# A note for some posters here, present or not (long) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 28, 2001, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-for-some-posters-here-present-or-not-long/84337 "2001-09-28T17:01:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-for-some-posters-here-present-or-not-long/84337/21 "2001-09-29T21:50:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tomndebb \* > **Collounsbury** posted shortly after the attack that was back in the States, briefly, for a visit, had a lot of stuff to deal with, and would be retiring from the MB. (I don’t recall that he indicated a permanent or temporary absence.) 😕 Unless the thread/post was deleted, his last post was on 9/6/2001-- maybe you are in email contact with him? ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-for-some-posters-here-present-or-not-long/84337/22 "2001-09-29T21:59:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kellibelli \* > \*\*I just feel like I have no right to be here anymore, I miss being able to talk about regular stuff. I dont even like to complain about anything,because when you compare my troubles to the WTC, they are trivial. > \*\* Jeeze, apparently you’ve missed the “worst pain you’ve had that doesn’t require hospitalization thread.” While others are going on about steel bars in their arm, barbed wire being pulled from penisus, major road-rash and being glared at by Claudia Schiffler, know what I was bitching about? A chancer sore. On my tongue. Hey, it HURT. So c’mon back. It’s all right. Some of us are still shaken and stirred, but we’re getting better. [semi python voice] We’re not quite dead yet. [/semi python voice] Signing off, Pesch ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-for-some-posters-here-present-or-not-long/84337/23 "2001-09-29T21:59:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MsWhatsit \* > \*\* I admit that especially at first there, the number of threads that _were_ about terrorism were pretty overwhelming. \*\* I counted them on the first day, and in MPSIMS alone, nearly every single post was related. Put the election to shame. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-for-some-posters-here-present-or-not-long/84337/24 "2001-09-29T23:18:27Z")
well, since i caught the plu from stoid… achooo! is about all i can say… ---
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-for-some-posters-here-present-or-not-long/84337/25 "2001-09-29T23:24:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\*I actually offered to kiss Milossarian in the Pit thread and he hasn’t yet taken up my offer. \*\* Like the Bush administration, I am weighing all of my options, and hoping that a better solution presents itself. ---
**Author:** ![Mandelstam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Mandelstam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mandelstam)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-for-some-posters-here-present-or-not-long/84337/26 "2001-09-30T01:48:22Z")
_"Like the Bush administration, I am weighing all of my options, and hoping that a better solution presents itself._ Aw shucks! I guess I’ll have to offer to kiss Donald Rumsfield instead 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-for-some-posters-here-present-or-not-long/84337/27 "2001-09-30T02:04:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kellibelli \* > I think this Bin Laden guy succeeded in bringing the states to its collective knees…it the cross section here is any indication, the country is crippled in its greif, emotionally broken. I think the indications of cross-sections probably have more to do with what the viewer brings to seeing them, then in what they actually are. For my part, I’m not on my knees, and sure don’t feel crippled, and I don’t think “the country” is either–that may simply be what I’m bringing to viewing cross-sections, though. Ob: OP-wise, well said, **erislover**. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-for-some-posters-here-present-or-not-long/84337/28 "2001-09-30T04:27:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by erislover \* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by tomndebb \* > > **Collounsbury** posted shortly after the attack that was back in the States, briefly, for a visit […] > > 😕 > Unless the thread/post was deleted, his last post was on 9/6/2001-- maybe you are in email contact with him? **celestina** posted a note from him in the imaginatively titled [Message from Collounsbury](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=86506). And yes, it’s not been pretty here. In addition to erislover’s suggestions, if people could be a little less eager to impute motivations and “between the lines” material to posters than usual, that might be helpful. ---
**Author:** ![kellibelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@kellibelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellibelli)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-for-some-posters-here-present-or-not-long/84337/29 "2001-09-30T04:41:22Z")
😃 I will see what I can do about an oral sex thread. Thanks guys ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-for-some-posters-here-present-or-not-long/84337/30 "2001-09-30T14:00:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Stoid \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Francesca \* > > \*\* **Kabbes** … so his \*\* > > Kabbes is a \*\* he? \*\* :eek: \*\* Well, he seemed quite male down the pub last month 😉 ---
**Author:** ![jshore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@jshore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jshore)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-for-some-posters-here-present-or-not-long/84337/31 "2001-10-01T01:45:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Francesca \* > Well, he seemed quite male down the pub last month 😉 And, how detailed was the investigating you did there, Francesca? 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-for-some-posters-here-present-or-not-long/84337.md?page=1)