# What is the rule on spoilers? Is there a time limit? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 26, 2020, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-rule-on-spoilers-is-there-a-time-limit/928942 "2020-12-26T07:42:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2020, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-rule-on-spoilers-is-there-a-time-limit/928942/4 "2020-12-26T08:49:03Z")
The exchange is here, starting from post 5 and going on intermittently to post 29. > [@The hardest thing to give up](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hardest-thing-to-give-up/923149/5): > > When I was eight years old living in Germany back in the 1970s, a kid I knew was moving back to the ‘States to a warm location, so he sold me a red plastic sled (actually a toboggan) for one dollar. Over the next two decades that sled moved with our family from Germany to Texas to California to Texas to Tennessee to Illinois, then back to Germany (two different houses), and finally to Virginia, where my former stepfather was going through and getting rid of all my childhood possessions after a … --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-rule-on-spoilers-is-there-a-time-limit/928942)._