# What were you THINKING? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 13, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532 "2023-10-13T19:36:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5081
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5081 "2025-06-15T18:21:51Z")
Yeah, I can’t believe I forgot my own phrasing, but I wrote it in 2021 (and am probably not the only one to express this notion) as: > [@In every thread about xxxx, someone always posts yyyy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-every-thread-about-xxxx-someone-always-posts-yyyy/947462/128): > > Related to this, in any type of IMHO thread where one is asked to name a favorite/best/worst/etc XXXX, someone will chime in with “I CAN’T BELIEVE NOBODY MENTIONED [YYYY]!!!”, where YYYY had, in fact, already been mentioned, possibility multiple times, and often in the OP itself. (Actually, that’s a bit of a forced formulation of the law to follow the OP’s structure in the subject line. It’s more that whenever a poster starts a sentence with “I can’t believe nobody’s mentioned” or “I can’t bel… The thing that’s especially infuriating about that is that’s in the context of an IMHO (or Cafe Society) thread where people are asked to mention bests or worsts or whatnot and is _exactly_ the kind of thread where searching the thread to see if your contribution has already been mentioned is easy. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532)._