# The Attention Ho Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 22, 2004, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-attention-ho-thread/251621 "2004-06-22T13:32:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-attention-ho-thread/251621/81 "2004-06-23T19:18:52Z")
oh, rats. and then I went back and noticed the poem… But you can see my mistake, coming as it did right after my perfection of a post!!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-attention-ho-thread/251621/82 "2004-06-23T19:22:31Z")
> [@zoogirl](#): > > Uh, bravissima who? > > Of course you HAVE to be referring to my post, but… > > but… > > but… > > Oh, the heck with modesty… > > OF COURSE SHE MEANT ME!!! :dubious: Watch it, or I’ll wax poetic on yo’ ass too! 😛 ---
**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:** [June 23, 2004, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-attention-ho-thread/251621/83 "2004-06-23T19:23:39Z")
> [@zoogirl](#): > > OF COURSE SHE MEANT ME!!! Ahhh, such delusions. They can really be cute sometimes. But, as is always the case when someone has something complimentary to say, she was obviously talking about **me**. She had probably just finished humming a rousing rendition of **my** theme song, and was understandably moved to tears of joy and rapture by the experience. ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-attention-ho-thread/251621/84 "2004-06-23T19:29:55Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > She had probably just finished humming a rousing rendition of **my** theme song, and was understandably moved to tears of joy and rapture by the experience. Yes, but which theme song? :wally ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-attention-ho-thread/251621/85 "2004-06-23T19:33:24Z")
> [@harmless](#): > > THTHTTHTHTTHTTHTHTHTPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPTTTTT! 😛 > > just making sure you don’t forget about me! 😉 Hey! Do you _mind_? Now I have to scroll sideways. That’s so inconsiderate. ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-attention-ho-thread/251621/86 "2004-06-23T19:42:20Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Hey! Do you _mind_? Now I have to scroll sideways. That’s so inconsiderate. Well, in that case: TTTHHHHHHHHHHHHHTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHTTTTTTTTTTTHHHHHHHHHPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-attention-ho-thread/251621/87 "2004-06-23T19:48:59Z")
> [@harmless](#): > > Yes, but which theme song? :wally _Mr. Cellophane_😛😉 I am now forever immortalized in cyberspace by the lovely and talented **harmless**. Were it possible, we would form the ultimate attention whore team, and dazzle everyone with our combined perfection. But eventually, we’d just end up bickering over the fact that I’m just the smidgenest more everything than she is. ---
**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:** [June 23, 2004, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-attention-ho-thread/251621/88 "2004-06-23T20:25:32Z")
There’s also the lament you would feel as you realized that even combined, you wouldn’t be able to approach anything more than a nanospeck of the glory that is **me**. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-attention-ho-thread/251621/89 "2004-06-23T20:31:28Z")
**Hal Briston** and **harmless** are doing extremely well in the competition. Both have come up with annoying gimmicks, and both are attempting to sabotage the other’s effectiveness. Good show! **Picasso Feet** deserves special mention as the only poster so far to be banned within a short time of posting in this thread. **zoogirl,** Your initial post was very annoying. You sound like a person with some serious problems. You definitely (I mean definately) have the potential to do well in this competition. Great tats, **torie.** Why haven’t you been back to whine about nobody noticing them earlier? Notice how **Really Not All That Bright,** when no one commented on his/her running nekkid through the thread, returned to comment on it himself. The posts of **Sanguine Spider** are true works of self absorption. Reading them, I get a real feeling for what it’s like to think of other people as objects created solely to react to one’s self delusions. Devastating, **Spidey.** ---
**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:** [June 23, 2004, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-attention-ho-thread/251621/90 "2004-06-23T20:48:59Z")
Pardon me **lainaf** , but while it is of course proper to have **my** name first on the list, **I** would ask that in the future you would refrain from placing the names of other, lesser beings in the same paragraph as **mine**. No offense to **harmless** , who **I** do have a measure of respect for, but **I** mean, deserving to be mentioned in the same paragraph as **me**? Hardly. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-attention-ho-thread/251621/91 "2004-06-23T22:28:23Z")
Well, obviously **lainaf** is so \*\* LAME\*\* that he, she or \*\* IT\*\* failed to notice **MY** **SUPERIOR** coding skills. **SO** **PBHHHHHHHHHHHHHHTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!** :wally ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-attention-ho-thread/251621/92 "2004-06-23T22:33:19Z")
BOOBIES! ---
**Author:** ![kittenlm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ce7236/32.png) [@kittenlm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenlm)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-attention-ho-thread/251621/93 "2004-06-23T22:41:01Z")
YOU ARE ALL CRAZY!!! ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-attention-ho-thread/251621/94 "2004-06-23T22:41:21Z")
> [@harmless](#): > > :dubious: > Watch it, or I’ll wax poetic on yo’ ass too! 😛 You think a threat poetic Will cause me any stress? Hey, _I’M_ a published poet And you’re simply - harmless! ( 😉 , of course.) ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-attention-ho-thread/251621/95 "2004-06-23T22:48:21Z")
> [@kittenlm](#): > > YOU ARE ALL CRAZY!!! KITTY! : pounces on the kitty and brushes her and puts her in cutesy lil’ bows and places her in the baby carriage : Sorry, had to be done! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![flamingbananas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-attention-ho-thread/251621/96 "2004-06-23T22:48:39Z")
NO! I WIN! I’M YOUNGER! I’M AUTOMATICLY THE CENTER OF ATTENTION! I’M A KID! AHHHHHH! NOOOOO MEEEE MEE EMEEEEE! _STOMPS FOOT_ _POUTS IN CENTER OF THREAD_ ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-attention-ho-thread/251621/97 "2004-06-23T22:49:29Z")
[QUOTE=lainaf **zoogirl,** Your initial post was very annoying. You sound like a person with some serious problems. You definitely (I mean definately) have the potential to do well in this competition.[/QUOTE] Oh, and thank you **lainaf**. I try. In fact some people say I’m really trying… Notice how I tend to remember something else to say after I post? I KNOW it’s okay, because, after all you people just can’t get enough of me. Right? ---
**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:** [June 23, 2004, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-attention-ho-thread/251621/98 "2004-06-23T22:53:18Z")
> [@kittenlm](#): > > YOU ARE ALL CRAZY!!! Yes, my dear, aren’t they? Simply crazy for these peasants to imagine themselves anywhere near **my** level of perfection. Err…yours as well. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-attention-ho-thread/251621/99 "2004-06-23T22:53:39Z")
**harmless**? I"M _WAITING!_ (taps her queenly foot impatiently) ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-attention-ho-thread/251621/100 "2004-06-23T22:54:03Z")
> [@zoogirl](#): > > You think a threat poetic > Will cause me any stress? > Hey, _I’M_ a published poet > And you’re simply - harmless! > > ( 😉 , of course.) \*\*zoogirl \*\* you make me hurl! you think you’re such a pearl? around my little finger you will curl as my poem does unfurl. Sorry if I make your senses whirl but who died and made you earl? Ah, go sit and twirl! 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-attention-ho-thread/251621.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-attention-ho-thread/251621.md?page=6)