# We've got advertisements again **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 4, 2000, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-got-advertisements-again/44027 "2000-12-04T22:37:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-got-advertisements-again/44027/1 "2000-12-04T22:37:45Z")
While I may not be a huge fan of advertisements, it probably means the Chicago Reader is getting a little more money for this, which is good. ---
**Author:** ![mblackwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@mblackwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mblackwell)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-got-advertisements-again/44027/2 "2000-12-04T23:10:11Z")
Maybe if we each click the ads 50 times we can get more money for that server. ---
**Author:** ![Adriatic\_Ionian\_AEgean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Adriatic\_Ionian\_AEgean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Adriatic_Ionian_AEgean)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2000, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-got-advertisements-again/44027/3 "2000-12-05T00:14:08Z")
If you’d like to advertise, go this link from the Home page: **[Advertise on the online Straight Dope! Your direct line to thousands of the smartest, hippest people on the planet, plus a few total dipsticks](http://www.chireader.com/readerinc/Onlinerate.html)** Want to spread the word about SDMB ? This link is also there; how to add an sdmb logo and link from your webpage. **[Link to us!](http://www.straightdope.com/badges/index.html)** ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2000, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-got-advertisements-again/44027/4 "2000-12-05T01:11:23Z")
My son used to keep his pot in those tins until we found it. ---
**Author:** ![pricciar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@pricciar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pricciar)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2000, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-got-advertisements-again/44027/5 "2000-12-05T01:24:04Z")
I don’t believe it! There are little handy’s running around? pat ---
**Author:** ![Louie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2000, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-got-advertisements-again/44027/6 "2000-12-05T05:27:38Z")
mmm minty pot. That reminds me I haven’t had Altoids in a while. I need to pick some up. > [@](#): > > I don’t believe it! There are little handy’s running around? You mean handy’s child is Thing from Addams Family? :eek: AAHHHHHH!!! ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2000, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-got-advertisements-again/44027/7 "2000-12-05T06:27:44Z")
Hey! I just got my order confirmation from the Altoids shop. _Have you gotten yours yet?_ This is the way the free market works. You do bidness with the merchants you wanna do bidness with. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2000, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-got-advertisements-again/44027/8 "2000-12-05T13:50:01Z")
I hope **Alphagene** is stocking up on his Altoids. He throws the mints away, you know, and keeps the tins in his pockets to collect his used cigarette butts. Come to think of it, I have an odd compulsion to do the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2000, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-got-advertisements-again/44027/9 "2000-12-05T16:11:33Z")
Throw the mints away? Uke! There are millions of children in China and India who don’t have fresh breath and you want me to waste these Altoids? After buying the tins, I donate the individual Altoids to both UNICEF to end hunger and to Dream Dresser boutiques as marital aids. Then I use the tins to store my used ciggie butts. And when the tins get full I just toss 'em on the sidewalk. I’m reformed now. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2000, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-got-advertisements-again/44027/10 "2000-12-05T17:37:45Z")
Sunshine and happiness personified. Alphagene is love. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2000, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-got-advertisements-again/44027/11 "2000-12-14T06:17:00Z")
Altoids delivered in 8 days. The “Big Tin” contains 143 servings and would make a stocking (as in “stocking stuffer”) drop off the fireplace. If it actually would _fit_ in a stocking. ---
**Author:** ![oldscratch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2000, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-got-advertisements-again/44027/12 "2000-12-14T10:07:26Z")
what about the people hurt by these advertisement… like Nym? Do we really want to be soooo cruel to dear Nymysys.