Specifically in my kickass thread about the weekend, my OP dissapeared. Shoot, I spent some time on that one. . .
Mods, somethin’ happen over there? Did Lance Armstrong quit pedaling the bike attached to the generator again?
Tripler
Is it possible to get my OP back?
I’m afraid not. We’re terribly sorry, but for now, expect our server to act quirky.
Best thing to do is to C&P posts (especially large ones) into Notepad or something. Just to be safe.
Aw shucks. . .
Serves me right for drinking so damn much this weekend. 
Tripler
It was one helluva OP too. . .
It’s actually happened a good bit, since the upgrade. Next time you see a thoroughly confusing thread, compare the name on the first post with the name listed under “thread starter”.
I am kind of curious, though, to see such a thread “fresh”, so to speak. I’ve always seen them after a few replies.
I’ve seen them fresh, and they ain’t pretty. 
What you see is a collapsed thread, with the gray top bar “Author”, “Thread”, “New Thread”, and “Post Reply”, squashed right on top of the gray bottom bar, “All times are GMT -6 hours. The time now is 9:11 PM. New Thread Post Reply”.
So basically just the two gray bars, with nothing else.
Really weird-lookin’.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=119650
Duck Duck Goose, … “GRAY top/bottom bars” ?
Just to make sure, you mean this • color?
I’ve seen this color being called pink, of all colors, but GRAY?!
Speaking of weirdness, check out this thread: Complaints From PornoWorld. (I accidentally…umm, yes, I accidentally opened it and read it).
There’s a double post split between the bottom of page 1 and the top of page 2, but the writer’s writer’s post count is zero!
Yup, it’s gray. Gray on the link, gray in your post. Gray, gray, gray. Kind of an off-off-off-white or an off-off-off-black, whereas pink is more of an off-red. 
Mayap your monitor’s boogered up? I mean, why would the forum headings be in pink?
Naah, didn’t say they’re pink, only seen this color being called pink. But I misremembered this thread: Board Background Color It was the gray post text background being called pink here, the headings were agreed on being kinda lavender. But not gray.
But wait!
I could believe that you have your monitor’s color temperature set to a ludicrously low value. Then the kinda lavender would be yellowed and appear as a neutral gray to you. But then the post text background really would look pink. Yikes. But you said it’s gray. And you didn’t disagree on the bars being called kinda lavender. Not gray.
Even if you changed your monitor since then, if you see one of those colors as gray, then you have to see the other as a different color (real color, not just a different brightness). Either kinda lavender bars or kinda pink posts. Gray bars -> pink posts, or gray posts -> kinda lavender bars. Not gray.
I did a quick search at the vBulletin forum for the name of their ‘corporate identity color’, but all I found was the name (“tableheadbgcolor”) of the variable containing the default (the dope uses the default) HTML color code value of #8080A6. #848484 would be gray. #8080a6 is not gray.
In the original 0…255 range the Y/Cb/Cr chromaticity coordinates (recommendation Rec 601-1 coefficients) for this color are 19.0128 / -3.088 . You could call it a pale lavender. Definitely not gray.
This time on a neutral black background, here’s the original color, followed by an achromatic equiluminant gray (#848484 , Y = 132.347):
••See the difference? It’s not gray. 
[homer] The whole world’s gray![/homer]
You’re right, definitely not gray there. The one on the left appears lavenderian on this monitor (I view these threads at home and, uh, at the office). The one on the right, grayistic.
So maybe it depends at lot on the background. The background here is a kind of gray, so…
Holy crap!
I leave this thread for a few days, and you completely hijack it.
I feel honored. Thank you!
Tripler
“You love me! You really really love me!!”
Lavender, eh? You mean the boards aren’t red and black…?
Actually, I see lavender too, just to be clear on that
Tripler, who are YOU?
mnemosyne, No, no, no! All we have ever and hardly agreed on was this color being kinda lavender! (Actually, if you’re looking at the board through a red filter, the bars become quite dark, almost black, with a red background…)
I once had to call the bars “bluish-purple-what-ever-the-official-color-name-is” for lack of a proper name. This color needs an official name. Now, if Cecil just would say it’s turquoise. He’s always right. Period.
…
Wait a minute, Cecil is color blind, isn’t he?. It would look like turquoise to him. Forget it.
What? Who the hell are you?
Tripler
If you can’t figure me out . . .