# Am I the first one back?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-first-one-back/169640
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 19, 2003, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-first-one-back/169640 "2003-04-19T16:42:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2003, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-first-one-back/169640/1 "2003-04-19T16:42:17Z")
All of the “last post” dates are from yesterday.
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### Author:  [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2003, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-first-one-back/169640/2 "2003-04-19T16:46:39Z")
Hey, I’ll sit with you and keep you company. I’m just waiting around until it’s 10:00, when the Beck tickets (Irvine Meadows, AKA Verizon Amphitheater, June 27th) go on sale. Then I can dial and re-dial about 100,000 times until I get through. No frigging lawn seats for this old woman!
Yeah, it is quiet in here.
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### Author:  [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2003, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-first-one-back/169640/3 "2003-04-19T16:47:33Z")
We’ll soon fix that.
I actually didn’t expect it to be back before Monday, but I thought I’d check anyway, and here we are.
Hi y’all!
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### Author:  [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2003, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-first-one-back/169640/4 "2003-04-19T16:50:23Z")
I’m here. And the boards seem to be getting slow again, so there must be more people drifting back. (Damn, the first three minutes were nice, though…)
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### Author:  [@XJETGIRLX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XJETGIRLX)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2003, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-first-one-back/169640/5 "2003-04-19T16:53:30Z")
Yahoo! The Dope is back!
::happy dance::
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### Author:  [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2003, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-first-one-back/169640/6 "2003-04-19T16:56:27Z")
You know how it feels, after a storm blows over, and folks kinda creep out of the rubble?
**Johnny** wasn’t it eerie to see all the threads with the last post date kinda frozen in time? heh
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### Author:  [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2003, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-first-one-back/169640/7 "2003-04-19T16:56:35Z")
I’m back. It appears that the board had some problem shortly after the last posts, causing it to shut down for much of yesterday.
So, did you know that “december” once wrote lyrics for a musical?
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### Author:  [@wolfstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfstu)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2003, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-first-one-back/169640/8 "2003-04-19T16:57:43Z")
I got in just a few minutes ago. This little outage was a reminder of how very little I actually surf the net. Except, of course, this site :D. I was actually just about to get some work done…
:: Must … study … for … exams ::
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### Author:  [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2003, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-first-one-back/169640/9 "2003-04-19T16:58:27Z")
Oh yeah, someone mentioned at Fathom that the SDMB went down right after the “evil cooler” thread was put in Threadspotting.
But I know who broke it … \*\*Esprix \*\*!
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### Author:  [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2003, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-first-one-back/169640/10 "2003-04-19T16:58:45Z")
Twitching is slowly subsiding. Ahhhh, sweet, sweet relief.
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### Author:  [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2003, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-first-one-back/169640/11 "2003-04-19T17:00:00Z")
I had noticed that… I even made the random comment to my roomies that someone must’ve slipped the hamsters a tranquilizer… I had to explain it all to them and even then they thought I was nuts.
But I’m not… really I’m not…
_slips the hamsters a few more sugar pills_
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### Author:  [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2003, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-first-one-back/169640/12 "2003-04-19T17:07:14Z")
So this is why they call it “Dope”. Feels good to be back.
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### Author:  [@Profane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profane)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2003, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-first-one-back/169640/13 "2003-04-19T17:10:06Z")
Yay!! I can stop cleaning now!
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### Author:  [@Ashkicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashkicker)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2003, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-first-one-back/169640/14 "2003-04-19T17:18:24Z")
I am glad to be back. I always wondered when I can’t get in, if anyone else did. Apparently not. Sigh, I’m happy now!🙂
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### Author:  [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2003, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-first-one-back/169640/15 "2003-04-19T17:38:58Z")
I feel SO much better.
For those of you for whom this was your first outage, wait until it goes down for DAYS. Talk about torturous withdrawal!
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### Author:  [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2003, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-first-one-back/169640/16 "2003-04-19T19:10:52Z")
So does anybody know what happened?
(And I did _not_ break it this time!)
Esprix
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### Author:  [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2003, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-first-one-back/169640/17 "2003-04-19T19:14:46Z")
Woohoo! Now I can stop being productive and go back to my endless SDMB cruising.
That WAS bizarre to see those 2-day old posts instead of new ones. See, not only did the Cooler of Doom ™ disrupt the SDMB it also apparently threw it into a time warp. Which might explain the disco song thread…
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### Author:  [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2003, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-first-one-back/169640/18 "2003-04-19T21:56:20Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Esprix \*
> \*\*(And I did _not_ break it this time!)
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> Esprix \*\*
Sez you ! 😛
[sub]ya know I’m just joshin’ ya [/sub]
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### Author:  [@lilbtagna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lilbtagna)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-first-one-back/169640/19 "2003-04-19T22:40:24Z")
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! Back to hiding from the MCAT book for me! 😃
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### Author:  [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2003, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-first-one-back/169640/20 "2003-04-19T22:41:58Z")
What? The board was down? Man, I’ve gotta stop going out so much.
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