# How did I become a Member? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 27, 2012, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-i-become-a-member/639009 "2012-10-27T04:28:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2012, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-i-become-a-member/639009/21 "2012-10-29T21:20:33Z")
> [@Rachellelogram](#): > > How is it that nobody’s made a “male member” joke yet? 😃 Because it would be limp? ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-i-become-a-member/639009/22 "2012-10-29T22:08:13Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Somebody decided to [make drew really feel like an official member](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15279796&postcount=4). Haha! I forgot all about that incident! > [@Czarcasm](#): > > Because it would be limp? Pow! Zinger. I’m a little hurt! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2012, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-i-become-a-member/639009/23 "2012-10-29T22:19:07Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > Pow! Zinger. I’m a little hurt! Nowhere did I bring size into it. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-i-become-a-member/639009/24 "2012-10-30T01:12:04Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > Will I ever learn who my mysterious benefactor is? I can help narrow it down- it wasn’t me. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-i-become-a-member/639009/25 "2012-10-30T01:18:00Z")
> [@Bumbershoot](#): > > I can help narrow it down- it wasn’t me. Well thanks for nothing! (literally) 😃 1 down… several thousand to go. ETA: Does this happen regularly around here? People secretly buying memberships for other posters? It’s not like I’ve even made any friends around here… that I know of. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-i-become-a-member/639009/26 "2012-10-30T02:28:03Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > Well thanks for nothing! (literally) > > 😃 > > 1 down… several thousand to go. > > ETA: Does this happen regularly around here? People secretly buying memberships for other posters? It’s not like I’ve even made any friends around here… that I know of. I don’t think the secret thing is very common, but it happens occasionally- [here’s a thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=554595&highlight=gift+subscription+membership) on gift subscriptions from 2010-2011, and [here’s one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=503682&highlight=gift+subscription+membership) from 2009-2010. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-i-become-a-member/639009/27 "2012-10-30T16:46:40Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > 1 down… several thousand to go. Wasn’t me either. Now you’re 2 down. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-i-become-a-member/639009/28 "2012-10-30T18:41:09Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > **Marley23** said so, in the thread about **tapu** who seems to have become a member simply by getting banned and unbanned. I was saying something a little different: it changes the way the poster’s status is listed, so I speculated that they get moved into a different usergroup. (I’m not sure that’s the case.) Either way, it does not mean you actually get a membership. For that, you have to buy a subscription or someone has to buy it for you. Someone bought **drewtwo99** a subscription. We don’t know who. Or whom. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-i-become-a-member/639009/29 "2012-10-30T20:44:11Z")
Out of all the difficult to answer questions that the Dope has figured out over the years, surely we should be able to figure this one out. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-i-become-a-member/639009/30 "2012-10-30T23:36:39Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > Out of all the difficult to answer questions that the Dope has figured out over the years, surely we should be able to figure this one out. I’m still wondering how I renewed on 10/13/2012 without my own knowledge. Is it possible I set it to be recurring somehow? I suppose I should check my credit card statement… ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-i-become-a-member/639009/31 "2012-10-31T00:19:35Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > I’m still wondering how I renewed on 10/13/2012 without my own knowledge. Is it possible I set it to be recurring somehow? > > I suppose I should check my credit card statement… The plot thickens!! ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-i-become-a-member/639009/32 "2012-10-31T00:55:25Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > Out of all the difficult to answer questions that the Dope has figured out over the years, surely we should be able to figure this one out. **TubaDiva** takes the Fifth Amendment! **Marley23** takes the Fifth Amendment! Time to send this head-scratcher of a question on up to Cecil Himself. [sub]Otherwise, Marilyn vos Smartypants might come up with the answer first, and nobody here wants THAT to happen![/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-i-become-a-member/639009/33 "2012-10-31T01:40:21Z")
[Hercule Poroit] Ladies and gentleman, I have asked you all here to make an announcement regarding the mysterious subscription of our dear friend drewtwo99. SOMEONE IN THIS ROOM IS A SUBSCRIPTION GIVER! [eyes dart from poster to poster looking for a sign of guilt] [/Poroit] Well, it was worth a shot. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-i-become-a-member/639009/34 "2012-10-31T04:20:33Z")
> [@Crazyhorse](#): > > [Hercule Poroit] Ladies and gentleman, I have asked you all here to make an announcement regarding the mysterious subscription of our dear friend drewtwo99. > > SOMEONE IN THIS ROOM IS A SUBSCRIPTION GIVER! [eyes dart from poster to poster looking for a sign of guilt] [/Poroit] > > Well, it was worth a shot. _Suddenly the room goes dark, and when the lights come back on, another poster has become a Member_ EEEEEEEEEEK!!! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-i-become-a-member/639009/35 "2012-10-31T11:51:23Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > Out of all the difficult to answer questions that the Dope has figured out over the years, surely we should be able to figure this one out. There’s not much else to be said. We don’t have access to subscription information, so unless someone volunteers that they paid for your subscription, you’ll just have to keep wondering. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-i-become-a-member/639009/36 "2012-10-31T14:59:26Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > I’m still wondering how I renewed on 10/13/2012 without my own knowledge. Is it possible I set it to be recurring somehow? > > I suppose I should check my credit card statement… Not through us, we do not have that function in the current subscription system. ---
**Author:** ![Napkin\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8dc957/32.png) [@Napkin\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napkin_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-i-become-a-member/639009/37 "2012-11-01T07:43:38Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > _Suddenly the room goes dark, and when the lights come back on, another poster has become a Member_ > > EEEEEEEEEEK!!! It was Colonel Mustard in the dining room with a candlestick. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2012, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-i-become-a-member/639009/38 "2012-11-01T14:14:21Z")
> [@Crazyheadlesshorseman](#): > > [Hercule Poroit] Ladies and gentleman, I have asked you all here to make an announcement regarding the mysterious subscription of our dear friend drewtwo99. > > SOMEONE IN THIS ROOM IS A SUBSCRIPTION GIVER! [eyes dart from poster to poster looking for a sign of guilt] [/Poroit] > > Well, it was worth a shot. I think you mean “thread”. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-i-become-a-member/639009/39 "2012-11-02T01:31:04Z")
Methinks **drew** has a secret admirer. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-i-become-a-member/639009.md?page=1)