# The Zappo Appreciation Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 1, 2003, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zappo-appreciation-thread/165627 "2003-04-01T03:37:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zappo-appreciation-thread/165627/1 "2003-04-01T03:37:01Z")
**Zappo** doesn’t post here too much anymore (which is criminal, IMHO), but several of you may know him by his LiveJournal name, \*\*sadillac. \*\* If you don’t know him, you should. **Zappo** is a remarkable man. I knew of him here on the SDMB, but in LJ was where I got to know him personally. I met him last November, when he came up here to Michigan for **Cranky’s** Ramadan mini-fest. I’d liked hiim before then, but after meeting him in person…well, now I really REALLY like him. **TruePisces** recently had a [birthday,](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=170131) which I would not have been able to attend without the help of **Zappo.** He bought gifts for my kids, too. And he’s talked to my daughter on the phone–she too thinks he rocks. He’s smart, he’s funny, he’s extraordinarily nice. He’s my friend. Sal, you rock. Thanks for everything. ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zappo-appreciation-thread/165627/2 "2003-04-01T03:40:41Z")
Hear hear! Whether you call him **Zappo** , **sadillac** , or just Sal, he’s a prince of a man, and someone I’m pleased and honored to call my friend. **Seph** , you _are_ aware that **Mrs. Dave-Guy** has claimed him as her boyfriend? ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zappo-appreciation-thread/165627/3 "2003-04-01T03:43:35Z")
Yes. I’m aware of that. I’m afraid she’ll have to take a number. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zappo-appreciation-thread/165627/4 "2003-04-01T03:45:56Z")
**Zappa** rules! I had the pleasure of meeting him at Dope-O-Ween 2001. I still remember that story about that little statue…senõr something-or-other… ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zappo-appreciation-thread/165627/5 "2003-04-01T03:57:18Z")
I loves me some **Zappo**! I had the pleasure of taking in _Road to Perdition_ and a lovely lunch with him one fine day last February or March, and I’ve been looking forward to seeing him again ever since. He’s funny, thoughtful, and just all-around cool. (And he knows from Hudson Hornets, too!) ---
**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:** [April 1, 2003, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zappo-appreciation-thread/165627/6 "2003-04-01T04:03:28Z")
Zappo…he’s one of the missing Marx brothers, right? Kidding. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zappo-appreciation-thread/165627/7 "2003-04-01T04:09:31Z")
It couldn’t have been last February or March. I was in Mississippi then. I don’t know when it was, then. In the summer. The movie is set in February - that’s why I got confused. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zappo-appreciation-thread/165627/8 "2003-04-01T05:35:02Z")
I miss Zappo too! I emailed him to tell him so. I met him when – exhibiting his first instance of questionable judgment, I might add – he climbed aboard Rue’s Mobile Dope Fest and visited here. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zappo-appreciation-thread/165627/9 "2003-04-01T06:02:05Z")
A super fellow. A wonderful house guest. A prince among men. ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zappo-appreciation-thread/165627/10 "2003-04-01T06:33:09Z")
**Zappo** is quite possibly the most awesome human being I’ve ever met. I had the extreme pleasure of meeting him at this year’s New York Dopefest, and he’s funny, charming, friendly, and just an all-around great guy. So, Sal, good on you for being such a good guy. It’s a real honor and a pleasure to know you. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zappo-appreciation-thread/165627/11 "2003-04-01T06:34:53Z")
Makes a great lighter, too. ---
**Author:** ![Juniper200](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@Juniper200](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Juniper200)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zappo-appreciation-thread/165627/12 "2003-04-01T07:13:02Z")
Zappo is a fine man, and not just because he likes _The Hudsucker Proxy_ and provides Tastykakes to those in need. Vote sadillac in 04!! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zappo-appreciation-thread/165627/13 "2003-04-01T11:42:36Z")
Just to add my voice to the chorus, last October when my dad died, **Zap** came to the funeral home during visitation hours. I was touched that someone I’d only met once would drive all that way. He’s a sweetheart. I haven’t run into him on IM for eons, but we trade emails, and getting a note from him brightens my day. Love ya, Sal!! ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zappo-appreciation-thread/165627/14 "2003-04-01T12:07:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ellen Cherry \* > \*\*I met him when – exhibiting his first instance of questionable judgment, I might add – he climbed aboard Rue’s Mobile Dope Fest and visited here. 😉 \*\* Well now! I’ll have you know, technically that was **Shibb** ’s MobileDope. I just instigated it. And his “questionable judgement”? That was when he wouldn’t kidnap you. It was a perfect plan and he blew it. It think that is his one character flaw, he won’t kidnap wimmins in front of their family. Gotta work on that. But then he’d be perfect and God would take him from us to be an angel. We wouldn’t want that, so **Zap** , you keep not kidnapping wimmins. We need you down here! -Rue. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zappo-appreciation-thread/165627/15 "2003-04-01T12:45:18Z")
Been wondering about where **Zappo’s** been lately. He was the first person to pronounce me “jake” on the board. If anybody talks to him let him know he still has an open invitation to visit swampcave [sup]TM[/sup] for beer and okra anytime. ---
**Author:** ![papergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aca169/32.png) [@papergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papergirl)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zappo-appreciation-thread/165627/16 "2003-04-01T13:00:58Z")
I loves Zappo. I met him at Indy during the Wandering Dopefest, and what a sweet guy. Where is he, anyway? I don’t even know how to find livejournal thingies… Miss ya, Zap. {{{hugs}}} ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zappo-appreciation-thread/165627/17 "2003-04-01T13:11:35Z")
Sal’s good people. There. Touching wasn’t it? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TruePisces](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/truepisces/32/13628_2.png) [@TruePisces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruePisces)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zappo-appreciation-thread/165627/18 "2003-04-01T13:52:06Z")
Along with all the other good things that’s been said about Sal, I’ve found that he’s always there when you need him. In good times, in bad times… he takes the time to listen to you, to laugh with you, to comfort you and to console you. As **Persephone** mentioned, he got her here for my birthday… which was the best present anyone could ever ask for. He embodies the true meaning of “friend” on so many levels that anyone who is lucky enough to call him that is one hundred times luckier than they were before they met him. I love you dearly, Sal. Thank you for everything you’ve done for me. {{{Sal}}} ---
**Author:** ![Anita\_Vacation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Anita\_Vacation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anita_Vacation)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zappo-appreciation-thread/165627/19 "2003-04-01T13:54:40Z")
Yippee - a pile-on ! Let’s all make a **Zappo** sandwich! {{{{{The best guy around!}}}}} ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zappo-appreciation-thread/165627/20 "2003-04-01T14:26:38Z")
I like him a bunch too. He’s a pretty cool guy, even if he does forget he’s supposed to be at parties at our house at Christmastime. Matthew (my son) think he’s the cat’s pajamaz. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zappo-appreciation-thread/165627.md?page=2)