# 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:** 32
**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 9, 2007, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/621 "2007-01-09T20:03:20Z")
Good news, **sturmhauke**! Your tests all came back negative–even the brain scan! ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/622 "2007-01-10T13:53:48Z")
**Dr. Rieux** , I absolutely would f\*\*\* you with someone’s else’s d\*\*\*. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/623 "2007-01-10T14:42:19Z")
**gigi** would, if she were a Mongol, be considered among the most genteel. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/624 "2007-01-10T15:36:42Z")
Wow, good job burping only three times while typing that! ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/625 "2007-01-10T20:39:18Z")
Wow **gigi** , have you been shaving regularly? Because you’ve been looking less like a pygmy marmoset than usual lately. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/626 "2007-01-10T21:35:24Z")
**Barking Dog** wasn’t even alive when President Lincoln was assassinated. So we can’t blame him/her for that. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/627 "2007-01-10T22:00:08Z")
**Elendil’s Heir** is well loved by his many, many cats. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/628 "2007-01-10T22:40:50Z")
**Beadalin** can be turned into “A Bad Lien.” ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/629 "2007-01-10T23:10:10Z")
photopat knows which end of the camera should be pointed at the subject. ---
**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 11, 2007, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/630 "2007-01-11T02:38:57Z")
Sturmhauke puts the “fun” in “functional alcoholic” ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/631 "2007-01-11T05:48:19Z")
**Hugh Jass** is capable pleasing a woman in ways that would sicken a normal man. ---
**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 11, 2007, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/632 "2007-01-11T07:54:04Z")
**Barking Dog** was named in honor of his proud mother. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/633 "2007-01-11T08:10:17Z")
Dr. Rieux knows Barking Dog’s mother _very_ well. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/634 "2007-01-11T08:38:59Z")
But not as well as Sturmhauke knows himself. If you know what I mean. ---
**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 11, 2007, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/635 "2007-01-11T10:26:56Z")
I have it on good authority that \*\*Cicero \*\* is currently in better shape than his namesake. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/636 "2007-01-11T12:55:23Z")
Yuma, AZ, eh? No wonder you look so nice and leathery! ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/637 "2007-01-11T13:28:26Z")
Someone once had three good words to say about **gigi**. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/638 "2007-01-11T13:44:38Z")
Contrary to popular opinion **bigbabysweets2000** does not steal candy from babies. ---
**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 11, 2007, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/639 "2007-01-11T14:12:54Z")
Swampbear would have made a good Nazi. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/640 "2007-01-11T14:49:16Z")
**Hugh Jass** is just like the beloved drunken, abusive, good-for-nothing brother I never had. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207.md?page=31) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207.md?page=33)