# Now That I'm A Member, Fill Me In On The Secrets **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 17, 2012, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-im-a-member-fill-me-in-on-the-secrets/613188 "2012-02-17T21:18:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2012, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-im-a-member-fill-me-in-on-the-secrets/613188/21 "2012-02-19T13:32:17Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Make sure they’re fresh and tasty. Emphasis on this!^^^ Mine were kinda stale, and as punishment there was no lube… ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2012, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-im-a-member-fill-me-in-on-the-secrets/613188/22 "2012-02-19T13:56:44Z")
Has anybody issued the Warning About Gry? I’d do it, but I’ve misplaced my crib sheet with the full text of the curse on it. I remember the bit about “waking and sleeping, rising and lying, at home and away from home,” just fine, but somewhere in the part about the barns and the livestock it gets all fuzzy. Anybody got a copy handy? ---
**Author:** ![Mk\_VII](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Mk\_VII](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mk_VII)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2012, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-im-a-member-fill-me-in-on-the-secrets/613188/23 "2012-02-19T14:46:10Z")
Wait til you find out the real skinny about the Ark of the Covenant … ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2012, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-im-a-member-fill-me-in-on-the-secrets/613188/24 "2012-02-19T16:10:52Z")
> [@Mk\_VII](#): > > Wait til you find out the real skinny about the Ark of the Covenant … And don’t forget about who built Solomon’s temple. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2012, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-im-a-member-fill-me-in-on-the-secrets/613188/25 "2012-02-19T16:15:12Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > Okay guys, I’m officially a “member” here now, no longer a humble guest. Now, as a member I know that I am entitled to certain privileged pieces of information. > > First off, teach me the SDMB handshake. None of that regular handshake for the guests, give me the real deal. > > That’s actually all I can think of right now, but don’t worry, when I think I should know something as a full fledged member, I’ll let you know. > > Oh, one more thing, am I the one who gets to introduce the squid and/or the goat to new guests? Heh..you said “member”. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2012, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-im-a-member-fill-me-in-on-the-secrets/613188/26 "2012-02-19T17:13:45Z")
We don’t speak of Hal. And sheep ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2012, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-im-a-member-fill-me-in-on-the-secrets/613188/27 "2012-02-19T17:35:08Z")
> [@Astroboy14](#): > > And man is my rear end sore! :eek: You know, we’re supposed to take turns in the barrel. What a barrel hog! ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2012, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-im-a-member-fill-me-in-on-the-secrets/613188/28 "2012-02-19T17:50:15Z")
[duplicate post] ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2012, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-im-a-member-fill-me-in-on-the-secrets/613188/29 "2012-02-19T17:51:40Z")
Yes, well, of course, this is just the sort blinkered philistine pig ignorance I’ve come to expect from you non-creative garbage. You sit there on your loathsome, spotty behinds squeezing blackheads, not caring a tinker’s cuss about the struggling artist. (shouting) You excrement! You lousy hypocritical whining toadies with your lousy [del]colour[/del] 1080p hi-def TV sets and your [del]Tony Jacklin[/del] Phil Mickelson golf clubs and your bleeding masonic handshakes! You wouldn’t let me join, would you, you blackballing bastards. Well I wouldn’t become a SD Member now if you went down on your lousy, stinking, purulent knees and begged me! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-im-a-member-fill-me-in-on-the-secrets/613188/30 "2012-02-19T18:07:21Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Well I wouldn’t become a SD Member now if you went down on your lousy, stinking, purulent knees and begged me! That changes my plans for this afternoon. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2012, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-im-a-member-fill-me-in-on-the-secrets/613188/31 "2012-02-19T19:20:22Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > That changes my plans for this afternoon. You had plans? Did you forget about the scheduled … er … “meeting”? ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2012, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-im-a-member-fill-me-in-on-the-secrets/613188/32 "2012-02-19T20:39:47Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > And don’t forget about who built Solomon’s temple. And who keeps the metric system down. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2012, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-im-a-member-fill-me-in-on-the-secrets/613188/33 "2012-02-19T22:42:38Z")
Metric, schmetric. Who among us keeps the dozenal system down? Who? That’s what I want to know. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2012, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-im-a-member-fill-me-in-on-the-secrets/613188/34 "2012-02-19T22:46:33Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Metric, schmetric. Who among us keeps the dozenal system down? Who? That’s what I want to know. Yo mama. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-im-a-member-fill-me-in-on-the-secrets/613188/35 "2012-02-20T00:40:07Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > There is NO . . . Paragraph Six. No no no…Charter Members are the old n00bs. The folks with custom status (statusses? Statusi?) are where it’s REALLY at. And OUR Charter DOES have a Paragraph 6. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-im-a-member-fill-me-in-on-the-secrets/613188/36 "2012-02-20T01:39:54Z")
> [@Unintentionally\_Blank](#): > > No no no…Charter Members are the old n00bs. The folks with custom status (statusses? Statusi?) are where it’s REALLY at. > > And OUR Charter DOES have a Paragraph 6. Oh, crap . . . **now** you’ve done it! Would all of you currently reading this thread please look here? {{{fnord}}} You never heard anything about a “Paragraph 6.” Thank you and have a nice day. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-im-a-member-fill-me-in-on-the-secrets/613188/37 "2012-02-20T01:52:58Z")
> [@Unintentionally\_Blank](#): > > No no no…Charter Members are the old n00bs. The folks with custom status (statusses? Statusi?) are where it’s REALLY at. Nah, not at all. Pretty much everyone is jealous of a charter member who is also a 99er. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-im-a-member-fill-me-in-on-the-secrets/613188/38 "2012-02-20T02:00:03Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > You wouldn’t let me join, would you, you blackballing bastards. Dude, you want to join, that’s fine with us. Just pay the dues up front. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-im-a-member-fill-me-in-on-the-secrets/613188/39 "2012-02-20T02:04:39Z")
I always wondered what the sound of a > [@](#): > > {{{fnord}}} What were we talking about? ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-im-a-member-fill-me-in-on-the-secrets/613188/40 "2012-02-21T02:46:32Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Dude, you want to join, that’s fine with us. Just pay the dues up front. Not on your life-I’m not about to force my first born to part with 2 pints of his blood, nor will I be compelled to climb the tallest peaks on each continent while wearing a herring on my head. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-im-a-member-fill-me-in-on-the-secrets/613188.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-im-a-member-fill-me-in-on-the-secrets/613188.md?page=3)