# Enter Your "Sponsor My Membership" Requests Here **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 5, 2007, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-your-sponsor-my-membership-requests-here/398858 "2007-04-05T15:01:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-your-sponsor-my-membership-requests-here/398858/141 "2007-04-23T18:11:20Z")
[QUOTE=Mama Zappa] Gotcha! Order number SDMB2007042312020904650101. Sorry to hear about your poor li’l rattie ☹ No cartoon strictly required but if you’re in a silly mood, maybe something like a moose, Doping 🙂 [/QUOTE] Thanks so much! 🙂 And thanks for the condolences. She was a pretty old girl, but had a good life. Still miss her now and then. Of course I will do a cartoon for you! Do you mean a moose surfing the message boards? ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-your-sponsor-my-membership-requests-here/398858/142 "2007-04-23T18:19:32Z")
Whoops, also, looks like both **Mama Zappa** and **silenus** ’s orders got through - I have a confirmation for both SDMB2007042312010804650101 and SDMB200704231201804650101. My new expiry date is 07-05-2009. Haha, cool! Thanks heaps folks!!😃 Silenus, just send me an email on what cartoon you’d like. ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-your-sponsor-my-membership-requests-here/398858/143 "2007-04-23T18:21:35Z")
[QUOTE=vetbridge] I was working on resubscribing you, but it looks like everyone beat me to it. You should take that as a compliment! Oh, btw. . .what do you consider outlandish? 😛 [/QUOTE] Thanks for the offer anyway! I really appreciate it. 🙂 Outlandish is $150 for a full body x-ray of a 0.5lb rat. That doesn’t include the $40 for the appointment itself and $62 for the medication. ☹ I wanted to have her cremated after she died, but they said it would cost **$500**. :eek: For an itty bittie rattie? No way. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-your-sponsor-my-membership-requests-here/398858/144 "2007-04-24T00:58:48Z")
[QUOTE=Amazon Floozy Goddess] ( I wanted to have her cremated after she died, but they said it would cost **$500**. :eek: For an itty bittie rattie? No way. [/QUOTE] Crikes! The Chicago Reader oughta be in the cremation biz, instead of f\*ing around with these small-potato resubscriptions. If they promised to cremate your rat/cat/snake/dog/loved one/ for even $150/burn, they’d get rich. Hey, Little Ed. I think there’s an idea here. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-your-sponsor-my-membership-requests-here/398858/145 "2007-04-24T01:00:46Z")
And, on a more serious note, I want to sincerely praise the members who have volunteered to sponsor others who can’t currently resubscribe. Seriously. All of you make me proud to be a member of a board like this. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-your-sponsor-my-membership-requests-here/398858/146 "2007-04-24T01:04:10Z")
[QUOTE=Amazon Floozy Goddess] Thanks so much! 🙂 And thanks for the condolences. She was a pretty old girl, but had a good life. Still miss her now and then. Of course I will do a cartoon for you! Do you mean a moose surfing the message boards? [/QUOTE] But of course 🙂 Typo Knig and I have always loved mooses (meese?). They’re just such _goofy_ looking animals. And being the Straight Dope addicts we are, we’d treasure such a thing. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-your-sponsor-my-membership-requests-here/398858/147 "2007-04-24T01:13:42Z")
[QUOTE=samclem] And, on a more serious note, I want to sincerely praise the members who have volunteered to sponsor others who can’t currently resubscribe. Seriously. All of you make me proud to be a member of a board like this. [/QUOTE] Hell not only that we have people fighting to resubscribe other members. **AFG** got resubed twice with **Vetbridge** stepping in to batting clean up if needed. Good group of people here. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-your-sponsor-my-membership-requests-here/398858/148 "2007-04-24T01:38:41Z")
Does this mean we have Brownie points in reserve in case we fuck up sometime in the future (he asked innocently)? Or does it just mean you will feel a momentary and completely fleeting twinge when you ban us? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-your-sponsor-my-membership-requests-here/398858/149 "2007-04-24T02:46:57Z")
-cackle- You know those elements on the Periodic Table that have only existed for less than 1/250,000,000,000,000th of a second in a linear accelerator? That’s an eternity next to how long that twinge would last. 😃 😃 😃 Still… the idea bears merit. Re-up a Doper and gain a Get Out Of Banjail Free Card. I like it. ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-your-sponsor-my-membership-requests-here/398858/150 "2007-04-24T04:13:07Z")
[QUOTE=Mama Zappa] But of course 🙂 Typo Knig and I have always loved mooses (meese?). They’re just such _goofy_ looking animals. And being the Straight Dope addicts we are, we’d treasure such a thing. [/QUOTE] Consider it done! I’ll just need you to email me your address and I’ll send you one (flat) moose. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![manx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@manx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manx)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-your-sponsor-my-membership-requests-here/398858/151 "2007-04-24T12:06:10Z")
The last two years I’ve been lucky enough to be sponsored, now I get to pass it on! I’m good for one membership renewal; my email’s in my profile. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-your-sponsor-my-membership-requests-here/398858/152 "2007-04-24T17:10:24Z")
[QUOTE=Amazon Floozy Goddess] Outlandish is $150 for a full body x-ray of a 0.5lb rat. That doesn’t include the $40 for the appointment itself and $62 for the medication. ☹ I wanted to have her cremated after she died, but they said it would cost **$500**. :eek: For an itty bittie rattie? No way. [/QUOTE] :eek: Wow. That stuff varies a good bit with location, but that still sounds high. In my neck of the woods, the radiograph would have run you $45, the appointment $30, and cremation $40. In some areas cremation is regulated a good bit by the environmental people, maybe that has an effect. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-your-sponsor-my-membership-requests-here/398858/153 "2007-04-24T21:15:34Z")
I just got a $950 Credit Card bill, 3X normal. Covers expenses from around Mom’s death. Gotta withdraw my offer. ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-your-sponsor-my-membership-requests-here/398858/154 "2007-04-25T19:07:32Z")
[QUOTE=vetbridge] :eek: Wow. That stuff varies a good bit with location, but that still sounds high. In my neck of the woods, the radiograph would have run you $45, the appointment $30, and cremation $40. In some areas cremation is regulated a good bit by the environmental people, maybe that has an effect. [/QUOTE] Yeah, the prices I quoted are in Canadian $$ though. So I’m sure there’s a difference there…my vet is the only one in my town that accepts exotics patients, too. I went to so many that wouldn’t take rats before I found my current vet. No idea why the cremation was so much. Maybe they need to use a special miniature retort for rats or something? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2007, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-your-sponsor-my-membership-requests-here/398858/155 "2007-04-26T02:23:32Z")
Now that we’re getting so close to the Charter Member deadline, is there anyone who isn’t covered? Please post - it looks like I’m not the only potential sponsor without a client. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2007, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-your-sponsor-my-membership-requests-here/398858/156 "2007-04-26T02:40:09Z")
[QUOTE=Amazon Floozy Goddess] Thanks for the offer anyway! I really appreciate it. 🙂 Outlandish is $150 for a full body x-ray of a 0.5lb rat. That doesn’t include the $40 for the appointment itself and $62 for the medication. ☹ I wanted to have her cremated after she died, but they said it would cost **$500**. :eek: For an itty bittie rattie? No way. [/QUOTE] I must preface this by saying that I am very sorry for your loss, but these outlandish prices remind me of an old joke: A man runs into the vet’s office carrying his dog, screaming for help. The vet rushes him back to an examination room and has him put his dog down on the examination table. The vet examines the still, limp body and after a few moments tells the man that his dog, regrettably, is dead. The man, clearly agitated and not willing to accept this, demands a second opinion. The vet goes into the back room and comes out with a cat and puts the cat down next to the dog’s body. The cat sniffs the body, walks from head to tail poking and sniffing the dog’s body and finally looks at the vet and meows. The vet looks at the man and says, “I’m sorry, but the cat thinks that your dog is dead too.” The man is still unwilling to accept that his dog is dead. The vet brings in a black Labrador. The lab sniffs the body, walks from head to tail, and finally looks at the vet and barks. The vet looks at the man and says, “I’m sorry, but the lab thinks your dog is dead too.” The man, finally resigned to the diagnosis, thanks the vet and asks how much he owes. The vet answers, “$650.” “$650 to tell me my dog is dead?” exclaimed the man… “Well,” the vet replies, “I would only have charged you $50 for my initial diagnosis. The additional $600 was for the cat scan and lab tests.” I’m sorry if this joke comes under the category of “too soon”. ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_Venom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9fc348/32.png) [@Lady\_Venom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_Venom)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2007, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-your-sponsor-my-membership-requests-here/398858/157 "2007-04-26T15:05:57Z")
[QUOTE=manx] The last two years I’ve been lucky enough to be sponsored, now I get to pass it on! I’m good for one membership renewal; my email’s in my profile. [/QUOTE] I sent you an email. Thanks, ~LV ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_Venom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9fc348/32.png) [@Lady\_Venom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_Venom)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2007, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-your-sponsor-my-membership-requests-here/398858/158 "2007-04-26T17:29:44Z")
[QUOTE=Lady Venom] I sent you an email. Thanks, ~LV [/QUOTE] Manx, Disregard this message and my email. My paypal cleared. Thanks, ~LV ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2007, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-your-sponsor-my-membership-requests-here/398858/159 "2007-04-27T03:36:50Z")
[QUOTE=bigbabysweets2000] I must preface this by saying that I am very sorry for your loss, but these outlandish prices remind me of an old joke: [/QUOTE] I liked it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2007, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-your-sponsor-my-membership-requests-here/398858/160 "2007-04-28T22:51:40Z")
Hate to ask, but can anyone sponser me at this late date? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-your-sponsor-my-membership-requests-here/398858.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-your-sponsor-my-membership-requests-here/398858.md?page=9)