# 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:** 8
**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:** [December 22, 2006, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/141 "2006-12-22T22:06:35Z")
Some unkind soul told me the other day that **Contrapuntal** doesn’t have the table manners of a pig. I disagreed. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/142 "2006-12-22T22:13:59Z")
**Chez Guevara** has claimed intimate, detailed, first hand knowledge of the ingestive, digestive, and excretory habits of root hogs. He comes by this knowledge honestly. ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/143 "2006-12-22T22:24:05Z")
Whenever I try to say something complimentary, Contrapuntal is always the previous poster. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/144 "2006-12-22T22:33:54Z")
As stalkers go, \*\*dahfisheroo \*\*is a veritable beacon of incompetence in a storm of depravity. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/145 "2006-12-22T22:36:03Z")
**Dafisheroo** is very intrigueingly conservative with the courteous custom of bolding a previous poster’s name. ---
**Author:** ![fortytwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f9ae1b/32.png) [@fortytwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fortytwo)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/146 "2006-12-22T23:24:13Z")
I love reading **BMalion’s** posts, they are so amusing - like his spelling. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/147 "2006-12-22T23:37:56Z")
My admiration for **Vetch** , and for the pithy yet simple qualities of **Vetch** ’s postings, simply cannot be described in words. Or any other way. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2006, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/148 "2006-12-23T00:22:57Z")
I see a lot of good things in **Contrapuntal** ’s future. There’s nowhere to go but up! ---
**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:** [December 23, 2006, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/149 "2006-12-23T00:23:14Z")
**Contrapuntal** has been pretty good about obeying the restraining order recently. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2006, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/150 "2006-12-23T00:27:11Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] **Contrapuntal** has been pretty good about obeying the restraining order recently. [/QUOTE] Isn’t \*\*Elendil \*\*cute? He tries \*so \*hard. ---
**Author:** ![Sonia\_Montdore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Sonia\_Montdore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sonia_Montdore)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2006, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/151 "2006-12-23T00:27:31Z")
**Elendil’s Heir** isn’t nearly as ineffectual as most people suppose him to be. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2006, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/152 "2006-12-23T00:34:40Z")
**Sonia Montdore** —what a refreshing break from that constant, fussy competence. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2006, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/153 "2006-12-23T00:35:20Z")
[QUOTE=Sonia Montdore] **Elendil’s Heir** isn’t nearly as ineffectual as most people suppose him to be. [/QUOTE] I love this thread - and the fact that it gives some less-blessed dopers a chance to try and be witty and smart. But not always succeeding, right Sonia? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2006, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/154 "2006-12-23T00:38:47Z")
Ah **Poysyn** , you’ve made great progress, & soon you’ll be ready to tackle _promptness_. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2006, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/155 "2006-12-23T00:40:46Z")
You can’t give some people any shit, but not Dung Beetle…a good sport, that one. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2006, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/156 "2006-12-23T00:46:38Z")
When I read one of elfkin’s posts, an image of gibbons taking bong hits rarely comes to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2006, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/157 "2006-12-23T00:52:07Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] Ah **Poysyn** , you’ve made great progress, & soon you’ll be ready to tackle _promptness_. [/QUOTE] It’s so admirable that Bosda spends so much time fighting ignorance, he doesn’t even have time to go home and shower or brush his teeth ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2006, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/158 "2006-12-23T00:53:01Z")
**Poysyn** doesn’t completely suck. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2006, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/159 "2006-12-23T00:54:03Z")
Oh, and neither does **Barking Dog**. (Mustn’t forget **Barking Dog**.) ---
**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:** [December 23, 2006, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/160 "2006-12-23T01:20:13Z")
And by no means does JThunder’s memory rival that of goldfish. No sir. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207.md?page=9)