# Hi, everybody! I’m back! (drmark2000)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-everybody-i-m-back-drmark2000/350289
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 28, 2006, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-everybody-i-m-back-drmark2000/350289 "2006-03-28T20:32:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@drmark2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drmark2000)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2006, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-everybody-i-m-back-drmark2000/350289/1 "2006-03-28T20:32:24Z")
I know you’ve all missed me, and I’ve missed you, too.
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### Author:  [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2006, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-everybody-i-m-back-drmark2000/350289/2 "2006-03-28T20:41:05Z")
Hi!
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### Author:  [@MessyPaint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MessyPaint)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-everybody-i-m-back-drmark2000/350289/3 "2006-03-28T20:42:26Z")
A bit has changed since you’ve been gone, but [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005) should get you caught up.
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### Author:  [@YaWanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaWanna)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2006, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-everybody-i-m-back-drmark2000/350289/4 "2006-03-28T20:52:26Z")
Well, what have you learned from this?
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### Author:  [@drmark2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drmark2000)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2006, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-everybody-i-m-back-drmark2000/350289/5 "2006-03-28T20:55:48Z")
> [@Operation Ripper](#):
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> Hi!
I truly appreciate the cheeriness of your response, but don’t you know who I am?
I am back from a 30-day suspension, you see.
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### Author:  [@drmark2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drmark2000)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2006, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-everybody-i-m-back-drmark2000/350289/6 "2006-03-28T21:07:16Z")
> [@YaWanna](#):
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> Well, what have you learned from this?
I have learned so many, many things, the details of which I will eventually post in something comparable to a nuclear explosion that will shake these boards to the roots.
I also learned that, even though I was suspended, I could keep up with the postings on SDMB by simply opening the site in a different browser. Useful tip, perhaps. It was inestimably useful for me, anyway.
But I also learned about this Cambridge guy named Aubrey de Grey who proposes that the human lifespan could be extended by hundreds and even thousands of years. He seems like a good fellow. Thread comin’ up.
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### Author:  [@drmark2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drmark2000)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2006, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-everybody-i-m-back-drmark2000/350289/7 "2006-03-28T21:27:09Z")
> [@MessyPaint](#):
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> A bit has changed since you’ve been gone, but [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005) should get you caught up.
Uh, thanks, man.
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### Author:  [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2006, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-everybody-i-m-back-drmark2000/350289/8 "2006-03-28T23:38:00Z")
> [@drmark2000](#):
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> I have learned so many, many things, the details of which I will eventually post in something comparable to a nuclear explosion that will shake these boards to the roots.
Wow! Weapons of Messageboard Destruction. I knew those WMD’s were around here somewhere.
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### Author:  [@drmark2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drmark2000)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2006, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-everybody-i-m-back-drmark2000/350289/9 "2006-03-29T01:16:26Z")
> [@if6was9](#):
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> Wow! Weapons of Messageboard Destruction. I knew those WMD’s were around here somewhere.
Whistling past the graveyard, you are.
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2006, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-everybody-i-m-back-drmark2000/350289/10 "2006-03-29T01:30:06Z")
> [@drmark2000](#):
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> I have learned so many, many things, the details of which I will eventually post in something comparable to a nuclear explosion that will shake these boards to the roots.
If I had a nickel for everytime someone said that, I’d be a very rich man. If I had a dollar for every time they were right, I’d be dead broke.
> [@drmark2000](#):
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> I also learned that, even though I was suspended, I could keep up with the postings on SDMB by simply opening the site in a different browser.
Or you could just, you know, log out. :smack:
> [@drmark2000](#):
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> But I also learned about this Cambridge guy named Aubrey de Grey who proposes that the human lifespan could be extended by hundreds and even thousands of years. He seems like a good fellow. Thread comin’ up.
I await with 'bated breath.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2006, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-everybody-i-m-back-drmark2000/350289/11 "2006-03-29T01:31:48Z")
> [@drmark2000](#):
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> Whistling past the graveyard…
I do not think that means what you think it means.
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### Author:  [@drmark2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drmark2000)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2006, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-everybody-i-m-back-drmark2000/350289/12 "2006-03-29T01:42:07Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#):
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> I do not think that means what you think it means.
EVERYTHING means what I think it means!
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2006, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-everybody-i-m-back-drmark2000/350289/13 "2006-03-29T01:48:19Z")
> [@drmark2000](#):
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> EVERYTHING means what I think it means!
So why try to make an insult of something that isn’t?
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2006, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-everybody-i-m-back-drmark2000/350289/14 "2006-03-29T01:48:51Z")
Welcome back **drmark2000** , you are kind of a silly fellow aren’t you.
What’s up with the dark foreshadowing:
> [@](#):
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> I have learned so many, many things, the details of which I will eventually post in something comparable to a nuclear explosion that will shake these boards to the roots.
It is pointless, but you are hardly sharing. 😃
Jim
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### Author:  [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2006, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-everybody-i-m-back-drmark2000/350289/15 "2006-03-29T02:45:24Z")
So.
Did you bring pie?
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### Author:  [@drmark2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drmark2000)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2006, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-everybody-i-m-back-drmark2000/350289/16 "2006-03-29T02:52:32Z")
> [@What Exit?](#):
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> Welcome back **drmark2000** , you are kind of a silly fellow aren’t you.
You should have ended that statement with a question mark, but no matter. I am a great proponent of silliness, and seriousness, and analysis, and satire. Nothing wrong with any of them.
> [@What Exit?](#):
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> What’s up with the dark foreshadowing:
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> It is pointless, but you are hardly sharing. 😃
Pointless? How would you know, just yet? I’ll share when I’m ready, not before.
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### Author:  [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2006, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-everybody-i-m-back-drmark2000/350289/17 "2006-03-29T03:29:15Z")
> [@drmark2000](#):
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> You should have ended that statement with a question mark, but no matter. I am a great proponent of silliness, and seriousness, and analysis, and satire. Nothing wrong with any of them.
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> Pointless? How would you know, just yet? I’ll share when I’m ready, not before.
I like silly people. I **like** being **called** “silly”. To me , it is a term of endearment.
With apologies to Douglas Adams (may he live forever in the Cosmos), if we all were a little sillier, maybe those dolphins wouldn’t have left us with: “So long and thanks for all the fish.” 😃
Thanks
Q
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### Author:  [@drmark2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drmark2000)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2006, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-everybody-i-m-back-drmark2000/350289/18 "2006-03-29T03:37:42Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#):
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> “So long and thanks for all the fish.” 😃
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> Thanks
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> Q
Yer Dominica Bay Rum will nicely conceal the smell of fish. Believe me, I know.
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### Author:  [@drmark2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drmark2000)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2006, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-everybody-i-m-back-drmark2000/350289/19 "2006-03-29T04:06:51Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#):
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> So why try to make an insult of something that isn’t?
Insult? What insult?
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### Author:  [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2006, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-everybody-i-m-back-drmark2000/350289/20 "2006-03-29T04:50:10Z")
> [@drmark2000](#):
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> I truly appreciate the cheeriness of your response, but don’t you know who I am?
I don’t.
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