# The SDMB Soap Opera **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 7, 2000, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854 "2000-07-07T14:38:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2000, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/121 "2000-07-09T21:43:00Z")
…a mysterious, one-armed man, the man for whom ChiefScott had been searching for 20 years because… ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2000, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/122 "2000-07-09T22:46:49Z")
…the one-armed man was on a grassy knoll one very fateful day. But that was either here nor there, he had bigger worries. Did the one armed man know about… ---
**Author:** ![ArkonDLoC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a8b319/32.png) [@ArkonDLoC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArkonDLoC)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2000, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/123 "2000-07-09T23:30:14Z")
…the secret experiments Cheif Scott had been performing to… ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2000, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/124 "2000-07-09T23:32:42Z")
…extend his… ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2000, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/125 "2000-07-09T23:35:56Z")
…shoe size? ChiefScott’s feet were an embarassment to him–they were as small and dainty as a ballerina’s. Boys taunted him in the showers during gym class. The memory of their torments haunts him still. To make his feet bigger, he’s been conducting dastardly experiments on… ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2000, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/126 "2000-07-09T23:44:02Z")
…PHAEDRUS, which would explain why CheifScott had no fear of him. He knew he could control phaedrus by the device CS had planted in his head. He planned on forcing phaedrus to… ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2000, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/127 "2000-07-10T01:39:02Z")
…shave his head & sell flowers at an airport. Meanwhile, Bluepony sidles in & surveys the bloody lounge at the No-Tell Motel, sees ChiefScott preparing to excercise his mind control on Phaedrus, and says… ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2000, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/128 "2000-07-10T01:44:16Z")
…"HALT! Don’t do that because he is my… ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2000, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/129 "2000-07-10T01:52:42Z")
…"aunt’s best friend’s hairdresser’s cousin’s New-Age Spiritual Adviser’s nephew’s milkman’s daughter’s boyfriend! Besides, if you look closely, you’ll see that Phaedrus is missing something very important. Look here…" ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2000, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/130 "2000-07-10T02:08:25Z")
…at his hand. See how is palm doesn’t have anything on it? He’s supposed to have a tattoo of… ---
**Author:** ![ArkonDLoC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a8b319/32.png) [@ArkonDLoC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArkonDLoC)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2000, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/131 "2000-07-10T02:27:41Z")
…a rose, placed by… ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2000, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/132 "2000-07-10T02:31:00Z")
…his thumb. It was symbolic of his relationship with… ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2000, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/133 "2000-07-10T02:35:08Z")
…pepperlandgirl, long before she was married. In fact, she was his first and only true love. The rose was important to his fond and sweet memories of her, for on their very first date, he had… ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2000, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/134 "2000-07-10T02:39:16Z")
…been suffering from the heartbreak of psoriasis, and used the roses he had brought for her to scratch his head. Pepperlandgirl remembers that night too. It is burned forever in her memory, because Phaedrus tried to… ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2000, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/135 "2000-07-10T02:45:53Z")
…bite off her nose, which totally freaked her out. It wasn’t the reason she left him though. She really left because… ---
**Author:** ![dpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2000, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/136 "2000-07-10T03:02:02Z")
…shortly before they were to be married, he expressed an interest in sleeping with another woman to see what it was like. But pepperlandgirl overcame the emotional turmoil soon after when she met… ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2000, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/137 "2000-07-10T03:07:43Z")
…Arkon, who won her heart by bringing her a little teddy bear holding a heart that said “I Love You.” But that teddy bear was no innocent toy, as pepperlandgirl was to discover. It had been used to… ---
**Author:** ![dpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2000, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/138 "2000-07-10T03:22:11Z")
…hold the soul of the dead. During a demonic ritual, Chiefscott, Coldfire and Arkon had called upon the evil powers that be and infused into the bear the soul of… ---
**Author:** ![ArkonDLoC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a8b319/32.png) [@ArkonDLoC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArkonDLoC)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2000, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/139 "2000-07-10T03:28:04Z")
…Arkon’s Mentor, who had set in motion a plan to… ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2000, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/140 "2000-07-10T03:32:25Z")
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