# A phone call to DRY, or hijacking the board **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 10, 2000, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856 "2000-12-10T05:01:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2000, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/41 "2000-12-14T06:26:32Z")
\*\* > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DRY \* > **[sub]_That_ oughta give the ~300 perverts, err, lurkers, something to talk about[/sub]** Now, DRY, darlin’, you know I read every thread that refers to you or that I see that you’ve posted to. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2000, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/42 "2000-12-14T07:12:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Medea’s Child \* > \*\*What I really mind is people eating me. \*\* Does anyone have dibs on this one yet? I’m doin’ _just_ fine, thanks, DRY! ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Sang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ee7513/32.png) [@Le\_Sang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Sang)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2000, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/43 "2000-12-14T08:13:47Z")
> [@](#): > > _originally posted by mrblue92_ > **Just be careful not to go too far there, my son. The Child frowns upon cannibalism.** no worries mrblue; not only am i unwilling to actually partake in such activities, it’s _damn_ hard to find a good chef that’ll cook Nazi these days… silly blood-fearing culture… 😉 MC - thanks for lightening that one 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2000, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/44 "2000-12-14T08:30:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by InternetLegend \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Medea’s Child \* > > \*\*What I really mind is people eating me. \*\* > > Does anyone have dibs on this one yet? > \*\* Hell, yes! Lots, but no one wanted the leftovers! ::fleeing:: \*\* > [@](#): > > I’m doin’ _just_ fine, thanks, DRY! > \*\* **Come** here often? (Double entendre deliberate) > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TroubleAgain \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by DRY \* > > **[sub]_That_ oughta give the ~300 perverts, err, lurkers, something to talk about[/sub]** > > Now, DRY, darlin’, you know I read every thread that refers to you or that I see that you’ve posted to. \*\* Really? My sincerest apologies. [hijack] I tried to answer your e-mail earlier, and the system at work crashed right in the middle of my reply. Then they gave me a whole bunch of stuff at work. I’m really down on a lot of things, my stupid job being just one. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2000, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/45 "2000-12-14T08:33:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DRY \* > \*\*[hijack] I tried to answer your e-mail earlier, and the system at work crashed right in the middle of my reply. Then they gave me a whole bunch of stuff at work. I’m really down on a lot of things, my stupid job being just one. [/hijack] \*\* Ah, you’d think us computer people could at LEAST keep the email system up, huh? That happened to me once when I was emailing you. Typed in a long reply then before I could send, the system went down and I lost it…sigh… ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2000, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/46 "2000-12-14T08:44:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TroubleAgain \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by DRY \* > > \*\*[hijack] I tried to answer your e-mail earlier, and the system at work crashed right in the middle of my reply. Then they gave me a whole bunch of stuff at work. I’m really down on a lot of things, my stupid job being just one. [/hijack] \*\* > > Ah, you’d think us computer people could at LEAST keep the email system up, huh? That happened to me once when I was emailing you. Typed in a long reply then before I could send, the system went down and I lost it…sigh… \*\* Why am I not writing you NOW, you ask? Because the damned system is down again! (I tried e-mailing the sex goddess of the SDMB…oh, all right, the person who started this thread, and I saw that the e-mail’s in limbo.) At least the internet is up. [sub]I hope[/sub] Rhonda, can you send me an address where I can send you a Christmas card? (I’ll get it whenever the #@@# system comes back up…) ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2000, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/47 "2000-12-14T13:27:42Z")
Dan, I can’t believe you marked a comment as a hijack. In this thread. (leftovers… _shudder_) ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2000, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/48 "2000-12-14T14:48:53Z")
> [@](#): > > MC - thanks for lightening that one Lightening it? That was downright chipper. Now, if don’t mind me chewing your ear a bit, I could tell you a few stories that would make your blood boil… Are you familiar with the disease Kuru in New Guinea, the siege of Leningrad, the Donner party, and the wreck of the whaleship Essex? ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2000, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/49 "2000-12-15T17:20:09Z")
Guys? Guys? _crickets chirping_ Where’d everybody go? [mental note] Even casual mention of cannibalism kills off threads. [/mental note] ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2000, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/50 "2000-12-15T17:35:15Z")
Sorry there, calc exam, packing to come home, no clue what to say next, it all piles up… So, how’s life? I just had the second pretty damn cool surprise (crap, I have to stop swearing again when I go home…) anyway, cool surprise. I recently recieved my last paycheck from my job ( I “quit” for finals and break, I’ll go back when I want money) I expected said check to be maybe $80 before taxes, and it ended up being about $260 after the bite. Made me happy. In my mental calculations of where my check book was I thought it was pretty low. Low to the point I took money out of my savings account to go shopping with.(I haven’t been keeping stellar written records, just sort of estimating mentally. Call me Peter Pan) I went and put my check into my savings and got a quick look at where my checking account was. It was an order of magnitude higher than I thought it was. It may be a hacking error on the part of someone, but it made me very happy. (Don’t be too impressed, with the piddly sums I keep in my checking an order of magnitude isn’t much.) ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Sang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ee7513/32.png) [@Le\_Sang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Sang)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2000, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/51 "2000-12-15T17:48:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mrblue92 \* > \*\*Are you familiar with the disease Kuru in New Guinea, the siege of Leningrad, the Donner party, and the wreck of the whaleship Essex? \*\* hmm… oddly enough, yes. Not that its mention is enough to chase me out of a thread… 🙂 MC - speaking of calc finals… how was it? ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/52 "2000-12-16T03:13:05Z")
I’ve read books on three of the four (all but the Donner party), but I didn’t realize before I read them that there would be people eaten. Well, maybe I did with Leningrad, not sure. Considering that **Medea’s Child’s** mom apparently thinks all us internet guys are axe murdering psychopaths, perhaps this isn’t the best topic to go into much further. ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/53 "2000-12-16T03:22:54Z")
Oh, I almost forgot… > [@](#): > > So, how’s life? Busy. Very busy. I may have mentioned to you that my company is merging with two others… This weekend we bring one of them onto our computer system. I’m being pulled in a dozen directions at once, yet somehow things are falling into place; not as completely as I’d hoped, but not completely chaotic yet, either. Have to go into work tomorrow (Saturday), which is quite rare for me. Unpaid overtime… Yea! I am tempted to take all of Christmas week off in retaliation, except it would only hurt me more when I come back next year. Other than that (and Christmas shopping), looking forward to next Friday… ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Sang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ee7513/32.png) [@Le\_Sang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Sang)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/54 "2000-12-16T04:01:43Z")
Ah… there, you see, lies my advantage; Medea’s Child’s mom (wouldn’t that be Medea?) has met me, and therefore knows me as something other than an “axe murdering psychopath” 🙂 Unpaid overtime… \ have fun… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/55 "2000-12-16T07:02:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Medea’s Child \* > **Dan, I can’t believe you marked a comment as a hijack. In this thread.** It IS a hijack. Any comment not having to do with you in this thread is most certainly a hijack. Way I see it: % of views and posts motivated by desire to interact and/or flirt with **Medea’s Child** : 55% % of views and posts motivated by desire to interact and/or flirt with **DRY** : 5% % of views and posts motivated by desire to interact and/or flirt with **MrBlue92** : 5% % of views and posts motivated by desire to interact and/or flirt with **Le Sang** : 5% % of views and posts motivated by desire to satisfy prurient interests or for potential blackmail reasons: 25% Other: 5% \*\* > [@](#): > > (leftovers… _shudder_) > \*\* “Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.” –Richard II, Act 1, Scene iii ---
**Author:** ![Narile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@Narile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Narile)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/56 "2000-12-16T07:13:03Z")
Am I the only one whom finds the idea of **Medea’s** mother thinking someone was an axe murderer a bit ironic in the sense of literature?\* \*[sub]Read about what happened **after** Jason and the Argonauts.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/57 "2000-12-16T09:04:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Narile \* > \*_Am I the only one whom finds the idea of **Medea’s** mother thinking someone was an axe murderer a bit ironic in the sense of literature?_ > > \*[sub]Read about what happened **after** Jason and the Argonauts.[/sub] > \*\* Absolutely not. [http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/1928/myth.htm](http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/1928/myth.htm) There’s a poster on this board named **Medea**. I’m still waiting for her to make her appearance here. And I’m also waiting for one of her many admirers to rename himself “Jason”: “Time for a spanking, Medea’s Child. Who’s your daddy?” 😛 ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/58 "2000-12-16T10:40:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DRY \* > \*\*Rhonda, can you send me an address where I can send you a Christmas card? (I’ll get it whenever the #@@# system comes back up…) \*\* Sent… ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/59 "2000-12-16T19:14:44Z")
_grin!_ Le Sang, Calc went okay. It was identical to the practice exam, so I just did it. No big surprises. Mrblue, yuk! so inviting you to my sister’s concert wouldn’t be a good idea. Le Sang does have one over on you with my mom. She thinks he rocks. (As do I, admittedly) Narile, I’m _well_ aware of Medea’s adventures after the Argonauts. And, with my mom, it may be ironic, but its normal. Sigh. She’s open minded, but she contemplates hiring PIs to check my friends out. Its interesting. DRY! _LOL!_ “Who’s your daddy?” indeed… this thread isn’t _all_ about me. its about…um…[sub]stuff… I guess[/sub] **OH! I GOT MY CD!!!** my happy hardcore vol 3 CD that I have been searching for! I bought it! Yea! (My mom says its annoying. So I guess I’m not getting the other volumes for christmas.) Knew you all cared. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Sang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ee7513/32.png) [@Le\_Sang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Sang)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/60 "2000-12-16T19:25:58Z")
\ wow… rocks, huh? I never knew 🙂 Glad the calc was as easy as expected 😃 cool about the CD btw; let me borrow it sometime, k? DRY: 5%, eh? and what’s all this about flirting? Nobody in their right mind (or out of it, even) flirts with me - (thus the gf who is a LONG way off and unpredictable enough to throw me 🙂 ) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856.md?page=4)