# Long-Time Members **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 1, 2009, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-time-members/495041 "2009-05-01T22:49:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-time-members/495041/41 "2009-05-13T20:58:56Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > “Proverb” isn’t an exclusively Biblical term – it just means a pithy, well-phrased bit of wisdom. Opposed to an Amverb, which means a clumsily phrased idiom. I like having Charter Member under my name. Just paid $ 7.99 for the right to keep it there. It does seem interesting to identify long-term participators in the board as Guests. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-time-members/495041/42 "2009-05-13T21:14:30Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > I like having Charter Member under my name. Just paid $ 7.99 for the right to keep it there. You got ripped off, bub. They only charged _me_ $7.49! Haha. Sucka! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-time-members/495041/43 "2009-05-13T21:40:45Z")
> [@norinew](#): > > You got ripped off, bub. They only charged _me_ $7.49! > Haha. Sucka! 😛 Yeah, well, I just reupped for _$7.48_! Who’s the Sucka now! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-time-members/495041/44 "2009-05-13T21:51:53Z")
I still can’t find my credit card otherwise I would have reupped. ---
**Author:** ![mutantmoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@mutantmoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mutantmoose)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-time-members/495041/45 "2009-05-13T22:25:59Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > Hi Dad! Hello son ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-time-members/495041/46 "2009-05-13T23:16:39Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > I still can’t find my credit card otherwise I would have reupped. Damn. You should have posted in ATMB before now; previously, other members have been really good about paying with their PayPal, etc. in exchange for promise of reimbursement, promise of a donation to a favorite charity, promise of sexual favors (OK, I made that last one up), etc. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-time-members/495041/47 "2009-05-13T23:26:53Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Yeah, well, I just reupped for _$7.48_! > Who’s the Sucka now! 😛 Dammit, I want my penny back! Wahhhh. I’m going to open a Pit Thread if Ed does not promptly PayPal me my penny! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-time-members/495041/48 "2009-05-13T23:31:24Z")
Mine was to expire next week. It was $7.45. Gotta keep the “charter member”. Don’t want to look like a bum as do some users whose name begins with “Aes”… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-time-members/495041/49 "2009-05-14T01:55:00Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > some users whose name begins with “Aes”… Dammit, he hasn’t posted in the thread…and I can’t change it to “Twicks”. Damn. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-time-members/495041/50 "2009-05-14T02:23:48Z")
> [@mutantmoose](#): > > No that was a different board. It began anew if you recall. And I was its genesis. The New Adam? Can we call you Jesus? Seriously, though, I think the post count could be turned on & that would be nice. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-time-members/495041/51 "2009-05-14T02:31:17Z")
> [@Crazyhorse](#): > > Personally, I like things simple. How about “freeloader” and “Grand Poobah” as the only 2 levels? Nonono. “Guest” for the first 37.75 days unpaid. “Unpaid Member” thereafter, if still unpaid. “Paid Member” once paid, until membership expires. “Charter Member” for the old guard who’ve been paid since payment started, & former members of the SDSAB in good standing. “SDSAB” for those actively contributing to Staff Reports (of which we need more). “Moderator” & “Administrator” as now. “Probable Bot” for those who register but never post. “Best of the Worst” for Boyo Jim so I can mock him over it. “Archaeological Artifact” for those who left before paid memberships & have never come back. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-time-members/495041/52 "2009-05-14T03:00:44Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > Seriously, though, I think the post count could be turned on & that would be nice. Would someone link me to a thread that explains what happened to the board while I’ve been bitching about new Star Trek movies and trying to prevent Twicks from taking my lunch money in unfair games of chance? ---
**Author:** ![Scruff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Scruff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruff)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-time-members/495041/53 "2009-05-14T07:01:01Z")
Well spit, I used to be a member (in fact before the board went to a pay-to-play model \*). Then I wandered off into the wilderness and now can’t remember my old login (might have been _Scruff_), and certainly whatever the email address was is long gone. So I would like a title of “Ghost in the Shell”… I’ll even become a paid member once I figure out how to avoid the plague that is PayPal. (\*) I think it was about the time that a poster called _Airman Doors, USAF_ was just heading off to Basic ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-time-members/495041/54 "2009-05-14T07:49:36Z")
Why not change Charter Member to Doddering Old Fool? ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-time-members/495041/55 "2009-05-14T12:08:08Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > Why not change Charter Member to Doddering Old Fool? Because those of us who are doddering old fools might resemble that description? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-time-members/495041/56 "2009-05-14T12:18:18Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Dammit, he hasn’t posted in the thread…and I can’t change it to “Twicks”. > Damn. > > 🙂 :dubious: I reupped a week ago, 'cause I’ve got a post count that’s worth flaunting. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-time-members/495041/57 "2009-05-14T12:44:34Z")
At lest one vote that does not care about anyone’s (mine too) post count. ---
**Author:** ![Kiber](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kiber/32/317_2.png) [@Kiber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiber)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-time-members/495041/58 "2009-05-14T13:19:20Z")
Well - in the South, a Damn Yankee is a Yankee who comes for a visit, and then stays. So maybe . . . . Damn Guest??? ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-time-members/495041/59 "2009-05-14T14:29:18Z")
> [@The Scruff](#): > > Well spit, I used to be a member (in fact before the board went to a pay-to-play model \*). > Then I wandered off into the wilderness and now can’t remember my old login (might have been _Scruff_), and certainly whatever the email address was is long gone. > > So I would like a title of “Ghost in the Shell”… I’ll even become a paid member once I figure out how to avoid the plague that is PayPal. > > (\*) I think it was about the time that a poster called _Airman Doors, USAF_ was just heading off to Basic You can’t “avoid” PayPal – it’s the only mechanism available. But you can pay using your credit card or your bank account. See detailed instructions [here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11119242&postcount=60) I will also merge up all your screen names into one. Please send me an email and let me know what name you’d like to keep. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-time-members/495041/60 "2009-05-14T14:40:54Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Mine was to expire next week. It was $7.45. > Gotta keep the “charter member”. Don’t want to look like a bum as do some users whose name begins with “Aes”… > > 🙂 I want no part of any club that would have you as a member. 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-time-members/495041.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-time-members/495041.md?page=4)