# Acting Sergeants **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 18, 2012, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644385 "2012-12-18T01:30:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![zela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/dfb087/32.png) [@zela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zela)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644385/1 "2012-12-18T01:30:57Z")
I posted a reply on a thread on Acting Sergeants this last weekend, but I don’t see it. What happened? ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644385/2 "2012-12-18T01:49:58Z")
Are you sure it was on this message board? I just checked your profile, and this seems to be your only post on the Straight Dope Message Board. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644385/3 "2012-12-18T02:32:43Z")
Moved to About This Message Board. Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644385/4 "2012-12-18T02:35:32Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > Are you sure it was on this message board? I just checked your profile, and this seems to be your only post on the Straight Dope Message Board. In addition, I can’t find any threads on “acting sergeants” active within the past month. I suspect that either you are mistaken, or there is a rift in the space-time continuum. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644385/5 "2012-12-18T11:18:46Z")
I did a search on “Acting Sergeants” for any time. Apparently, either the thread title is wrong, or the OP is mistaken. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644385/6 "2012-12-18T11:59:12Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644385/7 "2012-12-18T13:30:26Z")
[Better safe than sorry.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15809133#post15809133) ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644385/8 "2012-12-18T14:11:24Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > [Better safe than sorry.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15809133#post15809133) Now you’ve done it. You’ve reversed causality. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644385/9 "2012-12-18T14:52:02Z")
it might take a few days to have its horrible effect. ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644385/10 "2012-12-18T14:57:35Z")
Could **zela** have tried to post to an old thread from 2005: [Explain the concept of an “acting Sergeant”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=324553)? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644385/11 "2012-12-18T15:02:55Z")
> [@JeffB](#): > > Could **zela** have tried to post to an old thread from 2005: [Explain the concept of an “acting Sergeant”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=324553)? I don’t think so-the thread wasn’t closed, so if she posted in it her post would be there. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644385/12 "2012-12-18T15:57:03Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Now you’ve done it. You’ve reversed causality. Could one of the mods please reverse polarity? Or, at the very least, “compensate!” ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644385/13 "2012-12-18T16:12:04Z")
Perhaps if we induced an anti-tachyon beam through the deflector array. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644385/14 "2012-12-18T16:32:58Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > Perhaps if we induced an anti-tachyon beam through the deflector array. Sounds a lot like a 1920s style death ray to me. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644385/15 "2012-12-18T16:44:16Z")
My brain is full of fuck. ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644385/16 "2012-12-18T17:04:54Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I don’t think so-the thread wasn’t closed, so if she posted in it her post would be there. I thought that might be the thread she was referencing, and that her post didn’t go through for whatever reason. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644385/17 "2012-12-18T17:48:45Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Could one of the mods please reverse polarity? Or, at the very least, “compensate!” I’m positively negative on the subject, but it doesn’t seem to help. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644385/18 "2012-12-18T17:55:37Z")
Clearly, the mods are remaking [_No Time For Sergeants_.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052005/) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644385/19 "2012-12-20T20:02:32Z")
[QUOTE=johnpost] it might take a few days to have its horrible effect. [/QUOTE] [Won’t be long now, apparently.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=676203&highlight=Apocalypse) ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644385/20 "2012-12-21T18:44:39Z")
R. Lee Ermey was a sergeant who became an actor. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644385.md?page=2)