# Is John Mace dead? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 11, 2019, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-john-mace-dead/832409 "2019-04-11T22:17:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-john-mace-dead/832409/1 "2019-04-11T22:17:59Z")
Last post was in early December, last time lurking was in early January. Does anyone know if he died or went to prison or something? ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-john-mace-dead/832409/2 "2019-04-11T22:27:38Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Last post was in early December, last time lurking was in early January. Does anyone know if he died or went to prison or something? And that’s why they call you ‘Happy’. ---
**Author:** ![Covfefe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@Covfefe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covfefe)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-john-mace-dead/832409/3 "2019-04-11T22:36:56Z")
‘Did John Mace go to prison or something?’ would have been less ghoulish. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-john-mace-dead/832409/4 "2019-04-11T22:38:17Z")
I like “Is John Mace on Sabbatical in Tibet?” ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-john-mace-dead/832409/5 "2019-04-11T22:42:09Z")
Somebody PM somebody. I need to know. (DZ, call the sheriff’s office) ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-john-mace-dead/832409/6 "2019-04-11T22:42:30Z")
Trapped under a heavy bookcase. Keyboard just inches from his reach, desperately trying to post. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-john-mace-dead/832409/7 "2019-04-11T22:49:16Z")
Bricker and Foggy are also MIA. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-john-mace-dead/832409/8 "2019-04-11T22:54:04Z")
He’s at a beautiful, beautiful…uh…farm…uh…upstate, with lots of green grass to run around on, and other message board posters to play with, and stuff. Now I will feel kind of bad if it turns out this is anything other than a case of “He just got tired of putting up with all of our shit”, whether temporarily or permanently. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-john-mace-dead/832409/9 "2019-04-11T23:38:42Z")
Great. Now you’re all creeping me out. Meh. Turns out we’re all just bots except for… you! ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-john-mace-dead/832409/10 "2019-04-11T23:50:16Z")
How old was he? But lots of us migrate from one forum to another. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-john-mace-dead/832409/11 "2019-04-11T23:54:18Z")
Maybe he was transported to 19th century Australia and made a new life there. There’s something to be said for disappearing oneself without making an angst-filled Pit thread to announce it first. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-john-mace-dead/832409/12 "2019-04-11T23:56:47Z")
W.P.P., maybe? ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-john-mace-dead/832409/13 "2019-04-12T00:54:44Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > W.P.P., maybe? ??? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-john-mace-dead/832409/14 "2019-04-12T01:04:50Z")
Witness Protection Program ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-john-mace-dead/832409/15 "2019-04-12T01:06:28Z")
Listen, when I say “hello Mr. Thompson” and stamp on your foot, you nod your head. Got it? ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-john-mace-dead/832409/16 "2019-04-12T01:07:54Z")
Quicksilver vanished last year too. Maybe they just grew bored with us. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-john-mace-dead/832409/17 "2019-04-12T02:02:37Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > W.P.P., maybe? It’s OK to write out what you mean.\* You can still sit with the cool kids. :):)😃 It’s customary to spell out acronyms before using them. In the last ten years or so there’ve been more and more people skipping that step, even on the SDMB (perhaps they think they impress by knowing acronyms?) \*And you did soon after the quoted post ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-john-mace-dead/832409/18 "2019-04-12T02:15:28Z")
I’ve used it before. I think I heard it here first, don’t quote me on that, coulda been somewhere else. Sorry for the confusion. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-john-mace-dead/832409/19 "2019-04-12T02:18:29Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > Listen, when I say “hello Mr. Thompson” and stamp on your foot, you nod your head. Got it? I think he’s talking to you. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-john-mace-dead/832409/20 "2019-04-12T04:05:14Z")
In a moment of cosmic irony he was maced in a john. (Not the spray kind, the spikey kind.) (The spikey kind of mace, not the spikey kind of john.) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-john-mace-dead/832409.md?page=2)