=== Newbie Welcome Party - Ten Year Anniversary Edition ===

Hello and welcome everyone to the latest installment of the Newbie Welcome Party!

Ten years ago to the day, the http://boards.theforce.net/Welcome_New_Users/b10181/2972308][/url]first party began. The Welcome Forum was a very different place back then - there were no social threads, no games, no adoptions... we didn't even have our own moderator. New people would come in, post a thread to say hello, get maybe a handful of replies and then move on to other forums.

With the start of the Newbie Party, a community began to form, a group of people gathered who would hang around to welcome the newest members, to help them find their way around the forums and answer all the typical newbie questions, and to give new people the chance to get used to posting at the JC in a smaller, more friendly environment without having to fear being treated as a clueless n00b. And of course to socialize with each other, too! A lot of close friendships were founded here, with some people even traveling halfway around the world to meet each other in "real life" too.

And now here we are, ten years later, and the party is still going strong. So strong in fact that our forum moderator http://boards.theforce.net/UserPages/Profile.aspx?user=Skiara][/url]Skiara has decided that our old party thread was too big and we should (once again) start a new one. So here we go!


If you are a new member: Welcome aboard!

This place is bound to accumulate lots of pages quickly again, and I know huge threads can be rather intimidating, but please remember: this place is for you. This is a social thread filled with lots of small talk, and there is absolutely no need to read all of it before you start posting. Just go directly to the last page and jump right into the ongoing conversation!

You might feel like you're intruding on some private conversation between friends, but really, we're just here to keep the place alive, answer any questions you might have and hopefully make you feel welcome when you come in to say hello. So don't be shy!


But enough talk now, let's get this party started! Drinks are on the house, as always, and of course we still have a swimming pool, a bowling alley and all sorts of other entertainment for you to enjoy. Oh, and chocolate of course. Can't forget the chocolate.

Have fun, everyone!

Edit: Thread got closed, because there's a new party (new version): House-Warming Party!

 

Happy anniversary to the first Newbie Party!
I hope the new one will be just as fun as the first.

 

Second post!

We have a bowling alley now? We might as well just add an arcade and pizza joint and call it good.

 

Arcade? Pizza? Sounds good to me!

 

Now I feel like I should've been handing out 3D glasses for this thread.


Hmm, Pizza for breakfast... hand me a slice, will you.

 

How about a compromise - two pools, one with chocolate, one with water. 'Cause I could really use one with water right now, it's way too hot and humid where I am. [face_sweaty] (we need more emoticons )


Thanks, glad you like it!

 

Blech, humidity.

On a less humid note, I graduated from crutches to a cane. It's a step in the right direction and I'll soon be back on my feet, so long as I don't get off on the wrong foot. Injuries like these, though, only serve to strengthen the sole.

 

A cane? I have one of those that I need to use from time to time.

Two pools sounds like a great idea.

 

Ten years...that's a long time.

Come to think of it...come November it'll be my ten year anniversary too.

I've been a nerd for quite some time now.

 

**Goes to throw a brownie at D_G but then thinks it might be bad karma to throw food at a man with a cane.**



**Throws the whole plate at him instead!**

 

Wow, ten years! Well, I guess a "Happy birthday" is in order

 

How appropriate, a ten year old group for a group who acts like a bunch of ten year olds.

 

Isn't it.

*wonders if that means she posted like an infant ten years ago*

I actually missed my own 10-year anniversary by two days. But I've been a nerd considerably longer than that, anyway.


Congrats on the upgrade, TrakNar. What did you do to require crutches in the first place, if you don't mind me asking?

 

I missed by three-year board anniversary two weeks ago, so I understand.

 

There is an angry Mole looking for you. Shall I tell him where to find you?

 

Wow 10 years. Very impressive.

 

Car drove over my foot. Nothing was broken, bruised pretty good, though and I was on crutches for about a month. I'm glad to be rid of them. Now I'm gonna start taking walks (well, gimps) in the morning to restrengthen my foot and ankle. Since my ankle won't bend quite as well as it used to, I'm going down hard on my hip and knee, and my lower back is starting to feel the pain.

 

What are you downloading that's adding spam to it?

 

Some e-mail services have settings that you can adjust to send more of the junk into your spam/junk folder. Does yours have such settings?

Oh, I forgot to mention that about two hours ago we had a small earthquake.

 

Several people felt it but I didn't. It was a 4.2 and I usually feel anything over a 4. In April 2008, we had a 5.2 that startled me out of my slumber then a few hours later we had a 4+ as I was online. In fact, I think that I was on here during the aftershock.