# For the Amateurs and the Lazy **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 10, 2003, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-amateurs-and-the-lazy/160301 "2003-03-10T14:36:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-amateurs-and-the-lazy/160301/61 "2003-03-14T13:49:30Z")
This is just great. Evidently, I’m killing the **Rue** thread. This gives me something else to be crabby about now that the snow’s stopped. And if I see **thinksnow** ’s username in this thread I’m going to scream. ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-amateurs-and-the-lazy/160301/62 "2003-03-14T14:00:55Z")
Don’t think of it as “killing” **Ex**. Think of it as “giving the thread its rest”. It’s been a good thread **Ex** , two pages, lasted a whole week. That’s nothing to scoff at. Sometimes these threads just run their course. Good bye ol’ friend, you’ve been swell. (There, are you happy now? You’re not killing it.) -Rue. ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-amateurs-and-the-lazy/160301/63 "2003-03-14T14:07:48Z")
Oh, and happy Dope-Bithday plus one to you too **Ex**. (See post for **Lissla** , and the song’s for you today.) ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-amateurs-and-the-lazy/160301/64 "2003-03-14T14:25:28Z")
Holy stink! Has it been a year already? Thanks, **Rue**. You make me smile. You can brag about that if you want, it’s actually quite a feat. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-amateurs-and-the-lazy/160301/65 "2003-03-14T14:57:22Z")
[sub]waiting patiently until May so’s Rue can wish her a one=years’ birthday too[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-amateurs-and-the-lazy/160301/66 "2003-03-14T15:57:55Z")
**NinetyWt** , don’t check the Spoiler Box until May 6th… [spoiler]Happy Dope-Birthday NinetyWt! A whole year! Wow! It seems like we just met and here it is a whole year later. You’re my favorite! It’s just too bad you have your e-mail hidden. You never know what you’ll get in your e-mailbox if it wasn’t hidden. Maybe something really cool. Too bad though, now you’ll never know. By the way, this is my first spolier. Just for you. Are you touched? I try. Not that I’d touch you inappropriately. Unless that’s what you want. Then we can talk.[/spoiler] There’s no reason for me to brag about my feet **Ex**. Yeah, they are nice and all, but not really that spectacular. -Rue. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-amateurs-and-the-lazy/160301/67 "2003-03-14T16:28:11Z")
(Update) Still sick. Please, please let me be better tomorrow. I’m so freaking tired of not having a working throat. And now _I’m_ the threadkiller! ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-amateurs-and-the-lazy/160301/68 "2003-03-22T15:49:44Z")
Sorry, did you say something, \*\*Exgineer \*\*? ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-amateurs-and-the-lazy/160301/69 "2003-03-22T19:31:58Z")
AUUUUUGGGGHHHHHHH!!! ---
**Author:** ![Copper\_moon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecc23a/32.png) [@Copper\_moon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Copper_moon)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-amateurs-and-the-lazy/160301/70 "2003-03-22T20:10:51Z")
What the . . . ? I thought this thread died. ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-amateurs-and-the-lazy/160301/71 "2003-03-22T23:42:42Z")
It didn’t die **Copper**. It was only resting. These things happen. What can you do? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-amateurs-and-the-lazy/160301.md?page=3)