Colibri
10-11-2001, 06:47 PM
Yup, it was just one year today that I became so upset at the defamation of noble slothdom - the allegation being that they couldn’t swim - that I unwisely made my first post to the thread, Can camels swim? (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=41778) And the rest, as they say, is history.
It’s been a lot of fun. And I’d like to take the opportunity to thank some of the folks on the board in the front line trenches in the Fight Against Ignorance - the ones who answer the questions in GQ (as well as CCC, CSR, and the more factual threads in GD). Just a few of those whose posts I’ve particularly admired on one subject or another: bibliophage (etymology and lots of other stuff), BobT (baseball and sports in general), The Bad Astronomer and Podkayne (astronomy), brachyrhynchos (biology), Chronos (physics), Collounsbury (Hammer of Racism), Duck Duck Goose (Googlemeister - maybe I should say Googlemistress - extraordinare), edwino (biology and medicine), Fenris (comics), Gaspode (biology), Jomo Mojo (linguistics), MEBuckner (on a host of topics from slavery to the Sultan of Swat), Qadgop the Mercotan and KarlGauss (medicine), samclem (slang and numismatics), screech-owl (biology), Tamerlane (on biology curse him), tomndebb (seemingly on just about everything), tsunamisurfer (mountaineering), minty green and Sua Sponte(law), and zev_steinhardt (Judaism).
I’m sure I’ve forgotten a lot of deserving folks, and overlooked a lot of people who answer questions on topics I
don’t usually click on - so your nominations of others are most welcome.
And I’d also like to thank Fenris (for posts to numerous to mention), jarbabyj (for a shining example in the creative use of obscenity), Ukelele Ike (a humorous remark for every occasion), and Cervaise (for the most artistic pit flame I have ever seen), for making me laugh. And I’m leaving a lot of deserving folks out here too.
And of course thanks too to all the moderators and admins for all they do to keep this place running.
And finally, a very special thanks to JillGat though sometimes methinks it should be a curse, for getting me so damn enredado in this place that it's been impossible to leave. [i]Un abrazo, compa[i].
:D
It’s been a lot of fun. And I’d like to take the opportunity to thank some of the folks on the board in the front line trenches in the Fight Against Ignorance - the ones who answer the questions in GQ (as well as CCC, CSR, and the more factual threads in GD). Just a few of those whose posts I’ve particularly admired on one subject or another: bibliophage (etymology and lots of other stuff), BobT (baseball and sports in general), The Bad Astronomer and Podkayne (astronomy), brachyrhynchos (biology), Chronos (physics), Collounsbury (Hammer of Racism), Duck Duck Goose (Googlemeister - maybe I should say Googlemistress - extraordinare), edwino (biology and medicine), Fenris (comics), Gaspode (biology), Jomo Mojo (linguistics), MEBuckner (on a host of topics from slavery to the Sultan of Swat), Qadgop the Mercotan and KarlGauss (medicine), samclem (slang and numismatics), screech-owl (biology), Tamerlane (on biology curse him), tomndebb (seemingly on just about everything), tsunamisurfer (mountaineering), minty green and Sua Sponte(law), and zev_steinhardt (Judaism).
I’m sure I’ve forgotten a lot of deserving folks, and overlooked a lot of people who answer questions on topics I
don’t usually click on - so your nominations of others are most welcome.
And I’d also like to thank Fenris (for posts to numerous to mention), jarbabyj (for a shining example in the creative use of obscenity), Ukelele Ike (a humorous remark for every occasion), and Cervaise (for the most artistic pit flame I have ever seen), for making me laugh. And I’m leaving a lot of deserving folks out here too.
And of course thanks too to all the moderators and admins for all they do to keep this place running.
And finally, a very special thanks to JillGat though sometimes methinks it should be a curse, for getting me so damn enredado in this place that it's been impossible to leave. [i]Un abrazo, compa[i].
:D