I think he makes golf clubs.
Gray ones!
As she has been known to do, Eve said it better than I.
To most Americans, she will always be known as “Weezy”. Perhaps her death will cause some folks to seek out her other fine work, but sadly I doubt it. Still, The Jeffersons was a damn fine show IMHO, and it’s a shame that non-Americans (who I guess are bragging about their ignorance) never got a chance to see her as the sweet but tough lady of the house.
If only Viacom would get off their asses and start exporting Nick at Nite…
Wry and subtle, QtM, wry and subtle.
I just want to point out that I started the FIRST thread after searching for “Sanford” and “Jeffersons” to make sure that nobody else had started one. And I did not use the obvious “moving on up” reference.
I get why someone may want to start a thread about the death of a celebrity. I’m pitting the dopers who rush over to CS in order to be the first to post about it without bothering to check and see if they’ve been beaten to it.
Now THERE’S a thespian for you! :rolleyes:
I started one of the threads in question. When I read the news, I went to Cafe Society, didn’t see a thread on the first page, and posted. The original thread was already on the 2nd page, and I didn’t see it.
It fell from the first to the second page in 19 minutes?
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=266057&highlight=weezy
Here’s the thread started by Annie X-mas, posted at 10:34am.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=266072.
This one is mine, posted at 11:39am.
Maybe my math isn’t quite what it should be, but that seems longer than 19 minutes.
See, the way it works is everytime someone posts to a thread, it goes to the top of the forum. There was a post in Annie X-mas’s thread at 1:10pm my time. Your thread was started at 1:39pm my time.
I’m not going to debate this. When I posted the thread, I didn’t see another similar one on a different page. Irrespective of whether you believe that, it’s true.
As you wish.
Since I hate TV news and I only read news websites at work (they’re the ultimate “work-safe” websites; you can almost always find a way to say they pertained to work if you get called to task), I end up getting a lot of my news here at the dope.
I like that people post those types of threads.
I’m not going to rake the two late posters over the coals or argue about where Annie’s thread was at 1:39—I’ve done it myself. You glance over the forum too quickly, miss it, and post your own redundant thread. It happens.
I just suggest they do what I did and use this as a lesson: read the first page (possibly second, too) of all pertinent forums before posting a new thread about any “just breaking news” topic.
In the spirit of the thread title:
OMG Somebody started a thread that doesn’t interest me, I HAVE to start a thread about it.