They’re all Marxists anyways.
Soooo… we could pay more to not be “Charter Members”.
I laughed so hard I nearly fell off my polo pony.
Polo pony? Must be a rental…“Guest.”
Applause to Una as well. (I love the last sentence I quoted: the “We lit the fuse” one), and ditto. I’m quite comfortable, assuming I can’t have “Idol of millions” as my custom user title, having “Charter Member”. It has…panache. And it’ll seperate us from the Riff-Raff*
I strongly recommend that if there really are people upset by this, that they be allowed to just have “subscriber” under their names while the rest of us bask in our titled glory.
Fenris, Charter Member.
*As opposed to the Columbia or the Brad or the Janet
In my experience most people around here are adults. Adults act as adults, no matter the “tag” under people’s membername.
Salaam.A
Well obviously one would normally let one’s help take care of such matters but I’ve sent Dickins into town to fetch new coolie hats for the gardeners. Mrs Bright is ever so particular about such things.
Besides, Dickins isn’t much of a typist anyway. If he was fully literate, he might learn to read. Good heavens! Think of the consequences for ordered society if one of hoi polloi started reading!
There would be revolution! England would start to look like France, for God’s sake.
Anyway, as I say, I was rather hoping we might actually spruce this club up a bit, you know, make it worth belonging to. I talked to that Zotti fellow but he refused to tell me whether he had any plans for the addition of doormen. Appears there won’t be a bar either. I mean, really… what good is a gentleman’s club if one can’t enjoy a dry Gimlet?
All of a sudden the gaff is awash in David bloody Nivens wearing Smoking Jackets; aka ** Dexter Haven’s** ultimate fantasy writ friggin large.
It’s the Philadelphia Story run amok in cyber space, for fucks sake.
Whoops ! Bottoms up, mine’s a large one . . .
I say, who let that Calling fellow in? Rather a rough diamond what, what?
Oh shit, I’ve just realised it says guest under my name so I can’t get into the club by blag. Hmm…rethinks tactics
Terribly sorry, old chap, but you don’t appear to be a member- may I ask what you’re doing here?
Oh, you aren’t a member, is that it? Well then, begone, peasant! We’ll inform you when the chimney flues need sweeping; until then, you may crawl back into whatever hole you came from. Brixton, I should imagine.
Then again, I don’t see that it’s the children of the world starting wars and burning crosses. Adults are far more prejudicial than children.
Let’s hope that “guests”, around here, are treated the same as “members”. In my experience on other boards, that normally isn’t the case.
Flash,
My guess on this is that anyone who tries to make a “disitinction” between those who paid for membership and those who visit as guests, shall find himself (to begin with) in the title of a thread on the BBQ-thing.
I don’t name that place a “forum”; I consider it to be a rather childish addition to this message board. But in this case I would even applaud the use of it to educate those who think they are adult yet act like schoolchildren.
Salaam. A
YAY! Thanks, Lynn! 
:runs off to think of a clever title:
I’m with Aldebaran. Ridiculers will get their heads handed to them by others with the “right” tag and probably a mod or two. And to directly contradict your dire prediction, we already have two pieces of information to distinguish posters: post count and registration date. I’ve never seen any poster ridiculed solely because of a lower post count or recent registration date.
Shakespeare said something far wiser about names which I’m sure the vast majority of Dopers agrees with. And Groucho’s statement wasn’t really wise, it was more like a paradox, i.e., a joke.
In some areas, perhaps. But see “Lord of the Flies”, for instance.
I like “Charter Member” too. It sounds like a prestigious title (and no, I won’t use it to be snooty). Please don’t take mine away!
Or the Cleo or the Mungo or the Heathcliff. 
This whole ‘charter member’ business just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I’d rathe be a paying ‘guest’, or blank for that matter.
Please do something! Creativity!
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No, instead they do it to themselves. At least, they used to, quite often, in the Pit. As in “you’re just pitting me because I’ve got a two-digit post count,” written in response to someone with a post count in the thousands. If I remember correctly, it appeared to me to be a sort of last-ditch defense, when the subject of scorn didn’t want to admit to being an idiot or a jerk, yet all other rationalizations of the behaviour that got them Pitted had failed.
As such, I have little doubt that we will see plenty of posts which say, in effect, “you’re only saying those mean things to me because I’m a guest” (or not a “Charter” member). Sort of like, in real life, people claim that bad things are done to them solely because they’re black, or female, or young, or disabled, or gay, or whatever. Mind you, in the world at large, where interaction between people often means more than just an exchange of ideas, these claims are probably more often correct than not, but here, where a person’s title isn’t going to affect their job or home or health, almost all such claims will simply be whining.
Here! Here! I’m such a maverick, I signed up without ever having posted before. I lurked a lot, though…
Hi everybody!
Welcome JellyBlue!
Thanks, 1920s Style Death Ray. I particularly appreciate it when someone takes the time to color my name correctly.
Yeah, it’s just a shame that the [wobble] tag isn’t working :).