# I'm back

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back/30892
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 27, 2000, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back/30892 "2000-08-27T03:23:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author: ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2000, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back/30892/1 "2000-08-27T03:23:20Z")

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took the summer off from SDMB (do you know, there’s this big bright, warm thing outside in the sky in the summer? you can go outside in shorts, even).

please don’t crush my ego by saying “who?”

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### Author: ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2000, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back/30892/2 "2000-09-01T04:39:51Z")

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“sigh.”

I thought so - I’m anonymous.

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### Author: ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2000, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back/30892/3 "2000-09-01T04:58:20Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by jti \*  
> do you know, there’s this big bright, warm thing outside in the sky in the summer?

_ **LIAR!!!** _ I just looked outside and there is NO such thing out there.

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### Author: ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2000, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back/30892/4 "2000-09-01T05:22:41Z")

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it seems to be periodic, Kat - it’s there when I’m working, but disappears soon after I get home - very disconcerting.

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### Author: ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2000, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back/30892/5 "2000-09-01T06:18:44Z")

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Who? 😃

j/k, welcome back! How was you summer jti? What did you do? What are you doing now? We want INFO!!!

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### Author: ![Tisme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f0a364/32.png) [@Tisme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tisme)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2000, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back/30892/6 "2000-09-01T10:50:14Z")

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We’ve just finished winter over here and believe me it’s better inside than out. Can’t wait till summer myself.

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### Author: ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2000, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back/30892/7 "2000-09-01T12:09:35Z")

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Welcome back jti, hope you had a wonderful summer!!

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### Author: ![silent\_rob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@silent\_rob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silent_rob)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2000, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back/30892/8 "2000-09-01T16:43:58Z")

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Welcome back **jti**. I’ve heard of this big, bright, warm thing, but have never seen it. Maybe I should take a little break from the SDMB, too. 😃