Question from a dangling member . . .

[lookin]

Just bumping around learning the new Forum software, and discovered that I am a mere “member†and not an “advanced memberâ€, like many of my heroes on this Board. With my sixty-fourth birthday just a few months away, my member is feeling more advanced than ever before, so it seems an odd turn of events.

So does anyone know what kinds of members we have here, and how high one can aspire? I would love one day to rise to the level of “esteemed member†or, dare I hope, “turgid memberâ€.

Can anyone toss me a bone?

[TotallyOz]

Just bumping around learning the new Forum software, and discovered that I am a mere “member” and not an “advanced member”, like many of my heroes on this Board. With my sixty-fourth birthday just a few months away, my member is feeling more advanced than ever before, so it seems an odd turn of events.

So does anyone know what kinds of members we have here, and how high one can aspire? I would love one day to rise to the level of “esteemed member” or, dare I hope, “turgid member”.

Can anyone toss me a bone?

LOL. Actually, it is just the number of posts that one has made on the site. We set this up in the admin and it is currently set to the defaults.

I suggest that we make some changes and have 5 different levels.

1. New to 99 posts

2. 99-250 posts

3. 251-500 posts

4. 501-750 posts

5. Over 751 posts

Now what do we call each category? Any suggestions?

[OneFinger]

Here's my suggestion:

1. New to 99 posts - Curious (But Not Sure)

2. 99-250 posts - Sure and Confident

3. 251-500 posts - Been Around the Block

4. 501-750 posts - Compulsive

5. Over 751 posts - Needs a Life

[marcanthony]

Oh Shit! Just a few more posts and I will reach the compulsive category!!!!

You'll excuse me if I crawl under a rock for a while....

[AdamSmith]

Oh Shit! Just a few more posts and I will reach the compulsive category!!!!

You'll excuse me if I crawl under a rock for a while....

marc. speaking of leopards changing their spots!

Why fight it? Like I (actually Wm. Blake) told you before: In the destructive element immerse!

[marcanthony]

marc. speaking of leopards changing their spots!

Why fight it? Like I (actually Wm. Blake) told you before: In the destructive element immerse!

Haha... and I just noticed that you have one more post than I do. So guess my impending compulsive label is in good company. Guess we'll leap into that great unknown together!

[AdamSmith]

Haha... and I just noticed that you have one more post than I do. So guess my impending compulsive label is in good company. Guess we'll leap into that great unknown together!

I'm with you!

...in the immortal words of Andy Capp, "Yes, Vicar, I have self-control. But I refuse to be a slave to it!"

[Guest StuCotts]

Just bumping around learning the new Forum software, and discovered that I am a mere “member†and not an “advanced memberâ€, like many of my heroes on this Board. With my sixty-fourth birthday just a few months away, my member is feeling more advanced than ever before, so it seems an odd turn of events.

So does anyone know what kinds of members we have here, and how high one can aspire? I would love one day to rise to the level of “esteemed member†or, dare I hope, “turgid memberâ€.

Can anyone toss me a bone?

Dangling is bad enough. Turgid is unthinkable. You'll have to train yourself to think in more sparkly terms, without losing sight of the wisdom expressed in onefinger's post.

[AdamSmith]

Dangling is bad enough. Turgid is unthinkable. You'll have to train yourself to think in more sparkly terms, without losing sight of the wisdom expressed in onefinger's post.

Turgid is highly thinkable!

http://home.att.net/~bob.wallace/dubya-strangelove.html

P.S. Compulsively I embrace the wisdom in Onefinger's post.

[lookin]

Turgid is unthinkable.

Actually, developing into a Turgid Member would cover most of the bases for me.

tur·gid (tûr'jĭd)

adj.

1 Excessively ornate or complex in style or language; grandiloquent

2 Swollen or distended, as from a fluid; bloated

I’d think of it as my life-work here.

Of course, as you suggest, being sparklingly turgid would open up yet another dimension:

Thanks for the advice everyone! It seems the best course of action will be to hew closely to the wisdom of OneFinger, one tentative post at a time, sparkling when I’m able, florid when I’m not, and tumescent as the opportunity arises.

One down . . .

[TotallyOz]

Here's my suggestion:

1. New to 99 posts - Curious (But Not Sure)

2. 99-250 posts - Sure and Confident

3. 251-500 posts - Been Around the Block

4. 501-750 posts - Compulsive

5. Over 751 posts - Needs a Life

LOL. I do like the first 3. The last two are too much a representative of my own life and would hate to see that in print.

How about.

1. Curious Poster

2. Experimenting

3. Out of the Closet

4. Been Around the Block

5. Escort Connoisseur

Also still open to suggestions.

[Guest Luke]

This being my 2nd post, which from my calculation will place me in the category of a “Curious Poster†or a “Curious (But Not Sure)†kind of posting guy, I guess?

Let me think here!!! I am a “curious posterâ€. I am “sure†of most things in life. I hope to always have the courage to be “experimentingâ€. I am “sure and confidentâ€. I have “been around the block†on a few glories walks. I am “out of the Closetâ€. I can be “compulsive†however, appreciate it for what it is. Everyone “Needs a life†I have at least one, and it is happy, exciting and fulfilling. As far as being an “Escort Connoisseurâ€, please oh please may the powers that be evoke the supremacy to bestow upon me to be the best Escort Connoisseur that they see appropriate. I gotta get posting more to achieve this goal!

You guys are a hoot – Thanks for an out of the ordinary read.

Luke

[AdamSmith]

LOL. I do like the first 3. The last two are too much a representative of my own life and would hate to see that in print.

I don't know anybody interesting who doesn't have 3 or 4 serious obsessions. And often 2 lives -- at least!

[lookin]

I don't know anybody interesting who doesn't have 3 or 4 serious obsessions.

I don't know if this is a serious obsession, or just a casual one, but I think it would be nice to celebrate our most steadfast contributors with fitting honorifics. I recently was graduated from a plain old "Member" to an "Advanced Member", and don't think the champagne didn't flow! It took 30 posts to get there and now all I can think of is what's the next mountain to climb, and what lies at the summit?

I guess I've been talked out of "Turgid Member", but what about "Tumescent Member"? Or, dare I dream, "Prodigious Member"?

OK, I'll say it, here's what would launch a plethora of posts from yours truly, and settle the question of obsession once and for all:

1. New to 99 posts - Dangling Member

2. 99-250 posts - Aroused Member

3. 251-500 posts - Tumescent Member

4. 501-750 posts - Esteemed Member

5. Over 751 posts - Prodigious Member

[Guest StuCotts]

I don't know if this is a serious obsession, or just a casual one, but I think it would be nice to celebrate our most steadfast contributors with fitting honorifics. I recently was graduated from a plain old "Member" to an "Advanced Member", and don't think the champagne didn't flow! It took 30 posts to get there and now all I can think of is what's the next mountain to climb, and what lies at the summit?

I guess I've been talked out of "Turgid Member", but what about "Tumescent Member"? Or, dare I dream, "Prodigious Member"?

OK, I'll say it, here's what would launch a plethora of posts from yours truly, and settle the question of obsession once and for all:

1. New to 99 posts - Dangling Member

2. 99-250 posts - Aroused Member

3. 251-500 posts - Tumescent Member

4. 501-750 posts - Esteemed Member

5. Over 751 posts - Prodigious Member

Doesn't Esteemed seem a bit anticlimactic in an ascending scale between Tumescent and Prodigious? I've racked my brain. Bustin' Out All Over is just too folksy. Is Consummate too obvious? How about Masterful? Virtuoso?

I must be overheated from looking at that ad. Get me one of those props and call me any kind of member you want.

[lookin]

Doesn't Esteemed seem a bit anticlimactic in an ascending scale between Tumescent and Prodigious? I've racked my brain. Bustin' Out All Over is just too folksy. Is Consummate too obvious? How about Masterful? Virtuoso?

I see what you mean, and it's driving me back toward Turgid Member. Maybe I'll do some research over the long weekend and see if anything else springs to mind.

[AdamSmith]

I see what you mean, and it's driving me back toward Turgid Member. Maybe I'll do some research over the long weekend and see if anything else springs to mind.

Here's a dangerously addictive resource:

www.thesaurus.com

[lookin]

I must be overheated from looking at that ad. Get me one of those props and call me any kind of member you want.

At the base of the obelisk, way down low,

Stand a couple little girlies with a titillating glow.

All the hotties look away, as they hide their swollen dicks,

‘Cause they know that later on they’ll be one anothers’ tricks.

[lookin]

Here's a dangerously addictive resource:

www.thesaurus.com

I knew you'd have the answer AdamSmith! What honorific do you think would best bridge the gap between Tumescent Member and Prodigious Member?

I think I recall Andre passing through that state briefly, but words failed me at the time.

[TotallyOz]

Here is the results:

Curious 0

Dangling 50

Aroused 100

Tumescent 250

Esteemed 500

Prodigious 750

Olympian 1000+

I like them all but Tumescent. As I have a hard time figuringout what it means. Remember, I came from a trailer park in the deep south and those long words are hard for me.

[lookin]

Here is the results:

Curious 0

Dangling 50

Aroused 100

Tumescent 250

Esteemed 500

Prodigious 750

Olympian 1000+

I like them all but Tumescent. As I have a hard time figuringout what it means. Remember, I came from a trailer park in the deep south and those long words are hard for me.

Excellent! Olympian is inspired!

I know what you mean about Tumescent. It is a long, hard word, and probably brings up different images for different people. Here's what comes up for me:

[Guest StuCotts]

At the base of the obelisk, way down low,

Stand a couple little girlies with a titillating glow.

All the hotties look away, as they hide their swollen dicks,

‘Cause they know that later on they’ll be one anothers’ tricks.

Enough to awaken anybody's voyeurism, no matter how latent. But the point of this post is to ask, amid fits of tooth-gnashing envy: Did you compose that quatrain spontaneously for the occasion?

[Guest StuCotts]

Excellent! Olympian is inspired!

I know what you mean about Tumescent. It is a long, hard word, and probably brings up different images for different people. Here's what comes up for me:

The thick growth of puns in your copy almost distracted me from the thick growth front and center in the photo.

[lookin]

Enough to awaken anybody's voyeurism, no matter how latent. But the point of this post is to ask, amid fits of tooth-gnashing envy: Did you compose that quatrain spontaneously for the occasion?

Well you just know there's a back story to that ad! And once you've got a line with "titillating" in it, the rest just flows.

[lookin]

The thick growth of puns in your copy almost distracted me from the thick growth front and center in the photo.

Ha!

I notice that you are yourself just one post away from "Tumescent Member". Any plans for celebrating?

If you were with TotallyOz in Rio right now, you could celebrate with the young man in the photo. According to the "Top Boys Rio" website, his name is Kaique, and he also does a very nice "Prodigious Member". Wish it were mine.