# Chat **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 27, 2000, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chat/27095 "2000-07-27T19:42:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Angkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Angkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angkins)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chat/27095/21 "2000-07-27T20:59:31Z")
\*\*\* reaches out and gives Sue a poke\*\*\* touched ya! ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chat/27095/22 "2000-07-27T21:01:33Z")
I just think everyone is taking it too seriously. It was a joke. Move on. I, for one, got a giggle out of it. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chat/27095/23 "2000-07-27T21:02:36Z")
I don’t understand what the big deal here is about. So what if you think the OP wasn’t funny, why get upset about it? So what if you didn’t see the point of it, remember what the “P” stands for in MPSIMS? Freak wasn’t pointing out anybody here specifically, so why is anyone here personally offended because it makes some chatters look bad? I have to agree with Freak and say some people here seemed to be overly defensive about this. He wasn’t pointing out anyone in particular, and was just making a joke. I wouldn’t make many friends if I got bent out of shape if I got offended at every Irish or Polish joke I hear (got some of each in me). ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chat/27095/24 "2000-07-27T21:04:21Z")
> [@](#): > > I’ve lost touch with some of the people I really enjoyed yakking with which sort of renders me semi invisible when I do go in. Sue! Say it ain’t so!!! Come back home, babe. We love ya! ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chat/27095/25 "2000-07-27T21:14:22Z")
**Moderator’s Notes:** Apparently there’s been a misunderstanding. FF has posted here saying that’s the case, and I’m also in posession of a private e-mail making the same assertion. I just want to ask everyone to lighten up a bit. It was supposed to be a joke; it just wasn’t set up as well as it could have been, so it fell a little flat. Lord knows most of us are guilty of that from time to time. It’s all a simple misunderstanding. ---
**Author:** ![pricciar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@pricciar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pricciar)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chat/27095/26 "2000-07-27T21:15:08Z")
Sue is so great! Sue is so fine! When Sue makes Kool Aid. It gets you drunk like wine! Sue is so great! Sue is as sharp as a tack. She wears her hair in a bow. and brings home many a lumberjack. woohoo sue. pat ---
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chat/27095/27 "2000-07-27T21:26:23Z")
Yikes! Guys I didn’t mean I was gone forever, I just have been away and haven’t been in much and there have been alot of new faces the last few times I have popped in. Never fear, I’ll be in to abuse y’all soon enough. That includes you Freak! BTW your butt smelling like sour cream isn’t such a bad thing as compared to what it could smell like 😉 ---
**Author:** ![FreakFreely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/48db29/32.png) [@FreakFreely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FreakFreely)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chat/27095/28 "2000-07-27T22:04:58Z")
I’d just like to say I apologize if I caused any offense. None was intended. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chat/27095/29 "2000-07-27T22:51:27Z")
That’s ok, Freakie, my man. I think that after a lot of the other crap that’s gone down over the past few weeks, a lot of the #SD regs are tired of seeing the #SD portrayed as some sort of wastehole. Your joke was just set up a little odd and I think it touched some raw nerves, but I understand that you meant no harm. Always up for a chance at a shamless plug: Visit us folks at #StraightDope on IRC’s Undernet server! Download a copy of [mIRC](http://www.mirc.com) for the PC or [Ircle\* for the Mac. Or else visit us via the web at the following sites: [http://webchat.md.us.undernet.org:8000/unet1](http://webchat.md.us.undernet.org:8000/unet1)]([http://www.ircle.com](http://www.ircle.com)) [http://www.fathom.org/chat.html](http://www.fathom.org/chat.html) [http://www.mircx.com](http://www.mircx.com) _Disclaimer: #StraightDope is a collection of fans of Cecil Adams and this message board. However, it is not an offical part of the Straight Dope. #StraightDope is not affiliated with this site, the Reader, anyone who works there or anything else for that matter. Supposively, the Straight Dope will have its own chat up someday and that will be offical, but this one ain’t._ ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chat/27095/30 "2000-07-27T22:53:22Z")
Whoops… sorry about that, folks. Dunno what causes the text to jump up so big like that. Must’ve been the vbb code error. ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chat/27095/31 "2000-07-28T00:14:30Z")
Stop taking shrooms before you post, Joph. The text is normal sized. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chat/27095/32 "2000-07-28T00:22:38Z")
I got it, too. And though it was hilarious. Jeeze, people, calm down! And yes, that is **exactly** what a chat room looks like if you’ve just logged in for the first time. Maybe some of you don’t remember being newbies. And “poor taste?” Please watch a real chat at FFF before you accuse FF of poor taste. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chat/27095.md?page=1)