four more posts!

I'm four posts away from senior membership! Where do I get fitted for my decoder ring, and what do I wear to the initiation ceremony?

 

start here

First, get a nice curtain rod, then buy a weird hat...

 

Ya mean it's that easy?

You mean that it's that easy to obtain Senior Member status?

What about residency, the thesis, the research? Are you sure that your senior member status will be accepted by everyone? Will it be accredited?

What's to prevent someone from starting a website and offering you full senior member status for, let's say only 25 posts??

 

Expect a visit from Laurence Fishburne.

 

The first rule of Senior Membership is don't talk about Senior Membership.

/obscure "Fight Club" reference

 

I discovered that a warm bath and soft candlelight helped get me in the mood.

Oh, oh . . . . . . sorry, wrong membership.



marilynd

 

But it's good to know you made senior member there.

 

Yes, but it took more than a hundred posts.



marilynd

 

so

 

this is one

 

way to make

 

senior member

 

Some of us try to do it by posting actual substance.

Well, mostly actual substance...

 

dlady - first you have to make it to "member" status

alarmingidea - nice work ... by starting this thread you were able to get 2 posts closer to "senior member" status

and now I'm 1 post closer myself

 

how many posts do you need for 'member' status?

 

I think it's something like 30 posts for "member" status.

I'm cruising along to senior!

 

Oh, might as well go for it.

I AM THE MAN! I AM THE MAN!!!

 

There is a rumor (now, if there wasn’t before) that when you reach seven-thousand posts you earn the much coveted degree; “Master of Arts in Discovery of Education and Electronic Learning” (Degree Acronym: MAD EEL). At nine-thousand posts I have heard that you are then elevated to the title “Grand-Arch-Senior-Executive-Emperor of all who have used the letters “D” & “L”. You are then bestowed (no-one knows how) with super-powers, and become able to: discover and assess prior learning merely by thinking about the individual being assessed; impart knowledge and degrees with sheer force of will; teleport yourself to any location; (and) bend the very laws, rules and regulations of any governmental authority to suit your purposes.

Of course, this is only a myth. There is no evidence of which I’m aware that any person has ever achieved this status.

 

They say that the secret ninth Ivy-league college will be the institution that bestows the degree Master of Arts in Discovery of Education and Electronic Learning upon a person’s seven-thousandth post, in a privately held conferral ceremony.

 

7,000

At the present time, that honor has only been bestowed on a Perl script that got away from its author, an inept hacker on the faculty of a UPS Store mailbox.