# "Friend of the SDMB" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 7, 2000, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friend-of-the-sdmb/15662 "2000-04-07T16:28:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2000, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friend-of-the-sdmb/15662/1 "2000-04-07T16:28:00Z")
Thanks, friend! Thanks for a pleasant blue banner. Thanks for the soothing fonts. You know, I contemplated buying out that banner for a while – I figured I could spare a couple of hundred bucks to get something different/funny up there. I clicked on the Online Rate Sheet (In the fine print at the bottom of some of the pages here) and it seemed to me that the cost for the advertising depended on the number of hits to the site. I abandoned the idea when I considered the potential number of hits could bankrupt me. Whoever you are, dear friend: Good on ya! * * * Homepage: [http://www.bigfuckinboatwithbadassplanes.mil](http://www.bigfuckinboatwithbadassplanes.mil) Occupation: Swabbie Pounder, First Class Location: Anywhere you feckless landlubbers ain’t. Interests: Navy Chow, Port of Call, The Head, Air Superiority ICQ Number: CVN69 **– An UncleBeer Profile** “Avast and ahoy, landlubbers! Shore leave’s in August. Hide your women.” **– A WallySig** ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2000, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friend-of-the-sdmb/15662/2 "2000-04-07T16:51:00Z")
This is getting bizarre. There have been several threads about this “Friend of the SDMB” banner. I spend as much time here as the rest of you, and I have yet to see the damn thing. But thanks, any Mr. Carnegie. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2000, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friend-of-the-sdmb/15662/3 "2000-04-07T16:58:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by UncleBeer: > **I spend as much time here as the rest of you** More. This _is_ awfully strange, though. Is **UncleBeer** the only member who’s _not_ seeing the blue banner? And if not, who else isn’t? And what do they have in common with **Unc?** ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2000, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friend-of-the-sdmb/15662/4 "2000-04-08T05:03:00Z")
I see the Trivia banner sometimes. Not every time, but I have seen it. It’s nice. * * * Cristi, Slayer of Peeps I made my husband join a bridge club. He jumps next Tuesday. (title & sig courtesy of UncleBeer and WallyM7!) ---
**Author:** ![StrTrkr777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@StrTrkr777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StrTrkr777)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2000, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friend-of-the-sdmb/15662/5 "2000-04-08T05:05:00Z")
I have seen the Friend Banner and I agree thanks whoever you are. Jeffery ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2000, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friend-of-the-sdmb/15662/6 "2000-04-08T05:13:00Z")
I’m not seeing the banner today, but I did see it last week when it was new. Looking at the rate sheet: 1. Single Page Positioning - $30 Cost Per Thousand page views (CPM) Maybe the friend paid $30 for a thousand views, and people aren’t seeing the banner now because the thousand views have been used up? * * * “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy Are we kin? Visit me at [The Kat House](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/home.htm) and find out! [Join the FSH Muscular Dystrophy Webring](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/fshwebring.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2000, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friend-of-the-sdmb/15662/7 "2000-04-08T05:19:00Z")
I haven’t seen it either. So, Uncle Beer, what do we have in common? ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2000, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friend-of-the-sdmb/15662/8 "2000-04-07T18:02:00Z")
Me either ☹ I know what we have in common…Unc, you looking through beer goggles again? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![aseymayo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2000, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friend-of-the-sdmb/15662/9 "2000-04-07T19:32:00Z")
[QUOTE] Originally posted by ChiefScott: I abandoned the idea when I considered the potential number of hits could bankrupt me. Chief, it doesn’t work like that. They don’t total the hits, then charge you. You tell them how much you want to spend, they schedule so many thousand and your ad goes into rotation with the other ads. If enough members take out ads, maybe we won’t have to face paying a membership fee for the privilege of posting. So be creative! How about a ChiefScott’s Big Fuckin’ Boat ad? ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2000, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friend-of-the-sdmb/15662/10 "2000-04-07T20:16:00Z")
I’ve never seen the blue banner, either. I guess I have no friends. ☹ * * * Sig! Sig a Sog! Sig it loud! Sig it Strog! – Karen Carpenter with a head cold ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2000, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friend-of-the-sdmb/15662/11 "2000-04-07T21:21:00Z")
> [@](#): > > So, Uncle Beer, what do we have in common? Firearms. ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2000, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friend-of-the-sdmb/15662/12 "2000-04-08T03:01:00Z")
Wow… Some people have seen it, some have not, and until now, I didn’t even know what it even was… This banner has taken on a Godlike charm, no? * * * Yer pal, Satan ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2000, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friend-of-the-sdmb/15662/13 "2000-04-08T03:07:00Z")
I haven’t seen it either. So UncleBeer, what do we have in common? Why don’t you show me yours and I’ll show you mine and we can figure it out from there? 😉 * * * Pardon me while I burst into flames.