# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![oft\_wears\_hats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@oft\_wears\_hats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oft_wears_hats)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/21 "2016-04-23T00:09:23Z")
The Great Outage? How about “The Great Sock Migration” or “The Lonely Sock Puppet Theatre” or “The Sock Drawer Explosion”? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/22 "2016-04-23T00:09:39Z")
I guess we really pissed off ol’ Handsome Harry in that other thread. ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/23 "2016-04-23T00:24:20Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I guess we really pissed off ol’ Handsome Harry in that other thread. Think how difficult it must have been for him to maintain that state of frothing derangement for the duration of the outage. ---
**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 23, 2016, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/24 "2016-04-23T00:31:15Z")
> [@oft\_wears\_hats](#): > > The Great Outage? How about “The Great Sock Migration” or “The Lonely Sock Puppet Theatre” or “The Sock Drawer Explosion”? Went to the zoo to see the Giraffes. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/25 "2016-04-23T00:41:57Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Think it was any recently-suspended die-hard Trump supporter? It was definitely someone from the anti-Bernie crowd. Definitely!! ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/26 "2016-04-23T01:12:09Z")
4/21/2016. 10:29 am. Never Forget. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/27 "2016-04-23T01:42:22Z")
> [@neofishboy](#): > > 4/21/2016. 10:29 am. Never Forget. Never forget what? Anyway, now I what it’s like when time just stops. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/28 "2016-04-23T01:43:17Z")
Was the outage a tribute to Prince? You know, like dimming the lights on Broadway. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/29 "2016-04-23T01:47:39Z")
> [@neofishboy](#): > > 4/21/2016. 10:29 am. Never Forget. That’d make a great t-shirt… I’ve often thought of making myself a shirt with “I survived the Winter Of Our Missed Content” on it. And then I’d get depressed when no one would get it. (After wearing it every day for five years, I’d be on my knees in the middle of a busy intersection yelling “Are there NO dopers to be found here?”) ---
**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 23, 2016, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/30 "2016-04-23T01:54:17Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > I’m betting it was some ignorant savage who lost an argument on the dope. My first guess, based on what I saw when I wasn’t logged in, was that it was **handsomehenry**. Not because I think he seemed technologically capable but he was pissed enough to Pit someone who is no longer here for something they said 6 years ago, and it wasn’t going well for him. But, more importantly he flat out said that he was a Nazi supporter (The initials always made me suspect), and was upset at people for giving him grief over it. And while he may not have a botnet at his disposal, there is some correlation among online neo-Nazis and shit like this. So my first thought was that maybe he went and complained on 4chan or similar, and someone decided to “teach us a lesson.” Nothing conclusive, mind you, and I wouldn’t push if he says it wasn’t him. But it did make me wonder. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/31 "2016-04-23T02:03:35Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Went to the zoo to see the Giraffes. Zoo? With all those clowns jumping around, I thought it was a circus. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/32 "2016-04-23T02:28:55Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Zoo? With all those clowns jumping around, I thought it was a circus. [Moderating] No taking shots at other boards, please. Board wars and all. [/Moderating] ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/33 "2016-04-23T03:34:07Z")
Oh, please. A board war with “The Other Place” would be self-abuse, nothing more. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/34 "2016-04-23T04:04:25Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Oh, please. A board war with “The Other Place” would be self-abuse, nothing more. Remember, every time you masturbate, God kills a kitten. Please, think of the kittens! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/35 "2016-04-23T04:32:34Z")
> [@oft\_wears\_hats](#): > > The Great Outage? How about “The Great Sock Migration” or “The Lonely Sock Puppet Theatre” or “The Sock Drawer Explosion”? My suggestion: “The Spring Broken.” ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/36 "2016-04-23T04:36:06Z")
As long as it doesn’t become another Winter of Our Missed Content. ---
**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 23, 2016, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/37 "2016-04-23T05:47:43Z")
For strategic purposes, we should actually want to stay on amicable terms with “that other board” (however superficially), because someday we might all be forced to go there as our emergency meeting place. ---
**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, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/38 "2016-04-23T05:55:20Z")
> [@neofishboy](#): > > 4/21/2016. 10:29 am. Never Forget. Black Thursday. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/39 "2016-04-23T06:05:20Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > Remember, every time you masturbate, God kills a kitten…( No one alive would remember what a “cat” was. We like kittens, we’d feel bad about it, most of us would stop. Lots of us, anyway. Some. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/40 "2016-04-23T08:38:28Z")
board wars? whuh? how does that work? I’ve never experienced one soooo… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846.md?page=3)