# TubaDiva, you did well **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 17, 2009, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-you-did-well/506723 "2009-08-17T14:57:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-you-did-well/506723/1 "2009-08-17T14:57:14Z")
Credit where credit is due. I realize that I’ve blasted you a bit in the past (although I’m not alone in that regard). Okay, more honestly, I’ve insulted you with terribly mocking and boisterous posts, most often having to do with what I perceive as your attitude when you deal with us, your customers. However, I think it is important that I tell you that I’ve discerned a notable change. Your recent handling of the suspended poster was, I thought, professional. The note you left when you closed the thread was completely snark-free. It was purely informational, and had no tone of condescension or anything like that. I realize I could have PMd you with this comment, but since I’ve criticized you in public, it is only fair that I praise you in public. Good job. And thanks, from one of your longtime posters. (And honestly, given many of our past interactions, one of your friends. We have had our good times, you know.) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-you-did-well/506723/2 "2009-08-17T16:33:04Z")
Damn you Lib, now you’ve made me gone and have to _agree_ with you. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-you-did-well/506723/3 "2009-08-17T18:51:46Z")
“You are a class act” in 3, 2, 1 … ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-you-did-well/506723/4 "2009-08-17T21:24:20Z")
**Sapo** , you are indeed a _genuine_ class act. Each day I ask myself: “How can I be a little more like **Sapo?** ” (“Listen with your heart.”) “What would **Sapo** do in this situation?” (“Seek to _understand_, then seek to be _understood_.”) “If a tree falls and **Sapo** is not around to hear it, then what’s the point of life?” (“The clear and formless void.”) ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-you-did-well/506723/5 "2009-08-17T21:37:32Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Damn you Lib, now you’ve made me gone and have to _agree_ with you. 😛 It was bound to happen sooner or later. They say the universe is infinite. (Though how they prove it is a mystery to me.) ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-you-did-well/506723/6 "2009-08-17T21:48:54Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > It was bound to happen sooner or later. They say the universe is infinite. (Though how they prove it is a mystery to me.) This is certainly _evidence_, if not proof.😛 ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-you-did-well/506723/7 "2009-08-17T21:54:57Z")
Seconding the OP. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2009, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-you-did-well/506723/8 "2009-08-18T00:31:26Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > However, I think it is important that I tell you that I’ve discerned a notable change. Your recent handling of the suspended poster was, I thought, professional. The note you left when you closed the thread was completely snark-free. It was purely informational, and had no tone of condescension or anything like that. Maybe she got her medication right, much like you have. 😃 (this is meant in a joking, friendly way). You’ve come a long way, **Lib**. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2009, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-you-did-well/506723/9 "2009-08-18T01:20:22Z")
I logged on to see that my beautiful thread was locked and shut down, and a cold yet burning anger blew through my soul at this injustice. In the interests of peace I decided to forgo any retaliation. But now, seeing **Liberal** offering _congratulations_ to the committer of this atrocity, I realize that there is only so much I can countenance. For when there is no justice, and insult is added to injury, “Vengeance” is spelled S-C-Y-L-L-A. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2009, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-you-did-well/506723/10 "2009-08-18T01:29:02Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > For when there is no justice, and insult is added to injury, “Vengeance” is spelled S-C-Y-L-L-A. Hmmm. Six heads, six posters. Who will they be? ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2009, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-you-did-well/506723/11 "2009-08-18T01:45:50Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > I logged on to see that my beautiful thread was locked and shut down, and a cold yet burning anger blew through my soul at this injustice. . Hey, I apologized ! Though I guess I was inadvertantly the pebble that started the avalanche… Please start a new thread after the next episode of FAIL WARS. blll ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2009, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-you-did-well/506723/12 "2009-08-18T02:06:07Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > . . . “Vengeance” is spelled S-C-Y-L-L-A. There are so many things spelled S-C-Y-L-L-A that the next edition of the O.E.D. is going to have a separate volume to handle it. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2009, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-you-did-well/506723/13 "2009-08-18T02:07:52Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > Maybe she got her medication right, much like you have. 😃 (this is meant in a joking, friendly way). You’ve come a long way, **Lib**. Yeah, thanks. I gotta give my wife the credit, though. She’s the one who insisted that I get something done about my OCD. How she put up with me for so long is something I’ll never understand. Our house used to look like a museum. Now, it isn’t messy. But it’s homey, if you know what I mean. I mean, there’s no dishes in the sink or crap like that. But the cup handles are turned just all kinds of ways (instead of all at 30 degree angles). And the “throw” in the great room is draped over the couch in whatever manner it happens to fall (instead of folded into a perfect triangle, and draped over the left arm — never the right). The most important thing to me is that my relations with my wife have improved a hundred percent. And the funny thing is, now that I don’t get upset over piddly shit all the time, she listens to me more and is more ammenable to trying things my way. Strange, that. But there’s no question that there was some kind of imbalance in my brain that a calming and relaxing tranquilizer solved. It isn’t a cure; it’s a treatment. But intellectually, I’m beginning to “catch on”. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2009, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-you-did-well/506723/14 "2009-08-18T04:35:24Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Hey, I apologized ! > > Though I guess I was inadvertantly the pebble that started the avalanche… > > Please start a new thread after the next episode of FAIL WARS. > > blll I’m just kidding around because it’s fun to complain. It’s not your fault. I fully understand why the thread was closed. I don’t actually care, and even if I did, it seemed that the actual topic had run its course. None of this of course gets you off the vengeance list. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2009, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-you-did-well/506723/15 "2009-08-18T11:21:05Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > Maybe she got her medication right, much like you have. 😃 (this is meant in a joking, friendly way). You’ve come a long way, **Lib**. I was under the impression **Tuba** medicates herself with chocolate. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2009, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-you-did-well/506723/16 "2009-08-18T15:14:19Z")
Mmm… dark chocolate. At least 60% cacao. Mmm… ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2009, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-you-did-well/506723/17 "2009-08-18T16:27:11Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Please start a new thread after the next episode of FAIL WARS. Apropos of nothing, I am genuinely offended that there was such a great thread (minus the stupid hijack that shut it) and I was not invited being that I had a GQ-turned-GD thread on the matter. Next episode is the finale and my crystal ball says that it will end with sad music and a black screen with explanatory text. Please PM me for that thread since I no longer read the pit. > [@Una\_Persson](#): > > **Sapo** , you are indeed a _genuine_ class act. Each day I ask myself: > > “How can I be a little more like **Sapo?** ” (“Listen with your heart.”) > > “What would **Sapo** do in this situation?” (“Seek to _understand_, then seek to be _understood_.”) > > “If a tree falls and **Sapo** is not around to hear it, then what’s the point of life?” (“The clear and formless void.”) I could answer all those questions but we don’t have internet in Nirvana so I will make you a favor and not tell. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-you-did-well/506723/18 "2009-08-18T19:33:07Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > However, I think it is important that I tell you that I’ve discerned a notable change. Your recent handling of the suspended poster was, I thought, professional. The note you left when you closed the thread was completely snark-free. It was purely informational, and had no tone of condescension or anything like that. This is a catastrophcally cataclysmic calamity of seismic size. I want the old **TubaDiva** back. I loved her, but now it’s too late for both of us. To think of my dear Tuba sliding down the slippery slope of snarklessness is just more than my poor heart can bear. The only way I can be cheered up is for Tuba to come in here and tell me to go fuck myself. Only then will I believe she can yet be saved. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2009, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-you-did-well/506723/19 "2009-08-18T21:27:31Z")
Oh, don’t be too downtrodden. I betcha she could summon the snark as a poster. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2009, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-you-did-well/506723/20 "2009-08-18T22:24:43Z")
I already mentioned it, but the way she handled **Measure for Measure** ’s suggestion to increase the number of threads per page was a class act, too. You know, I don’t mind her being little snarky, actually. Just as long as it’s clearly a joke. Cecil pulls it off pretty often… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-you-did-well/506723.md?page=2)