Millie Schmidt’s great blog post, The Cool Kids of WordPress awoke the inner anarchist in me and I simply had to create a post in the same spirit but with my own black twist to it.
You see, at school I was not one of the cool kids.
I was the brooding goth who stood in the corner wearing a vial of my own blood around my neck and spouted demented poetry at anyone who came near.
And in many respects, I don’t think I’ve changed. Although I aspire to be a respected writer I doubt I’ll ever reach the heights of the ‘cool kids’ as mentioned in Millie’s post.
So I dedicate this post to my fellow goths, nerds, and exchange school students – let’s unite in our noobness, our under-developed reputations and shout a loud “we’re here!” to the WordPress community.
I’ll kick off:
“G’day all! I’m Jess Bakkers, I’m new here. Can I be your friend? You can have my lunch money if you’ll just be my friend…”
*Are you new to WP? Have only a few followers? Or maybe just a dirty old curmudgeon like myself, if so, I’d love to meet you! Leave me a hello… and your lunch money if you want to be friends 😏
Hello from a fellow underfollowed blogger 😉
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Hello right back at you my friend!
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You might be interested to know I’ve made a REAL Outcast’s Bloghouse club! https://jessicabakkers.com/2017/04/13/the-outcasts-bloghouse-no-cool-kids-allowed/
If you’d like to be featured as an Outcast’s Bloghouse member email me with or direct me to your bio and I’ll write a featurette for you!
Cheers, Jess!
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Nice, I’ll check it out, thanks 🙂
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Awesome!
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Thanks OM and welcome to my shady patch behind the shelter sheds!
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It’s nice here! 😄
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Yeah we have smokes and bad poetry!
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You might be interested to know I’ve made a REAL Outcast’s Bloghouse club! https://jessicabakkers.com/2017/04/13/the-outcasts-bloghouse-no-cool-kids-allowed/
If you’d like to be featured as an Outcast’s Bloghouse member email me with or direct me to your bio and I’ll write a featurette for you!
Cheers, Jess!
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Hello!!
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Hello Crista!! Nice to ‘meet’ you.
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You might be interested to know I’ve made a REAL Outcast’s Bloghouse club! https://jessicabakkers.com/2017/04/13/the-outcasts-bloghouse-no-cool-kids-allowed/
If you’d like to be featured as an Outcast’s Bloghouse member email me with or direct me to your bio and I’ll write a featurette for you!
Cheers, Jess!
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In high school I was voted “Most Interesting” two years straight–“interesting” being a euphemism for “weird”. Which really just goes to show what a plain vanilla little town that was, a pit stop on my way to Elsewhere. Nice to meet you!
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Hahaha! What a backhanded slap “most interesting” – I actually love it. Welcome and nice to meet you Sunny!
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You might be interested to know I’ve made a REAL Outcast’s Bloghouse club! https://jessicabakkers.com/2017/04/13/the-outcasts-bloghouse-no-cool-kids-allowed/
If you’d like to be featured as an Outcast’s Bloghouse member email me with or direct me to your bio and I’ll write a featurette for you!
Cheers, Jess!
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You did it, just as you said you would. Good for you! I am nowhere near followers by the hundreds. I’m not brand new to blogging, But I’ve had a dry spell for a while. I’m newly invigorated to write again seriously and it has been such a freaking awesome thing. My goal is to write at least every other day, even if it sits in drafts. Write well and they will come…. hopefully. 🙂
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Thanks my new friend! Glad to hear writing has once again captured your heart!
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You might be interested to know I’ve made a REAL Outcast’s Bloghouse club! https://jessicabakkers.com/2017/04/13/the-outcasts-bloghouse-no-cool-kids-allowed/
If you’d like to be featured as an Outcast’s Bloghouse member email me with or direct me to your bio and I’ll write a featurette for you!
Cheers, Jess!
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I would love to be a member, dear coolest of the uncool. So exciting. Is a link to my about page sufficient, or is there something else that you’d prefer?
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That would be awesome and a link will do just fine! 😊
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https://iwannabealady.wordpress.com/about/
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Thanks hon! I’ve got a few weeks of guests booked up but you’ll feature in May for sure!!
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This is such an awesome idea you have here. So proud of you.
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Thanks! I just love a good community and I feel we have one on WP and i’d like to be part of bringing us all squishy close together!
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This post made me smile. WP is anonymous enough that we can be who we want to be, engage as much or as little as we want to. I’ll share my lunch money with you. 🙂
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Aw thanks D! Nice to meet you too and cheers!
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You might be interested to know I’ve made a REAL Outcast’s Bloghouse club! https://jessicabakkers.com/2017/04/13/the-outcasts-bloghouse-no-cool-kids-allowed/
If you’d like to be featured as an Outcast’s Bloghouse member email me with or direct me to your bio and I’ll write a featurette for you!
Cheers, Jess!
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I would love to join! Here’s the bio link https://mythsofthemirror.com/about-the-author-d-wallace-peach/
Thanks! 😀
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Awesome! I’ve got the next two weeks lined up with peeps, but you’ll be the week after!
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Sounds great. Thanks so much 🙂 I enjoy your sense of humor (I first typed “sense of human”). Ha ha. Looking forward to reading more.
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Sense of human 😉
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Hello Jess, my lunch money is finished, but I can leave you a slice of pie 🙂
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Oh my god, pie!! I love pie!! Ok,you’re in! 😜
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You might be interested to know I’ve made a REAL Outcast’s Bloghouse club! https://jessicabakkers.com/2017/04/13/the-outcasts-bloghouse-no-cool-kids-allowed/
If you’d like to be featured as an Outcast’s Bloghouse member email me with or direct me to your bio and I’ll write a featurette for you!
Cheers, Jess!
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That’s great. Let me write a reminder to myself to do this.
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What about having TWO underfollowed WordPress blogs?
That’s me, I’m Dave. Nice to meet you.
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Oh no Dave! Well, geez, welcome to the dark side my friend!
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Happy to be here. All the best things happen in the dark 😉
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Bahahaha! Ah you made me smile with that one!
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Hello there I am a collector and so have many blogs all which are wonderful but no one seems to realize that fact.
That tall kid over there with the overdeveloped biceps already took my lunch money.
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Welcome Belleza! The outcasts are growing, soon we’ll have our own little posse to take back all the stolen lunch money! Huzzah!
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You might be interested to know I’ve made a REAL Outcast’s Bloghouse club! https://jessicabakkers.com/2017/04/13/the-outcasts-bloghouse-no-cool-kids-allowed/
If you’d like to be featured as an Outcast’s Bloghouse member email me with or direct me to your bio and I’ll write a featurette for you!
Cheers, Jess!
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Ok I have a bio but need to update it.
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No worries, just let me know if and when you want to ‘join’ 😉
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I updated it, it’s at https://bellabf.com/about/ or I can e-mail it to you.
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Nah, the link is fine! Thank you! FYI I’m looking at the last week of May for your featurette (I’ll let you know when it goes up!)
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Thanks! I’ll be sure to have plenty of whiskey and ginger ale on hand. 🙂
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Great post! I never had lunch money in school. I remember relying on the kindness of friends to buy me a sweet from the school canteen (back in the day when there was no ‘traffic light’ system as to what could be served).
Thanks for uniting the WordPress kids!
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Here Marie, have a chocolate frog on me!
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You might be interested to know I’ve made a REAL Outcast’s Bloghouse club! https://jessicabakkers.com/2017/04/13/the-outcasts-bloghouse-no-cool-kids-allowed/
If you’d like to be featured as an Outcast’s Bloghouse member email me with or direct me to your bio and I’ll write a featurette for you!
Cheers, Jess!
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Yay!! I’m so glad you wrote this!! This is awesome 🙂 I found it so entertaining that I had too read it out to my parents hahaha
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Haha, thanks Millie! You are officially my muse!
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You might be interested to know I’ve made a REAL Outcast’s Bloghouse club! https://jessicabakkers.com/2017/04/13/the-outcasts-bloghouse-no-cool-kids-allowed/
If you’d like to be featured as an Outcast’s Bloghouse member email me with or direct me to your bio and I’ll write a featurette for you!
Cheers, Jess!
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That is so awesome! Yes I would absolute love to be part of it! You can source from my about page if you like, but let me know if you’d like something different 🙂 https://millieschmidt.wordpress.com/about/
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Well it wouldn’t be a proper party without our token cool kid, Miss Millie!
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Awe thank you, you’ve just made me feel valued 🙂
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Welcome hon!
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& clearly an Aussie with that resounding “G’day”!
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Haha yeah, dead give away right?
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Yay, hello!
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And the outcasts grow 😜
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You might be interested to know I’ve made a REAL Outcast’s Bloghouse club! https://jessicabakkers.com/2017/04/13/the-outcasts-bloghouse-no-cool-kids-allowed/
If you’d like to be featured as an Outcast’s Bloghouse member email me with or direct me to your bio and I’ll write a featurette for you!
Cheers, Jess!
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Will do, thanks!
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Awesome!
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Hello to you. I am what could be called a juggler on WordPress since I have three blogs going. Handed over one of my blogs for my cat Sid to handle. Amazingly he’s doing fairly well for a cat.
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Bahaha! I love it! You are now officially a member of The Outcasts and Sid is our mascot… if he’s not too busy blogging that is.
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You might be interested to know I’ve made a REAL Outcast’s Bloghouse club! https://jessicabakkers.com/2017/04/13/the-outcasts-bloghouse-no-cool-kids-allowed/
If you’d like to be featured as an Outcast’s Bloghouse member email me with or direct me to your bio and I’ll write a featurette for you!
Cheers, Jess!
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I didn’t bring lunch money, but I’ll share my peanut butter sandwich.
A warning though–it doesn’t have jelly and the bread’s that healthy stuff. But I’ll save it till you decide whether that’s worth a friendship.
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Aw that’s fine Ellen; I’ll just lick the peanut butter off the bread. Welcome to the club!
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Perfect. I don’t usually fit into a group, but I just might here.
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*lick lick*
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You might be interested to know I’ve made a REAL Outcast’s Bloghouse club! https://jessicabakkers.com/2017/04/13/the-outcasts-bloghouse-no-cool-kids-allowed/
If you’d like to be featured as an Outcast’s Bloghouse member email me with or direct me to your bio and I’ll write a featurette for you!
Cheers, Jess!
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As a geek wannabe, I’m thrilled to be a social outcast if it means I can hang out with you folks. Obviously, I will have to follow this merry band of WordPressians. Jessica, I want to thank you for following me earlier. I’m a brand new WordPress blogger and I really appreciate it.
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Welcome aboard! We like geeks; they can fix our computers when they die. 🙂
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Don’t forget that I’m a wannabe geek. So I will very much WANT to fix your computers, but time will tell if I can. 😉
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You might be interested to know I’ve made a REAL Outcast’s Bloghouse club! https://jessicabakkers.com/2017/04/13/the-outcasts-bloghouse-no-cool-kids-allowed/
If you’d like to be featured as an Outcast’s Bloghouse member email me with or direct me to your bio and I’ll write a featurette for you!
Cheers, Jess!
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Awesomeness! Here’s a link to my bio. https://wordpress.com/page/mainepaperpusher.wordpress.com/2 I think this is a terrific idea.
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Aw thanks!! I’ve got your featurette penciled in for 22/5/17; i’ll let you know when it goes live!
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Thanks, it sounds like a fun group!
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Well it’s led by a madwoman so anything goes.
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You did the post! I’m so glad ❤ now us misfits have a place in this WP world 😉
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Welcome Amy! Glad to have another misfit aboard! 😉
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I’ll be happy to be your friend. No lunch money required. 🙂
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I’ll share my dippit snack with you!
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Hello from a fellow non cool kid..
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Welcome Steph! Nice to “meet” you and come on back behind the shelter sheds, we have cake and brownies!
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cute, quaint, funny. Loved it.
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Thanks GP! 😉
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I, too, used to be “that weird goth / skater / emo / scene girl” in school (sometimes all within the same year. How impressive!)… Now I’m just “that weird vintage girl with her nose in housekeeping manuals all the time”. Glad I’m not alone, at least!
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Hahaha, no, definitely not! There’s a lot of us about 😉
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