# Ask the guy who's been an SDMB board member for 10 years today **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 15, 2010, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-whos-been-an-sdmb-board-member-for-10-years-today/553831 "2010-09-15T12:02:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-whos-been-an-sdmb-board-member-for-10-years-today/553831/41 "2010-09-16T12:23:07Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Man, 10 years for me, too. Wow. Words fail me… With a post count like that they don’t fail you often 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-whos-been-an-sdmb-board-member-for-10-years-today/553831/42 "2010-09-16T12:35:43Z")
I feel so old… Question: How do you feel about joining on the same day as that legendary poster [11yo doofus](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php) (interests: looking up cheerleaders skirts)? ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-whos-been-an-sdmb-board-member-for-10-years-today/553831/43 "2010-09-16T13:12:20Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > I feel so old… > > Question: How do you feel about joining on the same day as that legendary poster [11yo doofus](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php) (interests: looking up cheerleaders skirts)? It appears he registered on Oct 16 so he’s not really even in the same league as me. But for a scary thought, consider this: He’s now a 21 year old doofus. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-whos-been-an-sdmb-board-member-for-10-years-today/553831/44 "2010-09-16T13:29:07Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > It appears he registered on Oct 16 so he’s not really even in the same league as me. Join Date: 9-15-2000 Last Activity: 10-16-2000 You newbie… Don’t worry, you’ll get the hang of this board one of these days. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-whos-been-an-sdmb-board-member-for-10-years-today/553831/45 "2010-09-16T14:39:06Z")
Ever been in a Turkish prison? What do you miss the most about the preP2P era? (I know it’s free to post again now, but I separate my personal eras of SDMB by the P2P crap) What are you most glad about changing from then to now? ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-whos-been-an-sdmb-board-member-for-10-years-today/553831/46 "2010-09-16T14:45:38Z")
How do you feel about posting to this thread today, even though its premise is no longer accurate? Also, today is Mexico’s independence day. Do you have any more speeches that you can translate poorly into Spanish, then poorly again back into English? ---
**Author:** ![XJETGIRLX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9fc29f/32.png) [@XJETGIRLX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XJETGIRLX)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-whos-been-an-sdmb-board-member-for-10-years-today/553831/47 "2010-09-16T15:25:08Z")
Whatcha been up to lately? ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-whos-been-an-sdmb-board-member-for-10-years-today/553831/48 "2010-09-16T15:35:20Z")
What’s with the whole “Hi, Opal” thing? ---
**Author:** ![cards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@cards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cards)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-whos-been-an-sdmb-board-member-for-10-years-today/553831/49 "2010-09-16T16:07:06Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > What’s with the whole “Hi, Opal” thing? Skipped the whole indoctrination, eh? Well, as a 99er, I’ll administer the usual punishment as soon as I round up the goats and the squid. Here this should help: > **[Ten years of the Dope: a history](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=537416)** > > (A work in progress) A few threads ago someone asked about the origins of “Gotcha Ya,” and I was shocked to realize that it goes all the way back to 2001. It feels so recent. I started thinking about other things that make up the Board’s character... ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-whos-been-an-sdmb-board-member-for-10-years-today/553831/50 "2010-09-16T16:35:22Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Ever been in a Turkish prison? > > What do you miss the most about the preP2P era? (I know it’s free to post again now, but I separate my personal eras of SDMB by the P2P crap) > > What are you most glad about changing from then to now? No. But I have seen a grown man naked. I guess I could say the ads, but they never really bothered me enough to even try to get ad blocker. Sometimes I find them amusing depending on the subject matter and how they match up with the threads. What I miss most, honestly, is a post count! For everyone! I just liked seeing that number, even if it didn’t necessarily lead any weight towards what the person was saying. What I like that’s changed is that there are now numbers for every post in a thread so you can easily reference what’s been said before and track a thread as it goes along day after day. And I have to give a shout out to the moderators/admins. Yes, it’s basically a thankless volunteer job, and yes, they screw up from time to time. But they’ve kept this board from delving into a sea of anarchy. And let’s be honest. Much as we rail against the strictness here, it’s really, trivially easy to not get banned on these boards. It’s called not being an ass-nougat. Oh, and sometimes I miss Dopefests. We just don’t have them like they were back in the day. > [@MeanOldLady](#): > > How do you feel about posting to this thread today, even though its premise is no longer accurate? Also, today is Mexico’s independence day. Do you have any more speeches that you can translate poorly into Spanish, then poorly again back into English? I thought about starting another thread called “Ask the guy who’s been an SDMB board member for 10 years and one day today.” But then I’d be an ass-nougat. So I decided against it. And yes. Yes I do. Here you go! ¡Soy Guillermo Wallace! Y veo a un ejército entero de mis paisanos, aquí en el desafío de la tiranía. You’ VE viene luchar mientras que son los hombres libres… y los hombres libres usted. ¿Qué usted hará con esa libertad? ¿Usted luchará? Aye, lucha y usted puede morir. Funcione, y you’ ll vivo… por lo menos un rato. Y muriendo en sus camas, muchos años de ahora en adelante, usted sería willin’ para negociar TODOS LOS días, a partir de este día a ése, para una ocasión, apenas una ocasión, de volverse aquí y de decir nuestros enemigos que pueden tardar nuestras vidas, solamente they’ el ll nunca toma… ¡NUESTRA LIBERTAD! I am Guillermo Wallace! And I see a whole army of my countrymen, here in the challenge of the tyranny. You have come to fight whereas they are the free men… and the free men you. What you will do with that freedom? You will fight? Aye, fights and you can die. He works, and you will live at least… awhile. And dying in his beds, many years from now on, you would be prepared to negotiate Every day, as of this day to that one, to an occasion, as soon as an occasion, to become and to say our enemies here who can take our lives, only they’ ll never takes… OUR FREEDOM! > [@XJETGIRLX](#): > > Whatcha been up to lately? Whelp. I’m having a kid. First one. In November. So that’s kinda exciting. And I watched Whip It for the first time last week. I liked the modern retro feel where it was taking place in 2009 but it felt like it was 1982. Still, it was overall a rather mediocre film. I guess I’d rather see the real thing. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-whos-been-an-sdmb-board-member-for-10-years-today/553831/51 "2010-09-16T16:40:37Z")
Why is hot sauce hot? ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-whos-been-an-sdmb-board-member-for-10-years-today/553831/52 "2010-09-16T17:29:58Z")
I was around in late '99 but didn’t register until '01. I was a total newb to message boards and at first I just waited until I got my feet wet. THEN, all you early birds intimidated me with your clever usernames. I wanted to be equally as witty; but alas, it was not to be. I finally gave up in '01 and registered as Ruby. My question to you, however, is why do I continue to pronounce your username “Underwear24” in my head? ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-whos-been-an-sdmb-board-member-for-10-years-today/553831/53 "2010-09-16T18:49:39Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Why is hot sauce hot? Because it has failed to be quenched by my milkshake that brought all the boys to the yard. > [@Ruby](#): > > I was > My question to you, however, is why do I continue to pronounce your username “Underwear24” in my head? Because, like 97.5% of the Dope, you are functunally illiterate. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2010, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-whos-been-an-sdmb-board-member-for-10-years-today/553831/54 "2010-09-18T03:00:49Z")
functunally? func-tun-ally? func-tune-ally? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2010, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-whos-been-an-sdmb-board-member-for-10-years-today/553831/55 "2010-09-18T12:31:49Z")
The Autotune of message boards! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2010, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-whos-been-an-sdmb-board-member-for-10-years-today/553831/56 "2010-09-18T12:33:16Z")
The Autotune of message boards! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2010, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-whos-been-an-sdmb-board-member-for-10-years-today/553831/57 "2010-09-18T12:36:41Z")
Whoa! Just like the Old Days! ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-whos-been-an-sdmb-board-member-for-10-years-today/553831/58 "2010-09-20T17:19:22Z")
> [@Ruby](#): > > functunally? func-tun-ally? func-tune-ally? It’s actually short for Fun Canned Tuna Ally. It’s a street that the editors of Harry Potter decided to eliminate. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-whos-been-an-sdmb-board-member-for-10-years-today/553831/59 "2010-09-20T18:09:41Z")
Do you have any idea who I am? I was on a really good streak of going almost 10 years without getting Pitted, then there was that unpleasantness with my big fat racism, but mostly I fly under the radar, as far as I can tell. Especially with my invisible posts. Shoot, you’ll probably just ignore this post because it’s from a n00b. ☹ ETA: I never thought of your username as Underwear24, but I will now! Thanks, **Ruby!** 😃 ETA: Stoopit '99ers. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-whos-been-an-sdmb-board-member-for-10-years-today/553831/60 "2010-09-20T18:18:52Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Do you have any idea who I am? I was on a really good streak of going almost 10 years without getting Pitted, then there was that unpleasantness with my big fat racism, but mostly I fly under the radar, as far as I can tell. Especially with my invisible posts. > > Shoot, you’ll probably just ignore this post because it’s from a n00b. ☹ > > ETA: I never thought of your username as Underwear24, but I will now! Thanks, **Ruby!** 😃 > > ETA: Stoopit '99ers. Yes. You are Cat Whisperer. You speak to the cats. You speak for the cats too. And yeah, I know who you are. I mean, not personally. Not biblically either. But with 28K posts to your name it’s hard not to bump into you once or twice, pittings be damned. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-whos-been-an-sdmb-board-member-for-10-years-today/553831.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-whos-been-an-sdmb-board-member-for-10-years-today/553831.md?page=4)