# For the old Geezers of the Dope **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 22, 2017, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-old-geezers-of-the-dope/799549 "2017-10-22T15:48:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-old-geezers-of-the-dope/799549/41 "2017-10-22T22:31:12Z")
I refuse to geeze. 🙂 I found the books via a co-worker long before I joined the boards. However, it appears that I missed the legendary golden age of DopeFest hookups by _this_ much. ---
**Author:** ![pendgwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3da27b/32.png) [@pendgwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pendgwen)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-old-geezers-of-the-dope/799549/42 "2017-10-22T23:38:13Z")
My join date is listed as March 2002. In fact, I registered just before the Winter of Our Missed Content and my original join date was lost. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-old-geezers-of-the-dope/799549/43 "2017-10-22T23:40:23Z")
7th of July, '99 here…and I was around on AOL before that. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@Mona\_Lott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lott)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-old-geezers-of-the-dope/799549/44 "2017-10-22T23:43:42Z")
I joined the SDMB in October of 2001. ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-old-geezers-of-the-dope/799549/45 "2017-10-22T23:46:35Z")
March 2001. Loudmouth at first, now more reticent. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-old-geezers-of-the-dope/799549/46 "2017-10-23T00:09:45Z")
Sept. 25, 2000. left a few years later. Came back a few more years later. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-old-geezers-of-the-dope/799549/47 "2017-10-23T00:23:54Z")
I’m still a newb around here. 2005. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-old-geezers-of-the-dope/799549/48 "2017-10-23T00:24:51Z")
> [@pendgwen](#): > > My join date is listed as March 2002. In fact, I registered just before the Winter of Our Missed Content and my original join date was lost. “Like tears in the rain…” ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-old-geezers-of-the-dope/799549/49 "2017-10-23T01:20:20Z")
> [@GusNSpot](#): > > I am member # 33 which is the lowest number except for Admin types like Tuba, C Dex and Such. Sorry, but **Monty** holds that honour. He’s User 14: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?u=14](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php) ---
**Author:** ![D-bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@D-bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D-bear)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-old-geezers-of-the-dope/799549/50 "2017-10-23T01:38:06Z")
Don’t post much, but I’m still around… ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-old-geezers-of-the-dope/799549/51 "2017-10-23T01:58:43Z")
> [@GusNSpot](#): > > I am member # 33 which is the lowest number except for Admin types like Tuba, C Dex and Such. Wow, I joined only 3 months after you and I’m #1,647. What a growth spurt! ---
**Author:** ![Mars\_Horizon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mars_horizon/32/2804_2.png) [@Mars\_Horizon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mars_Horizon)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-old-geezers-of-the-dope/799549/52 "2017-10-23T02:05:51Z")
I read the boards for a year or two before I joined up, on June 9, 2000. ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-old-geezers-of-the-dope/799549/53 "2017-10-23T02:39:27Z")
I joined in '99, but something happened to my profile that winter (was that the winter of the missed content?) and I had to rejoin in 2000. I joined right after I got married and my husband and I celebrated our 18th wedding anniversary last week. My son, whose birth I announced on the SDMB in 2003, is now in high school. I’m old. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-old-geezers-of-the-dope/799549/54 "2017-10-23T02:45:31Z")
I guess Im about as old as any geezer here (79 next month), but got around to SD after being banned from a few other places. I’m still on a birdwatching listserv that I originally joined in 1995. My best longevity claim, there are only about 5,000 people still alive in Canada who have a lower social insurance number than mine. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-old-geezers-of-the-dope/799549/55 "2017-10-23T03:15:55Z")
Ninety-niner, and for five years before that (and five after) on alt.fan.cecil-adams ; and since 1980 reader of the printed Straight Dope. Ye gods, 1980… I pity the kid who trespasses my lawn. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-old-geezers-of-the-dope/799549/56 "2017-10-23T03:37:30Z")
August 2000, just like it says on the tin. Still struggling to fight my own ignorance. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-old-geezers-of-the-dope/799549/57 "2017-10-23T03:39:30Z")
October 2000, but I was lurking since the early days. I came upon this site from a reference to an internal IBM forum that preceded the Web - can any ex-IBMer’s help me out with the name? As for MY name, I was leaving for a business trip the next day and just picked up a copy of _Atlas Shrugged_, one of those “important” books everyone should read. I had glanced at the first line: “Who is John Galt?” and since I didn’t know, I thought that would be a great name to use. On the flight I smirked and rolled my eyes at his story, but I can’t forget what another passenger said: “It’s the greatest book of all time.” No, it’s not; I had to skip most of “my own” speech, it was so tedious. Little did I know that the name was so politically charged; it doesn’t reflect my viewpoints at all. Either I should change my user name, or go full-Colbert and start posting over-the-top craziness that can’t be mistaken for satire. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-old-geezers-of-the-dope/799549/58 "2017-10-23T03:59:34Z")
Does it count that I was an avid reader of Cecil’s syndicated column in the Real Paper as a Boston-area student in the late-1970s/early 80s? My join date here is respectable, I think, but nothing special. ---
**Author:** ![Raynard\_the\_fox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/87869e/32.png) [@Raynard\_the\_fox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raynard_the_fox)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-old-geezers-of-the-dope/799549/59 "2017-10-23T04:03:42Z")
logged in just now and found out the last time I crawled out from under my rock was 11-08-2016. When I started my current job they wanted a few people in the office. Was not really anything to do so I found the dope passing time. So back under my rock, and padding my post count. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-old-geezers-of-the-dope/799549/60 "2017-10-23T04:14:20Z")
I joined on Easter. April 23, 2000. I was 16, in high school, about to finish my sophomore year, the first year in an actual high school building, because I spent my freshman year in a middle school building, owing to the overcrowding in the Worthington High School, Worthington, Minnesota. Havre High School, Havre, Montana, was definitely the real thing. Seventeen years later, I’m a computer programmer in Missoula, Montana, with a degree and, more importantly, a number of successful projects under my belt. I’m a lot happier than I was at sixteen, and anyone who says high school is the best years of your life can bite me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-old-geezers-of-the-dope/799549.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-old-geezers-of-the-dope/799549.md?page=4)