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27 May 2007, 9:23 pm

So...hi. I'm new. But you probably gathered as much from the title.

I'm C, 17, will be a senior next year. I'm a complete nitpicker about grammar but try not to bother on the internet because a) I'd spend too long proofreading my posts until they were perfect, and b) the intertube is an endless swamp of poor typing anyway. I'm basically a nerd, I read a lot, play D&D/a couple other games, listen to lots of music, and kill time on the 'net(obviously!) I love languages, speak some Spanish, and pick up random bits of internet-speak(slang, |_337, etc.) I'll be an English major in college and hope to find a job editing and proofreading when I'm through. I love dice and currently own about 70 d6 in random colours and a few others that I thought looked pretty(...okay, I use them too, but what's wrong with collecting? Nothing, that's what). I also love animals, photography, and animal photography, so I spend a lot of time at the zoo. No pets for now, but hopefully I'll have one or two(or ten) at some point. My favorite book series are the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy(Douglas Adams) and The Dark Tower(Stephen King). Don't even ask about music. No, seriously. It goes from 70's to country to metal to electronica and back 'round to 70's, with a lot in-between.

Sorry it's kind of a novel, but that's alright. I hope.

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27 May 2007, 9:24 pm

Welcome to WP!

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27 May 2007, 9:26 pm

Hello!

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27 May 2007, 9:56 pm

Welcome.

This is a great place!

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27 May 2007, 11:16 pm

Welcome! You are among some nitpicking grammarians here.

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28 May 2007, 11:51 am

Hi, C!

Welcome to Wrongplanet!

Is that your given name?

I hope you enjoy posting here!

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28 May 2007, 1:25 pm

Welcome - there are plenty of people here with simialr interests.

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28 May 2007, 10:37 pm

Have you read any of Pratchett's Discworld series?

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29 May 2007, 3:44 pm

lelia wrote:

Have you read any of Pratchett's Discworld series?

I have, actually. Not many, but I'm working on that...so far, just The Light Fantastic and Thud!, along with Good Omens, though it's not really part of the series.

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29 May 2007, 3:47 pm

Hi C!! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

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29 May 2007, 5:04 pm

lelia wrote:

Have you read any of Pratchett's Discworld series?

I think I've read pretty much all the series.

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29 May 2007, 7:09 pm

Hi,
I like a lot the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy(Douglas Adams) too.
Welcome

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29 May 2007, 8:39 pm

Hi C/XII (common isotope of carbon?)

I'm embarrassingly old enough to have seen the original stage version of H2G2, at the ICA in London. It was billed something like "Come and fly around the universe". I meant it. Shortly after getting in and sat down, the audience went up on hoverpads, and were rotated to face the first set. Had a Galactic Gargle Blaster in the interval.

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30 May 2007, 4:41 am

Hi and welcome.
Currently reading the Dark Tower series myelf as my bf(a former member here) is a MAJOR fan of the books.
I collect books.

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30 May 2007, 4:57 am

Hello and welcome to WP!

I'm too scared to write much because me grammar ain't always the bestest! :lol:

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30 May 2007, 1:48 pm

Wikipedia, on smell checkers wrote:

Eye halve a spelling chequer,
It came with my pea sea,
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rarely ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I'm shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect in its weigh,
My chequer tolled me sew

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