# Man, I can start a debate - patting myself on the back **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 6, 2005, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-can-start-a-debate-patting-myself-on-the-back/334406 "2005-12-06T20:51:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SuaSponte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@SuaSponte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuaSponte)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2005, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-can-start-a-debate-patting-myself-on-the-back/334406/1 "2005-12-06T20:51:25Z")
Back in April '04, I posted a thread on the Car Talk message board, disputing something Ray said on the air. I haven’t been hugely active on that message. mainly lurking. Today, I went back there to post a question about my car, and while I was there I checked out [my thread.](http://cartalk.com/board/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=SOB&Number=210196&page=5&fpart=all) It turns out the debate lasted 18 months! After all of dozens of threads I’ve started on this board that have disappeared without a trace, it’s good to see that I still have the ability to get a lot of people pissed off at each other. 😃 Sua ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2005, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-can-start-a-debate-patting-myself-on-the-back/334406/2 "2005-12-06T21:13:51Z")
That’s why they shoot the zombies round these parts… ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2005, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-can-start-a-debate-patting-myself-on-the-back/334406/3 "2005-12-06T21:40:27Z")
I’m not reading that behemoth… did either of the Tappit (sp?) brothers check in on the debate? Is that more or less common there than a post from **Cecil** here? ---
**Author:** ![SuaSponte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@SuaSponte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuaSponte)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-can-start-a-debate-patting-myself-on-the-back/334406/4 "2005-12-07T14:47:34Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > I’m not reading that behemoth… did either of the Tappit (sp?) brothers check in on the debate? Is that more or less common there than a post from **Cecil** here? No, unless they use different board names. I haven’t spent a huge amount of time there, but I haven’t seen either there at all. Sua ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-can-start-a-debate-patting-myself-on-the-back/334406/5 "2005-12-07T21:03:27Z")
I find it slightly amusing that a lawyer is advocating breaking traffic laws. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SuaSponte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@SuaSponte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuaSponte)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-can-start-a-debate-patting-myself-on-the-back/334406/6 "2005-12-08T16:59:44Z")
> [@scout1222](#): > > I find it slightly amusing that a lawyer is advocating breaking traffic laws. 😃 Oh, this lawyer advocates breaking much more than traffic laws. Want a toke? 😃 (I kid, I kid). That was one of the ironies about that thread - in my personal day-to-day existence, I am one of the few that routinely obeys\* the posted speed limit. My commute is 14 miles up a two-lane coastal road, heavily trafficked by bicyclists, and littered with speed traps. The speed limit is 35 mph, and traffic flows at 35-38 mph. When the road is empty, as it often is in the off-season, I do the same speed. 'Course, when I get on the interstate, as I occasionally do, I travel at 70 mph, along with the rest of traffic. My favorite moment in that thread was when some law-abiding feller called me a vigilante. 😃 Sua