# Anything interesting happen while I was gone?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-while-i-was-gone/692252>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 3, 2014, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-while-i-was-gone/692252 "2014-07-03T04:33:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-while-i-was-gone/692252/1 "2014-07-03T04:33:03Z")

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It has been nearly two months - has anything interesting or vitally important occurred here since early may. Just want to be in the loop and all.

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-while-i-was-gone/692252/2 "2014-07-03T04:46:11Z")

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The main thing was “the incident” but we’re not allowed to talk about that.

Other than that, there was the hundred years membership for a hundred dollars offer. And Marley banning everyone again.

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**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-while-i-was-gone/692252/3 "2014-07-03T04:54:31Z")

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And the fracas with **Cecil**. That was really upsetting.

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**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-while-i-was-gone/692252/4 "2014-07-03T07:50:23Z")

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I take it no one notable died then??

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**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-while-i-was-gone/692252/5 "2014-07-03T09:09:12Z")

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Hey **madrabbitwoman**! IIRC, you went on a bit of a sabbatical (so to speak). How ya doing, how did it go, and welcome home honey. Good to see you’re alive and kicking!

🙂

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**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-while-i-was-gone/692252/6 "2014-07-03T11:25:38Z")

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> [@madrabbitwoman](#):
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> I take it no one notable died then??

Not for lack of trying.

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**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-while-i-was-gone/692252/7 "2014-07-03T11:40:21Z")

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Welcome back. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Calatin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Calatin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calatin)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-while-i-was-gone/692252/8 "2014-07-03T15:03:39Z")

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> [@madrabbitwoman](#):
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> I take it no one notable died then??

Marlon Brando died, but frankly, we all saw it coming.

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**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-while-i-was-gone/692252/9 "2014-07-03T15:16:55Z")

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> [@madrabbitwoman](#):
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> I take it no one notable died then??

Princess Diana.

You’ve been gone longer than you thought…

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**Author:** ![Hopeful\_Crow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/da6949/32.png) [@Hopeful\_Crow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hopeful_Crow)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-while-i-was-gone/692252/10 "2014-07-03T15:23:04Z")

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Nice to meet you.

I arrived but the goat never did.

Of course, the details of my initiation _are_ a bit hazy…

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-while-i-was-gone/692252/11 "2014-07-03T16:47:46Z")

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Were you gone?

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**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-while-i-was-gone/692252/12 "2014-07-03T17:53:25Z")

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Sometimes this place goes away, but I’m always here.

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**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-while-i-was-gone/692252/13 "2014-07-03T17:59:51Z")

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14 k of g in a f p d was definitively answered. But, other than that, no.

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-while-i-was-gone/692252/14 "2014-07-03T18:30:53Z")

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> [@madrabbitwoman](#):
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> I take it no one notable died then??

I did for a while but I got better.

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**Author:** ![Grrlbrarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrlbrarian/32/4048_2.png) [@Grrlbrarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrlbrarian)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-while-i-was-gone/692252/15 "2014-07-03T18:43:57Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> I did for a while but I got better.

Do you think you’ll go for a walk?

Do you… feel… happy?

All kidding aside, welcome back, **madrabbitwoman**!

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**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-while-i-was-gone/692252/16 "2014-07-04T08:55:16Z")

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Nice to be back - thanks 🙂

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**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-while-i-was-gone/692252/17 "2014-07-04T11:10:59Z")

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Well Tony Abbott is PM and for a lib PM seems to be really popular.😛

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**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-while-i-was-gone/692252/18 "2014-07-04T12:27:13Z")

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To tell you the truth, I never expected to see Ed melt down like that. And then getting all the PMs from the mods asking for us to recreate those three days so they could clear the history. I still don’t know what deal they gave to google to rewrite the cache.

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**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-while-i-was-gone/692252/19 "2014-07-04T12:42:48Z")

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Welcome back 🙂

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**Author:** ![Anonymous\_Coward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/94ad74/32.png) [@Anonymous\_Coward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anonymous_Coward)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-interesting-happen-while-i-was-gone/692252/20 "2014-07-04T12:55:19Z")

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Handy was banned. Other than that you didn’t miss much.

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