# Idle Thoughts - Please reconsider JohnClay's warning **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 23, 2014, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts-please-reconsider-johnclays-warning/693848 "2014-07-23T16:40:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts-please-reconsider-johnclays-warning/693848/3 "2014-07-23T17:32:36Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > I’m backing up Idle Thoughts, here. > > Ellen’s note was about him laying off the personally revealing threads for a bit. Less than 19 hours later he was at it again. Such things - to quote my favorite onscreen lawman - need to be nipped in the bud. Idle Thoughts did that. Not a hill I care that much about defending (but I do care enough to open this thread and have the discussion, obviously), but Ellen’s note was clearly a suggestion not an order. > [@JohnClay can't be gay!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnclay-cant-be-gay/693652/64): > > There is no current prohibition on you from starting personal threads, John, but I am suggesting to you that you restrain yourself for a while and participate in other discussions. A suggestion is not an order and a warning shouldn’t be issued for not heeding one, however wise it may be. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts-please-reconsider-johnclays-warning/693848)._