# In case somebody wants to get ahold of me. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 16, 2005, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-case-somebody-wants-to-get-ahold-of-me/308524 "2005-06-16T12:20:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-case-somebody-wants-to-get-ahold-of-me/308524/61 "2005-06-18T04:25:56Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > How much Creedence should we give that? :dubious: I just noticed that CCR (that’s Creedence Clearwater Revival for you youngn’s) has a new boxed set out. I wonder if **Bosda** has it? Because if he has it, then I’ll have to have it…keeping up with the Jones’s and all… ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-case-somebody-wants-to-get-ahold-of-me/308524/62 "2005-06-18T04:40:20Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > About 7/8. 😛 You still have 78s? I have a few 33 1/3 discs hanging around, and a turntable to play them on. Never did get into eight-tracks, but there’s a pile of old cassettes in the corner and What? Well, but **Bosda** said he’d sort them out for me when he got back! I’ve been that worried, you just can’t imagine. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-case-somebody-wants-to-get-ahold-of-me/308524/63 "2005-06-18T09:10:08Z")
**WAITING FOR BOSDA** ``` ESTRAGON: He should be here. VLADIMIR: He didn't say for sure he'd come. ESTRAGON: And if he doesn't come? VLADIMIR: We'll come back tomorrow. ESTRAGON: And then the day after tomorrow. VLADIMIR: Possibly. ESTRAGON: And so on. VLADIMIR: The point is— ESTRAGON: Until he comes. ``` (_With apologies to Samuel Beckett.)_ ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-case-somebody-wants-to-get-ahold-of-me/308524/64 "2005-06-18T13:02:27Z")
Brethren, I say unto you that truly, **Bosda** is always with us. Even when there is only one set of footprints in the sand, he is there, silently posting intercessions with the Most High Administrators for you! ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-case-somebody-wants-to-get-ahold-of-me/308524/65 "2005-06-18T15:29:02Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > Brethren, I say unto you that truly, **Bosda** is always with us. Even when there is only one set of footprints in the sand, he is there, silently posting intercessions with the Most High Administrators for you! Speak it, Brother! ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-case-somebody-wants-to-get-ahold-of-me/308524/66 "2005-06-18T17:13:49Z")
The news is broken to a stunned President Bush that [Bosda cannot be reached.](http://www.cathappy.com/images/America%20photos/Bush%20911.jpg) I gotta stay away from this thread, but it’s so much goddam fun! ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-case-somebody-wants-to-get-ahold-of-me/308524/67 "2005-06-18T17:39:30Z")
Meanwhile, [volunteer search parties](http://www.humboldt.edu/~extended/olli/images/binoculars.jpg) have not yet given up hope that **Bosda** will be found alive and (mostly) unharmed. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-case-somebody-wants-to-get-ahold-of-me/308524/68 "2005-06-18T19:26:13Z")
If you need _me_ just send up the BatSignal© and I’ll be there in five minutes. But without the tights and nubile sidekick. Tripler I can’t say the same for **Bosda** : he’s _got_ a nubile sidekick. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-case-somebody-wants-to-get-ahold-of-me/308524/69 "2005-06-19T07:37:10Z")
Are y’all having fun beating that dead horse? Most’ve you wouldn’t have known about Bosda’s post, if it wasn’t for that place I’m not allowed to mention. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-case-somebody-wants-to-get-ahold-of-me/308524/70 "2005-06-19T08:13:26Z")
Actually, I think it’d be the multi-page Pit thread this spawned, which was threadspotted… rather than the tantamount-to-proscribed-conduct of finding things on the snark boards and then dragging them here. YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-case-somebody-wants-to-get-ahold-of-me/308524/71 "2005-06-19T08:34:41Z")
The idea for the pit thread started there. They were falling allover themselves trying to be the first one to start the pit thread. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-case-somebody-wants-to-get-ahold-of-me/308524/72 "2005-06-19T08:36:37Z")
Why’n’t you shut up about it, if you’re not supposed to talk about it here? ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-case-somebody-wants-to-get-ahold-of-me/308524/73 "2005-06-19T15:17:34Z")
That’s almost as funny as a zillion posts of everybody repeating, “I wonder where Bosda is.” ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-case-somebody-wants-to-get-ahold-of-me/308524/74 "2005-06-19T15:21:51Z")
Try the decaf. Really. ---
**Author:** ![sunfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sunfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunfish)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-case-somebody-wants-to-get-ahold-of-me/308524/75 "2005-06-19T15:44:12Z")
> [@hillbilly queen](#): > > The idea for the pit thread started there. They were falling allover themselves trying to be the first one to start the pit thread. And you know the timing of events so clearly because you _just know_, not because you were monitoring The Other Place so closely, right? Right? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-case-somebody-wants-to-get-ahold-of-me/308524/76 "2005-06-19T16:29:50Z")
If you’re claiming that **Greathouse** got the idea from there, and was only posting here to stir up shit, then you should probably be emailing the mods/admins instead of hinting at it on the boards. IANAM, YMMV, tacos are tasty. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-case-somebody-wants-to-get-ahold-of-me/308524/77 "2005-06-19T16:30:05Z")
Since someone was kind enough to give me a link, and I was finished reading about how ugly I am. Yes, I browsed around the other threads. I never claimed otherwise. They make glasses for this :rolleyes: . ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-case-somebody-wants-to-get-ahold-of-me/308524/78 "2005-06-19T16:36:27Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > If you’re claiming that **Greathouse** got the idea from there, and was only posting here to stir up shit, then you should probably be emailing the mods/admins instead of hinting at it on the boards. > > IANAM, YMMV, tacos are tasty. I’m too stupid to hint. Don’t accuse of me of being the type of person that would report someone to the mods. I just came in to ABTMB to post a question and was suprised to see this still going. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-case-somebody-wants-to-get-ahold-of-me/308524/79 "2005-06-19T16:38:08Z")
Oh, and what the hell does YMMV mean? ---
**Author:** ![sunfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sunfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunfish)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-case-somebody-wants-to-get-ahold-of-me/308524/80 "2005-06-19T16:48:14Z")
FinnAgain isn’t accusing you of anything. He’s just suggesting that you follow the rules that the admins themselves have set up for handling potentially objectionable posts. Frankly, I think Bosda painted a huge target on himself with the creation of this thread, and from the various admin/mod posts I’ve seen here and in the Pit they found it equally worthy of ridicule. No one needed to go elsewhere to get the idea to poke some fun. YMMV = your mileage may vary. I’m surprised you didn’t know that, since it’s pretty commonly used here and you aren’t a n00b. Just sayin’. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-case-somebody-wants-to-get-ahold-of-me/308524.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-case-somebody-wants-to-get-ahold-of-me/308524.md?page=5)