# I've been lurking for 9 years...

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 5, 2008, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-lurking-for-9-years/432421 "2008-01-05T19:20:23Z")\
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**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:** [January 6, 2008, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-lurking-for-9-years/432421/21 "2008-01-06T14:18:50Z")

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[QUOTE=bufftabby]  
I’ve truly paid for my membership and earned the right to all goats promised to me. In fact, I signed up mainly for the goat. That “guest” tag is simply an artifact of the past, due disappear at any moment. Wait for it, wait for it…  
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I dunno.  
I don’t _feel like_ the Goats & Squid, today.

Perhaps we should use the Alternative Initiations?

[ul]  
[li]Sump Pump & 50 Gallon drum of WD-40[/li][li]Dress in a Tiger costume, & run around a zoo claiming to have “escaped”. Bonus points for flirting with the cops when they come to shoot you.[/li][li]Trapped in an elevator with an Insurance Salesman for 6 hours.[/li][li]Trapped in an elevator with 2 Insurance Salesmen for 2 hours (the effect is cumulative)[/li][li]French Kiss Rush Limbaugh/Ann Coulter, depending on which gender is the _opposite_ of your usual preference.[/li][li]Bring pie.[/li][/ul]

Be welcome, **bufftabby**. 🙂

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