# When I Say I'm Gonna Do Something ... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 1, 2010, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-say-im-gonna-do-something/555718 "2010-10-01T13:49:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2010, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-say-im-gonna-do-something/555718/1 "2010-10-01T13:49:37Z")
… by golly I’m gonna do it! Even if it takes millions of years and costs thousands of lives. So … Ten tears late and at least seven years after anybody really cares, I finally got that stupid LOTR thread formatted and completely indexed. Unemployment does make you do funny things. I can finally move on with my life now. I can die with a sense of accomplishment. Or something. So … For what it’s worth (and that ain’t much these days) … [What if “The Lord of the Rings” Had Been Written By Someone Else](http://www.teemings.net/lotr/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2010, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-say-im-gonna-do-something/555718/2 "2010-10-01T14:12:12Z")
Holy Fudd. To see it all laid out like that may be even more overwhelming than the original thread. Excellent job, Euty. I just re-read mine. I’m still kinda proud of it. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-say-im-gonna-do-something/555718/3 "2010-10-02T04:07:07Z")
Holy crap, that’s a helluva thread! I should have spent my unemployment reading it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-say-im-gonna-do-something/555718/4 "2010-10-02T09:05:53Z")
I saw that earlier today. I think we should all buy you a beer or a cookie or something. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-say-im-gonna-do-something/555718/5 "2010-10-02T12:50:12Z")
Very cool and the Dope’s crowning achievement! ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-say-im-gonna-do-something/555718/6 "2010-10-02T13:09:29Z")
I see my posts have been augmented really well. Who did the rewrites? You also? ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-say-im-gonna-do-something/555718/7 "2010-10-02T19:34:53Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > I see my posts have been augmented really well. Who did the rewrites? You also? I wasn’t aware of any actual rewrites, but we may have conflated two or more posts that were similar. Mostly it was just a cut and paste deal from the message board with misspellings and some grammatical corrections along the way. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-say-im-gonna-do-something/555718/8 "2010-10-02T20:09:34Z")
Lordy, I forgot I’d written in the style of **Lackey** as well as **Doc Smith**. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-say-im-gonna-do-something/555718/9 "2010-10-02T20:31:43Z")
Hope I’m not thread-jacking but has anyone tried starting a new thread for the Dopers that weren’t around 10 years ago? Or a thread for writing non-LOTR related stories in the form of another author? ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-say-im-gonna-do-something/555718/10 "2010-10-02T21:36:42Z")
> [@Eutychus](#): > > > [@FriarTed](#): > > > > I see my posts have been augmented really well. Who did the rewrites? You also? > > I wasn’t aware of any actual rewrites, but we may have conflated two or more posts that were similar. Mostly it was just a cut and paste deal from the message board with misspellings and some grammatical corrections along the way. I went into the original to find my post - Bram Stoker’s SAURONULA & by God, I couldn’t remember writing half of that! I’m bloody brilliant! Or I was! The evidence… [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=2690170&postcount=190](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=2690170&postcount=190) ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2010, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-say-im-gonna-do-something/555718/11 "2010-10-04T11:48:35Z")
> [@tr0psn4j](#): > > Hope I’m not thread-jacking but has anyone tried starting a new thread for the Dopers that weren’t around 10 years ago? Or a thread for writing non-LOTR related stories in the form of another author? I think the success of the original thread was more the result of timing than anything else. It was right in the middle of the success of the LOTR movies so there was a lot of interest besides what you would normally get from just the LOTR geeks. So I’m loathe to start another thread now. I don’t think it would be as successful and I’m certainly not going to be the one to unleash another monster into the world. I state on the website that I will accept new additions to the pile through e-mail, though. I believe it has been tried with different authors and works, but it never worked out to this extreme.