Posts you're proud of

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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In 2010, with zero forethought, I came up with Haiku Madness, a game I predicted would “sweep the nation”. I actually expected it to die after a dozen or so posts.

I dunno about the nation being swept, but I’m a little proud that the thread is approaching 10,000 replies and 800,000 views.
mmm

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My all-time favorite post remains this one, in which I discuss the origins of cinnamon and egg-nog, especially taken in conjunction with subsequent Posts #94, 95, and 96:

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15543664#post15543664

There was that day we discussed recurrent dreams and the meanings thereof, especially that dream that you’re having some emergency and try dialing 911 and can’t get through somehow. As always, I pointed out, everything you need to know about dream interpretation can be found in Genesis:

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15550331#post15550331

(See subsequent Post #28 too.)

Here, Johanna declares Professor Senegoid’s lecture on Quantum Physics to be the Threadwinner! The topic at hand was when an atom, approaching your person, becomes part of you.

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15364767#post15364767

Note the final paragraph, in which I note that I was about to write something similar about electrons. In a later installment in this lecture series, I did touch upon the subject, with a cautionary anecdote that happened in my laboratory:

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16367050#post16367050

Always glad to do my humble bit to fight ignorance around here!

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Never mind Qadgop the Mercotan’s erudite and perspicacious essay on his philosophy of opioid prescriptions. Yes, that was a valuable contribution, of course. But I’m still particularly partial to his cautionary anecdote about his patient’s bizarre penis.

(Note, the bagel dog link is long defunct, but here’s another one with several pics that are just as good.)

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I’m particularly proud of two, one of which has already gotten some applause.

This is the more obscure one, where I derive the foundations of Special Relativity from a metric signature, some algebra, some calculus, and more than a few song references.

This is the one that’s gotten more notice, where I give a simple but fundamentally accurate description of the concepts underlying the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle using a very simple but precise analogy to sound and the Fourier transform.

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I did that years ago.

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This one:

Such a challenging time, in my life.

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=303851&highlight=sneaks

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Well, I am worm food soon, so I am unafraid:

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I’m not much of a writer, but I thought I achieved a certain atmosphere in this short post about remembering Dad.

…and I worked hard to give a good feel for the experience of driving a Model T Ford.

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I was also proud of a literary quiz I made up.

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There aren’t many of my posts that I’m proud of. Sadly far more that I regret.

This one I think earned a notch. In the thread “Is there anyone alive today who knew Robert Lincoln?” I uncovered the answerin this post. A few posts later the OP pointed out that my post corresponded to an event I guess I’m not supposed to mention but it also makes it memorable for me.

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I posted a thread that had hundreds of views (maybe thousands?) but only one person replied which tells me I came up with an awesome title for a horrible thread :slight_smile:

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I can’t really think of any particular one, but I do find that whenever someone resurrects an ancient thread and I run across one of my own posts from 10 or more years ago, I always think to myself, “I used to write some good stuff. What the hell happened?”

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“Holding two cats in your arms nose-to-nose to get them to stop fighting is a bad idea”

– Facebook some years ago

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This one is a long time favorite.

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Some long memories around here.

I’ve seen many equally or more interesting patients since, but every time I posted anything about it, I got accused of HIPAA violations. As if I don’t know the rules, and follow them . . . :mad:

So it was easier to just stop. :frowning:

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All of them*.

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This is probably mine. I’m not even sure it’s the funniest thing I’ve posted here, but it did prompt a couple of respected posters to comment appreciatively and inspired a little larnin’ to boot.