# I'm a member! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 7, 2008, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-member/440412 "2008-03-07T04:28:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-member/440412/41 "2008-03-08T19:34:19Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] Flavor? Look, let’s simplify. We will flog her with a delicatessen. Yes? 🆒 [/QUOTE] How will we lift it? Won’t it end up like the stoning scene in Life of Brian? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-member/440412/42 "2008-03-08T21:54:18Z")
Welcome aboard, Your Majesty. Brace yourself for the deluge of Doper in-jokes to follow: Og, pie, goats, yak jizz, 1920s Style Deathrays, Duran Duran, the Marianas Trench, Hi Opal!, Cecil, Profit!!!, pan-fried semen, airplanes on treadmills, words rhyming with “orange,” &tc &tc &tc. Hope you enjoy your stay here. Now get the hell off my lawn! ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-member/440412/43 "2008-03-08T22:09:40Z")
You forgot about former Postmaster General Francis Grander the 4th. He’s popular. No, not really. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-member/440412/44 "2008-03-08T22:35:56Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] You forgot about former Postmaster General Francis Grander the 4th… [/QUOTE] Well, I think that was covered by “&tc &tc &tc,” wasn’t it? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-member/440412/45 "2008-03-08T22:55:38Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Well, I think that was covered by “&tc &tc &tc,” wasn’t it? 😃 [/QUOTE] And shouldn’t that be “&c., &c., &c,”? The & substitutes for the “et” in “et cetera” (Latin: “and the rest”). \ ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-member/440412/46 "2008-03-09T13:10:17Z")
No. Francis Grander is not just an et ectera. Must you be harshly reminded? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-member/440412/47 "2008-03-09T19:12:29Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] How will we lift it? [/QUOTE] Why, by the handles, of course. All delis come with handles. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-member/440412/48 "2008-03-10T00:36:35Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] And shouldn’t that be “&c., &c., &c,”? The & substitutes for the “et” in “et cetera” (Latin: “and the rest”). \ [/QUOTE] I’ve seen it the way I listed it in several Civil War-era documents. Maybe it’s wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-member/440412/49 "2008-03-10T02:36:48Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] Why, by the handles, of course. All delis come with handles. [/QUOTE] Oh…well..how come I wasn’t aware of this until now? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-member/440412/50 "2008-03-10T02:51:26Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] I’ve seen it the way I listed it in several Civil War-era documents. Maybe it’s wrong. [/QUOTE] Well, spelling back in those days wasn’t too reliable. Not that it’s a smooth model of efficiency now… ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-member/440412/51 "2008-03-10T22:06:36Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] Oh…well..how come I wasn’t aware of this until now? [/QUOTE] If you’d quit gobbling schnitzel, & stop flirting with the counterhelp, you’d notice these things. BTW–the next time you get shot down for a date, pick me up a corned beef on a kaiser roll. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-member/440412/52 "2008-03-10T23:23:43Z")
German girls don’t like my ass… Here’s your corned beef, sir. _hands over bag_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-member/440412.md?page=2)