just replied to a post by Zeak on HVEL. He was wondering which threads I post in, so I gave him a list, so maybe he will join after all. __________________ KI6PFA Amateur Radio Operator

11-23-2005, 04:17 PM	#535
trolls' bane Entmoot Secretary of the Treasury Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Campsite-by-Giraffe Posts: 5,408	Okay... __________________ KI6PFA Amateur Radio Operator

11-23-2005, 04:52 PM	#537
trolls' bane Entmoot Secretary of the Treasury Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Campsite-by-Giraffe Posts: 5,408	Oh yeah? Well "Things are definitely getting better. Maybe not as good as yesterday, but certainly better than tomorrow!"--W. K. Harmann et. al., Second Half of Russian Joke __________________ KI6PFA Amateur Radio Operator

12-02-2005, 01:13 PM	#539
The last sane person The Black Númenórean Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 6,773	Hehe, love the towel post! Froods Unite! Welcome to the moot! __________________ Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

12-03-2005, 11:34 PM	#540
ItalianLegolas Tolkien-aholic Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: somewhere in the solar system... more specifically NJ... Posts: 712	Who remembers IL? Alrighty, I've been gone for a long time, just wanted to drop in and say hi to everyone, I hope LCoU and Wayfarer and of course Val are still here, 3 of the most intelligent people I've had the pleasure of discussing LOTR with. In case anyone cares I've been gone because I got caught up and addicted to Counter-Strike, and went into a league with my Team, soon we'll be making lots of money (hopefully ). Then I tore myself away from the books and the computer long enough to get myself a gf who is everything to me. But every good thing comes some bad, my parents are going through a divorce, and especially at this time of year with Christmas coming up and what-not it's very tough for my little sister and my mother. If any of you guys play CS and want to pub around, you can go on gametigerand type in the name I usually play under, Tolkienfanatic of course. IL __________________ What was lost is now found. Last edited by ItalianLegolas : 12-03-2005 at 11:44 PM.