In which RNATB thanks all the Dopers who deserve his thanks, except the ones he forgot. It’s been a long time (well, 4 years, which is a long time for anything to hold my interest), so I apologise in advance for anyone I missed.
To DeadlyAccurate and GusNSpot, who sent me things just because I started a thread about looking for them, and never asked for anything in return.
To Captain_C, who introduced me to the wonderful world of Kdice, from which my productivity has never recovered.
To whoever mentioned WordBiz in a thread, because playing online Scrabble is awesome.
To all the people who fought my ignorance - Q.E.D., Tamerlane, DSYoungEsq, GaryT, Rick, Liberal, elucidator, Gfactor, Sam Stone, Otto, Quartz, Colibri, samclem, Johnny L.A., Elendil’s Heir, glee, jjimm, Tuckerfan… okay, probably all of you at some point or other. God knows there was (and remains) plenty to fight.
To all the people who made or make me laugh - there are way too many to name here, but know who you are. I’ll single out EddyTeddyFreddy, Cervaise, Vinyl Turnip and Mangetout, but again, pretty much all of you have probably managed it.
To all the people who made/make me smile - AngelicGemma, FairyChatMom, and the rest of you fuzzy-wuzzy types.
To Shirley Ujest, who came up with this username.
To all the people who posted to my “I bought a duck today” thread, my favorite self-OP ever. Also to all the people who posted to my “Ask the sunglass consultant” and “ask the workers’ compensation defense paralegal” threads, for letting me feel wise for a day or two.
To bored.com, whence came to me the blessing of The Straight Dope while I was working a crappy overnight desk job.
To the Boards in general, for embarrassing the hell out of me when I yell things like “Cite?” and “Band Name!” in normal conversation.
To Cecil.
because he’s freaking Cecil, people. Jeez.
To all the people who disagreed with me, for not being a dick about it (well, usually).
And last, but certainly not least, to Og, through whom all things are possible.