# Og pondered the Good ones **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 7, 2003, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/og-pondered-the-good-ones/159685 "2003-03-07T07:48:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![NE\_Texan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e99b99/32.png) [@NE\_Texan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NE_Texan)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/og-pondered-the-good-ones/159685/21 "2003-03-13T14:54:08Z")
Let’s see… looking back over old posts, I find: I tend to make a few witty and many sarcastic comments. A few are appreciated, but many fall flat. I try to express sympathy when I read people’s stories, because they remind me of situations I’ve been in (or wouldn’t want to be in in the future). I somethimes have some tidbit of information I can drop in the thread, and can occassionally do it before someone beats me to it. Mostly though, I don’t post much - I’m pretty quiet. Whaddaya know, it’s more like me IRL than I would have predicted. [minor hijack]So which part of Houston are you from, **Ringo** , if you don’t mind me asking? I just moved from there - well, it seems like yesterday, but it was about a year and a half ago. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/og-pondered-the-good-ones/159685/22 "2003-03-13T17:55:11Z")
I dunno. I guess I’ve learned to write more informally here, but what’s really holding me up is my answering lots and lots of technical questions in GQ. That doesn’t always permit a very conversational style, although it does require my putting some very abstract ideas into layman’s terms. It’s a good skill to have, and I like to think that I’ve gotten to be pretty decent at it due to my time here. I worry sometimes that I come across as very pedantic, but it’s not high on my list of things to spend a lot of effort on. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/og-pondered-the-good-ones/159685/23 "2003-03-13T18:39:41Z")
**NE Texan** , Montrose, across the street from St. Thomas University. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![NE\_Texan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e99b99/32.png) [@NE\_Texan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NE_Texan)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/og-pondered-the-good-ones/159685/24 "2003-03-13T19:27:14Z")
[continuing hijack] Oh, cool, downtown where the nightlife is. I went to UH some indistinguishable mumble years ago, but far longer than that (later) I lived over in Alief. I bet it’s much warmer there then here. (Snowing today) [/end pointless highjack] ---
**Author:** ![Sock\_Munkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Sock\_Munkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sock_Munkey)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/og-pondered-the-good-ones/159685/25 "2003-03-14T22:18:00Z")
I think my opinions come off as much less sympathetic than I am in person, also I think much faster than I can type so by the time I get things down I’ve lost track of most of my thoughts and end up writing something much shorter and less clear than I’d like. ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2003, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/og-pondered-the-good-ones/159685/26 "2003-03-15T00:52:08Z")
Hmm. Now that I think about it, **Ringo** , I don’t think you’re really far off from your real life self. The big thing is pacing. I read at my own normal speaking pace. You speak rather slowly and pause a lot as if you are considering each word before you really say it. If I look back at your posts and read in your usual speaking pace (and add in the little side-to-side head thing you do) I can easily imagine it being just like real life. Erm, well, you know whatI mean. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/og-pondered-the-good-ones/159685.md?page=1)