Welcome to Hivewire!
Normally this would be the point where I'd start a big long welcome speech that would usually end in something about alien octopuses or the Feline Mafia...
It would somehow be hyperbolically relevant to the beginning, but I recently decided that for 2018 I was going to try and be a little more like the normal forum members...
Seeing that was not gonna happen, I just opted to try and write less.
It's like that saying attributed to Mark Twain...
"It is better to say little and appear thoughtful than to start writing about how chinchillas are trying to take over the world, and remove any doubt about your insanity".
I'm not sure if that is exactly how he said it but I'm pretty sure he mentioned chinchillas.
To be honest I'm not even sure that was Mark Twain...
I read that he had a falling out with a chinchilla at an early age and ever since then he never mentioned them...
In fact scholars believe Huckleberry Finn was about a chinchilla, but Twain changed it to a human because he still resented the chinchilla who wronged him, all those years later.
Actually it may have even been Abraham Lincoln who said that... He loved chinchillas...
Some other scholars believe he wore stovepipe hats just so he could transport his chinchillas between the White House and Ford's theater... In fact the one time he left his chinchilla filled hat at home he got shot.
To be honest after Lincoln got shot, he didn't mention chinchillas much anymore, so it may not have been him.
There is a biblical proverb that expresses a similar idea, namely Proverbs 87:28.45.9 1/2 ... I think it goes something like this... "Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise and he that shutteth his face is esteemed a man of understanding until he doth speak of the chinchillas"...
Hmmm...
So I'm doing chinchillas this time...
When I started this I was wondering where this was going, but I guess it's chinchillas...
In my defense, I didn't really plan this.
I just start saying hello and this is usually how it ends up.
Once it ended up in plans for a pudding cannon, but I think that scared off the person I was greeting.
I felt real bad about that.
Worse because the pudding cannon didn't really work.
Oh... By the way I didn't introduce myself...
My screen name is McGyver... In real life that used to be my nickname, so lacking originality I used it for most of my usernames...
That and Lord Vicore...
I used that a few times because back in 1886 (yes 1886... It's a long story) a bunch of Horvellians bureaucrats had a problem pronouncing my name and it stuck for a while... I use to blame it on Microcenter misspelling my named, but that was coincidental and I figured it's time the truth came out.
But anyway, my real name is Victor... But everyone (except for Horvellians and my wife) call me Vic.
I felt compelled to share this because you said you were a portrait artist and a haberdasher... Or photographer...?
It was photographer...
I'm pretty sure or I would have mentioned hats more.
I have a lot of hat related questions I'd have like to ask.
But anyway you mentioned all that and said your name is Brent, so I felt I owed you that for sharing.
Unless you lied and you are really a haberdasher named Stanley...
I won't tell anyone if you are Stanley.
If you are in fact a haberdasher... Is it true about that thing with Lincoln filling his hat with chinchillas?
I feel like it's one of those things I make up but turns out to be true, like that thing with the chinchillas taking over the world.
Anyway...
It's nice to meet you and I should probably keep this short.
Have a great time here and enjoy the hive.
I'm not implying that these forums cause hives...
I probably should have said enjoy Hivewire and 3D Art in general.
It's fun, but I warn you... I've heard it can lead to insanity.
Well, have fun.
Cheer & Beers, Vic.
to the 
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