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Welcome to the (Nearly!) 400 New Members
As a long-time Member of Ricochet (I know, I know, some of you have been here much much longer than I have), I just want to say how pleasing it is to see that there are nearly 400 new Members who joined this month. I’d like to offer some of you who may be shy (no not you, Geoff / @tpaine, no one thinks you’re shy, really) to step up, introduce yourself, and tell us what brought you here.
To start, I’m Mama Toad, or Colleen Toder, and I’ve been a Member since 2011. I live in New Paltz with my Toad Prince, and we homeschool our five remaining offspring (one is in college) and wage unceasing war on dust, shoddy arguments, and grumpiness. Tell us about yourself!
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Come out, come out wherever you are!
Make sure to stay past your free month! ;)
A great idea, Mama Toad.
Hi! I’m new here.
I will confess that I wrote this cheery post while procrastinating on my lesson plans… the tadpoles start school this week…
If you’re homeschooling, why do they get the summer off?
Silly Arahant, I get the summer off.
Slacker. And their brains turn to mush. Their IQs are probably only 3/4s what they would have been. :P
That, my friend, is called self-preservation of the parents.
Just kidding. You are right, of course.
I love this.
Okay. I was watching old Cheers reruns last night, and I saw the greatest line.
Carla gets a call from one of her four kids, and she yells at the kid over the phone. The kid persists in bugging her, so she finally says, “Okay, I’ve never told you this before, but you need to know that you’re adopted.” Then she picks up the telephone book and randomly picks a name and number, and she says into the phone, “This is your real mother. Anna Smith, 508-555-5555.” I could not stop laughing.
And … it is also called thread hi-jacking. Don’t let @arahant divert your good idea for a welcome to R thread.
Tell us about yourself, @arahant!
Love it.
Too much Arahant, not enough fresh blood. Mama Toad, you’re doing the Lord’s work here. I hope it works.
Also, you remind me–
Hey! We’re up to 400 new Members as of right now! How cool is that!
New Members — come tell us about yourself.
Buckley can have his first 500 names from the Boston phone book.
I’ll take 500 Hudson Valley homeschooling moms for the health of the republic!
I think we have 399 new introverts.
Not necessarily. I’m an introvert. These new folks are just wallflowers.
401 new members and not one has dropped by. What’s going on?
I think we scared them away.
Maybe most members aren’t really interested in the member feed?
That could be it. Just guilted into paying for everything they’ve been getting free for years.
Well, Americans are unusually interested in arguments that put morality together with self-interest. If you like the podcasts but the company collapses ’cause you won’t pony up a few bucks, that’s both foolish & disappointing…
Welcome new members, and thanks to @cbtoderakamamatoad for this post.
All new members are enjoined to remember that any position @tomdmeyer holds as an editor are not necessarily the official position of Ricochet, its management or Silent Cal Productions, so although he personally welcomes you Ricochet itself holds no editorial position on whether or not you are welcome.
One way we could get new members to join this thread is to invite them. How?
Mention them – like this @josh and @Geoff, you joined recently. Tell us your story.
Why Josh and Geoff? Because I checked my list of followers sorted by Newest Registered and knew they had joined over the last two weeks.
We are in Ricochet 3.0, folks. Use the power it gives.
Seawriter
Perhaps the avatars are scaring them away.