Can we get charter member changed to IIDU?
We love ya, Q.E.D., but if you have “SDSAB” under your name, you don’t belong here.
Incidentally, >> I << knew the correct answer to the math problem you linked to, but only because I’ve seen it before.
Things you are afraid to ask because they make you look stupid…
What exactly does SDSAB stand for anyway?
If you know the answer you don’t belong here.
Straight Dope Science Advisory Board. We’re the folks who answer the questions Cecil doesn’t.
Ok, I’ll leave now…
Well, I guess we’ve already covered that last part. It’s good, Q.E.D. that you recognize your own limitations.
As further proof of my IIDU fitness I offer:
After several weeks I finally remembered where I got the info that allowed me the rightous courage to correct Q.E.D… While he brought in various studies, complete with sciency kind of words, a little math, various facts I based my entire argument on something I read in a, FREAKIN’ TOM CLANCY BOOK.
Can I hang out with you guys for awhile? I don’t feel much like debating these days and you guys are just way too cool, funny, hell I don’t know what it is …interesting. Yeah that’s it, interesting. I mean think about it. Would you rather hang out with a bunch of brainy geeks who are always correcting you or some ignorant asses that know how to laugh at themselves.
Besides, I’ve professed my ignorance on several occasions. Did someone here say they wanted to be an IUD? …interesting 
BTW with a membership waiting list that includes tomndeb, xash, QED, and some others. I suppose this could be the, “if you can’t beat 'em, then join 'em thread.”
Has Unca C arrived yet?
I definitely feel like one of those not-so-smart people- and here I thought I was the only one! :eek:
I generally stay away from Great Debates because I am a terrible debater, I don’t recognize fallacies well and get frustrated when one cite carries more weight than another ‘just because’.
I entered a political thread yesterday for the first time ever. I asked a simple question about something I was confused about. My question set off a bunch of fireworks and kind of hijacked the whole thread! :eek:
I tried to join in but was basicly ignored, but it was kind of fun.
There you are Sam- you can never again say you were ignored. I think it should be standard for we ‘message board imapired’ folk to answer each others posts so no one knows we are dumb.
Thanks Cicero! That made my day!
I may not be a genius, and I may not be very well informed, but I’m excellent at making arbitrary decisions. Cite. So, for the sake of tidying up a bit, I’m going to make a few.
Name of club: IIDU - Intelectuallly Inferior Dopers United (pronounced “double I do”).
Xash suggested SDUMB (Straight Dope United Moronic Bums) and IDIOTS (Inferior Dopers (Intellectually) Of The Straightdope), but the consensus seemed to be that these were a bit too clever.
Also suggested: DUD (Dumb United Dopers).
Motto: Open to discussion. (No, the motto is not “Open to discussion”; the subject of the motto is open to discussion. I hope I’m not disqualified from the club for using a semi-colon.)
The only motto suggested so far (by me) is “Keeping our unsupported opinions to ourselves since 1973, at least most of the time,” which I’m changing to “Keeping our uninformed opinions to ourselves since 1973, at least most of the time.”
We could take our motto from one of our T-shirt logos:[ol]
[li]Out five bucks and still ignorant.[/li][li]The guy standing next to me is with stupid.[/li][li]Hi, Opal.[/li][li]How come I have all the questions and tomndebb has all answers?[/li][/ol]
Logo: A messed up ASCII picture of a putz running into a pole.
Discuss.
Re: logo–
Remember Ilsa_Lund’s fountain of rolleyes? I think we should commission him to do something except with ole smacky here :smack: or else Mr. Clueless 
I thought semi-colons were used only when the following bit of sentence couldn’t stand by itself?
Oh, and to the person who asked on the last page…
is
[URL = http://www.google.com ] Google [/ URL]
Just remove the spaces.
I like this thread. It is good. I like meat too. Can we have more threads about meat?
Meat is good, and I like them tater thingies too.
Straigt D’OHpers UNTIE!!!
Unclviny
[Voice of experience] The first dozen or so threads like that are kinda’ fun to participate in. Then after a while one realizes that it’s always the same old tired posters with the same old tired responses and positions. Now I don’t open those threads unless the title tricks me or is really outrageous.[/Voice of experience]
I come to the SDMB for fun and information, and threads like this one are more fun and much more informative than the GD stuff.
Question: Is being the President of IIDU similar to being the Valedictorian of summer school?
Can I join IIDU? I’m already dumbed down and promise to sleep through most of the meetings…
I thought about throwing that out there, but I didn’t want to come off as too intelligent. Also, you can make a coding example using the [ code ] tags thusly:
[Google](http://www.google.com)
And I have another idea for a motto/T-shirt: “I don’t know and neither do you.” which I’m stealing from someone describing their agnosticism in Czarcasm’s poll a while back.
Dude, you’re trying too hard. 
Yeah, I know…I realized that about a minute after submission. It’s just that that last minue hesitation before submitting a post is reduced here…
C’est la vie…