Not so odd. Different topics completely. One would have been about telescopes.
This one is how about a trigger-happy( oops, maybe shouldn’t phrase it that way, the way this board is now, half the members probably fainted. Thank God i didn’t mention contact sports)
No, this thread was about how mods shouldn’t shut down a thread before it has gotten any responses.
Sometimes threads progress in surprising and interesting ways, if left alone.
Serendipity.
I’ve seen you do this before, I believe even in your latest embarrassment of a contribution to the teacher-supplies thread. What’s your obsession with post-counts, man? Do you think that if you had 5,000 posts, people would suddenly listen to your petty ravings or respond positively to your thread-shitting?
I promise: the number of posts you’ve made has no bearing on whether you’re a waste of bandwidth. You’ll still be worthless when you’ve been here for years (given that you don’t get banned or leave us.)
Damn it, Zambini57, if you want to participate in a thread about seeing the sky, just fucking start one. It might be helpful to the longevity and liveliness of your thread if you write an interesting OP (funnily enough, I really believe you can, if you decide to do it), and make it clear what you’re interested in discussing. Suggested title: Who hasn’t seen (grokked) the sky?
And Gaudere forgive me, but it’s Kaffeeklatsch (capitalized because it’s a German noun).
:-* :::Kisses Frank’s ass:::
:::agrees that Zambini57 is a pussy-assed whining dick with a chip on his shoulder:::
See, now everyone is happy. 
Or a stone hoe?
If I could draw focus for just a moment, I’ll admit that my damaged and malformed brain pictured that this tool was for a much different ring that would need stretching, and I was amazed that a tool existed to perform such a function.
Carry on Zambino
From the mountains, to the prairies,
To the Pit Threads, white with foam!
God bless America, I Thump My Tome!!!
God bless America!
But God Damn You who don’t read my Tome!!!
I dunno; I heard they used to sell sets of graduated (in size) dildos that a woman could use to ‘prepare’ for her wedding night. Why not stretch the other ring while you’re at it?
No the best he can hope for is to troll and get responses for his troll.
Well, if **Frank **is going to get kissed on the brownie (and why wouldn’t he want that?) by thousands of posters, it might need a little stretchin’.
Dearest **Zambonininizi ** (or whatever),
While I agree with you on the sentiment of not closing threads so quickly, I believe your point would have been better made if you tried to start a thread about the topic you mentioned and was then closed. Fight for your on threads man, it can actually work. This pissing and moaning about someone else’s failure to launch comes off rather abrasively.
You score points for a good thread title though. I enjoy the lack of ambiguity sometimes.
Remember Zambini56? That guy was a ton of laughs, and one hell of a conversationalist.
Oh, well. Maybe Zambini58 will turn out better.
I wonder how Usram feels about the thread being closed?
I also wonder what the over/under is on Zambini57 making it to 500 posts?
CMC +fnord!
It sounds like a 1930s short film title. Frank Shuts Down A Thread. Zambini Cleans Some Ice. Big Baby Sweets Becomes Androgynous. Czarcasm Moderates, etc.
What tool do you use to shut down a thread?
Regards,
Shodan
An electric oscillating Frank.
Usually , the tools shut down their own threads.
Thank you-try the veal.
Zambini seems like tool enough to shut his own threads down.
Edit: Czarcasm is faster and funnier than I am.
I don’t know the OP, or anybody else really, but it does seem that shutting down that thread less than twenty minutes after it was born demonstrates a certain lack of confidence in the SDMB membership to create a worthwhile discussion out of an offered topic. I’ve seen good threads grow out of less promising origins, if posters take the time and trouble to be only slightly more clever than they often are in abusing an unpopular poster who sticks his foot in his mouth in the Pit, which happens often enough to be really tedious, but is never shut down.
How about, if a thread doesn’t actually break any rules, it gets a few hours to find its feet? If it doesn’t get responses in that time, it’ll usually sink out of sight by itself. If it does get some, a moderator might feel the need to think up and post an actual reason to close it, or reconsider, which wouldn’t hurt either. No offense, but even a dull thread title, posted on a message board with thousands of members, can lead to much more than one person’s imagination can envision. As it is, we’ve traded (as I see it) a potentially fun thread for yet another game of kick the guy who criticizes the board/moderators.
Too bad, that’s all.
Zambini57, if you’re interested in asking how many people have seen the stars, which is what I think you’re trying to get at, why not open another thread with the title “Who has seen the stars?”
Boom, problem solved.