# 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:** 207

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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 8, 2003, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4121 "2003-03-08T14:31:18Z")

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**J** uicy berries in these pancakes, **Watcher** ; merci beaucoup!

**K** ind of odd that 83 pages into the most mundane and pointless thread ever, you’d experience an epiphany of that magnitude.

**L** ike, wow, man. [/surfer slacker]

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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 8, 2003, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4122 "2003-03-08T14:47:37Z")

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**M** orosely I stare at my bowl. _Alpha-Bits_???  
**N** ot at all to my taste. If it has to be cold cereal, couldn’t it at least be that chocolate/peanut butter corn pop one I can’t think of the name of?

**O** ff day Watcher must be having.

**P** outingly yours,

**Q** ueen SBS.

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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 8, 2003, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4123 "2003-03-08T14:52:36Z")

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**R** eally think we could get to 100 pages by the end of this weekend?

**S** till 17 pages away.

**T** hat’s, um, 850 posts!

**U** ncertain that we could do better than 400 posts a day.

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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 8, 2003, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4124 "2003-03-08T14:59:30Z")

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**V** erbosity has never been a problem yet.

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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 8, 2003, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4125 "2003-03-08T15:05:03Z")

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**W** e don’t post-pad, of course – but due to Kat’s un **X** plained absence the last couple of days, I’m closing in on her count.

**Y** oicks! I could retake the position as #1 poster in this thread!

**Z** any, eh?

( **A** phabits are delicious! I have an empty box on my kitchen counter right now, because I want to send away for the Free NightSpyer MiniScope.)

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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 8, 2003, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4126 "2003-03-08T15:16:45Z")

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**B** ut…But…but… “NightSpyer”??? Should I alert Homeland Security?

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**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4127 "2003-03-08T15:18:08Z")

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**C** rotch!  
(I couldn’t think of anything else to say.)

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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 8, 2003, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4128 "2003-03-08T15:24:11Z")

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**D** on’t worry, **SBS** , I’ll use my NightSpyer MiniScope for good, and not for evil.

;j

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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 8, 2003, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4129 "2003-03-08T16:07:01Z")

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**E** vil-doers beware! Twickster is hiding in that shadow…

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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 8, 2003, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4130 "2003-03-08T16:29:42Z")

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**F** ie! Such silence!

**G** racius!However will will get 400 posts in at this rate?

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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 8, 2003, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4131 "2003-03-08T16:32:10Z")

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**H** ave just passed Homebrew, sliding into 8th place!

**I** n my sights now is Koeeoaddi!

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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 8, 2003, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4132 "2003-03-08T17:54:16Z")

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**J** ust was thinking that Alpha-bits cereal is somehow appropos for the a-threaders for some reason that I can’t quite remember now…

Not that you’d actually want to have it all that often unless it’s midnight.

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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 8, 2003, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4133 "2003-03-08T17:55:25Z")

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**Kat** come back, we miss you!

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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 8, 2003, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4134 "2003-03-08T17:57:16Z")

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**L** ast night I broke away from this board long enough to take in a great performance by Sonny Landreth - man can he play that gee-tar!

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**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:** [March 8, 2003, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4135 "2003-03-08T18:10:57Z")

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**M** mmmmmm. Alpha-Bits.  
**N** ew coffee maker, too!

**O** verlooks less than kingly breakfast and bolts for the French Roast!

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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 8, 2003, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4136 "2003-03-08T18:13:17Z")

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**P** ray tell **koeeoaddi** , when did you move?

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**Author:** ![Soup\_du\_jour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Soup\_du\_jour](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup_du_jour)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4137 "2003-03-08T18:21:48Z")

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**Q** uite the question, **Watcher**.

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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 8, 2003, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4138 "2003-03-08T18:24:37Z")

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**R** eferring of course, to the new location listed with the post (used to be located on a busy main road, if memory serves).

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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 8, 2003, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4139 "2003-03-08T18:25:43Z")

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**S** am Drucker?

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**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:** [March 8, 2003, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4140 "2003-03-08T18:26:30Z")

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**Q** uickly I must move to stay in front of **SBS**.  
**R** enting my position on “a”, I know ☹  
**S** till, I _did_ get the Alpha-Bits. Nice try though **Watcher**.

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