# Join the Straightdope PBS Fund Drive! Help our Board! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 23, 2000, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-straightdope-pbs-fund-drive-help-our-board/42409 "2000-11-23T03:13:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-straightdope-pbs-fund-drive-help-our-board/42409/61 "2000-11-24T03:41:27Z")
Going from $2,405, I add $20, making it $2,605. The only problem is that this is going to be in cash, so if you can find someway that’s maybe more reliable than the mail to send 20 bucks… ---
**Author:** ![tiggeril](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tiggeril/32/7234_2.png) [@tiggeril](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiggeril)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-straightdope-pbs-fund-drive-help-our-board/42409/62 "2000-11-24T03:58:03Z")
I’ll follow Sanibel man, even with his faulty math. 😉 his contribution bumped it to $2425, I’ll take it to $2445 ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-straightdope-pbs-fund-drive-help-our-board/42409/63 "2000-11-24T03:59:46Z")
:eek: Wow, Sanni, you’re in HS?! 😃 I think you mean $2425. I so wish I could contribute but I’m barely eating right now. Get back to me when I’m gainfully employed and I’m good for $50-$100. –Tim ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-straightdope-pbs-fund-drive-help-our-board/42409/64 "2000-11-24T06:03:49Z")
I will happily donate $20 for the operation of this site. Of course, I will only part with my money when it has been determined what exactly we’re buying, who’s getting our cash, etc. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-straightdope-pbs-fund-drive-help-our-board/42409/65 "2000-11-24T15:24:25Z")
$2,445 with Kyla’s addition and $2,495 with mine. Y’all really have kept my sanity going, and I figure I’ve saved at least $50 on Zoloft alone. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-straightdope-pbs-fund-drive-help-our-board/42409/66 "2000-11-24T15:40:34Z")
I was gonna pledge $100, but $105 should take the running total to an even **$2,600**. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-straightdope-pbs-fund-drive-help-our-board/42409/67 "2000-11-24T15:42:51Z")
Three anonymous donations of $5 each: Anonymous Pledges E, F, an G: total $15 New running total: **$2615**. And **iampunha** and **Crunchy Frog** - thank you both for bumping this back up. I fear that this effort has slowed quite a bit, or is languishing. We are only 1/6 of the way now to the arbitrary goal of $15,000, and now we’re getting people coming out and posting they don’t want to give to a profit company (never mind that no profit is made from this Board, however) or that they actually do **not** want to make the Board more accessable, appearing to say that by allowing it to be slow, this will keep the community manageable…right. Whatever, it’s their opinion. It would be really nice if we had a larger quantity of even small donations, but the big ones have certainly helped the effort most thus far. I was expecting several hundred $5 pledges, but instead am seeing very few. Well, for better or for worse, this effort will give valuable information to **TubaDiva** and the rest of the Straight Dope Staff - which was my intent all along, as per the OP. I hope everyone sees this effort and this thread not as some cheap, grandstanding thing, but as an honest effort to try and help out here. Please, if you can encourage anyone else, see if we can get some more pledges so we can get the most accurate estimate possible. New running total: **$2615**. ---
**Author:** ![Spiny\_Norman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Spiny\_Norman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiny_Norman)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-straightdope-pbs-fund-drive-help-our-board/42409/68 "2000-11-24T15:43:15Z")
Put me down for 50$, if it wasn’t for the SDMB I’d have to get myself a life. And of course, I have a an extremely soft spot for Una… New total: 2650 $ S. Norman ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-straightdope-pbs-fund-drive-help-our-board/42409/69 "2000-11-24T15:44:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Crunchy Frog \* > **I was gonna pledge $100, but $105 should take the running total to an even $2,600.** $105 - Great Job! Will that pledge be in your’s and Honesty’s name? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Spiny\_Norman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Spiny\_Norman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiny_Norman)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-straightdope-pbs-fund-drive-help-our-board/42409/70 "2000-11-24T15:45:46Z")
2665 $ ? ---
**Author:** ![Pammipoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@Pammipoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pammipoo)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-straightdope-pbs-fund-drive-help-our-board/42409/71 "2000-11-24T15:48:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Spiny Norman \* > \*\* > > New total: 2650 $ > > S. Norman \*\* Put me down for $30. I’ve paid more than that for magazine subscriptions that I don’t even read! 🙂 New total:$2680 ---
**Author:** ![kiffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d78d45/32.png) [@kiffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiffa)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-straightdope-pbs-fund-drive-help-our-board/42409/72 "2000-11-24T15:54:36Z")
Let’s make it an even $2700. Kiffa’s share $20. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-straightdope-pbs-fund-drive-help-our-board/42409/73 "2000-11-24T16:02:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Anthracite \* > \*\*$105 - Great Job! Will that pledge be in your’s and Honesty’s name? 🙂 \*\* Um, sure. $100 in my name and the other $5 in hers. (She can’t post here to say otherwise . . . hehehe ;)) ---
**Author:** ![Pammipoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@Pammipoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pammipoo)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-straightdope-pbs-fund-drive-help-our-board/42409/74 "2000-11-24T16:02:32Z")
$2715 including kiffa’s $20, this is our actual total as of now. i believe our math was off due to posting at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-straightdope-pbs-fund-drive-help-our-board/42409/75 "2000-11-24T16:23:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Spiny Norman \* > \*\*And of course, I have a an extremely soft spot for Una… > S. Norman \*\* Oh dear…I thought we weren’t supposed to talk about your soft spot in public! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-straightdope-pbs-fund-drive-help-our-board/42409/76 "2000-11-24T16:24:30Z")
Yes, the running total is **$2715**. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-straightdope-pbs-fund-drive-help-our-board/42409/77 "2000-11-24T16:33:50Z")
With a $20 $2735 ---
**Author:** ![Sue\_Duhnym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-straightdope-pbs-fund-drive-help-our-board/42409/78 "2000-11-24T17:11:38Z")
I’ll throw in $100, taking us to: $2835 ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-straightdope-pbs-fund-drive-help-our-board/42409/79 "2000-11-24T17:28:03Z")
Betcha can’t hit me again! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-straightdope-pbs-fund-drive-help-our-board/42409/80 "2000-11-24T17:39:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sue Duhnym \* > \*\*I’ll throw in $100, taking us to: > > $2835 \*\* **Thank you Sue!!!** An incredible commitment once again, from yet another very fine person here! Woo! (non-binding of course, but still!) Una PS - **beatle** is right…we are so close to getting another $50 out of him! Come on, let’s make him pay!!! 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-straightdope-pbs-fund-drive-help-our-board/42409.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-straightdope-pbs-fund-drive-help-our-board/42409.md?page=5)