# C'mon, SkipMagic, laugh a little **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 25, 2006, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cmon-skipmagic-laugh-a-little/341590 "2006-01-25T19:18:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cmon-skipmagic-laugh-a-little/341590/21 "2006-01-25T22:24:42Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > I might suggest that if board policy is to discourage posting to zombie threads, that any such zombie thread should be locked BEFORE it is touted in Threadspotting. That way we can ooh and ahh over the museum piece without any risk that it will be defaced by unthinking cads. Then you’d get questions regarding [why a locked thread made Threadspotting](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=335319&highlight=threadspotting). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cmon-skipmagic-laugh-a-little/341590/22 "2006-01-25T22:25:06Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#): > > Hmm…I just realized that the OP’s link goes to a specific post, not to [the whole thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=326734). There you guys go. Sorry, **Diogenes** and **Sentientmeat**! OH! Now I get it. _wanders off wondering if it was worth the mental effort to get it_ 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cmon-skipmagic-laugh-a-little/341590/23 "2006-01-25T23:26:03Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > OH! Now I get it. > > _wanders off wondering if it was worth the mental effort to get it_ > 🙂 oof that was a reach, wasn’t it. But being the dope I am I think I’ll act on it. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cmon-skipmagic-laugh-a-little/341590/24 "2006-01-26T02:44:29Z")
> [@SkipMagic](#): > > Me, too, actually. I didn’t realize the thread had been spotted and stuff. Sorry about that, **Clothahump**. > > We do close the majority of zombie threads for the usual reasons (e.g., the original posters are no longer here and cannot defend their posts; or the original posters might not hold those old views anymore, etc…), but we also allow some to be resurrected on a case-by-case basis (e.g., **Coldfire** ’s [May 5, 1945 - we shall remember.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=23572)) For the thread in question today, however, I’d normally keep it closed because its original post was an apology to another poster and not something we really want to keep bringing up again and again. But, because it has been threadspotted, and because it had been hijacked in a humorous way, I’ll re-open it. Thanks, Skip. I didn’t mean to sound like I was genuinely pitting you. The SDMB does say that the Pit is the place for mod comments and I was trying to make a joke out of the whole thing. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cmon-skipmagic-laugh-a-little/341590/25 "2006-01-26T02:45:46Z")
> [@Maus Magill](#): > > By the way, screw all you all for making me defend **Clothahump**. > > It coulda been worse, I coulda been defending **Updike**. Ah, it’s good for ya to walk in the light every once in a while. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cmon-skipmagic-laugh-a-little/341590/26 "2006-01-26T03:42:01Z")
Can’t you label them as “old threads, please don’t ressurect” when they are put in threadspotting? That would help with the confusion. If it wasn’t labeled as I propose it would be ok to post in, if it was, then people who checked it out from threadspotting would at least have an extra clue. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cmon-skipmagic-laugh-a-little/341590/27 "2006-01-26T20:00:41Z")
My bad, my bad. I had misfiled the original nominating email . . . found it in the wee small hours of the morning when I was putting the front page together . . . read a few posts, giggled, and ran it in Threadspotting. I apologize for putting all this in play. I think I will make it a point not to run any old threads for Threadspotting any more. TubaDiva ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cmon-skipmagic-laugh-a-little/341590/28 "2006-01-26T20:04:34Z")
Perhaps we need a new forum of only locked threads. Just the best of the best. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cmon-skipmagic-laugh-a-little/341590/29 "2006-01-26T20:10:45Z")
Or you could make a catagory titled “oldies, but goodies” or some such? ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cmon-skipmagic-laugh-a-little/341590/30 "2006-01-26T20:41:42Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > My bad, my bad. > … > I think I will make it a point not to run any old threads for Threadspotting any more. > > TubaDiva No, no, don’t worry about it at all. In fact, the fact that the following quote is from July 22 of last year just makes it all the funnier. > [@smiling bandit](#): > > Thank you, thank you all. My humiliation is now complete. Ha! That’s what you thought! It just gets more and more complete every day. (Poor guy). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cmon-skipmagic-laugh-a-little/341590.md?page=1)