# Reported for Forum Change
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-for-forum-change/808622
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [February 11, 2018, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-for-forum-change/808622 "2018-02-11T13:12:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2018, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-for-forum-change/808622/1 "2018-02-11T13:12:28Z")
Yes, the brown uniforms and jackboots make a wonderful fashion statement … the moderator staff looks _really_ sharp goose-stepping down Main Street … y’all must get invited to all the parades …
Anyway, the thread in question has been CLOSED so I wasn’t able to post in it that I had reported it for a forum change and I don’t want to see a half million other folks reporting it for forum change since I already did report it for a forum change to the Pit because it was the perfect OP for a good old fashion Pitting and maybe we can get away from Pitting all things Washington DC because that’s getting old in a hurry after a year and whatnot\*\*.\*\*
I put the period above to red so everyone would notice it …
The thread in question (not to question the moderating person’s actions, but rather the fact that the question was in **General Questions** which was a questionable place to put it in the first place after all) is the one question about building a time machine that would pureé peaches before they were grown down in California next to all those almond orchards … (no no no, a little to the north of where you’re pointing, up above Modesto, right there next to the river) …
The important thing to note here is that the OP went to all the trouble of numbering his bullet points for easy referencing which would make this an absolutely delicious Pitting for everyone because there’s something for any knee-jerk gripe anyone could possibly have and let me emphasize that even The Donald could make a meaningful contribution to this assumed to be Pitting\*\*.\*\*
I’m getting better at this whole period thing …
C’mon … moderators … throw that bone into the Pit … we promise to fight over it …
Your best friend
watchwolf49
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### Author:  [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2018, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-for-forum-change/808622/2 "2018-02-11T14:10:04Z")
Would it kill ya to include a link to the thread you are referencing? Here, looked it up for you:
[https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=849031](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=849031)
I won’t presume to speak for the Mods, but if I were to guess, most likely the thread in question does not fit the criteria for the Pit. It is, after all, simply a series of how-to questions, that the OP claims were posed in all sincerity. That most of the questions happen to be completely fucking idiotic (what exactly is a “magic stopwatch”?) may well justify shutting the thread down, but that does not, _per se_, make the topic Pit-worthy.
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### Author:  [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2018, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-for-forum-change/808622/3 "2018-02-11T14:39:58Z")
The post in question was not a Pit thread. The OP did not intend the post as any sort of rant or anything Pit-worthy.
There’s nothing stopping you from making a Pit thread about that particular post or the poster, if that is your desire. But it doesn’t make any sense to re-open that thread and move it to the Pit.
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### Author:  [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2018, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-for-forum-change/808622/4 "2018-02-11T14:48:14Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#):
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> Yes, the brown uniforms and jackboots make a wonderful fashion statement … the moderator staff looks _really_ sharp goose-stepping down Main Street … y’all must get invited to all the parades …
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> …
Doesn’t Spicey look cool in her sparkly 'lectric jackboots?
She makes the others look so last century.
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### Author:  [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2018, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-for-forum-change/808622/5 "2018-02-11T14:54:31Z")
BTW, the thread in question has been mentioned in the “Trolls R Us” Pit thread, so OP, go nuts if you want:
[https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=793796&page=134](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=793796&page=134)
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### Author:  [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2018, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-for-forum-change/808622/6 "2018-02-11T14:54:38Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#):
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> Doesn’t Spicey look cool in her sparkly 'lectric jackboots?
> She makes the others look so last century.
Spicey could wear a potato sack and make everyone else look like what the cat left in the litter tray … but the red cape and forked tail is a nice touch …
But point taken **e\_c\_g** … thanx for the reply …
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2018, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-for-forum-change/808622/7 "2018-02-11T16:11:14Z")
I also saw the thread report, but after **engineer\_comp\_geek** had already dealt with it. There was nothing at all about that thread that would have prompted a move to the Pit. Despite the statement by the OP that it was serious, the questions were so obviously silly it obviously was meant as a joke. (And posting stupid stuff and pretending it’s meant seriously can be considered a form of trolling - which seems to have worked on the OP of this thread since it made him mad enough want to Pit it.) Since we prefer that GQ be reserved for at least semi-serious questions, I agree that the most appropriate thing was to close it.
If you want to Pit the guy, go ahead, but you don’t need the thread to be opened to do that.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2018, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-for-forum-change/808622/8 "2018-02-11T16:28:58Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#):
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> Doesn’t Spicey look cool in her sparkly 'lectric jackboots?
> She makes the others look so last century.
She’s also got a mohair suit; you know, I read it in a magazine.
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2018, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-for-forum-change/808622/9 "2018-02-11T17:39:47Z")
Who let the dogs out? 🙂
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### Author:  [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2018, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-for-forum-change/808622/10 "2018-02-12T01:33:55Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#):
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> . . . (what exactly is a “magic stopwatch”?) . . .
See [The Girl, The Gold Watch, and Everything](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl,_the_Gold_Watch_%26_Everything) by John D. McDonald.
(Also referenced by Spider Robinson in Lady Slings the Booze.)
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### Author:  [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2018, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-for-forum-change/808622/11 "2018-02-12T01:59:37Z")
He joined in December and this is his opening post? Is it just me or does something in all this seem a little odd beyond his/her questions? And has anyone else ever had an opening post moved to the Pit or inspire a Pit thread? Offhand I can’t think of an example.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2018, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-for-forum-change/808622/12 "2018-02-12T02:08:26Z")
> [@tomndebb](#):
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> See [The Girl, The Gold Watch, and Everything](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl,_the_Gold_Watch_%26_Everything) by John D. McDonald.
> (Also referenced by Spider Robinson in Lady Slings the Booze.)
There’s also [a Twilight Zone episode featuring a magic stopwatch](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734542/?ref_=ttep_ep4). (Of course, “The Simpsons,” used the concept, too.)
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### Author:  [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2018, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-for-forum-change/808622/13 "2018-02-12T14:49:14Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#):
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> Who let the dogs out? 🙂
Actually the rampage at the pet shop was committed by Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle, and Keith Moon. So its more of a statement than a question; the Who let the dogs out.
I never get tired of that one
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2018, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-for-forum-change/808622/14 "2018-02-12T15:48:30Z")
Yep, that’s a good one!
Of course I threw you a bone.
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### Author:  [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2018, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-for-forum-change/808622/15 "2018-02-12T15:49:11Z")
> [@tomndebb](#):
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> See The Girl, The Gold Watch, and Everything by John D. McDonald.
> (Also referenced by Spider Robinson in Lady Slings the Booze.)
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#):
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> There’s also [a Twilight Zone episode featuring a magic stopwatch](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734542/?ref_=ttep_ep4). (Of course, “The Simpsons,” used the concept, too.)
And so once again I demonstrate to all my lack of pop cultural awareness. :smack:
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2018, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reported-for-forum-change/808622/16 "2018-02-12T15:52:36Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#):
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> And so once again I demonstrate to all my lack of pop cultural awareness. :smack:
But you probably have something _useful_ tucked inside _your_ gray matter. 😉