# This is the name of this thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 6, 2001, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-name-of-this-thread/64517 "2001-05-06T05:32:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-name-of-this-thread/64517/1 "2001-05-06T05:32:24Z")
This is the first post in a thread where all posts are self-referential. ---
**Author:** ![VitrolicBump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a587f6/32.png) [@VitrolicBump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VitrolicBump)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-name-of-this-thread/64517/2 "2001-05-06T05:35:39Z")
Huh? Don’t understand. Please 'splain. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-name-of-this-thread/64517/3 "2001-05-06T06:03:36Z")
This post hopefully clarifies things for confused readers by defining self-referential posts as being posts which describe themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-name-of-this-thread/64517/4 "2001-05-06T06:05:06Z")
By way of illustration, this post has eleven words in it. ---
**Author:** ![Sterra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Sterra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sterra)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-name-of-this-thread/64517/5 "2001-05-06T06:07:32Z")
This post does more than nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-name-of-this-thread/64517/6 "2001-05-06T06:16:03Z")
Various writers have composed stories, essays, and songs where every sentence is self-referenetial or the work as a whole is. Readers often find these works amusing. It’s my hope that some posters will enjoy thinking of creative ways to write self-referential posts and others will enjoy reading them. Obviously, people could follow the example of my previous post and simply describe their post in the most obvious manner. I’m hoping however, that the members of this board will find more creative ways to write within the confines set by the OP. To aid in this, I set those confines as being guided by the post as a whole and not be the individual sentences in the post. Several sentences in this post, for example, contain no self-reference. But as a whole, this post is an illustration of how non self-referential sentences can add up to a self-referential post. And I apologize for the fact that this post contains an intentional mispeling. ---
**Author:** ![Trucido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@Trucido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trucido)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-name-of-this-thread/64517/7 "2001-05-06T06:18:51Z")
This post contains chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer, birth defects, halitosis, toenail fungus, AIDS, hemorraghic fever, homosexuality, heterosexuality, and pregnancy. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-name-of-this-thread/64517/8 "2001-05-06T07:06:41Z")
This is the post in which I complain that not everyone gets it. ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-name-of-this-thread/64517/9 "2001-05-06T07:12:11Z")
This post is a response to Little Nemo’s last one, and points out that it’s just one of those things that modern writers do, and that not everybody necessarily understands it or enjoys participating. ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-name-of-this-thread/64517/10 "2001-05-06T07:52:43Z")
I hope that, in some small way, this post will add to the overall success of this thread. I find that, in posts such as this, I seek some acknowledgement that my contribution, poor as it may be, has lead some other doper to submit their own words of wisdom, most likely more profound and timely than my own, but somehow connected to my humble offering. My post is not only self-referential, but also self-deprecating, thus affecting a minor change in the thread as a result. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-name-of-this-thread/64517/11 "2001-05-06T08:20:27Z")
I’m going to quote me next post. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by brother rat \* > **I’m going to quote my previous post.** ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-name-of-this-thread/64517/12 "2001-05-06T08:21:38Z")
I’m going to quote me previous post. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by brother rat \* > **I’m going to quote my next post.** ---
**Author:** ![MrVisible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-name-of-this-thread/64517/13 "2001-05-06T08:22:30Z")
I don’t think this is a post at all. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-name-of-this-thread/64517/14 "2001-05-06T08:22:58Z")
I’m going to quote this post. > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by brother rat_ > **I’m going to quote this post.** ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-name-of-this-thread/64517/15 "2001-05-06T08:26:53Z")
This post reminds me of a song, _This is the song that doesn’t end Yes it goes on and on my friend Some people started singing it not knowing what it was And they’ll continue singing it forever just because This is the song that doesn’t end Yes it goes on and on my friend Some people started singing it not knowing what it was And they’ll continue singing it forever just becauseThis is the song that doesn’t end Yes it goes on and on my friend Some people started singing it not knowing what it was And they’ll continue singing it forever just because_ Hey, look at the rock flying towards my head at a very fast speed! **THWACK!** ---
**Author:** ![silent\_rob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@silent\_rob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silent_rob)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-name-of-this-thread/64517/16 "2001-05-06T08:54:06Z")
This post reflects its sig line. * * * This sig line reflects its post’s subject line. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-name-of-this-thread/64517/17 "2001-05-06T11:58:48Z")
_Bill Clinton sez:_ > [@](#): > > Please define the word “this”? ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-name-of-this-thread/64517/18 "2001-05-06T12:51:38Z")
This sentence contains a [link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=51914) which will demonstrate to **Little Nemo** and others that great minds think alike This is the last sentence of this post. This sentence is to state that the previous sentence lied. This statement doesn’t lie when it says that it is really the last line of this post, but doesn’t really have a proper endin ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-name-of-this-thread/64517/19 "2001-05-07T12:39:13Z")
This sentence is not a link, but people are apt to click the first part of it anyway. This sentence refers to \*\*Little Nemo[\b], who started this thread, but fails to close the bolding properly, causing the rest of the reply to be in bold. This paragraph is bolded for no other reason than that mentioned in the previous paragraph. This sentence fleshes out the paragraph that begins with the previous sentence, lest it be a paragraph of only one sentence. Hi, Opal! [handy]This is an experment with vB code, in case it willl work, although i am not sure about this last part.[/handy] This is an apology for this poster taking a shot at another member. This sentence offers some lame excuse about it being Monday morning and the poster having a hellish commute. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingDragonFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c89c15/32.png) [@FlyingDragonFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingDragonFan)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-name-of-this-thread/64517/20 "2001-05-07T13:05:45Z")
I’m not sure this post fits in with the rest of the thread. Can I please verify it for me? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-name-of-this-thread/64517.md?page=2)