# Rip Van Winkle's the Name **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 1, 2007, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-van-winkles-the-name/402327 "2007-05-01T16:58:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-van-winkles-the-name/402327/1 "2007-05-01T16:58:11Z")
Has it really been almost two years since I last posted to the SDMB? Whew, I guess that nap took a little longer than I anticipated. So, what’s new? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-van-winkles-the-name/402327/2 "2007-05-01T17:06:14Z")
Not much. You? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-van-winkles-the-name/402327/3 "2007-05-01T17:09:41Z")
Dude… sup? ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-van-winkles-the-name/402327/4 "2007-05-01T17:16:41Z")
A quick trip through the forums is either oddly reassuring or disquietly disturbing - the more things change the more they stay the same. As for me - I’m just two years older. No smarter, no dumber. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-van-winkles-the-name/402327/5 "2007-05-01T17:34:07Z")
Funny - I was just thinking about you, **plnnr** - how’ve you been? ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-van-winkles-the-name/402327/6 "2007-05-01T17:47:03Z")
Good, Missy. Hope all has been well with the rest of you. I was eating a bit of lunch and realized I hadn’t checked in lately - little did I realize it had been two years. No births, no deaths, no injuries, no calamities. Odd how the time sort of slips by. Now, where was I when last I posted… ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-van-winkles-the-name/402327/7 "2007-05-01T18:12:54Z")
Well, we’ve rebelled against King George and your wife’s died and kids are grown. Other than that, not much. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-van-winkles-the-name/402327/8 "2007-05-01T18:19:19Z")
[QUOTE=plnnr] As for me - I’m just two years older. No smarter, no dumber. [/QUOTE] So it really is taking longer than we thought. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-van-winkles-the-name/402327/9 "2007-05-01T18:22:46Z")
Hey, **plnnr**! Good to see a familiar name back again. It always makes me a teeny bit depressed when I read old threads, and see old names that have stopped coming around. Stupid people going off and having lives and stuff… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-van-winkles-the-name/402327/10 "2007-05-01T18:52:21Z")
Oh, so _this_ is how you make a comeback so as to get people to notice. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-van-winkles-the-name/402327/11 "2007-05-01T19:57:48Z")
[QUOTE=plnnr] I was eating a bit of lunch and realized I hadn’t checked in lately - little did I realize it had been two years. [/QUOTE] They only give us an hour. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-van-winkles-the-name/402327/12 "2007-05-01T20:25:17Z")
Welcome back, senor. I don’t know you…but you don’t know me either! Wheeeeeeeee! ---
**Author:** ![jazzmine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jazzmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jazzmine)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-van-winkles-the-name/402327/13 "2007-05-01T22:14:48Z")
Must be something in the air. Today was my first day back in a couple of years as well. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-van-winkles-the-name/402327/14 "2007-05-02T17:55:33Z")
You think you’re out, but they just keep pulling you back in… ---
**Author:** ![WorkInProgress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@WorkInProgress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WorkInProgress)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-van-winkles-the-name/402327/15 "2007-05-02T18:27:25Z")
Wow, I wasn’t even a gleam in Cecil’s eye back then. Still there has been only one recent event that I would call newsworthy: Someone was paid not to post on the Dope (member to member). ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-van-winkles-the-name/402327/16 "2007-05-02T18:37:22Z")
[QUOTE=WorkInProgress] Wow, I wasn’t even a gleam in Cecil’s eye back then. Still there has been only one recent event that I would call newsworthy: Someone was paid not to post on the Dope (member to member). [/QUOTE] That’s it? What about that poster who is having an affair, posted about it, spawned a few nasty threads and she anded up changing her user name. If that’s not newsworthy I don’t know what is. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-van-winkles-the-name/402327/17 "2007-05-02T19:11:36Z")
Gone for two years, and you still have 2.39 posts per day. That’s scary, that is. Explains why I remember you, too. Checking your last posts… well, Airman Doors’ college professor says the darndest things. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-van-winkles-the-name/402327/18 "2007-05-02T19:36:24Z")
**Satan** and **Daniel In The Wolves Den** have come back and are now GD moderators. Made you look!