# May I have your attention please

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-i-have-your-attention-please/73429>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [July 22, 2001, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-i-have-your-attention-please/73429 "2001-07-22T09:47:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2001, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-i-have-your-attention-please/73429/1 "2001-07-22T09:47:08Z")

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Will all pertinent and interested parties please refer to [this thread here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=79003)

Thank you.

–Tim

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2001, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-i-have-your-attention-please/73429/2 "2001-07-22T14:36:46Z")

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Get a grip, would you?

Do what we ask you to – and don’t do what we tell you NOT to do – and everything will be copacetic.

That’s really not a lot; thousands of people do it every day without difficulty.

Besides, this is just a little message board in cyberspace; ain’t the alpha and omega, you know.

Maybe you need to turn off your computer and go outside and play, go get some perspective. Or some ice cream. Or something.

your humble TubaDiva  
Administrator

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**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2001, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-i-have-your-attention-please/73429/3 "2001-07-22T16:27:29Z")

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For those unsure if they count as “interested”, the link goes to a Pit thread Homer started to whine about certain actions of the moderators.

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**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2001, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-i-have-your-attention-please/73429/4 "2001-07-22T18:27:19Z")

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Cross-posting, too, huh?

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2001, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-i-have-your-attention-please/73429/5 "2001-07-22T22:39:12Z")

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Enough.

your humble TubaDiva  
Administrator