# Who paid for my subscription? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 17, 2006, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-paid-for-my-subscription/352963 "2006-04-17T10:34:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [April 17, 2006, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-paid-for-my-subscription/352963/21 "2006-04-17T14:28:00Z")
The entire point of anonymous paying is so you can call them a poopy-head in a debate. I paid for a couple, but you weren’t one of them. Next? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-paid-for-my-subscription/352963/22 "2006-04-17T14:32:07Z")
> [@FlyingRamenMonster](#): > > After all, I don’t want to unknowingly accuse them of being a poopyhead in a heated debate. Which might actually be a good reason to pay anonymously. Otherwise, precisely, you might feel indebted to the person who paid, and it might make things awkward in a debate. That said, it wasn’t me. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-paid-for-my-subscription/352963/23 "2006-04-17T14:43:51Z")
Wasn’t me. I couldn’t afford to . . . . . . I ended up pissing my money away on a little coup I tried to stage in Pago Pago. The little bastards ran off with all of my guns, and left me tied to the mast of a small sailboat, when they set me adrift, only to be picked up by a Vietnamese fishing boat and then forced into a life of Vaudvillian servitude by performing “Oklahoma” nightly for 63 days until we came back into port in Singapore. :smack: Tripler Damned Micronesians. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![The\_Unkempt\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@The\_Unkempt\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Unkempt_One)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-paid-for-my-subscription/352963/24 "2006-04-17T14:48:33Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > Wasn’t me. I couldn’t afford to . . . > > . . . I ended up pissing my money away on a little coup I tried to stage in Pago Pago. The little bastards ran off with all of my guns, and left me tied to the mast of a small sailboat, when they set me adrift, only to be picked up by a Vietnamese fishing boat and then forced into a life of Vaudvillian servitude by performing “Oklahoma” nightly for 63 days until we came back into port in Singapore. :smack: > > Tripler > Damned Micronesians. :mad: But really, if one _must_ be forced into a life of servitude, wouldn’t this be the best one to be forced into? Geez, some people would complain about being hung with a new rope. Also, I did not pay for FlyingRamenMonster’s subscription. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-paid-for-my-subscription/352963/25 "2006-04-17T15:09:27Z")
> [@The Unkempt One](#): > > But really, if one _must_ be forced into a life of servitude, wouldn’t this be the best one to be forced into? Yeah one would think that, if one actually _knew the words_ to “Oklahoma”. Thank OG they didn’t speak English, nor I Vietnamese. Tripler But trying to remember last night’s words . . . oof, that was a nightmare. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-paid-for-my-subscription/352963/26 "2006-04-17T15:18:25Z")
Not me. Poor college student here. Hell, I could barely pay for mine. …where’s that damned Masked Benefactor 'round heah? ---
**Author:** ![bare](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bare/32/471_2.png) [@bare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bare)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-paid-for-my-subscription/352963/27 "2006-04-17T15:36:30Z")
It was me. If yer in the chips now and want to pay me back, PM me for my address. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-paid-for-my-subscription/352963/28 "2006-04-17T17:07:21Z")
Not me… how does one pay for someone anonymously, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-paid-for-my-subscription/352963/29 "2006-04-17T21:10:09Z")
It wasn’t me. I had to have someone pay for myself. (Will that person please come forward, for payment?) ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-paid-for-my-subscription/352963/30 "2006-04-17T21:55:09Z")
Katsuobushi ? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-paid-for-my-subscription/352963/31 "2006-04-17T22:56:53Z")
> [@Troy McClure SF](#): > > Not me… how does one pay for someone anonymously, anyway? See \*\*Tuba’s \*\* Thread: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=366584](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=366584) **FlyingRamenMonster** : It wasn’t me either. ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-paid-for-my-subscription/352963/32 "2006-04-17T22:57:01Z")
Not me! What’s the timeline now? ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-paid-for-my-subscription/352963/33 "2006-04-17T23:09:40Z")
> [@bare](#): > > It was me. If yer in the chips now and want to pay me back, PM me for my address. Would that make him **Bare** Jr.? ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-paid-for-my-subscription/352963/34 "2006-04-17T23:21:00Z")
**It may or may not have been me.** Hah, I have thrown a kink into the equation! Won’t be so easy to figure out now, huh? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-paid-for-my-subscription/352963/35 "2006-04-17T23:24:43Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > **It may or may not have been me.** > > Hah, I have thrown a kink into the equation! Won’t be so easy to figure out now, huh? It almost worked,but we’re on to you, you joined after FRM, so he can mark you off the list. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-paid-for-my-subscription/352963/36 "2006-04-17T23:37:55Z")
> [@What Exit?](#): > > It almost worked,but we’re on to you, you joined after FRM, so he can mark you off the list. 😉 You’re jumping to conclusions. **Rigamarole** could have ponied up for **FRM** without joining him-/herself. You know, to gauge the effects of the initiation, or whatever. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-paid-for-my-subscription/352963/37 "2006-04-18T01:31:41Z")
Not it. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-paid-for-my-subscription/352963/38 "2006-04-18T02:17:40Z")
Wasn’t me. I had to have someone else pay for me. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-paid-for-my-subscription/352963/39 "2006-04-18T02:19:50Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > You’re jumping to conclusions. **Rigamarole** could have ponied up for **FRM** without joining him-/herself. You know, to gauge the effects of the initiation, or whatever. Yes, I’ve been a lurker/stalker longer than I’ve been a member… ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-paid-for-my-subscription/352963/40 "2006-04-18T02:27:38Z")
Wait, so it was you, **bare**? I do plan to pay you back but I can’t right now. It’s not that I haven’t got the money… it’s that I have no idea how to send it :smack: I live in Australia, I don’t have PayPal, I _think_ I can write cheques but they would be in Australian dollars. Help me out a little here, Dopers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-paid-for-my-subscription/352963.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-paid-for-my-subscription/352963.md?page=3)