# What's this message board thingy, anyway? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 28, 2006, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-message-board-thingy-anyway/354651 "2006-04-28T20:34:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-message-board-thingy-anyway/354651/21 "2006-04-29T13:09:05Z")
Oh, Dinsdale showed up out of the blue after a year or two just a few weeks ago. So its kinda turning into old home week around here. Or maybe its “Rejoin the Dope” month for the American Bar Association? ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-message-board-thingy-anyway/354651/22 "2006-04-29T13:16:00Z")
[QUOTE=Dervorin] I can’t believe no one’s answered the questions in the OP. Angry, Hungry and… um… “Gry”, apparently. [/QUOTE] umm., I thought of energy. does dyslexia count as an excuse? come on, people–what’s the 3rd one? I really ,really ,really need to know. And to \*\*jodi]/b] whoever you are/were…welcome back.! We apparently missed you a lot… (anybody who loves their cat’s breath is okay in my book…) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-message-board-thingy-anyway/354651/23 "2006-04-29T17:43:40Z")
Nice to see a few returning, what with all the recent defections. There’s a thread in this forum somewhere wherein several long-time members have stated their intent to depart. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-message-board-thingy-anyway/354651/24 "2006-04-29T18:34:52Z")
> [@Jodi](#): > > I doubt anyone noticed I was gone but.. hell, I remember when you were **JodiH**! welcome back, **Jodi**! there’ve been a couple of “so why do we need lawyers, anyway?” threads in the past couple of months where I thought “damn! **Jodi** could really help here!” so, what’s the new job? still law-related? ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-message-board-thingy-anyway/354651/25 "2006-04-29T18:52:20Z")
Heyyyy, welcome back! _smooch_ 😃 (Do we need to grab the goat, guys?) ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2006, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-message-board-thingy-anyway/354651/26 "2006-04-30T03:13:59Z")
Back in the day, Ms Jodi could sink her teeth into an argument most fierce and fine. Welcome back! ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2006, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-message-board-thingy-anyway/354651/27 "2006-04-30T03:48:28Z")
Welcome back! ---
**Author:** ![Auntbeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Auntbeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Auntbeast)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2006, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-message-board-thingy-anyway/354651/28 "2006-04-30T05:05:13Z")
Don’t have the foggiest clue who you are, but welcome back! (ok, so I’m glad to have another lawyer, especially one that isn’t prosecuting me in the foreseeable future) There’s an interesting thread about juries in IMHO section. Tune in you legendary, fiesty, funny, lawyer! (btw, I’m the rambling one, I doubt I’ve ever submitted a single line response to anything, lack of knowledge is in no way tied to lack of response) ooh, if you are a female, tune into to this thread: [Poll: I just met someone via the internet --a game - In My Humble Opinion - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=369435) ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2006, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-message-board-thingy-anyway/354651/29 "2006-04-30T06:26:40Z")
Excellent. Welcome back! I figured you’d gone trying to locate the missing Cecil the Bear. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2006, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-message-board-thingy-anyway/354651/30 "2006-04-30T09:00:03Z")
[QUOTE=chappachula] come on, people–what’s the 3rd one? I really ,really ,really need to know. [/QUOTE] I was being serious, “gry” really is a word, according to [Dictionary.com](http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Gry&r=66) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![meek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce73a5/32.png) [@meek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meek)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2006, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-message-board-thingy-anyway/354651/31 "2006-04-30T13:39:49Z")
Heyyyyyy, I remember you… Welcome back. So did you just decide to take 2005 off? Or what? Regardless, nice to see ya back. . ---
**Author:** ![Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silence_of_the_clams)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2006, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-message-board-thingy-anyway/354651/32 "2006-04-30T13:40:53Z")
Curiosity killed the cat who’s breath smelled of catfood [Those Dreaded “-gry” Words](http://www.tempe.gov/library/netsites/gry.htm) anyways, welcome, even though I’m small potatoes. But someday I’ll grow into a really large… um… you know, there are alot of large vegetables out there. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2006, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-message-board-thingy-anyway/354651/33 "2006-04-30T14:42:47Z")
Um, lessee, the big news: You came back. . . The goat in the Chicago Reader Editor’s room took a big ol’ shit on the copier and ate all the damn toner. . . Jack Chick died and was reincarnated as Jimmy Buffet’s parrot . . . I moved to Afghanistan . . . They discovered a cure for male pattern baldness and ironically named the product, ‘The Gorby’ after Mikhail . . . Gas prices are up and patience is down . . . That whole re-up or your not a ‘Charter Member’ no more thing . . . and some smartass came in the other day claiming that our “Sequential Threads” aren’t really sequential but are in fact quadratic in nature. That’s about the jist of it. Welcome back! Tripler Oh, and the Time Cube guy is still apparently kickin’. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2006, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-message-board-thingy-anyway/354651/34 "2006-04-30T17:50:33Z")
[QUOTE=Scarlett67] Welcome back to the crack house! [/QUOTE] we’re all just enablers, people. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Sassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassy)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2006, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-message-board-thingy-anyway/354651/35 "2006-04-30T19:45:43Z")
Yay! Welcome back! ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2006, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-message-board-thingy-anyway/354651/36 "2006-05-01T13:15:18Z")
Howdy, stranger. Welcome home. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2006, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-message-board-thingy-anyway/354651/37 "2006-05-01T14:34:10Z")
Hey jodi!!! Glad you’re back!! ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2006, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-message-board-thingy-anyway/354651/38 "2006-05-01T14:50:52Z")
['sfirst thread I opened this morning and I thought it might be a zombie] **Jodi** , you don’t know me from your Aunt Harriet, but I’m glad to see you’re back. ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2006, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-message-board-thingy-anyway/354651/39 "2006-05-01T18:38:55Z")
Good grief, Jodi, welcome back! Oddest thing. I was thinking of you the other day, though I cannot remember why. I remember explaining something you had said to my wife, though for the life of me, I cannot remember the context. I told her you were some woman I knew from the internet. She loved that, really. Welcome back, and I probably owe you an email. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2006, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-message-board-thingy-anyway/354651/40 "2006-05-01T22:11:44Z")
[QUOTE=Jodi] I doubt anyone noticed I was gone but – now I’m not. [/QUOTE] That’s just [not true](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=7266135&highlight=jodi#post7266135). Welcome back. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-message-board-thingy-anyway/354651.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-message-board-thingy-anyway/354651.md?page=3)