# What (just joking) things could the SDMB sell to raise revenue? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 25, 2008, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-joking-things-could-the-sdmb-sell-to-raise-revenue/442695 "2008-03-25T17:42:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-joking-things-could-the-sdmb-sell-to-raise-revenue/442695/41 "2008-03-26T17:42:59Z")
[QUOTE=JohnT] For $50 you could have Cecil post in one of your threads. For $500, he could praise your “professionally written” OP. For $5,000 he could demean other posters on your behalf (maximum of 3 posts). [/QUOTE] How much extra would it cost for him to swear on stack of Bibles that you’re not paying him to do it? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-joking-things-could-the-sdmb-sell-to-raise-revenue/442695/42 "2008-03-26T18:23:50Z")
$100 and you win a Great Debate. Hooray! $1000 and you get mod-for-a-day powers To be honest, I’d consider paying money for the solution to “14 k of g in a fpd”. Did that ever get a solution? ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-joking-things-could-the-sdmb-sell-to-raise-revenue/442695/43 "2008-03-26T19:48:46Z")
I’d pay to have a couple of socks for a week. I used to go on chats and pretend to be three separate people. I admitted it to one person and they decided I was nuts. Nope, just imaginative. I _think_ I could pull it off here, but I’m not going to try. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-joking-things-could-the-sdmb-sell-to-raise-revenue/442695/44 "2008-03-26T19:53:50Z")
[QUOTE=Silver Tyger Girl] I’d pay to have a couple of socks for a week. I used to go on chats and pretend to be three separate people. I admitted it to one person and they decided I was nuts. Nope, just imaginative. I _think_ I could pull it off here, but I’m not going to try. [/QUOTE] Ohh, that gives me an idea! For $2000 you can post under someone else’s username for 10 posts or one hour. Look at the years of fun we’ve had at **Hal** ’s expense. Just think, that was only one post. Imagine the fun we could have over 10! ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-joking-things-could-the-sdmb-sell-to-raise-revenue/442695/45 "2008-03-26T20:18:38Z")
[QUOTE=Telperien] We could whore out some of the more attractive members. [/QUOTE] Great. Will I at least get some of that money for myself? What ever happened to bake sales, people? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-joking-things-could-the-sdmb-sell-to-raise-revenue/442695/46 "2008-03-26T20:23:13Z")
[QUOTE=Freddy the Pig] Since **Cecil Adams** isn’t a real name… [/QUOTE] Hmmm. How much are you willing to pay to _not_ be stoned to death for Doper heresy? As for whoring out the more attractive members, I’m willing, but I’d better run it by the wife first. Lemme get back to you on that. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-joking-things-could-the-sdmb-sell-to-raise-revenue/442695/47 "2008-03-27T02:00:25Z")
For $50, you get to grape a post of someone who has threadshit(ted?). For $100, you get to grape a post of someone who has obviously not read the thread when they’ve replied. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-joking-things-could-the-sdmb-sell-to-raise-revenue/442695/48 "2008-03-27T02:59:40Z")
[QUOTE=Sefton] $100 and you win a Great Debate. Hooray! $1000 and you get mod-for-a-day powers To be honest, I’d consider paying money for the solution to “14 k of g in a fpd”. Did that ever get a solution? [/QUOTE] I dunno if it got posted here or not, but [this site](http://www.14kofginafpd.com/items.php?id=11) proposed **14 kings of Greece in a full Ptolemaic dynasty** The [Ptolemaic dynasty](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemaic_dynasty) were Greek, but they ruled in Egypt. The succession is pretty convoluted, but there _actually were kings_ named Ptolemy I through XV - _one of whom (Ptolemy VI) “never reigned”_. And XV minus I equals XIV. _So…???_ ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-joking-things-could-the-sdmb-sell-to-raise-revenue/442695/49 "2008-03-27T21:58:50Z")
[QUOTE=Telperien] We could whore out some of the more attractive members. [/QUOTE] See, I was thinking since we have so many posters of magnificent proportions, we could rope all the guys who claim over 8" and the gals who claim larger than a DD into to volunteering to use their assets for ad-space w/henna tattoos. Oh, and the foreheads of anyone who claims an IQ of over 150, too. I’m sure they’d be proud to help out a worthy cause 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-joking-things-could-the-sdmb-sell-to-raise-revenue/442695/50 "2008-03-27T22:02:21Z")
[QUOTE=faithfool] For $50, you get to grape a post of someone who has threadshit(ted?). For $100, you get to grape a post of someone who has obviously not read the thread when they’ve replied. [/QUOTE] This post has been…agreed to! ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-joking-things-could-the-sdmb-sell-to-raise-revenue/442695/51 "2008-03-27T22:31:18Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by Ludovic > This post has been…agreed to! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-joking-things-could-the-sdmb-sell-to-raise-revenue/442695/52 "2008-03-27T22:59:10Z")
How about paying for a “mega-ignore” list? If a person were on mega-ignore, you wouldn’t see any thread that they start, you wouldn’t see their posts, you wouldn’t see any post that quoted their posts, and you wouldn’t see any post that referred to them by name. It would be . . . Orwellian! ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-joking-things-could-the-sdmb-sell-to-raise-revenue/442695/53 "2008-03-27T23:06:10Z")
[QUOTE=elbows] T shirts, _Attractive_ t shirts. With the masthead and slogan on the front and ‘Cite?’, on the back. [/QUOTE] I want this bad. Just so that I can wear it to the Wegman’s grocery store on East Ave. in Rochester, NY. Then OtakuLoki will recognize me if he sees me. Seriously though, I would at least buy a “Cite?” button if we had them. ---
**Author:** ![onions\_without\_tears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c37758/32.png) [@onions\_without\_tears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/onions_without_tears)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-joking-things-could-the-sdmb-sell-to-raise-revenue/442695/54 "2008-03-27T23:12:47Z")
I think that with the dollar being so weak, the best thing is to charter a German airliner to bring tourists to Milwaukee. The tour company gets a hefty slice of the total. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-joking-things-could-the-sdmb-sell-to-raise-revenue/442695/55 "2008-03-27T23:23:33Z")
[QUOTE=Nzinga, Seated] I want this bad. Just so that I can wear it to the Wegman’s grocery store on East Ave. in Rochester, NY. Then OtakuLoki will recognize me if he sees me. [/quote] FWIW: I do look around when I’m shopping, wondering if you’re in the store. How I’d recognize you, I have no idea, but I wonder all the same. 😉 P.S. I’m the guy in the USS Virginia CGN 38 ballcap. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-joking-things-could-the-sdmb-sell-to-raise-revenue/442695/56 "2008-03-27T23:43:29Z")
Is it just me, or does anyone else see the text in all the posts outside of quotes on this page (from post 51 on) in purple? ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-joking-things-could-the-sdmb-sell-to-raise-revenue/442695/57 "2008-03-27T23:50:47Z")
[QUOTE=LurkMeister] Is it just me, or does anyone else see the text in all the posts outside of quotes on this page (from post 51 on) in purple? [/QUOTE] This post has been anti-graped by the anti-grapist. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-joking-things-could-the-sdmb-sell-to-raise-revenue/442695/58 "2008-03-27T23:56:10Z")
[QUOTE=Shagnasty] This post has been anti-graped by the anti-grapist. [/QUOTE] Dude, I don’t think it had quite the effect you’re looking for. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-joking-things-could-the-sdmb-sell-to-raise-revenue/442695/59 "2008-03-28T00:04:53Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] Dude, I don’t think it had quite the effect you’re looking for. [/QUOTE] [/color] Now let’s see if **that** fixes it. eta Damn…I thought I had it ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-joking-things-could-the-sdmb-sell-to-raise-revenue/442695/60 "2008-03-28T03:50:51Z")
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