# What happened to the "spare time" thread?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-spare-time-thread/338329>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [January 4, 2006, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-spare-time-thread/338329 "2006-01-04T02:21:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-spare-time-thread/338329/1 "2006-01-04T02:21:50Z")

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There was a thread a few minutes ago with the title “spare time?”.

What happened to it? I cannot find any trace of it. Maybe my -fu is weak, but I was about to post a reply, and everything I tried gave me a “you do not have permission…” error message. Eventually trying to get back to the thread crashed my tab in Firefox. Was this thread deleted by mods without a trace? If so, why?

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**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-spare-time-thread/338329/2 "2006-01-04T02:30:22Z")

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The poster was a guest who appeared to be spamming us.

His name was skateboarder(something something) and he(?) said he liked to skateboard in his(?) spare time and posted a link to a skateboarding website.

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**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-spare-time-thread/338329/3 "2006-01-04T02:42:02Z")

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> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#):
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> The poster was a guest who appeared to be spamming us.
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> His name was skateboarder(something something) and he(?) said he liked to skateboard in his(?) spare time and posted a link to a skateboarding website.

But I wanted to post a witticism! 🙂

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**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-spare-time-thread/338329/4 "2006-01-04T02:43:45Z")

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Generally, disappeared threads belong to return guests, spammers, bots, or things of that nature.

Sorry. I’m sure your wit can be used elsewhere!

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**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-spare-time-thread/338329/5 "2006-01-04T03:13:26Z")

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> [@fluiddruid](#):
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> Generally, disappeared threads belong to return guests, spammers, bots, or things of that nature.
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> Sorry. I’m sure your wit can be used elsewhere!

Anyone looks good with a purple mustache!

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**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-spare-time-thread/338329/6 "2006-01-04T04:51:05Z")

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**CynicalGabe** , I wish you better luck with your wit in the future.

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**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-spare-time-thread/338329/7 "2006-01-04T05:10:17Z")

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Sorry, I just wrote the first thing that came to mind, and there happened to be a grape juice commercial on at the moment.

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**Author:** ![sundog66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@sundog66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sundog66)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-spare-time-thread/338329/8 "2006-01-04T08:37:53Z")

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> [@CynicalGabe](#):
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> But I wanted to post a witticism! 🙂

Perhaps you could relate your witticism here?

I’m just curious, is all.