How does one become a "Charter Member"

[Captain_Amazing]

@TubaDiva

Not true. There’s been amnesty for a couple years now and many people have regained their Charter Member status.

AND missing the window by a day or two is not fatal, neither; I have helped quite a few lapsed Charter Members get back in the club.

Nah, thanks, but it was my fault. I knew the deadline and didn’t do it by the deadline. I’m not going to ask to bend the rules to my benefit. It wouldn’t be right.

[Lucas_Jackson]

@Giles

First, build yourself a time machine…

I kid you not, I came here to post that word for word.

[Cheshire_Human]

@Duckster

But does that mean having to sit through the [del]fire and brimstone prayer service[/del] [del]time-share spiel[/del] [del]MLM rah! rah! fandango[/del] [del]Checker’s speech[/del] [del]Slim Whitman’s Indian Love Call[/del] [del]read Ed’s book out loud to a group of nuns[/del] [del]elevator music from The Blues Brothers[/del] sheer quiet while you work your magic?

You missed the part about [del]bribing her with chocolate[/del] something else…

[Little_Nemo]

@Cheshire_Human

You missed the part about [del]bribing her with chocolate[/del] something else…

No, they gave up on the bribery with chocolate policy. Now they just ask for money and buy their own chocolate.

[Duckster]

@Little_Nemo

No, they gave up on the bribery with chocolate policy. Now they just ask for money and buy their own chocolate.

But if I give TubaDiva money for her services … ?

[Little_Nemo]

@Duckster

But if I give TubaDiva money for her services … ?

That’s right. You want to be a member? Offer her a bribe of $14.95 and she’ll see what she can do.

[Cartooniverse]

@Little_Nemo

That’s right. You want to be a member? Offer her a bribe of $14.95 and she’ll see what she can do.

Pffft. Perfection doesn’t come cheap.

C’mon, let’s show some class. This is The Dope.

You want results? FedEx a Boîte Maison box from La Maison Du Chocolat her way. Make sure they pack it on dry ice so it remains cool and firm.

It is the choice of Admin and Mods here. I’m just sayin’.

[InternetLegend]

@Captain_Amazing

And watch out, because after you become a charter member, one screw up where paypal won’t let you renew your subscription until a day after it expires, and you slip back down to member status, forever.

<looks at the words under his user name and weeps bitter tears>

I was going to suggest we start a support group, but then I saw this:

@TubaDiva

Not true. There’s been amnesty for a couple years now and many people have regained their Charter Member status.

AND missing the window by a day or two is not fatal, neither; I have helped quite a few lapsed Charter Members get back in the club.

There’s hope? Really? There’s hope! …but then again…

@Captain_Amazing

Nah, thanks, but it was my fault. I knew the deadline and didn’t do it by the deadline. I’m not going to ask to bend the rules to my benefit. It wouldn’t be right.

DAMN you. I hate it when people have principles. Peer pressure is such a bitch.

[Happy_Lendervedder]

The best part about being a Charter Member was the monthly box of meat and cheese. I really do miss that. I wanna punch myself in my stupid face every time I think of all the meat and cheese I’ve missed out on since I let it lapse.

And does anyone know it the Charter Member glory hole still exists at the Subway off Exit 118 on I-75 in Ohio? Never went there myself, but I hear it was nice-- well, if you were on the right side.

[Cartooniverse]

It’s Ohio.

There’s no wrong side.

[Thudlow_Boink]

@White SIFL

I kid you not, I came here to post that word for word.

So build yourself a time machine and post it first.

[clairobscur]

@Captain_Amazing

Nah, thanks, but it was my fault. I knew the deadline and didn’t do it by the deadline. I’m not going to ask to bend the rules to my benefit. It wouldn’t be right.

A…friend of mine…did exactly that and shamelessly asked to, and was, reinstated. Just so you would know.

[Mangetout]

@Happy_Lendervedder

The best part about being a Charter Member was the monthly box of meat and cheese. I really do miss that. I wanna punch myself in my stupid face every time I think of all the meat and cheese I’ve missed out on since I let it lapse.

I stopped accepting them after that one time they substituted a human head. I mean, yes, it is technically ‘meat’.

[Cartooniverse]

Was it head cheese, or the Head Cheese?

[donkeyoatey]

@Thudlow_Boink

So build yourself a time machine and post it first.

Maybe he did, just needs a little practice.

[foolsguinea]

Captain Amazing, if you really went for only a day unpaid (and there may be a record of this), then I think you really ought to be reinstated as a Charter Member.

I was weirded out that BG started this thread, though, as long as BG’s been around. Wasn’t BG a member?

[samclem]

@foolsguinea

Captain Amazing, if you really went for only a day unpaid (and there may be a record of this), then I think you really ought to be reinstated as a Charter Member.

I was weirded out that BG started this thread, though, as long as BG’s been around. Wasn’t BG a member?

According to a post by the erstwhile scholar of the history of the SDMB, Zeldar, BrainGlutton was a Charter Member as of 8-9-06. He may have made a conscious decision to not pay. I haven’t the time to check.

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7661375&postcount=151

[Little_Nemo]

@Happy_Lendervedder

The best part about being a Charter Member was the monthly box of meat and cheese. I really do miss that. I wanna punch myself in my stupid face every time I think of all the meat and cheese I’ve missed out on since I let it lapse.

It’s just a little disturbing the way the boxes are always shipped out right after somebody gets permanently banned.

[Cartooniverse]

Life’s little coinkydinks…

[samclem]

@Little_Nemo

It’s just a little disturbing the way the boxes are always shipped out right after somebody gets permanently banned.

And On the eighth day, he invented the chipper-shredder. :eek: