# Thread titles or OP that begin with "So . . ." **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 15, 2009, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-titles-or-op-that-begin-with-so/513908 "2009-10-15T14:54:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-titles-or-op-that-begin-with-so/513908/21 "2009-10-15T23:26:43Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > My son-in-law begins most of his conversations this way - I’m going to sew his mouth closed one of these days… 😛 > > . Sew, you’re going to what? ---
**Author:** ![DarrenS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DarrenS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrenS)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-titles-or-op-that-begin-with-so/513908/22 "2009-10-16T00:53:12Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > [del] So I was in the grocery store yesterday . . .[/del] > > It came to pass that I was in the grocery store yesterday . . . > > I’m going to do that from now on. Unless I’m being whooshed, why not simply: I was in the grocery store yesterday… ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-titles-or-op-that-begin-with-so/513908/23 "2009-10-16T01:08:05Z")
Statement: I think we should replace it by talking like HK47. ---
**Author:** ![sjc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@sjc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sjc)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-titles-or-op-that-begin-with-so/513908/24 "2009-10-16T01:21:30Z")
> [@Serenata67](#): > > I can understand posts that use it in the text of the post, using the _in media res_ format to tell the story of the post. However, a title isn’t the story. A title is the title. > [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](#): > > How about thread titles that begin, “In which”? You know, like “In which I rank thread titles by degree of annoyance”. In my opinion starting a thread with “so” is a useful way to indicate the tone of the thread. Kind of like like chapter titles in old books that started with “In which…” I’d say thread titles are a bit like chapter titles and that makes them fair game for the “So…” gambit. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-titles-or-op-that-begin-with-so/513908/25 "2009-10-16T12:53:02Z")
> [@DarrenS](#): > > Unless I’m being whooshed, why not simply: > > I was in the grocery store yesterday… I was going Biblical on ye. And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made And it came to pass, when Jesus ended these words, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching And it came to pass that in those days there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be enrolled And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth What really is the difference? So after forty days, Noah opened the window of the ark . . . ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-titles-or-op-that-begin-with-so/513908/26 "2009-10-16T13:06:42Z")
:smack: I guess I should have said, “Yea, verily, I say unto thee… my bladder is falling out!” Sorry about that. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-titles-or-op-that-begin-with-so/513908/27 "2009-10-16T15:32:53Z")
I’m guilty. I confess though that I am unlikely to change much. I also speak this way. As for me, I’m annoyed with the posts that are just a link and the words “Check this out.” Tell us what we are checking out and why. Also, as I mentioned in the mini-rant thread: Atheists that pop into _every_ thread related to religion to say \*There is no God (or Angels, or whatever) \*annoy me. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-titles-or-op-that-begin-with-so/513908/28 "2009-10-16T15:40:08Z")
Three of the last ten threads I started began with “So.” Sue me. ---
**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-titles-or-op-that-begin-with-so/513908/29 "2009-10-16T15:45:41Z")
So I came by this thread and I realized that I do this a lot. So I have decided to change this habit which is apparently annoying the OP so much. So I guess I have to come up with another opening sentence for my posts, without so much so being annoying. So I came up with a brilliant idea. And so here it begins, the SDMB Unofficial Random First Sentence for your Post so that you don’t have to open your first sentence without a ‘so’! So hang on while I code the generator. So long! ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-titles-or-op-that-begin-with-so/513908/30 "2009-10-16T15:53:49Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > This is so annoying, I’m tempted to put it in the Pit. > > More and more, I’m seeing thread titles or the OP beginning with the word “So.” This just sounds wrong to me, grammatically, and it makes people sound like stand-up comics. In this context, “so” is a conjunction, and it makes just as much sense as beginning with “and” or “but.” > > Why do people do this? [Up with this I will not put!](http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/churchill.html) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-titles-or-op-that-begin-with-so/513908.md?page=1)