Hi Opal!

The BBQ Pit
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I hardly ever use it, but I don’t mind it at all. It is a tradition. Once in a blue moon, (when I actually remember) I will use it. So there.

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That’s one. Now c’mon, who else wants to join the groundswell?

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  1. Curmudgeon
  2. Grouch
  3. Hi UncleBeer!
  4. Sourpuss
  5. Crosspatch
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Well, what are we supposed to do instead of Hi, Opal!, when we have two things we want to put into a list? We don’t want to irritate Opal, after all, but should we make up some sort of filler for #3?

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Ethilrist, just start saying “Hi, UncleBeer.” He’ll like that. Really.

I agree the “Hi Opal” thing is way past it’s prime and should be retired.

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Sez who?

67

Worst. Inside-joke. Ever.

68

Can someone please explain what the hell “Hi Opal” means? I have no idea what’s going on here.

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See? This is how it starts.

OpalCat once said that it’s an inappropriate use of lists to only list two things; if you only have two things to say, put it in a sentence. So, to avoid annoying her, people began using

  1. Blah
  2. Blah
  3. Hi, Opal!

See? We’re cute! We put free tings in our list! Whee!

Then it got out of hand, because people started putting Hi, Opal! in at #3, even if they actually had three things to post…

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Thanks, Ethilrist, I’ve been wondering about that forever.
That is pretty lame.

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Originally, I thought it was some maniacle way to screw up any vanity searches Opal may have been running:

[OpalCat]
434 threads founds!?! What the…?
[/OpalCat]

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This one made me laugh :smiley:

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Actually, I never do vanity searches*. Not sure why, but I just don’t.

*on message boards. I do google for “OpalCat” periodically. Current hits: 5,020.

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When writing a post with a list,
A usage that will not be missed,
…Is writing “Hi Opal,”
…Which some posters hope’ll
Convincingly cease and desist.

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Thank God one of my bad jokes made somebody laugh this week. I really thought Bosda was on the verge of pitting me. :wink:

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  1. Funny
  2. Shark
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  1. Sigh, I thought we finally killed this Doper cliche off.

  2. It still isn’t as annoying as “Jump the Shark”

  3. Hi Unclebeer!

  4. What is this-- repeat season already?

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Well it’s not as old as

  1. List item 1,
  2. List item 2,
  3. There is no List item 3

Cheers, Bippy

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I was typing a response suggesting that you do so, just for shits and grins, when it occurred to me that I could do that. I feel I should point out that sometimes the obvious eludes me. Anyway… It’s a good thing you don’t, because a search of Opal over the last month returned 6 pages, at 127 threads! :eek:

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1 It has jumped the shark

2 It makes the baby Jesus cry

3 Hi Opalgry