# A void has been filled: ladies and gentleman, Aldebaran! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 21, 2003, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-void-has-been-filled-ladies-and-gentleman-aldebaran/183316 "2003-06-21T00:22:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Aldebaran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Aldebaran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aldebaran)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-void-has-been-filled-ladies-and-gentleman-aldebaran/183316/241 "2003-06-22T01:41:41Z")
Well it is purely charity from my site. People here are depending on my little answers to keep going. And since I always work in the late evening and during a great part of the night, coming on this thread is like having a refreshing shower. But don’t be afraid that I’ll burn out by doing this. It is a pleasure. Besides: I shall be much too busy the coming weeks to be much around. So I give you people some food to survive on. Like I say: pure charity out of compassion. Salaam. Aldebaran. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-void-has-been-filled-ladies-and-gentleman-aldebaran/183316/242 "2003-06-22T02:14:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SnoopyFan \* > \*\*Just outta curiousity I’m wondering if anyone in the history of the SDMB has had a higher post-per-day rate than our friend Aldebaran. > > (Not that there’s anything wrong with high PPD rates, just wondering …) \*\* It really does blow the mind. It’s not like I don’t post a good bit here and yet in two days he has almost 10% of the number of my posts and I’ve been here two years and four months. At this rate he’ll pass me by July. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-void-has-been-filled-ladies-and-gentleman-aldebaran/183316/243 "2003-06-22T02:26:04Z")
Can’t you all just meet in person and beat the shit out each other? ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-void-has-been-filled-ladies-and-gentleman-aldebaran/183316/244 "2003-06-22T02:27:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Blonde \* > \*\*Can’t you all just meet in person and beat the shit out each other? \*\* Um, “OF” each other. Well, you probably got the gist of the message. ---
**Author:** ![Beagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Beagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beagle)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-void-has-been-filled-ladies-and-gentleman-aldebaran/183316/245 "2003-06-22T02:38:43Z")
> [@](#): > > At this rate he’ll pass me by July. There is no pot of gold at the end of this rainbow, however. He’s a shooting star. Perhaps he’ll burn up in the atmosphere. Uh, or something. Why are we having a pile-on pit thread again? Oh yeah, **Aldebaran**. What a noob. 😉 ---
**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:** [June 22, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-void-has-been-filled-ladies-and-gentleman-aldebaran/183316/246 "2003-06-22T02:40:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Aldebaran \* > \*\*Nealla, > > Study of Christianity (comparitive Islam/Christianity) and study of Christian history (for Islamic History and European History both) is what I did. > > Salaam. Aldebaran \*\* Sure you did. And I’m Marie of Roumania. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-void-has-been-filled-ladies-and-gentleman-aldebaran/183316/247 "2003-06-22T03:19:02Z")
Hey, Big Ball o’ Flaming Gasses, what about Unitarian-Universalists (originated in England)? I guess they’re Protestants by default but they certainly don’t fall into their little categories. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-void-has-been-filled-ladies-and-gentleman-aldebaran/183316/248 "2003-06-22T03:20:30Z")
Grrrr…“your” little categories. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-void-has-been-filled-ladies-and-gentleman-aldebaran/183316/249 "2003-06-22T03:31:40Z")
I am Mariah Carey christian weasel stucked up. You all have shcoolkid mentalitie. Salami. Michæl Mærsk Shipping & Prostitution Ltd. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-void-has-been-filled-ladies-and-gentleman-aldebaran/183316/250 "2003-06-22T03:32:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\*Sure you did. And I’m Marie of Roumania. \*\* Nice to meet you. I’m the great, great-grandson of Tsar Nicholas II. ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-void-has-been-filled-ladies-and-gentleman-aldebaran/183316/251 "2003-06-22T03:40:14Z")
Ooh1 I think I have it! It was the Porpoise, in the Pit, with the Salami! [sub]Am I right? What do I win?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-void-has-been-filled-ladies-and-gentleman-aldebaran/183316/252 "2003-06-22T03:41:56Z")
**Aldebaran** , I hope you aren’t put off by the schoolchildish “pranks” of some other posters - pulling your pigtails, dipping them in the inkwell etc. It’s sort of a traditional “welcome” ceremony that we do here. Anyway, you are a “funny dude” and I hope you have a rare good time interacting with your fellow cosmopolites. Congrats on your language skills! Most posters here are fluent only in their own tongues, and that may be pushing it for more than a few ppl, er, people. Your sig is neat! And as the great philosopher S.J. Perelman used to say, “De Gustibus ain’t what it used to be.” ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-void-has-been-filled-ladies-and-gentleman-aldebaran/183316/253 "2003-06-22T03:42:20Z")
You win some Dar Es Salami. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-void-has-been-filled-ladies-and-gentleman-aldebaran/183316/254 "2003-06-22T03:47:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jackmannii \* > \*\*that may be pushing it for more than a few ppl, \*\* Hey! \*\* > [@](#): > > er, people. \*\* Better. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-void-has-been-filled-ladies-and-gentleman-aldebaran/183316/255 "2003-06-22T04:05:51Z")
MM MMMM M-M-M MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! This is so funny 😃 Oh, yes; I´m childish (by the way, what kind of obsession do you have with 12 year old children?) Oh, and I don`t live nowhere near the USA… Seriously speaking, thou… in some of your posts you´ve done some sound comments and arguments; however (and using a metaphor) no matter if you are the greatest painter in the world, but alas, if you paint with shit, people will frown at your work… get it? ---
**Author:** ![Super\_Gnat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Super\_Gnat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Super_Gnat)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-void-has-been-filled-ladies-and-gentleman-aldebaran/183316/256 "2003-06-22T04:26:16Z")
Did anyone else notice the… oddness… about the time scale here? From 6:20 PM on the 20th to 1:26 AM on the 21st, **Alderbaran** posted pretty much non-stop. (He said at 9: 34 that he had “to get some sleep.”, but continued posting.) After a six-hour break, he posted continually from 7:39 AM on the 21st until 9:26 AM, then from 10:11 AM to 12:15 PM, then from 1:42 PM to 8:41 PM, his last post thus far. (All times Central Time, at GMT -6.) That means that from 6:20 PM on the 20th to 8:41 PM on the 21st, a period of about 22 hours, he was online posting for about 14 solid hours. Let me repeat that: **14 solid hours**. I’m not sure what this means, but I can’t think of a good explanation. ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-void-has-been-filled-ladies-and-gentleman-aldebaran/183316/257 "2003-06-22T04:27:17Z")
You are feeling verrryy sleeepppy…must abandon computer… tick tock tick tock tick tock ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-void-has-been-filled-ladies-and-gentleman-aldebaran/183316/258 "2003-06-22T04:32:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Super Gnat \* > \*\*. . . .That means that from 6:20 PM on the 20th to 8:41 PM on the 21st, a period of about 22 hours, he was online posting for about 14 solid hours. Let me repeat that: **14 solid hours**. I’m not sure what this means, but I can’t think of a good explanation. \*\* A rate of over 10 posts per hour? ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-void-has-been-filled-ladies-and-gentleman-aldebaran/183316/259 "2003-06-22T04:40:28Z")
> [@](#): > > A rate of over 10 posts per hour? > [@](#): > > he was online posting for about 14 solid hours Well, we´ve got to admit that the guy has stamina… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Petter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/dbc845/32.png) [@Petter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petter)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-void-has-been-filled-ladies-and-gentleman-aldebaran/183316/260 "2003-06-22T08:24:17Z")
I am intrigued by your analysis, **Super Gnat** , and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-void-has-been-filled-ladies-and-gentleman-aldebaran/183316.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-void-has-been-filled-ladies-and-gentleman-aldebaran/183316.md?page=14)