# Guests! Cough up and join! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 8, 2004, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-cough-up-and-join/273627 "2004-11-08T13:05:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-cough-up-and-join/273627/1 "2004-11-08T13:05:54Z")
We need all the new blood we can get - all types - for regular transfusions of new ideas and perspectives. Get on board and tell your friends. There’s something for everyone here, and - who knows? - you might be able to learn somebody something. ---
**Author:** ![velveeta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/13edae/32.png) [@velveeta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velveeta)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-cough-up-and-join/273627/2 "2004-11-08T14:06:15Z")
I’m conflicted. I got nuthin’ to offer except a weird combination of knowledge encompassing computers, video games, and horses. Oh, and I make a mean chili…and brew beer. Mmm…beer. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-cough-up-and-join/273627/3 "2004-11-08T14:12:51Z")
> [@velveeta](#): > > I’m conflicted. I got nuthin’ to offer except a weird combination of knowledge encompassing computers, video games, and horses. > Oh, and I make a mean chili…and brew beer. Mmm…beer. General Questions, Cafe Society and Mindless Pointless Stuff seem like your natural habitats. Get on down! ---
**Author:** ![luluBahrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@luluBahrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luluBahrain)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-cough-up-and-join/273627/4 "2004-11-08T14:49:26Z")
> [@velveeta](#): > > I’m conflicted. I got nuthin’ to offer except a weird combination of knowledge encompassing computers, video games, and horses. > Oh, and I make a mean chili…and brew beer. Mmm…beer. Join ussssssss! We like horse chili while we are playing our video games. Or something. ---
**Author:** ![professor\_folk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df788c/32.png) [@professor\_folk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/professor_folk)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-cough-up-and-join/273627/5 "2004-11-08T15:47:20Z")
but…but…I’m just a meek armchair musicologist, expert net surfer, geeetar playin’, meat-eatin’, beer-drinkin’, jeopardy-playin trivia buff, who sometimes gets irked by gammatical errors (though I know I make them, too). Urrrgghhhhh, I hate when people use a superfluous possessive apostrophy!!! (ie: thread’s, message’s…it happens more that you’d think.) And I hate when people misspell the word ‘definitely’. A lot of people seem to think there’s an ‘a’ in there. Just a quick rant about the way my brain works. I’d probably be better suited hanging out in the BBQ Pit! ---
**Author:** ![professor\_folk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df788c/32.png) [@professor\_folk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/professor_folk)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-cough-up-and-join/273627/6 "2004-11-08T15:49:00Z")
…and yes, I will join…just as soon as I can figure out how to do it with my dead credit card… ---
**Author:** ![luluBahrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@luluBahrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luluBahrain)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-cough-up-and-join/273627/7 "2004-11-08T16:11:07Z")
Yay! :d ---
**Author:** ![luluBahrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@luluBahrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luluBahrain)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-cough-up-and-join/273627/8 "2004-11-08T16:12:28Z")
Damn it! 😃 is what I was going for. I hope you don’t get irked by people like me who correct themselves two seconds later. ---
**Author:** ![Leviosaurus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Leviosaurus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leviosaurus)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-cough-up-and-join/273627/9 "2004-11-08T17:44:52Z")
Gee, all I have to offer is vaguely sarcastic comments which only I find amusing. That and [bizarre alliterative posts designed solely for the purpose of making my girlfriend laugh.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5386099&postcount=26) Surely the SDMB isn’t lacking in sarcasm…? ---
**Author:** ![Squire\_Trelane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/779978/32.png) [@Squire\_Trelane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squire_Trelane)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-cough-up-and-join/273627/10 "2004-11-09T00:47:08Z")
The Official-Looking Text Box says I have until November 17… you’re trying to cheat me out of my free days, aren’t you!? :eek: Professor Folk, those apostrophes infuriate me, too! You are not alone! ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-cough-up-and-join/273627/11 "2004-11-09T00:52:13Z")
> [@Squire Trelane](#): > > The Official-Looking Text Box says I have until November 17… you’re trying to cheat me out of my free days, aren’t you!? :eek: You got me. They pay me on a daily commission basis. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-cough-up-and-join/273627/12 "2004-11-09T00:53:54Z")
I can’t invite my friends to join… because then I couldn’t come on here to gripe about annoying things they do! ---
**Author:** ![smilingscar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@smilingscar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smilingscar)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-cough-up-and-join/273627/13 "2004-11-09T01:56:48Z")
i don’t have a credit card…or pay pal… ☹ ::cries himself to sleep:: ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-cough-up-and-join/273627/14 "2004-11-09T02:07:11Z")
> [@smilingscar](#): > > i don’t have a credit card…or pay pal… ☹ ::cries himself to sleep:: E-mail **silenus** (as **Kythereia** did) or **EddyTeddyFreddy** (as I did) and explain your situation. Both (as well as other Dopers) will make arrangements to sign you up by proxy if you send the fee to them by snail mail.