# Everybody duck - New guy practicing **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 15, 2003, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-duck-new-guy-practicing/161533 "2003-03-15T04:44:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Phax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Phax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phax)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2003, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-duck-new-guy-practicing/161533/21 "2003-03-16T14:00:28Z")
I am annoyed that we can’t edit though. What was the logic behind taking that away? ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2003, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-duck-new-guy-practicing/161533/22 "2003-03-16T16:20:10Z")
**Phax** , that was so that people could not post offensive and provoking comments, and then claim innocence after being flamed by changing the comments to something harmless and benign. ---
**Author:** ![Phax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Phax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phax)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2003, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-duck-new-guy-practicing/161533/23 "2003-03-16T17:26:22Z")
Yeh, I figured that was the story. Sounds like some people need to grow up. I’ve been on message boards that wouldn’t let you sign up with a “free” email address such as those from Yahoo! Probably prevents a lot of muliple personalities and other crap that people can think up. ---
**Author:** ![Phax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Phax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phax)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2003, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-duck-new-guy-practicing/161533/24 "2003-03-16T17:28:09Z")
And if I had editing, I would have spelled multiple right! ---
**Author:** ![wolfstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d6d6ee/32.png) [@wolfstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfstu)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-duck-new-guy-practicing/161533/25 "2003-03-16T21:48:53Z")
You may already know this, but the ‘Preview’ Button under the reply field allows you to see your message as it would be posted, before you acutally submit it. (The quick-reply box at the bottom of the thread doesn’t have this feature. To use it, you have to click the ‘Post Reply’ button after the last post.) So you can check your speeling and ```auto ing ``` and such. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2003, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-duck-new-guy-practicing/161533/26 "2003-03-16T22:35:07Z")
**Phax** , since **Zoe** hasn’t come back to administer the Big Test yet, I’ll go ahead and do it. You must post a thread in General Questions asking one of these three things: 1)What are the three words in the English language that end in -gry? 2)Does a duck’s quack echo? (this seems right up your alley given this thread title) 3)The riddle about the hotel, the bell boy, the $30 and the missing dollar You must then survive the ensuing onslaught with decorum and daft. Then my son, you will be a man. PS Don’t do any of those things please. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-duck-new-guy-practicing/161533/27 "2003-03-17T01:16:45Z")
USCDiver, that’s for the rescue! I was trying my best to come up with something diabolical. You would think that since I used to be a high school teacher I could come up with something worthy… > [@](#): > > I’ll probably stay around. This board is bigger than the one I was on - it has more features to it and it’s a lot more interesting. It got to the point that the same 6 to 8 people were doing most of the posting, mainly so they could back-stab each other. Everyone else was leaving. I had exactly the same experience. I came from a “spiritual” forum supposedly based on the books of a modern day guru (my word, not his). It was _cut throat_! SDMB has saved my sanity…almost. 😃 The diversity is terrific! ---
**Author:** ![Phax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Phax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phax)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-duck-new-guy-practicing/161533/28 "2003-03-17T04:52:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by USCDiver \* > \*\ ***Phax** , since **Zoe** hasn’t come back to administer the Big Test yet, I’ll go ahead and do it. > > You must post a thread in General Questions asking one of these three things: > 1)What are the three words in the English language that end in -gry? > 2)Does a duck’s quack echo? (this seems right up your alley given this thread title) > 3)The riddle about the hotel, the bell boy, the $30 and the missing dollar > > You must then survive the ensuing onslaught with decorum and daft. Then my son, you will be a man. > > PS Don’t do any of those things please. \*\* 1). Hungry, Angry and some obsure word no one has ever heard of. Actually, I’ve since read that there are at least a half-dozen other equally obscure ones out there. 2) Nope. 3) The butler did it. Bonus Question - Thanks to yet another mind-numbing experience at my mother-in-laws - reading her Enquirer - I know that one of the more recent Elvis spottings was at a Burger King in Detroit. He was working the counter. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-duck-new-guy-practicing/161533/29 "2003-03-17T05:05:41Z")
[Wrong on No. 2](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_071.html), **Phax**. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Phax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Phax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phax)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-duck-new-guy-practicing/161533/30 "2003-03-17T05:57:58Z")
Personally, I have not actually tried to do this - just believed an email I got about that a few months ago. Next time, when I happen to be in the mountains with my duck … ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-duck-new-guy-practicing/161533/31 "2003-03-17T06:05:17Z")
Try not to believe email factoids, **Phax**. They’ll bite you on the bum almost evertime, truth-wise. 🙂 That’s why stuff like the Straight Dope Archive and [snopes](http://www.snopes2.com/) are around. ---
**Author:** ![Phax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Phax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phax)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-duck-new-guy-practicing/161533/32 "2003-03-17T06:11:56Z")
You mean … you CAN’T believe everything you find on the internet and in emails???:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-duck-new-guy-practicing/161533/33 "2003-03-17T06:48:25Z")
Shouldn’t this continue somewhere like, oh, MPSIMS, **Phax**? I think you’ve hijacked your own thread, here! 🙂 And in answer to your question – I’d keep a pinch of salt handy, if I were you. Just in case. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-duck-new-guy-practicing/161533/34 "2003-03-17T06:53:35Z")
**Phax** , good God man! You got a welcome from **Ice Wolf**! 'tis a sign! I am not worthy! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-duck-new-guy-practicing/161533/35 "2003-03-17T21:11:53Z")
OK, where did we leave that goat? We can’t properly initiate a new member without the goat! ---
**Author:** ![Phax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Phax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phax)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-duck-new-guy-practicing/161533/36 "2003-03-17T21:34:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chronos \* > \*\*OK, where did we leave that goat? \*\* Did you check Greg Brady’s groovy bachelor pad? ---
**Author:** ![Caught\_Work](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Caught\_Work](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caught_Work)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-duck-new-guy-practicing/161533/37 "2003-03-18T03:18:35Z")
While you have reneged on your offer of duck for everybody, we should also warn you not to mention **Atomic Badger Racing** lest **Mangetout** come charing into that thread knocking people left and right in his attempts to see if someone has registered that user name. Actually I’d like to see how long it takes him to get here now that his favourite suggested username has been mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![maia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@maia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maia)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-duck-new-guy-practicing/161533/38 "2003-03-18T04:28:34Z")
wow…if the rest of the threads here keep me smiling as much as this one did, I’ll be happy. I _gather_ that the sly wit and intelligence pervades the whole board… Oh, and I’m new. …and careful… I bite. ---
**Author:** ![Phax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Phax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phax)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-duck-new-guy-practicing/161533/39 "2003-03-18T05:00:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Caught@Work \* > \*\*While you have reneged on your offer of duck for everybody… \*\* Time to clear up a couple of things. I apologize about the duck thing. I had the best intentions, but I discovered my plan had a minor flaw in it when I realized I would need in excess of 32,000 ducks. I do think, however, that there are enough geese in my neighborhood to make everyone happy. Therefore, everyone is invited to come by and pick your own. Just go to Chicago, turn left. I’m in the blue house on the right. \*\* Ice Wolf \*\* - Yes, I think the hijacking occured. My original plan was to let this thread die a natural death, but it seems to have taken on a life of it’s own. So I spent about an hour poring over this whole website to figure out how I do that. I came up with zilch. Is it as simple as a cut & paste; or is there some magic button to push; or is there some God I must sacrifice my kid’s hamsters to; or what? \*\* maia \*\* - Welcome aboard. I’ll save you a goose to “bite” into. ---
**Author:** ![wolfstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d6d6ee/32.png) [@wolfstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfstu)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-duck-new-guy-practicing/161533/40 "2003-03-18T05:00:52Z")
Hey, **maia**! Welcome to the boards. And yes, that sly wit and intelligence is all over the place. _Especially_ in threads where _I_ post. Well, that’s what I think, but the general board opinion rarely seems to concur 🙂 You bite? That’s cool. There are wierder than that around here. I do thermodynamic analyses of turbines in my dreams… Have fun, and ‘read twice, post once’. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-duck-new-guy-practicing/161533.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-duck-new-guy-practicing/161533.md?page=3)