# Post here if you have been lurking for the duration of the paid memberships **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 2, 2008, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-here-if-you-have-been-lurking-for-the-duration-of-the-paid-memberships/461753 "2008-09-02T21:37:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![EpiGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8c91f0/32.png) [@EpiGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EpiGirl)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-here-if-you-have-been-lurking-for-the-duration-of-the-paid-memberships/461753/261 "2008-09-07T09:37:48Z")
I’ve been lurking here since the year 2000. I had actually decided to finally pay for a membership a few weeks ago, but lucky me, the boards were going to become free again. How long had it been since the board went to paid memberships? It appears to have been a longer time then I remember… ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-here-if-you-have-been-lurking-for-the-duration-of-the-paid-memberships/461753/262 "2008-09-07T10:01:13Z")
I guess I should post to this thread. Also, just to add, I am a 21 year old college student. 5’2" 110 lbs. My friends say I look like Jessica Biel, only shorter, and I’m recently single. My hobbies include hunting for cow patties and fantasy football. Is it okay if I use my parent’s credit card to subscribe? I wonder what the hell my sig is? It’s been so long. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-here-if-you-have-been-lurking-for-the-duration-of-the-paid-memberships/461753/263 "2008-09-07T10:04:00Z")
PS: Remember in the movie Labyrinth, that thing that had two heads and one could only tell lies and one could only tell the truth? Yah, that thing was cool. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-here-if-you-have-been-lurking-for-the-duration-of-the-paid-memberships/461753/264 "2008-09-07T13:40:18Z")
> [@Lucretia](#): > > Hi there! Hot and dusty at the moment, thanks to currently being in Bagram, Afghanistan. It’s quite nifty to see all the MAD names I remember so fondly! Wait, have _you_ been lurking? I don’t recall seeing _you_ around lately. . . And Bagram! Man, I love that place. Have they widened Disney Drive yet? I heard that Starbucks was going to kick out Green Beans Coffee, and set up their own thing near Cherry-Beasley. Sorry. I get misty-eyed when I recall the poppy fields in the springtime. Tripler :: plays Zep’s _Kashmir_ in his mind :: ---
**Author:** ![Dinaroozie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Dinaroozie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinaroozie)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-here-if-you-have-been-lurking-for-the-duration-of-the-paid-memberships/461753/265 "2008-09-07T14:11:53Z")
This is so strange - I see all the paid up members remarking on the people returning that they haven’t seen for so long, and then I realise I’m reading the thread thinking the same thing! Some of your names are so familiar to me. I never posted much even when I could… although I do still have a lot of dopers on my Wii friend list. 🙂 Perhaps I will be more talkative this time around. Good lord, I was still a student when I last posted here. Seems so long ago, but it was quite recent compared to some of the other people posting in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![rues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@rues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rues)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-here-if-you-have-been-lurking-for-the-duration-of-the-paid-memberships/461753/266 "2008-09-07T17:05:49Z")
well, technically this is the first time I’ve ever posted, but I’ve been lurking for quite some time…🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-here-if-you-have-been-lurking-for-the-duration-of-the-paid-memberships/461753/267 "2008-09-08T01:32:14Z")
Joined in 2000 (obviously), paid for a year…I think I renewed for a second…and then let my membership drop. Now that posting is free again, I have a ton of things to post about, if only I could remember most of them:smack: ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-here-if-you-have-been-lurking-for-the-duration-of-the-paid-memberships/461753/268 "2008-09-08T06:38:54Z")
Wow! Nice to see so many of you again! I remember you, **Brad The Impaler**. And **Earthworm Jim**! And bunches of the rest o’ you whose names I am happy to see, but which already went flying out of my head again. (Mind like a steel sieve, I swear…) ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-here-if-you-have-been-lurking-for-the-duration-of-the-paid-memberships/461753/269 "2008-09-08T06:54:09Z")
Me. I spend a fair amount of time at Livejournal and Unaboard; among other places… Not only could i not remember my password here, but i forgot which email box i was using to be able to reset:smack: my password ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Frink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Mr.Frink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Frink)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-here-if-you-have-been-lurking-for-the-duration-of-the-paid-memberships/461753/270 "2008-09-08T08:34:12Z")
I started reading the site soon after it moved from AOL. Joined up…posted as “frinkboy” for a good portion of my time here…then the site went pay just as I was moving to an area with no internet access (Yellowstone). Just moved back to the real world a few months ago…and lo-and-behold…back to free posting… Good to be back! Now if only I could find the participants of[this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=103162) to finish the debate… Good to be back! ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-here-if-you-have-been-lurking-for-the-duration-of-the-paid-memberships/461753/271 "2008-09-08T08:58:45Z")
Wait a second, iamphuna is back!? Welcome back!, nice to see you again!!! _Idiots!!!, I told you to bury the coffin upside down!_ 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-here-if-you-have-been-lurking-for-the-duration-of-the-paid-memberships/461753/272 "2008-09-08T09:50:43Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > Wait, have _you_ been lurking? I don’t recall seeing _you_ around lately. . . And Bagram! Man, I love that place. Have they widened Disney Drive yet? I heard that Starbucks was going to kick out Green Beans Coffee, and set up their own thing near Cherry-Beasley. > > Sorry. I get misty-eyed when I recall the poppy fields in the springtime. > > Tripler > :: plays Zep’s _Kashmir_ in his mind :: Well, you wouldn’t have seen me if I was _lurking_, now would you? 🆒 I don’t know how wide Disney was before, but it ain’t all that wide now, and no, Starbucks has not yet managed to usurp Green Bean. As for poppies, unless the ones here bear an uncanny resemblance to dusty rocks, I haven’t seen anything close to one, and won’t, either, given that I’ll be leaving sometime in January. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-here-if-you-have-been-lurking-for-the-duration-of-the-paid-memberships/461753/273 "2008-09-08T10:13:11Z")
> [@Tequila\_Mockingbird](#): > > I haven’t lurked the whole time…just most of it. :smack: > > Hi a bunch of people I’ve seen before and some I have no clue who ya are! Cheers and here’s to you. Holy Crap! You were one of my first Doper Crushes. If you’re back, I may have to rethink my current crush. In other words… “How _you_ doin’?” ETA: Wow, there is a lot of folks I remember from my wee first days on the Dope. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-here-if-you-have-been-lurking-for-the-duration-of-the-paid-memberships/461753/274 "2008-09-08T10:49:39Z")
> [@Ale](#): > > Wait a second, iamphuna is back!? > > Welcome back!, nice to see you again!!! No, it’s a figment of your imagination. One other person’s return is also imagined. I’ll leave it to you to figure out that person’s identity. ---
**Author:** ![Woeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Woeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Woeg)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-here-if-you-have-been-lurking-for-the-duration-of-the-paid-memberships/461753/275 "2008-09-08T15:45:11Z")
Long time reader, back again! ---
**Author:** ![Tixenfleaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9a140/32.png) [@Tixenfleaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tixenfleaz)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-here-if-you-have-been-lurking-for-the-duration-of-the-paid-memberships/461753/276 "2008-09-08T17:45:58Z")
Been a lurker for many a year, dropping an occasional (and usually unnecesary) post. What ever I think of writing, someone else usually comes in and does a better job of it. Glad to see the board is free again. ---
**Author:** ![gurujulp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba9def/32.png) [@gurujulp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gurujulp)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-here-if-you-have-been-lurking-for-the-duration-of-the-paid-memberships/461753/277 "2008-09-08T22:10:19Z")
Just can’t justify the fee, so just been chillin’ laughing and then getting mad when I really have something to say and can’t… ---
**Author:** ![Torpor\_Beast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/71e660/32.png) [@Torpor\_Beast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Torpor_Beast)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2008, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-here-if-you-have-been-lurking-for-the-duration-of-the-paid-memberships/461753/278 "2008-09-09T00:56:03Z")
Paid the membership fee once, but started lurking shortly after that for various board-related & real-life reasons. Might as well start posting again. After all, it’s FREE. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Essured](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2008, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-here-if-you-have-been-lurking-for-the-duration-of-the-paid-memberships/461753/279 "2008-09-09T10:44:45Z")
> [@Kaio](#): > > I remember both “ **Goo** ” and “ **Essured** ”, though my memory is a bit dim on whether I realized both were the same person… (not Aussie, btw) Wow! Thanks! I think… Nah, thanks! I’m going to take it as a compliment 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kaschua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3ab097/32.png) [@Kaschua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaschua)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2008, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-here-if-you-have-been-lurking-for-the-duration-of-the-paid-memberships/461753/280 "2008-09-09T11:10:18Z")
I too waited. I knew free membership was in the works, so I figured I’d just wait it out. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-here-if-you-have-been-lurking-for-the-duration-of-the-paid-memberships/461753.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-here-if-you-have-been-lurking-for-the-duration-of-the-paid-memberships/461753.md?page=15)