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Posted on: May 21, 2007 6:31 PM, by PZ Myers
That simple and charming organization, The Friends of Charles Darwin, has just signed their thousandth member. Good for them, but still, that's pathetic — I hope it takes less than a decade to sign up another thousand. Go ahead and join if you haven't already, it's painless, I promise.
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1001 members now, PZ.
Posted by: Rob Barrett | May 21, 2007 6:59 PM
Well, 1002?
Posted by: misterbowen | May 21, 2007 7:27 PM
Charlie is my Darwin. And Thomas is my Huxley, cool as Aldous was.
Now, have some Dawkins.
Posted by: Dustin | May 21, 2007 7:31 PM
Mine hasn't kicked in yet. I might be #1005 but then I could be just one in the queue after #1004.
Posted by: MaryM | May 21, 2007 7:34 PM
I tried three times and could not get past the verification code. Maybe that explains why registrations are few and far between. In any case: Here's to Charlie!
Posted by: ONeal Compton | May 21, 2007 7:38 PM
Same with me. Three times, no code. On the fourth time, it told me it was having technical difficulties.
Posted by: Ric | May 21, 2007 7:47 PM
I think the rush of devoted Pharyngulians broke their membership form. Oops.
Posted by: bioephemera | May 21, 2007 8:13 PM
Patience. As many of you will will know, when you get Pharyngula'd it is both a blessing and a curse. How your hearts swells! He has noticed me! How your servers get found out...we're asleep over here. (Well those of us not working on a Beagle Project funding bid are). Let the FOFOCD (Founder of Friends of Charles Darwin) wake up. He did get Charles Darwin's face on our £10 note.
Posted by: Peter McGrath | May 21, 2007 8:16 PM
Hmmmm...I may have to resign my membership if they start letting any old riff-raff in...
Posted by: Ian H Spedding FCD | May 21, 2007 8:19 PM
Charles is my Darwin, too! I hope they get the technical problem solved so we can all join up!
Posted by: Kristopher Rhodes | May 21, 2007 8:24 PM
Alright, I'm in now.
Posted by: Ric | May 21, 2007 8:34 PM
I guess I'm in a signing mood today. Done and done. I also had a problem with the code, and I know I entered it right. Buggy proceedure, that.
Posted by: Rich | May 21, 2007 8:35 PM
Aaargh! (That be pirate-speak fer F%*#K!) I can't get it to work either, it thinks I am a spambot. I'll try later.
Posted by: Skeptyk | May 21, 2007 8:37 PM
Procedure ^ Damn!
Posted by: Rich | May 21, 2007 8:39 PM
I've been there for months now. I just forget to put the "FCD" after my name.
Here's to Chuck!
Posted by: Greco, FCD | May 21, 2007 8:59 PM
Woo hoo! from member #606 (if I counted right).
--Javier Pazos, FCD
Posted by: The Science Pundit | May 21, 2007 9:06 PM
I think there's a reason for the slow sign-up rate:
Posted by: Simon G. | May 21, 2007 10:28 PM
I'm a member - one of the great 68 from Canada!
Posted by: T. Bruce McNeely | May 21, 2007 10:47 PM
Dude, like what if you were the 666th FCD? How bad would the fundies hate you then?
Posted by: Tex | May 21, 2007 10:52 PM
I'm in. It'll take another three years to get any legitimate letters after my name, anyway.
Posted by: Alex, FCD | May 21, 2007 10:58 PM
Since no fundie I've ever met understands Greek, I can tell them that "666" is a mistranslation and that the sign of the beast is in fact "606." Maybe I can get them to really hate me then.
Posted by: The Science Pundit | May 21, 2007 11:05 PM
The code is displayed in upper case, but it rejected my first attempt when I entered upper case. Certain that I had entered it correctly the first time, I entered the second displayed upper-case code in lower case, & got right on in!
Woohoo, Charlie is my Darwin!
I'm normally not much of a joiner, but feel honored & privileged to be a member of this group.
Posted by: justpaul, FCD | May 21, 2007 11:09 PM
Well, it's a good thing I checked. Seems my attempt some months ago didn't get through. Hopefully I will be up to the standards of the organisation this time.
Optimistically using the letters,
I remain your humble servant.
JohnnieCanuck, FCD
Posted by: JohnnieCanuck | May 22, 2007 2:07 AM
Hmmmm...I may have to resign my membership if they start letting any old riff-raff in...
Hey, I'm not *that* old
Posted by: Graculus | May 22, 2007 2:24 AM
So, when do they mail us our badges?
Posted by: Sophist, FCD | May 22, 2007 2:54 AM
And if you really want to freak some Friend of Charles Darwin out, if you find someone who lists the "FCD" let them know you approve. The guy I ran into at the political convention last year looked at me like I'd just turned him back from a newt.
Bumper stickers!
There are over 700 Steves on the NCSE list -- can't we conscript them or something?
Posted by: Ed Darrell | May 22, 2007 7:52 AM
They don't. You have to go to a currency exchange and buy a 10 pound note. I've got a couple and I'll keep one just for Darwin's portrait.
BTW, if Yanks want to do something to commemorate Darwin, keep an eye out for folk organizing events for the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth in 2009 and suggest they include note of Darwin's being born the same day. The association can't hurt among the thinking. Not too surprisingly, I've observed a certain overlap among folk who think Darwin Satan incarnate and Lincoln a despot.
Posted by: Mike | May 22, 2007 7:52 AM
I signed up.
Our currency would be improved if it showed more historical figures sporting magnificent beards a flock of finches could find refuge in.
Posted by: Richard, FCD | May 22, 2007 8:25 AM
It took two attempts and the verification code was MBCIL which caused a brief moment of paranoia.
Posted by: remy | May 22, 2007 8:27 AM
Apologies for the technical difficulties: the same thing happened the last time I was Pharyngulated. I suspect the problems are caused by record locks when more than one person tries to join at the same time. Please keep trying.
Right, I'm off to add the new members to the list. Almost 400 by my reckoning. I may be gone some time.
Thanks for the link, by the way, PZ.
Posted by: Richard Carter, FCD | May 22, 2007 2:50 PM
I made it in... twice. Does that make me two friends?
Posted by: bybelknap, FCD | May 22, 2007 4:00 PM
At #22: Strangely, I entered the code in lower case first and it was rejected; I entered the second code in uppercase and got right in. So, to anyone who is still having trouble, you may want to play around with the upper/lower cases.
Speaking of the money, I just got back from London and was convinced by my boyfriend not to exchange my remaining 10 pound note for dollars, because "I know you'll wish you hadn't." And he was right.
Posted by: kmarissa, FCD | May 22, 2007 4:25 PM
Count me in!
Posted by: Rob the Lurker FCD | May 22, 2007 6:58 PM
The upper/lower case thing is a red herring, I'm afraid. The problem is definitely down to more than one person trying to join at the same time. I know exactly what's causing the problem and I will try to fix it eventually, but I don't want to meddle with the code while so many people are still joining (or at least trying to!) - 600 in the last 24 hours.
Posted by: Richard Carter, FCD | May 23, 2007 6:16 AM
1642 in two days, and still climbing. Maybe we will see it double. Go tell a friend, why don't we?
You do have a few doubles in there now Richard, BTW.
Posted by: JohnnieCanuck, FCD | May 23, 2007 5:13 PM