# So, what happened? **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happened/619002 **Category:** About This Message Board **Created:** [April 17, 2012, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happened/619002 "2012-04-17T02:50:49Z") **Posts on this page:** 16 **Page:** 2
### Author: ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat) #### Post date: [April 17, 2012, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happened/619002/21 "2012-04-17T12:31:18Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > The scheduled maintenance for Tuesday morning has been cancelled. As you were. 🙂 WE were cancelled? Egad! ---
### Author: ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman) #### Post date: [April 17, 2012, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happened/619002/22 "2012-04-17T13:15:10Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > Apparently major problem at the hosting company – in the wake of last week’s fire that also caused some downtime. There was a FIRE? ---
### Author: ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind) #### Post date: [April 17, 2012, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happened/619002/23 "2012-04-17T13:23:00Z")
I was concerned because I just got a new computer and am still trying to get the hang of it. Being only slightly better at technology than, say, a chimpanzee, and my computer instructor lives 3 hours away, I was afraid it was something _I_ was doing wrong that I couldn’t get the SD. ---
### Author: ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe) #### Post date: [April 17, 2012, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happened/619002/24 "2012-04-17T14:44:11Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > What is this fire you write about? Inquiring minds want to know - did you mean an actual, real, honest-to-{diety of choice} _fire_?!? ---
### Author: ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp) #### Post date: [April 17, 2012, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happened/619002/25 "2012-04-17T15:16:27Z")
1. What fire? 2. What maintenance? 3. I blame tthe whole thing on an invisible wombat in the hamster cages. Or maybe **Marley** getting incautious with the Banhammer. ---
### Author: ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople) #### Post date: [April 17, 2012, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happened/619002/26 "2012-04-17T15:22:43Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > Apparently major problem at the hosting company – in the wake of last week’s fire that also caused some downtime. > > May be up for good – we are scheduled for downtime Tuesday am, that might stil happen. Don’t know, can’t say. > > Good luck. Googling around I see that the only fire was at _Joe’s Muffler Repair and Internet Hosting_, I think I just found the SDMB’s host… ---
### Author: ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp) #### Post date: [April 17, 2012, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happened/619002/27 "2012-04-17T15:32:00Z")
And you were wondering why some of the responses seemed muffled lately? 😛 ---
### Author: ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela) #### Post date: [April 17, 2012, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happened/619002/28 "2012-04-17T15:37:27Z")
Are we certain that the mods aren’t trying to drive us insane a la Charles Boyer in ‘Gaslight’? “No, madam, I didn’t touch the message boards.” ---
### Author: ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3) #### Post date: [April 17, 2012, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happened/619002/29 "2012-04-17T16:24:13Z")
I was just writing about our Winter of Missed Content. Eerie. ---
### Author: ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap) #### Post date: [April 17, 2012, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happened/619002/30 "2012-04-17T16:47:30Z")
I was forced to pick up a smoking habit. Only got through half a pack, though. ---
### Author: ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT) #### Post date: [April 17, 2012, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happened/619002/31 "2012-04-17T23:28:43Z")
I had assumed that my Internet had went down again and restarted my modem. Then I, and I know this is hard to believe, found some other things on the Internet to occupy my time. I know, I know, the idea that there’s something else on the net than this board is weird. 😃 ---
### Author: ![Mewl\_Dear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Mewl\_Dear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mewl_Dear) #### Post date: [April 17, 2012, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happened/619002/32 "2012-04-17T23:35:13Z")
I thought this place shuffled off with buffalo. I went elsewhere and found out it was possible. Today I find not so much. ---
### Author: ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords) #### Post date: [April 18, 2012, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happened/619002/33 "2012-04-18T00:28:29Z")
So when did we move the hamsters to Tucson? And, can we really trust people who can’t spell “voice?” ---
### Author: ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect) #### Post date: [April 18, 2012, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happened/619002/34 "2012-04-18T01:17:20Z")
I was forced to watch TV…with commercials. Thank goodness we’re back. ---
### Author: ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless) #### Post date: [April 19, 2012, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happened/619002/35 "2012-04-19T00:30:07Z")
So, Monday the boards go down and then tonight our cable goes out. I think somebody must be trying to tell me something. Like “Get a life!” ---
### Author: ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster) #### Post date: [April 19, 2012, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happened/619002/36 "2012-04-19T03:13:37Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > So, Monday the boards go down and then tonight our cable goes out. I think somebody must be trying to tell me something. > Like “Get a life!” Nah, you don’t need to worry about it till the Dope and the cable are both unavailable simultaneously. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happened/619002.md?page=1)