# Who are members 1 through 5? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 7, 2010, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-members-1-through-5/538691 "2010-05-07T23:14:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-members-1-through-5/538691/1 "2010-05-07T23:14:37Z")
Ed Zotti is user number six, while Cecil is only # 31. Who are the first five members of the SDMB? ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-members-1-through-5/538691/2 "2010-05-07T23:20:17Z")
You can look them up yourself. Click on your username. In the URL box, change your user number (“u=”) to the numbers you asked about. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-members-1-through-5/538691/3 "2010-05-07T23:26:04Z")
1 doesn’t exist any more 2 is **Lynn Bodoni** 3 is **Dan Kaplan** , who has only posted 62 times in 11 years 4 is **dunl** , who has only posted once 5 is **jkeene**. who has only posted 3 times The longest serving member who has never posted is no. 10, **jimboy**. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Poster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Happy\_Poster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Poster)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-members-1-through-5/538691/4 "2010-05-08T00:30:31Z")
You can view who member X is by visiting [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?u=X](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php) So for pretty numbers, we have for example: Pi is LoneWolf: > **[Straight Dope Message Board - Your direct line to thousands of the smartest,...](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php)** > > Fighting Ignorance Since 1973 While Euler’s constant is Ryan\_Liam: [Straight Dope Message Board - Your direct line to thousands of the smartest, hippest people on the planet, plus a few total dipsticks.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php) You are member number 9033. Not sure if there’s anything interesting about that at all. But if we decided that number 1, not existing, doesn’t count, then you’d presumably be number 9032, which is interesting as “[it would be prime if preceded and followed by a 1, 3, 7, or 9](http://www2.stetson.edu/~efriedma/numbers.html)”. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-members-1-through-5/538691/5 "2010-05-08T00:59:26Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > 1 doesn’t exist any more > 2 is **Lynn Bodoni** > 3 is **Dan Kaplan** , who has only posted 62 times in 11 years > 4 is **dunl** , who has only posted once > 5 is **jkeene**. who has only posted 3 times > > The longest serving member who has never posted is no. 10, **jimboy**. Dan Kaplan worked for the Chicago Reader. Not surprising that he would be there in the old days. [Here’s](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=3011330&highlight=kaplan#post3011330) a very old thread from 2003 which asked much the same question. Interesting historically. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Poster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Happy\_Poster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Poster)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-members-1-through-5/538691/6 "2010-05-08T01:39:33Z")
This thread has inspired me to do some analysis of how quickly we’ve been taking on members. I’ll post the data once I’ve got it all, but it’s a lengthy process for me to be doing manually! ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-members-1-through-5/538691/7 "2010-05-08T01:57:57Z")
Wow, there were people who registered and posted on this board that I thought had never come over at all! **The Crimson Hipster Dufuz** just absolutely has to be **HpstrDufuz** from AOL SDMB. Inventor of the term “deophagy” (w/regards to communion and transubstantiation), if I recall correctly. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-members-1-through-5/538691/8 "2010-05-08T02:40:57Z")
> **[Straight Dope Message Board - Your direct line to thousands of the smartest,...](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php)** > > Fighting Ignorance Since 1973 I was really hoping that would’ve been **Satan**. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-members-1-through-5/538691/9 "2010-05-08T02:44:17Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > 1 doesn’t exist any more > 2 is **Lynn Bodoni** > 3 is **Dan Kaplan** , who has only posted 62 times in 11 years > 4 is **dunl** , who has only posted once > 5 is **jkeene**. who has only posted 3 times > > The longest serving member who has never posted is no. 10, **jimboy**. Nos. 3, 4, 5 were, iirc, all Chicago Reader staffers. Thems were the days. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-members-1-through-5/538691/10 "2010-05-08T03:12:51Z")
Ed Zotti being number six is about the best thing I’ve heard in a long time. Priceless. That this is a thread asking _who is number one?_ adds to the overall awesomeness. Putting those two things together blows my mind. Now all we need is for an impenetrably weird and surreal finish to the whole thing. I’ll be seeing you! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-members-1-through-5/538691/11 "2010-05-08T03:21:15Z")
In the confusing finale, number one pulls off a gorilla mask and is revealed to have been Ed Zotti all along. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-members-1-through-5/538691/12 "2010-05-08T03:23:24Z")
Dangit, if I had known Rhythmdvl was going to beat me to the punchline, I’d have spent the time to work in a monkey butler reference. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-members-1-through-5/538691/13 "2010-05-08T06:15:55Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > Dan Kaplan worked for the Chicago Reader. Not surprising that he would be there in the old days. **Samclem** and I are anagrams. I am **2541** , and he is **2145**. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-members-1-through-5/538691/14 "2010-05-08T08:20:27Z")
I’m number [21437](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21437_Georgechen). My mirror universe duplicate would be [this guy.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=9372296#post9372296) (That’s his only post.) If you rearrange the numbers you can get **[Meatros](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php)**. And if anyone was wondering, [this one-time poster is #24601](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=2366566#post2366566). ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-members-1-through-5/538691/15 "2010-05-08T09:44:11Z")
If I remember correctly, Tuba said she was number one, but lost her password, and the email to fix it didn’t work. So she set up a new username, and later combined both accounts into one. ETA: I’m 79433; anything cool about that number? My mirror universe counterpart is merely another one-timer, [S.N.U.N.N.Y.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php) ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-members-1-through-5/538691/16 "2010-05-08T12:36:05Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > In the confusing finale, number one pulls off a gorilla mask and is revealed to have been Ed Zotti all along. From chimpan-A to chimpan-Z, eh? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-members-1-through-5/538691/17 "2010-05-08T13:01:19Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > **Samclem** and I are anagrams. I am **2541** , and he is **2145**. I’m 24510, making me 10x as cool as either of you. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-members-1-through-5/538691/18 "2010-05-08T14:14:04Z")
I tried Googling mine, 39146, and about the only thing which came back was a zipcode in Nowheresville Mississippi (is that redundant?) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-members-1-through-5/538691/19 "2010-05-08T15:40:14Z")
Just to Godwin the thread right off the bat, Hitler was Party Member #55. His numerical equivalent around here would be [Tyler](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php), who hasn’t posted in 10 years. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-members-1-through-5/538691/20 "2010-05-08T15:55:59Z")
> [@Lord\_Ashtar](#): > > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?u=666](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php) > > I was really hoping that would’ve been **Satan**. Well, I’m 66. Does that make me 2/3rds of a beast? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-members-1-through-5/538691.md?page=2)