# Hi Opal! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 13, 2003, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-opal/154924 "2003-02-13T21:36:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-opal/154924/21 "2003-02-13T22:30:00Z")
1. My sentiments exactly. 2. I mean it - really. ---
**Author:** ![Tygr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@Tygr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tygr)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-opal/154924/22 "2003-02-13T22:32:37Z")
[ol] [li]Wondering[/li][li]what[/li]she thinks of all this…[/ol] ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-opal/154924/23 "2003-02-13T22:33:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dragonblink \* > \*\*Once again I will champion the cause of “Axe-wielding baboon on the loose” for random insertion into lists. > > (Or maybe it’s just the DayQuil talking) \*\* oh swell. then the wrath of the millions will be upon me. besides, my weapon of choice is flinging poo. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-opal/154924/24 "2003-02-13T22:33:51Z")
I think it’s like an old building. Sure, you want to tear it down right now to build a new parking lot. But one day, you’ll look back wistfully and speak fondly of Hi Opal. And by then, you’ll be tired of your parking lot. New people come in all the time. Part of SD’s charm is its rich history of quirky little things, and it’s fun to explain them to newbies. If it dies, let it die. But I wouldn’t kill it. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-opal/154924/25 "2003-02-13T22:36:50Z")
1. All your Hi are belong to Opal. 2. When come Hi, bring Opal. 3. We will never be rid of it, we can only control its symptoms with HiOpalion Hi Opal suppressant medication. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-opal/154924/26 "2003-02-13T22:40:41Z")
I humbly suggest that anyone who uses it from this point on gets flailed in the public square. ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-opal/154924/27 "2003-02-13T22:40:44Z")
1. Yes, tired. 2. Yes, old. 3. Fuck **Zette** [.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=120606) ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-opal/154924/28 "2003-02-13T22:46:14Z")
Why be annoyed by it? It’s one of those things like Pie and All your bases, that makes Straight Dope into a community. Without such things this would soon become just a questions and answers forum with little character of its own. It isn’t exactly funny, but that’s not the point. I did like the Hi Libertarian alternative posted some short time ago in a thread of probable interest to **Libertarian** though. Cheers, Bippy ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-opal/154924/29 "2003-02-13T22:46:49Z")
[ol] [li]stupid[/li][li]trite[/li][li]maddening[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-opal/154924/30 "2003-02-13T22:47:47Z")
That **BeagleDave** sure knows his shit! ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-opal/154924/31 "2003-02-13T22:47:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wikkit \* > \*\*3. Fuck **Zette** [.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=120606) \*\* Hehe I was going to say that but I thought no one would remember. ---
**Author:** ![BioHazard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3bc359/32.png) [@BioHazard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BioHazard)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-opal/154924/32 "2003-02-13T22:48:16Z")
1. I don’t get it. 2. Whats the big deal? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-opal/154924/33 "2003-02-13T22:50:37Z")
**Wikkit** ’s period link was cool. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-opal/154924/34 "2003-02-13T22:54:23Z")
> [@](#): > > It’s one of those things like Pie and All your bases, that makes Straight Dope into a community. No, it’s not. It’s one of those things that makes a community irritating. It’s not funny; it’s tedious mind-numbing repetition. What makes this a community is the wide range of intelligently expressed opinions, the clever wit and yeah, even the artful excoriations that take place here in the pit. _That’s_ what makes this a community, not seeing the same tired old shit day after day. ---
**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-opal/154924/35 "2003-02-13T22:57:24Z")
Hmm… well I for one am off to look up “excoriations”. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-opal/154924/36 "2003-02-13T23:01:13Z")
> [@](#): > > Hehe I was going to say that but I thought no one would remember. Who could forget something like THAT? Oh…you meant the thread? 😉 (Please, let me reiterate- no “fuck Zette” posts. It was just a joke!) ---
**Author:** ![mkl12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@mkl12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkl12)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-opal/154924/37 "2003-02-13T23:02:32Z")
1. I found it a bit funny and wanted to use it at least once. 2. Now I won’t. ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-opal/154924/38 "2003-02-13T23:05:57Z")
Wikkit Industries: Proud to be Deliberately Obtuse For Over 1200 Posts. ---
**Author:** ![Wearia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Wearia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wearia)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-opal/154924/39 "2003-02-13T23:25:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NoClueBoy \* > \*\*That **BeagleDave** sure knows his shit! \*\* [Heh.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=161741) Just remember guys, doper inside jokes are like the hydra. Strike one down and two more appear in its place. We don’t want that do we? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![robertliguori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@robertliguori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robertliguori)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-opal/154924/40 "2003-02-13T23:58:27Z")
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