# Spongemom - cooling **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 13, 2005, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongemom-cooling/312269 "2005-07-13T01:15:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![35340](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/8baadc/32.png) [@35340](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/35340)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongemom-cooling/312269/1 "2005-07-13T01:15:01Z")
got it. My bad for re upping. bye. ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongemom-cooling/312269/2 "2005-07-13T01:43:37Z")
Okay, I guess. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongemom-cooling/312269/3 "2005-07-13T02:06:21Z")
Moving this from ATMB to the Pit, and closing it… since some of the principles aren’t around to reply to any comments. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongemom-cooling/312269/4 "2005-07-13T12:38:36Z")
Since I believe that **Spongemom** is now back from time-out, I’m re-opening this. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongemom-cooling/312269/5 "2005-07-13T12:53:26Z")
> [@C K Dexter Haven](#): > > Since I believe that **Spongemom** is now back from time-out, I’m re-opening this. She’s back? Crap, hide the kittens! ---
**Author:** ![Greathouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greathouse/32/2992_2.png) [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongemom-cooling/312269/6 "2005-07-13T12:56:16Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > She’s back? Crap, hide the kittens! HA! Good one. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongemom-cooling/312269/7 "2005-07-13T13:00:10Z")
Smatter with you people!! Where’s the link(s)??? Sorry, too much coffee. But still, what the hell is going on here? ---
**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 13, 2005, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongemom-cooling/312269/8 "2005-07-13T13:00:10Z")
OK **Mynn** help me out here. **Spongemom** was out for a “cooling off” period which I’m guessing you’re referring to??? And you’re … um … upset? Or something? That OP is mighty mysterious. I can’t figure out what the heck you’re getting at. Would you mind actually, say, writing a short paragraph for those of us who aren’t so good at scrying and tea leaves? ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongemom-cooling/312269/9 "2005-07-13T13:03:03Z")
[Link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=318321). Warning! Heck of a train wreck that thread is. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongemom-cooling/312269/10 "2005-07-13T13:07:12Z")
> [@Amp](#): > > [Link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=318321). > > Warning! Heck of a train wreck that thread is. Yes, but **spongemom** got the warning in [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=324304) thread. Still, I have no fucking idea what **Mynn** ’s post is about. She’s talking martian. ---
**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 13, 2005, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongemom-cooling/312269/11 "2005-07-13T13:09:47Z")
> [@Amp](#): > > [Link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=318321). Yea, I remember that quite well. But that was in May. I’m curious what’s got **Mynn** worked up as of “Yesterday 08:15 PM”. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongemom-cooling/312269/12 "2005-07-13T13:31:47Z")
Perhaps this isn’t a pitting of **spongemom** but a pitting of the ‘cooling’ and now **Mynn** is sorry for re-upping to a board that would give SM a cooling off period. Or mayhaps **Mynn** is writing in shorthand. ---
**Author:** ![Liz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/liz/32/17737_2.png) [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongemom-cooling/312269/13 "2005-07-13T13:38:09Z")
That was my take on it – **Mynn** is/was friends with **spongemom** and was pissy about the suspension, so she regrets her decision to pay for membership. Which, IMO, is ridiculous. **Spongemom** was advised by a number of people to chill the fuck out and decided not to, so you know. To the corner with you. Could be wrong, though, **Mynn** could be talking about… something else. What that would be, I’m not quite sure. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongemom-cooling/312269/14 "2005-07-13T13:49:15Z")
I recall Mynn threatening not to renew her membership this past Spring. Now that she has, she regrets her decision. Oh, well. Robin ---
**Author:** ![Greathouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greathouse/32/2992_2.png) [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongemom-cooling/312269/15 "2005-07-13T13:50:54Z")
Hmmm…I read it as **Mynn** regretted sponsoring **Spongemom**. I don’t know if she did or not, but that is how it came across to me. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongemom-cooling/312269/16 "2005-07-13T13:53:28Z")
Will **Spongemom** be recanting her “fuck all of you” post? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongemom-cooling/312269/17 "2005-07-13T13:58:34Z")
I love it when people write these vague OPs as if they think everybody is following their little pathetic internet message-board dramas and hence know every little obscure thing they ambiguously reference. ---
**Author:** ![FisherQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongemom-cooling/312269/18 "2005-07-13T14:03:00Z")
Here’s a theory. Mynn had sponsered Spongemom, and supports her in general. But she didn’t realize that Spongemom was off on a cooling period, because she hadn’t seen the relevant thread. The recent revival of the Spongemom thread (in the Sat on Cookie poop thread) has drawn this to her attention for the first time. Now that she knows, she is angry and annoyed, and is planning to punish the board by depriving us all of her entertaining, detailed, communicative posts. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongemom-cooling/312269/19 "2005-07-13T14:04:52Z")
The “bye” and the sig seems to spell it out for me. Though I could be totally off base. Let me see if this helps. bye = I’m leaving! Never, never evar will I be back There are fools, damn fools, and teeming millions. = you are worse in my eyes than a damn fool Live free or die. = I support the right of animals to die as they were meant to, violently Death is not the worst of Evils. = My mind is a living hell, help me, O Satan! Again, I could be interpreting it wrong. But, if I’m right, we will only get extra large font posts in reply. ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongemom-cooling/312269/20 "2005-07-13T14:08:05Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > Will **Spongemom** be recanting her “fuck all of you” post? Every fucking one of us? :eek: > [@FisherQueen](#): > > Now that she knows, she is angry and annoyed, and is planning to punish the board by depriving us all of her entertaining, detailed, communicative posts. Ooh, I think you’re on to something there. > [@Revtim](#): > > I love it when people write these vague OPs as if they think everybody is following their little pathetic internet message-board dramas and hence know every little obscure thing they ambiguously reference. Amen. Every once in a while people from my little messageboard IM me saying “So what do you think?” I usually respond a) “About what?” and b) “Who are you again?” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongemom-cooling/312269.md?page=2)