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.
You should have seen the look on your face!
Take 2 asprin, and you’ll get ridda dat hadock!
Befor heer, I cude not spel gud.
I only loosen the socks of my elders!
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?
Some guy named Cecil lured me in with his wicked ways.
Thanks, Uncle Cecil!
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. 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.
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.