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**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:** 236

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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 13, 2003, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4701 "2003-03-13T06:57:08Z")

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**A** new page for the masses.

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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 13, 2003, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4702 "2003-03-13T07:01:13Z")

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**B** leh! Spelcheckers are for lumps!

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**Author:** ![Shadez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Shadez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadez)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4703 "2003-03-13T07:03:39Z")

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**C** ould someone else let my dog out? I’m having too much fun posting to this thread!

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**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4704 "2003-03-13T07:25:55Z")

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**D** ragging myself online just to post here before I drop into bed…

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**Author:** ![Shadez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Shadez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadez)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4705 "2003-03-13T08:08:22Z")

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**E** gads,  
**f** or cripes sake,  
**g** et me some kleenex please,  
**I** just sneezed five times in a row. 😛

alternately:  
**I** feel sorry for the poor mods who get to read this thread. 😉

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**Author:** ![Shadez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Shadez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadez)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4706 "2003-03-13T08:09:24Z")

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**J** ust think… I’m a college student who doesn’t know my alphabet. or: where is my H?

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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 13, 2003, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4707 "2003-03-13T08:12:25Z")

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**K** iss your pity goodbye, they haven’t. They’ve maybe scanned a few pages, or kept up for the first dozen but there were only, was the count 8? Eight of us who’ve read the whole damn thing.  
**L** et me make the suggestion that is a Mod were to misbehave a good punishment would be to make them read this entire thread. In one sitting.

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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 13, 2003, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4708 "2003-03-13T08:40:15Z")

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**M** xyzptlk is a name I’m surprised I haven’t seen around here. Is there a doper Mxyzptlk?

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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 13, 2003, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4709 "2003-03-13T12:54:40Z")

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**N** ot to my knowledge there isn’t.

**O** nly, what do I know? I’m a newbie.

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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 13, 2003, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4710 "2003-03-13T12:58:27Z")

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**P** icking up a thread from last night…

**R** e: Osiris’s keeping angels in his cellar.

**S** uggest he’s just a piker at it.

**T** here are over 450 of them in my mother’s attic.

**U** nbelievable, maybe, but I swear to it.

**V** ast flocks of the damned things I have to carefully pack away each year as I take her Christmas tree down. ☹

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**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4711 "2003-03-13T13:08:06Z")

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**W** ondering why perhaps the mods are letting this thread continue ever onward.

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**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4712 "2003-03-13T13:10:08Z")

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**W** inking at **Homebrew**. ;).

**X** citing to start the day with a flirt, even if he doesn’t look.

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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 13, 2003, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4713 "2003-03-13T13:17:33Z")

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**Y** ’all come back now, y’hear?

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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 13, 2003, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4714 "2003-03-13T13:31:39Z")

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**Z** ealously guard this thread from talk of “shut down” as we close in on our goal. Five more pages! Naysayers please post elsewhere.

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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 13, 2003, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4715 "2003-03-13T13:32:59Z")

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**A** nd we begin again. A good Thursday morning to all!

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**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4716 "2003-03-13T13:41:21Z")

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**B** est be keeping an eye on this thread over the next day or two.

**C** ouldn’t miss the 100 page celebration now could I?

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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 13, 2003, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4717 "2003-03-13T13:57:58Z")

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**D** on’t much like those drive-by ‘kill the thread’ posters. ☹

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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 13, 2003, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4718 "2003-03-13T14:18:49Z")

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**E** xercise vigilance, we shall!

**F** orward to triple digits we shall march!

**G** aily shall we frolic when our goal is reached!

**H** ubris? Bite your tongue!

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**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4719 "2003-03-13T14:24:05Z")

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> [@](#):
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> _Originally Posted By Twickster47:_  
> Gaily shall we frolic when our goal is reached!

**I** would gaily frolic with **Homebrew** anytime.

**J** ust couldn’t pass that one up.

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**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/4720 "2003-03-13T14:28:13Z")

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**K** rebs discovered the adenosine triphosphate cycle in cellular respiration.

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