# a

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850>\
**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:** 156

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**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3101 "2003-03-01T13:21:51Z")

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**S** crambled eggs and bacon!

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**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3102 "2003-03-01T13:22:58Z")

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**T** ime to do the New Page Dance of Victory! Wahoooooo \<tap, tap, tap, shuffle, tap, clap, sway\>

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**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3103 "2003-03-01T13:27:28Z")

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**U** vula. I can’t fit it into a sentance but I did want to use it.

**V** ery good dance though SBS.

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3104 "2003-03-01T13:43:35Z")

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**W** ow, after all that crazed posting last night when I went to bed early, I thought _fersher_ I’ll drop out of the top 5 – imagine my astonishment that I’m still #2.

**X** tremely mundane and pointless (not to mention a little scary) that I’m the #2 poster in this thread.

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**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3105 "2003-03-01T14:04:33Z")

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**Y** et to break into the top ten. ☹

**Z** is comes from having a job that doesn’t allow me to post during the work day.

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**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3106 "2003-03-01T14:08:30Z")

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[A]ha! Just checked, and I am at 11. **Osiris** , you are in my sights.

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**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3107 "2003-03-01T14:09:33Z")

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**B** ut it would be better if I didn’t screw up the coding so often.

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3108 "2003-03-01T15:04:53Z")

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**C** ome on, **SBS** , you can do it!

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**Author:** ![Watcher\_of\_the\_Skies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/45deac/32.png) [@Watcher\_of\_the\_Skies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Watcher_of_the_Skies)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3109 "2003-03-01T15:28:27Z")

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**D** iscounts available for post padders, step right up.

I can’t believe that while I dozed, we had our first a-thread exorcism!

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**Author:** ![Watcher\_of\_the\_Skies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/45deac/32.png) [@Watcher\_of\_the\_Skies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Watcher_of_the_Skies)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3110 "2003-03-01T15:29:31Z")

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**E** verybody wang chung tonight (on the “a”).

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**Author:** ![Watcher\_of\_the\_Skies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/45deac/32.png) [@Watcher\_of\_the\_Skies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Watcher_of_the_Skies)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3111 "2003-03-01T15:42:52Z")

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**F** or the love of God, please nobody have any more Lobsang with melted butter.

We need to save some for Lobsang stew and maybe a Lobsang roll or two.

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3112 "2003-03-01T15:47:02Z")

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**G** olly!

**H** oly crap, this is the silliest thing I’ve been involved in in a long time.

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**Author:** ![Watcher\_of\_the\_Skies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/45deac/32.png) [@Watcher\_of\_the\_Skies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Watcher_of_the_Skies)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3113 "2003-03-01T15:54:15Z")

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**I** f you stick around, you’ll get hooked and you won’t be able to stop.

Run for your lives!

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**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3114 "2003-03-01T16:16:22Z")

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**J** ust wait, this thread gets highly addictive. I certainly hope that I am not succumbing needlessly to such addiction.

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**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3115 "2003-03-01T16:20:08Z")

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**K** eepin’ on. I _think_ I just snatched #10 place. Yippee!

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**Author:** ![Watcher\_of\_the\_Skies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/45deac/32.png) [@Watcher\_of\_the\_Skies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Watcher_of_the_Skies)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3116 "2003-03-01T16:26:18Z")

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**L** et it get it’s hooks into you and you will lose the will to do anything else but post!

Now what was I supposed to be doing?

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**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3117 "2003-03-01T16:35:25Z")

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**M** e? I’m already hooked.

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**Author:** ![Watcher\_of\_the\_Skies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/45deac/32.png) [@Watcher\_of\_the\_Skies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Watcher_of_the_Skies)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3118 "2003-03-01T17:17:57Z")

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**N** o one has offered to serve lunch yet today.

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**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3119 "2003-03-01T17:33:01Z")

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**O** ne large lunch for everyone coming right up!

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**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3120 "2003-03-01T18:04:13Z")

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**P** lease inform me that this thread- _this_ one- has surpassed the “What if LotR was written…” thread.

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