I’ve noticed a disturbing trend with the threads I’ve posted to in the last couple of weeks…mine is always the last post before a thread drops like a brick from the first page into the dark abyss of forgotten threads.
The “Monty Python” quotes thread from MPSIMS is the perfect example - things are bouncing along quite amusingly, then I post one and BAM! it’s dead. (Yes, it is an ex-thread…it’s gone to join the choior invisible…).
What’s up with that? Do I have bad breath? Is it coincidence? Am i just a kilt-wearing asshole and I don’t realize it? Do I have an amazing talent for finding discussions everyone else in the world has lost interest in? Is there no hope for me? If we started a Straight Dope kickball team, would I be the last one picked?
It happens sometimes. It’s not you. I’d pick you for kickball just to watch a kilt-wearin’ man run (and yes, I’d be praying for wind gusts), but I doubt they’d let me be a captain.
And yes, I am replying so you know you didn’t kill this thread. If I’m the only one who answers, you’ll know it’s me and not you
[sub]Damn, he figured it out! Everyone, now! No time to waste! Go to the pre-assigned meeting point, and we’ll go to PLAN B! Hurry! I’ll try to distact him![/sub]
Hey, K-w’M, it’s nothing personal. You are not the Thread-Killer of Doom [sup]TM[/sup]: I believe that title belongs to particleman, if I am not mistaken. Everyone ends up with a dangling post every so often.
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And remember, no thread, no matter how banal, is forgotten if it is truly loved by someone, anyone.
Well one thing I’ve noticed, Kilt-wearin’ man is that sometimes after you’ve posted, there ain’t no more to be said. You have answered the question, fully and completely. I felt that was the case over in the thread about kilts and Braveheart. Certainly, I didn’t feel that I had any more to add or that your posts needed any clarifying, correction or augmentation. I don’t think it means the posters are averse to you, or anything like that.
Kiltie, I have noticed I seem to have this strange power too. I prefer to think that once I have posted there is simply no more to add to the conversation.
[sub]I’m sure it’s not the halitosis[/sub]
I’ve killed some threads too, at least one, and as a sorta newbie it was rather embarrassing, and as a reformed Catholic, it made me feel real guilty, but then I saw this post and knew there was someone worse than me!
