# I want the Happy Thoughts forum back **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 8, 2013, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-the-happy-thoughts-forum-back/662930 "2013-07-08T11:10:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-the-happy-thoughts-forum-back/662930/1 "2013-07-08T11:10:32Z")
I… I know it was a joke. But… [snuggles](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?f=36). Mostly somewhat sarcastic snuggles, but snuggles! I know we have MPSIMS, but people are sometimes mean there. Threads get moved to the Pit from there sometimes! That would never\* happen there, because it’s so happy and snuggly. _rainbowcuddlepuppydogandkittenfaces_ Disclaimer: This is probably not true ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-the-happy-thoughts-forum-back/662930/2 "2013-07-08T13:38:44Z")
There’s really only one thing you could do. I’m afraid you’re going to have to be all happy from where you are and just that radiate out to the entire world. Now, if just one person does that, well, they’ll think he’s sick. Just come in and be nice to people and walk on out. And if three people do it, just comes in and be nice to people, well, they might think it’s an organization. And if you can imagine fifty people a day coming in and just being nice to people, I say friends, fifty people a day coming in and being nice to people they might think it’s a movement. (I think this is how Jesus got started, you may be on to something.) ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-the-happy-thoughts-forum-back/662930/3 "2013-07-08T13:42:42Z")
You can get anything you want, at TubaDiva’s Restaurant. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-the-happy-thoughts-forum-back/662930/4 "2013-07-08T14:04:55Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > You can get anything you want, at TubaDiva’s Restaurant. … excepting Tuba… ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-the-happy-thoughts-forum-back/662930/5 "2013-07-08T14:08:29Z")
Everybody join in when the melody comes around again! ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-the-happy-thoughts-forum-back/662930/6 "2013-07-08T17:57:29Z")
…we’re waiting for it to come around again on the guitar. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-the-happy-thoughts-forum-back/662930/7 "2013-07-08T18:09:05Z")
Some of you weren’t singing the last time… ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-the-happy-thoughts-forum-back/662930/8 "2013-07-08T19:18:12Z")
If you want to have snuggles and stuff you gotta sing loud. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-the-happy-thoughts-forum-back/662930/9 "2013-07-08T20:10:30Z")
[clapping] Well done. Well done. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-the-happy-thoughts-forum-back/662930/10 "2013-07-08T20:17:44Z")
If a Post in the Pit meets an Anti-Post in the Anti-Pit, will they violently annihilate this entire message board? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2013, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-the-happy-thoughts-forum-back/662930/11 "2013-07-12T13:48:00Z")
Am I correct in guessing this thread would be funnier if I knew the words to _Alice’s Restaurant_? ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2013, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-the-happy-thoughts-forum-back/662930/12 "2013-07-12T14:02:54Z")
Parts of it, maybe. On the other hand, I know the words to Alice’s Restaurant and I didn’t even internet laugh. (Which is when you exhale slightly harder through your nose than usual.) ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2013, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-the-happy-thoughts-forum-back/662930/13 "2013-07-12T14:30:31Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Am I correct in guessing this thread would be funnier if I knew the words to _Alice’s Restaurant_? Actually, it’s more like one of those “you had to have been there when it was new” moments. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2013, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-the-happy-thoughts-forum-back/662930/14 "2013-07-12T15:05:16Z")
Yeah, bring it back. I never got a chance to answer my own question about [Good Time Song](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=602923) before the forum slammed shut, and no one guessed correctly as to who the composer/performer was. Doesn’t anybody care? Doesn’t anybody know what time it is? ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2013, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-the-happy-thoughts-forum-back/662930/15 "2013-07-12T22:21:08Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Am I correct in guessing this thread would be funnier if I knew the words to _Alice’s Restaurant_? Either [The song itself](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjKF7aQthcQ) or [just the lyrics](http://www.lyricsty.com/arlo-guthrie-alices-restaurant-lyrics.html) may prove to be helpful. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2013, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-the-happy-thoughts-forum-back/662930/16 "2013-07-12T22:30:21Z")
I’d never seen the Happy thoughts forum before. Was it a real thing? ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2013, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-the-happy-thoughts-forum-back/662930/17 "2013-07-12T23:25:26Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > I’d never seen the Happy thoughts forum before. Was it a real thing? It was an April Fools prank by those happy sneaky moderators and admins. It was only up for one day. ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2013, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-the-happy-thoughts-forum-back/662930/18 "2013-07-13T00:56:28Z")
[Snuggly fresh.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz_OPdDfmFY) ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2013, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-the-happy-thoughts-forum-back/662930/19 "2013-07-13T01:03:02Z")
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:17, topic:662930”] It was an April Fools prank by those happy sneaky moderators and admins. It was only up for one day. [/QUOTE] It was a prank? I thought it was one of those limited trials, like the McRib sandwich! I’m crushed. CRUSHED, I tell ya! ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2013, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-the-happy-thoughts-forum-back/662930/20 "2013-07-13T01:25:42Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > (I think this is how Jesus got started, you may be on to something.) Yeah, and look what they did to him.