# SDMB Tackiness Contest **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 20, 2004, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-tackiness-contest/260749 "2004-08-20T17:39:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![luluBahrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@luluBahrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luluBahrain)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2004, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-tackiness-contest/260749/41 "2004-08-20T22:04:06Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > OBVIOUS not oblivious. I am strating to get embrassed. :o I bet you are STARTING to , as well. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2004, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-tackiness-contest/260749/42 "2004-08-20T22:04:12Z")
Oh, man! I just changed my sig and now I find out that its tacky! Or is it? How long is a long sig? Whatever! I’m keeping it anyway! for a little while anyway… ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2004, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-tackiness-contest/260749/43 "2004-08-20T22:04:24Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > I think it is tacky to correct a spelling error in another post when you meaning was still oblivious. It means that you think that everyone is obssessed with you and will study your posts in detail. I have been studying your post in detail. Your typed ‘you meaning’, but obliviously your meant ‘your meaning’. 😃 Your second sentence is troubling. When you say ‘it means’, you are making a blanket assumption based on your own internal bias. This sentence really says more about you than it does about your fellow SDMBers. Well let me make one thing perfectly clear: Everyone is not obssessed with you (although I admit I spent a good deal of time the other day saying under my breath ‘SHAGnasty. shagNASTy. SHAGnasty. shagNASTy.’, trying to figure out which pronounciation was cooler). ---
**Author:** ![Ol\_Gaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2004, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-tackiness-contest/260749/44 "2004-08-20T22:05:01Z")
Hey, I’m new here but I have a great idea. What if we started a thread about _The Lord of the Rings_ and pretended… …get a hold of yourself, you’re going to love this… let’s pretend it was written by somebody else?!?! Well, what do you think? What? Search function? Never heard of it. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2004, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-tackiness-contest/260749/45 "2004-08-20T22:05:27Z")
Hey what the - ! I checked the box, I swear! ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2004, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-tackiness-contest/260749/46 "2004-08-20T22:07:58Z")
Thank you, **Shagnasty** , that series of posts made my day! As for tacky, I think any thread with slipcovers is tacky. If threads weren’t meant to be posted in, then why have them. Plaid threads can also be tacky, or tasteful, depending on the design and color scheme. Posting in the nude is almost always tacky unless you are lovely and can prove it. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2004, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-tackiness-contest/260749/47 "2004-08-20T22:41:20Z")
**Rufus Xavier, harmless, Shagnasty, Hal Briston, Ethilrist, Ol’Gaffer, Sean Factotum, Ghanima, dwalin, Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor, Ponder Stibbons, susan\_foster, ShibbOleth, luluBahrain, Rock n Roach, lieu, don’t ask, elmwood** , thank you. I thank, all of you, from the bottom of my heart, for posting to this thread. This thread just wouldn’t have been the same without all of you. Tha-ank you. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2004, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-tackiness-contest/260749/48 "2004-08-20T22:52:17Z")
Actually this thread wouldn’t have existed at all without all of us. You’re welcome. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-tackiness-contest/260749/49 "2004-08-21T00:34:32Z")
Y’know what this thread needs? Polka dots! \*\* O [size=5] O [color=“green”] O O O O [/size]\*\*[/color] Then we could hang a velvet Elvis on one wall, and Dogs Playing Poker on the other. And we could fill up Grandma’s antique sideboard with Precious Moments figurines. ---
**Author:** ![mrsface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9adbd/32.png) [@mrsface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrsface)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-tackiness-contest/260749/50 "2004-08-21T01:10:49Z")
Saying LOL a lot, obliviously. And why don’t we all nominate our favourite poster at the bottom of our posts? LOL!!! ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-tackiness-contest/260749/51 "2004-08-21T01:32:45Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > ARE YOU TALKIN TO ME? > WHAT AM I, A NERVE DOCTOR/CLOWN HERE FOR YOUR AMUSEMENT?!!? \*\* That purple color is FABUL0US! \*\* ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-tackiness-contest/260749/52 "2004-08-21T01:35:30Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > \*\* > That purple color is FABUL0US! > \*\* Whoops! Used a zero instead of the letter O. I also meant to use Book Antiqua, not Times New Roman. Let me repost that. \*\* That purple color is FABULOUS! \*\* Who’s the hottest female doper? ---
**Author:** ![flamingbananas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-tackiness-contest/260749/53 "2004-08-21T01:55:50Z")
YoU kNoW wHaT iS tAcKy Is LaRgE dIfFeReNt SiZeD wOrDs AnD lEtTeRs. AlSo wItH bRiGhT coLoRs. ---
**Author:** ![flamingbananas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-tackiness-contest/260749/54 "2004-08-21T01:57:48Z")
ThAt IsN’t RiGhT. wHeRe Is My SiGnAtUre? ---
**Author:** ![flamingbananas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-tackiness-contest/260749/55 "2004-08-21T01:58:59Z")
ThAt Is MuCh BeTtEr. ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-tackiness-contest/260749/56 "2004-08-21T02:19:49Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > Then we could hang a velvet Elvis on one wall, and Dogs Playing Poker on the other. And we could fill up Grandma’s antique sideboard with Precious Moments figurines. :eek: They’re not playing poker; they’re playing pool. :o : hangs head in shame and vows to redo the livingroom : ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-tackiness-contest/260749/57 "2004-08-21T05:06:51Z")
> [@harmless](#): > > :eek: > > They’re not playing poker; they’re playing pool. :o > > : hangs head in shame and vows to redo the livingroom : I see that someone hasn’t collected the [whole set](http://www.drunkandretired.com/dogs/) yet. I accidentally poked a hole in one of ours and my wife screamed “We just can’t have nice things around here”. ---
**Author:** ![flamingbananas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-tackiness-contest/260749/58 "2004-08-21T05:24:41Z")
I need to get one of those pictures. And I’ll hang it on my wall and call it Kitty. ---
**Author:** ![Rock\_n\_Roach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Rock\_n\_Roach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rock_n_Roach)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-tackiness-contest/260749/59 "2004-08-21T05:59:23Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > I see that someone hasn’t collected the > [whole set](http://www.drunkandretired.com/dogs/) yet. Them’s some serious poker players. I don’t see one tail wagging. I always said the only thing my dog CAN’T do is play poker. He’d wag his tail whenever he had a good hand! > [@flamingbananas](#): > > I need to get one of those pictures. And I’ll hang it on my wall and call it Kitty. Now that’s tacky. Calling a serious doggone poker game kitty? Obliviously you’re just trying to be catty This thread has gone to the dogs! ---
**Author:** ![Rock\_n\_Roach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Rock\_n\_Roach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rock_n_Roach)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-tackiness-contest/260749/60 "2004-08-21T06:09:53Z")
Tacky is submitting one more post (of no importance ) only because then your post count will then match your age. And 1. If someone resurrects this post a year down the road, I am not 163 or what ever the count happens to be at the time - that would be my IQ 2. ok Rufius. it’s not you. It’s me. ME. I’m the the one who’s odbiously obsessed by wanting a higher post count. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-tackiness-contest/260749.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-tackiness-contest/260749.md?page=4)