# Could SOMEONE wake up the damn hampsters

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-wake-up-the-damn-hampsters/115543>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [June 23, 2002, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-wake-up-the-damn-hampsters/115543 "2002-06-23T07:58:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Netbrian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71e660/32.png) [@Netbrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Netbrian)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2002, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-wake-up-the-damn-hampsters/115543/21 "2002-06-26T05:36:27Z")

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Fallom: It’s no longer merely a metaphor. Besides, it’s tradition!

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**Author:** ![Hazel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Hazel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazel)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2002, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-wake-up-the-damn-hampsters/115543/22 "2002-06-27T07:07:33Z")

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Hamsters? Is that all they need to speed up the board, more hamsters? Couldn’t we all chip in and buy the SDMB a few new hamsters?

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**Author:** ![tavalla](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tavalla/32/89_2.png) [@tavalla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tavalla)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2002, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-wake-up-the-damn-hampsters/115543/23 "2002-06-27T13:31:45Z")

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Couldn’t we try for something bigger than hamsters? Meerkats, maybe…

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**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2002, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-wake-up-the-damn-hampsters/115543/24 "2002-06-28T07:06:10Z")

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> \*Originally posted by tavalla \*  
> \*\*Couldn’t we try for something bigger than hamsters? Meerkats, maybe… \*\*

[All the meerkat you can handle.](http://mmeerkat.com) I think she even has computer skills, too. A total upgrade from our current hamster-based system.

LC

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**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2002, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-wake-up-the-damn-hampsters/115543/25 "2002-06-28T14:08:33Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Happy Lendervedder \*  
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> Hamsters don’t have enough tail to get kinked.  
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Jeez, leave their personal lives out of it, will ya?

What two hamsters decide to do in the privacy of their server is their own business…no one elses.

Though it accounts for the slowness…

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