# SMDB Embarrassment: Could I take back that day? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 6, 2006, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smdb-embarrassment-could-i-take-back-that-day/379348 "2006-11-06T20:35:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smdb-embarrassment-could-i-take-back-that-day/379348/1 "2006-11-06T20:35:50Z")
Similar to drunk posting, posting when high on caffeine and chocolate should be prohibited. On November 3, I enthusiastically and completely unwittingly posted incorrect information in the ER thread _and_ the Grey’s Anatomy thread. :smack: What was I thinking? Even with my heartfelt apology, can I ever restore anyone’s faith in me? Or could it me that my inane ramblings aren’t as earth-shattering as I think? :eek: **What’s your most embarrassing SDMB moment, that one post you wish you could obliterate from the collective works of the community?** Thank godness the archives don’t get kept forever. ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smdb-embarrassment-could-i-take-back-that-day/379348/2 "2006-11-06T20:53:13Z")
I doubt you’ll get too many serious responses to this thread. I certaintly don’t want to dredge up any of my stupid SDMB moments. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smdb-embarrassment-could-i-take-back-that-day/379348/3 "2006-11-06T20:53:36Z")
Four words that shall haunt me to my death-bed: Plane on a treadmill. For the last time, I’m sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smdb-embarrassment-could-i-take-back-that-day/379348/4 "2006-11-06T20:56:37Z")
Ugh. Mine was a pit thread about the speed racing morons who struck a cab and killed its driver. It was shortly after I’d joined up, and it was about the unabashed shock I’d felt that they made bail. Except for some unfathomable reason – excessive sunspotting, poisonous jet contrails or _El Chupacabra_, I dunno – I equated “made bail” with “were acquitted.” Thus, I went on an erudite tirade with some rather nicely crafted insults thrown in based on a completely erroneous premise. Fortunately that thread died out pretty quickly. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smdb-embarrassment-could-i-take-back-that-day/379348/5 "2006-11-06T21:03:55Z")
Hmmm…nothing comes to mind. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smdb-embarrassment-could-i-take-back-that-day/379348/6 "2006-11-06T21:18:12Z")
[QUOTE=Hal Briston] Hmmm…nothing comes to mind. [/QUOTE] …he says sheepishly. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smdb-embarrassment-could-i-take-back-that-day/379348/7 "2006-11-06T21:22:55Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] …he says sheepishly. [/QUOTE] Baaaa…d joke. I hope it is okay if you bring it up first **Hal**. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smdb-embarrassment-could-i-take-back-that-day/379348/8 "2006-11-06T21:38:07Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Baaaa…d joke. I hope it is okay if you bring it up first **Hal**. [/QUOTE] It’s gone stale. Perhaps we should just leave it be. Ewe go first. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smdb-embarrassment-could-i-take-back-that-day/379348/9 "2006-11-06T21:41:47Z")
I haven’t been here long enough to **really** embarrass myself, I guess. 😃 The worst I did was [my little paean to caffeine](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=390902) that I posted the morning I OD’ed on coffee after not having any for a year. Even that was more silly than truly embarrassing. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smdb-embarrassment-could-i-take-back-that-day/379348/10 "2006-11-06T21:56:58Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] **What’s your most embarrassing SDMB moment, that one post you wish you could obliterate from the collective works of the community?** [/QUOTE] Did you notice that you’ve mispelled “SDMB” in title of the OP? And I think that there’s some toilet paper stuck to your shoe. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smdb-embarrassment-could-i-take-back-that-day/379348/11 "2006-11-06T22:17:00Z")
Oh, man, I very recently went totally off the deep end and castigated a harmless Doper (not to be confused with a Doper named **harmless** ) for some stupid teenaged antics he had gotten into years ago. Total overreaction on my part, and a major buzzkill to the thread. OTOH, I got my first Pitting over with for something I totally and completely deserved, and I survived it! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smdb-embarrassment-could-i-take-back-that-day/379348/12 "2006-11-06T22:36:55Z")
[QUOTE=ShibbOleth] Did you notice that you’ve mispelled “SDMB” in title of the OP? [/QUOTE] Yes, I was being ironical. Do you buy that? ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smdb-embarrassment-could-i-take-back-that-day/379348/13 "2006-11-06T22:53:06Z")
Not really related to this thread, but I’m too lazy to find (or start) a thread it belongs in. Yesterday, I took communion for the first time at the United Methodist Church I’ve been going to off and on for 2 months. The liturgy was more or less what I’d have expected, the flow of traffic fairly normal, and then I walked up front and noticed a small pedestal between the two ministers. On the pedestal was a small bowl of “Guilt-Free Bread”. I did a double take. Didn’t we just confess that we’d sinned against God in thought, word, and deed and were told that “While you were yet sinners, Christ died for you” and so we were forgiven? Then I read the sign again. “Gluten-Free Bread” Oh. Bet there’s someone who’s gluten-intolerant. That’s a reasonable way to handle it, gives newcomers who can’t have gluten a chance to take communion without making a big fuss . . . Not horribly embarrassing, but a little bit. Especially since I’ve now told people who wouldn’t have known about it anyway. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smdb-embarrassment-could-i-take-back-that-day/379348/14 "2006-11-06T23:32:21Z")
One of my friends was just asking me what celiacs do about flour-and-water only wafers. ---
**Author:** ![wevets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9a140/32.png) [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smdb-embarrassment-could-i-take-back-that-day/379348/15 "2006-11-06T23:38:34Z")
I posted a thoroughly foolish and insipid line in a thread about flags in parades and on shoulder patches. Like a complete moron (I’m usually only a somewhat partial moron - but I make up for it as a double moron on Tuesdays) I made some comparison to the way you see a flag on a computer screen with the way you see it in a parade that didn’t take into account that one was a three-dimensional object which could be observed from the other side. That wouldn’t have been so bad, except that I posted again to defend my foolish misunderstanding when it was, quite rightly, objected to. I’m not going to link to it - it was a bad day. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smdb-embarrassment-could-i-take-back-that-day/379348/16 "2006-11-06T23:40:35Z")
Isn’t gluten one of the seven deadly ingredients? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smdb-embarrassment-could-i-take-back-that-day/379348/17 "2006-11-06T23:58:52Z")
[QUOTE=DMark] Isn’t gluten one of the seven deadly ingredients? [/QUOTE] Yep, along with Olustra. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smdb-embarrassment-could-i-take-back-that-day/379348/18 "2006-11-07T00:01:49Z")
Funny, but I often get the letters SDMB mixed up in my head – perhaps because it reminds me of SMTP. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smdb-embarrassment-could-i-take-back-that-day/379348/19 "2006-11-07T02:26:53Z")
[QUOTE=Mindfield] Funny, but I often get the letters SDMB mixed up in my head – perhaps because it reminds me of SMTP. [/QUOTE] Me, too. I’m glad I’m not the only one. ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smdb-embarrassment-could-i-take-back-that-day/379348/20 "2006-11-07T03:30:30Z")
[QUOTE=Mindfield] It’s gone stale. Perhaps we should just leave it be. Ewe go first. [/QUOTE] I am pretty sure he is tired of being lambbasted all the time… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smdb-embarrassment-could-i-take-back-that-day/379348.md?page=2)