A Somewhat Tardy Introduction

I was reading this ng earlier today when I realized I never properly introduced myself to y'all. Of course that's no way to behave to a bunch of people you look up to, right? So I thought to myself, just introduce yourself now, you lurked so much nobody will ever know the difference ;-) Here goes.

My name's Mindy Catherine Preston. I live in southeastern Wisconsin, and I'm a superfan of Daria, mostly because I see little bits of her in myself. My friends seem to think I'm her clone, which is somewhat annoying due to the fact that I am *not* an animated character, and there are a lot of traits of Daria's personality I don't like. I can laugh at them, but I don't have to like them. My favorite Daria episode of all time is "The Teachings of Don Jake." I love that little monologue of Jake's - "This trail over here leads to an entry-level job. A little money in your pocket... soon you're wearing a suit and a tie every day like all the other FACELESS SAPS and doing SO WELL you're in DEBT up to your DISAPPEARING HAIR!!!! That's where *that* trail leads, Daria!" I'm 13, which I think puts me in the running for the youngest person on a.t.d. I try to sit down and shut up because you guys kinda intimidate me with your wisdom and knowledge =D Some of you just plain scare me, though... ten to one you can figure out who you are =P My parents are divorced and, lucky me, I got the good parent, my dad. My mom is now living with a fifty-something year old firefighter who looks like an alcoholic - he has the inflamed nose, the beer gut, everything. I have to go visit her every few weekends. I can't stand her because of what she did to my father and what I know she was doing when she was supposedly working late during my parents so-called marriage. I'm also an only child, which explains my selfish, loner, whiny tendencies... right? Or is that just me?

Um.... I'm done blathering about myself now. Really. I swear.

-Mindy Unfortunately, no pompous, arrogant, old guys were harmed in the production of this post.

Mindy wrote in message ...

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Welcome, Mindy!

Now that's one I've never seen 8-(

Um, thanks for that.

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Hey! How do you think that makes us pompous, arrogant, old guys feel?

(Okay, I'm using "old" in a comparitive sense, but is there any other?)

Mindy, it's good to see a lurker break cover. Don't be intimidated: anyone's opinion, civilly expressed, is welcome here (they put up with me, so what more proof do you need?).

Martin.

Will you marry me?

*Kyle crawls back into his hole, having throuroughly freaked out the newbie*

Oooh, btw, you can't officially join our little NG till you've made fun of Alli's sig file.

~*~*~Alli~*~*~ "Oh, I *NEVER* get a valentine's card! It would be SO GREAT if SOMEONE would send ME one!"

On Tue, 09 Feb 99 03:07:51 GMT, [email] (Mindy) wrote:

___ Kyle ICQ #12773280

The dead have risen and they're voting Republican!

Another Nugget Of Wisdom from the Wonderful World Of Kyle(TM)

Kyle wrote:

*Smacks Kyle* Hey, no scaring the new people! 'Tain't right. *Smiles at Mindy* Don't mind him. Just nod and smile, and throw a morsel down his hole now and then and it will be fine. ;-)

Heh. I thought you couldn't officially join the NG until you have participated in a discussion about:

a.) The Dewey Decimal System. b.) The diets of dragons. c.) The ethics of multiple voting in an online cartoon poll. d.) Alli's love life or... e.) Any other current wildly off topic thread in the group.

<snip Mindy's intro)

Seriously, though, welcome to the group. Really.

--J.

"Jessica L." wrote:

I don't even know what that is, do I have to leave? :)

Aww....Kazul isn't here any more. :(

Or lack thereof!

Mental health problems? Self-harm? Ancient Chinese suicide methods? :)

Yeah, welcome. We won't hurt you..... honest....

To which Kyle replied:

You realise that marriage would only be legal in certain parts of the Middle East and Alabama?

Anyone else still not formally introduced themselves? I know I haven't...

Well, I guess I might as well introduce myself as well, while we're at it. My name is Ann Booth, and I'm 19, which puts me in the middle agewise on this ng. I'm a college student here at the University of Idaho in Moscow, although I spent the first 18 years of my life just outside of Washington, DC. I have one brother, who'll be thirteen soon. Because of the age difference, we grew up pretty independent of each other. I think he was around somewhere while I was growing up, but I didn't pay much attention.

Oh well, I guess I should get back on topic. I remember hearing about Daria when the show first came out. I read the article in the Washington Post and thought, "wow, that sounds like a really cool show." But my parents didn't believe in cable, so I forgot about it. This past summer I rediscovered it when one of my friends was watching it, and got hooked. It's hard to pick a favorite episode, especially since there's several I've only seen on RealVideo, but my favorites are: Esteemers, The Big House, Arts & Crass, Gifted, Write Where it Hurts. And I can't wait to see how they handle the season premier.

Okay, I guess that's enough about me. I'll shut up now.

Ann

[email] wrote:

IIRC it'd be ok in arkansas also.

I haven't, but you can tell from my posts how timid I am. ;)

Jon Armstrong The Space Ranger Graveyard gives one a unique outlook on life. A dark one.

In article , [email] writes:

Me too, I'm so timid I've been lurking here for a month and not even posted anything yet!<G>

My excuse is that I'm still traumatised from Channel 5 taking Daria off air!

But whilst everyone is saying hello...

Hello! I'm in the UK, and I would fall into the older section of people on this ng! I've seen about half of season one and all of season two, and I'm hoping Channel 5 will bring Daria back soon!

Krieglite wrote:

More newbies/un-lurking lurkers! Hello Jan! I think everyone's just abandoning alt.music.nirvana and coming here instead, or something, there's all these "old" people disappearing there and all these "new" people appearing here. Under different names. With different e-mail addresses. How odd. Which one of yous is DustedGrrl? :)

<delurk> I may as well say hello too. I've been lurking here since the beginning of a.t.d, I've seen it all, including the original Involuntary Celibacy thing. I'm in Ontario, Canada, where Daria is practically non- existant, much to my dismay (only been here a few months), but at least all the Season 1 and 2 eps come in clear. As for age, I'm 16, so i guess I'm on the younger side, or in the middle, whatever... hope they run Season 3 here, anyone else from Canada know if YTV plans to? </delurk>

~Sari

"[He] died from a lethal overdose of brick wall, taken while under the influence of a Ferrari and a bottle of tequila."

"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."

• D. Adams

[email] wrote:

Oh, more people! Greetings, Sari! :)

East and Alabama? << Favourite Crayon

Isn't that only if she's your first cousin?

Kyle wrote:

LOL.

Hey, shut up! :) No, you don't have to make fun of my sig file, Mindy, especially as it's different now. :)

In article , "endless, nameless" wrote:

Sorry, Alli, but your new quote just reminded me of something...

Introductionwise, my real name can be found on Happydude's a.t.d reader survey (URL forgotten), which I would recommend everyone to fill in, especially Lurkers. My age has been previously stated as 24; it will increase sometime in March. That's as much as I'm saying for now, as I'm an intensely private person. Oh yeah, I have a twin brother. He does not read this NG.

On Wed, 10 Feb 1999 12:48:23 GMT, [email] wrote:

That would be http://www.magicnet.net/~mrhankey/index.html I've added some new things (a radio category on request from Dagny) and a transcription of Janeane Garofalo's parody of the speech given by Fiona Apple at the MTV video awards a few years ago. I might update it this weekend, It's just not bland enough as it is.

In article , "endless, nameless" wrote:

Well, I never *used* to be scared of Valentine's Day, until this year when some card company started running this advert for it that looks like a Nazi propaganda poster ...

On the mountaintop , [email] spake thusly:

Yes, Kyle. But only to get my green card.

I've actually been here since sometime last summer =P You've already thouroughly freaked me out.

<eg> Can I make fun of somebody else's sig file instead?

<Snippage of my own post>

-Mindy "Oh, look. Another decapitated angel."

In article ,

Hey, you don't have to be an only child to be a selfish, loner with whiny tendencies. I've got two younger brothers and I'm like that all of the time :)

Mike Quinn I can be reached through e-mail at: [email]

Mike Quinn wrote in message ...

tendencies...

time

Whiny? What, here, on atd? Never!

It's claimed that the following entry appeared in the maintenance log of an aircraft:

Problem (logged by aircrew): Whining noise in cockpit after engine shut down. Solution (logged by maintenance crew): Pilot removed from cockpit

<g>

http://x16.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=435250637 for more of these!

Martin.

Hye, welcome to a.t.d!!! But I haven't introduced myself to this ng yet so I don't know if *I* have the power to say that, but anyway... hye!!!

c-ya ================= I'm only this far And only tomorrow leads my way-Dave Matthews Band - #4 1 - Crash

What I want is what I've not got But what I need is all around me - DMB - Jimi Thing - Under the Table and Dreaming

Juneburst wrote:

Hello and welcome, Juneburst! You can say whatever you want, you know, even if you haven't introduced yourself. I never introduced myself, but it's been a long time and it's a bit late for me now!

On Tue, 09 Feb 1999 22:38:36 +0000, "endless, nameless" wrote:

Good hello, and welcome to you too. Yes, you do have the power. BTW, that reminds me....

...Greetings friends Do you wish to look as happy as me? Well you've got the power inside you right now. So use it. And send one dollar to: Happydude 742 evergreen terrace Springfield. Eternal happiness is just a dollar away.

I've never introduced myself either, anyone who has been reading this group since August or September knows *way* too much about me. I wrote a post last night in this thread welcoming Mindy that ended in a long rant about my parents failed marriage. It didn't show up on my server or Deja-News, i'm sort of thankful for that now. The sheer garbage that pours out of my keyboard at 2 in the morning amazes me.

Sorry? Alli? Never heard of you.

Tony

Mindy wrote:

That's me, right?

Wooo! Woo! Rar! Roar! I'm scary, right?

Boogie boogie boogie! Come on, aren't you scared?

<walks off disappointed, mumbling> damned kids these days... don't know a monster when they see one... when _I_ was young...

"endless, nameless" wrote:

No, I bet it's me. :P

rich.

"This is Precious Roy, and I just ate a handful of honeybees!" -- Precious Roy.

Yep! Oh well, this is my only newsgroup out of many I'm NOT in an extreme minority age-wise

Must be me. I scare everyone. Mostly whenever I have too much sugar/caffeine and start quoting the Bonzo Dog Band and/or starting Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas "We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold...."

This one girl in my Acting class was around me one of those days and decided first that I scared her, and then that she should hate me, and then that she should say "SHUT UP DAGNY!" when I was walking down the hall with Melissa and Brooke and not having said anything for several minutes.

Awww darn. I have one pompous arrogant old guy I'd like to harm too, my AP Biology teachers who thinks we should all become engineers or microbiologists or some such crap. Grrr...

Dagny misery chick, cynic, general loony

Visit the Parsley Firefly http://members.aol.com/Eccles9697

"One must have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you still have chaos in you." Friedrich Nietzsche

Why can't I get the song 'Scary Monsters' out of my head? I can't speak for everyone here but I would hazard a guess that most of us have had all our shots, so our bites won't kill you (watch out for Kyle though). :)

Mindy, I'm gonna have to ask you for your licence. Don't you know we aren't in season yet?

Jon Armstrong The Space Ranger Graveyard gives one a unique outlook on life. A dark one.