I'll try that KingTomato even though right now I'm still looking at your suggestion and trying to figure it out (I'm new to scripting). What I'm understanding is that you are using the $calc function to multiply 3 by 1000. If this works, then why couldn't I simply append that same delay to the end of each /notice command? As an example:

on 1:TEXT:!commands*:#:{
; delay in seconds
var %delay = 3
/notice $nick !help - Main help screen $calc(%delay * 1000)
/notice $nick !ops - a list of the channel ops $calc(%delay * 1000)
/notice $nick !channels - a list of the affiliated channels (%delay * 1000)
...etc
...etc
}

Would this work??

And thanks in advance for the advice. I appretiate it.