# a **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 25, 2003, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850 "2003-01-25T12:51:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 146
**Author:** ![BioHazard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3bc359/32.png) [@BioHazard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BioHazard)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/2901 "2003-02-28T19:31:27Z")
**L** ooks like not many people on THE THREAD today. ---
**Author:** ![BioHazard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3bc359/32.png) [@BioHazard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BioHazard)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/2902 "2003-02-28T19:33:19Z")
**M** ay I say YAY!!! my first page start of **The Thread**!!! ---
**Author:** ![BioHazard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3bc359/32.png) [@BioHazard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BioHazard)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/2903 "2003-02-28T19:34:35Z")
**N** ow, this is quite interesting. I’m pretty sure that when I first started posting here I only had around 400 posts! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/2904 "2003-02-28T19:58:42Z")
**O** h we were all so much older then – I’m younger than that now. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/2905 "2003-02-28T20:02:40Z")
**P** erhaps we know each other **Twickster47**. I was wating for a chance to say that very thing! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/2906 "2003-02-28T20:04:24Z")
**Q** uite possibly – I was smiling to myself, thinking “ **koeeoaddi** will like that one” as I typed it. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/2907 "2003-02-28T20:10:37Z")
**R** ight about now is a good time to check in and ask if **BioHazard** is back to himself now. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/2908 "2003-02-28T20:16:53Z")
**S** wampbear has been gone an awfully long time, could he be reading the whole thread as well? ---
**Author:** ![montana\_cricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@montana\_cricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/montana_cricket)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/2909 "2003-02-28T20:19:01Z")
**T** ell us **Swampy** , Are back with us? **U** nless you’re just Lurking that is… ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/2910 "2003-02-28T20:19:13Z")
**T** ook a wrong turn on page 34 myself and didn’t find the end for hours. ---
**Author:** ![montana\_cricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@montana\_cricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/montana_cricket)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/2911 "2003-02-28T20:21:00Z")
**V** oracious posters, posting again… ---
**Author:** ![Ich\_Bin\_s](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Ich\_Bin\_s](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ich_Bin_s)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/2912 "2003-02-28T20:30:17Z")
**W** ho’s allowed to participate in this thing? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/2913 "2003-02-28T20:33:27Z")
**X** cellent question, **Ich Bin’s** – the answer seems to be “Anyone who _dares_I” MWAHAAHAHAHAhahahahaha ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/2914 "2003-02-28T20:38:20Z")
**Y** ou must have missed **swampy** ’s post, way back on Monday, that said he was going to be absent for a week. _sigh_ I miss him. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/2915 "2003-02-28T20:53:56Z")
**Z** ombies have better memories than I do, **Homebrew**. **A** bsence is said to make the heart grow fonder. Or is it “out of sight out of mind,” I forget. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![montana\_cricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@montana\_cricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/montana_cricket)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/2916 "2003-02-28T21:02:31Z")
**B** ut here we go again… **C** an anyone guess when we’ll get to 60 pages? ---
**Author:** ![BioHazard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3bc359/32.png) [@BioHazard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BioHazard)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/2917 "2003-02-28T21:09:55Z")
**D** unno. **E** verbody, Ive always heard that the saying is: “Absence makes the heart grow fungus” **F** orgot about that, Homebrew, but no I am not myself yet, Im someone else today. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/2918 "2003-02-28T21:10:51Z")
**G** odammit! You people are still at this? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/2919 "2003-02-28T21:16:51Z")
**H** ell’s bells, **H** amlet, you say that like it’s a bad thing. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/2920 "2003-02-28T21:22:45Z")
**I** was without electricity for nine days and couldn’t limp back here for another six, yet **I** find that _this thing still lives!!!_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850.md?page=145) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850.md?page=147)