# Is the SDMB clique a real phenomenon? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [September 20, 2002, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-clique-a-real-phenomenon/128685 "2002-09-20T00:51:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anahita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9a28c/32.png) [@Anahita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anahita)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-clique-a-real-phenomenon/128685/1 "2002-09-20T00:51:32Z")
It’s just _that_ secret. ---
**Author:** ![Kwyjibo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/59ef9b/32.png) [@Kwyjibo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kwyjibo)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-clique-a-real-phenomenon/128685/2 "2002-09-20T00:52:26Z")
Yep…and your post has just been owned by them 😉 ---
**Author:** ![minty\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-clique-a-real-phenomenon/128685/3 "2002-09-20T00:53:27Z")
Jeez, you’d figure the hamster would be all rested after his two-day break. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kwyjibo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/59ef9b/32.png) [@Kwyjibo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kwyjibo)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-clique-a-real-phenomenon/128685/4 "2002-09-20T00:53:35Z")
(Ignore my first post…the OP came back.) ---
**Author:** ![reprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-clique-a-real-phenomenon/128685/5 "2002-09-20T00:54:21Z")
It’s a **cabal™**. ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-clique-a-real-phenomenon/128685/6 "2002-09-20T00:55:50Z")
I can’t see the OP: does that mean I’m not part of the clique. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-clique-a-real-phenomenon/128685/7 "2002-09-20T00:59:51Z")
It was posted in invisible ink. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-clique-a-real-phenomenon/128685/8 "2002-09-20T01:02:17Z")
I’m not part of the actual clique, but I do serve as the personal physician to the clique members. I’m generally responsible for the detox process. It’s an eminence grise sort of thing. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![december](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@december](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/december)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-clique-a-real-phenomenon/128685/9 "2002-09-20T01:03:51Z")
There’s many a geek with the straight dope mystique But, it takes a real freak to be part of the clique. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-clique-a-real-phenomenon/128685/10 "2002-09-20T01:05:03Z")
I think there’s more than one clique. Erek ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-clique-a-real-phenomenon/128685/11 "2002-09-20T01:11:30Z")
Yes, it is very real; and here is where the Cool Kids meet to talk about us: [Secret Forum for the SDMB cabal](http://broads.straightdope.com/dumb) [link broken-Czarcasm] ---
**Author:** ![dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dreamer)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-clique-a-real-phenomenon/128685/12 "2002-09-20T01:20:18Z")
I believe the clique is real. I bet it’s something like that movie “Eyes Wide Shut”. I’m sorry, I can’t reveal anymore information than that. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-clique-a-real-phenomenon/128685/13 "2002-09-20T01:28:26Z")
**Tars** removes his mask and reveals…George Bush!!! ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-clique-a-real-phenomenon/128685/14 "2002-09-20T01:43:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dreamer \* > \*\*I bet it’s something like that movie “Eyes Wide Shut”. \*\* :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-clique-a-real-phenomenon/128685/15 "2002-09-20T02:30:50Z")
The Apocalypse is coming; I found **december** ’s post both amusing and clever. Duck & cover, children. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-clique-a-real-phenomenon/128685/16 "2002-09-20T02:48:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Qadgop the Mercotan \* > **I’m not part of the actual clique, but I do serve as the personal physician to the clique members. I’m generally responsible for the detox process.** And, they need a lawyer to handle the bail hearings, of course. That means I see them before they even _start_ the detox process. Not pretty. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-clique-a-real-phenomenon/128685/17 "2002-09-20T02:51:36Z")
Fidelio. ---
**Author:** ![Linear\_Crack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Linear\_Crack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linear_Crack)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-clique-a-real-phenomenon/128685/18 "2002-09-20T02:55:36Z")
Wasn’t there some clandestine emoticon rule. Or am I thinking of different clique. 🙂 🙂 🙂 -LC ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-clique-a-real-phenomenon/128685/19 "2002-09-20T02:58:48Z")
Just use your mouse and be part of the point and clique crowd. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-clique-a-real-phenomenon/128685/20 "2002-09-20T03:30:31Z")
WTF are you people babbling about? 😕 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-clique-a-real-phenomenon/128685.md?page=2)