# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2001, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/121 "2001-01-02T02:43:07Z")
> [@](#): > > I told you that I’d been displaced as her favorite… But she hasn’t met you IRL yet DRY, and you said yourself how important she said that was. Besides, don’t you think “favorite” is a relative term anyway? > [@](#): > > No one wants to be MY favorite? I’m no one’s favorite! Nobody said they _didn’t_ want to be your favorite either, Guin my dear. Frankly I didn’t think I had a chance at being anybody’s favorite. If it’s any consolation, you’re my favorite MSTie Doper. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/122 "2001-01-03T13:12:58Z")
(See? No one’s fighting to be my favorite, either.) ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/123 "2001-01-03T13:49:05Z")
Sorry…can I mention you in my sig? It’s cool being a favorite! And DRY and you and Kathryn are all my favorites! But I love everyone! ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/124 "2001-01-03T15:07:27Z")
Absolutely! Do I need to make up some pithy quote for you? “Guinastasia: The other white meat.” Err… no. Sorry. “I love the smell of Guinastasia in the morning.” Ooops, that has some unintended connotations… “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for Guinastasia.” _sigh_ That’s doesn’t really work. Maybe you’d just like to be: “Guin: an evil gal who wants to rule the world… but she’s still one of my favorites.” > [@](#): > > And DRY and you and Kathryn are all my favorites! But I love everyone! That’s nice of you, but doesn’t the fact that you love everyone kind of dilute the meaning? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/125 "2001-01-03T16:13:35Z")
Oooo…the Evil Gal one is KICK ASS! And no, it doesn’t. See, I don’t really love everyone everyone. But I like most of the people. I just like you guys the best. (Really, I just don’t want to hurt ANYONE’s FEELINGS!) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/126 "2001-01-03T16:43:30Z")
My quote replaced the Mike Nelson one? Wow. And I didn’t even have to call on Mikey the Mike Sprite. ::watches everybody else go “Hunh?”:: > [@](#): > > I just like you guys the best. > > (Really, I just don’t want to hurt ANYONE’s FEELINGS!) Ain’t she sweet? Kathryn, you’d better get in here before she gets the “nicest poster” title, too… Now you’re REALLY making me want to take that trip to Pittsburgh. (As if seeing Kathryn again wasn’t a good enough reason.) ---
**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:** [January 3, 2001, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/127 "2001-01-03T17:21:58Z")
Hey, if I’m going to be replaced I can’t really think of anyone better. More and more reasons to haul people to Pittsburgh. ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/128 "2001-01-03T18:33:17Z")
Who said anything about _replacing_ you? I was just trying to get you back in here is all. (Or did you think I’d start seriously flirting away with Guin here?) ---
**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:** [January 3, 2001, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/129 "2001-01-03T19:14:55Z")
Oh I’m around. I need to clean my room though. Think I could give up this addiction? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/130 "2001-01-03T20:49:27Z")
Thanks…guys…you’re making me blush. I got my Victoria and Albert paper dolls today! BEAUTIFUL…very accurate! They even have their nine children, and one of Victoria when she was young! Once again, DRY, thank you. ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/131 "2001-01-03T22:38:44Z")
> [@](#): > > Think I could give up this addiction? To me or the board? 😃 [sub]See how all this attention is giving me a big head?[/sub] > [@](#): > > you’re making me blush. Guin, I’m just gettin’ warmed up… Did I ever mention how your posts glimmer like the stars on a clear night? How the words you type seem to automatically leap off the screen and etch themselves into my memory? How my monitor is acting really funky and must be replaced soon? ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/132 "2001-01-03T22:42:12Z")
> [@](#): > > See how all this attention is giving me a big head? No wait, I didn’t mean… :blushes: Excuse me, I’m an idiot. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/133 "2001-01-03T23:27:00Z")
[butthead] Eh ehehe ehe he ehe ehehe eh he…you said ‘head’…ehe ehehe he ehehe [/butthead] ---
**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:** [January 4, 2001, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/134 "2001-01-04T00:22:04Z")
Steve! LOL! It would have been fine, absolutely un-noticed, at least by me, if it weren’t for the _second_ post. And I was talking about my board addiction… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/135 "2001-01-04T02:42:43Z")
Hey, if I wouldn’t have said something, DRY would have. My board habit is completely under control. I can quit at any time. Now where did I put my patch? And my gum? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/136 "2001-01-04T13:41:10Z")
NOOOOOO Mike! WAit, does Mike’s bed exist if there’s no Mike? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/137 "2001-01-04T15:04:58Z")
NOOOOO Mike’s socks! (I think I’m in love. ;)) ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/138 "2001-01-05T03:07:39Z")
“And lo, the thread died a swift death. Vultures descendeth upon it and rippeth forth from its bones the flesh that didst cover it. And the posters saw that it was good. Thus they didst silently thank the noble Guin for her deepest wisdom.” ---
**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:** [January 5, 2001, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/139 "2001-01-05T15:03:40Z")
\ silly man… ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856/140 "2001-01-05T18:55:46Z")
_nudge_ The proper response is “Amen”. _tickle_ _wink_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phone-call-to-dry-or-hijacking-the-board/44856.md?page=8)