# I am Amazed!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-amazed/197759
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [August 26, 2003, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-amazed/197759 "2003-08-26T15:39:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@spingears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spingears)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2003, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-amazed/197759/1 "2003-08-26T15:39:21Z")
I am Amazed by the persons posting to the Straight Dope Message Board.
1. There a limited few who are courteous and forgiving of typos, and other mistakes common to all of us.
2. Questions are asked which could have been easily answered by a web search and/or consulting a good dictionary.
3. Questions are often too general and lack specifics provide an intelligent or complete answer
4. Answers all too frequently do not answer all parts ot the question/post
5. Answers are posted which have little or no relevance to the topic.
6. And how is it that there are so many posts by persons with a limited and vulgar if not obscene vocabulary?
Phew!š
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2003, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-amazed/197759/2 "2003-08-26T15:56:29Z")
Fuck if I know.
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### Author:  [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2003, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-amazed/197759/3 "2003-08-26T16:06:18Z")
[Donāt be too hard on yourself **spingears**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=206658).
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### Author:  [@Bibliovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bibliovore)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2003, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-amazed/197759/4 "2003-08-26T16:07:26Z")
Hah! Good one, **lieu**
Seriously, though **spingears** try to think of the SDMB as more of an on-line community and less of an infallible reference. This isnāt a gathering of experts designed to give professional advice on any given topic, itās more like a huge room where people can wander in and out and move from group to group, shooting the breeze and chatting about whatever takes their fancy.
Having said that, some of the Dopers on this board have come up with excellent, pertinent, useful and thorough answers to some very escoteric and/or difficult questions. If I need an impartial opinion, I come here first.
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### Author:  [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2003, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-amazed/197759/5 "2003-08-26T16:08:01Z")
Iām amazed that this is apparently your first experience with message boards. This one is well above average.
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### Author:  [@Aries28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aries28)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2003, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-amazed/197759/6 "2003-08-26T16:16:53Z")
Iām amazed a thread was opened on this.
Seriously, **spingears** since you are new, why not lurk a bit and get a feel of how forums work and who is who around here? It might prove helpful to you and save you from feeling like you apparently do.
Welcome to the SDMB. May your time here be happy. š
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2003, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-amazed/197759/7 "2003-08-26T16:40:45Z")
As for typos, I think you generally find that mention is usually only made of them when they change the actual meaning of a post, usually for humorous effect. Occasionally a correction is made with the intent of educating the poster but these usually are meant to be helpful.
Sure a web search can answer some questions but here a questioner often is asking for personal observations as well.
Questions that are too general? Maybe theyāll learn. Maybe they were intentionally vague to insure a variety of responses.
Responses that donāt answer all parts ot the question? Well, little by little we can go far. We might not know it all but that shouldnāt keep us from contributing.
Answers are posted which have little or no relevance to the topic? Yeah but only if the dog had eaten it first.
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### Author:  [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2003, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-amazed/197759/8 "2003-08-26T16:47:11Z")
I _still_ think Anna Kournikova is hotā¦
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### Author:  [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2003, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-amazed/197759/9 "2003-08-26T17:01:03Z")
Blue ice cream has NO fuckinā bones.
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### Author:  [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2003, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-amazed/197759/10 "2003-08-26T17:04:47Z")
Boning Anna Dournikova while eating blue ice cream while itās hot outside.
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### Author:  [@carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrot)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2003, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-amazed/197759/11 "2003-08-26T17:43:07Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Hamlet \*
> \*\*Boning Anna Dournikova while eating blue ice cream while itās hot outside. \*\*
Cite?
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### Author:  [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2003, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-amazed/197759/12 "2003-08-26T17:45:00Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by everton \*
> \*\*[Donāt be too hard on yourself **spingears**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=206658). \*\*
Now that thread is HILARIOUS.
**Spingears** , you might want to add number 7 to your list of problems with the SDMB:
1. Some people donāt bother to read the Board rules, and consequently end up posting lame OPs in inappropriate forums. When they are called on this, they then start a thread complaining about everyone else.
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### Author:  [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2003, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-amazed/197759/13 "2003-08-26T17:54:56Z")
Maybe Iām amazed at the way you love me all the time.
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### Author:  [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2003, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-amazed/197759/14 "2003-08-26T17:57:24Z")
Iām amazed that some people still donāt think descriptive thread titles are a good idea.
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### Author:  [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2003, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-amazed/197759/15 "2003-08-26T18:25:16Z")
Another esteemed member of the offenderati speaks out.
āIām mad at you!ā
āWhyās that?ā
āYou should know!ā
Only in this case the OP isnāt addressing it specifically to whoever he has a beef with. Heās assuming the entire roster of the SDMB is collectively aware that one of their own pissed in his cornflakes somehow, and heās hoping they will shame themselves into tearfully confessing their crime without knowing what it is.
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### Author:  [@Aries28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aries28)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2003, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-amazed/197759/16 "2003-08-26T18:50:03Z")
Baby, Iām amazed by youā¦
**Greatā¦now that song is stuck in my head and I donāt even LIKE it**
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### Author:  [@spingears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spingears)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2003, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-amazed/197759/17 "2003-08-26T19:04:32Z")
OK
Iāll just relax and enjoy.
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### Author:  [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2003, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-amazed/197759/18 "2003-08-26T19:33:15Z")
Youāre [Amazin Walter?](http://www.amazinwalter.com)
Balloon animals please!
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### Author:  [@Horrifying\_Howler\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horrifying_Howler_Monkey)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2003, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-amazed/197759/19 "2003-08-26T22:19:55Z")
Iām amazed I still canāt buy decent bread in this city. Why does it all taste like soggy paper?
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### Author:  [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2003, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-amazed/197759/20 "2003-08-26T22:54:25Z")
Today I did another _amazed_ with Algernon. We raced ten times and Algernon won evry time. I dint no mice were so smart.
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