# Alrighty then... my 1001st post **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 4, 2005, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622 "2005-08-04T21:13:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/101 "2005-08-06T00:00:40Z")
> [@Inigo Montoya](#): > > This is my 3,022nd post. If we chastise you for pointing that out, will you get all whiny over it? Because I hear that’s the thing to do. By the way, it was only the 99th in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/102 "2005-08-06T00:02:24Z")
It’t like a bad car accident that you don’t want to see, but cannot look away… Congrats, I’m sorry, and tough shit-it’s the Pit! (that should cover all bases). ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/103 "2005-08-06T00:10:16Z")
**Crandolph** you might just want to try and sort out your feelings, you are giving a very poor impression of yourself in this thread. Do you often feel victimized like this in real life? ---
**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:** [August 6, 2005, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/104 "2005-08-06T00:11:24Z")
Tell me all the good things you remember about your mother. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/105 "2005-08-06T00:13:01Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Tell me all the good things you remember about your mother. My mother? I’ll tell you about my mother! ---
**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:** [August 6, 2005, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/106 "2005-08-06T00:32:22Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > My mother? I’ll tell you about my mother! \ ***Ka-POW!!!** \* ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/107 "2005-08-06T00:34:20Z")
Reaction time is a factor in this,so please pay attention. Answer quickly as you can. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/108 "2005-08-06T00:34:57Z")
> [@Binarydrone](#): > > Reaction time is a factor in this,so please pay attention. Answer quickly as you can. Is this part of the test? ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/109 "2005-08-06T00:35:44Z")
Know what a turtle is? ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/110 "2005-08-06T00:39:30Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > Is this part of the test? No, just warming you up, that’s all. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/111 "2005-08-06T00:49:03Z")
> [@Binarydrone](#): > > Know what a turtle is? Why am I in the desert? ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/112 "2005-08-06T00:56:11Z")
Are you testing to see if I’m a replicant or a lesbian? ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/113 "2005-08-06T00:59:33Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > Why am I in the desert? Maybe you’re fed up, maybe you want to be by yourself – who knows. So you look down and see a tortoise. It’s crawling towards you… ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/114 "2005-08-06T02:42:38Z")
> [@Crandolph](#): > > UncleBeer just shot me an email with much the same message to graciously apologize, which was duly accepted. We’re all squared away now, he and I, and I wanted to acknowledge this very big behavior on his part in the same public forum he offered it. Interesting. _That’s_ how I define being a man. Not threatening people, or listing things you’ve done to show how cool or macho you are, but just knowing when to apologize and extend your hand for a shake. That’s how I hope my father is in his life, and how I hope to live my own life. Take notes, **Crandolph.** ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/115 "2005-08-06T03:38:38Z")
> [@Binarydrone](#): > > Know what a turtle is? I never seen a turtle. ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/116 "2005-08-06T08:12:27Z")
> [@The Weird One](#): > > I think both of your examples are valid, but I’m still not convinced that **Crandolph** ’s thread was. First off, joke threads are perfectly fine. They show up in MPSIMS all the time. Right, but they’re not allowed in the Pit, which is why my hypothetical example was a pit thread. > [@](#): > > Also, if **Crandolph** ’s post-count thread had been formatted like your second example, he could have probably gotten away with leaving the bulk of his OP as is because it would’ve been clear that his emphasis was on surveying Dopers about their posting habits, not celebrating his 1,000th post. If he’d deleted the last paragraph in his thread or moved it to the top (so that his question was at the end of the OP), or given the thread a different name (focusing on the question), I think he would’ve been fine. The problem is, the question is in the middle of an otherwise gratuitous OP. It’s not surprising that everyone focused on the overall tone of the thread, instead of the seven-word question in the middle. Of course, **Crandolph** is free to open a new thread surveying Doper’s posting habits, but somehow I doubt that’s really what he was interested in. I suppose you’re right about this. I read the thread in question only after reading the OP of this thread, so I was more apt to see it from his point of view. If Crandolph does restart the thread he wanted to start, someone post a link here, please? ---
**Author:** ![Notorious\_Nik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/858c86/32.png) [@Notorious\_Nik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Notorious_Nik)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/117 "2005-08-06T08:40:26Z")
I don’t post much, but I read the Pit like a Baptist reads the Bible. When I happened across \*\*Crandolph’s \*\* MPSIMS thread, I knew it was going to get closed. Oh well, I thought. This will just go down as a misunderstanding and **Crandolph** will learn his lesson. Holy shit, was I wrong. I know I’m a little bit late to the party, but good god the OP is a whiny little bitch. Suck it up, asshole. You screwed up, you got called on it, and now you are too much of a punk ass little bitch to accept it. Fuck off, crybaby. The Pit doesn’t need candy-asses like you anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/118 "2005-08-06T12:54:26Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > Wow! That’s fantastic! Congratulations!! You must be so proud!! I wish more people would celebrate their post counts. No, people who do that [are assholes.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=142043) Regards, Shodan [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622.md?page=5)