Gotta hijack my own thread here for a second…to tell you all a sad but true story:
After Auntnut posted her “Bad Fortune Cookie” thread, she chose to act grownup, and actually GOT OFFLINE…and got some chores done around the house. It felt a bit strange, but, after a while, she got the hang of being so far from her monitor…tho, she did glance longingly at it when she passed by on the way to the kitchen.
Auntnut was able to to continue this way for several hours, but was once again drawn to the blue screen. She fed the hampsters, greased their modem wheel, and even started it spinning for them…and, after another hour, was rewarded with those comforting sounds of:
“AAAAEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIAAAAAAAEEERRRRRRSSSSQUEEEEEL…
WELCOME…!!!..YOU’VE GOT MAIL…!!!”
Ignoring her mailbox, and instead, running for the SDMB with feet of wings…she started slowly paging down…page 1…
page 2…page 3…and so on.
Auntnut had gone thru about 6 of the 13 pages that had appeared since the last Straight Dope Fix…and , had yet to find her thread…
Brave little soldier that she is, Auntnut didn’t give up hope…she JUST KNEW that someone had responded to her thread.
Page 7…page8…page9…her shoulders dropped, and she sighed a big sigh. Nothing…page 10…page 11…page12…
Still nothing…
Holding her breath, and crossing her stubby little fingers, Auntnut clicked on page 13…
Nothing.
Auntnut let out her breath in a big sad sigh…
“Ok…I guess that everyone might have been at work, and hasnt had a chance to see the boards yet” She said to herself…
'cept, 3/4 of the flippin’ people on this site, spend most of their time at work surfin’ the StraightDope boards (and where can I get a job like that people??!!??
“Ok…ok, I got it…the hurricane has prevented people from posting !!” (Nice attempt, but face it loser, no one likes you, they think you look funny, smell funny, and AREN’T funny…you goober)
So, after getting nowhere with the “look on the bright side” crap, Auntnut dejectedly went to check her Emails to see who else wanted to piss in her post tosties today…
And, LO AND BEHOLD…there were responses to her thread !!!
Because, you see…Auntnut is an idiot extrodinaire…and, somehow COMPLETELY MISSED SEEING HER BELOVED THREAD.
( I shouldn’t have been too suprised tho…earlier today, while talking online with a friend who lives in Virginia, right in the path of the hurricane, I asked him if his power was out. He wrote :
“No, or I wouldn’t be online instant messaging you, now would I?”
:smack:
So, THANK YOU ONE AND ALL for responding to me…all I can say is “They like me !!..they REALLY REALLY like me !”