# Unofficial All-SDMB "This Post/Poster makes my day!" Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 18, 2021, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-all-sdmb-this-post-poster-makes-my-day-thread/944570 "2021-06-18T20:18:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2021, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-all-sdmb-this-post-poster-makes-my-day-thread/944570/21 "2021-06-20T19:13:25Z")
Thank you for the kind words, @Ann_Hedonia and @k9bfriender! I also appreciate you and many other posters, and sorry for those I forget – @MrDibble, @Left_Hand_of_Dorkness, @Spice_Weasel, @Sunny_Daze, @GIGObuster, @Stranger_On_A_Train, @Miller, and many more. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2021, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-all-sdmb-this-post-poster-makes-my-day-thread/944570/22 "2021-06-20T20:33:41Z")
It would take me quite awhile to make the complete list of posters whose posts regularly make my day. Everyone in this thread (mentioned and mentioned) is on my good list. The MMPers, of course, are a great mood lifter. For now, I’ll just add that @ParallelLines has started a great thread - positivity is (almost) always welcome. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2021, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-all-sdmb-this-post-poster-makes-my-day-thread/944570/23 "2021-06-21T00:24:51Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > 🤨 Apparently you can only mention ten users in a post, so I removed some @'s. Well, that’s odd. Maybe it’s a ‘_crash the board due to the linkage being excessive_’ sort of thing. Anyway, I don’t always get to this sub-forum so I’m grateful for the OP specifying to use the 'at’s. Thank you, @Ann_Hedonia for your kind mention! And of course like virtually everyone in the thread I’d have mentioned you even without it being a returned compliment; I particularly love the way you bring in just the right real-world experience to illuminate so many topics. I agree with many who’ve posted about particular names that can Make My Day (and not in the Clint Eastwood sense). I must add @Aspenglow and @wolfpup, @ThelmaLou, @asahi, and that’s not the end of the list. @Smapti with the Trump imitations. And others. (The quoted @k9bfriender, for one.) And one of the people with a name that begins with an E consistently makes me guffaw (or at least chortle) out loud…or maybe it’s all of them. I’ll be back! ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2021, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-all-sdmb-this-post-poster-makes-my-day-thread/944570/24 "2021-06-21T23:15:49Z")
And for today, a poster going above and beyond for another board member… @dropzone! While the [thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-update/944775/2) on @Beckdawrek 's surgery is an occasion we hope to avoid repeating, DZ taking the time out to share the updates with the board is a mitzvah (oh my god, I typed that, I am turning into my father!?!?!). Now **Dropzone** go forth and make our day with happy news as well. And of course **Beckdawrek** is entitled to a shout-out here as well, she’s almost unremittingly positive, even in a world that seems bound and determined to grimdark itself to oblivion. Heal well and hope to see you soon! ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2021, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-all-sdmb-this-post-poster-makes-my-day-thread/944570/25 "2021-06-21T23:32:04Z")
Thanks for the love. One person I haven’t seen mentioned here is @Kimstu. I find myself in frequent enthusiastic agreement with their posts and they always swoop in with a better articulated point than I could have made on my own. @Velocity adds a nice moderate viewpoint to most issues that I appreciate. ---
**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:** [June 21, 2021, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-all-sdmb-this-post-poster-makes-my-day-thread/944570/26 "2021-06-21T23:40:18Z")
Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2021, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-all-sdmb-this-post-poster-makes-my-day-thread/944570/27 "2021-06-22T00:30:29Z")
@ParallelLines , your OP made my day a bit brighter. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2021, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-all-sdmb-this-post-poster-makes-my-day-thread/944570/28 "2021-06-22T02:08:12Z")
Glad to help you out there @Heffalump_and_Roo - it’s Monday, we can all use a little help from our friends (and caffeine, lots of caffeine). But actually came back to the thread for a second time today to mention a specific post - > [@Why has the SDMB been as successful as it has for so long?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-has-the-sdmb-been-as-successful-as-it-has-for-so-long/944803/15): > > That exactly. I’ve been a member of car enthusiast boards for the various cars I’ve owned. Lots of good info on maintenance, performance tweaks, etc. And a certain amount of chewing the fat in general. But … When I sell that car I have no further need of that board. And what fat-chewing there is is still centered around those cars and the people who drive them. Occupational boards or hobby boards are the same. Much more transactional: “How do I connect a gizmo to a doodad? Thanks all. G’b… @LSLGuy has been mentioned in this thread before (and for good reasons), but really wanted to share the Post this time. It talks about what makes the board what it is, and how to hold on to the best of what we are. A select quote: > But knowing that we are successful, at least in the sense of still being here at all, we can maximize that future success by trading on what we are, rather than trying to become something we aren’t. > > Stay open to international participation. Emphasize things that let us connect as people, not just as disembodied experts or opinion-spreaders/spewers. Most of all, preserve the civility that helps us all remember that the words of others we read aren’t coming from bots to be shouted at; they’re coming from actual people with feelings just as sensitive, prickly, and rubbed raw as our own. I raise my Monday evening Rum and Cola to you **LSLGuy**! ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2021, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-all-sdmb-this-post-poster-makes-my-day-thread/944570/29 "2021-06-22T02:50:59Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > I raise my Monday evening Rum and Cola to you **LSLGuy**! Every word, all true! 🥃 to @LSLGuy, who shoulders much of the blame for this mere mortal poster still being here. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2021, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-all-sdmb-this-post-poster-makes-my-day-thread/944570/30 "2021-06-22T08:43:15Z")
There are some posters who, no matter what the subject is, put up posts that I will always look at: – @Northern_Piper – @RickJay – @panache45 – @BippityBoppityBoo – @Beckdawrek – @Johnny_L.A – @Spice_Weasel (sparkly jackboots or not) – @LSLGuy – @wolfpup There are more, but those come to mind first. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2021, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-all-sdmb-this-post-poster-makes-my-day-thread/944570/31 "2021-06-22T08:52:33Z")
Thanks, **@Spoons** , and you should add your own name to that list. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2021, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-all-sdmb-this-post-poster-makes-my-day-thread/944570/32 "2021-06-22T10:50:45Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > … > Well, I could go on for a while, and I don’t want to insult anyone by leaving them out, but I’ll omnibus a bit some of the other posters I enjoy reading: > > iiandyiiii, Little\_Nemo, kayaker and kaylasdad99 (even though I had some confusion for a while back in the day over thinking they were the same poster), asahi, miller, Buck\_Godot, GIGObuster, Gyrate, Euphonious\_Polemic, MrDibble, crowmanyclouds and many others that I could probably think of if I spent more time thinking about it. > … Other than the part about me\*, I would’ve written a list very close to yours. Both the folks in this snip and the the @-ed ones in the earlier part of your post. Some folks are better at being earnest, others at jokes, and others as just plain wise. But each brings a different and vital ingredient to our stone soup here. * * * \* And thank you for that. I blush better than you might expect for an increasingly crotchety old guy. 😊 ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2021, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-all-sdmb-this-post-poster-makes-my-day-thread/944570/33 "2021-06-22T11:40:13Z")
I think he hasn’t posted in a while, but @Richard_Parker deserves a mention - he’s one of the all time best posters on law or politics, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2021, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-all-sdmb-this-post-poster-makes-my-day-thread/944570/34 "2021-06-22T17:30:38Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > blush better than you might expect for an increasingly crotchety old guy You aren’t _nearly_ as crotchety as you think you are. You _are_ probably right on the ‘old guy’ part. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2021, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-all-sdmb-this-post-poster-makes-my-day-thread/944570/35 "2021-06-22T17:34:32Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > There are more, but those come to mind first. > [@LSLGuy](#): > > Some folks are better at being earnest, others at jokes, and others as just plain wise I’d add **@nelliebly** and **@thelmalou**. They always add kind **and** wise along with perceptive about the human condition. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2021, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-all-sdmb-this-post-poster-makes-my-day-thread/944570/36 "2021-06-24T16:05:16Z")
@Gyrate has been mentioned way back in post #20, (although Discourse robbed him of his @) but was in a Pit thread today where he shared the following. > I want to add that I myself am occasionally annoying and irrational and dumb, and sometimes I even smell bad (although I am certified cootie-free). Because it’s part of being human. But I try to add more than I detract. And I think that applies to most of the regular posters here. Pit thread info, if you want to look at it, but we’re trying to avoid negatives: I Pit Czarcasm, post # 45 Pit or not, a couple sentences that speaks to the best of the board. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2021, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-all-sdmb-this-post-poster-makes-my-day-thread/944570/37 "2021-06-25T03:57:17Z")
It’s not like @Stranger_On_A_Train hasn’t been mentioned (frequently) but this post had me almost choke due to laughing so hard. > [@Barbecue Styles](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbecue-styles/944974/24): > > > [@Barbecue Styles](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbecue-styles/944974/22): > > > > For most people who aren’t from Chicago, when they hear “Chicago style pizza,” they picture only a deep dish and/or stuffed pizza, as that’s the style which gets press, and to which tourists tend to get steered. But, there’s a completely different Chicago style, which, IME, is what locals actually eat more often – it has a very thin crust (usually a crisp “cracker crust”), and gets cut into smallish squares (“tavern cut”), like so: > > What the…they cut the pizza into squares? Like Showbiz Pizza for little children that can’t handle a whole slice? What is the point of that? Pizza is a trigonometric expression of analytical cuisinometry, hence the name. It is supposed to come in slices measuring in fractions of 𝞹, not rectangles and weird little leftover off-angle segments like some kind of failed origami experiment. If anything, that is worse than deep dish pizza, which is at least half-honest in its description. How do you even eat that? With chopsticks? Everything about this is so wrong in a Lovecraftian cosmic horror sort of way. > > Stranger From [Barbecue Styles - #24 by Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbecue-styles/944974/24) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2021, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-all-sdmb-this-post-poster-makes-my-day-thread/944570/38 "2021-06-25T08:34:32Z")
Whoa - thanks for the kudos, guys/gals/others. It’s nice to be appreciated. And I’m going to jump on the @Ann_Hedonia fan club bandwagon. While this messageboard has many smart, talented and insightful people, in recent months the posts that have most kicked my mental ass [_note to self: metaphor needs work_] have been **Ann** ’s. Always worth reading. I feel bad for not mentioning all the others whose contributions I appreciate, but I will at least also shout out to @GIGObuster, who - **so many times** over the past several years - has rolled up to a fact fight in a Sherman tank and blown the other side away. The relentless decimation of other posters’ wilful ignorance in climate change threads alone deserves a mention, if not some kind of actual trophy and/or cash prize. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2021, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-all-sdmb-this-post-poster-makes-my-day-thread/944570/39 "2021-06-25T19:23:28Z")
I add @VOW . My sister from another mister. Kind and funny are just two things I say about her. Love her to pieces. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2021, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-all-sdmb-this-post-poster-makes-my-day-thread/944570/40 "2021-06-27T21:11:15Z")
TU @Beckdawrek , Sweetheart. Beck and I just clicked when we stumbled upon each other here at the Dope. If we ever meet IRL, we will actually PHYSICALLY stumble over each other, and the paramedics will have to be called! I’d love to sit around a table on Beck’s back deck, and we’d have @BibbityBobbityBoo, @nellybly , @panache45 , and probably a dozen more I can’t remember right this minute. All of us would be silly, loud, rude, and laughing so hard we’d have iced tea running down from our noses. The older bladders would then leak. It would be one of those days you never want to end. There’s a lot of love here at the Dope. ~VOW [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-all-sdmb-this-post-poster-makes-my-day-thread/944570.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-all-sdmb-this-post-poster-makes-my-day-thread/944570.md?page=3)