# Has the subject of a thread ever replied?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-subject-of-a-thread-ever-replied/947254
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 25, 2021, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-subject-of-a-thread-ever-replied/947254 "2021-07-25T15:13:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2021, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-subject-of-a-thread-ever-replied/947254/1 "2021-07-25T15:13:05Z")
I remember it happening a few times with Cecil’s columns. Jimmy DeKnight replied to column about “Rock Around the Clock”, Don McLean to one about “American Pie”, and that Key guy to one about his claims that advertisements were cesspools of sexual perversion (that caused us to buy products). Have similar things happened on this board?
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2021, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-subject-of-a-thread-ever-replied/947254/2 "2021-07-25T15:17:06Z")
We have had a few over the years as I recall. But I don’t remember who or when.
I’m thinking a very long time ago, Weird Al might have been one.
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### Author:  [@alovem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alovem)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2021, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-subject-of-a-thread-ever-replied/947254/3 "2021-07-25T15:29:45Z")
More frequently, people have posted claiming to be the subject’s descendant.
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### Author:  [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2021, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-subject-of-a-thread-ever-replied/947254/4 "2021-07-25T16:51:06Z")
I identified a story by Paul Levinson and he replied to the thread
> [@Ask the guy who is pretty good at SF Story Identification](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-pretty-good-at-sf-story-identification/462417/206):
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> Just popping in here to say the story trilogy is “Loose Ends,” “Little Differences,” “Late Lessons.”
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### Author:  [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2021, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-subject-of-a-thread-ever-replied/947254/5 "2021-07-25T16:53:51Z")
There was a thread where someone (Johnny\_LA probably) was looking for an obscure short movie. The director did reply. I can’t find the thread.
Brian
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2021, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-subject-of-a-thread-ever-replied/947254/6 "2021-07-25T16:55:47Z")
> [@N9IWP](#):
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> There was a thread where someone (Johnny\_LA probably) was looking for an obscure short movie. The director did reply. I can’t find the thread.
> [@20 Mile Limit -- IMPOSSIBLE!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-mile-limit-impossible/540587):
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> I’ve just received an email about a thread I posted in in 2003, asking if I’d found out anything about a short film called 20 Mile Limit. [The Chao Goes Mu started a thread on it](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb//showthread.php?p=5354025). [Here is my post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=4120919&postcount=7) from a different thread. The email sender said he didn’t remember more than I did. I googled ‘20 mile limit’ ‘short film’ and it only returned these two threads. I thought finding out that Tupelo Chain Sex was the band that recorded Everyday’s A Holiday was impossible, but it was done. So maybe fi…
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2021, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-subject-of-a-thread-ever-replied/947254/7 "2021-07-25T16:56:43Z")
JMS dropped in to a Babylon 5 thread once. It was amazing!
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### Author:  [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2021, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-subject-of-a-thread-ever-replied/947254/8 "2021-07-25T20:30:12Z")
Way back in 2002 **FriarTed** started a thread titled [Screaming Boy Preacher 10 yrs ago?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-boy-preacher-10-yrs-ago/120970). It was resurrected numerous times over the years. In December 2011 one of preacher’s sons made a post. His handle was **draddard**. It is [post #53](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-boy-preacher-10-yrs-ago/120970/53). He wasn’t one of the preacher children (the preacher children were his half-siblings), so I’m not sure if it “counts.” But thought it was interesting none-the-less.
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### Author:  [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2021, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-subject-of-a-thread-ever-replied/947254/9 "2021-07-25T20:36:12Z")
It happens in the Pit all the time.
🙂
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### Author:  [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2021, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-subject-of-a-thread-ever-replied/947254/10 "2021-07-25T22:03:42Z")
> [@P-man](#):
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> and that Key guy
[Wilson Bryan Key](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Bryan_Key)
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2021, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-subject-of-a-thread-ever-replied/947254/11 "2021-07-25T23:13:42Z")
Was that in a message board thread though? I remember in one of the Straight Dope _books_ they printed a column that Cecil wrote about Key, followed by a letter Key wrote in response.
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### Author:  [@alovem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alovem)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2021, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-subject-of-a-thread-ever-replied/947254/12 "2021-07-26T17:22:14Z")
I remember that, and I don’t even have to check my memory for this: In reference to the kid holding a bible to the side of his head to better project his voice, one of those posts called it “half a holy megaphone.”
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### Author:  [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2021, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-subject-of-a-thread-ever-replied/947254/13 "2021-07-26T17:28:35Z")
I (possibly falsely) recall that Phil Plait, author of the awesome book “Bad Astronomy,” posted here but I am not sure if that was in response to conversation about his book.
Some jerk also threatened a law suit when he was described negatively. I won’t post his name just in case TPTB are still insanely paranoid about that kind of thing.
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2021, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-subject-of-a-thread-ever-replied/947254/14 "2021-07-26T17:41:28Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#):
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> I (possibly falsely) recall that Phil Plait, author of the awesome book “Bad Astronomy,” posted here but I am not sure if that was in response to conversation about his book.
Phil was actually an active poster here in the early days of the SDMB, even before he published his first book, but he hasn’t been here since 2004. Here’s his profile:
> **[@The\_Bad\_Astronomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_bad_astronomer/summary)**
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### Author:  [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2021, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-subject-of-a-thread-ever-replied/947254/15 "2021-07-28T04:41:56Z")
I seem to recall a post by an author of a book about a boat that could go directly downwind but faster than the wind. It’s been a while so I may be wrong.
In a thread about Mormonism, the discussion about Mormons not using the cross came up and a scholar registered and posted. He had recently published a book about the subject.