# The best thread closing **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 22, 2003, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-thread-closing/214718 "2003-11-22T19:11:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Aceospades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Aceospades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aceospades)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-thread-closing/214718/1 "2003-11-22T19:11:13Z")
[In this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=224601) **Czarcasm** had a great closing for a “no OP” thread. This got me wondering, out of all the Moderators and Administrators, who has the best comments in closing of a thread? Rules: I don’t want this to get ugly. Please restrain yourself from posting anything that is going to start controversy. I don’t want THIS thread to have to be closed (but if it does, I do expect some really good closing comments). ---
**Author:** ![Loneraven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c0e974/32.png) [@Loneraven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loneraven)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-thread-closing/214718/2 "2003-11-22T23:25:41Z")
[A personal favourite.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=158917) ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-thread-closing/214718/3 "2003-11-22T23:44:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Loneraven \* > \*\*[A personal favourite.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=158917) \*\* Damn, that WAS a good one. I’d never seen that before. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2003, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-thread-closing/214718/4 "2003-11-23T00:36:17Z")
[This](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=2744558#post2744558) wasn’t a thread closing, but it’s my favorite warning. ---
**Author:** ![jesleigh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@jesleigh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jesleigh)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2003, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-thread-closing/214718/5 "2003-11-23T06:19:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Loneraven \* > \*\*[A personal favourite.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=158917) \*\* That one was spit-water-all-over-screen funny 😃 Wish I had an equally funny one to add ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2003, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-thread-closing/214718/6 "2003-11-23T12:07:24Z")
I started a thread thinking it would be interesting to poll folks as to their choices of witty comebacks to challenging insults. I thought of straightforwardly asking the poll question but then I thought it would be more fun to just post an insult and challenge the reader to defend her/himself. [Czarcasm didn’t think it was funny.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=222470) So, I started a [new thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=222471) in which I was a little more direct in my questioning. The second thread survived but there were still some folks who did not take it in the fun nature in which it was intended. . ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2003, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-thread-closing/214718/7 "2003-11-23T22:54:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jackelope \* > \*\*[This](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=2744558#post2744558) wasn’t a thread closing, but it’s my favorite warning. \*\* Mine too; it is also the thread wherein the hapless OP coined the _Banhattan_ thing.