# Frank Shuts Down A Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 18, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-shuts-down-a-thread/434087 "2008-01-18T22:16:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zambini57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/4491bb/32.png) [@Zambini57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zambini57)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-shuts-down-a-thread/434087/1 "2008-01-18T22:16:31Z")
The other day, someone started a thread: "Have You Ever Seen The Sky?’ Yeah, at first glance it seemed kind of stupid. Just some dumbass tag-on to those other threads, “Have You Seen The Ocean?”, etc. But, as I considered it, it seemed like a valid thread. Have I ever seen the sky? Of course. But maybe not the sky I would like to see. That is, a clear night sky in an un-light-polluted area. Just that morning, I was looking over [telescopes.com](http://telescopes.com) website, wondering if I should shell out $1,500 for a cool reflector scope with GPS and a 40,000 object database. The thread could have been an opening for a valuable discussion, but frank locked it out. Because he, among others, wants to turn this once vital message board into one big MMP, where everyone just strokes each others ego, no dissention, no strife. Just one big pallid kaffeeklatch. This is the forum for criticizing mods? Frank, you’re a dumbass pussy. You need to lay out and let threads go where they could go. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-shuts-down-a-thread/434087/2 "2008-01-18T22:28:32Z")
[Who hasn’t seen the sky?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=451881) It was the last in the series (all of which were left open): [Who hasn’t seen the ocean?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=451744) [Who hasn’t seen snow?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=451886) [Who hasn’t seen the prarie?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=451830) [Who hasn’t seen the mountains?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=451861) [Who hasn’t seen a desert?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=451855) ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-shuts-down-a-thread/434087/3 "2008-01-18T22:30:32Z")
Who hasn’t seen a thread? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-shuts-down-a-thread/434087/4 "2008-01-18T22:38:24Z")
Have you ever seen the rain? ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-shuts-down-a-thread/434087/5 "2008-01-18T22:40:03Z")
The sky thread was very witty, but not really anywhere you could go with it. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-shuts-down-a-thread/434087/6 "2008-01-18T22:49:07Z")
[QUOTE=Zambini57] Frank, you’re a dumbass pussy. [/QUOTE] No, he’s a tool. I forget which one but it was odd. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-shuts-down-a-thread/434087/7 "2008-01-18T22:49:57Z")
[QUOTE=Zambini57] Frank, you’re a dumbass pussy. [/QUOTE] As always, when criticized, I consider both the criticism and the critic. … OK, I’m done. For any of the rest of you who might care: The other threads at least had some valid question. The closed thread could only have turned into a joke thread, and I didn’t feel like moving it to MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-shuts-down-a-thread/434087/8 "2008-01-18T22:50:33Z")
[QUOTE=Omegaman] No, he’s a tool. I forget which one but it was odd. [/QUOTE] An adze. Sheesh. How quickly they forget. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-shuts-down-a-thread/434087/9 "2008-01-18T22:52:17Z")
[QUOTE=Zambini57] Just that morning, I was looking over [telescopes.com](http://telescopes.com) website, wondering if I should shell out $1,500 for a cool reflector scope with GPS and a 40,000 object database. [/QUOTE] And while you were distracted by [telescopes.com](http://telescopes.com), [some teacher pissed in your cornflakes](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=451739&page=2&pp=50)? ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-shuts-down-a-thread/434087/10 "2008-01-18T22:53:35Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] An adze. Sheesh. How quickly they forget. 🆒 [/QUOTE] Well whaddaya know. All this time I thought you were a hoe. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-shuts-down-a-thread/434087/11 "2008-01-18T22:54:39Z")
[QUOTE=Ponder Stibbons] Well whaddaya know. All this time I thought you were a hoe. [/QUOTE] You’re going on the list. As soon as the attendant brings me a new crayon. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-shuts-down-a-thread/434087/12 "2008-01-18T22:56:57Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Have you ever seen the rain? [/QUOTE] Can anybody stop it? Is this person known? ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-shuts-down-a-thread/434087/13 "2008-01-18T22:59:40Z")
[QUOTE=Ponder Stibbons] Well whaddaya know. All this time I thought you were a hoe. [/QUOTE] Maybe he’s an adze-hoe? ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-shuts-down-a-thread/434087/14 "2008-01-18T23:02:32Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] You’re going on the list. As soon as the attendant brings me a new crayon. [/QUOTE] Woo hoo! I’m on the list! In your _face_, all you non-listers! ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-shuts-down-a-thread/434087/15 "2008-01-18T23:03:43Z")
**Frank** is a fiend in human form. Or maybe the other way around. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-shuts-down-a-thread/434087/16 "2008-01-18T23:07:32Z")
[QUOTE=Omegaman] No, he’s a tool. I forget which one but it was odd. [/QUOTE] [A Rathburn Ring Stretcher?](http://b2bprofessionaltools.net/RING-STRETCHER-RATHBURN/M/B000HYL170.htm) ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-shuts-down-a-thread/434087/17 "2008-01-18T23:07:39Z")
[QUOTE=Biffy the Elephant Shrew] Maybe he’s an adze-hoe? [/QUOTE] Sounds like a hatchet job to me. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-shuts-down-a-thread/434087/18 "2008-01-18T23:08:39Z")
[QUOTE=Biffy the Elephant Shrew] Maybe he’s an adze-hoe? [/QUOTE] Sometimes I axe myself that very question. [QUOTE=wring] Sounds like a hatchet job to me. [/QUOTE] Heeeey … I saw what you did there. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-shuts-down-a-thread/434087/19 "2008-01-18T23:21:25Z")
[QUOTE=Ponder Stibbons] Heeeey … I saw what you did there. [/QUOTE] awl, screw it. ---
**Author:** ![Zambini57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/4491bb/32.png) [@Zambini57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zambini57)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-shuts-down-a-thread/434087/20 "2008-01-18T23:39:43Z")
I see many of the several thousand post ass-kissers have checked in. Do you have anything to offer, or are you just padding your already bloated post count? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-shuts-down-a-thread/434087.md?page=2)