# Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 2, 2000, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread/21210 "2000-06-02T14:49:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Aaron\_Burr\_s\_Bullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Aaron\_Burr\_s\_Bullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aaron_Burr_s_Bullet)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread/21210/121 "2000-07-27T23:54:13Z")
Condescending reference to thread’s similarity to obscure film. Inference to OP’s lack of creativity; unrelated correlation to intelligence, sexual prowess, father’s ability to assault another’s father. Hypocritical allusion to similarly obscure film. Unwelcome posturing. Absense of irony for participating in thread. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread/21210/122 "2000-07-28T01:16:22Z")
Poster with the highest post count wanders in and makes a completely off-topic remark about something sexual. (Hey, no thread’s complete without Handy!) ---
**Author:** ![APB9999](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@APB9999](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/APB9999)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread/21210/123 "2000-07-28T01:21:27Z")
babbling incohrent ramble by sumeone who cant spell or tipe or use english punctuation or capitalization good like and doesnt understand the idea ofa simple sentence that dosnt run on. insult to hideus abnormalty that is the united stats and bizzare acrobatic argument that it is the sorce of the worlds evil yeah like you think you can deny that napoleon was sponsored by the cia? derisive confusion and lack of reference to anything anyone has sad anywhere in thread or any topic ii board anywhere. sentence with word that was not deleted but sheep was meant to be. one that seems almost about to rise to comprehendabilly but then misuses a word that shuld be the very axle and leaves the readers diaphanous and confused. belittlement of americans in general and dopers yeah isee why you is caled dopes in particular vague reference to raindear that implys the poster may be from finland. derogaton of american educasion lack of intrest in outside world meaning finland and inability to learn forin languages not like europeins I speak four so there and if youd mind your own biusness you wouldnt be asking dumb questions liket he OP ---
**Author:** ![NickyLarson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b2d939/32.png) [@NickyLarson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NickyLarson)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread/21210/124 "2000-07-28T01:28:08Z")
Just another poster who read it in **Threadspotting** , thought he was in it already, realized he wasn’t, and so now he is. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisP\_One\_Kenobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@ChrisP\_One\_Kenobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisP_One_Kenobe)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread/21210/125 "2000-07-28T01:30:03Z")
Gratuitous flirting with ssskuggiii and struuter. Make some comment to attract Esprix’s attention. Make up pointless story that has little to no relevance to OP. Still unable to create smooth coherant paragraphs. Draws attention to self. Talks to self. Put’s in several periods to incate pause. Flirts some more. Apologizes to Falcon for no reason. Leaves ---
**Author:** ![jubei2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a87d85/32.png) [@jubei2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jubei2k)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread/21210/126 "2000-07-28T01:30:40Z")
Terribly misspelled sentence that has no apparent connection to OP, rather, only unwanted bragging about how much the poster has had to drink tonight. Flirting with those of the opposite sex, making specific mention to those on the SD People Pages. Simpsons reference. * * * More Simpsons lines in sig line. Frank Sinatra lyrics ---
**Author:** ![Welfy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e56c9b/32.png) [@Welfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Welfy)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread/21210/127 "2000-07-28T01:34:41Z")
::types in the “optional” subject line to see what will happen:: ::is kind of scared that something wrong will happen and that she’ll get a severe tongue-lashing:: ::has a feeling that another poster will make a flirting/teasing remark about “tongue-lashing”:: ::deletes subject line:: ::thinks, “Aw what the heck” and types it back in.:: ::deletes it again:: ::throws some trash on the ground and leaves:: ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread/21210/128 "2000-07-28T03:12:26Z")
Hijacks thread and posts yet again to remind people that possessive words take no apostrophe while contractions do. Struggles with once again having to explain the difference between you’re and your, it’s and its and the like. Leaves in a huff, having discovered his homethread “Ask the Grammar Harpy” was last bumped July 7 and he has nothing with which to re-prop it up. Ends hijack. Once again complains about the number of attractive female dopers who are married, and secretly is glad so few of their husbands post here. Tries not to look desperate. ::Is listening to X song by Y 70’s music group:: Other random stuff that struck him as poignant and/or interesting at the time but now seem pointless, and thus wonders why he bothered typing beyond the second set of double colons. Ends post by saying “My dime” which has never garnered so much as a polite cough. ---
**Author:** ![Revedge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@Revedge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revedge)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread/21210/129 "2000-07-28T03:14:21Z")
Newbie inserts inane post that is unrelated to OP. Newbie asks question about felching. Newbie gets flamed for not looking it up. Newbie then apologises for ignorance. Then asks who WallyM7 is. Newbie goes down in flames. Newbie then tries to flirt, unsucessfully. Once more going down in flames. Newbie slinks off to lick wounds. ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread/21210/130 "2000-07-28T03:25:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by iampunha \* > \*\*_waits for Falcon to show up and smooch ChiefScott_ \*\* Poster MISREADS above as “_waits for Falcon to show up and waits to smooch ChiefScott_”. Before realizing he is mistaken, poster contemplates sending an e-mail to Iampunha expressing surprise at homosexual orientation. “Not that there’s anything wrong with that” ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread/21210/131 "2000-07-28T03:38:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Welfy \* > \*\*::has a feeling that another poster will make a flirting/teasing remark about “tongue-lashing”:: > \*\* SEVERAL male posters (hint: including ones posting to this thread at 6:30 pm, 8:12 pm and 8:25 pm, pacific coast time) read this and ask themselves “I wonder if Welfy meant me?” Most shameless of the three asks “Exactly who were you talking about, Welfy?” ---
**Author:** ![Revedge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@Revedge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revedge)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread/21210/132 "2000-07-28T03:47:47Z")
Posting of incredibly incoherent thought. Poster tries to clarify previous thought, only further muddleing the issue. Tries once again to flirt. Once again slinks off in total embarassment. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread/21210/133 "2000-07-28T05:59:51Z")
Remark that threads should be locked before they appear in Threadspotting. Remark that this has been said before by posters with high post counts. Reference to the risk of opening old wounds obliquely mentioned on second page. Provide links to old wounds. username ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread/21210/134 "2000-07-28T06:32:27Z")
Posting before thread can be locked because of “Threadspotting” reference. Asking for pats on back for being poster on this thread with one of the LOWEST post counts… Realizes no one will congratulate me or even offer me an adult beverage, and slinks away devastated… ---
**Author:** ![VaHermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ed655f/32.png) [@VaHermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VaHermit)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread/21210/135 "2000-07-28T07:39:50Z")
Newbie finds thread by way of “threadspotting” Reads (most of) thread and after checking date on last post to make sure that this thread is indeed alive again, decides to post. Makes clever statement obout OP that he knows will make everyone laugh and instantly gain him the approval of the regs that he so craves. Rereads above statement four times, admiring himself more each time. Hits “submit.” Checks back every 15 minutes to see if anybody noticed his post. ---
**Author:** ![mothra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@mothra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mothra)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread/21210/136 "2000-07-28T09:50:17Z")
Insert sentence, omitting definite articles in keeping with style of thread. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. ---
**Author:** ![Tomcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Tomcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tomcat)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread/21210/137 "2000-07-28T10:07:54Z")
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**Author:** ![G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.B.H.Hornswoggler)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread/21210/138 "2000-07-28T12:37:58Z")
Rediscovers thread through searching own recent posts. (Obligatory comment about ego-surfing.) Expression of surprise and mild alarm that thread has re-energized (obscure comic book reference to Anti-Monitor). Intemperate whine about how reborn thread is about flirting and gratuitous post-padding, rather than the serious issue of the OP. (Reference to how early in the morning it is where I am posting, in attempt to deter flames from flirt-happy Dopers.) Attempt to return to OP via vigorous unsupported assertion that is guaranteed to offend three-quarters of the Doper population (with similie to indicate this is only flame-fodder). Final expression of old-coot-dom, noting number of recent posters to thread whose names are completely unfamiliar. (Beginning of rant about “good ol’ days” mercifully cut short by head falling on keyboard and hitting “Submit Reply.”) ---
**Author:** ![DZ42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c0e974/32.png) [@DZ42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DZ42)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread/21210/139 "2000-07-28T13:21:58Z")
Usual self-deprecating remark regarding newbie/lurker status. Repetition of interest due solely to Threadspotting. Comment on lowest post count on thread. Douglas Adams reference… Phish quote in sig. ---
**Author:** ![Navarchus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/82dd89/32.png) [@Navarchus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Navarchus)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread/21210/140 "2000-07-28T13:29:55Z")
Sixteen pages of physics equations proving that the Starship Enterprise can outrun a Star Destroyer. Proclamation that poster was tired of all “you people” not paying attention to continuity. Self inflated comment indicating superior knowledge of mythical and useless subject at hand. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread/21210.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread/21210.md?page=8)