Scottish law: When ever anyone mentions the idea of drinking the Kool-Aid, I will burst in to point out it was actualy Flavor Aid.
And then I will mispell something.
Scottish law: When ever anyone mentions the idea of drinking the Kool-Aid, I will burst in to point out it was actualy Flavor Aid.
And then I will mispell something.
The Law of Moderator Action/Reaction
Any Moderator/administrator action of greater significance than fixed coding will generate at least one post or thread objecting, questioning, complaining, or otherwise grumbling about overreacting mods.
Correllary
The harder that the originator of a Pit Thread on moderator actions tries to justify the thread, the more petty and whiny the thread will appear.
Regallag’s Law of Craziness
Anything that I post has a 50% chance to be a crazy post about pillaging, or slaying, or some other crazy Vikingesque thing.
Regallag’s Axe Law
I will slice you on two if you face me. Then I will sail my fleet of longships to your home, kill the defenders, take anything we want, and burn the rest. Then hold the King of France hostage.
Kunilou’s Law
There exists a certain subset of Dopers whose contribution to any thread will be the post that finally kills the thread.
The Whoosh Lemma: Asking “Am I being whooshed” is a direct invitation for someone to whoosh you.
Diceman’s Law: If you make a generalization, every Doper who does not conform to that generalization will post to disagree with you.
Eg:
“Everyone hated the Pontiac Aztek when it came out.”
“I didn’t. I’ve always liked it.”
“Me too. The Aztek is awesome!”
“Really. I don’t see why everyone is so down on the Aztek.”
etc.
Good egg’s law: When you are contributing a new rule, you will invariably use one thats already a rule. :smack:
and no, tomndeb it wasn’t deliberate.
Marley’s Law: Any slowdown of the board (coupled with an impatient poster) will result in a double post.
My remark was directed to Lamar. Note the spelling of Gaudere.
I dunno, the poster can correct me of course, but the timestamp looks to me more like a deliberate DP. For humorous reasons, see?
Also, re: the Nazi thing. Most message boards I’ve been on tend to hold the belief that the first person to bring Nazis into a thread are actually the* losers* of the argument. It seems to be a misunderstanding of Godwin’s law, but a pretty widely-spread one, IME.
Askance’s Apostrophic Apothegm: the braver the attempt to apostrophise correctly, the greater the disaster when it fails, as it inevitably will.
Give the man a prize…
Reversal of Hal’s Law–Any post mentioning sheep will lead to a mention of Hal. Probably by Hal himself.
Chubby wrath law:
The odds of some large person somewhere finding your post offensive is better than 18%. To increase odds to better than 50% use the word fat in your post.
Trimming shrubs:
A post expressing a positive sentiment regarding G.W. Bush will be followed within 3 posts by one containing either the words “moron” or “stupid”
The Superiority Complex - Any discussion of how things are done differently by different people (auto/manual cars, colour/color, Windows/Linux/Unix/Mac OS etc) will devolve swiftly into debate about which way is best.
Plynck’s Law: Any post attempting humor that is made after bedtime is doomed to embarassing failure :o
Any thread mentioning animals that does not expound upon their cuteness and obvious humanity will swiftly drown under a rush of posts decrying the OP. The longer the thread endures, the chance of the OP (and people in general) being framed as hateful and pathetic approaches one.
Corollary: The longer the thread endures, the greater the chances it’s frontpage link will end up right next to a kitten-picture thread.
Lady, but I’ll still have my prize, thanks