...bah! Straight Dope Running Gags...

…well every message boards have their jokes that only the old hands understand, and a board this big just seems to be full of them!!!
For starters, what’s up with “Hi Opal?”

…and what other running gags go through these boards…

Og Smash Thread!!!

Gotcha ya!

Hi Opal! is a reference to a poster OpalCat’s pet peeve that all lists should have at least three items. To flesh out a two-item list people began adding “Hi Opal!” And then after a while it just became the third item of every list.

However, I wouldn’t recommend ever using it. It’s sooo 20th century, and it’s really gotten to the point where most people find it annoying.

running gags make baby Jesus cry.

If the baby Jesus cries, the terrorists have already won.

Waits for Iampunha to come streaking through the thread

Jack Dean Tyler…TugAhoy

Band name!

Now that’s what I call a running gag…

calls after Iampunha who is disappearing into the distance

“When come back, bring pie!”

I like pie.

From Before you call someone anti-social…

All your circumcision are belong to us.

If some guy named Spoofe comes up and intoduces himself and he smells like toothpaste, run. RUN FAST.

I like pie.
Cite?

Ask the Gay Guy!

Well, you must not have been on the Boards when the felching thread was around.

Won’t somebody think of the children?

My cat’s breath smells like pie.

I’ll have to show this thread to my cow-orkers. Manny of them would like it.