# Skipmagic: the coward **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 7, 2005, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skipmagic-the-coward/311506 "2005-07-07T21:30:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skipmagic-the-coward/311506/1 "2005-07-07T21:30:36Z")
> **[SkipMagic to be suspended for a week?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=324488)** > > Hee hee. From this thread: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=6340991 at 11:45 a.m. at 12:01 p.m. Cut and dried, my friends. Cut and dried. 😃 All times PDT. Closed your own thread, your just scared you’d end up in threadspotting like our dear beloved **Gyraffe**. That’s just so twee. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skipmagic-the-coward/311506/2 "2005-07-07T21:33:17Z")
Well, he _did_ close it after I made a Python reference, and you know how _those_ things can get out of hand. Maybe it was for the best. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skipmagic-the-coward/311506/3 "2005-07-07T21:34:17Z")
It was closed because of that whole “no joke threads in the Pit” thing. _narrows eyes_ ---
**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:** [July 7, 2005, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skipmagic-the-coward/311506/4 "2005-07-07T22:22:42Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > It was closed because of that whole “no joke threads in the Pit” thing. > > _narrows eyes_ It wasn’t in the pit. Ever. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skipmagic-the-coward/311506/5 "2005-07-07T22:37:57Z")
> [@Rufus Xavier](#): > > It wasn’t in the pit. Ever. That’s true. But that’s where it would have belonged, being a thread commenting on moderator action. But, because it was a joke thread, it wasn’t eligible to be in the Pit. Catch-22. It didn’t belong anywhere, so it had to be closed. ---
**Author:** ![JimSox5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skipmagic-the-coward/311506/6 "2005-07-07T23:22:25Z")
It was commenting on a moderator action, but I wouldn’t say it was a flame. I think it could have kept going where it was, but then again, I’m not a mod, so it’s all just idle speculation now. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2005, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skipmagic-the-coward/311506/7 "2005-07-07T23:31:15Z")
A flame? Hell, no. I just wanted to show everyone how funny that was. I couldn’t do it in that thread because it was closed. This one _is_ in the pit and it’s not a flame, either. My head hurts. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skipmagic-the-coward/311506/8 "2005-07-07T23:41:37Z")
Oh, I didn’t take it as anything toasting my toes. I thought it was pretty amusing, too; I just knew that it was one of those purgatory threads: neither for here nor there. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skipmagic-the-coward/311506/9 "2005-07-08T00:13:21Z")
> [@SkipMagic](#): > > Oh, I didn’t take it as anything toasting my toes. I thought it was pretty amusing, too; I just knew that it was one of those purgatory threads: neither for here nor there. In other words just like the **Giraffe** thread, and we hadn’t even started singing at you yet… Skip, the magic [del]dragon[/del] modron, lived for being twee And frolicked in the MPSIMS midst, in a land called SDMB Little Beardless Bippy loved that rascal mod And brought him pie and sealing wax and other stuff, quite odd ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skipmagic-the-coward/311506/10 "2005-07-08T00:46:42Z")
It’s not illegal if a moderator does it. 😉