I guess they woke up long enough to snack on your OP, Fugazi. 
Yep, here’s my OP (which I had the foresight to cut and paste)
I would like to read a thread.
So here it is, 1:30 a.m. Mountain Time which is 2:30 a.m. Central where the server is. I click on a thread that has 6 replies to it. 5 minutes later, the damn thing still hasn’t opened. Who the fuck is hogging the server at this time of night.
Oh, wait. There we go, it just timed out. Much better. I’ll be amazed if I can even post this.
Sorry if someone feels I shouldn’t bitch about the SDMB or the server, but I get a bit frustrated, so I felt like ranting.
Thank you
Carry on
p.s. Yep, it timed out while trying to post this. You know, I can just picture the poor little hamster. Bedraggled fur, bloodshot eyes, half his ear tore off, his left front paw in a little hamster cast, and a kink in his tail. He is saying “Please, please. Don’t run that search for the 3 words that end in –gry”. But to no avail, the search is run.
Then I come along and click on a thread. He looks at me and says “Hold your horses, I’ll get to it when I can”.
Fugazi, I just wanted to say I love your user name. If the name is a reference to Max Cavallero (sp?) & Co., then that is definitely cool.
Oh yeah, I totally agree with you about the SDMB hamsters. Someone needs to feed the little buggers some caffeine.
-Dirty
I usually read my dope about this time of night, since this is when I’m off work and because this is when it’s usually been fast.
For the last few nights it’s been really freaking slow. It has also started doing the lag double post thing to me. Earlier I got a nice odd double post with a ten minute lag between them.
I wish there was a way to get rid of them. I wish they’d appoint someone (or even me) to have no mod powers other than to delete double posts and the dumbass apologies after the double posts.
I wish I could do the OP I’ve been wanting to do for a while, but I don’t trust the server.
I wish.
Wikkit - I read my Dope all night 'cause I’m at work 
D. Earthworm - Sorry to disappoint about the user name. I got it from one of my favorite bands, Marillion. It’s the name of their second album.
Atreyu - very funny
Snif. Poor hamsters! I’m going to go hug my real one right now… 
What’s a hampster?
Its a hamster that lives in the Hamptons.
I have a feeling this reference will go over everybody’s head, but I’ll float it anyway.
Seeing the OP obliviated, considering the thread title had this line going through my head …
“You see, Fugazi? You see what you get when you mess with the hamsters?!?”
Big fat fawning over the person who can identify my paraphrase.
Thanks for playing.
Yup, I’ve been reading the SDMB way too long. I read this as “I had the foreskin to cut and paste”.
More coffee, please!
FYI - there was allegedly a large trans-State network outage that fucked several servers in the Midwest last night at that time (like mine…). If you got through at all, count yourself lucky.
Hamsters don’t have enough tail to get kinked.
Happy
AKA, chinchillas.
I thought it was a typo for “hempsters”. Dude, pass the Doritos.
Hamsters? I thought there was only one running the server!
And doesn’t the board go down for maitainance in the wee hours of the morning? That could explain a lot… the little guy is going out for a drink and potty break, and there’s no one to cover for him! 
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A hampster is where you put your dirty clothes after they’ve been worn and soiled by tiny rodents…
The Hamptown Ladies?
The Big Lebowski
Wow, that hamster metaphor is soooo original and funny!
'bout 3:40 AM central. Gives me a reason to go to bed. Until then it’s lighning.