# OK, what happened to Equiporpoise? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 22, 2008, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-what-happened-to-equiporpoise/478274 "2008-12-22T04:26:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-what-happened-to-equiporpoise/478274/41 "2008-12-23T04:08:14Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > I don’t care what **pseudotriton** entered when he joined, it’s “ruber rubber,” damn it. > > I know this to be so, because I have read it thusly dozens of times. And _your_ name is ClairolCarol, right? Because of your habit of changing your hair color twice a week… ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-what-happened-to-equiporpoise/478274/42 "2008-12-23T04:32:07Z")
I did not read this thread and have no idea what it is about, but I noticed when I clicked on it that there were 40 replies and 41 page views. Thought it was interesting. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-what-happened-to-equiporpoise/478274/43 "2008-12-23T08:09:09Z")
> [@myskepticsight](#): > > I did not read this thread and have no idea what it is about, but I noticed when I clicked on it that there were 40 replies and 41 page views. Thought it was interesting. Carry on. I noticed that too! All along, there’s only been one more View than Reply. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-what-happened-to-equiporpoise/478274/44 "2008-12-23T11:35:17Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > I noticed that too! All along, there’s only been one more View than Reply. I wouldn’t lose my equipoise over the matter. At the moment, many threads appear to have the same problem. Clearly the “Thread Views” function is currently on the fritz, and whoever’s in charge of maintenance is being an enormous cunctator and hasn’t gotten around to fixing it yet. Either that or they’re still asleep; or perhaps lost in a deep meditative state of transcendent ataraxy. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-what-happened-to-equiporpoise/478274/45 "2008-12-24T01:37:17Z")
> [@Contrary](#): > > No,\*\* I\*\* am contrary. 😃 and so’s my wife ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-what-happened-to-equiporpoise/478274/46 "2008-12-24T01:58:46Z")
OK, we’ve over 1,000 views now for 45 replies. Oops, make that 46. Not bad for a thread about a non-cetacean horse mentioned in a musical. (And the devil will drag you under, where the merry equiporpoises float! Sit down sit down sit down sit down, sit down you’re felching the goat!) ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-what-happened-to-equiporpoise/478274/47 "2008-12-24T02:00:54Z")
Hey Qadgop, I don’t suppose you remember me since it’s been a while, but it’s nice to return here after a lengthy absence and see you still here 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-what-happened-to-equiporpoise/478274/48 "2008-12-24T04:13:49Z")
**Equiporpoise** is, of course, the Lost Dolphin, last seen rafting down the Mississippi. (Added Note: I too have misread it as **Qadgop the Mercaptan**. I wanted to make a bad pun about this, but I seem to be skunked.) ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-what-happened-to-equiporpoise/478274/49 "2008-12-24T04:19:11Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > For me, Equipoise is the name of a horse mentioned in “Guys and Dolls”. I think that adds something to this discussion. > 🙂 That would, of course, make him the Loesser of two evils. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-what-happened-to-equiporpoise/478274/50 "2008-12-24T04:53:07Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > That would, of course, make him the Loesser of two evils. I think I just woke up my roommate in the other room with the surprised snort that got out of me! Well done! ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-what-happened-to-equiporpoise/478274/51 "2008-12-24T05:22:58Z")
> [@Francesca](#): > > Hey Qadgop, I don’t suppose you remember me since it’s been a while, but it’s nice to return here after a lengthy absence and see you still here 🙂 What you talking about being gone? You wandered off for most of 2005, but you’ve been a regular here since then. (I tend to not notice brief absences of less than 12 consecutive months.) ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-what-happened-to-equiporpoise/478274/52 "2008-12-24T05:36:10Z")
Wholecloth Productions presents– **Qadgop the Mercotan** _is_ Dr. Martin Dysart… Lloyd Bridges _is_ (okay, okay, _was_) the young Alan Strang… in a play that Peter Shaeffer could have written had he done time as a writer for _Flipper!_ and taken a lot of drugs in the late sixties… in a production that only Jacques Cousteau could have directed, and he only in the Greek Mediterranean… \*\*EQUUIPORPOISE: “I Am Yours, and You Are Mine.” \*\* And your theater dollars are ours, suckers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-what-happened-to-equiporpoise/478274.md?page=2)