# Is there some kind of 'initiation' for new posters? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 25, 2005, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-some-kind-of-initiation-for-new-posters/318626 "2005-08-25T21:08:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Big\_Willie\_Shakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/439d5e/32.png) [@Big\_Willie\_Shakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Willie_Shakes)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-some-kind-of-initiation-for-new-posters/318626/1 "2005-08-25T21:08:30Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-some-kind-of-initiation-for-new-posters/318626/2 "2005-08-25T21:11:45Z")
Muahahahaha … is there an initiation, he asks … **Somebody get the goats.** ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-some-kind-of-initiation-for-new-posters/318626/3 "2005-08-25T21:18:50Z")
No goats till s/he coughs up the $14.95. In the meantime, may I offer you a little calamari? Welcome! ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-some-kind-of-initiation-for-new-posters/318626/4 "2005-08-25T21:21:03Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-some-kind-of-initiation-for-new-posters/318626/5 "2005-08-25T21:25:04Z")
No goats till s/he coughs up the $14.95. In the meantime, may I offer you a little calamari? Welcome! ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-some-kind-of-initiation-for-new-posters/318626/6 "2005-08-25T21:28:02Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-some-kind-of-initiation-for-new-posters/318626/7 "2005-08-25T21:30:05Z")
No goats till s/he coughs up the $14.95. In the meantime, may I offer you a little calamari? Welcome! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-some-kind-of-initiation-for-new-posters/318626/8 "2005-08-25T21:32:09Z")
I checked that it hadn’t gone through when I got the error message. Effin’ calamari … ---
**Author:** ![THespos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@THespos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/THespos)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-some-kind-of-initiation-for-new-posters/318626/9 "2005-08-25T21:33:26Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-some-kind-of-initiation-for-new-posters/318626/10 "2005-08-25T21:37:25Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > In the meantime, may I offer you a little calamari? Than reminds me: Who was the (now banned) poster who ranted against circumcision? ---
**Author:** ![Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cornelius_Tuggerson)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-some-kind-of-initiation-for-new-posters/318626/11 "2005-08-25T21:38:20Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > No goats till s/he coughs up the $14.95. > > In the meantime, may I offer you a little calamari? > > Welcome! 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. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-some-kind-of-initiation-for-new-posters/318626/12 "2005-08-25T21:39:16Z")
‘That’. (PowerBook keyboard is smaller than the desktop keyboard.) ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-some-kind-of-initiation-for-new-posters/318626/13 "2005-08-25T21:39:26Z")
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… [ah, here it is.](http://groups.msn.com/ThoseYouDefend/humor.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=31370&LastModified=4675531962747563284) ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-some-kind-of-initiation-for-new-posters/318626/14 "2005-08-25T21:42:19Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > [ah, here it is.](http://groups.msn.com/ThoseYouDefend/humor.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=31370&LastModified=4675531962747563284) This might be a [better link](http://www.uniquecarsandparts.com.au/unique_cars_movies.htm), go to the one for the VIOS. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-some-kind-of-initiation-for-new-posters/318626/15 "2005-08-25T21:55:21Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > Than reminds me: Who was the (now banned) poster who ranted against circumcision? Jack Dean Tyler. ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-some-kind-of-initiation-for-new-posters/318626/16 "2005-08-25T22:08:20Z")
Has paid up yet? I’m mixing the margaritas and the cat is ready. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-some-kind-of-initiation-for-new-posters/318626/17 "2005-08-25T22:19:15Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > This might be a [better link](http://www.uniquecarsandparts.com.au/unique_cars_movies.htm), go to the one for the VIOS. How ironic that the one below that one contains the line “Outta the way, sheep shagger!” ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-some-kind-of-initiation-for-new-posters/318626/18 "2005-08-25T22:57:54Z")
Cybernoogies. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-some-kind-of-initiation-for-new-posters/318626/19 "2005-08-25T23:44:12Z")
**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”. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-some-kind-of-initiation-for-new-posters/318626/20 "2005-08-25T23:46:46Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > 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). I found that calamari once … in 1960. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-some-kind-of-initiation-for-new-posters/318626.md?page=2)