# The Exclusive '99 Club.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exclusive-99-club/236127
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 24, 2004, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exclusive-99-club/236127 "2004-03-24T14:12:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 4
### Author:  [@Humble\_Servant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Humble_Servant)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2004, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exclusive-99-club/236127/61 "2004-03-25T15:33:55Z")
> [@Duke](#):
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> Then again, I was welcomed to the board by **Coldfire** , so that’s pretty cool.
My first post was to bump a dead thread of **Coldfire’s** to ask him an accounting question, and then I didn’t return until 3 days later. Man, I musta looked like a troll. But **Coldfire** , **TVeblen** and **dropzone** all responded\* to my first post, and I’d like to retroactively say thanks for your patience with a clueless newb.
[sub]\* Two welcomed me, one gaped and one asked for nekkid pics. It was all good.[/sub]
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### Author:  [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2004, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exclusive-99-club/236127/62 "2004-03-25T17:05:42Z")
[Abe Simpson]Well, I joined in Nov. '99 and only posted a few times in my first few months.
I remember Teddy Roosevelt telling me that if I speak softly and carry a stick with a nail in it, I could one day be John F. Kennedy. I…
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Ah! Death! Death! Deeaaaath![/AS]
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### Author:  [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2004, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exclusive-99-club/236127/63 "2004-03-25T17:09:59Z")
Oh, and I’m user # 3293. Feh.
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### Author:  [@inertia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inertia)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2004, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exclusive-99-club/236127/64 "2004-03-25T17:14:23Z")
Woot!!! I’m in. And I’ve posted hard and I’ve posted often since the day I signed on with this outfit.
All you newb’s get out or I’ll shoot you with my watergun!!! (My cat’s hate it, but they’re not allowed in there.)
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### Author:  [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2004, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exclusive-99-club/236127/65 "2004-03-25T17:36:48Z")
Just dropping a note here. Joined back in October, of 99.
My first thread asked about [Low Flow Toilets](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=7306)
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### Author:  [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2004, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exclusive-99-club/236127/66 "2004-03-25T18:00:07Z")
> [@Biggirl](#):
>
> Looking at the post counts— you '99ers are not a talkative bunch as a whole, are you?
Well, I’m trying to avoid unnecessary posts. For example:
If I see a thread on something where I know the answer, and there’s already 25 posts, I don’t even open it. Somebody surely has beaten me to it.
If I read a thread that triggers a joke in my head, I stop and ponder whether the board needs yet another smartass quip.
If I write something political, I work on it with hammer and chisel until it sounds less vicious and more reasonable. Yes, I post some venomous stuff, but you should have seen it before the hammering. I probably delete about 20% of my posts instead of submitting them.
I’m not a PETA guy (some say I’m a PITA guy,) but I do stop to think if I need to bother the poor hamsters with my insignificant comment.
By the way, **Biggirl,** Mrs. Nott and I send our love to you and your family.
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### Author:  [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2004, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exclusive-99-club/236127/67 "2004-03-25T19:32:37Z")
Somehow, this thread reminds me of the famous Groucho Marx quote … about clubs that would have _me_ as a member …
Woo! I’m old!
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### Author:  [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2004, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exclusive-99-club/236127/68 "2004-03-25T19:46:31Z")
Quality over quantity!
That’s our story and we’re sticking to it.
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### Author:  [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2004, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exclusive-99-club/236127/69 "2004-03-25T20:12:08Z")
You HAD to bring up those horrid pushpins! I should gut you like a fish for that!
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### Author:  [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2004, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exclusive-99-club/236127/70 "2004-03-25T20:18:01Z")
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I get to be in the club, too! User #619 checking in 🙂
Do we get cake? I’m not staying if there’s no cake.
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### Author:  [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2004, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exclusive-99-club/236127/71 "2004-03-25T20:20:56Z")
Oh, and do I get a booby prize for not having changed my sig line in 5 years? (I keep meaning to, but it’s just so appropriate for every situation I get myself into.)
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### Author:  [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2004, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exclusive-99-club/236127/72 "2004-03-25T21:02:01Z")
I’m #1185. Does that impress anyone? No?
Hmpf. Well, I’m better than #1186, whoever he or she may be. Ha! So there. :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2004, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exclusive-99-club/236127/73 "2004-03-25T21:05:51Z")
Just stopping by to write my name in the membership book.
Does anyone know how to find your member number? I did once, but I can’t remember how to do it, or maybe we can’t anymore.
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### Author:  [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2004, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exclusive-99-club/236127/74 "2004-03-25T21:55:53Z")
Just point at your user name and look at the link, wherever that is displayed in your browser (or in a box attached to your pointer for Firebird/Firefox).
What I’m still waiting for is an answer on how to check on the entire list. How are people discovering the first ten users, etc?
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### Author:  [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2004, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exclusive-99-club/236127/75 "2004-03-25T22:37:48Z")
Call up any profile. Change the number to 1 and go from there.
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### Author:  [@lovelee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lovelee)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2004, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exclusive-99-club/236127/76 "2004-03-25T22:58:52Z")
User #264 checking in. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2004, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exclusive-99-club/236127/77 "2004-03-25T23:13:14Z")
Big two-five-one here.
And in an amazing coincidence, 251 is Dirty Harry’s badge number!
Not really.
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2004, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exclusive-99-club/236127/78 "2004-03-25T23:14:39Z")
Oh, and yeah, I was on AOL also. I even remember the very first thread I posted: “Why does BASF advertise?”
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### Author:  [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2004, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exclusive-99-club/236127/79 "2004-03-25T23:28:56Z")
> [@Cardinal](#):
>
> Just point at your user name and look at the link, wherever that is displayed in your browser (or in a box attached to your pointer for Firebird/Firefox).
>
> What I’m still waiting for is an answer on how to check on the entire list. How are people discovering the first ten users, etc?
You can’t, the member list is disabled. You can, however, call up your user profile, then change your user number to whatever number you want to check out. Change it to 2 and see Lynn Bodoni’s profile. Put in 31 and check out Cecils. Put in 731 and you’ll get the profile of the smartest, handsomest, wittiest doper that there is.
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### Author:  [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2004, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exclusive-99-club/236127/80 "2004-03-26T00:39:43Z")
> [@](#):
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> Put in 731 and you’ll get the profile of the smartest, handsomest, wittiest doper that there is.
You must have accidentally hit the “back button” to yours after looking at the profile for the"smartest, handsomest, wittiest" doper, because 731 took me to your profile.
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