Shave and a haircut
two bits
This is the most important post in this thread.
Vote Quimby!
I vote pie!
Pie is a dictator and needs no votes.
This post will kill this thread once and for all (at least for the night).
Thus a new day dawns and the sheer bloodyminded stubbornness of You People has resurrected this thread, much like the humble hummingbird after a cold night intorpor at the higher mountain altitudes. ComeAtropos and finish this task that Cruel Clotho (aka Hi, Neighbor!) has spun!
Hummingbirds are vicious little bastards; one of them threatened me, to my face, to move along away from his feeder.
You know, they hum the first six notes of “Aqualung.”
Oh, I know it! I’ve been verbally castigated by two different species, a Rufous and a Ruby-Throated, and although I don’t speak the language I suspect they were both casting doubt on my virility, parentage, appearance and intelligence. Not necessarily in that order.
Bird brains!
Jesus you people are pathetic, trying to one-up each other, all “hyuk! hyuk! I’m the threadkiller” knowing full well some other body will come in and post, “Narf!” or some shit. Ya seriously have nothing better to do?
No.
I don’t.
Ok, so back on topic. I think being the last poster on a previously active thread is the equivalent of being at a party and approaching a group of people already engaged in conversation. You walk up to them, because maybe you’ve had too much to drink, but you know for a fact you can offer some insightful input. You dispense said input, everyone kind of stares at each other, then one by one they branch off - “I should call my wife, it’s been 15 minutes.” Then the other guy, “Hmm, I wonder what the scores are to the team I follow,” and the girl is like, “Let me go check in on my friend in the kitchen.” And suddenly you’re there by yourself. All alone again. You start to question why you’re at the party. You start to question why you even try any more. You start to question your very existence.
I would let you have the last post. That’s just sad.
^^^killjoy!
Bzzt! Nice try! Please play again! Deposit 25¢; 5 tries for a dollar!
No, I’M Spartacus: https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21125115&postcount=136
Sort of like the mirror image of what’s happening here–where you are pretty clear in expressing what sort of thread you’d like to have, but everyone else is doing something different?
Story of my life.