# Welcome our 61,000th (plus) new member(s)!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-61-000th-plus-new-member-s/372322
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 11, 2006, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-61-000th-plus-new-member-s/372322 "2006-09-11T18:43:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2006, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-61-000th-plus-new-member-s/372322/1 "2006-09-11T18:43:23Z")
In preparation of a series of threads I’m thinking about doing about long-standing SDMB members, I have been surfing trhough the user profiles.
It has come to my attention that yesterday, we reached our 61,000th member, and are still adding them.
So I’d like to extend a hearty non-official SDMB welcome to **tatinadine**!
I’d also like to welcome those who have joined since:
**[windspank@hotmail.com](mailto:windspank@hotmail.com)**
**FelixKat930**
**Allerguc31**
**JHR1**
**timothyg**
**sean284**
**frank o’fobe**
**Spooky Sprite**
**ducktard**
**1D-10T**
**[toadbriar.com](http://toadbriar.com)**
and
**Katgram**
Welcome all!
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### Author:  [@JKilez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKilez)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2006, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-61-000th-plus-new-member-s/372322/2 "2006-09-11T23:15:16Z")
My, how the board has grown. Ditto on the welcome. May the Dope be with you.
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### Author:  [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2006, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-61-000th-plus-new-member-s/372322/3 "2006-09-11T23:51:29Z")
> [@JKilez](#):
>
> My, how the board has grown.
By leaps and bounds.
Just since this morning, we’ve added:
**midnightrambler11**
**ssallen**
**Edith Tisdale**
**xnaughtymex**
**Teius**
**graeme, Westbury wilts UK**
Welcome, everyone!
De plane! De plane!
Merry Christmas, you old Building and Loan!
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### Author:  [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2006, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-61-000th-plus-new-member-s/372322/4 "2006-09-12T09:08:19Z")
Some cities with populations of 61,000:
Greenwich, CT
Palo Alto, CA
St. Cloud, MN
Vancouver, Canada
Durham, UK
Same population as Aruba, and larger than both Monaco and the Virgin Islands.
The SDMB is growing in leaps and bounds.
I think it is time we elected a President (Cecil is King for life) and some form of a Parliament. Get a seat for SDMB in the UN.
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### Author:  [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2006, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-61-000th-plus-new-member-s/372322/5 "2006-09-12T11:54:40Z")
61,000 members, eh?
That explains why the board has been so impossibly slow lately.
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### Author:  [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2006, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-61-000th-plus-new-member-s/372322/6 "2006-09-12T13:18:10Z")
I suppose I have to qualify my remarks by saying that we have over 61,000 _registered usernames_. Some have been inactive for years, a few have been banned, etc.
My initial delvings into the records suggest that among the very earliest 99ers, only about 1 in 6 is still active. If this holds across the membership, then we are a group of about 10,000 active paid members, which is still larger than some cities and countries.
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### Author:  [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2006, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-61-000th-plus-new-member-s/372322/7 "2006-09-12T13:23:58Z")
> [@scotandrsn](#):
>
> **frank o’fobe**
I have a fan club!
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2006, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-61-000th-plus-new-member-s/372322/8 "2006-09-12T13:25:21Z")
> [@Frank](#):
>
> I have a fan club!
“I’m not only the president of **Frank** ’s fan club … I’m the only member!” 😛
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### Author:  [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2006, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-61-000th-plus-new-member-s/372322/9 "2006-09-12T13:29:12Z")
BTW, since my post last night, we’ve added:
**caterox**
**keraste58**
**angryredplanet**
and
**arowana2997**
Welcome! You’ve got mail!
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### Author:  [@velvetjones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velvetjones)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2006, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-61-000th-plus-new-member-s/372322/10 "2006-09-12T13:55:19Z")
See and they said membership would go down after they started charging. Shows what they know. :rolleyes:
Welcome one and all.
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2006, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-61-000th-plus-new-member-s/372322/11 "2006-09-12T14:22:15Z")
Welcome, welcome!
Looks like we’ll have to enlarge the banquet hall for the obligatory welcoming feast!
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### Author:  [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-61-000th-plus-new-member-s/372322/12 "2006-09-12T22:15:08Z")
> [@velvetjones](#):
>
> See and they said membership would go down after they started charging. Shows what they know. :rolleyes:
Of course, initial registration still grants you a free month of participation – it’d be interesting to see what percentage of the “hey, this board looks like fun – I’ll sign up” crowd decides to pony up the dough come payin’ time.
**Sunspace** : Your mention of a feast reminded me of the _Hotel California_ lyric
> [@](#):
>
> And in the master’s chambers
> They gathered for the feast
> They stab it with their steely knives
> But they just can’t kill the beast
And we veterans know all too well what kinds of apparently unvanquishable beasts are running (and swimming, and… ) around the Perfect Master’s chambers at any given time!
By the way, we’re now up to 61,027 registrants with the additions of
**kmac8464
Beefalo Bill
Coach Naked
gilbertcross**
and **lillysmiles**. Welcome!
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### Author:  [@toadbriar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadbriar)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2006, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-61-000th-plus-new-member-s/372322/13 "2006-09-12T23:38:55Z")
Hooray!
I’m glad to finally join. I’ve been lurking for ages, as my husband
can attest. At least a couple times a week I have to read snippets aloud
to him when he wonders what I’m giggling at. Invariably he asks, “do
you even post there yet?”
So, here I am.
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### Author:  [@Mikemike2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikemike2)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2006, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-61-000th-plus-new-member-s/372322/14 "2006-09-12T23:55:48Z")
> [@DMark](#):
>
> Some cities with populations of 61,000:
> Vancouver, Canada
> .
:eek:
This is going to be very upsetting to 539,000 Vancouverites who are going to have to be asked to leave. 🆒
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### Author:  [@Caridwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caridwen)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2006, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-61-000th-plus-new-member-s/372322/15 "2006-09-13T00:06:07Z")
Hay, my name isn’t on there and I joined yesterday. ☹
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### Author:  [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2006, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-61-000th-plus-new-member-s/372322/16 "2006-09-13T00:06:36Z")
> [@toadbriar](#):
>
> Hooray!
> I’m glad to finally join. I’ve been lurking for ages, as my husband
> can attest. At least a couple times a week I have to read snippets aloud
> to him when he wonders what I’m giggling at. Invariably he asks, “do
> you even post there yet?”
>
> So, here I am.
Glad to have you here, welcome!
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### Author:  [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2006, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-61-000th-plus-new-member-s/372322/17 "2006-09-13T00:10:55Z")
> [@Caridwen](#):
>
> Hay, my name isn’t on there and I joined yesterday. ☹
You _joined_ a month ago, user #51895. You _paid_ yesterday.
You’re even _more_ welcome! 😃
Jeez, over 9,000 new names in one month! :eek:
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### Author:  [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2006, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-61-000th-plus-new-member-s/372322/18 "2006-09-13T00:35:03Z")
I’d like to welcome all our newest members. Please line up over here… one line will have the goat first, the second the calamari, and the third the whipped cream. You’ll be rotating stations, so everybody will have a chance to experience the full initiation ritual.
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2006, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-61-000th-plus-new-member-s/372322/19 "2006-09-13T01:05:53Z")
> [@scotandrsn](#):
>
> I suppose I have to qualify my remarks by saying that we have over 61,000 _registered usernames_. Some have been inactive for years, a few have been banned, etc.
>
> My initial delvings into the records suggest that among the very earliest 99ers, only about 1 in 6 is still active. If this holds across the membership, then we are a group of about 10,000 active paid members, which is still larger than some cities and countries.
Obviously no one ever taught you Chicago Math.
The dead vote. The living vote 3 times.
That’s 81,000 active voting members, bub. 😉
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### Author:  [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2006, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-61-000th-plus-new-member-s/372322/20 "2006-09-13T01:28:51Z")
> [@twickster](#):
>
> “I’m not only the president of **Frank** ’s fan club … I’m the only member!” 😛
This thread will be much more successful if we refrain from discussing **Frank** ’s member.
Thanks.
😉
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