# Well disguised serial sock puppets? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 13, 2006, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-disguised-serial-sock-puppets/383925 "2006-12-13T03:44:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-disguised-serial-sock-puppets/383925/21 "2006-12-14T01:59:40Z")
it wouldn’t smell so funky if there weren’t all these socks laying around 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-disguised-serial-sock-puppets/383925/22 "2006-12-14T02:00:45Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Ooow! Ooow! Do we get badges? Secret decoder rings? [/QUOTE] Badges!? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges! I don’t have to show you any stinking badges! I’m down with the decoder rings though. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-disguised-serial-sock-puppets/383925/23 "2006-12-14T02:04:50Z")
[QUOTE=John DiFool] 2. A complete and total refusal to submit to the will of the majority. [/QUOTE] Can I assure you that the majority of people here definitely want you not to go nude when you are next in public. All of the time. We do, don’t we people? In fact, we _order you_ to keep them on. We overbearingly, dictatorially, demagogically, with no legitimate authority at all, _will_ you not to go nude when you are next in public. YOU MUST SUBMIT TO US IN THIS RESPECT, JOHN! ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-disguised-serial-sock-puppets/383925/24 "2006-12-14T02:15:18Z")
[QUOTE=Dangerosa] For #3, it reduces the number of posts on a page, which can make multipage threads a little more of a pain in the butt to load. [/QUOTE] No it doesn’t, there’ll be 50 posts to a thread, no matter what. It does, however, make it that much longer to scroll through a page of posts when half of them are twice as many lines as they need to be because of unnecessary carriage returns. And to re-emphasize an earlier point - it draws attention to the formatting of your posts, obfuscating the content. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-disguised-serial-sock-puppets/383925/25 "2006-12-14T02:18:04Z")
[QUOTE=Dangerosa] [color=indigo] For #3, it reduces the number of posts on a page, which can make multipage threads a little more of a pain in the butt to load. [/QUOTE] Interesting, I get 50 posts per page whether there are 50 lines or 5000 lines. Are you sure you only get a set number of lines? **John DiFool** : For what it is worth, I have no problem with your extra returns. It does stand out however. One of the other regulars has a strange reply thing going on where the quote portion of the text gets indents with ‘\>’ signs. Again, no problem, but it does stand out. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-disguised-serial-sock-puppets/383925/26 "2006-12-14T02:34:09Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Interesting, I get 50 posts per page whether there are 50 lines or 5000 lines. Are you sure you only get a set number of lines? **John DiFool** : For what it is worth, I have no problem with your extra returns. It does stand out however. One of the other regulars has a strange reply thing going on where the quote portion of the text gets indents with ‘\>’ signs. Again, no problem, but it does stand out. Jim [/QUOTE] You may be right. I always assumed it was static page length (another VB board I’m on is), instead of number of posts per page. There, when you get longwinded, you get three posts per page - its usually big signatures and lots of photos. ---
**Author:** ![the\_PC\_apeman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac8455/32.png) [@the\_PC\_apeman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_PC_apeman)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-disguised-serial-sock-puppets/383925/27 "2006-12-14T13:21:21Z")
**John** , you’d have to try a lot harder than this to annoy me. Curiosity is one thing. But anyone who gets their panties in a bunch over such a little thing needs to have their world shook up a bit. Keep your personal style and be proud. ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-disguised-serial-sock-puppets/383925/28 "2006-12-14T14:11:30Z")
[QUOTE=Tengu] Seriously, John, you do NOT need to do that. Word wrap is your friend. Let word wrap do its job, so we can all stop reading your posts in the voice of an amateur beat poet. [/QUOTE] Thanks a lot, asshole. I never read his posts like that before, but you can be sure I will from now on. > [@the PC apeman](#): > > John, you’d have to try a lot harder than this to annoy me. Curiosity is one thing. But anyone who gets their panties in a bunch over such a little thing needs to have their world shook up a bit. Keep your personal style and be proud. Who’s getting their panties in a bunch over it? Some people are just saying it’s kind of annoying. ---
**Author:** ![the\_PC\_apeman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac8455/32.png) [@the\_PC\_apeman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_PC_apeman)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-disguised-serial-sock-puppets/383925/29 "2006-12-14T14:13:38Z")
[QUOTE=Talon Karrde] … Who’s getting their panties in a bunch over it? Some people are just saying it’s kind of annoying. [/QUOTE] If the shoe fits… ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-disguised-serial-sock-puppets/383925/30 "2006-12-14T14:29:46Z")
[QUOTE=the PC apeman] If the shoe fits… [/QUOTE] Shoes, Panties, Badges, Socks? Is this a pitting or shopping trip to the Mall? ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-disguised-serial-sock-puppets/383925/31 "2006-12-14T17:22:30Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Shoes, Panties, Badges, Socks? Is this a pitting or shopping trip to the Mall? [/QUOTE] Keep your hair on. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2006, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-disguised-serial-sock-puppets/383925/32 "2006-12-15T00:30:34Z")
You’re getting your knickers in a twist over nothing there, **rayh** ---
**Author:** ![the\_PC\_apeman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac8455/32.png) [@the\_PC\_apeman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_PC_apeman)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2006, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-disguised-serial-sock-puppets/383925/34 "2006-12-15T15:37:35Z")
[QUOTE=Sockie McSockman] I for one, welcome our new Sock overlords. [/QUOTE] I must quote this in case it disappears. 😃 Thanks for the laugh. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2006, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-disguised-serial-sock-puppets/383925/35 "2006-12-15T15:50:23Z")
Give us some credit. If we’re going to disappear a post, we’re not going to leave quotations in place. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![the\_PC\_apeman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac8455/32.png) [@the\_PC\_apeman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_PC_apeman)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2006, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-disguised-serial-sock-puppets/383925/36 "2006-12-15T15:53:03Z")
[QUOTE=fluiddruid] Give us some credit. If we’re going to disappear a post, we’re not going to leave quotations in place. 😛 [/QUOTE] Good thing I have a screen shot. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Subway\_Prophet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@Subway\_Prophet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subway_Prophet)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2006, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-disguised-serial-sock-puppets/383925/37 "2006-12-15T22:37:15Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Notepad will do this if word wrap is turned on. I think it puts in returns as part of its own internal logic. When pasted into a textbox, sometimes it comes out looking like this. [/QUOTE] It has a rhythm, I can totally dig it. It carries a Cummings-like sparseness, and hints at an almost Dickinsenian dispair, but holds itself aloof as though Rumsfeld himself penned it. Bravo! ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2006, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-disguised-serial-sock-puppets/383925/38 "2006-12-15T23:57:14Z")
[QUOTE=Talon Karrde] Who’s getting their panties in a bunch over it? [/QUOTE] I am. Right now, at this very moment, my underpants are bunched up in my crack, and **John DiFool** ’s short-margin posts are the reason. I was reading one of his posts, wriggling this way and that, gesticulating in bewilderment over his unorthodox margins, and I ended up with my panties in a bunch. So I wish he’d stop. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2006, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-disguised-serial-sock-puppets/383925/39 "2006-12-16T00:10:39Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Shoes, Panties, Badges, Socks? Is this a pitting or shopping trip to the Mall? [/QUOTE] Nah, just my work uniform. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2006, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-disguised-serial-sock-puppets/383925/40 "2006-12-16T03:56:40Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] Nah, just my work uniform. [/QUOTE] 😃 That was funny! ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2006, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-disguised-serial-sock-puppets/383925/41 "2006-12-16T19:37:48Z")
[QUOTE=fluiddruid] Give us some credit. If we’re going to disappear a post, we’re not going to leave quotations in place. 😛 [/QUOTE] You guys work for Pinochet, now? You’re disappearing things? :shudder: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-disguised-serial-sock-puppets/383925.md?page=1)