# I'd like to pit levdrakon **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 25, 2008, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-pit-levdrakon/442723 "2008-03-25T21:37:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-pit-levdrakon/442723/61 "2008-03-27T05:31:44Z")
You can reup now, if you wish. ---
**Author:** ![muttrox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a8b319/32.png) [@muttrox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muttrox)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-pit-levdrakon/442723/62 "2008-03-27T12:14:53Z")
[QUOTE=Harborwolf] Obvious strain of elitism? Since it’s so obvious, you won’t have a problem presenting examples of it. [/QUOTE] > [@](#): > > I’d pay my seven fiddy forever to keep the title below my member name. Nothing I can do if it is deleted of course, but really- a few hundred bucks from Dopers who feel nostalgic/ attached enough/ committed to the idea of being a Charter Member?? Maybe elitism is the wrong word. Maybe not. But let me throw it back to you another way. If it’s meaningless, then why are there any objections to losing a title? The title has no reason except to announce what you’ve done, it provides no functional advantages of any kind. It’s purely a marker. So if you don’t think it elevates status, why would anyone care if it stays or goes? > [@](#): > > Some Charter Members here think their Charter Member status symbolizes proof of their fidelity, loyalty, and faith in the Straight Dope Message Board, and a willingness to put their money where their mouth is. I put twice the money where my mouth is, where’s my status symbol? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![muttrox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a8b319/32.png) [@muttrox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muttrox)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-pit-levdrakon/442723/63 "2008-03-27T12:19:01Z")
Wow, just read that great debates thread. No wonder Levs pitfodder. ---
**Author:** ![Qwisp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qwisp/32/397_2.png) [@Qwisp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwisp)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-pit-levdrakon/442723/64 "2008-03-27T16:33:26Z")
[QUOTE=Schizm] Sup. 😉 [/QUOTE] Wow, and I thought I had a low post count ---
**Author:** ![Velma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/85e7bf/32.png) [@Velma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velma)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-pit-levdrakon/442723/65 "2008-03-27T18:37:44Z")
I, for one, am willing to give up my Charter Member title to the highest bidder. I promise that, whoever buys it, I will put a post-it note on my computer that reads: YOUR NAME HERE Charter Member so that whenever I surf, I will see your name and your Charter Member title underneath it. I will also address you as “Your Name Here, Charter Member” whenever I interact with you. Even if we all lose our Charter titles, you will forever be a Charter in my mind. C’mon, it’s broken in and everything. All warm and soft. Who wants it? ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-pit-levdrakon/442723/66 "2008-03-27T20:03:56Z")
[QUOTE=Velma] I, for one, am willing to give up my Charter Member title to the highest bidder. I promise that, whoever buys it, I will put a post-it note on my computer that reads: YOUR NAME HERE Charter Member so that whenever I surf, I will see your name and your Charter Member title underneath it. I will also address you as “Your Name Here, Charter Member” whenever I interact with you. Even if we all lose our Charter titles, you will forever be a Charter in my mind. C’mon, it’s broken in and everything. All warm and soft. Who wants it? [/QUOTE] ::Walks a circle around the title, kicks the tires and tests the horn:: Does it come with a warranty? Wait a sec here…it doesn’t even have power windows! We’re gonna have to negotiate on the price here. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-pit-levdrakon/442723/67 "2008-03-27T20:05:22Z")
[QUOTE=Velma] I, for one, am willing to give up my Charter Member title to the highest bidder. I promise that, whoever buys it, I will put a post-it note on my computer that reads: YOUR NAME HERE Charter Member so that whenever I surf, I will see your name and your Charter Member title underneath it. I will also address you as “Your Name Here, Charter Member” whenever I interact with you. Even if we all lose our Charter titles, you will forever be a Charter in my mind. C’mon, it’s broken in and everything. All warm and soft. Who wants it? [/QUOTE] I’ll buy it. I mean, I’m already a Charter Member; I just don’t want any of these inferior mere “members” getting the title. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-pit-levdrakon/442723/68 "2008-03-27T21:06:16Z")
[QUOTE=muttrox] Wow, just read that great debates thread. No wonder Levs pitfodder. [/QUOTE] My thoughts exactly, that thread is just mindboggling to read. To be honest, I cant help shake the feeling that if a certain recently departed member had been spouting that crap everybody would be shouting ban the troll. ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-pit-levdrakon/442723/69 "2008-03-27T21:06:18Z")
[QUOTE=muttrox] Maybe elitism is the wrong word. Maybe not. But let me throw it back to you another way. If it’s meaningless, then why are there any objections to losing a title? The title has no reason except to announce what you’ve done, it provides no functional advantages of any kind. It’s purely a marker. So if you don’t think it elevates status, why would anyone care if it stays or goes? [/QUOTE] Actually, that’s quite a bit better. Short of the discounted subscription rate, I don’t care a bit about the charter member tag and I don’t see why anyone else does. You could put cheap bastard under my name and I wouldn’t care as long as I kept the rate. “Elitism” I don’t see. People being silly about a title? That I do see. ---
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-pit-levdrakon/442723/70 "2008-03-27T22:02:40Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] **Harborwolf** , give it a rest. I’ve left you to your little Hillary-bashing thread. Ooh, ooh! I created the internet! [/QUOTE] Well, you pretty much had to. Being completely off base and wrong and all that. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![muttrox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a8b319/32.png) [@muttrox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muttrox)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-pit-levdrakon/442723/71 "2008-03-28T00:28:39Z")
Harborwolf, please stop being so reasonable. This is the pit. Manners! ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-pit-levdrakon/442723/72 "2008-03-28T01:43:58Z")
Personally I couldn’t give a shit about titles. ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-pit-levdrakon/442723/73 "2008-03-28T02:17:22Z")
[QUOTE=muttrox] Harborwolf, please stop being so reasonable. This is the pit. Manners! [/QUOTE] Fuck you. Fuck your manners. I hope you suffer from ass disease, which will become head disease because you have your head so far up your ass that your head will catch the ass disease but you won’t know the difference because you can’t tell your head from your ass. Asshead. Better? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-pit-levdrakon/442723/74 "2008-03-28T11:17:13Z")
[QUOTE=Harborwolf] Fuck you. Fuck your manners. I hope you suffer from ass disease, which will become head disease because you have your head so far up your ass that your head will catch the ass disease but you won’t know the difference because you can’t tell your head from your ass. Asshead. Better? [/QUOTE] Not just better. Admirable! Fuckwit. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![muttrox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a8b319/32.png) [@muttrox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muttrox)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-pit-levdrakon/442723/75 "2008-03-28T12:05:57Z")
[QUOTE=Harborwolf] Fuck you. Fuck your manners. I hope you suffer from ass disease, which will become head disease because you have your head so far up your ass that your head will catch the ass disease but you won’t know the difference because you can’t tell your head from your ass. Asshead. Better? [/QUOTE] See, \*\*that \*\* deserves a Charter Member title. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-pit-levdrakon/442723.md?page=3)