# I'll (hopefully) never have the chance to do this again!

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**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [March 11, 2002, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-hopefully-never-have-the-chance-to-do-this-again/97458 "2002-03-11T03:29:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Truth\_Seeker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5fc32e/32.png) [@Truth\_Seeker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truth_Seeker)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-hopefully-never-have-the-chance-to-do-this-again/97458/1 "2002-03-11T03:29:35Z")

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First, by a great coincidence, I happened to check the board just as it came back up. I trust I’ll never have the opportunity to post in an empty forum ever again so I wanted to take advantage of it. Besides, there is something I’ve actually wanted to post for some time.

Dex’s staff report on Yiddish gave me a good laugh. [http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/myiddish.html](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/myiddish.html)

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> I have to add a personal comment: during WWII, my father-in-law was in the American army, in one of the advance units moving into Germany. He was the translator when his unit encountered German civilians, because he spoke Yiddish–as close to German as his unit was going to get.

Imagine the look on the faces of the German civilians when the conquering Americans arrive – speaking Yiddish!

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**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-hopefully-never-have-the-chance-to-do-this-again/97458/2 "2002-03-11T07:47:58Z")

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Oy, gevalt!;j

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-hopefully-never-have-the-chance-to-do-this-again/97458/3 "2002-03-12T05:12:36Z")

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A minor hijack: I have, on occasion, seen this forum go “empty” (no threads back to the “show threads since” limit) due to purely “natural” causes, before: That is to say, the Staff Reports for a few days just happened to not particularly spark much interest. Still not something to hope for, of course, but not nearly as dire as the present situation.