# "guests" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 23, 2004, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927 "2004-03-23T16:58:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gluteus\_maximus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f17d59/32.png) [@gluteus\_maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gluteus_maximus)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/21 "2004-03-23T18:31:15Z")
> [@PhiloVance](#): > > Hoo, boy. Just the kinda attitude we guests need. > > :rolleyes: Uh, **PhiloVance** , y’all do realize that both of them there posters are ‘Cha-ta Mem-bas’, don’ch’all? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/22 "2004-03-23T18:31:30Z")
> [@GaWd](#): > > Let the elitism begin… [Already did](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=4672449#post4672449). ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/23 "2004-03-23T18:37:37Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > The number one fact is that they’re poor. And if they’re poor, they must be stupid. I mean, you don’t need to be too bright to have a good enough job to be able to scratch together 5 bones. They’d probably start their own bulletin board, but they’re too stupid to know how. You got a computer but you don’t got 5 bucks??? I realize this is probably in jest, and if it is, I do hope you’re suspended for a week like everyone else who has pulled this crap (most of which, incidentally, was more humorous than this). However, I’d like to state that I am taking my free 30 days and then paying. I get a month to post free, before I pay. Your membership will expire 30 days before mine, and you won’t get the free month back on that end. ---
**Author:** ![Black\_Train\_Song](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@Black\_Train\_Song](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Black_Train_Song)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/24 "2004-03-23T18:49:17Z")
Would it be a problem if I start selling senses of humor for a nominal fee? What are you people ON? ---
**Author:** ![Aldebaran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Aldebaran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aldebaran)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/25 "2004-03-23T18:53:15Z")
The fact is that every “charter” member with one single functioning braincell actually hopes that there will be a constant flow of new “guests” to visit this message board, and that a certain amount of them shall find it interesting enough to stay (= pay and become a member, “charter” or not). Because you see, clever OP, without “guests” visiting this website, all you get at the end is a little club of “charter” members who constantly beat the same dead horses while everybody can predict the answers of the other “charter” members. As for your silly-in-their-utterly-arrogant-rudiness remarks about those members who don’t want to pay right now and those who for some reason can’t pay right now: I don’t think that is anybodies business then there own. Salaam. A ---
**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:** [March 23, 2004, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/26 "2004-03-23T18:58:58Z")
> [@Aldebaran](#): > > The fact is that every “charter” member with one single functioning braincell actually hopes that there will be a constant flow of new “guests” to visit this message board, and that a certain amount of them shall find it interesting enough to stay (= pay and become a member, “charter” or not). > > Because you see, clever OP, without “guests” visiting this website, all you get at the end is a little club of “charter” members who constantly beat the same dead horses while everybody can predict the answers of the other “charter” members. > > As for your silly-in-their-utterly-arrogant-rudiness remarks about those members who don’t want to pay right now and those who for some reason can’t pay right now: I don’t think that is anybodies business then there own. > Salaam. A Whoosh. A, I’m guessing that sarcasm and tongue-in-cheek doesn’t translate well for people who’s english is a second language. He wasn’t trying to be rude or even being inadvertently rude - he was just trying to be funny. ---
**Author:** ![Aldebaran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Aldebaran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aldebaran)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/27 "2004-03-23T18:59:19Z")
> [@Rooves](#): > > Would it be a problem if I start selling senses of humor for a nominal fee? Well… “we” obviously think that if the OP meant this to be taken as some “joke” it would be placed at the MPSIM board. Salaam. A ---
**Author:** ![Aldebaran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Aldebaran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aldebaran)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/28 "2004-03-23T19:03:38Z")
Munch, Mmmm… Sorry, but in my experience nobody who makes threads on this particular board ever tries to be “funny”. Salaam. A ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/29 "2004-03-23T19:06:49Z")
> [@gatopescado](#): > > Gotta watch them “guests”. They get into your liquer cabnet, drink all your booze, bang your wife, borrow you car and run over your dog, then get caught sniffing your daughter’s pantys. I can see why you don’t like us! 😃 :o. /me wonders how he can revoke his charter member status. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/30 "2004-03-23T19:06:57Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Whoosh. > > A, I’m guessing that sarcasm and tongue-in-cheek doesn’t translate well for people who’s english is a second language. He wasn’t trying to be rude or even being inadvertently rude - he was just trying to be funny. Well then he needs a new sense of humor because his shit is shot. People should spare us and the hamsters their lame attempts at “humor”. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2004, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/31 "2004-03-23T19:09:19Z")
> [@Aldebaran](#): > > Munch, > > Mmmm… Sorry, but in my experience nobody who makes threads on this particular board ever tries to be “funny”. > > Salaam. A A, I didn’t think it was possible, but you make less and less sense every day. Are you mixing up “board” and “forum” again, or do you think no one has ever posted an attempt at humor at the SDMB? ---
**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:** [March 23, 2004, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/32 "2004-03-23T19:11:30Z")
Can I work for posting privileges? I can type 62 wpm, data entry at 11 000 kph (numeric and alpha-numeric). It would take me about 15 minutes to do enough work for a month’s subscription, I figure. Admins? (Oh yeah, the OP is lame and if he’s trying to be funny, he’s in the wrong forum.) ---
**Author:** ![Black\_Train\_Song](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@Black\_Train\_Song](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Black_Train_Song)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/33 "2004-03-23T19:15:59Z")
by **Gatopescado** > [@](#): > > Gotta watch them “guests”. They get into your liquer cabnet, drink all your booze, bang your wife, borrow you car and run over your dog, then get caught sniffing your daughter’s pantys. I can see why you don’t like us! Then how come HE/SHE got it? Just smarter than the average “guest”? ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/34 "2004-03-23T19:18:53Z")
> [@sunfish](#): > > **Captain Amazing,** if you like I can put your subscription through for you. Please feel free to drop me a line (email in profile). I’ll have the replacement card in a week, and should be able to subscribe then. Thanks for the offer, though. ---
**Author:** ![Aldebaran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Aldebaran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aldebaran)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/35 "2004-03-23T19:21:06Z")
> [@](#): > > Are you mixing up “board” and “forum” again, or do you think no one has ever posted an attempt at humor at the SDMB? Oh, I’m so sorry… It must be the backwards Arab side of me that makes me look at the words “board” and " forum" as meaning the same to me. Shall I write it in an other language to make things clear to you? Salaam. A ---
**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:** [March 23, 2004, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/36 "2004-03-23T19:30:30Z")
> [@Aldebaran](#): > > Oh, I’m so sorry… It must be the backwards Arab side of me that makes me look at the words “board” and " forum" as meaning the same to me. > Shall I write it in an other language to make things clear to you? > Salaam. A For fuck’s sake, Aldebaran, I was being helpful. The Straight Dope Message Board (SDMB) has many forums. BBQ Pit = forum MPSIMS=forum Great Debates=forum General Questions=forum SDMB=NOT A FORUM, its a BOARD A forum is a subset of a board. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/37 "2004-03-23T19:35:00Z")
[http://will.slap.you.naked.forfood.org/](http://will.slap.you.naked.forfood.org/) This is kinda fun! ---
**Author:** ![Mal\_Adroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@Mal\_Adroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mal_Adroit)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/38 "2004-03-23T19:35:56Z")
Why has no one told this knuckle dragger that _hola_ is spelled with one “L”? It ain’t part of the joke, I’d guarantee it. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/39 "2004-03-23T19:40:31Z")
> [@Aldebaran](#): > > The fact is that every “charter” member with one single functioning braincell actually hopes that there will be a constant flow of new “guests” to visit this message board, and that a certain amount of them shall find it interesting enough to stay (= pay and become a member, “charter” or not). It looks good so far: Monday 3/22 Threads: 235,970, Posts: 4,564,799, Members: 44,917 Tuesday 3/23 Threads: 236,211, Posts: 4,569,249, Members: 44,950 ---
**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:** [March 23, 2004, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/40 "2004-03-23T19:40:36Z")
> [@](#): > > As for your silly-in-their-utterly-arrogant-rudiness remarks about those members who don’t want to pay right now and those who for some reason can’t pay right now: I don’t think that is anybodies business then there own. **Aldebaran’s** Corollary to Godwins’s Law: in any thread to which **Aldebaran** posts, the probability that he will eventually refer to one or more posters as “arrogant” approaches 1. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927.md?page=3)