What should be the "Newbie" greeting?

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What should be the greeting for Newbies at SD.NET?

Poll ended at 2002-12-07 11:58pm

POKE!
20
51%
Imperial Bitch-Slap!
5
13%
Sith Choke
1
3%
Punch!
1
3%
Other (posted)
3
8%
Nothing! Greetings for Newbies is a stupid idea.
9
23%
 
Total votes: 39

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What should be the "Newbie" greeting?

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Many SB.COM types have utilized the "POKE" greeting, along with the various pictures that go with it. Others (like me) feel that the "poke" greeting should not be copied and pasted from SpaceBattles, but that SD.NET should come up with it's own newbie greeting. An example of an "imperial bitch-slap" picture follows, with compliments to Pantera:
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So to the poll .... Feel free to choose from among the choices, or render your own suggestions.
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Hello?
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Nothing. Its asinine.
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I for one like the poke.... shows that we spacebattles and stardestroyer are like distant cousins :)
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Why isn't there an I don't care option? Poke, choke, or bitch slap them, I don't really care to much one way or the other.
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Poking of course; all of the others sound like they involve physical pain. We should reserve the "imperial bitch-slap" for people that are acting stupid.
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data_link wrote:Poking of course; all of the others sound like they involve physical pain. We should reserve the "imperial bitch-slap" for people that are acting stupid.
Shouldn't that be the Imperial Smackdown?
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ArmorPierce wrote:I for one like the poke.... shows that we spacebattles and stardestroyer are like distant cousins :)
True: a lot of the people here cut their teeth on spacebattles before discovering this oasis of logic and reason. Plus there's no shame in stealing an idea that works. :mrgreen:
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Evil Sadistic Bastard wrote:
data_link wrote:Poking of course; all of the others sound like they involve physical pain. We should reserve the "imperial bitch-slap" for people that are acting stupid.
Shouldn't that be the Imperial Smackdown?
I thought that was the call to arms, not the actual punishment.
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Post by Sardaukar »

I don't care, because it's stupid, but it should be the universal greeting from Transformers: The Movie "bah-weep-granna-weep-niny-bong"
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data_link wrote:
Evil Sadistic Bastard wrote:
data_link wrote:Poking of course; all of the others sound like they involve physical pain. We should reserve the "imperial bitch-slap" for people that are acting stupid.
Shouldn't that be the Imperial Smackdown?
I thought that was the call to arms, not the actual punishment.
Oh, sorry.

Then I'm with the poke.

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Force Lightning. It's the only attack. Besides, poking can hurt if you do it hard enough. Believe me, I know.
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I say poke, because I remember using it elsewhere long before I found spacebattles.

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How about butt plugging? Shove one up there until they become younglings. :twisted:
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I like POKE.
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Re: What should be the "Newbie" greeting?

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jegs2 wrote:Many SB.COM types have utilized the "POKE" greeting, along with the various pictures that go with it. Others (like me) feel that the "poke" greeting should not be copied and pasted from SpaceBattles, but that SD.NET should come up with it's own newbie greeting. An example of an "imperial bitch-slap" picture follows, with compliments to Pantera:
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So to the poll .... Feel free to choose from among the choices, or render your own suggestions.
Oh, a newbie greeting. That's, uh, original. And very stupid. Or something.
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Stravo wrote:How about butt plugging? Shove one up there until they become younglings. :twisted:
Hooray for Stravo! " Welcome to SD.net. Oh, here's your butt-plug, sit on it REAL hard and have a great day." Tears are litterally running down my face from laughing so hard. :lol:
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poking is cute....

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Post by Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi »

Lots of poking. We don't want to physically harm the n00bs. The greeting should't be violent, only be around as an excuse to bring up the post counts of the non-newbies.
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So the Gatotsu is too pokey for use?

Damn. :evil:
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LOL.
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Poke or Imperial Bitch slap would be fine. But I don’t care, I'll use whatever a want to, mostly either my atomic poke or puny mortal greeting.
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