# To the person who read my LiveJournal... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 6, 2001, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-person-who-read-my-livejournal/75101 "2001-08-06T12:26:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-person-who-read-my-livejournal/75101/21 "2001-08-06T15:10:52Z")
Just when I thought that if I saw _one_ more “Baby Jesus” line I would _scream_, along comes **Hama** with > [@](#): > > Starting Pit threads when you don’t want to open yourself to ridicule makes the Baby Jesus cry. and makes me laugh. So now I’m grumpy with myself for laughing at something I had declared Out Of Bounds. Damn your eyes. And I’m sorry **hardy** - I have no wish to be mean or encourage meaness in others, but the Mandela Medal comment was very very funny too. God damn I’ve missed your acerbicism **Hama**. Who in the hell told you to be _nice_? pan ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-person-who-read-my-livejournal/75101/22 "2001-08-06T15:25:00Z")
Hama. First off, good one. 🙂 The Nelson Mandela line cracked me up. Once I realized my LJ was acessible through my email, I changed that. I had no idea that it was being passed around but hey, lesson learned. I never accused anyone directly of making the comment. It was unsigned but they said they were from here. In a petulant fit of anger, I started this thread. The person has since emailed me and it’s settled. I never knew you could make the LJ so only friends could read it. Not only am I a babbling fool, I’m not computer savvy as well. Guess I have a lot to work on. ---
**Author:** ![ultress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@ultress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultress)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-person-who-read-my-livejournal/75101/23 "2001-08-06T15:36:02Z")
**Hama** you always do such a good job that adding to your post or thread only seems to take away from it instead of adding to it. That’s why most people don’t jump on the bandwagon to agree with you, not because they don’t agree with you, but it seems when you’ve said it, there’s little to be added. And next to flirt posts I dislike the ‘me too’ posts. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-person-who-read-my-livejournal/75101/24 "2001-08-06T15:36:58Z")
Well played, **hardy**! Despite occasional implications you are as classless as I, you did that well. OTOH, I thought the whole point of a LJ was to let all and sundry know your innermost thoughts. Of course, the reason I don’t have one is that I don’t have many innermost thoughts. Tedium, thy name is **dropzone**. ---
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-person-who-read-my-livejournal/75101/25 "2001-08-06T15:39:18Z")
I have innermost thoughts all the time. … Of course _some_ people call that “thinking with my stomach”, but I still say it’s thinking about my innermost. pan ---
**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:** [August 6, 2001, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-person-who-read-my-livejournal/75101/26 "2001-08-06T16:12:15Z")
I finally figured it out. Hamadryad = Stinky Paws Stinky Paws = Hamadryad On another note, what’s with secrecy? I’m not particularly curious about your or anyone’s love life in general (hell, I can’t retain who likes who on the boards for more than five minutes). But it’s confusing to me that someone would be so open about the existence of a relationship yet so secretive about the identity of the other party. I’ve been in relationships where we thought we had good reasons for keeping it under wraps, but that meant keeping the whole thing quiet, not just who was who. ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-person-who-read-my-livejournal/75101/27 "2001-08-06T16:32:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CrankyAsAnOldMan \* > \*\*I finally figured it out. > > Hamadryad = Stinky Paws > Stinky Paws = Hamadryad > \*\* _Phew_. Thank the Gods. Now I don’t have to keep ANY of my LJ entries “friends only.” Thank you for outing me, Cranky…the facade was really getting to be too much. See, when I love someone, I _love_ them…and I got past the cloak & dagger bullshit back in high school. It’s been very uncomfortable for me to have to hide my love and devotion just because of little details like being married and having kids. Besides, constantly referring to “Mommy’s phone friend” to the kids was starting to feel vaguely Springer-ish. ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-person-who-read-my-livejournal/75101/28 "2001-08-06T16:33:25Z")
CrankyAsAnOldMan, If that was the case,(Hamadryad=Stinky Paws) I must be more of a glutton for punishment that I already am.🙂 I have my reasons for keeping his identity secret. Partly because he’s not as open as I am here and other reasons. He’s cool with my posts and my signature though. If he wasn’t, I’d change things. I’ll be good about not posting about his glory :rolleyes all the time. And I’ll really consider not starting Pit threads before I’ve had my coffee. ---
**Author:** ![magdalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@magdalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magdalene)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-person-who-read-my-livejournal/75101/29 "2001-08-06T16:53:59Z")
> [@](#): > > Not only am I a babbling fool, I’m not computer savvy as well. Guess I have a lot to work on. The board can be a great place to get advice from intelligent and dispassionate strangers, but in the future maybe you should think a little harder about what is public and what is private. People get bored an annoyed with folks who ask for advice about the same things over and over. I missed Hama’s earlier diatribes, but it seems like all the posts of yours I have read are you bitching about some boy problem, asking advice about some boy problem, or hijacking other people’s threads to flirt or mention your relationship or remind everyone what a “vixen” you are - I do really see your posts pretty much the way I described them earlier. I’m not going to rag on you anymore since you are playing nice, and I don’t wish unhappiness upon you, but if you forever have to warn people that your threads contains TMI, maybe they really contain TMI. ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-person-who-read-my-livejournal/75101/30 "2001-08-06T17:06:42Z")
Thanks magdalene…first for the advice and for being nice about it. ::note to self, be good:: ---
**Author:** ![DeskMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f14d63/32.png) [@DeskMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeskMonkey)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-person-who-read-my-livejournal/75101/31 "2001-08-06T17:16:34Z")
Well, if it makes you feel any better, I figured out who SP was in about 3 minutes using the handy-dandy SDMB search function. (don’t worry, not a veiled threat. I just checked out of curiosity and lunchtime boredom.) Just remember what you’re wishing for when you dream of the day that you and he can be together forever. There’s a lot more to it than your own personal satisfaction. (just my opinion) ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-person-who-read-my-livejournal/75101/32 "2001-08-06T17:20:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DeskMonkey \* > \*\*Well, if it makes you feel any better, I figured out who SP was in about 3 minutes using the handy-dandy SDMB search function. (don’t worry, not a veiled threat. I just checked out of curiosity and lunchtime boredom.) > > Just remember what you’re wishing for when you dream of the day that you and he can be together forever. There’s a lot more to it than your own personal satisfaction. (just my opinion) \*\* I know and trust me, it tears my heart out. The people who I’ve told and who’ve read my journal know that. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-person-who-read-my-livejournal/75101/33 "2001-08-06T17:21:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hamadryad \* > \*\*How come everyone but me is allowed to say stuff like this about this chick, but I’m the antichrist for saying anything? > \*\* Because you get mean when you go off your lithium. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-person-who-read-my-livejournal/75101/34 "2001-08-06T17:22:43Z")
I would just like to clear up any confusion all of you might have had and state, clearly and unequivocably, for the record, that I am not, nor have I ever been, Stinky Paws. You must understand though that I’ve been running a little low on money recently and sometimes, budgetwise, things have to be cut out as “frivolous” expenses. But if I can cut out at least one of my trips to the strip club per week, I think I’ll be able to bump toilet paper back up onto the list of affordable items. ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-person-who-read-my-livejournal/75101/35 "2001-08-06T17:54:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Finagle \* > \*\*Because you get mean when you go off your lithium. \*\* OMG u r so funny!!!11 LOL!!!111 ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-person-who-read-my-livejournal/75101/36 "2001-08-06T18:20:33Z")
Apparently I don’t spend all that much time in certain threads, as I think this is the first time that I’ve heard the name “Stinky Paws”, and the recent Pit thread was the first I’d heard of Hardygrrl being in a relationship. I guess I find out about these sorts of things only after they’ve been repeated enough that people complain about it. I feel so out of it. ---
**Author:** ![aenea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@aenea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aenea)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-person-who-read-my-livejournal/75101/37 "2001-08-06T18:24:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DeskMonkey \* > Well, if it makes you feel any better, I figured out who SP was in about 3 minutes using the handy-dandy SDMB search function. (don’t worry, not a veiled threat. I just checked out of curiosity and lunchtime boredom.) > > Just remember what you’re wishing for when you dream of the day that you and he can be together forever. There’s a lot more to it than your own personal satisfaction. (just my opinion) That search function is very handy, now that it works well. After perusing a few related threads, it seems that what she is after is a married man, who has children. She calls a woman she has never met, and who’s side of the story she has never heard a “The Bitch”. There are three sides to every story like this it seems, his side, her side, and the truth. **hardygrrl** , are you a home-wrecker, or just a wanna-be home wrecker? Don’t you know not to mess around with married men, no matter what kind of bull they hand you? WTF posessed you to spread this kind of bullshit around a public message board, not to mention your online journal? \*Aenea, who thinks that a pitizen _should not_ be allowed to call ANYONE “snoogie-bear” in the pit, unless it be part of a deadly insult. ---
**Author:** ![cleosia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@cleosia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cleosia)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-person-who-read-my-livejournal/75101/38 "2001-08-06T18:37:29Z")
Gotta be careful what you let your friends read, too. My daughter has a friend who keeps a LiveJournal and he had a friend who was a girl, but not a girlfriend (so he thought) and a girlfriend who he thought was a girlfriend (I think. At least they’re intimate) and they both read his LifeJournal and now he has to sort things through with both of them. **Please people, for the sake of your own sanity, keep it on paper and under lock and key!** ---
**Author:** ![jazzmine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jazzmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jazzmine)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-person-who-read-my-livejournal/75101/39 "2001-08-06T18:55:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cleosia \* > **Gotta be careful what you let your friends read, too. My daughter has a friend who keeps a LiveJournal and he had a friend who was a girl, but not a girlfriend (so he thought) and a girlfriend who he thought was a girlfriend (I think. At least they’re intimate) and they both read his LifeJournal and now he has to sort things through with both of them.** Trying to figure that one out gave me a headache. I actually came in to ask Hardygrrl why she would tell everyone he’s a married man and then be surprised at the reaction she gets, but I see that **aenea** sort of beat me to it. So now, the only question I want to ask is why in the world would you want to be involved with a man that is too…ashamed? embarrassed? afraid it will cost him more in the divorce?..that he has to remain a “secret?” I’m certainly not one to cast the first stone as god knows my life has been full of choices that were best left unchosen. But you can damn sure bet that I would never trust or give my love to anyone that would require that our relationship be a secret. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-person-who-read-my-livejournal/75101/40 "2001-08-06T19:11:57Z")
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