Posts you're proud of

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I try to make posts that are thoughtful and bring something to the discussion that hasn’t already been done to death. As some others have mentioned about themselves in another thread, a hefty percentage of my proto-posts get deleted instead of posted. But every so often I manage to put down something I really like (and it usually sinks like a stone, but nevertheless).

I’m not quite ready to link to one of mine yet, but I’d love to see any of you folks linking to a post you’re proud of, whether because it’s well written or for some other reason. Style, content, good grammar and spelling, whatever you’ve done well, please share it with us again. I like to read a good post.

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This one

Ok, no. I’m not proud of myself at all

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My great coming out thread. My high-school reunion thread. I got positive response to both of these threads and sometimes reread them.

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Y’know, if you click on that you can click on it and click on that again and keep clicking on it…

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It’s like the mirror tunnel at the barber.

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^ …like one of those infinity mirrors.

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Dr. Seuss’ Beowulf

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=709904&highlight=Beowulf

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This one, too:

How do you ruin King Kong for a Cognitive Psychologist?

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=681972&highlight=cognitive+psychologist

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I’m very proud of my argument that without the Ramones, we don’t get Motörhead and then we don’t get modern metal.

Subsequent posting has me arguing that without the Ramones, we may not have developed rave culture and EDM.

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This one. Probably needs context:

The overall thread was started by Maggie the Ocelot, about her experiences and frustrations with infertility. A few people, myself included, posted what I though were supportive messages, along with anecdotes about getting pregnant after giving up. Then, the thread went kinda sideways, some people blaming others for giving the kind of advice you wouldn’t want to hear and such. So, I made the linked post in response, a more complete story about my own experience through the heartbreak of “no baby for you”. I think the story touched a few people, so I’m proud of it.

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I wrote a pretty good one once…had something to do with life/career and just being an “average” person.

Some random dude made a point of complimenting me on it and saying this was the kind of advice he might give his kid.

Or something like that. Hell if I could ever find it.

I think I did a good one about a guy’s basement and scary clown rug thingy too.

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I’ve had 2 or 3 posts free of spelling and punctuation errors without being edited. My goal is to have one that meets those criteria with excellent content to boot.

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From the thread, “If A Christmas Carol had been written by someone else,” I imagined how it might end up if written by T.S. Eliot:

The Love Song of J. Ebenezer Scrooge

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I started this thread to explain and discuss jazz and people actually enjoyed it: Hate Jazz but wish you knew a bit more about why? A Jazz 101 thread. - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board

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I made a post about how I felt as a woman in a locker room with a transwoman (on the side of peace and protection for the transwoman, being that her life struggle was more painful than any sweeping moment of uncomfortableness for myself in the situation) and someone responded that they really liked my post and gave me a great compliment and I’ve always remembered that.

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In a thread about a clearance sale right before the closing of F.A.O. Schwarz, the New York toy store, someone else quoted the Blade Runner line about “All these things will be lost, like tears in rain.”

I posted, “Time to buy.”

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In 2006, at the height of the push for prescribing more and more opioids and to treat pain “as the 5th vital sign” I wrote this treatise on how I prescribed opioids..

I was considered out of step at the time, by being so chary about prescribing them. But what I did back then is pretty much in step with what the CDC and other medical authorities advocate as the way to prescribe opioids currently. It seems I’m even a bit more generous with them than some experts.

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Not a post (there’s no way in hell I’m going to tally up all the brilliant posts I’m proud of!) but a thread I started: Running thru minds of women browsing fashion mags: a poll for het females.

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In 2009 there was the thread “What would a 15th-century English accent actually sound like?” What would a 15th-century English accent actually sound like? - Factual Questions - Straight Dope Message Board

I and a poster named Derleth responded, after which there was the following from Varrius:

“Thanks Derleth and velomont for furthering the stated purpose of TSD and SDMB. Your posts made interesting reading”

Thank you Varrius.

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Wow. I missed that one when it first appeared.