# The Great Outage **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 22, 2016, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846 "2016-04-22T23:30:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2016, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/1 "2016-04-22T23:30:52Z")
Might as well start this one. Boy, that outage sure sucked. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2016, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/2 "2016-04-22T23:31:31Z")
I would like to track down those responsible, and pull his scrotum over his head… ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2016, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/3 "2016-04-22T23:32:15Z")
Think it was any recently-suspended die-hard Trump supporter? ---
**Author:** ![JohnClay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@JohnClay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnClay)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2016, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/4 "2016-04-22T23:32:32Z")
Yeah it was for 24 hours or something ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2016, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/5 "2016-04-22T23:33:16Z")
And Prince is still dead, daggumit. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2016, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/6 "2016-04-22T23:36:12Z")
I went and played outside. It was a Recreational Outage. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2016, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/7 "2016-04-22T23:37:38Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > I went and played outside. It was a Recreational Outage. I award this post the Golden Karen. Congrats. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2016, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/8 "2016-04-22T23:38:00Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > And Prince is still dead, daggumit. They should have used an earlier back-up. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2016, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/9 "2016-04-22T23:39:33Z")
After reading the responses you must wait fifteen minutes to post in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2016, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/10 "2016-04-22T23:41:03Z")
We should have a Witch Hunt to find out who did this. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2016, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/11 "2016-04-22T23:45:03Z")
Witch hunts are _always_ fruitful. Now let me just go find my witch scale. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2016, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/12 "2016-04-22T23:45:31Z")
I’m betting it was some ignorant savage who lost an argument on the dope. ---
**Author:** ![Stringbean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Stringbean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stringbean)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2016, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/13 "2016-04-22T23:45:37Z")
Boy, that outage sure sucked. It just plain sucked. I’ve seen outages suck before but that was the suckiest suck that ever sucked. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2016, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/14 "2016-04-22T23:55:12Z")
It could have been worse. It could have been a repeat of the Winter of Our Missed Content. That being said, if I ever find out who is responsible for this, there \*will \*be a reckoning. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2016, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/15 "2016-04-22T23:58:14Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I would like to track down those responsible, and pull his scrotum over his head… I pit your assumption that the perp was in possession of male genitalia. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2016, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/16 "2016-04-22T23:59:38Z")
Yeah. Most of us were at the Dope light passing time mocking those who didn’t get the memo or the map. The beer was actually better, but the wings were cold. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/17 "2016-04-23T00:00:37Z")
I don’t think those were wings. That definitely wasn’t beer. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/18 "2016-04-23T00:01:11Z")
At least there are no threads in IMHO or GQ with “need answer fast” in the title! ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/19 "2016-04-23T00:02:37Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > I don’t think those were wings. That definitely wasn’t beer. Now that you mention it, I wondered why they had hair still on them. ---
**Author:** ![DiggitCamara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@DiggitCamara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiggitCamara)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/20 "2016-04-23T00:05:09Z")
> [@Stringbean](#): > > Boy, that outage sure sucked. > > It just plain sucked. > > I’ve seen outages suck before but that was the suckiest suck that ever sucked. Outage? What outage? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846.md?page=2)