# Generic Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 23, 2004, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/generic-thread/276374 "2004-11-23T22:56:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/generic-thread/276374/61 "2004-11-24T06:03:15Z")
Appeal to Cecil. ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/generic-thread/276374/62 "2004-11-24T06:05:29Z")
> [@Really Not All That Bright](#): > > Appeal to Cecil. Blah, blah, blah. (Cool username, BTW) ---
**Author:** ![buns3000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@buns3000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buns3000)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/generic-thread/276374/63 "2004-11-24T06:39:15Z")
Post making exact same post as earlier post by poster too lazy to read entire thread. ---
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/generic-thread/276374/64 "2004-11-24T07:18:10Z")
Milestone post that adds nothing of substance to the topic at hand. Flirting? ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/generic-thread/276374/65 "2004-11-24T07:35:50Z")
6 months of inactivity, followed by a bump announcing “I just opened this thread to say [something that was already said 2 posts ago] okay, off to read the rest of the thread” Subsequent post, 5 minutes later, saying “just finished reading the thread” and adding a flirt directed towards a poster from the previous page who hasn’t posted in 3 months. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/generic-thread/276374/66 "2004-11-24T08:44:36Z")
comments on the thread in one sentence. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/generic-thread/276374/67 "2004-11-24T08:45:48Z")
repeat post commenting on the thread in one sentence. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/generic-thread/276374/68 "2004-11-24T08:47:26Z")
yet another identical post commenting on the thread in one sentence. ---
**Author:** ![Berkut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/generic-thread/276374/69 "2004-11-24T08:48:28Z")
Post saying that it’s all Bush’s fault. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/generic-thread/276374/70 "2004-11-24T08:49:11Z")
smackhead smiley while mumbling about overworked rodents and such. ---
**Author:** ![indecisive1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/41988e/32.png) [@indecisive1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indecisive1)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/generic-thread/276374/71 "2004-11-24T09:09:35Z")
Jr. Mod post about posting to old threads. with I am not a Mod disclaimer. ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/generic-thread/276374/72 "2004-11-24T09:28:09Z")
Makes a reference about how the previous poster is jr. modding. Pads post count with lame joke. ---
**Author:** ![nocturnal\_tick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/generic-thread/276374/73 "2004-11-24T10:16:42Z")
> [@buns3000](#): > > Post making exact same post as earlier post by poster too lazy to read entire thread Post to inform poster of pre-posted posts that the post they posted was pre-posted. Fails to realise poster previously posted his posted was already posted making my post a post already posted. ::insert smack smilie:: insert signature to advertise my supposed intelligence ---
**Author:** ![hybrid\_dogfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@hybrid\_dogfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hybrid_dogfish)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/generic-thread/276374/74 "2004-11-24T10:37:40Z")
> [@Vlad/Igor](#): > > Post that somehow gets a mention of goatse/tubgirl in, plus a gratuitous mention of a pet conspiracy theory, followed by an off-the-cuff remark that fulfills Godwin’s Law. Post fasking who/what Goatse/Tubgirl are. Maybe because poster genuinely doesn’t know, more likely to see semi amusing explanation of two sites with link to Wikepedia article on same. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/generic-thread/276374/75 "2004-11-24T11:03:31Z")
post explaining that, even on the SDMB, some questions are better left unanswered. then proceeds to include a link anyway, with a disclaimer that it’s not safe for work, when it should be not safe for sanity. ---
**Author:** ![indecisive1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/41988e/32.png) [@indecisive1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indecisive1)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/generic-thread/276374/76 "2004-11-24T11:29:09Z")
Post insulting \*_Ilsa\_Lund_ with bad coding due to extreme anger. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/generic-thread/276374/77 "2004-11-24T13:00:38Z")
Club-footed poster in the all-together. Trips in mid-post, falls on face, gets up, brushes cyberdust off self and limps away pinching shut a bloody nose. 🙂🆒😛 :eek: :smack: :rolleyes: ☹ ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/generic-thread/276374/78 "2004-11-24T13:08:34Z")
Post bemoaning the people who fool me with fake links. Long-winded anecdote that, upon submit, is discovered to have almost no relevance to the thread at all. \ Hijack. \ Non-sequitur that only the poster finds amusing. ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/generic-thread/276374/79 "2004-11-24T13:33:09Z")
Post beginning countdown until thread lockdown, at “ten”. ---
**Author:** ![Bendarr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e56c9b/32.png) [@Bendarr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bendarr)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/generic-thread/276374/80 "2004-11-24T13:46:17Z")
Post beseeching previous poster from not locking the thread due to fun factor. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/generic-thread/276374.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/generic-thread/276374.md?page=5)