# One ping only **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 16, 2000, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-ping-only/29513 "2000-08-16T00:15:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2000, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-ping-only/29513/1 "2000-08-16T00:15:20Z")
The post that goes “ping.” ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2000, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-ping-only/29513/2 "2000-08-16T00:34:01Z")
Ah, 32 bits of nothingness…creamy. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2000, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-ping-only/29513/3 "2000-08-16T00:45:22Z")
Quickly! We need lots and lots more posts that go “ping!” ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2000, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-ping-only/29513/4 "2000-08-16T11:45:57Z")
PING! Happy now? Didn’t think so. Oh well . . . at least I tried. We now return you to your regularly scheduled SDMB House o’ Fun ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2000, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-ping-only/29513/5 "2000-08-16T16:49:54Z")
This is the dreaded post that says **Ni!** ---
**Author:** ![G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.B.H.Hornswoggler)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2000, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-ping-only/29513/6 "2000-08-16T18:10:00Z")
This is the post that says **Ikki Ikki Ikki Patang Varoom Zoom-Boing!** ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2000, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-ping-only/29513/7 "2000-08-16T22:42:14Z")
\*\*¶\*\*îñ[sub]9[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2000, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-ping-only/29513/8 "2000-08-16T22:51:45Z")
This is the post that went wherever I did go . ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2000, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-ping-only/29513/9 "2000-08-16T23:24:03Z")
This here, this is the post what did any gol-durned thing Ah said fur it ta to. Ah call it Ping. C’mere, Ping, ya collection of pulses you. What is that ya got, Ping? Is it a twin? Ah, it ain’t no twin. That thar, that’s Hex. Ya know, Hex. He lived over thet ridge yonder, out by the twisted oak tree. Where the Greers used ta live, afore theys house got burned down. Ah allus sayed thet Donovan boy wasn’t right. Ah hear he gets out in 15, 10 with good b’havior. Anyway, Hex lives in the ashes of the old Greer place. Ah hear he [discontinued to preserve the basic decency of the forum] One last thing: 😃