# Hi Opal! (WTF?)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-opal-wtf/45642
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [December 14, 2000, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-opal-wtf/45642 "2000-12-14T23:39:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2000, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-opal-wtf/45642/1 "2000-12-14T23:39:33Z")
I’m sure I’m probably overlooking something obvious here, but what is the deal with people saying Hi to Opal when they have a list?
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### Author:  [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2000, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-opal-wtf/45642/2 "2000-12-14T23:53:51Z")
This thread would have been better served in MPSIMS, seeing as how it is about poster’s habits and not really ATMB.
Sorry Arnold, and move it if you so desire.
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### Author:  [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2000, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-opal-wtf/45642/3 "2000-12-14T23:56:59Z")
Usually “Hi, Opal” will be item #3.
It goes back to the old AOL board when Opal brought up that two items don’t make a list. From that moment on users made sure their lists had three items.
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### Author:  [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2000, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-opal-wtf/45642/4 "2000-12-14T23:57:44Z")
This is quickly turning into a one man show. And not a very entertaining one, either.
Didn’t **Arnold Winklereid** used to be the mod in this forum?
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### Author:  [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2000, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-opal-wtf/45642/5 "2000-12-14T23:59:18Z")
Thanks, **Doug Bowe**.
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### Author:  [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2000, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-opal-wtf/45642/6 "2000-12-15T00:29:09Z")
Me? moderator here? (blushing prettily) Thank you for the compliment mouthbreather. When you move your eyes to the top of the forum list, make sure that your eyes travel in a straight horizontal line when they slide across to the moderator name.
I’m sure you know that when people say “Opal” they mean the famous OpalCat.
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### Author:  [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2000, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-opal-wtf/45642/7 "2000-12-15T01:14:09Z")
Arnold? So what am I, chopped liver?
your humble TubaDiva
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2000, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-opal-wtf/45642/8 "2000-12-15T04:01:38Z")
Yes, back on the AOL board I used to do things like:
1. Thomas Jefferson
2. Abraham Lincoln
3. nothing, I just don’t like lists with only 2 items
People picked up on this and started just referencing me in the 3rd item as a way of padding out their list to 3. Then it just got silly and even if a list wass 100 items long, #3 was sort of “mine”
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### Author:  [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2000, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-opal-wtf/45642/9 "2000-12-15T10:12:47Z")
> [@](#):
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> So what am I, chopped liver?
Well, close… chopped Spam.
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### Author:  [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2000, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-opal-wtf/45642/10 "2000-12-15T15:55:17Z")
**Arnold Winkelried** (note the correct spelling this time:D), For some reason I though you were the Mod here. I apologized to you for wrong placement of this thread. Afterwards, I did actually let my eyes travel in a straight horizontal line and they slid across to the moderator name. And I saw it wasn’t you.
Sorry, **Tuba**. No disrescpect intended. Ya chopped liver freak! 😉
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### Author:  [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2000, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-opal-wtf/45642/11 "2000-12-15T15:59:10Z")
slowly now,
d-i-s-r-e-s-p-e-c-t.
:rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2000, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-opal-wtf/45642/12 "2000-12-15T17:57:16Z")
Jesus mouthbreather, you’re havin’ a pretty rough twenty-four hours if this thread is any indication. Some days it just doesn’t pay to get out of bed.
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### Author:  [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2000, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-opal-wtf/45642/13 "2000-12-15T18:52:10Z")
Yer right, **UncleBeer** , I probably will not include this thread when it comes time for me to create my SDMB resume.
I humbly request that this thread be locked, since my OP has been answered.
Let it sink, and let us never speak of it again.
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### Author:  [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2000, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-opal-wtf/45642/14 "2000-12-15T23:39:51Z")
In order to let it sink, I shall now move it to the top. And lock it 😉