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eXcellent! This month’s freshman class has real potential.

Zeno, let me ask you a question. How may I be of assistance to you in this monumental endeavor?

You see, this is orientation class, and if we let you pass here without certain basic knowledge, we would be remiss in our duties. I could quote the Membership Agreement ad noseaum while losing the essence of proper JREF Forum etiquette.

With that said, do you see the button below this text that reads "Nominate"? I want you to click that button, and follow the instructions given. Everyone does it. You will be nominating this post for something we call the TLA.

Having nominated this post, you will made aware of what are considered the best posts presented every month. Hitting that button is a small price to pay.

It's right there.
 
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Roadtoad said:
Man, are you in for a shock when you meet Shemp, the Marquis, and Ketyk.

(Oh, wait. I see one of them has already stopped by.

(You're screwed.)
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Well, I'll see for myself how serious people take the education subforum, won't I?

Ketyk said:
How may I be of assistance to you in this monumental endeavor?

You see, this is orientation class, and if we let you pass here without certain basic knowledge, we would be remiss in our duties. I could quote the Membership Agreement ad noseaum while losing the essence of proper JREF Forum etiquette.

With that said, do you see the button below this text that reads "Nominate"? I want you to click that button, and follow the instructions given. Everyone does it. You will be nominating this post for something we call the TLA.

Having nominated this post, you will made aware of what are considered the best posts presented every month. Hitting that button is a small price to pay.
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Thanks and done. Unfortunately, I'm not one to have many questions at first.
 
Terpsichore said:
Hi, I'm Pat, aged 64, so I'm old enough to be skeptical about skepticism. I got here by looking for 9/11 stuff, bouncing from link to link the way you do. I'll say straight off that I'm not likely to be a stayer. But I might be an occasional dropper-in.

I only recently got interested in 9/11, having avoided it for years. I'd had enough conspiracy talk on a forum I used to visit where people spend their time trying to prove that Shakespeare was really somebody else. Eventually I got tired of the methodology, which is, a) never to stay too long on the same point, but blow smoke over it by saying "and what about...?", and hopping off to some other point, b) when comprehensively refuted, to retreat from position to position, with the ultimate position being where all arguments are settled with "that's what they want you to think". When the evidence fits it fits. When it doesn't fit it still fits, because it's been deliberately manipulated by the all-powerful Elizabethan secret service to look like it doesn't fit, just for credibility. In the end you just have to walk away.

But I've read up a bit on the 9/11 theories over the past few weeks. So I'll follow some of the threads here, and probably post something.
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Hey Pat - can I ask if Terpsichore is because you're a dance, too. Susan (in the quote right below) is a tap dancer. She's only 29 though. Meh, I'm a little soft shoe, a little hip hop, a little ballroom - a whole lot of free form from taking jazz ballet for years as a kid. Oh, and I'm 62.
(Not that it matters but "just Pat"? You're not required to tell us. But... Male or female..." We're always looking for partners for our virtual Dancing With Skeptics, which I just invented.)


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tersichore

welcome. Did you read the Bill Bryson book called, 'Shakespeare'?
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Susan, Susan, Susan! You of all people, mios-spelling terpsichore! Turn in your Keefe Braselle Fan Club badge!
 
Foolmewunz said:
Hey Pat - can I ask if Terpsichore is because you're a dance, too. Susan (in the quote right below) is a tap dancer. She's only 29 though.
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Ah, if only....!:D
Susan, Susan, Susan! You of all people, mios-spelling terpsichore! Turn in your Keefe Braselle Fan Club badge!
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I know,:o:o I only heard it when it was too late to edit!!:D
 
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Welcome to all the NEW B'S We are going to have a pot luck BBQ this weekend . We will Supply the Goats Milk, Beer, Roo meat,Baked beans, Oatmeal Cookies,and Minties. You guys bring some chips ,salads etc.
 
Hi! I'm Catewilliams (Cate for short?)

I'm a 19 year old female, I consider myself a skeptic. I joined after reading a thread here about Norwex cleaning supplies and the claims the company makes.

By no means am I a scientist- I serve tables as a living currently. But I was thrilled to find the information I was looking for interpreted by a professional in the corresponding field! Anyhow, I'm always trying to figure out what part of product claims are true and which ones are false or misconstrued.

Hope to contribute my knowledge to the community.
 
Catewilliams said:
Hi! I'm Catewilliams (Cate for short?)

I'm a 19 year old female, I consider myself a skeptic. I joined after reading a thread here about Norwex cleaning supplies and the claims the company makes.

By no means am I a scientist- I serve tables as a living currently. But I was thrilled to find the information I was looking for interpreted by a professional in the corresponding field! Anyhow, I'm always trying to figure out what part of product claims are true and which ones are false or misconstrued.

Hope to contribute my knowledge to the community.
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Well, welcome Cate. I love that thread, too.

May I suggest, though, that if you feel the urge to post in it that you get a few dozen posts first. We're kinda like piranhas when we see single-digits post counts in MLM Woo Scam threads. (We just about lunched on several poor innocents in The Amega Wand thread, a now legendary bit of work that I like to think had something to do with driving those weasels out of business.)

It's not that we're paranoid - Wait, ... What was that sound.... It's just that we've had(as you can see from the Norwex thread) so many "I'm a new poster and just have some questions. Chief of most is "Won't you buy my product or B.S.?" " in so many threads from Conspiracy Theories to General Skepticism to Math/Science.

Welcome aboard.

Right now, I think I'm going to bump the Norwex thread. It's literally the only critical listing in Google and needs to get more attention.
 
Hello everyone!

I'm Ste, from Englandland, and I'm an avid fan of good science though I have no qualifications past high school - I'm looking forward to hopefully adding to my own knowledge as well as contributing to discussions where I feel I can!

Anyway, I don't usually like doing "Hello!" posts because they feel a bit attention-seeky, so I'm sure I'll see you around the forum :D
 
Oh, so now everyone's coming in with, like, names? Cate and now Ste (doesn't that make you a female saint).

Welcome, also. I'm hijacking the thread from the usual rowdies because it's my calling (or I'm sitting around bored at home waiting for my wife and kid to return).

Drop into Forum Community where you can get your feet wet (if not whet your appetite), we're having a running, er.... um.... discussion (yeah, that's it,... a "discussion") on the merits of English Cuisine* versus American. Bring plenty of Marmite.

And if sports is your thing, the Englishters have fairly good representation in the Sports sub-forum, with massive ongoing threads on Cricket, Rugby, and Footie.
 
Hi. I'm from Gloucester, UK. I'm 53 years old, male.

I came to this site due to an interest in the case of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, there is long running discussion of this here, and that's likely to be the area I will be posting in.
 
Foolmewunz said:
Hey Pat - can I ask if Terpsichore is because you're a dance, too. Susan (in the quote right below) is a tap dancer. She's only 29 though. Meh, I'm a little soft shoe, a little hip hop, a little ballroom - a whole lot of free form from taking jazz ballet for years as a kid. Oh, and I'm 62.
(Not that it matters but "just Pat"? You're not required to tell us. But... Male or female..." We're always looking for partners for our virtual Dancing With Skeptics, which I just invented.)
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Male. Pat for Patrick. No, I'm not a dancer, but I am a passionate classical music fan, which is why I'm familiar with the word. I just like its sound. But I'm not even a dance fan, particularly, unless the dancer is Kate Bush. So I probably won't join your Dancing with Skeptics club. Which is just as well, because by the time I'd finished inflicting all the foot injuries I could inflict you'd have to rename it Dancing with Septics.
 
Hi, 27 Male Australia, land of the medium beleivers, newly converted to critical thinking and learning how to use my brain. apologies in advance for my spelling and grammer. :P
 
Rabbit, did you say rabbit? We have rabbit on the menu for newcomers. Rabbit alla king coming right up.
 
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