My, there certainly are a lot of newcomers to DU today.

[Liberal Veteran]

Elad must have put in a revolving door because many seem to "leave" as fast they get here.

[fairfaxvadem]

1. Thanks, thought it was just my imagination.

Because that was my thought at around 1pm today.

[hlthe2b]

2. why is it none of them seem to be able to spell?

:shrug:

[Liberal Veteran]

3. Genetics....and over reliance on tv and radio instead of print.

:)

[punpirate]

Maybe a lot of home schoolers...

... who learned to spell over at FR.... :P

[liberalnurse]

7. You mean like Hilary......

or Moran?????

[Richardo]

16. There's an exemption for 'moran'.

I'm series! :evilgrin:

[liberalnurse]

21. Yes, just what I had in my thoughts......

It says soooooo much more.......

[DBtv]

4. They all want us to get off the memogate thing, for some reason.

There's smoke. . . .

[murielm99]

5. Not enough of them are leaving.

I have seen a couple "newcomers" that I swear are trying to freep us. They are building high post counts, and are not quite nasty enough to alert.

I can't wait until November. It will be fun to see their heads explode.

[tcfrogs]

10. Please don't alert me, I've just been posting about sports here

That hasn't been a popular topic among some.

[Liberal Veteran]

14. Sports are icky! LOL

:)

[tcfrogs]

19. Fine - thanks

I hope those who don't like my sports threads just hit the "ignore" button rather than the "alert" button!

[murielm99]

22. Ohhhh, so Your'e the one who has been taking us to task for

being anti-sports? LOL LOL

I thought it was interesting to see both sides.

[tcfrogs]

23. I didn't create that post

but had several of my Golf/Ryder cup posts ripped into this weekend - you know, since golf is a typical Freeper-type sport.

[Debi]

6. How many posts do you have to have ....

before you're no longer a newcomer? :shrug:

[liberalnurse]

11. It's a gut-level thing.....

but the tone of the post coupled with the number of posts makes one's alarm go off.....

[Bluzmann57]

15. Welcome to DU

Just kidding. Nice to see another Iowan here. Good question. I suspect there are some who consider me a newcomer, and I have well over 1000 posts, although a lot of them are complete and utter nonsense.

[murielm99]

24. My husband's family is from Iowa.

We still have property there.

My daughter goes to Iowa State. Since we don't actually live there, buy pay taxes there, they wont give us an in-state tuition rate. Darn!

She called me about the Harkin steak fry yesterday. She had a great time.

She is voting absentee so she can help get the vote out.

We are not that far from the Quad Cities. I like Iowa and Iowans.

[Debi]

28. Iowa State?

Uh-oh...my husband is an Iowa Grad (well, law school anyway). I have a whole litany of Iowa State jokes if you'd like to hear them....maybe not!!!

[Debi]

27. Sorry I bailed....had to work for a moment.

Been here since the caucuses (doesn't that give me some immunity from any troll calls?)

[blondeatlast]

18. It's not numbers, just a vibe.

I pay no attention to post counts--if it doesn't feel right I alert if I'm oretty sure, watch them if I'm not.

[hlthe2b]

20. No profile makes me a little bit more suspicious, especially

when the first posts they make are highly provocative. Wouldn't you think they'd wise up and not post anything so obvious? Subtlety is not their forte'.

Oh, and plenty of us suffer through our share of typos, but at least when naming our key nemesis (nemeses), we manage to spell the name(s) correctly!

[jeff_thompson]

8. I joined DU

After following the discussions on the Sunday protests just before the RNC. I don't have many posts yet, but I'm a fair speller and I like it here!

[Liberal Veteran]

12. Welcome to DU, jeff_thompson!

:bounce:

[jeff_thompson]

29. Thank you

My wife and I live in Brevard County, Florida--a distressingly Republican area--and are volunteers for Kerry. It truly feels like you're "underground" being a Democrat in Brevard. This forum is a both a real motivator and morale-builder. Thanks again.

[liberalnurse]

13. So far....you feel safe......

to me....:)

[jeff_thompson]

30. Thank you

For the vote of confidence, liberalnurse (BTW, that's two words I really like seeing together). After discovering this site a few weeks ago, I find I have become addicted to DU. There are some very knowledgeable people here, as well as some over-the-top folks. Both make the site worthwhile, and both make me feel good about being a Democrat. Thanks again.

[redqueen]

9. Well I can vouch for one!

:)

[sundog]

17. yeah, but some not fast enough...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=845873&mesg_id=846003&page=

[Liberal Veteran]

26. Points for originality though...

I'm a faithful dem, but my (insert relation here) is a repub and (he/she) says (insert right wing talking point here).

Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

[Zero Division]

25. The largest invasion I can recall in my time at DU

The stench is overwhelming. :puke: