Other Straight Dope Message Board laws

The Porn Factor: Any thread title (or mouse-over portion) mentioning porn, boobs, masturbation, sex or anything related to sex will have at least ten times as many views as replies.

Sorry Ghanima, but you got beat by post #18.

It certainly doesn’t make it any less true, though.

I am awake. I will define:

The law of Dysfreudia: Any thread in which Anastasaeon makes an appearance has an 80% chance of penis ensuing. (When I take my meds, threads will contain 25% less penis.)

And now I am a victim of Eutychus’ Law.

We feel it’s more of a guideline than a law…

lekatt’s law: Any thread in GD mentioning the supernatural, psychics, heaven, God, death, life-after-death, etc., will soon have lekatt arriving, being himself, and vehemently questioning the intelligence of posters who disagree with him.

The Pete and Re-Pete Guesstimate: It’s about fifty-fifty that someone who admits to not having read the entire thread, but is quickly popping in to answer anyway, will repeat a previous post.

Snaggletooth’s Law: The frequency of your posting is inversely proportional to the years you have been posting. Where as the quality of your posts increases as a function of time.

Threadspotting Law–The first day a thread makes Threadspotting, the views and replies will increase at least three times.

Meds=25% less penis?? I’ve heard of meds like that. :wink:

I recently read a quote from (I think) Henny Youngman. A Freudian slip is when you mean to say one thing, and you say a mother.

Trainwreck Law: The more mundane/pedestrian* the topic of debate in a Pit thread, the more likely it is to degenerate into several pages of hardcore ranting, calling other posters “filthy, goat-sucking, mother-fcking, anal-raping cnt rags,” making up bizarre medical conditions, poo flinging, et cetera.

*See “tipping,” “shoe removal,” “eating foods you don’t like”…