# So what made you join? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 25, 2005, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-made-you-join/305431 "2005-05-25T14:11:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Unregistered\_Bull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3da27b/32.png) [@Unregistered\_Bull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unregistered_Bull)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-made-you-join/305431/41 "2005-05-26T21:18:23Z")
I like haveing an internet discussion place where bigotry for the most part isn’t tolerated. So many other places tend to have alot of tolerated bigotry when it comes to discussing stuff like immigration, the War on Terror, or even leaving the US for a vacation. It’s refreshing to see a discussion about vacationing in France without dozens of jokes about hygene and cowardice being posted or a discussion about illegal immigration where machineguns, minefields, and snipers along the Mexican border aren’t serious suggestions. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-made-you-join/305431/42 "2005-05-26T22:23:09Z")
> [@Harborwolf](#): > > Interesting. I got Giraffe pointing a gun toting Ed Zotti at me. You should have seen the look on your face! ---
**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:** [May 26, 2005, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-made-you-join/305431/43 "2005-05-26T23:19:27Z")
> [@Maastricht](#): > > Huh. I got Coldfire and, if I recall correctly, a very large haddock. Take 2 asprin, and you’ll get ridda dat hadock! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ltfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@ltfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ltfire)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-made-you-join/305431/44 "2005-05-27T00:26:19Z")
Befor heer, I cude not spel gud. ---
**Author:** ![luluBahrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@luluBahrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luluBahrain)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-made-you-join/305431/45 "2005-05-27T00:41:22Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > His socks are too tight. > Tight socks always affect him thusly. > > Go loosen his socks, **lulu**. > 😃 I only loosen the socks of my elders! ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-made-you-join/305431/46 "2005-05-27T01:50:48Z")
> [@luluBahrain](#): > > You used to be not quite so grumpy 😛 I think you have me confused with someone else, dear. Has it really been that long since you and I last talked that you’re forgetting me already? ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-made-you-join/305431/47 "2005-05-27T02:11:07Z")
Some guy named **Cecil** lured me in with his wicked ways. Thanks, Uncle Cecil! ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-made-you-join/305431/48 "2005-05-27T04:12:34Z")
I go back to the AOL days. When the internet board started, I signed up almost immediately, to critique an article about Ni-Cad batteries that **Cecil** had written. I’m still proud of the fact that I was [the original poster of thread #8 on this board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=8). While the names have been removed from the thread, probably due to Our Winter Of Missed Content, I had the foresight to sign my post. And what you won’t realize unless I tell you is that I was answered by **Cecil** , in post #3 of that thread. And my user number is 207. Yes, I’ve been here over 6 years. So I guess the answer to your question is that I joined to correct **Cecil** when I felt he was wrong. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-made-you-join/305431/49 "2005-05-27T05:02:10Z")
I had a half dozen browser windows open, which is pretty normal for me. I switched to one of them, and it was inexplicably open to the SDMB main forums page. (Did I misspell BDSM? I still have no idea how it came to be open on my machine.) I had never heard of the Straight Dope before in my life. I glanced at the forum descriptions, liked what I saw, and immediately registered and posted a new thread to GD without reading any threads at all. That seemed to go pretty well, so I stuck around. When they started subscriptions, the price was simply too cheap to pass up, since I was already addicted. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-made-you-join/305431.md?page=2)