Haha, I was carefully ignoring the PM til tomorrow at which point I would assume it was sincere. I was afraid to reply “good April fools!” or something just in case 
I demand to see Idle Thoughts’ long form birth certificate.
Regards,
Shodan
From what I hear, it’s not that long. Maybe 4.5 inches. He got it up to 6 once when he Xeroxed it with the enlarge option all the way up. In short, he’s no Barack Obama.
You really don’t. Trust me on this.
Once you see it… shudders… you just can’t unsee it.
I’ll settle for his parent’s marriage license.
I responded, but got the joke and referenced April Fool’s in my response.
That said, the quoted part above is a really, really bad idea.
I see what you did there.
I would agree with this, except
I DIDN’T GET THE PM. So, I’m not cool enough? Not on line at the exact right moment? Huh.
I am SOOOOOO glad I was not the only one.
And “flower shows, shopping for pretty bows, then back to her place, strip down to bra and panties for a tickle fight”?
I am actually fairly young and a Horta.
What is bizarre to me is that the people taking offense talk about these heartfelt responses - almost like they thought they were comforting someone who was coming out as transsexual IRL. But IT’S NOT EVEN REMOTELY LIKE THAT!!. Lord almighty. I’m sure there’s millions of girls who pretend to be guys just so they don’t get flirted with. It’s not some sexual identity crisis.
Damn right. Like my new sig?
Oh, you I love.
Now that I know you’re a woman, you love away, baby! 
It’s a fair point, but not completely relevant. If you take his message at face value, he appeared to be very bothered by his supposed secret. Yeah, I thought it was a ridiculous thing to be concerned about, but people on this board get concerned about ridiculous things all the time. I had fairly recently exchanged PMs with him on an unrelated topic, so while I found it a little bizarre he would communicate with me, it wasn’t completely unbelievable. So I offered a heartfelt response to someone who seemed to be having issues.
As I said above, I’m not really bothered by it. I feel dumb for the (minimal) emotional investment I feel tricked into and don’t think the joke was particularly clever, but I don’t need an apology or anything. Some people probably got more emotionally invested, and that isn’t a character flaw or something deserving ridicule.
I don’t think Idle Thoughts was malicious or cruel. For the posters saying they are enjoying laughing at the people who were bothered, I don’t know what the hell is wrong with you.
Wait, so Idle Thoughts *is *a woman? I’m so confused.
What if I have inappropriate thoughts about SDMB mods again? If Idle Thoughts pops into my head, might I be gay?
If people got emotionally invested, over the course of a few hours, to an unsolicited post (that seemed dubious at best) to the point where they want a formal apology to the entire board, instructing Idle Thoughts to never contact them again, that they can’t ever trust Idle Thoughts again, etc., then I don’t know what the hell is wrong with them either.
Hyperbole much?
Molehill, meet mountain.
I’m male, by the way, just in case anyone is still confused/lost/unsure.
Whoa. You’re not saying it was the girl part that wasn’t true?