If you’re new and confused,
Bedazzled, bemused,
Then this is the place you should visit.
Just bring us your questions,
And heed our suggestions.
There! That isn’t scary, now is it?
Bedazzled, bemused,
Then this is the place you should visit.
Just bring us your questions,
And heed our suggestions.
There! That isn’t scary, now is it?
If you feel quite at ease,
Come in anyway, please.
The reception you get might surprise you
As each blogger, completing
Our time-honored greeting,
Cries, “Hail, fellow Muser!” and pies you.
Please read The Rules. You might also glance at The HG2MB (Hitchhiker’s Guide to MuseBlog), which contains helpful hints regarding local customs, lingo, and other peculiarities of the blog; smiley information included.
Welcome to MuseBlog, Newcomers!!!!! *pies*
Hey, newcomers. Here’s some advice. Please try to put all your thoughts into one post. THIS IS NOT A CHATROOM.
Everything is moderated by the GAPAs. The GAPAs know all. Listen to them.
No pieing in aggression (at least until we change our minds).
“Pieing” is not a way to make fun of newbies, it is an initiation rite of sorts. So don’t be surprised when people start to pie you. It’s all in good fun. *pies for all*
welcome! *pies* I am one of the most imported people on the MB, is I do say so my self. I have been posting since late july 2006.
please do not Pointless post (aka PoPo) the GAPAs do not like it and you will be fined by the PoPoPo (pointless post police)
vote for kokopelli
join the kokopircy
write a 50,000 word novel in one month
read a 50,000 word novel someone else wrote in one month
sail the seven musain seas
live on a pieceful pie planet
hunt for the origins of hot pick bunneys
find out more about blog gnomes
write a novel with others
ask the GAPAs something
ask other mbers something
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,†Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can’t help that,†said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.â€
“How do you know I’m mad?†said Alice.
“You must be,†said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.â€
–Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
so good luck! and have a pie/have a pie.
hallooo! funny thing is no n00bs have posted yet! it’s always like this at the beggining of the month *pies tmfa, andrew and IBCF* so anyways, newbs and n00bs alike please listn to andrew. and remember that the prancing unicorn slayers are the pwn!
*clears pie of face* *pies kagcomix*
Respect. That’s all I want to say. Respect other people, their beliefs, and their opinions.
4- *pies Kagcomix and Andrew*
Newbies don’t need to know that, as there is currently no classic pie war thread. (join Zemtee)
Any newbies, listen to me!!!
Some tips on how not to get killed by us:
1.No chatspeak please. It gives us a headache.
2. Punctuation and some capitalization are appreciated.
3.DON’T SPEAK IN ALL CAPITALS. It also gives us a headache.
4. There is a limit to randomness. Sort of..
5. Insanity helps immensly.
*pie*
Hehe, I like the poem. Who wrote it? *pies newbies* Welcome!
Hi newbies, if there are any. Listen to the others that have posted advise, it’s good. Heed it. *looks stern* Nah, just kidding, we’re glad to have you, and love to welcome newcomers. However, it is rather trying when the noobs act un-MBerish. Thank you and hae a nice day.
Hello newbies…
Ok so no newbies yet. I like that poem on the title description. *Pies everyone on newbies thread*
‘Ullo Newbs…
Everyone pretty much said what I would have, so I’m just gonna give y’all a pie and hope you think it tastes good. *pies*
9- Ooh, me too. *applause for the as-of-yet anonymous author*
(9, 13) I’m glad you like it. Someday I hope to get a job as a Sorting Hat.
14-Ooh! Can I get a job as a Dumbledore?
3- We’re not mad. Just a little eccentric.
Speak for yourself!
*pies the nearest newbie* stress relieving.
14- that would be one seriously awesome job. and you most deffinitly have the tallent for it!
NEWBS READ THIS:
it’s not so much we don’t like people who act un MBerish it’s more that we don’t take easily to people who make chatroomlike posts such as “HI! WATS UP? WHERE IS EVERY1?” and then when a veteran MBer posts a post explaining that this isn’t a chatroom they ignore it and psot on a thread about HPBs that they love cucumber. so please. respect the rules and listn to the MBers when they give advice and i’m sure we will love you.
9, 13, 14-I have to agree, that’s a great poem….say do you like 8th grade English?
Yeah this thread is great. All we need now is some newcomers…..
Come, newbies! Or I’ll pie you! Well, I pie them if they come anyway, so it doesn’t really matter…
Heehee ^^ Welcome, fellow newbies!! *pies all*
As an afterthought; *pies self*
That is quite a nice poem… sums it all up nicely =]
You know, I miss the pie war thread. I went to it a day after they shut it down! *pies IBCF* Or maybe we should have some peace. Pumpkin pie of HAPPIENESS!!!!! Elvis rules! @=)–|—|
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If you want to, read our first posts. We’ve come a long way (most of us…). My first post was about the Cha Cha Slide.
24- Pie me, will you? *pies eragon with spike pie O happiness as we have banned agressive pie throwing*
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*pies IBCF with luuv pie*
I remember being a noob. It was a year and a few months ago, actually. I didn’t even celebrate my MB anniversary because i didn’t remember what day it was.
Next year, though! If I remember. Part of it is that it seems like I’ve been here forever.
Of course, none of this has anything to do with welcoming newcomers. If they ever come. Is Raynopho a newbie? (Forgive me, I was barely on last month, so I missed a lot.) If so, *Pies Raynopho the Manifold (Who is not a dornick) extra since there aren’t any others.
I remember being a newbie, too. It was almost two years ago, 10 March 2006. I must have been extremely obnoxious, because I did many pointless posts. That was back before the PoPoPo and thousands of people did “FIRST POST!!!”s, but still. I was probably incredibly annoying.
Welcome, everyone!! :D:D:D
I started out as Princess Aqua. Anyone remember that?
Hey newcomers. I can’t stay and chat but just thought I’d welcome you all.
Happy December everybody.
Bonjour everyone!
*pies newcomers*
I started as Random Dark Cloud
i started as Kagcomix and breifly switched to fallen angel over the summer and am now contemplating changing my name to that of one of my alter egos.
i have always been the man for aeiou.
I was not N00by ish, but more short, choppy with the posts.
27- *pies Raynpho the Manifold (who is not a dornick) with kindness pie*
Riiiight. Wrong thread. GAPAs, a Zap Of Doom would save an old and crabby (okay, young and emo) (okay, FINE! puny and skippity) child a bunch of mayhem…
I’ll go away now.
[Fixed with just a regular zap. Didn’t need to haul out the major artillery for a simple error. –Rebecca]
Ah. Muchly thankful. Have a complemetary pen. *hands pen*
I think me and Raynpho (who still isnt a doornick) are the only Gen 14ers. Go n00bz! *pies all noobs and then wonderes why he threw key lime because it stung his eyes*
Weren’t Greekgurl and IBCF coming at about the same time as you? And Eragon and Go Bananas? I might be fuddled. Am I fuddled?
28- I joined about 2 years ago, then left after a day, then rejoined a year ago, then left after a week, then joined a month ago, HOPEFULLY to join for a while… so yes, I am a newbie (but not a dornick!)
-pies cheerfully-
I am Penty. I am old and snarky and capslocky and there is a sporkmonster named Gary living in my ceiling.
But I’m sure I love you.
I am far nicer and more helpful than the rest of the blog would probably have you believe, so don’t be afraid to ask me questions about its inner workings. (Hint: They involve a good deal of pie. Like this one. -fling-)
Ms. Pentatonikk is, in fact, 15 years, 7 months, and 3 days old — in a word, ancient.
42- oh, penty. that’s a brilliant post the forty-second!
*pies those who have not yet received one. All of said pies are pumpkin*
Welcome! you may ask us questions; we don’t bite! Usually.
So many posts and nobody new yet. I get the feeling this means I should recruit someone.
HI all, c+q here. Enjoy the blog, speak coherently with proper capitalization and punctuation or people like Glassboro and I will be angry at you. It would be fun to see someone new with good spelling and grammar, and the ability to stay on topic. That hasn’t happened in months… I feel old now.
about me: I started blogging July 2006, I’m 14 and in high school. Occasionally I show up and post places randomly. More facts about me become obvious if you look at a few threads.
Did I just post without offering pi?
Sorry about the double post, all you new people taking cues from my actions, that’s a bad thing, do what I say and not what I do.
*pi*
3.14159265358979323846264338327950 and so on…
Run for your life, newbies! The pi is coming to *scary music* GET YOUUU!
Sorry, I hate math. Don’t ask me math questions.
I’m gonna go make Hannah come on here.
Bury me in pie, but NOT PI!!!! Pi scares me very much. Still no newbies?!
Not that they knew that.
Humph. A little while back I joined another forum, and nobody even pied me. *sniff* Actually, they said that as a newbie it ws my turn to buy a round at the bar! Sorry guys, I’m underage.
Anyway, newbies, if you ever come, WELCOME!
Hm. Just a month-old-newbie kinda question- about how often do newbies join?
Hm. I don’t want to pie or pi the newbies. I’ll…..
PHI THEM! 1.6180339887……!
I wish there were some newbies here…
I mentioned this thread to penguini and Potato Chip earlier today. I think we’re going to force Lisa on the blog sometime soon. She’d fit in well, I think, and she’s the only non-MBer by the buses, that should change. We managed to overpower her by force, but there was no computer nearby, alas. I’m bringing in a recent issue to school tomorrow.
49- It varies. Whenever the blog is mentioned in the magazine, many new people come. Last time I checked (almost a year ago…) the least people we’d had come in a month was July 2006, with me, tmfa, and someone else. Anyone know more recently?
51- I don’t think so.
45- whaaaat? *contols herself* I thought you were 17!!!!!!!!!! anyways, i guess i was wrong about that *blushes and pies for good measure*
49- meh. it varies. some newbs bost for a day or two and then leave. and then sometimes there are really random n00bs who post things like “I LIKE CUCUMBERSSSS THEY ROCK!” and are never seen again.
Aw, I just read this thread. It’s ever so much nicer than past Welcome threads. It makes MB seem like a nice place, not a place where we brutally lecture newcomers on proper etiquette, scaring them so badly that they are never seen again. Oddly enough, it’s a thread with almost no newbies…
Hmm. What a coincidence.
48- After MuseBlog, I really dislike other forums. They’re so cold and scary and full of creepy old people. No one ever offers pie.
But I do enjoy going to other forums (particularly NaNo threads), pieing everyone (why does spellcheck acknowledge pieing as a word?), insisting that they vote Kokopelli and that Pwt Pwns, offering a cup of tea, and then leaving never to be seen again.
I’m really very different on the internet than I am in real life. Outside the blog/emails, I’m much more reserved.
*pies the invisible newbs* *pies any visible newbs still around*
You can probably learn more about me from reading the above post than you can from the following paragraph, but I just like to type:
My name is Alice, I am 14, and my favorite book is Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. I joined February 27, 2007. My favorite pie is chocolate. &pi:
Adios!
54- well, on the last one, we had to ban the use of n00b and we had so many people with “I LIKE CUMOMBERRRRRs!
this is nice a all olbies.
55- I had to basically ban myself from the thread. *embarrassed*
i never went on the welcom newcomers thread when i arived. *chuckles*. is there a reason we haven’t got any n00bs yet this month? AAAAAA i just realized i should be studying my geography as i have an exam is 4 days! now that’s scary. *goes off to continue procrastinating studying*
Yeah. I never came here.
Newbs usually come when somebody mentions MB in a letter. That’s how I got here, three letters mentioning how much MuseBlog pwns. Kiki, TNO, and emogrl. Pies to them for recruiting moi!
And pies to the invisible newbies!
There was no such thing as a Welcome, Newcomers thread when I joined. We just had to muddle about and make our stupid first posts elsewhere on the blog and embarrass ourselves in front of the educated oldbies.
-obligatory pie, though actual pieable newbies seem to be absent-
Whoa, this is strange! *practices pie throwing in the event that someone new actually shows up*
Why aren’t there any newbies? I shall lie in wait of a newbie passing through here and…….PIE him with my delectable apple pie!
Come here, newbies!
Has anyone seen any newbies that passed over this thread and posted elsewhere? *goes to check*
59- When you came, there hardly were any oldbies. But then again, there wouldn’t have been any newbies either.
Here’s a question for the GAPAs and the early generations:
Why is MuseBlog so much more thickly populated than the Gaboomba? It can’t merely be a matter of time.
62- did any of the gen 0s write to muse? was it the subject of a contest? (no and no, I think)
I might be a newbie on MB, but I am a nine-year suscriber to muse. I’m 13 and my first one was Nov./Dec. 1998 when I was only four years old. I really didn’t understand it back then, but I still liked it for some inane reason.
64- you are not a newbie. you have been here for a long time. I no longer consited you a newbie.
Hail fellow Musers!
*pies all*
Hellooo! Any newbies out there? *flings, casts, chucks, hurls, tosses and otherwise throws pies at all lurking newbies*
67- hey, cool name! to bad you wern’t here when there was the umlaut craze last year.
i started getting muse 2 years ago after my mom bought me the fairy tales one and i adored it. my subscription started with the Nov/Dec 2005, after the whole Dog/Cat thing was sorted out.
55- ew.
40- 14ers? as in 14 years old? im confused, although i am almost 14….
69- My first Muse was the one with black holes… (im a physics geek too!)
70- No, generation 14, not age. I am 13.
70- No, Generation 14, as in, people who make up the 14th generation of MuseBloggers. I’m Gen. 11. You are Gen 14 (or something). Widdershins is Gen 0. Penty is Gen 1.
I would make another, up-to-date graph, but it’s really tedious…
72- graph! graph! graph!
73- I had one partly done, but I lost it with my computer. And I’m not eager to begin again.
I think I was the last of gen 8…
I think I’ve been classified as a respected newcomer…wish I had more time, I would have been all over this thing by now!
Can someone explain the whole “generations” thing?
Nice poem, too. By all means, be a sorting hat! There’s a severe shortage of qualified talking hats!
Pie, pi, and phi for all. [}
76- Are you new? I don’t recall seeing you before, maybe we just frequent different threads, though.
You seem nice. You use good grammar and capitalization and spelling. I approve, not that you need my approval for anything.
A generation determines when you came. Someone (MG?), many years ago, made the first division of people into generations based on when you came and a complex system with graphs. I think it was Alice who updated it, using a less scientific system of every once in a while making it be a new generation. I think we’re somewhere in the teens with them by now.
Sorry if that didn’t help much; I’m tired.
77-RE:76- I think she is here some times, not others.
Still no newbs/noobs? Sorry, I don’t have the time to read the whole thread again…..
I was looking through the old welcome newcomers threads and found some of my very own posts from way beck when, a whole year and some ago when I joined. Wow, it seems like forever ago. I love MB.
Me too! It’s a pity the really old members don’t really post anymore though–I miss them.
78-RE:77-RE:76– Yes, TDD is a good newer part of the blog. *pies TDD* Welcome back, again.
I’m going to randomly respond to when people stop being newbies for me, and say that it’s when they actually fit with the MB. That is, how I think of the blog. It helps a lot to have listened in grammar class, and is essential to make non-pointless posts. And you get a bad spin if you were annoying when you first came. By my own system I’d probably have been a semi-newbie for most of the time before my absence.
So people like Cliff Eagle, who may have mostly settled down by now, are still considered to be newbies by me. Maybe in a month, or whatever.
So now I’m going to leave the thread, and let you get back onto a happy topic. I’m not good at controlling myself when new people come on here (as anyone who arrived in the last few months probably knows…)
43- *has another wow-I-could-have-sworn-she-was-older-than-me moment*
I am Jadestone the Mighty! Bow before me, foolish mortalsHullo, Jadestone here. I joined Museblog almost two years ago, and was a shameless newbie until I calmed down enough to be embarrassed by my hyperness. Back then it was more acceptable, but now you’ll get
eaten by ferocious wolvesreprimanded for being off-topic or posting things that just say “FIRST P0ST!!1!”. So beware of that.But mainly, welcome!
I am 15, turning 16 in January, can be prone to everlasting fits of randomness, and have no school today. *hurls key-lime pie into faces*
‘sup peoples
why did the thingy add ‘your commet is awaiting moderation’
what the heck
83- Not much.
84- Because the Administrators have to personally moderate every comment before it goes through. If they deem it unseemly, they will incinerate it with the GAPA Zap of Doom.
85- See previous reply.
Feeling weirded out yet? Welcome to the blog.
Just joking. Most of us are pretty nice here. We’re a bit odd, true, but who isn’t?
83,84,85- Welcome to Museblog, “fart festival”! *piepiepiepiepiepiepiepiepie*
pppppbth
HA! A new guy!! *pies in sheer joy*
*chucks various pastries at Celebration Of Flatulence*
83, 84, 85! Welcome fart festival to Generation 14. *pies with pwnage gen14 pie* Have fun but remember:
1. This is not a chatroom. It takes a long time to get your post on, be patient.
2. Please use correct capitalization. Dont write posts in all caps.
3. Whatever you do, dont write “OMG I LOVE CUCUMBERS POST IF YOU AGREE.” Somebody *coughcoughomgmpaofwhoprobablyisntonthebloganymorebutwhatever*
wrote it, and we had to put their post to sleep with the Incinerating Burn of the Zap Of Doom.
I wonder if Celebration of Flatulence will return. He (she? I doubt it) doesn’t seem to like the blog so far.
92- wait a bit.
93- Yup.
83/84/85- *pies*
86/91- Ditto.
A bit too lazy to think of anything to say meself
*flings, casts, chucks, hurls tosses and otherwises throws pies at celebration of flatulence, the one who is not a dornick, the eagle who is a significantly vertical rock exposure, and the one who was once known as “captain_cynomys” for good measure*
Prarilus Canix what the heck? This forum is cool. people here seem to like flatulence. But I cant be here every waking moment of my life!
96- Oh. Nice to know you like it. Welcome again! *pies*
96- come on, chnge you’re name. I can’t take you seriously with that name.
Hey it didn’t work! : twisted : : twisted : : twisted : : twisted : : twisted : : twisted : : twisted : : twisted : : twisted : : twisted : : twisted : : twisted : : twisted : : twisted : : twisted : : twisted : : twisted : : twisted : : twisted : : twisted : : twisted : : twisted : : twisted : : twisted : : twisted : : twisted : : twisted : : twisted : : twisted :
humph
96- I for one can’t help wishing that you would change your name.
But then I am a singularly disgusted person when it comes to toilet humor.
Oh, and hello.
I’m not that bad. *pies*
(99) You need to leave out the spaces between the colons and the word “twisted.”
99- We’re all tempted to make smiley armies, but they slow the threads down. Try to just put them in groups of 4 or 5 at the most. And I agree with TMFA, nobody will take you seriously with a name like that. But besides that, have fun!
MuseBlog is serious, but only to a degree.
103- Yes, only to a degree. >.< Not nearly a high enough degree on some threads. I’ll take my opinions off here for now, before i make it to the “damn newbies with damn stupid names” phase of my “welcoming”.
Celebration of Flatulence is a cool name, but I’m not one to encourage name changes. I’ve still got the same name from when I started here. (except on the alter ego thread, which doesn’t exactly count.)
91- i remember that! i think they’re probably an okay person. if they were to return it would be under another name and respecting the rules. i’m sure. but i remember that cumcumber post very clearly
me too, me too.
hello peeps! how’s it happenien’, homesly? *rolls eyes at self*
Ok….I’m another newbie
I am so proud of myself that I FINALLY managed to comment on here!!
(Sorry, I forgot the no caps rule)
109- Welcome to MuseBlog, Turquoise!
*pies*
109- We allow caps, just not to an extreme degree. Too Much Capitalization is better, i think, than too little.
Yes, that was irony.
Welcome, Blue-Green Color Who Is Also A Semiprecious Stone Often Found in the American Southwest!
(I always do this to newcomers’ names. It’s not just you, don’t worry.)
I often also ramble. That probably didn’t make any sense. You’ll get used to it.
So, from your use of “finally” I deduce that you have been lurking for some time. Therefore, my next act probably needs no introduction, as you already know what the gesture means.
*pies*
Have a good time here!
111- PC did that to me, too. That’s why my name is “IBCF”, which stands for “Irregular Bump with Copius Fur”. I used to call myself “Fluffylump”, but it sounded too… newbish. Thank you for the name, PC. Oh, and you can have those pastries back. I don’t need them. *flings, casts, chucks, hurls, tosses and otherwise throws various pies, flans, dumplings, tarts, cobblers, donuts, croissants, cakes, rolls and other assorted pastries at: the one who was once known as “captain_cynomys”*
112- I am honored to have had an effect on the bloglife of a fellow MBer.
Welcome, Turqoise!
Oh, I was looking back about a month and a half ago when I was a n00b, ah. I remember I was excessivly random and I also went by “Cliff Eagle” As I wasn’t teh pwnage yet.
PC Called me “The Eagle who is a significant vertical Rock Formation.” Im gonna start calling PC PeaCan sometimes, because of the initials (P-Can) Its like P-Diddy, except for the fact that PeaCan isn’t a loser. Also, he shares his name with an amazingly pwnsome type of pie.
112 – Does that mean I should change my name to BGCWIAASSOFAS?
Answering my own question… no! that is way too long… But what does everyone else think?
I LOVE the MuseBlog!!!
115- Glad to hear it.
114- That was actually me, wasn’t it? Read post #95.
77- Yeah, what they said below. I’m not exceedingly new, but we probably do frequent different threads because I sure don’t frequent that many. Sad, sad, sad…
The approval of a good amount of longtime MBers seems to be necessary for non-n00bness, so thank you.
78, 81- Exactly. “Welcome back, again,” pretty much sums it up. *sigh* Winter break is coming soon though. *pies Glassboro back*
Ah, some people who are newer than I am! As much as I have the authority to do so (which is not much at all), I welcome you with pwnage pecan pies *pies Turquoise and Celebration of Flatulence*
Can’t wait till next week…half days, then winter break! Free time for Muse Blog! And I don’t mind exams too much.
*wipes sticky pie filling from 110 off of face so she can talk*
Why is it a tradition to pie newbies? It doesn’t seem very welcoming!
Haha, just kidding. I’m ok.
When it says Your comment is awaiting moderation. what is it doing? Did my italics work?
119- That’s the reason why INTERNET STALKERZ can’t enter this blog. Our faithful Great And Powerful Administrators (GAPAs for short) read every post to determine whether it’s mostly harmless. If it is, they put it through. If not, they incinerate it with the GAPA Zap of Doom. All that, and they’re nice people too. You might meet one or two of them during your sojourn on the blog. Look out for people with names in green. They also usually speak in italics.
here’s a question: what does it say when the GAPAs are moderation it?
119 – of course it’s welcoming! Who wouldn’t want a delicious pie in their face to start off a new time at MB?
121 – I would love to answer your question (If I know the answer that is), but I can’t quite understand what your asking! Gah! Oh, wait, nvm, I get it now. Read the post above above you (that would be post 119).
Please no one pie me (well, actually, you could. I always love a pie in the face) because I’m not a n00b, contrary as it may seem (I’ve been here for almost a year now, just look at “Who’s Here”).
122- HI! you’re from the PPP theard, Right?
Heyy!! Another new person! *pies*
Welcome, Turquoise!
What happened to my comment about fart cake?
Muse says it’s for ages 10 and up but Im only 9 1/2 and I still like it!
Your comment didn’t make it through moderation. Too, um, odoriferous.
Ha.
Newbies.
Welcome
Fart Cake? What in the name of [insert random name here] is that?
Oh, I forgot: *Pies fart festival*, that is, if you’re new to MB.
I miss being a newb.
I can’t believe I just said that. When I was a newb I always wished I was around in the old days. Now I was around in the old days, and I miss them badly.
Why? What hath changed since this spring and summer? School? The departure of davidude and others of my generation (and similar generations)? The ending of the RRR?
A word of advice to newcomers: Savor these days of your newbishness, for they will be over all too soon.
Now that I think about it, I miss being a newbie as well. It was fun to learn new things about the blog, explore, and enjoy my welcome pies. (I remember I asked what a GAPA was. Oh, the days of not knowing what a GAPA was!) Now, I’m an oldbie, and I have basically memorized the blog. The thing I miss most about the “old days” were the people who left–MontgomeryGurl, Phoenix, Fantasy Fan, and others.
So yes, treasure your newbie days, and enjoy MuseBlog!
::pies for all::
129) apparently Mr. Coontz here doesn’t want you to know
(131) That reminds me of Halloween
20062005, when I was moderating and Phoenix (in New York or New Jersey) and MontgomeryGurl (in Louisiana) were the only MBers on the blog. They discussed why they weren’t allowed to go trick-or-treating: Phoenix because Halloween was a Christian holiday, MG because it was an anti-Christian one. We all learned a few things that night.[LATER: I’ve just checked. Ebeth was around that night, too.]
(132) It wasn’t I who zapped your recipe. I can tell you, however, that all of us Administrators find any mention of cake extremely offensive. We’re pie people here on MuseBlog.
Fart Cakes? Okay…
Actually, I like my MB veteran status. Newbishness was so… demeaning, somehow. And I had so much to learn! I never read my earlier posts because of how n00bish they sounded. Now, I know everybody (or most people), have reached the rank of Admiral in the Museican Navy, and have made significant contributions to most RRRs.
135- Well that’s because you’re FAMOUS. I might be famous, but I can’t tell. I’m not famous in the Musiverse, that’s for sure. I don’t do anything.
And what I miss is not the simple fact that I was a newbie, but how the blog felt when I was a newbie. It was so mysterious and exciting!
Oh, I think other MBers would agree that you have very high status in the Musiverse.
*ponders* Now, what can we do to make the blog more mysterious and exciting?
Robert (133): I remember reading that…
Robert (137): All MuseBloggers have high statuses in the Musiverse, right? I would think so, anyway. And I hope I pluralized “status” correctly. It seems right, but I never know with those -us words.
What does it take to be famous in the Musiverse, though? Yes, we all have very high statuses, but what’s the difference with that and fame?
Sorry for the double post, but Robert, have you been changing your posts on this thread recently, or am I just going crazy? I definitely don’t remember the “I think other MBers would agree” on post 137, and the second part of 133. Maybe I just need to go to sleep…
137- I think it was just my attitude as a newbie. I’d hardly spent any time on the blog at all, and the whole thing seemed full of inside jokes I didn’t know yet. The people were mysterious. It seemed so easy to think that they actually were taking over the world.
(140) By the way, Alice, that was your 7,212th post.
(139) You probably should go to sleep. In fact, however, I have been tweaking the posts a little bit. Comment 132 came in while I was replying to number 131, so I went back and added numbers and a reply to 132. Later it occurred to me that as fame and status in the Musiverse depend on the opinions of other Musers, I should mention them in my reply to 136.
137,138- By Musiverse I mean like Chronicles of Museica and PPP. That’s where I don’t do anything. Therefore, not everyone has high statuses. TMFA, Canix, IBCF – they have high statuses on those threads.
To be famous, you have to be involved. You have to be the person other people think of when they think of those threads.
141- Cool!
Oh, that part of the Musiverse.
Robert (141): Yes, I definitely should. I should have several hours ago. But oh well. My mom came home from the hospital tonight, so I helped her out for awhile, then I came on MuseBlog. And I already know that the reason I don’t sleep is because I’m either posting or reading old threads on MuseBlog. But at least I know that I’m not completely crazy!
I remember once, awhile ago, Robert was telling everyone how many posts they had. I don’t remember how many I made, but I do remember that I was really surprised and had no idea that I posted so much. I most likely have even more now. ::ponders::
Alice (142): Well, the Musiverse involves those threads, and many other things. I’m not involved in those threads either, but I still feel involved with the Musiverse and such. And you’re definitely involved!
(145) You and Taiwan Hippo Fan have about 2,600 posts between you. They’re hard to count.
Say hi to you mother for us, and tell her that we’re channeling many mega-electron-volts of positive GAPA energy in her direction.
143) Wow, Alice, you are addicted to museblog. and I mean ADDICTED. I checked the users page to see your date of arrival here, then added up the days on my calculator and divided and stuff and you make an average of 25.8496237 comments a day. THAT’S MORE THAN ONE EVERY HOUR FOR THE PAST 10 MONTHS!!!! You are like a museblog god to us noobs. I wonder if i’ll ever reach your status.
Alice, I would say you have a
veryextremelyTREMENDOUSLY high status on the Blog. I would give up my command of the Zemtee air forces and rule of Urania just to have been around as long as you.147- I don’t think I’m addicted at the moment. But I have been in the past. And I will be in the future.
147- Don’t worry. You’ll get there. We all did. I was so n00bish when I first came here…
147 – That doesn’t necessarily mean she’s addicted. If you happen to be on when a few others are, as well as a GAPA, then your posts can get moderated and answered pretty fast, and therefore your conversations will go quickly as well. This can push up your post count.
148- Er . . . wow. Thanks.
146- How many posts do I have?
Robert (146): Really? That doesn’t seem right…last time, you said that I had somewhere around 8,000, not including THF. Thanks for the mega-electron-volts of positive GAPA energy!
(154) Maybe I miscounted. It can be hard to get an accurate number.
(153) About 500 — no time to get a more precise count just now.
I’d better stop counting posts for MBers. It takes time that I should be spending on other things. Sorry!
(153, 154) Counting is made more complicated when people change email addresses. I come up with 3425 for Purple Panda, 1156 for Taiwan Hippo Fan, and 952 for purplefinch.
That’s it for counting for me, too. Projects await that I must finish.
Hey there, Muse bloggers. Thank you so much for your intriguing words of welcome. For the past few days, I’ve been tied up extracting globs of butterscotch and lemon meringue pie filling from my eye sockets. Interesting experience.
I can certainly understand the mourning and gnashing of teeth that is accompanying Robert and Roseanne’s break from the Q&A columns. I love their columns, too. But I’d think of it as a hiatus. Robert, at least, needs some time for napping, yawning and lolling so that he can devote more energy to *Muse* in GAPA form — or other weird forms [liquid?] — who knows? I know Robert better than I know Roseanne, but I think it’s safe to say that both of them are devoted to *Muse*, so they will be flinging and receiving pies for as long as you’ll have them.
I know *Muse* well, since I have two fiercely passionate *Muse* readers in my home: Amelia, age 12, and Lucy, age 8 — oh wait —
— I AM NOT 8. I AM 34. —
Hmm. Sorry about that. That was Lucy. She may be 34, but she is in 2nd grade. You do the math. —
— HEY! —
Anyway, I love the questions you bloggers put out there, and Andy and I will try our best to do justice to your wit and weirdness. Robert, who is much more blog-savvy than we are, has been sending the questions our way, so keep them coming!
By the way, I’d like to offer heartfelt thanks for the reminder about Jane Austen’s birthday. Oh yea, and without this blog, how would I have ever remembered Unintended Pun’s big day? I wouldn’t have, plain and simple. I don’t keep good records. So, pies all around to you. Preferably custard-filled.
Now, here’s Amelia, our other *Muse* reader. She’s 12, as I said. And odd. —
–WHEN I GROW UP, I AM GOING TO BE A PASTRY CHEF.
THANK YOU.–
Hey, don’t go dissing my favorite dance partner (even if Amelia is about three times as tall as she was the last time we went contradancing).
Wait — “odd” is a compliment, isn’t it? Never mind.
Rebecca (156): Yes, I know THF and I both changed email addresses this summer, which is probably why the number is different.
Ruth (157): Welcome to MuseBlog! Butterscotch and lemon meringue pie in your eyes? From virtual pies, or in real life? My sister (known as Taiwan Hippo Fan on the blog) wants to be a chef when she grows up, too!
::pies::
157) wait, I’m confused….are you an adult or kid?
And by the way, I changed my name. A weeny bit.
How long does it take to get on the who’s here page?
159- Wait….Thanks for reminding me about email! My elementary school finally deleted the account that the district made for me, so I finally got a gmail one. *changes in email section*
I hope that you didn’t send anything to the other one within the last two weeks… Anyway, </randomness>
Sorry for the double post….*stabs self again* I hadn’t read back, and so hadn’t seen some of the posts.
148- This is what I find annoying, that Alice hasn’t been on as long as Penty, or Axa, or Jade, or even me, and you choose Alice to idolize. This just doesn’t seem right, for some reason.
147- Mind doing that with me? I’m interested to find how many posts a day I’ve averaged at this point.
Argh…Why did I come back to this thread? It depresses me. Really, It does. Enough, in fact, that it makes me slightly tempted to leave *gasp* the Museblog, at least temporarily. Then I go to threads that aren’t newbie infested, and feel better. Unlesss….THERE’S A NEWBIE ON RRR 2007.5! *stabs* No, I won’t stab yet. Only if it gets even slightly out of hand. *un-stabs* I should probably leave at this point….
All right, Glassboro, as a personal favor to a MB veteran and Kokonventioneer. I count 1,916 posts since you began.
You really need to get over that neophobia, though.
164- Total agreement. Most newbies are fine. They just don’t know the ropes yet. You probably remember how obnoxious I used to be.
*pies all newbies*
Wow, GAPA, post-counting. I am impressed by your bold endeavors.
It’s been a while since I’ve been on one of these threads.
I was a horrible newbie.
And I’m sorry that I asked about my posts… *beats head with math binder*
157- Hallo, Ruth! And Lucy and Amelia.
158- Of COURSE “odd” is a compliment!
163- I’ve never understood that attitude, honestly. Newbies aren’t all bad. They can be annoying, but everyone is cool in some way, if they give you enough time to get used to them. (Those people that leave after two posts don’t.) But whatever.
I wonder how many posts I have. (Probably an obscenely large number… yeh, I’m addicted)
Hi Ruth and Company. ^_^
I was a horrible newbie. xD I came for a couple of days, posting under Wiz Girl, and then left. Then I came back several years later, posted a couple more times under Cat’s Meow, and left. And then a couple months later, I came back, posted for a couple of days, and then left. And then I left and came back about 6 more times.
Story of my life as a MBer. xD
142- ME??
168- Newbies are good. we just like to get away from them some of the time.
171-Well, everybody knows you.
Me, I just pop in and out, so I really don’t know how many people know me. =/
(160) Ruth is not only an adult, but a mother of two. She is, however, a very kidlike adult. A science-writer friend of ours once described her as “the world’s smartest eleven-year-old.”
172- REALLY? Well, i was on from day one of museica.
I feel so sad. I can count all of my posts on my fingers.
Oh well. I like the Round Robin story!
The only Round Robin I ever did was in fourth grade! It was extremely pointlessly pointless.
172- I know you.
174-Maybe it’s just because I go on the RRRs, but yeah, I definitely know you. When I was a newbie I was like, “who the heck is tmfa?” but now I know you. xD
175-Are you knew? I don’t think I’ve ever seen you before. ^_^ RRRs are so much fun. You should definitely help write them. Especially the Sea Roc one, and the RRR SMAS-TT. -hint, hint- xD
176-Yeah, because you’re on every RRR in existance, and that’s where I go a lot. Lol.
(169) Okay, PC, you got me curious, so… as long as I was looking up the number anyway, I will tell you that your posts at this moment total 4,719.
I am, after this post change my name from the man for aeiou to:
The Man For Aeiou!
Ha!
178-How do you count people’s posts? Just out of curiosity.
179 and 180-Sweet.
(180) Whoa. I almost didn’t recognize you, TMFA. Majuscule becomes you.
It won’t Stay!
Le gasp! You are capitalized!
this should work!
181- Embrace capitalization! *holds party*
now!
Got it!
An newbie how read this will run off, I think. But if they are Real Musers, they will love it!
why is my name not changed in the whos here?
At last we welcome our friend TMFA into the Glorious World of Capitalization.
191- They pay no attention to capitalization changes. I was Captain Cynomys for a while, but my now-defunct alias is still listed in Who’s Here as captain_cynomys.
193- Ah!
Reeading ove rthis thread made me wonder two things:
1. How many posts have I made since I satrted on the blog?
2. What do people think of me here? Do I have ‘legend’ srtatus?
And a third:
Can I type weel today? The answer to that is no, of course not.
177 – Yeah, I’m a newbie.
196-Yay! -pies- I’m Cat’s Meow, Meow, or CM.
Cat’s Meow (182): I was wondering the same thing. I know they do it by email addresses, but that’s about it. I wonder why WP doesn’t let them check by blogname, it would make everything so much easier!
(198) A search by blog name would bring up every comment in which that name is mentioned. Then there are those individuals who have multiple blog names.
198-And I don’t THINK it just says “Blah blah blah has such-and-such number of posts.” But, on the other hand, it’s unreasonable to think that they hand count them. I mean, you alone have what, 10,000?
Rebecca (199): Do you have to individually count all of the posts, or does it say how many posts there are in total?
My name is funny for capitalization. Some people like to say Red Tailed Hawk, When it is in the real world of Ornithology Red-tailed Hawk, and yet I do not go with either, but with Red-tailed HAWK.
I’m a very strange person 
199-Ooh, that makes sense. I hadn’t thought of it…
Raven of the Hawk-Well, there’s the old legend of when I thought you were a boy and…wait, was that legend or truth?
Well, you post enough to be recognized….I don’t think you have to worry, everyone likes everyone here…
Red-tailed HAWK, who pies newcomers
(201) It’s not exactly either, at least what I do, which is to use the “search” function, then go to the last page of the results to find the first comment (they’re numbered in reverse order, i.e., the most recent is always #1). Sometimes tracking down other emails requires a little detective work.
203-But only GAPAs can do that, right? Since we can’t see anybody’s e-mails, I don’t think we could do it ourselves.
That’s right. You can’t search comments, either — just main posts.
205-Awww…that would make life so much easier.
205) Why can’t we search the entire threads on the little search box up on the top of the page? Isn’t that what the search box is for?
Wow! New posts rack up faster than you’d expect on this thread! I’d have to check here 6 times a day to keep up! *has revelation* That’s probably what everybody’s doing, so they’ll post more, and everybody will have to check even more often, going in a downward spiral until there are so many new posts every second that there will have to be 100 administrators and all musebloggers will live at theyre computers! MUST RESIST THE MADNESS! I WILL NOT FALL INTO YOUR SCHEME TO TAKE OVER THE WORD! MOSTLY HARMLESS!!! BLAH!!!! *transforms into gryphon* POWER IS MINE!!!!!!!! BREW-HA-HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
202- *pies* Not that kind of legend! I was reading other posts on this thread, and people were idolizing Alice. That’s what I meant, does anybody idolize me?
Okay, I’m changing my name to gryphon. That whole fart thing was kind of stupid. *shrugs* I’ll probably look back on this and laugh when I become a more established Museblogger.
208) what are spdzk points?
(209) *entire blog stops holding its breath and heaves a sigh of relief*
(208) As if being a Muser and MuseBlogger weren’t distinction enough!
210-I think he just explained it somewhere, but I conviniently forget where.
211) fine then, I’ll change it back
just kidding
210- I just explained it- post 160 on the random thread!
211- I SAW THAT POST CHANGE! Seriously, I saw gryphon’s comment, and your response to 209, then I hit the “Refresh” button, and you added more.
212- HE?? Red-tailed HAWK, I’m sure, could explain that I am not a boy…
215-Same here.
215-Oops -headdesk- I knew you were a girl, but halfway through writing that post I got distracted, and when I got back I forgot who I was talking about and was too lazy to check.
I’ve decided no muser should be made to seem more important than another, so yes, Raven of the Hawk, you pwn just as much as any of us!!!
Red-tailed HAWK
209- If you turn out right, when you see this thread you will be ready to kill yourself.
217-“Remember, we’re all Musers here!”
-runs away-
Why are we all so self-centered? Always wanting to know what other people think of us. I know I do, even though it’s really self-centered, and almost everyone else does too.
219- *takes pie gun, aims, and fires*
220- ask Muse!
Hail, fellow musers.
222- Hail.
*pies*
222) hello.
What happened Alice? Did your house catch on fire?
what are spdzk points?
225) I was wondering that too.
(222) Welcome, Lion! I see that you’ve already received a pie, though others may lie ahead.
(224) Yes, in October. She posted about it here:
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1063#comment-328
(225) Prarilius Canix introduced spdzk points here:
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1102#comment-11
Welcome to MuseBlog, Lion! *pies*
227) That’s awful about Alice’s house! Wow, I’m so sorry, Alice! Well, you’ve probably recovered by now, but still… whoa… that’s the kind of thing I’ve heard a million times, but never expect it to actually happen.. *shudder*
228-Thank you! *pies back*
Has Kokopelli taken over the blog then? There seem to be pies flying all over!
230- He owned the blog from the moment of its inception*. The world is his goal now.
*Not that I like this. Kokopelli irks me. I’ve been in contact with Crraw and Aeiou, and I’m thinking of supporting their campaign.
(230) Pies are an integral part of MuseBlog culture. People pie one another as a friendly greeting, pie themselves when they’re embarrassed, hold pie wars to release tension or aggression — it’s all a bit hard to explain. No all of our pies are virtual. MuseBloggers brought homemade foam pseudopies (“dry pies”) to the Kokonvention this summer.
How did that happen? Did my use of HTML duplicate my posts? *is confused*
I don’t know, but two identical ones arrived for moderation. I approved one and zapped the other.
The Kokonvention looks amazing! You should have one in England. I probably wouldn’t be able to go though, because my parents wouldn’t let me.
Why would you pie yourself though?
The Pie Wars look confusing. Could somebody post a summary or explanation of what’s going on there?
Wheee! More newbs! *pies lion*
So the GAPAS have to moderate all the comments, right? How long does that generally take? (Sorry, I ask a lot of questions)
237-Welcome! *pies* As I’ve seen Robert moderating a couple of times, I must say he can do it pretty fast, but I’m sure he doesn’t want to nonstop moderate, so it really depends more on how often he (or another GAPA) starts moderating rather than the actual approving of posts…
Do you like pie wars? I. E. being on one country’s side and pieing the other? I’m emperor of Zemtee, and you would be most welcome if you wish…
Red-tailed HAWK
(136, 220) The blog is still exciting and mysterious to newcomers — more so than ever before, I’d say. Look at all that has happened: novels, wars, galactic exploration, bunny invasions, interminable RRR sagas, Kokonventions! Just imagine how awe-inspiring and confusing it must be for someone who discovers it for the first time.
If you old-timers are feeling nostalgic about the good old days when MuseBlog seemed fresh and new, you can recapture that feeling by watching (and helping) new MBers experience it for themselves.
(Deep, dark adult secret: that’s one big reason that people like us like people like you.)
218) Belive me, I already am.
237) It depends. Usually not more than 15 minutes, but sometimes it can take a while.
Dang. I’ve only been here 4 days and I already feel like a not-newbie.
239) So adults like helping people who are still relatively new at life! Interesting!
(240, ref 239) We do. It’s rewarding to us in ways, and with an intensity, that you would probably find it hard to imagine.
235- England? You live in England? Where? YAYNESS! w00t! Yes! Ko-konvention!
(191) TMFA, looks like your name change made it to Who’s Here, after all.
(237, 238, 240) You’re right, RtH, in most instances, moderating itself is fast. The rest of it is timing. We work a lot of hours on the computer, one way or another, so we can usually check in frequently throughout the day. Inevitably the occasional blank spots occur when comments sit in the queue or even pile up, but that does not happen very often. In fact, I’d bet the majority of comments get posted shortly after they’re submitted. Though the time seems longer when yours is the one waiting (and yes, it felt that way to me, too, in my pre-GAPA days).
How many posts do I have? Tell? Please? *begs*
[Oh, all right. 844, including the one on the Beethoven/Jane Austen thread. –Admin.]
244’s parasite~ Merci! Only 844? Wow, I’m not on the computer enough! Must post more, must post more, must post more……*turns into
and starts PoPoing all over* [Just kidding!]
me?
[2,273. And that’s it. We have work to do. –Admin.]
hello, shamefully neglected nubberkins. *pies all*
so how does one find the number of posts one has made? or is that a GAPA-only thing?
Has anyone ever thought about the blog in the future? I think about it a lot. What will it be like when we’re GAPA-age? There will be a whole new generation of MBers, and I wonder what it will be like. What does everyone else think?
Well, one thing seems likely: I still won’t have finished upgrading the WordPress software.
248 – Well, the blog still looks the same as it did when I last checked. I expect that as MuseBlog progresses, there will just be more and more MBers around. Some MBers are already almost adults (Grant O., the very first MBer, is now almost 18) so I think there will just be a wider spread of ages in the future. Old MBers will become adults, but will probably behave just like the newer generations because MuseBlog is a place where you can be insane. I don’t think any MBers will become GAPAs, though… if MBers could become GAPAs, there’d be this mad competition to impress the current ones so you’d be promoted, and I don’t think that would be fun.
See you in 2008.
– E2MB
248- Go to the Muse Fanfiction thread to find a semi-accurate prediction.
Oh, and WELCOME NEWBIES!!! *pies all newbies* Prepare to become addicted.
247-as 246 indicates the GAPAs have work to do (not surprising) I’ll answer: As explained better above on this thread by the GAPAs, only they can search anything beyond the main thread titles, and they go to your first post, as the last you have posted is always number one.
249-Then we’ll be moderating while you update it! Moderating all of our posts never leaves time for you to update things really, people keep posting into the night!
Red-tailed HAWK
(250) Well, you’ve seen how the GAPAs behave, and we’ve been practicing adults for quite some time now.
Hi E2MB!!!!!!! Bye E2MB!!!!!!
2008 it is!
Red-tailed HAWK
I just think it will be weird, because instead of being the younger kids, we’ll be older, and there will be a whole new set of younger people. It’s just really interesting, and I’m interested to see how it turns out.
256- Again, go to the Muse Fanfiction thread for predictions.
257 – Did any of you, when writing that story, think of inventing some newbies that would show up on the blog later? Surely veterans won’t be the only people left in 10 years!
258- I did mention some, but the current bloggers took center stage.
259- why did you change your Name??!?!?!?!?
There was a MuseBlogger who was 18, though, although she seems to be no more. emogrl? Am I recalling correctly? *checks Who’s Here* yes, although she changed her name to Twilight Rain. Anyone seen her around? I don’t remember seeing her in many months.
*pi for all* Lion, gryphon, Turquoise, fart festival. You know the drill, 3.14 etcetera. I’m too lazy to type it all out, even though typing that took longer than it would to just type pi again.
And did I miss a chance to see how many posts I have? I am curious. It’s a lot, probably. I wonder if it’s over a thousand posts? It could even be over two thousand, I was addicted more severely at one point.
250, 261 – And some are already. I turn 19 February 2nd.
239- Yeah. *sigh* You’re right.
‘Ullo, Lion! *pies with leonine pie*
250- *pies E2MB* I’ve missed you again. And not only that, I could see your name in the recent comments sidebar but no more pages would load. Ah well. *more pies*
(263, ref 239) Why sigh? It just means you old hands have a new role: nurturing future generations. That’s what GAPAs do. We’re on the same team!
Think about it this way:
– A “newbie” is anybody who arrived a day after you did.
– A MuseBlog demigod is anybody who arrived a day before you did.
Therefore, if you want to be a demigod, cultivate new MBers.
Museblog fame isn’t necessarily achieved by high post count or visibility on pointless threads. Look at MG.
Speaking of MG, by Robert’s definition I could call her a newbie. But somehow I don’t think I’m going to. Perhaps memory of this sort of thing dulls with age? I mean, I don’t consider PP or Glasseh or even Alice newbies. Possibly because I interact with them and have gotten to know them, possibly because now they know the Holy Museblog Ropes and I can snark at them properly, possibly because they don’t annoy me. It is hard to say.
I would wonder how many posts I had, but I switched emails and I know it’s a lot anyway.
I would also wonder how blog-famous I was, but the only responses I would get would be from people who’d heard of me.
HAY GUYZ DID YOU HEAR PENTY EATS KITTENS
265) I’ve eaten a kitten too, they’re very delicious! How do you like them? The eyes are the best part, they’re so juicy and sweet you can just pop them in your mouth and let the gooey goodness sink in. *sighs*
*flings, casts, chucks, hurls, tosses and otherwise throws key lime pies at Gryphon, Lion, and Turquoise*
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*pies newbies*
Hello! Hola! Bon-jour! Mishu-mishu! Dasvadana!
I salute you, people who read Muse, for Muse undoubtedly is one of the best magazines in existance, if not the best. I suppose you would call me a newbie, since this is my first post, but I have been looking at the blog for quite some time now. At first I didn’t think I would ever post here. I thought I could just sit and read the throughts and frolicks of fellow Musers and be content. But eventually I felt like added my own opinions to the bubbling pot.
I have had a subscription of Muse for about 1 year now (October 2006 was my first issue). I had already had a subscription to Oddysey for quite some time, and immensly enjoyed it. Then I got a subscription of Muse for my birthday (October 12)! I was immediately hooked because Muse had the same high-quality articles like Oddysey, but with an attitude! A comic strip inbetween the margins is one of the finest things a magazine can do to enrich it’s pulp.
Other things about me:
I am a strong Christian.
I am 14 years old.
My favorite food is sushi.
And last, but certainly not the least, and maybe the most, I LOVE NARNIA! I have read all 7 books at least 10 times each, and I totally enjoyed the 2005 movie “The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe”, though I was dissapointed they left out one of the most memorable scenes in the book. I have been counting the days until “Prince Caspian” comes out on May 16, 2008 and I am overjoyed to say there are only 149 left! I checked to see if MuseBlog had any Narnia threads, but the only one in existance has apparently been barred from any new comments.
And, finally, I expect that you all are going to pie me, so I WILL PIE YOU FIRST!!! *splat* GOTCHA!!! *splat* *splat* *splattity-splat*
269) PIES!!!
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269- Bonjour! *pies* What did you think was one of the most memorable scenes in “The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe”? (the book, of course)
271 – The scene where the stone statues are being restored, then Rumblebuffin crushes the gates, and “Us Lions”.
269- a side affect of april fools day.
does any one know were Agagabagabag is? he hasn’t been on lately. He need to know about this.
262- Ooh, you too? What’s it like being old? (hahaha… I remember when I thought the high school kids were big and scary. And the school was like a million miles long. It still is, they still are, I’m just used to it now.)
264- For me, it’s a complex formula taking into account frequency of posting, content of posts, whether the posts are in a readable format, experience and age of blogger, and whether I get a Muserly vibe from them.
-I just tried to write out the complex formula but only ended up confusing myself-
265- Oh, but, Penty, you’re like one of the blog’s old ones. You and Axa and a few others have this aura about you. You speak in cryptic codes that any n00b around would be hated for using, but are accepted because you’re part of the blog’s fabric. You grace us with your presence only sporadically, and when you do it is reason to take notice. It feels kind of weird, too familiar even, calling you Penty. You aren’t Pentatonikk anymore like you were when I came, though, so it isn’t right either.
269- Pi and all gets repetitive… since you expect pi, I shall i you! The number is unreal, it doesn’t even exist… or does it? Is it flying at your face as I type or not? I’ll have to square it, I guess, to make sure you get something. *throws i pies i times*
Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha! *pies Darrin M. with a stargazy pie*
Hello, Darrin! *dodges pies* *pies x100* If you like the Narnia movies, you might want to head over to the movies thread.
(274) i squared equals minus-1, so you’re really taking a pie away. Sneaky!
I should probably say something about myself too, shouldn’t I?
I’m 16 years old and female. I have red hair, and I’m about medium height. I like indie rock and any kind of book. I enjoy writing almost as much as reading, and I enjoy reading nonfiction as much as fiction. I especially like biographies. I like politics, and I generally try to keep up with both British and US politics. (The main reason is that there are more people online who want to discuss US politics, at least on most of the sites I like.) I consider myself an Atheist, but I acknowledge that religion has many benefits for those who practice it. I have only been getting Muse for about a year, but it has been a very good year and I really love the magazine.
That’s about all there is to know about me. If anyone has questions, just ask!
265- EW PENTAY GROSS.
278- Hi there. You seem nice…
I’m Julia, except no one here really ever calls me that except for Glassy…. I’ve been here a while, maybe a year and a half or two.
I don’t know, I consider myself oldish, and definitely not a newbie.
Sorry, Robert, but I disagree with your definition.
IBCF, i’m back… see, we had an oil spill in our house, and we had to evacuate the house. we stayed at our aunts house, now we are residing in our other aunts house. i am using my laptop to do this.
I AM HERE! are YOU stiil here, ibcf?
LORD OF THE RINGS RULES!
269~ Welcome! I must agree, Muse is the best magazine in existance.
278~ Welcome to you, as well! I wish I had red hair, you are so lucky!
Hmm, do people consider me a newbie, an older MBer, or a particularly prolific one? I’ve been on for a year and a few months.
I’m still here. How did the oil spill happen?
What’s the square root of negative pi?
i times the square root of pi.
287- And is there a specific name for the square root of pi?
None that I know of. Just √π .
So it’s (i)√π? Wow.
This thread is getting scary. *hides* Pi hates me.
Is there any practical use for i anyway?
289 – How can it hate you? Just look at it…
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197159399385105920974944593…
Isn’t it adorable?
290- not that i know.
290 – Practical uses for pi include passing Algebra 2…and…um…
290- The square root of any negative number can be written as i times the square root of that positive number. That’s about all I know…
282- I don’t consider you a newbie, but I don’t really consider you old, either.
Hey Rth you still here??????????
bty PIE NUKES TO AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
297- 20 more Vcholkit peices.
you got Vchoklit in my stinkin’ Reploid brain OW
wait what??????????
264- And what is someone who arrived on the same day as you?
265- Ah, very famous. And old. And cynical (knowing you, you probably won’t take that the wrong way. ) And I almost emailed my friend today telling her that she reminded me of you. But she doesn’t really. Just something she said.
266- That’s gross. Stop it.
269- Hello, Darrin! *pies*
274- When I first rode the bus I was terrified of the scary kids in the back. I’m used to it now. But my bus is one of the scariest, crowdedest, most full-of-kids-who-are-likely-to-murder-you-in-a-dark-alley, too. Today there were candy canes and chocolate flying around. ‘Twas odd.
I need something new to say. I’ve worn out Hola, and Hullo, and ‘Ullo, and just saying Hi is boring. “Good day” is too formal, and ditto the Spanish equivalents. Help?
282- Thou’rt definitely prolific in my eyes. I really look up to you, actually. I envy you your opportunities and your historical knowledge.
(290) i has all sorts of uses in physics and advanced mathematics. For example, if you take your Cartesian coordinate system and turn the y axis into an i axis, it becomes easy to write equations for waves. That’s handy for describing electromagnetism and important parts of relativity.
302- *blank look* *drools*
301- Hello?
Sorry, double post.
278- Hi! Nice to meet you! I’m Cinnamoon, known as Annie in the real world. I am thirteen, and live in south west England. Which part of England do you live in? *Senses possible ko-konvention, perhaps involving Paul*
I love i! It’s really fun to work with.
302 – Hehe. I think I’m the only one who got that. (besides you adults who have already been through college) Is that how people figured out what a sine was or something?
301- Manao ahoana. It’s hello in the Madagascar language.
Especially useful if you have a tenrec as your icon in iChat. (The tenrec picture has now been replaced by one of my eye…)
283- the oil spill was caused by the pipe leading behind a cement wall. we stayed in the house for an hour with the fumes. the reason it leaked and the reason we didn’t get out of the house sooner is because a man came that same day to clean the furnace. when we smelled the fumes we thought it was chemicals the man had used to clean the furnace. he also flushed out the pipe, and we think it worked a clog loose. maybe if he had come the week after it would have came loose itself, and we would have known what it was. thankfully, our friend next door is a former fire chief. we had the volunteer department in our driveway. *whew*
THE EYE OF SAURON!!! DUM DUM DUM DUUUM…DUM DUM DUM DUMMMM!!!! IT IS UPON YOU!!! Who here likes J.R.R.?
310- Your question should be, Who here doesn’t?
Oh, did I ever tell you my theory that the Arkenstone is a Silmaril?
305- cool! i have friends in england….. so uh… how many non american MBers are there now? at least 2?
At least four: two in England, one in New Zealand, and you.
309/310- I object to the name that you have now, you have murdered the punctuation. It shouldn’t be “eragon (possibly switching names to sauron or frodo) unless anyone objects.” where if you take out the section in brackets it will be “eragon unless anyone objects.” You want it to be “eragon (possibly switching names to sauron or frodo unless anyone objects.) READ Eats, Shoots, and Leaves PEOPLE! NOW! Stop making me see dead punctuation…
313- thanks, bobs your uncle (or what ever his name is) doesn’t post anymore but I think he was the pink satlking penguin of penzence’s brother….
311 – Yes, who doesn’t? Well, one of my friends hates The Hobbit. Books are almost the only thing we don’t agree on.
Have no newbies posted in 316 posts?
317) *ahem*
The name and email bars on the comment thing keep turning blank after every time I post. Is this normal?
318- Maybe you have a different internet program. Mine don’t blank out.
Ah, no. Now an epidemic of slightly differing points will sweep the blog, and the original spdzk points will fall into obscurity. *sighs dramatically and unconvincingly.*
318- turn the cookies on.
I just got around to investigating MuseBlog yesterday… *looks around* It’s pretty awesome.
‘Scuse me, but what exactly ARE spdzk points?
spdzk points are points that POSOC made up, which started this trend of useless points that bloggers make up. I currently have the most spdzk points.
322) How did you get that many?
322: So they’re pointless. Snazzy! lol pointless points.
321- ‘Ullo, Nora! Or should I say, “Manao ahoana!”? Anyway, nice to meet you. I’m Alice. *shakes hands vigorously* *pies with other hand*
Ellos! *wipes off pie with now-limp arm* Nice to meet you too!
*pies Nora and anyone else new I may have missed*
Hello Nora!
I’m not a newbie, but I have newbie-ish questions.
Stupid question 1: Can people who don’t read Muse join MB?
2: What exactly is NaNoRiMo?
332- Spdzk points! I want spdzk points! *bounces*
Maybe they aren’t stupid questions. I don’t know.
I’m sorry.
*pies Nora* *looks around sadly for any other newcomers* *pies groundhog22* *runs away laughing*
328- 1) yes you can join, regardless. Some topic might get confusing when we talk abou the magazine but they aren’t top secret or anyhing, we just have a reference to go off of.
2) NaNoWriMo is a wrting event in november. The whole point of it is to write a …. i think its 50,000….. word story in 30 days
328)
1) Yes, if they’re muser-like, I would assume.
2) The only person you can get spdzk points from is POSOC. Ask him nicely and maybe he’ll give you one.
Actually, Kari, I have a spdzk point I got a while ago. You can have it. Here.
331, 332 – Yay! Thanks! *goes to get friend to join MB*
333 – Double yay! Thank you!
332(gryphon)- Actually, you can get spdzk points from anyone who has them. And I don’t think POSOC has any left. There are only 100 in existence.
328-
1. Definitely. As long as they can keep up with us! (You might want to let them read some of your issues, though, to make sure they understand who Kokepelli is, what the HPBs are, what the Q&A is, and stuff like that.
2. NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. Basically, you have to write a 50,000 word story during the month of November.
*has been lurking on this page* Sorry for backing up by like 50 posts, but I love math, so:
290- the number (i) is also useful for the roots (x-axis intercepts) of parabolas that do not cross the x axis, because then the roots are imaginary. (ah, algebra…)
What’s really fun is those math team questions that go: what is i to the 13837465 power? and you have to subtract it from the closest multiple of four because i to the 4 is 1, and then if the difference is 1 it’s just i (to the 1), if it’s 2 the answer is -1 (i^2), it it’s 3 the answer is -i (i^3) , and it it’s four the answer is 1 (1^4) and yeah I am rambling now. *deep breaths* Ok, I stopped. ^ ^;
w00t more newer-than-me people! *pies for all*
337- My brain hurts
Oh, rubbish. You’re a Muser. Exposure to unfamiliar concepts makes your brain feel good.
Did you hear about the guy who was caught shoplifting yesterday? Y’know what he got for Christmas?
Coal in his stocking?
No, he got twelve months.
339- XD Exactly, that’s why I like math team so much!
339- Okay you’re right….. maybe it was the pound of chocolate I ate this morning, that could do it…
337- Ah yes. And when you think that I re-learned that earlier this year, in Pre-calc… I still have to decide if it’s insanely easy or the teachers good, or if it’s just algabra one with a different lable.
343 – Pre-calculus? Is there such a thing?
344 – Yes. I’ve taken it too.
pre-calc. only 4 more years!
I’m still in algebra, call it what you may.
Hi, I’m new to the blog! I’m not new to the magazine, though – I started reading it when it first came out ten years ago. Now I’m 20 years old (an adult – sort of – the horror!) and living in Scotland.
I am seeking help on a quest for information… In one of the old issues I remember reading an article about unusual homes; I think one was a house with a mosaic courtyard, another had been covered in hand-carved animals, snakes, gargoyles, etc. Does anyone remember this article? I don’t even know which issue it was in, though reading through the archives on the fan site lead me to believe it may be the one titled “Dream houses” by Mary Roach in the Feb. 2001 issue.
If anyone knows anything about the houses in the article (ie, where they were located, what they were called if they had names, who owns them) I would be tremendously grateful. I already wrote to Muse but they couldn’t come up with anything. I hope I’m remembering this correctly, but I’m pretty sure it was in Muse – after all, what other mag would have such interesting articles
348- Ooh! That one survived the bottle-fed lamb! Be right back!
Oh! Cold feet!
I’m afraid I couldn’t find it in the closest stack (although I did find two of the more recent Muses and a whole pile of Crickets), and I’m reluctant to venture deeper into the room. It could be in my basement still.
Sorry.
Hello, Lilliputin! I have to dash and don’t have time to help you with your quest, but maybe other Musers can provide assistance.
We do have one house rule that you should be aware of: newcomers your age must blog under their own names, first and last, rather than under pseudonyms.
Good luck! I’ll comb through back issues later tonight if I get a chance.
350- Maybe she (or he- it’ll be easier to tell once we know his or her name) isn’t comfortable putting her (or his- we really need an epicene) full name on the internet. I wouldn’t be.
351- I often feel frustrated that I can’t say my full name, or location, or any of that. but safety first, I s’pose.
Note: I DO feel uncomfortable putting contact info on the computer.
348- I could go look that up for you now. I remember loving that issue too! (I’ve been subscribing since 1999) *has returned, Feb 01 Muse in hand* Let’s see, the first house was called ‘La Maison de Picassiette’ and was a house that was covered in pieces of pottery. The house is in France. Oh, apparently the photographs in the article come from a book called My Home, My Paradise by Gustau Gili Galfetti. Interesting. I might like to look at that. Anyways, the guy who made the house with mosaic started in 1938 and it took him 24 years to cover it. The next house was Salvador Dali’s house and called Casa Dali. It was as surreal as his paintings and it had enormous twin heads, a couch shaped like lips etc. It is in Spain. Next house. ooh! I liked this one. It is called Villa Principe and is on the island of Cavallo which is near Italy. It is a house built into natural rock formations. Vittorio Emanuelle (the exiled grandson of the last king of Italy) and his wife Mariana hired an architect to create a house that would not disturb the rocks. Many of the rooms are curved and some have rock formations built in being used as storage spaces. They began it in the late 1970s. The next house isn’t really a house, it was built to be a crypt for the guy who built it, Ferdinand Cheval. This is the house covered in carvings. It is called Le Palais Idéal. He found inspiration in 1879 when he came across a beautiful naturally shaped stone on one of his routes. The building is in France. Hope that helps! (Welcome to MB!)
on the last house I forgot to mention that zoning codes wouldn’t allow it to be a crypt as the forbade homemade crypts.
You guys are amazing, thank you so much! My memory of that article is coming back to me now you’ve provided the details – Villa Principe was my favorite too! The others are fantastic as well, and I’ll definitely try to find the Galfetti book to see more creative spaces.
351 – you’re absolutely right – I never feel comfortable giving out my name or contact info on the internet in any form. Though I wish I could keep anonymous through a screen name, I respect the rules of the Muse board and I understand why they are in place.
Wow, I’ve been to Chartres but it was only for a short visit and obviously the main attraction is the Cathedral… I never realised la Maison Picassiette was also located there! Wish I could have seen it, but I may be able to some time in the future. I’m batting around ideas for my Anthropology dissertation right now and considering trying to do something with the anthropology of architecture, which brought this topic to mind. Thank you oxlin for kindly looking that up for me!!
356- you’re welcome! I hope you stay around here a bit and discuss houses with us! Anthropology of architecture sounds really interesting, tell us more perhaps? I liked your name as ‘Lilliputian’! I, too, am uncomfortable using my real name and plus I think it’s clever with the reference to Gulliver’s travels and your first name. I understand your rules though, Robert and other GAPAs (Lillian, we call our administrators here ‘GAPAs’ It stands for something like ‘Great and Powerful Administrator’)
Yes, I am posting at 3:30 a.m.
Re: Contact information- My parents are security freaks and have brainwashed me into not wanting anyone to be able to stalk me (I wonder why?). So contact information avoidence (other than my e-mail and first name) is pretty much first nature to me. Even if it wasn’t, I still don’t feel quite right knowing that people who I have no idea who they are can randomly come up to my front door and say “hi”. I may’ve let my levels down a bit for MuseBlog; I’ve accidently posted my last name and city a couple times (to much snipping by the GAPAs and to much blushing by moi). But I guess it just means that I trust you guys so much.
In ANY case.
Welcome, Lilliputin, Lillian Worth, or whatever your name may be! Welcome, to our glorious world of procrastination, uh, I mean scientific study of sciency stuff… anyway… *deep dish pies heaved toward Ms. Worth*
You should meet my Dad. he’s insane about Jonathen Swift; you should have heard him when he got ahold of Cliff’s Notes. Whoo, that was the only night in my LIFE I’ve gone to sleep before my bedtime. Which was, like, eight thirty at the time.
I’m going to click submit now. This post is too long for a newcomer’s thread post. *ashamed* Plus it’s 3:40 a.m. now. I should be totteling off to bed. I’ve got grinching to do in the morning. *submit button*
Sorry. Didn’t see this post.
332-You can get spdzk points from me; I have ten. I deleted them from my name a while ago though. I still keep track pretty much.
*pies*
For what? *drinks beer*
Sorry. That’s from Hopscotch. I couldn’t resist.
Good Evening Lillian. Or actually, very early morning. Or, if you look at it from my point of veiw lunch time. It’s one o’clock in Denmark, and still no damned snow.
As always, I will pie the newcomer, Ms. Worth, with a rhubarb black cherry pie, with whipped cream. The pie does not contain geleten.
*pies with said pie*
Hello again. I’ve noticed that we seem to be in an alternate universe here, based on the Ship’s Logs thread, so are there maps of it to be found anywhere, or do we just keep it all in our brains?
I believe there are maps of it on the ancient threads.
361- Aren’t you underage? *Smiles smugly as she knows it is perfectly legal for her consume alchohal in the country she is living in. She simply does not agree with the taste.*
363- By the way, we are in an alternative universe at this moment (being on Museblog.) Museblog is a place we go to get away from all the “other” people.
Wow! That sounded bad. Bratty. I’ll try again. Museblog is a kind of Alternative Universe because we come here to get away from unintelegent and immature
idiotic bamboozeled boring stupid annoying teasing mobbing freaky so called “normal” morons celebrity-loving blind capitalistic pigsfellow human beings.But not being on Museblog doesn’t make you bad.
I give up. Surrender, oh! grey captain!
?????????????????????????
“MuseBlog: Like Life, Only Better. Well, actually not very much like life. But definitely better.”
As confusing as that was, it helped. ^_^
365- We are getting there……
How about this: “MuseBlog: Almost, But Not Quite, Entirely Unlike Real Life.”
I should probably domy essay now.Fivehundred words on Shirley Jacksons An afternoon in Linnen.
Nah. I’ll watch television in stead.
Oh. I gotta braid my hair so i’ll have curls for the afternoon babysit/tea duty tommorrow. *Doesn’t mind. It’s an enjoyable task.*
368- I can see the headlines now
364- I lied. I’d forgotten I’m partial to mulled wine. with raisins and almonds and cloves and…….
365- I was discussing this sort of thing with Mother earlier . . . fantasy worlds are really useful.
346-That’s what you think. *more beer*
That was not from Hopscotch.
Museblog: Not for the faint at face.
Thanks for the welcome, and the pie. I’m not much of an online forum person but MuseBlog is definitely NOT your typical forum! I’d love to stick around and talk about houses, school, pies, other things… I’ve always been partial to tree houses myself.
372- Yes, they are incredibly useful, you’re felling down or alone and then BAM!!! (Thank you emril) insta-fantasy world!!!
Greekgurls advice of the day: DON’T join a swim team. Because:
It makes you feel like you want to kill yourself every single day *hits head repeatedly on cold stone floor*
The average swim team practices everyday!!! Think of how that would cut into your Blog-Time!
It damages your hair beyond repair. *Runs fingers through chlorinated hair and then wanders off to take the second shower of the day*
how do i post
!??!?!?!?!?
please telll me how i post stuff on the blog????????????????????!
376, 377- Hello, Robert! *pies*
377- Don’t Panic! You’ll get used to it. Did you read the Hitchhiker’s guide to the MuseBlog? And the rules????
376- I think you know the answer to that question already
375- I’m not in any danger of doing that. I can hardly swim.
*breathes a sigh of relief* whew, Alice is covered and won’t die anytime soon
I had practice THIS WEEK!!!! its heresy, giving us a swim practice during vacation
I think Robert M. must be confused about the blog. He’s asking how to post- in a post.
Here, I’ll explain.
Robert, although this “blog” is created with blogging software, it’s actually more like a forum. We call the “comments” posts and the “posts” threads, accordingly. But we still call the website a blog. Confusing, isn’t it?
i would like you to meet Pie Man.
Good morrow, Male Hominid of Fruit-Filled Pastry Which is Commonly Used as a Projectile. Subscribest thou to Muse?
Don’t you mean “Fruit-Filled Projectile Sometimes Mistakenly Consumed as a Pastry”?
387- No.
*is mystified*
389- Don’t you mean “mystipied?”
That, too. But now I understand: you were making a joke, pretending not to know what pies are for. Very witty!
Oh gee………….How long does it take for a museblogger to be put on the “who’s here” list?
392- I’m not sure. I think that if the Administrators see that you’ve made a substantial number of posts over a substantial amount of time, and are probably here to stay, they put you up. It wouldn’t make sense to add everyone who posts here for one day and then is never seen again.
375 – Reasons to join a swim team:
1. It’s fun! You feel very accomplished after a really good practice when your muscles are cheering for you.
2. You only ruin your hair if you don’t wash it right after practice. That’s no reason to stay away.
3. Ok, the practices are long, but they really don’t cut into blogtime that much. For Pete’s sake, I was on a swim team for five years, and I was fine.
393- I don’t think so. I was up the day after my first post. I think it has to do with how much time they have on there hands.
Hi people!
*pulls a Canix*
Hello, Overweight Violet Primate! *pies*
397- don’t you mean:
*welcome obese combination of red and blue primate*
Woah! There are a ton of posts! Hey newbies! *pies*
398 – That too.
I’d ask for a new thread, but hopefully no newbies will come between now and january. I’ve ran out of pie.
401- Is that even possible? Here’s some *pies*
Has a “welcome newcomers” thread ever gotten this many posts?
(403) March 2007 and June 2006 received over 300 comments apiece, but none have made it past 400 before.
Hello.
I’m new.
I read Muse a lot, but I wasn’t aware of this website until recently.
404- Cool! *celebrates* *pies KaiYeves* *pies everyone else*
I have Newbie Catching Up to do.
376-I think that you’ve just figured that out! Welcome! *lemon pies*
385-Hey! You’re a friend of Eragon’s? Cool. *beanie bag pie*
386-Fat Purple Mokey? Naw, I don’t wanna know. Have a pie. *fat purple mokey pie*
405-Welcome, KaiYeves! Welcome to the wonderful universe of MuseBlog! *deep dish pies*
There’s been a whole bunch of off topic posting on this thread, that’s why there’s a fricking four hundred posts and about five newbies.
Hi newbies! *pies*
We try to make everyone welcome here, and, yes, that is our explination for why you are standing there covered in dripping pastry. *throws another pie*
Red tailed HAWK. how do you make that apple/ipod/macbook symbol?
Tips for newbies: Insane Blue Sage is right. Please no CAPITALS.
Oh, we need more insanity. ilikegreendayilikegreenday NOT that kind though. Something more along the lines of ‘Mwahahahahaha now I will takeover the world!!.
Only double-post when you have to. And no chatroom talk. ‘i like 2 b insane’ =
409- You must have a mac. On windows, the apple/ipod/macbook symbol is just a square. 
Blehhh. That’s annoying.
Yup, I don’t see the apple symbol either (I’m on an XP).
Being the last day of the month, I guess this thread won’t get larger.
*pies all newbies*
*bakes more pies for new year*
*bakes more spike pies for new year*
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*bakes about 200 more*
I’m anticipating to throw lots of spike pies in 2008.
HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL!!!!!!! | @ |
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HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL!!!!!!! | @ |
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