# What are you favorite threads started by drive-by posters never to return?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 22, 2011, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-favorite-threads-started-by-drive-by-posters-never-to-return/590021 "2011-07-22T19:56:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-favorite-threads-started-by-drive-by-posters-never-to-return/590021/1 "2011-07-22T19:56:37Z")

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New threads get started every few minutes around here, a lot of them by new members, but every once in a while, someone will join and start a new thread that will generate a ton of response, only to never return and give us the update on what happened or answer all of the questions raised.

[The one about the 14 year old kid that couldn’t go to sleep detailing all the troubles about his cheating father and partying sister comes to mind as a recent one.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=617167)

But my all time favorite is [the thread about the guy who found his brother-in-law’s diary in his wife’s underwear drawer](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=562910). We’ll never know how that turned out.

So what are your favorite drive-by unresolved threads?

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**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-favorite-threads-started-by-drive-by-posters-never-to-return/590021/2 "2011-07-22T21:50:14Z")

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> [@Omar\_Little](#):
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> {snip}But my all time favorite is [the thread about the guy who found his brother-in-law’s diary in his wife’s underwear drawer](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=562910).{snip}

Hadn’t seen that one before, but it was worth reading, if only for [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12453781&postcount=149).

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**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2011, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-favorite-threads-started-by-drive-by-posters-never-to-return/590021/3 "2011-07-24T15:12:36Z")

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The first one I thought of was the [Game Room thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=599610) from a few months ago where someone was looking for help solving a rebus that was on a banner hanging outside a bookstore. The OP popped in a few times after that but never really answered any questions or contributed anything substantial towards finding the solution and basically disappeared after about two weeks. The rebus remains unsolved.