I’ve been a fan of the Straight Dope for years, but only recently discovered the forums. Interesting community you have here. It’s good to be here!
Muahahahaha … is there an initiation, he asks …
Somebody get the goats.
No goats till s/he coughs up the $14.95.
In the meantime, may I offer you a little calamari?
Welcome!
Yes.
First you have to send $14.95 to the Straight Dope. Then you have to send a cashier’s cheque for $500 to me. That’s it - you’re initiated! 
Make the cheque payable to Alice_in_Wonderland…
What?
No goats till s/he coughs up the $14.95.
In the meantime, may I offer you a little calamari?
Welcome!
Methinks Big Willie needs the Big Calamari! We haven’t used the Big Calamari since that guy in '02, have we?
What happened to him, anyway?
No goats till s/he coughs up the $14.95.
In the meantime, may I offer you a little calamari?
Welcome!
I checked that it hadn’t gone through when I got the error message.
Effin’ calamari …
The initiation is simple. You name all the words that end in “-gry.” If you can’t do it in 15 seconds, we get to give you noogies until you cry.
Welcome.
Than reminds me: Who was the (now banned) poster who ranted against circumcision?
Are you sure you want to stuff Big Willie Shakes that full of calamari?
The real initiation takes place 1-4 weeks after you become a member, I’d tell you what it involves, but dopers guilty of revealing the details of the initiation ceremony are punished by having to go through it again themselves. You’ll just have to see for yourself.
‘That’. (PowerBook keyboard is smaller than the desktop keyboard.)
Speaking of, has anybody seen that Toyota has actually used a depiction of our initiation in one of their ads? I’ll have to see if I can find a link somewhere…
This might be a better link, go to the one for the VIOS.
Jack Dean Tyler.
Has paid up yet? I’m mixing the margaritas and the cat is ready.
How ironic that the one below that one contains the line “Outta the way, sheep shagger!”
Cybernoogies.
Twickster
*No goats till s/he coughs up the $14.95.
In the meantime, may I offer you a little calamari?
Welcome!*
I found some calamari - and it was in the deepest part of the world’s oceans. (I’ll invite other “Dopers” to add to this).
When Big Willie Shakes decides to become a dues-paying, card carrying, machine-gun wielding, ignorance-fighting SD member, perhaps we could explain to him/her the meaning of this “in joke”.
I found that calamari once … in 1960.