New year, new try. And if you’re new here, we’re happy to have you aboard. Make this thread your first stop to meet the locals, ask any questions you might have, and get initiated into the Ways of the Blog.
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.
MuseBlog Veterans: Please use this thread only for its stated purpose.
MuseBloggers,
We’re running this thread a bit differently this year. New rules:
1. Please don’t welcome anyone who hasn’t shown up yet.
2. Please don’t answer questions that haven’t been asked.
Apart from that, Muserly comradeship and bonhomie should continue as before. Thanks!
((I just don’t want to send them into an empty room and wait for someone to arrive. You can zap this post if you want.))
Okay!
Hello, SBF! I’m sure a welcoming committee will be along shortly to present you with your pie.
Hi, small but fierce! *pies* The pie is not an insult or anything, by the way. It’s a traditional way of welcoming neophytes.
And I know you’ve probably heard this already, but the best way to get acquainted with the blog is to read the Hitchhiker’s Guide To MuseBlog, commonly referred to as HG2MB. There are no actual hitchhikers here (how can you hitchhike on a blog?); the name is a reference to the book The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (also known as H2G2). You can find it either by clicking the HG2MB box at the top of the page (under the MuseBlog banner), or by clicking the smiley.
*Pies SBF*
Welcome, Small Fierce One!
Welcome, small but fierce! We’re happy to have you on the blog. Please, visit other threads, make yourself at home! *pies*
Welcome to MuseBlog small but fierce!! *piepiepiepie*
Dive right in and have FUN!!!!
Welcome to the blog, small but fierce! *pies repeatedly*
Welcome Small but Fierce! Don’t be afraid to duck all of these pies! And don’t run away just becuase we pied you eather! *pies*
Hi Small but Fierce! -pies- Howd’youdo?
Those will be pies latter!
The wungs say hi!
Get out, HPBS!
We’re glad your here!
Bonjour small but fierce!
*pies with famous kiwi chocolate cream pie*
Pies to small but fierce. *puts pom poms on head (don’t ask)*
Yellow, Small But Fierce! Nice to see you on the blog…
*pies with Matrix pie* In case you’re wondering, that pie is virtual.
Hi! *pies small but fierce* Welcome to the blog! *waves furiously*
Oh, and “Please use this thread only for its stated purposes” made me laugh.
-pies SBF- Welcome! A bit late, I know, but better late than never.
Hey, can someone get FFOTME and Flubie to come over here?
smileys are fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Welcoming committee? Please check in.
Hello, Flubie McFluberstien! *pies*
Hello Flubie!
*Emotive Pie*
Any questions?
*Checks in* *Pies Flubie* Welcome to the blog! Would you like help with anything?
Welcome to MuseBlog, Flubie McFluberstien! Hope you survive the experience! (Just kidding, that’s an X-Men reference.)
Are you sure?
-pies Flubie- Welcome to the blog!
Hey Flubie! Welcome to our lair- I mean, fun happy place! Take over the world?! No! We would never do that…*whispers* …until we mass our forces…
Hi flubbie !
Pwease is an awesome word
Use it 
thanks!
do you like to make smileys?
my favorite one is
29-Welcome, Flubbie! Sorry I am I bit late in welcoming you. Just to warn you,
is commonly refered to as the evil Mr.Joe. (Click on the link.)
29- DON’T use the P-word. We have fast gag reflexes. If you must use it, star out the W or the rest of the word after the P. Like this: p*ease or p****.
Adding on to 31, don’t say it just to be “funny” either. It’s not. Is dropping the F-bomb in the middle of a classroom with a teacher watching funny? No. So that word isn’t funny here.
Yo sé, no es tan importante, pero no quiero oÃr esa palabra en MuseBlog.
I apologize for the Spanish, but I really thought it would sound better en Español.
Welcome, Flubie and SBF!
Greetings Flubie and SBF! It is a pleasure to meet your acquaintance! *shakes hands* *pies*
Hi Flubie (cool name)! Jump in! We don’t bite… Mostly… *many pies*
28- no don’t p*ease is a horrible word only for toddelers who can’t get a lollipop.
Hey Flubbs Sorry if you don’t like your nickname. Don’t be afraid of the pies. Pie them back. oh yeah and you might wanna duck *pies the ducking flubbs* Sorry, never trust a piesaber armed Jedi master.
ok, so Im not a neophyte, my 2 year blogiversary is in 12 days I think, (and Im not ogoing to be here to see it
) but…what on earth are WUNGS????
I really have NO IDEA!
Hey wats up here! im a phyte, but my 2 year suscribe-aversary is cumin up so i thought (shocking) i shud cum on here where its appreaciated.
PS how do u insert a smilie?!?! : (
i agree w/ elwing-
WATS WUNGS… and MUSZEY POINTS… and B DAY POINTS?!?!
HELP ME!!!!!!! “It’s not not easy being green.” or new.
– Kermit (and me)
39- wungs are imaginary creatures someone invented,represented by the
. i think they look like fluffballs with paws. i dont really know what muzey points are but people get points on diffrent threads somehow and put them ion their names. i think people get birthday points on their birthdays (in that case i should have one. but oh well)
welcome! *pies*
splat 
38- Look at the HG2MB page to learn.
SFTDP, but I have to add something. Neophytes (and Elwing) (and MARFwarrior) (and anyone else)- please use proper capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. For goodness’ sake, if you’re a Muser, you should know better. It’s much more enjoyable on here if everyone actually seems to be halfway intelligent.
Hello?!?
anyone home? or online?
PWEASE !?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Hey SFTDP, but, is it just me, or is it a really slow time to get a message posted?
43- I am!!!! Don’t worry if you’re confused; it takes a while to get used to everything. Oh and if you want to see more posts go to the home page and scroll down until you see previous posts and click there. I actually just realized that. Haha…. Any way….
OMG I NEVER GOT TO DO THIS!!!!!!!
*PIES*!!!!!!!
And remeber….
We’re all Musers here!!!
Some of us are around, or your post wouldn’t have been posted. What can we do for you?
44- The GAPA’s have to check the posts before posting them; hence “Your comment is awaiting moderation”.
Sorry. I’ve never been very good with punctuation and capitalization and grammar and such. I shall try harder in the future. (notice capitals)
Thanks 4 talking again! :happydance: I still don’t understand how to get smilies into a message. The HG2MB won’t talk, so I don’t get it. : – (
gtg!!! aaaaah!!!! it’s . . . the mom!!!!
49, 50- Again. try to use real words. And try not to make pointless posts(like 50). They get a little annoying. And I don’t think there is a happydance smiley.
Wait… we have a pie smiley? When did this happen? Wow, I’ve been away too long.
Anyway, welcome all.
52- It happened like three days ago.
: ! : =
: arrow : =
42: hehe sorry Im too used to MSN at the moment…I am trying hard not to slip it into school work, its shocking, trying to fit smileys into essays and realising that it will not be accepted and there are other ways to represent emotion!!!
hi !
!
*pies* Hello, JJjetplane! Please go to the Superhero+Mary Sue thread to see how to post! :arrow::arrow::arrow:
29- Not that! No! Nooooooo! My eyes! IT BURNS!! OH, HOW IT BUUUURNS!
50) Another important tip for surviving:
)
(If you don’t like it, I’m on the WOPC a
Useful threads:
, and the typographical practice thread is useful for trying to use HTML and all those other weird tricks that come out wrong the first time around. The best way to get into the blog is to pick a thread on a topic you like/know a lot about to get used to the locals. Avoid (organized) RPGs in the beginning though, because the older ones are hard to integrate (just for the -phyte stage).
The HG2MB is helpful for learning about
Tips:
. If you’re adding a lot of :grins: , then put a period (.) before them- they block the recent comments bar and draw the wrath of fellow MBers.
Leave one space between words and :grins: and two spaces between
Last:
Getting pied is part of it. And it’s fun. Some threads are more open to pieing than others. Just go with the flow.
(This thread is 2 most pie frequency, beat only by the world of piecraft )
Dang, I just posted under my alter ego. Again. Oh well. Memphis TCOMJ is me.
sorry. I have been at my grandma’s house. (she won’t let me use the computer)
60) No problem. Lots of MBers leave for a while, especially during holidays.
That’s another point of MBs mentality:
Instead of saying: “Why did you leave ?” They say: “Great to see you again !”
*pies JJjetplane*
Hello! Welcome!
And yes, agreeing with what everyone else has said, try to use real words. P*ease, otherwise I’m afraid I have trouble understanding you.
I can’t get over how awesome these smileys are.
I know why this thread is so pied- neo
tes, get it ?
49- Welcome JJ! Apparently you’re having trouble with your smilies. I think I can help. No, the HG2MB won’t talk, not unless you have MacSpeech. Try:
When you make a smiley, you have to do this:
And when you make two or more smilies in a row, you have to put two spaces between the end of the first : and the beginning of the next : . There we go!
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To all! LOOK UP! ↑
63) That was me. Sorry- attack of the avenger alter ego.
*raises hand*
I’m neeeeew!
So basically I have a question… do people have conversations on here that are pretty fast-moving or does it take an admin forever to approve posts?
66- It depends on how busy the GAPAs are, and how many people are conversing. If there are more people, then there will be more posts and, ergo, a faster conversation. And it’s not so much that it takes the OEADs a while to approve posts. It’s just that they are busy doing other things, and cannot be on MuseBlog all the time. Anyways, welcome!
Like work.
66) Welcome welcome Tigerlily! Here! Try my famous chocolate kiwi cream pie!
Thanks for the pies, everyone
I like the randomness of this blog.
Randomness is something we have aplenty.
70) well *guilt* the pies were actually thrown at you…
72- I realize that. And I enjoy having pies being thrown at me. It’s a sign of friendliness, right? hehe.
73) Well… it’s a sign of, errr…
*idea*
Me: I could write a play about that !
8) : That’s how the last thread died.
Me: Fine. I’ll refrain from doing it.
73) It certainly is!
Hey everyone, I’m back! Hi Tigerlily! :pied: welcome! What do you think of the blog? Hooray! Obama is officially president!
YAY!!!!!! I can use smileys!!!!!!!!!!
Actual Neos! Sweet! Welcome to your home sweet home, Tigerlily! You have awesome spelling, good grammer and you seem to go with the flow quite nicely. Have you been here before? Well, you probably know this, but making
faces is pretty easy. To do it, you insert a word between two of these : I’m gonna substitute ( and ) for : and :
use (smile) with these : :
or 
or 
the codes are (cool) (roll) (oops)
the codes are (!) (arrow) (shock)(eek)
If you want to make
Or
Or
You get it. Anyway, have fun!
Hiya, Tigerlily!
Welcome to the blog!
First of all, I’m using a different email address administrators, so don’t kick me off. Second of all, isn’t this new pie symbol cool?
Third of all, welcome Tigerlily. Fourth of all, Tigerlily,
is not a sign of friendliness. For more info, find out info about kokopelli.
78- haven’t been here before, unless you count yesterday.
80- Hmm… I used to get muse for a few years so I know about the pie deal and Kokopelli. But, seeing as you use pies on here to welcome everyone, and seem to enjoy it, I’ll just take it as a sign of friendliness
Oh. :blush:
80) But it IS a sign of friendlliness!
Or it CAN be. And usually it is…….
82- You have no idea ho many times I wrote (blush) instead of (oops).
Try : oops :
is anyone here? besides me, that is?
83- I digress. Kokopelli isn’t trying to be “friendly” when he tries to ambush people with a strawberry creme….
86- But you’re not Kokopelli, are you?
At any rate, the pies are all very tasty.
85) I am here!
87) Well, thank you very much!
I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Hey GAPA, can i get my b-day on the calendar? It’s May 15.
isn’t friendly. He’s the muse of tricks and tunes after all!
86- I agree. A
kiwimuncher, how does 1 get B-Day & Muszey points?
(86, 89) What matters is that our pie throwing IS friendly.
Which reminds me…I haven’t tried out our new pies, so here you go:
Oh great GAPA, how do I get B-Day & Muszey points?!?!?
I’m stumped!
JJjetplane-girlw/cats:
This particular GAPA is stumped by that too. They seem to materialize out of thin air. I think teleportation is involved. Maybe other MuseBloggers have more insight. ???
JJ (do you mind if I call you JJ for short?), not sure if this will help, but we did have a Points Thread a while back…..I don’t remember if it mentioned how those specific points were handed out (I confess myself stumped as to the origin of most of the points in current existence as well), but it is a good start……Oh, and yes, the red text is a link to that thread, so you don’t ahve to filter through all the pages of hits generated by typing “points” into the search box. I think it has become more high-tech–it used to only have hits if the word you entered was in the title or description, not just if it was mentioned anywhere on the thread…..
B-Days are from being here for your birthday (one b-day point per birthday) I don’t know about the other.
Thanks for trying . . . so does ANYONE know?
95–so, I have 3 b-day points? 16th, 17th, and 18th birthdays? and will have four come end of march? ok…..
96–come to think of it, I think Eragon invented the muszey points, but I don’t remember why.
Yeah, I made Muszey points a while back, but we ended up having too many (b-day, spzdk, Muszey, sympathy, brain, TOO MANY!) so mine was utterly rejected and stranded and destroyed!!!! GRAGH! (no hard feelings
By the way, I remember giving Luna Muszey points, on the Harry Potter Trivia thread. But when did I hand them out to Kiwimuncher? Not that I have anything wrong with it. It’s kind of cool to have your points tossed around after they’ve been disbanded.
97/96- Because I felt like inventing something.
98–yup, you did give me some. Which is why I remembered that it was you who invented them.
ooh! I have b-day point? cool! i like points!
89) Just go on the b-day thread and let the GAPAs know.
As for points… I’ve just decided that I’ll give blue-ice bear points to anyone who uses
and 
in the same post, because 
+ 
= blue ice bear, which would be the opposite of HPBs (yes, I just made that up. But it’s a cool idea)
99- Someone actually remembered me! Awesome!
Expressing Joy for Muse and The Beatles
I read my Muse today oh, boy
About a lucky man who made MuseBlog
And though the Muse was rather odd
Well, I just had to laugh
I saw the Dog- vs -Cat graph
Poor Johnny Joe, he died
He didn’t complete his masterpiece
A crowd of people stood and stared
They’d seen his face before
Nobody really cared
I saw Koko today oh, boy
Kokino County had just won the war
A crowd of people ‘hip hip hoorayed’
But I just had to laugh
Having read the book
I’d love to throw your pie!
Woke up, got out of bed
Dragged a comb across my head
Found my way downstairs and drank OJ
And looking up, I saw the mailman
Found my coat and grabbed my hat
Made the guy stop right there
Found my way upstairs and read my Muse
Kokopelli joked and I relaxed into a dream
Ah
A dream of coconut pie, oh boy!
Four thousand pies and willing targets
And I threw tons of pies at them oh joy
They had to duck from them all
Now they know how many pies it takes to pie them all
I’d love to pie you all!
wow Eragon, that was a beautific tribute to the beatles and muse. I think i’m gonna cry *sniff sniff* Oh yeah, Hi ‘phytes! *PIE!!!PIE!!!PIE!!!* I think the last time I posted(2 months ago:( ) I constituted as a ‘phyte. yes, no??
*pie*
No idea. I’ve actually never seen y- oh! Once. Or twice. Thank you for the great feedback about my song…I like it too!
Hello
is anyone here? I’m new to the blog.
HALLO!
*Sassafras Pies*
Welcome to The ‘Blog!
106~ Hello, are you new? *politely shakes hand* if so, then…..*pies vigorously*
Nothing personal, you know, just regular business.
Well, if you’ve lurked here for awhile you probably have a pretty good idea of the insanity that goes around here. All you really need to have is an open mind, a good sense of humor, a healthy respect for Hot Pink Bunnies (HPBs) and the GAPAs (Great And Powerful Administrators) and you’ll do fine. Read the rules, be sensible and use proper capitalization, grammar, spelling and punctuation to the best of your ability and you’ll fit in fine. Feel free to ask questions whenever you need, someone is nearly always there to answer.
So all that said,
WELCOME ABOARD.
*this post goes to all the neophytes, I rarely get around to this thread, but I do welcome the presence of new
See?
victimswonderful and interesting people to blog with. Of course, my continued presence on this thread often scares away more people than in ushers in…..sorry n00bs! I’m not that evil, really!107–Hello Xanth, and welcome to the blog! *pies*
A question: Are you a fan of Piers Anthony’s Xanth books, or are you merely partial to the color yellow? [xantho=yellow, according to my biomed terminology prof….]
thank you
I have to go now. Sorry for the briefness of my stay, I just wanted to introduce myself today.
107 – HELLO! *pies with xanthan gum*
Yay! Welcome to the blog!
We’re all mad here, so I’m sure you’ll feel right at home! *Pies*
112- That’s perfectly fine. The blog isn’t really like a chat room, and as all posts are moderated by the GAPAs, communication isn’t really in real time.
I know I’m not really new [or am I? How new is new?], but I have a question:
What do the colors next to people’s names on the birthday thread mean?
Traditionally, back when there were fewer MBers, you would try to wear that person’s color on their birthday to celebrate. It’s not practiced as much these days, but still a nice gesture. I try to think colorful thoughts, as I do not own such vivid clothing.
117–that is the said individual’s favorite color. They tell it to the GAPAs, and the tradition was, that all the other MBers would wear that color in honor of that individuals b-day. I’m not sure how many actually do wear those colors, although I’m sure there are plenty who do, it’s just……there are a lot of us, thus a lot of birthdays, and that means a lot of days with a preetermined color ifi you are going to do it for everyone…..
118, 119- Ah, I see. Thank you!
I’ll wear colors!
Me too!
Okay, I’m gonna welcome that whatareapricots guy.
Hello!
*pies*
4-17, 33 and 34- This is late, but thanks for all the pies. Thanks to all the MuseBloggers, I know where my towel is.
AAAAHHH! HBPs!
Okay, whatareapricots, explain your name and get over to the Let’s Get Physionomical thread and the Dissing Mr. Joe thread.
I’m glad you know where you’re towel is. Towels perform a variety of functions. A towel, is about the most massively useful thing an
interstellar hitch hiker can have. Partly it has great practical value –
you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons
of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches
of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it
beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon;
use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use
in hand-to hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes
or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a
mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t
see you – daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in
emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker
has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in
possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask,
compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit
etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker
any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might
accidentally have “lost”. What the strag will think is that any man who
can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it,
struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his
towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
So, towels are very good to have with you.
And also helpful:
Bypasses are devices which allow some people to drive from point A to
point B very fast whilst other people dash from point B to point A very
fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are
often given to wonder what’s so great about point A that so many people of
point B are so keen to get there, and what’s so great about point B that
so many people of point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that
people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to
be.
125–y’know, I do believe that someday when I really and truly ahve time, I ought to read H2G2…..your snippet from it makes it sound most amusing…..
Anyway, I do believe a washcloth would be much more useful for the removal of pie than a towel…..