# Damn the previous poster with faint praise **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 22, 2006, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207 "2006-12-22T10:39:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 23
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/441 "2007-01-01T09:39:25Z")
[QUOTE=Shoshana] **Der Trihs** is a real trooper to spend New Year’s Eve all alone, diligently posting to minor threads on the Internet. [/QUOTE] Pot, kettle . . . 😃 **Shoshana** has not and never will sell her soul to the Devil. Yog-Sothoth, sure, but the _Devil_ ? NEVER ! ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/442 "2007-01-01T10:14:15Z")
[QUOTE=Chez Guevara] **swampbear** : 4.87 posts per day. [/QUOTE] Clearly **Der Trihs** , with 8.92 posts per day, is 83% more important than swampbear. ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/443 "2007-01-01T10:18:06Z")
**Chez Guevera’s** mathematical ability is apparently unhindered by his being located in Stow. ---
**Author:** ![Grey\_area](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Grey\_area](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey_area)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/444 "2007-01-01T10:20:27Z")
[QUOTE=Chez Guevara] Clearly **Der Trihs** , with 8.92 posts per day, is 83% more important than swampbear. [/QUOTE] Chez Guevara enjoys assigning significance to posters based on painstaking statistical analysis, which I’m sure _someone_ finds useful and/or interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/445 "2007-01-01T10:33:48Z")
You do realise, don’t you, that you are only three sevenths as interesting as **Illuminatiprimus**. ---
**Author:** ![Grey\_area](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Grey\_area](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey_area)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/446 "2007-01-01T10:53:49Z")
[QUOTE=Chez Guevara] You do realise, don’t you, that you are only three sevenths as interesting as **Illuminatiprimus**. [/QUOTE] Sorry to say I am not among those very few that find your anaylsis interesting or useful. But I’m sure **Illuminatiprimus** finds them fascinating. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/447 "2007-01-01T17:43:12Z")
\*\*r4nd0mNumb3rs \*\* came really close to killing this thread. Better luck next time! ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/448 "2007-01-01T18:20:37Z")
**Dr. Rieux** is quite the law-abiding driver, making sure to always stay far below the speed limit, especially in the passing lane. ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/449 "2007-01-01T18:25:58Z")
**elmwood** isn’t as polysexual as [Torchwood](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torchwood) . Score! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/450 "2007-01-01T18:32:07Z")
Viewed from this distance, **Illuminatiprimus** is quite handsome. ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/451 "2007-01-01T18:41:15Z")
I’m sure that one day **spoke-** will reach a point in his career where he can afford to live somewhere better than the pit of the peach state, maybe even in the flesh or the skin (I know, dare to dream…). ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/452 "2007-01-01T18:59:01Z")
I’m sure that one day \*\*Illuminatiprimus \*\* will reach…some point in …some career. ---
**Author:** ![newcrasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b3f665/32.png) [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/453 "2007-01-01T19:01:55Z")
[QUOTE=Dr. Rieux] I’m sure that one day \*\*Illuminatiprimus \*\* will reach…some point in …some career. [/QUOTE] Dr. Rieux does not yet have the plague. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/454 "2007-01-01T19:06:11Z")
…and I have not yet come into physical contact with **newcrasher**. Coincidence? ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/455 "2007-01-01T19:48:54Z")
**Dr. Rieux** ’s sophistry is unimpeachable. ---
**Author:** ![Hugh\_Jass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@Hugh\_Jass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hugh_Jass)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/456 "2007-01-01T23:17:39Z")
I wouldn’t say fachverwirrt is a _complete_ moron. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/457 "2007-01-01T23:58:04Z")
Of all user names I’ve seen, **Hugh Jass** ’s is the most accurate. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/458 "2007-01-02T01:54:36Z")
\*\*fachverwirrt \*\* proves to us all that there \*is \* life after being rajected for a Volkswagen slogan. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/459 "2007-01-02T02:06:54Z")
[QUOTE=Dr. Rieux] \*\*fachverwirrt \*\* proves to us all that there \*is \* life after being rajected for a Volkswagen slogan. [/QUOTE] **Dr. Rieux** ’s success at spelling English words of fewer than three syllables is inspirational. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/460 "2007-01-02T02:38:12Z")
I suppose that the username **fachverwirrt** means something to someone and is not evidence of a cognitive deficit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207.md?page=22) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207.md?page=24)