# Re: Can we make this not become a board meme? \[reply to ATMB thread\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 22, 2013, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-can-we-make-this-not-become-a-board-meme-reply-to-atmb-thread/653589 "2013-03-22T00:39:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-can-we-make-this-not-become-a-board-meme-reply-to-atmb-thread/653589/1 "2013-03-22T00:39:35Z")
In reply to this ATMB OP: > [@Can we make this not become a board meme?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-make-this-not-become-a-board-meme/653576/1): > > From [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=685845) : > > > [@](#): > > > > 1. You must have personally seen it, not just heard about it. > > 2. It must have been a actual series, not a pilot or movie. Minimum of 5 episodes. > > 3. Miss you, Opal. > > Thanks. I replied: > [@Can we make this not become a board meme?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-make-this-not-become-a-board-meme/653576/10): > > 1. Complain about new board meme. > 2. ??? > 3. Bye, Opal. > 4. PROFIT! Then I realized the appropriate response was: [QUOTE=Cheshire Human, in his imagination] Actually, I think I have a better one: 1. See people complain about “Hi, Opal”, “Bye, Opal”, etc. 2. Come up with cheap and easy to make ‘artistic’ trinkets, that can be made with a ‘Hi, Opal!’ theme. 3. Identify suckers willing to buy them as ‘mementos’ of Opal, and sell them to said suckers. 4. PROFIT!!! [/quote] It _wouldn’t_ have gone over well in the ATMB thread. Let’s sell the trinkets, here in the pit. That’s about what her ‘art’ was worth. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-can-we-make-this-not-become-a-board-meme-reply-to-atmb-thread/653589/2 "2013-03-22T01:01:21Z")
> [@Cheshire\_Human](#): > > That’s about what her ‘art’ was worth. Oh, this will go well. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-can-we-make-this-not-become-a-board-meme-reply-to-atmb-thread/653589/3 "2013-03-22T01:08:58Z")
It’s going swimmingly so far… ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-can-we-make-this-not-become-a-board-meme-reply-to-atmb-thread/653589/4 "2013-03-22T01:11:10Z")
I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-can-we-make-this-not-become-a-board-meme-reply-to-atmb-thread/653589/5 "2013-03-22T01:18:10Z")
Then you can’t swim, your dog is burnt, and all you bass are belong to somebody else. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-can-we-make-this-not-become-a-board-meme-reply-to-atmb-thread/653589/6 "2013-03-22T01:20:06Z")
_Pictures of Opal make my life so wonderful Pictures of Opal help me sleep at niiiight._ With apologies to the Who. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-can-we-make-this-not-become-a-board-meme-reply-to-atmb-thread/653589/7 "2013-03-22T01:47:50Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > _Pictures of Opal make my life so wonderful > Pictures of Opal help me sleep at niiiight._ _Lilly, oh, Lilly!_ ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-can-we-make-this-not-become-a-board-meme-reply-to-atmb-thread/653589/8 "2013-03-22T02:57:06Z")
FTR, I do sculpture. I do 'em _fast._ I’m stuck with a bit of epoxy putty, after doing what it’s intended for, I have a little piece left. Someone says “make a dog” or “make a chicken”, so I make a dog or a chicken out of it. A damn realistic looking mutt, or bird. And my best piece was a gamboling lamb. Which I did in ceramic clay, and never looked at it, while doing it. I did that shit, without looking at, or even _thinking about_ what I was doing. I _also_ did a lovely hummingbird. I also have a long line of sculptures of sheep, dogs, birds, cats, plants, etc. where I just make one, they are amazed at the realism, and I hand it to the recipient. OK, I’m tanked. This deserves reamage. Opal _still_ ain’t the painter, Betty, who re-learned to paint left-handed, after her stroke, was. ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-can-we-make-this-not-become-a-board-meme-reply-to-atmb-thread/653589/9 "2013-03-22T03:04:44Z")
Nor was she ever as good as Estella, who’s rendition of ‘Old San Juan’ (which looks kinda like a Picasso) I have on my wall. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-can-we-make-this-not-become-a-board-meme-reply-to-atmb-thread/653589/10 "2013-03-22T05:14:52Z")
Cheshire, you’re trying way, way too hard. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-can-we-make-this-not-become-a-board-meme-reply-to-atmb-thread/653589/11 "2013-03-22T12:30:52Z")
I don’t get it either. Is this performance art? ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-can-we-make-this-not-become-a-board-meme-reply-to-atmb-thread/653589/12 "2013-03-22T12:40:56Z")
I was thinking it was too much blow. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-can-we-make-this-not-become-a-board-meme-reply-to-atmb-thread/653589/13 "2013-03-22T13:02:58Z")
Not cool dude. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-can-we-make-this-not-become-a-board-meme-reply-to-atmb-thread/653589/14 "2013-03-22T13:14:10Z")
So basically **Cheshire Human** you have been doing animals. Cool. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-can-we-make-this-not-become-a-board-meme-reply-to-atmb-thread/653589/15 "2013-03-22T13:23:31Z")
> [@Cheshire\_Human](#): > > That’s about what her ‘art’ was worth. For those of us who may not have been paying attention, is this a topic on which you’ve spoken before? If you’ve not mentioned this before, it’s a bit of a dick move waiting until she’s dead to offer your critique. If you have mentioned it before, maybe it’s time to stop. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-can-we-make-this-not-become-a-board-meme-reply-to-atmb-thread/653589/16 "2013-03-22T13:36:04Z")
Post modernist irony. Either that, or it just doesn’t make sense. Hard to be sure. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-can-we-make-this-not-become-a-board-meme-reply-to-atmb-thread/653589/17 "2013-03-22T13:37:12Z")
I like cheese. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-can-we-make-this-not-become-a-board-meme-reply-to-atmb-thread/653589/18 "2013-03-22T13:37:40Z")
> [@Cheshire\_Human](#): > > gamboling lamb. _I got to ramble, rambling lamb! I got to gambol, gamboling lamb, yeah._ ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-can-we-make-this-not-become-a-board-meme-reply-to-atmb-thread/653589/19 "2013-03-22T13:42:35Z")
This post has been lamed by The Lamist. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-can-we-make-this-not-become-a-board-meme-reply-to-atmb-thread/653589/20 "2013-03-22T13:49:38Z")
I can’t really follow th OP, but are you going out of your way to insult another Doper post mortem? Doesn’t that kind of sound pathetic to you? You HPCFs are the worst. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-can-we-make-this-not-become-a-board-meme-reply-to-atmb-thread/653589.md?page=2)