# Hello? Is anyone there?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-is-anyone-there/252428
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 27, 2004, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-is-anyone-there/252428 "2004-06-27T19:15:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2004, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-is-anyone-there/252428/1 "2004-06-27T19:15:47Z")
It’s 8pm (20.12 to be exact) and the boards are running like there is no-one on today. Have I missed something? Did everyone get a holiday and no-one told me?
I feel so alone… ☹
In fact I feel like the Omega Man, you know apart from the angry hordes of mutants after me or that I am not aguntotinghypocrite Charlton Heston. In fact…
:runs through thread nekkid…butt nekkid:
Oh yeah, this feels so good. But then I am talking to myself.
Hello? Anyone please answer this. If I don’t get a reply in 3 hours I’ll have to claim the boards as my own.
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### Author:  [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2004, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-is-anyone-there/252428/2 "2004-06-27T19:19:48Z")
Hello **noctural\_tick.** I work on Sundays, so I’m here. It’s 2:18 p.m. here in Memphis Tennessee U.S.A.
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### Author:  [@Chimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimpy)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2004, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-is-anyone-there/252428/3 "2004-06-27T19:22:34Z")
It’s now 20.20 here. I’m afraid you can’t claim the boards even if Cecil has abandoned them.
So what do you wanna talk about oh lonely nocturnal\_tick?
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### Author:  [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2004, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-is-anyone-there/252428/4 "2004-06-27T19:30:17Z")
20.26
I can claim the boards if I want to **Chimpy**. If needs be I’ll have to share with you and **lainaf**. Now I want MPSIMS and GQ, you can share the rest between you but **lainaf** gets first pick.
Well at least there are some people alive, for sure. The UK’s fine, Tennessee’s doing good. But I think we should assume that everyone else has dropped off the face of the planet until they reply. Yup, that’s the logical assumption. Don’t like it well, tough. In this thread the laws of physics no longer apply. Now excuse me while I levitate.
::levitating::
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### Author:  [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2004, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-is-anyone-there/252428/5 "2004-06-27T19:39:33Z")
I leave work at 19:00. If you’re still around then, it’s all yours.
MPS…
I was pretty sure you’re in England, but I wanted to verify the time difference, so I pulled out this book I have called “Our World in Space”. I got this book many years ago at a yard sale for 25 cents. It was published when both the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. had put a few vehicles into space, but before the man on the moon. I keep the book because it’s thin and lightweight and has really great well-organized maps. There is an inscription in the book, dated July 19, 1962.
_To Howard from Rosalie
Because you have always been so interested in “Space”_
I’ve always wondered what became of little Howard and if he retained his interest in “Space”.
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### Author:  [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2004, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-is-anyone-there/252428/6 "2004-06-27T19:42:50Z")
“Good Luck, Mr. Gorsky.”
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### Author:  [@Chimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimpy)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2004, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-is-anyone-there/252428/7 "2004-06-27T19:57:40Z")
Is it still ok to run through the thread nekkid? butt nekkid?
[does it]
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### Author:  [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2004, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-is-anyone-there/252428/8 "2004-06-27T20:10:58Z")
> [@nocturnal\_tick](#):
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> “Good Luck, Mr. Gorsky.”
I didn’t know what this meant, so I Googled it and checked out the link to snopes. I can’t believe I never heard this – what a great U.L.! You taught me something today, although I don’t know if making someone aware of an urban legend counts as fighting ignorance.
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### Author:  [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2004, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-is-anyone-there/252428/9 "2004-06-27T20:36:53Z")
> [@lainaf](#):
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> I didn’t know what this meant, so I Googled it and checked out the link to snopes. I can’t believe I never heard this – what a great U.L.! You taught me something today, although I don’t know if making someone aware of an urban legend counts as fighting ignorance.
Hey in 5 hours the boards are mine, fair and square so I get to say what is fighting ignorance and what is not…Ok so I can’t but whenever you hear of the Apollo missions, or any space mission again you can think “Good Luck Mr. Gorsky” and give a little laugh to yourself. And when people ask you “Hey, what’s so funny.” you can say, “Well,…”
It may not be some fancy ignorance fightin’ but by golly it makes for some great conversation. 😃
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### Author:  [@Chimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimpy)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2004, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-is-anyone-there/252428/10 "2004-06-27T20:44:49Z")
So any urban legends that you expected to be false but were in fact true? For me it was [used-underwear vending machins](http://www.snopes.com/risque/kinky/panties.htm)
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### Author:  [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2004, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-is-anyone-there/252428/11 "2004-06-27T20:51:17Z")
Well, **nocturnal\_tick,** a few more people seem to be hanging around MPIMS, so your takeover plans may be thwarted. For instance, **SolGrundy** is here, claiming it’s his birthday. But I’m not going to wish him “Happy birthday” until he checks into this thread and tells us what time zone he’s in.
According to the snopes link:
> [@](#):
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> When the space shuttle Columbia crew completed a repair mission on the Hubble Space Telescope in March 2002, chief repairman John Grunsfeld called out (in homage to this legend) “Good luck, Mr. Hubble” as the telescope drifted off.
But maybe you already knew that.
**Chimpy,** what exactly is the difference between nekked and butt nekkid?
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### Author:  [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2004, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-is-anyone-there/252428/12 "2004-06-27T20:55:21Z")
> [@Chimpy](#):
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> So any urban legends that you expected to be false but were in fact true? For me it was used-underwear vending machins
Unfortunately, from watching one “Ah So Graham Norton” I’d have to say that something like that would be expected.
> [@lainaf](#):
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> Well, nocturnal\_tick, a few more people seem to be hanging around MPIMS, so your takeover plans may be thwarted. For instance, SolGrundy is here, claiming it’s his birthday. But I’m not going to wish him “Happy birthday” until he checks into this thread and tells us what time zone he’s in.
That’s what they want you to think. But haven’t you noticed the boards are running _ **reaaaaallly** _ smoothly right now. It was the same yesterday. And right now it just me and **Chimpy** working on this thread:
> **[If life gives you lemons...](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=263184)**
>
> Put them in your trousers and pretend you have oversized testicles. Better to be thought a fool than…
I just don’t get it. :eek: 😕
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### Author:  [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2004, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-is-anyone-there/252428/13 "2004-06-27T21:01:44Z")
Hi. I want part of the board too. I was up late last night with a hurt foot, so I really had it all to myself at 4am. BTW Its just 2 pm here, in paradise, otherwise know as Seattle WA USA
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### Author:  [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2004, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-is-anyone-there/252428/14 "2004-06-27T21:06:07Z")
> [@picunurse](#):
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> Hi. I want part of the board too. I was up late last night with a hurt foot, so I really had it all to myself at 4am. BTW Its just 2 pm here, in paradise, otherwise know as Seattle WA USA
OK, so Seattle’s cool as well. I’m going to see if I can find some more Dopers. If no-one mod or higher claims the boards by 02.12GMT it belongs to me, y’all agree right. (You will be handsomely rewarded) 😃
[horror movie style] I’ll be right back…
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### Author:  [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2004, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-is-anyone-there/252428/15 "2004-06-27T21:26:18Z")
This would explain why my recent posts over in Cafe Societies have received no huzzahs for their brilliance. I wish it explained why the rest of 'em don’t get huzzahs, too … but it’s a start!
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### Author:  [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2004, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-is-anyone-there/252428/16 "2004-06-27T21:36:44Z")
So, **Evil Captor,** what time is it where you are?
Incidentally, **chimpy,** Thanks for your participation in my “Attention Ho” thread. (Where were you, **noctural\_tick?** ). Did you see that the thread had been closed by Cajun Man because: “_The competition is over._”
Like it was a real competition and I had some legitimate right to be judging it. Kinda weird.
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### Author:  [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2004, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-is-anyone-there/252428/17 "2004-06-27T22:38:13Z")
> [@lainaf](#):
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> So, **Evil Captor,** what time is it where you are?
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> Incidentally, **chimpy,** Thanks for your participation in my “Attention Ho” thread. (Where were you, **noctural\_tick?** ). Did you see that the thread had been closed by Cajun Man because: “_The competition is over._”
> Like it was a real competition and I had some legitimate right to be judging it. Kinda weird.
6:38 PM, but it’s been an hour and 12 minutes since I posted in this thread.
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### Author:  [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2004, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-is-anyone-there/252428/18 "2004-06-28T09:54:59Z")
> [@lainaf](#):
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> Incidentally, chimpy, Thanks for your participation in my “Attention Ho” thread. (Where were you, noctural\_tick?). Did you see that the thread had been closed by Cajun Man because: “The competition is over.”
Well, I would say that I **nocturnal\_tick** was an attention ho. 😃
And I couldn’t compete against **harmless** so I just stayed away and pretend that I was in fact cooler than all of yous, when in fact I was not. ☹
Well 6 hours is up. I guess the boards are mine now. Any objections?
…good.
Now the first order of business:
::runs through SDMB nekkid…butt nekkid::
🙂
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2004, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-is-anyone-there/252428/19 "2004-06-28T13:23:05Z")
:: casually walks by carrying a labelmaker, slapping “Property of Hal” on all the forums ::
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### Author:  [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2004, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-is-anyone-there/252428/20 "2004-06-28T14:04:08Z")
And now, somehow, **noctural\_tick** has wound up with a “Property of Hal” sticker on his butt. You kids.
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