# An ode to joy - I can now rest in peace, I\`ve had a thread closed. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 16, 2003, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ode-to-joy-i-can-now-rest-in-peace-i-ve-had-a-thread-closed/169153 "2003-04-16T20:02:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ode-to-joy-i-can-now-rest-in-peace-i-ve-had-a-thread-closed/169153/81 "2003-04-18T03:58:51Z")
Well, for the people who are saying “The thread title should have been enough warning”, I would point out that people do start threads in MPSIMS, GQ, Cafe Society, and IMHO with cutesy joke risque titles like “Eating Ass”, and then when you open the thread, it turns out to be something like recipes for donkey meat. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ode-to-joy-i-can-now-rest-in-peace-i-ve-had-a-thread-closed/169153/82 "2003-04-18T04:00:26Z")
[sigh] …so there would have been no particular reason to expect this thread to be anything other than yet another cutesy joke risque thread title. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ode-to-joy-i-can-now-rest-in-peace-i-ve-had-a-thread-closed/169153/83 "2003-04-18T04:09:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Duck Duck Goose \* > \*\*Well, for the people who are saying “The thread title should have been enough warning”, I would point out that people do start threads in MPSIMS, GQ, Cafe Society, and IMHO with cutesy joke risque titles like “Eating Ass”, and then when you open the thread, it turns out to be something like recipes for donkey meat. \*\* Yeah, like my thread about Wet, Smelly Pussies were about how my cats, Buffy and Gypsy peed in their carriers on the way home from the vets’. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ode-to-joy-i-can-now-rest-in-peace-i-ve-had-a-thread-closed/169153/84 "2003-04-18T13:19:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TVeblen \* > \*\*If I may chime in here, **UncleBeer** and all of us are responsible for overseeing the totality of board content. One factor is “thread fads”. We’ve all seen 'em, from “Ask the” threads to just about every sexual topic du jour. > > We just went through one in **IMHO**. One person started a thread on oral sex. Someone else started another, slightly more “out there”. And pretty soon we had no less than six separate threads on oral sex, all on the first screen of **IMHO**. We started looking like an audition room for Deep Throat. Was the topic verboten per se? Nope. It’s just not what we’re here to specialize in. Same reason we keep a pretty tight rein on computer questions. There are plenty of other places out there that specialize in them. (Another refreshing round of platform wars, anyone?) > > FWIW, my reaction when reading the anulingus thread in **MPSIMS** wasn’t shocked prudery, it was rolled-eyes boredom. “Oh wonderful, here we go again; another Letters To Penthouse gig.” > > IMO **UncleBeer** made the right call. He explained his reasons. Some of you don’t agree with them. Okay. Them’s the breaks. But he didn’t make the decision carelessly or capriciously. > > Veb \*\* Thanks for the input **TVeblen** , your point of view helps clarifiy \*\*UB`s** decision. I didn`t realize that the boards had been awash with a wave of sexually explicit material _as of late_. I also thought , sincerely, that the topic might serve a general interest since the board seems to an open minded arena and this (exact) topic had not been discussed before - to my knowledge. I also think that instead of “I’ve heard enough of this story” **UB** could have said, “Please reconsider your content next time”, or “I challenge the decency of this thread”, something along those lines… My first thought was that someone else had posted a similar thread earlier and that mine was redundant or a copycat. I appreciate the effort taken by **UB** to defend his position. **birdgirl** I disagree with your stance that some men (people) equate “ass play” with homosexual behavior. If that were true you would not have any straight men admit that they perform anal sex on thier women partners. I don`t think any men (that I know anyway) would have a problem discussing “ass play” or rimming in the context of he on she. What made the the topic thread worthy, in my opinion (and which you pointed out), was that it was performed on a male by a female (rare) and that it was done in such an instinctive, and spontaneous manner. I doubt that any homosexual overtones were read into the thread by any members of the SDMB. “Speak for yourself”, says **matt\_mcl** 😉 Since the thread is still open, would anyone like to comment on the original OP and the _act_ itself (female on male rimming)? ---
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ode-to-joy-i-can-now-rest-in-peace-i-ve-had-a-thread-closed/169153/85 "2003-04-18T16:13:05Z")
I’d love to, but now I don’t know if we’re allowed to do it. Whatever. Good topic, maybe we can discuss it some other time when Bush declares a war on sodomy or something. ---
**Author:** ![Avalonian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@Avalonian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avalonian)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ode-to-joy-i-can-now-rest-in-peace-i-ve-had-a-thread-closed/169153/86 "2003-04-18T20:16:18Z")
Thanks for the more complete explanation **TVelben**. I also was not aware that there had been a rash of these sorts of threads lately (guess I’ve been looking in the wrong places!). I can certainly respect those reasons. **Duck Duck Goose** , perhaps you’ll be glad to see that **whuckfistle** seems to have taken your [suggestions on thread titles](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=178175) seriously. Maybe a bit _too_ seriously, but nevertheless… ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ode-to-joy-i-can-now-rest-in-peace-i-ve-had-a-thread-closed/169153/87 "2003-04-18T20:27:57Z")
You can never be _too_ serious. (especially with usernames like **Duck Duck Goose** , and **whuckfistle**.) I didn`t know you couldn`t _code_ in the title though. Huh! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ode-to-joy-i-can-now-rest-in-peace-i-ve-had-a-thread-closed/169153.md?page=4)