# The SDMB update (gossip) thread.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 15, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-update-gossip-thread/294705 "2005-03-15T21:21:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-update-gossip-thread/294705/1 "2005-03-15T21:21:03Z")
I haven’t had much time lately to peruse the boards. In the past month I’d be lucky to get about fifteen minutes per day to post/read. What’s happened around here lately? Anything from someone getting/loosing a job, a spouse, a pet, a new car, etc. Anything cool been going on that I’m not aware of? (which is probably just about everything). (I’m up to speed on the Tuba incident…) Posters getting pitted, in trouble, banned, - you get the picture. Any topic is fair game. What have I missed in the last month or so? Anyone end a post with “Hi Opal” lately? ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-update-gossip-thread/294705/2 "2005-03-15T22:19:10Z")
Dude. It’s been a WILD month! **Cajun Man** : Banned (no details, sorry) **QtM** : Deported to his native Tripoli **Reeder** : replaced Cajun Man as a mod That’s the big stuff. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2005, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-update-gossip-thread/294705/3 "2005-03-15T22:34:51Z")
You’ve been away? Then you definitely don’t want to miss [this thread](http://www.najecki.com/repro/notions/thread16_c.jpg)! Sometimes I do things like this, and I almost hate myself for it… ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-update-gossip-thread/294705/4 "2005-03-15T22:45:45Z")
_ties up **Hal Briston** with the thread he posted, drags him away towards the squid_ 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-update-gossip-thread/294705/5 "2005-03-15T22:46:38Z")
> [@Inigo Montoya](#): > > Dude. It’s been a WILD month! > > **Cajun Man** : Banned (no details, sorry) > **QtM** : Deported to his native Tripoli > **Reeder** : replaced Cajun Man as a mod > > That’s the big stuff. You forgot to mention that **Diogenes the Cynic** , **gobear** , **Siege** , **Polycarp** and **scott\_plaid** converted to fundamentalist Christianity after reading a most persuasive Chick tract. ---
**Author:** ![Kaotic\_Newtral](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@Kaotic\_Newtral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaotic_Newtral)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-update-gossip-thread/294705/6 "2005-03-15T23:37:59Z")
> [@Inigo Montoya](#): > > Dude. It’s been a WILD month! > > **Cajun Man** : Banned (no details, sorry) > **QtM** : Deported to his native Tripoli > **Reeder** : replaced Cajun Man as a mod > > That’s the big stuff. Holy Crap! I read daily…and I missed the Cajun Man thing. That’s huge news to me. ---
**Author:** ![Keapon\_Laffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@Keapon\_Laffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keapon_Laffin)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-update-gossip-thread/294705/7 "2005-03-15T23:48:05Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > You forgot to mention that **Diogenes the Cynic** , **gobear** , **Siege** , **Polycarp** and **scott\_plaid** converted to fundamentalist Christianity after reading a most persuasive Chick tract. I knew it! I knew that they were closet fundies all along! ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-update-gossip-thread/294705/8 "2005-03-15T23:53:13Z")
**Sol Grundy** revealed he is, in actuality, a middle aged Korean woman who lives in Ohio and stumped for George Bush last August. ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-update-gossip-thread/294705/9 "2005-03-16T00:01:06Z")
> [@Kaotic Newtral](#): > > Holy Crap! I read daily…and I missed the Cajun Man thing. That’s huge news to me. WHOOOOOOSH!!! ---
**Author:** ![Kaotic\_Newtral](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@Kaotic\_Newtral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaotic_Newtral)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-update-gossip-thread/294705/10 "2005-03-16T01:10:54Z")
> [@Scribble](#): > > WHOOOOOOSH!!! Woohoo! My first whoooooosh! I’m pretty glad it was one also! 🙂 (I didn’t used to be an idiot, I evolved) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-update-gossip-thread/294705/11 "2005-03-16T07:32:19Z")
It turned out my “broken rib” was an alien implant, which left and has now taken over Disney. Thanks to Mrs. Nott’s chemotherapy, she now is employed as a body double for Governor Mitch Daniels. And my cat, Freckles? He claims he’s just a cat, but I wonder… ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-update-gossip-thread/294705/12 "2005-03-16T11:03:33Z")
I bowled a 168 recently. MPS, indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-update-gossip-thread/294705/13 "2005-03-16T11:53:54Z")
**Keapon Laffin** recently outed himself to actually be \*\*Paris Hilton’s Chihuahua, \*\*_Tinkerbell_. ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-update-gossip-thread/294705/14 "2005-03-16T12:08:16Z")
I died. I think. Wait. [_checks pulse_] Mmm. Guess not. My bad. Carry on then. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-update-gossip-thread/294705/15 "2005-03-16T12:43:40Z")
Now, now, children!! So, it seems as though everything is normal around here then, right? **Asknott** , the new CEO of Disney (your former implant) has declared that Disney needs to “Mend the fences and make money”. I was just there a couple of years ago and the fences seemed to be in great shape, especially the ones in the Animal Kingdom park. **Shirley Ujest** - “I blowed a 168 recently”. Your lips get sore at all? Has **Diogenes** posted in the last couple of days or so? We just had an incident here where someone shot up a church full of worshippers and then turned the gun on himself… ---
**Author:** ![MrFantsyPants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@MrFantsyPants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrFantsyPants)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-update-gossip-thread/294705/16 "2005-03-16T13:14:57Z")
You people are all so frickin helpful. Check out ATMB, but the big stuff has been the TubaDiva saga, Kaitlyn’s flameout, and to a lesser extent, everyone’s favourite, Kel Varnsen got knocked out of the ring. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-update-gossip-thread/294705/17 "2005-03-16T14:12:01Z")
In honour of the patron saint of my country, i shall be getting rather drunk tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-update-gossip-thread/294705/18 "2005-03-16T14:31:30Z")
> [@MrFantsyPants](#): > > You people are all so frickin helpful. > > Check out ATMB, but the big stuff has been the TubaDiva saga, Kaitlyn’s flameout, and to a lesser extent, everyone’s favourite, Kel Varnsen got knocked out of the ring. Thankyou. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-update-gossip-thread/294705/19 "2005-03-16T14:45:21Z")
> [@TwistofFate](#): > > In honour of the patron saint of my country, i shall be getting rather drunk tomorrow. Around these parts; The Town of Erin throws a huge drunk fest that starts at about 7 AM and usually ends up with pub crawl service that goes 'till 2 AM. Erin is in the middle of nowhere, and the people start lining up along the country road at about 6 AM. By 10 or so, the crowd of people on the street (now closed to thru traffic) stretches on for about 2 miles in both directions. There has to be at least 20-30 thousand people that gather here for the annual parade. Then all hell breaks loose. [Here’s a site.](http://www.erintownship.com/events/parade.html) Here’s an excerpt from an article; "When I heard that rowdyism and drunkenness had pretty much killed the traditional St. Patrick’s Day parade in Washington County’s Irish enclave, the Town of Erin, my first thought was that they should start the parade in the morning to keep the drinking down. Then I find out it was in the morning. Welcome to Wisconsin." Good times. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-update-gossip-thread/294705/20 "2005-03-16T17:57:26Z")
> [@Uncommon Sense](#): > > What’s happened around here lately?..(I’m up to speed on the Tuba incident…) Well, that’s pretty much it. Dullsville as usual. > [@](#): > > Anyone end a post with “Hi Opal” lately? Other than [**5 time champ** on Jeopardy!,](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=304601) you’re the first. 🙂