In some respects there is a bit of irony with no Newbies allowed to get a coin, and the account saying this has Newbie for the account level. I guess it is humorous in a "this Newbie account is not going to take care of other Newbie accounts" way.
This becomes especially surreal when you read that the'd logically expect 250,000 users to join the airdrop. Not only there are probably not in the whole world 250,000 people who actually own bitcoins, not only there are surely not 250,000 people on bitcointalk, but if you also take away the Newbies, who many are left?