Is it me, or has there been a lot of people recently who have posted a question and then posted a reply 20 minutes later wondering why no one answers? I don’t know why, but it ticks me off. It probably shouldn’t.
Hmm, no replies.
Well, a small percentage of newbies seem to think that GQ is the Shell Answer Man or Google’s Ask An Expert or something, that there is a staff of SDMB experts on hand ready and waiting to answer Your Question the minute it appears in the forum.
They figure it out soon enough.
But I agree, it’s annoying.
Whine, whine, whine.
I think it’s rather annoying, too. But nothing earth-shattering.
You can also see it in some debates, when someone posts something and twenty minutes later posts “Well? No answers? I guess all my opponents must have ran away from the sheer intellectual force of my argumentation!”
For some reason I read the title of your rant as:
WHAT? NO REPTILES? COME ON! phenomenon.
I had a brief flash of wondering why you were disappointed that iguanas were not crawling out of your Xmas stocking. Then the truth dawned.
Well, you obviously wanted a reply…
Brie, feta, or gouda with your whine, Sir?
Who are y’all accusing of whining, the OP of this thread or the OPs of the threads spoken about? The latter would be more worthy of it, I should think.
Reptiles would be nifty. Like those little lizards with the tongues who can stick to walls.
You rang?
Their tongues stick to walls?
I’d assume. I mean, their tongues stick to flies, don’t they?
To tell the truth, I was really hoping no one would reply to this thread. The irony would be delicious because then I could come in 2 days later and be like “WHAT? NO REPLIES? COME ON!” and be totally justified. 
I’ll sometimes post a note in a thread along the lines of “I’m sure poster X will be able to help you with this question when they are next online” to convey to the OP that people have noticed their OP (the number of views should tell them that anyway), but feel that it would be best to leave providing an answer to a poster who is an “expert” on the topic under discussion. When I do that, I’ll generally also email the poster I feel would be best able to answer the question and let them know the URL of the thread.
<< reparses Chikki’s sentence >>
Like those little lizards with the tongues comma , who can stick to walls.
Their little sticky feet are what enable geckos to stick to walls. (not that I think anybody really cares, but there’s not a whole lot going on in this thread anyway)
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/living/health/3991607.htm
Now aren’t you glad you know all that?
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Only when it’s a fly on a wall.
hey, do you guys mean this isn’t a real-time chat board? Dang. That explains a lot.
Yeah, that is pretty annoying.
Now that my flimsy on topic reply is out of the way, I can address the real reason I posted. Jayrot, I like your sig. Where’s it from?