# Being the last poster of a thread and then it dies **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 11, 2018, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751 "2018-07-11T21:02:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 21
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/401 "2018-09-21T18:22:54Z")
You know, whoever does get the last post in this thread will have a pretty hollow victory - they won’t be able to come back here to brag for fear of opening it up to more responses. Kind of like the priest who skipped mass one Sunday to play golf, got his first ever hole in one and couldn’t tell anyone. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/402 "2018-09-21T21:08:53Z")
The worst day golfing is still better than the best day of church. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/403 "2018-09-21T21:45:04Z")
Shh. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/404 "2018-09-21T21:51:40Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > You know, whoever does get the last post in this thread will have a pretty hollow victory - they won’t be able to come back here to brag for fear of opening it up to more responses. Kind of like the priest who skipped mass one Sunday to play golf, got his first ever hole in one and couldn’t tell anyone. Not only that, he got struck by lightning and Bill Murray just left him out there on the green, in the rain. Uh, I mean, So long, suckers! Kiss my curvy butt goodbye! Auf Wiedersehen! Splitsville! ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/405 "2018-09-21T23:28:48Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Not only that, he got struck by lightning and Bill Murray just left him out there on the green, in the rain. > > Uh, I mean, So long, suckers! Kiss my curvy butt goodbye! Auf Wiedersehen! Splitsville! Not that I’ve done much, rather, any, research, but aren’t mutt butts more angular than curvy? -G0sp3l, noted curvy butt lover. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/406 "2018-09-21T23:35:31Z")
Mutt-butts have tails. The End. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/407 "2018-09-24T20:31:52Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Mutt-butts have tails. > The End. Your location is So. Ark. and you haven’t seen mutt-butts sans tails? That So. must not stand for South! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/408 "2018-09-24T21:43:27Z")
They still have a stump. My Yorkies tail is very short, so she wags her whole back half when she does the happy dog dance. I am in Southernest most Arkansas that you can get before you get to Louisiana. What else can So. Stand for? Significant other Stupid old ( might work) Stinky oaf Sweet oil Standard oil Sickly one Slithering Owl Slumming oldster You tell me. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/409 "2018-09-24T22:07:20Z")
Spontaneous Onanism. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/410 "2018-09-24T22:24:00Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > They still have a stump. My Yorkies tail is very short, so she wags her whole back half when she does the happy dog dance. I am in Southernest most Arkansas that you can get before you get to Louisiana. > What else can So. Stand for? > Significant other > Stupid old ( might work) > Stinky oaf > Sweet oil > Standard oil > Sickly one > Slithering Owl > Slumming oldster > > You tell me. > > 😉 There’s a SOARK sportswear joint in Kansas, somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/411 "2018-09-24T22:36:52Z")
In this case, Stereotypes Only, cuz ain’t it a suthern thang ta crop dawgs tayuls? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2018, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/412 "2018-09-25T00:28:00Z")
sticky organism ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2018, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/413 "2018-09-25T00:53:43Z")
I have never docked a dogs tail on purpose, there was that one weird door incident, nm. No. I don’t think tail docking is a ‘suthern’ thang, at all. Bless your little heart, you’re mistaken. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2018, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/414 "2018-09-25T00:56:43Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Spontaneous Onanism. Is that similar to Screeching Ono-ism? ETA I googled, ewwww. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2018, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/415 "2018-09-25T03:35:26Z")
There are some things you were just not meant to see. And you can see them all on the Internet. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2018, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/416 "2018-09-25T04:29:59Z")
there are even whole sites devoted to brain bleach ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2018, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/417 "2018-09-25T15:51:04Z")
and I’m not visiting any of them. I googled the Indonesian tree man a few years ago and I still get the willies every time I think about it. :shudder: ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2018, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/418 "2018-09-25T18:30:24Z")
This thread is still going on? I thought for sure it would have died days ago. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2018, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/419 "2018-09-25T18:32:25Z")
Here, let ME finish it off! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2018, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-the-last-poster-of-a-thread-and-then-it-dies/817751/420 "2018-09-25T18:35:33Z")
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