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Title: I know I'm new but...
Post by: dslex...dislex...confused on July 28, 2008, 10:21:21 PM
...I think you need another forum, for people who may not be quite so funny, or who think they are funny...but aren't...oh hang on...

Just kidding [the "oh hang on" bit], but seriously a boring forum has a lot to offer:

It will make all the other forums look and read even better [as if that were possible]
Accountants will think they can join in and post things
This posting wouldn't be in here

My name is confused and I used to be an accountant...it has been 1 year and 28 days since I last added two numbers together...

Nice place hope I fit in at some point, confused.

Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: Tom on July 28, 2008, 10:25:00 PM
Hi Confused... welcome to the forum.
Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: The Peepmaster on July 28, 2008, 10:25:17 PM
Welcome Dixie! I think you may be right. This forum must appear to so may as a bit of a cliquey lunatic asylum at times, that new blood feels alienated. I wan't you to know that new posters are always welcome, and that not everyone is mad on here. (I'm sure there was someone who posted in May 2005 who wasn't).
Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: dslex...dislex...confused on July 28, 2008, 10:48:37 PM
Thank you both.  This is a scary place, so much good humour and so many "I wish I had said that" posts.  I shall persevere, keep taking the tablets, drift off muttering...
Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: Mince on July 28, 2008, 10:55:52 PM
To become a real member you have to insult Peepmaster.
Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: Mince on July 28, 2008, 10:56:53 PM
so much good humour

Thanks. I just wish the rest of the gang on here were as good.
Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: The Peepmaster on July 28, 2008, 11:00:35 PM
You also have to have an appreciation of football, and the knack of using the roll-eyes smiley at the right time.
Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: Mince on July 28, 2008, 11:04:55 PM
The other option is to hate football and like Doctor Who.
Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: dslex...dislex...confused on July 28, 2008, 11:06:51 PM
Actually Mince you were more in the "scary" category... :-)

Football...waste of a good field...cow pat [or is that cowpat?] skimming would be more interesting, I wasn't going to follow Mince's advice but now...
Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: Mince on July 28, 2008, 11:08:39 PM
Actually Mince you were more in the "scary" category... :-)

RULE 1: If you're going to throw a good insult, go for it. No more half-hearted panicky smileys at the end.
Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: Tom on July 28, 2008, 11:13:45 PM
Mince, I'm confused.

Aren't you on holiday? And what's your avatar picture of? At first I thought it was a stopped version of that mind boggling triangle one you used to use.
Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: dslex...dislex...confused on July 28, 2008, 11:16:39 PM
Damn you Moriarty...I'll work on the polite thing but in my defence I was smiling as I wrote it, but that was more at Peepmasters expense, I never heard of anyone from a smaller place than I live before, the Isle of Bute makes the Isle of Man seem like Manhattan...well on a really foggy day...and when you are three sheets to the wind...and if your imagination is either really really good or just weird.

Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: Mince on July 28, 2008, 11:26:04 PM
And what's your avatar picture of? At first I thought it was a stopped version of that mind boggling triangle one you used to use.

Nope. Try again.
Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: Mince on July 28, 2008, 11:29:16 PM
is either

You're going to have to change your name. You're going to confuse poor Roger.
Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: dslex...dislex...confused on July 28, 2008, 11:44:12 PM
You might be right...besides which it's a killer to remember when signing in...my favourite line of yours so far, can't remember the post, something that included meeting the genius Roger Kettle, your line was something like "Hey Roger there's a genius with the same name as you"  Classic, almost poetry but more interesting.
Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: The Peepmaster on July 29, 2008, 12:00:33 AM
Oh gawd - Mince has found a fan.  ..0
Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: Mince on July 29, 2008, 12:04:23 AM
Jealous!

Actually, dslex, Peepmaster can be funny sometimes as well . . . sometimes, anyway.
Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: dslex...dislex...confused on July 29, 2008, 12:15:56 AM
Nice to see you worried Peepmaster...but you can relax, I was impressed nay jealous of a few posts of your own and a few others too, just that one liner worked so well it stuck in my mind.

I suspect Mince doesn't need a fan...but if I thought the irritation factor would be high enough...I can do sycophant...
Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: Vulture on July 29, 2008, 07:03:25 AM
Nice to see you worried Peepmaster...but you can relax, I was impressed nay jealous of a few posts of your own and a few others too, just that one liner worked so well it stuck in my mind.

I suspect Mince doesn't need a fan...but if I thought the irritation factor would be high enough...I can do sycophant...

Nice one!  :D
Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: Mince on July 29, 2008, 07:07:20 AM
Nice to see you worried Peepmaster...but you can relax, I was impressed nay jealous of a few posts of your own and a few others too, just that one liner worked so well it stuck in my mind.

Notice the words "a few" for Peepmaster and "so well" for me.
Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: Vulture on July 29, 2008, 07:07:47 AM
And what's your avatar picture of? At first I thought it was a stopped version of that mind boggling triangle one you used to use.

Nope. Try again.

It looks like a downward photo of the corner of a table.
Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: Vulture on July 29, 2008, 07:13:15 AM
Oh gawd - Mince has found a fan.  ..0

Ahhh, he (it must be a 'he' - women aren't so easily impressed  :D) is only new. Once he's been on for a little while longer, he'll learn his mistake.
Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: Mince on July 29, 2008, 07:18:49 AM
It looks like a downward photo of the corner of a table.

Nope. Try again.

This is like "Ask the Family".
Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: Mince on July 29, 2008, 07:20:20 AM
Oh gawd - Mince has found a fan.  ..0

Ahhh, he (it must be a 'he' - women aren't so easily impressed  :D) is only new. Once he's been on for a little while longer, he'll learn his mistake.

Let's hope so. I was rather taken aback that he forgot to call me "Your Majesty" as he should. I know I let everyone else off, but he's a newbie.
Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: Diane CBPFC on July 29, 2008, 07:49:40 AM
Welcome dslex...dislex...confused, do you mind if I just call you DDC?

You don't have to butter Mince up - we are going to have a coup while he is away.

That way we will have a decent place to keep our chickens.

So tell us more about being a retired accountant - is it really as exciting as you make it sound?

Diane  :)


 
Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: Diane CBPFC on July 29, 2008, 07:51:24 AM
I think Mince's avatar is a robot's armpit.
Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: Vulture on July 29, 2008, 08:25:38 AM
I think Mince's avatar is what's inside his head: shelves with nothing on them.
Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: Roger Kettle on July 29, 2008, 09:15:56 AM
Mince goes on holiday...DDC appears...hmmm....
Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: The Peepmaster on July 29, 2008, 09:29:22 AM
Having just come back from a holiday myself, I know how important they can be for recharging the batteries, and stimulating the soul.

My recent Philippines adventure enabled me to experience the wildlife, natural beauty, and welcoming nature of the people on a variety of sun-kissed islands nestling in the warmth of the South China Seas.

Mince, have you got to Clacton yet?
Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: peter on July 29, 2008, 10:02:50 AM
Mince goes on holiday...DDC appears...hmmm....

I see the thinking behind this Roger
But just in case DDC welcome and enjoy
Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: dslex...dislex...confused on July 29, 2008, 06:07:41 PM
DDC...Mince...it's a novel idea...but wrong...

Many thanks for the kind words from one and all, DDC works for me, I obviously wasn't thinking too clearly when I came up with the long version, but I'll keep it as a reminder about keeping it simple, talking of which, how are you "Your Majesty"?  Well I hope.

As for being a retired accountant I'm not, I more sort of escaped just over a year ago and got into something else by pretending not to be an accountant.  Now I interact with other people, use words instead of meaningless numbers and say thank you every day to anyone's g-d who cares to listen.  Now even my wife likes me...which is truly weird but very pleasant.

I am looking forward, with a little trepidation, to my time here, and will try not to worship too loudly at the feet of Mince although that sounds more like a meal than a promise.
Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: The Peepmaster on July 29, 2008, 06:12:13 PM
Mince isn't important, you know! He just turned up one day, rather like you have. We've all been humoring him for ages now.
Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: dslex...dislex...confused on July 29, 2008, 06:21:00 PM
Denial is such an ugly thing, clearly Mince is the driving force around here...would it make you feel better if I went and found something funny you wrote?  I don't have too much time but I can try.

Actually I quite liked "There should be a semi-colon after spelistraffaladi." in the posting answers totally unrelated bit, surreal yet funny.
Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: dslex...dislex...confused on July 29, 2008, 07:07:50 PM
Changed my mind, I really liked "Mince's life is perfectly useful?" in the annual plea for help thingie, I may be fickle but I know what I like.   I guess his majesty just met his Nepal.

This is my last trip down memory lane, there are too many potential g-ds of humour here to stay faithfully in worship, as a last resort I can always post humorous accountancy anecdotes.

Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: peter on July 29, 2008, 08:44:49 PM
Mince could get to you DDC He has been known to cross the Irish sea.
Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on August 01, 2008, 08:51:34 PM
Mince could get to you DDC He has been known to cross the Irish sea.

On foot. So he tells me. He must have an extremely long snorkel.

Yo, DDC!
Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: Fyodor on August 02, 2008, 04:31:23 PM
I've never heard any posthumous accountancy anecdotes. Bring 'em on!
Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: dslex...dislex...confused on August 02, 2008, 09:17:13 PM
Well...as you asked so nicely, once I was adding up some stuff on a spreadsheet and no matter how many times I did it I could not get it to balance...turns out it wasn't a spreadsheet at all but the back of a cornflakes packet...duh!

Okay the game is up, there are no humorous accountancy stories...shame it took me twenty years to realise it but I don't recall saying I was funny or quick.
Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: Jack on August 14, 2008, 03:14:04 PM
Welcome Dixie! I think you may be right. This forum must appear to so may as a bit of a cliquey lunatic asylum at times, that new blood feels alienated.

New blood? It's so much of a cliquey lunatic asylum that OLD blood feels alienated! Oh, for the good old days when only 4 people posted, and there were maybe one or two new messages a week. The good old days, before the board moved, turned fancy, and - of course - Mince turned up.

The other option is to hate football and like Doctor Who.

I like both, which surely means my posts are twice as valuable to this forum than anyone elses. Right? No? Okay then.
Title: Re: I know I'm new but...
Post by: Vulture on August 14, 2008, 03:18:47 PM

The other option is to hate football and like Doctor Who.

I like both, which surely means my posts are twice as valuable to this forum than anyone elses. Right? No? Okay then.
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I hate both!