I want to be popular!

[RoJoHen]

I have been a member here for almost 9 years, and after all that time I can't help feeling that I should be more popular. I don't know that I've ever done anything to stick out. I want to be the TrekBBS Star Quarterback, with the sexy Orion Slave Girl Cheerleader on my arm. I want the emo kids to hate me because they secretly wish they were just as popular as me. I want the nerds to quiver because they're afraid I'm gonna steal their lunch money. I want the $50,000 shuttlecraft and the $200 VISOR (not because I'm blind, but because they make me look so HOTT).

I want to be in the IN crowd. Right now, I'm kind of on the sidelines. I have my little niche of posters that I communicate with regularly, but I'm not a part of the A Squad.

I've never had a fancy Green username (though I did break into the Briefing Room once back in 2002 and learn that I was almost a Mod). I never have other posters photoshop me into hilarious situations. Hell, there are still tons of people here who think I'm a girl.

I feel like I do all the right things. I gush over Firefly. I drink a lot. I bitch about people's driving habits. Are these not requirements for being popular around here? What else do I need to do?

Also, I can't get that song from "Wicked" out of my head. "Popular! You're gonna be pop-u-lar!"

 

[JonathonWally]

I honestly have no idea who here is considered the "in" crowd. I'm just "here"

 

[SPOCKED]

Dude, the "popularity" line begins at Jayson and extends a mile in length - get in the back of it just like the rest of us did

 

[Kestra]

I noticed you when you started posting pics of adorable babies. That probably doesn't help. I'm not popular either, but people actually occasionally quote me now, so I don't feel completely invisible.

 

[RoJoHen]

Dude, the "popularity" line begins at Jayson and extends a mile in length - get in the back of it just like the rest of us did

I try avoid getting behind people around here...or letting people get behind me.

It tends to encourage innuendo that I'd rather avoid.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

If it makes you feel better, i like you.

 

[RoJoHen]

Dude, the "popularity" line begins at Jayson and extends a mile in length - get in the back of it just like the rest of us did

I try avoid getting behind people around here...or letting people get behind me.

It tends to encourage innuendo that I'd rather avoid.

If it makes you feel better, i like you.

How fitting.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

It fits perfectly, actually.

 

[jamestyler]

I honestly have no idea who here is considered the "in" crowd. I'm just "here"

That perfectly describes my existance on any forum - even the one I own and operate

When people start to recognise me I tend to worry I'm online too much.

 

[Ethros]

I've been here over seven years, and can't say I feel overly "popular", nor am I that bothered really















I am really, I go to sleep every night crying over it.

Only joking, but I do sometimes wonder how recognisable I am. In that there are posters I never "talk to" as it were, but I always recognise their usernames and/or avs. And there are a few posters with high post counts/ranks, yet I haven't got a clue who they are

 

[Plecostomus]

Hell, there are still tons of people here who think I'm a girl.

Well there goes my suggestion.

 

[An Officer]

Ethros, the high ranking unfamiliar handles would be those posting about Enterprise, I suppose.

I actually quite like keeping a low profile myself. I like me enough to make up for everyone else who doesn't care.

 

[Holdfast]

I want to be in the IN crowd.

Also, I can't get that song from "Wicked" out of my head. "Popular! You're gonna be pop-u-lar!"

If you can tell me who sung the song I can't get out of MY head right now, you'll be popular with me.

(the lyrics are something like "run away with you; nothing else to do; run away with you, run run run run" but, to coin a phrase, the googles, they do nothing. No, it's not the Supremes, the Corrs, the Who, Velvet Underground, or any of the other suspects variations of those lyrics turn up. Song is an uptempo, bright pop track, probably late 70s or 80s)

 

[JonathonWally]

Ethros, The high ranking unfamiliar handles would be those posting about Enterprise, I suppose.

I actually quite like keeping a low profile myself. I like me enough to make up for everyone else who doesn't care.

You've also changed your username 1-2 times. I partially count you having to shorten you current one.

 

[RoJoHen]

I have absolutely no idea.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I want to be in the IN crowd.

Also, I can't get that song from "Wicked" out of my head. "Popular! You're gonna be pop-u-lar!"

If you can tell me who sung the song I can't get out of MY head right now, you'll be popular with me.

(the lyrics are something like "run away with you; nothing else to do; run away with you, run run run run" but, to coin a phrase, the googles, they do nothing. No, it's not the Supremes, the Corrs, the Who, Velvet Underground, or any of the other suspects variations of those lyrics turn up. Song is an uptempo, bright pop track, probably late 70s or 80s)

"Thorn In My Side" - Eurhythmics

 

[Hermiod]

Ugh, popularity! I don't even like me!

 

[Ethros]

^ I think you are though, I always think of you and Bob The Skutter as the most prominent British posters in the threads I look in.
And that I used to read your name as "Haemorrhoid"

 

[An Officer]

You've also changed your username 1-2 times. I partially count you having to shorten you current one.

You get a cookie for that.

I was "compelled" to shorten my previous username - I was stretching some people's tiny screens or something. At that time, I posted so little, I'd had the name for like a half year before any complaints were raised. There I was, settled in too.

 

[Holdfast]

I have absolutely no idea.

You're not popular with me.

I want to be in the IN crowd.

Also, I can't get that song from "Wicked" out of my head. "Popular! You're gonna be pop-u-lar!"

If you can tell me who sung the song I can't get out of MY head right now, you'll be popular with me.

(the lyrics are something like "run away with you; nothing else to do; run away with you, run run run run" but, to coin a phrase, the googles, they do nothing. No, it's not the Supremes, the Corrs, the Who, Velvet Underground, or any of the other suspects variations of those lyrics turn up. Song is an uptempo, bright pop track, probably late 70s or 80s)

"Thorn In My Side" - Eurhythmics

You, however, are now EXTREMELY popular with me.

How on earth you got that from the mangled lyrics I misremembered is beyond me - it's been bugging me for the last half hour or so. Thank you!