# Where has Skald run off to?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 10, 2012, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458 "2012-02-10T21:28:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/1 "2012-02-10T21:28:42Z")
His last post was Jan 6th-one of his acquaintances hinted that there was a very good reason for **Skald** ’s hiatus, so if the general population of Dopers isn’t on a need-to-know, that’s okay, but still I remain curious.
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### Author:  [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/2 "2012-02-10T21:33:06Z")
He’s ascending the Himalayan mountain for a fresh stock of whatever gives him his inpsiration for the polls and threads he starts.
He probably has to fight off ninjas protecting all the monasteries that are up there, so I woulsdn’t expect him back soon.
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/3 "2012-02-10T21:38:36Z")
Hypothetically, it might have something to do with the release of the John Carter movie. Or anything else.
What would you do?
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### Author:  [@Blaster\_Master](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blaster_Master)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/4 "2012-02-10T21:45:05Z")
I am greatly displeased that the OP did not make this a poll with many silly options and an appeal to Athena.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/5 "2012-02-10T21:53:30Z")
I don’t know how widely he wants the information spread, but I will say that it’s good news, not bad news.
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### Author:  [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/6 "2012-02-10T22:37:07Z")
> [@Blaster\_Master](#):
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> I am greatly displeased that the OP did not make this a poll with many silly options and an appeal to Athena.
Don’t look at me, hell if I know where he went.
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### Author:  [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/7 "2012-02-10T22:54:31Z")
> [@Chronos](#):
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> I don’t know how widely he wants the information spread, but I will say that it’s good news, not bad news.
Given this information, I move that someone implement **Blaster Master’s** idea and create a poll that allows us to imagine all the possible things that His Evilness may be up to.
Although it seems that the “appeal to Athena” clause may need to be re-thought.
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### Author:  [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/8 "2012-02-10T23:10:33Z")
> [@gardentraveler](#):
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> Given this information, I move that someone implement **Blaster Master’s** idea and create a poll that allows us to imagine all the possible things that His Evilness may be up to.
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> Although it seems that the “appeal to Athena” clause may need to be re-thought.
We can come up with ideas for the poll in this thread. My guess: marriage and a long honeymoon.
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/9 "2012-02-10T23:17:30Z")
> [@Invisible\_Chimp](#):
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> We can come up with ideas for the poll in this thread. My guess: marriage and a long honeymoon.
No, **Chronos** says it’s good news.
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/10 "2012-02-10T23:27:03Z")
> [@Blaster\_Master](#):
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> I am greatly displeased that the OP did not make this a poll with many silly options and an appeal to Athena.
lol - I was thinking of posting something similar.
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2012, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/11 "2012-02-11T00:06:53Z")
I am sure he is in one of his alternate universes.
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2012, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/12 "2012-02-11T00:22:29Z")
A wizard appeared and gave him three choices. He took one.
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2012, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/13 "2012-02-11T00:41:26Z")
> [@Chronos](#):
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> I don’t know how widely he wants the information spread, but I will say that it’s good news, not bad news.
Glad to hear it. I always enjoyed his hypos, though I never told him so. I hope he comes back to the board eventually.
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### Author:  [@BetsQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BetsQ)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2012, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/14 "2012-02-11T01:06:07Z")
If he’s at the Universal Library and didn’t take requests before leaving, I’m going to be irritated.
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### Author:  [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2012, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/15 "2012-02-11T03:39:50Z")
I suspect it involves coffee cake. Or pie.
-D/a
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### Author:  [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2012, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/16 "2012-02-11T04:49:53Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#):
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> Glad to hear it. **I always enjoyed his hypos,** though I never told him so. I hope he comes back to the board eventually.
:shudder: The hypos I get are usually at the doctor’s office, and I enjoy them not.
[sup](Oh, sorry, does this remark make me a threadshitter?)[/sup]
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### Author:  [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2012, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/17 "2012-02-11T05:05:12Z")
We took him out to live in a farm in the country where he will run around all day with rhymers and alliteratives. At least that is what I heard from “Covered in Maggots”
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### Author:  [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2012, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/18 "2012-02-11T06:15:18Z")
Maybe he’s gone a-viking… (skalds did go viking, right?)
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### Author:  [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2012, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/19 "2012-02-11T08:54:29Z")
I’m thinking he won the lottery.
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### Author:  [@Tapiotar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapiotar)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2012, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/20 "2012-02-11T22:23:44Z")
Probably doing a replacement gig at the feasting boards in Valhalla, while the regular resident skald is on vacation in a more salubrious heavenly clime. Instead of declaiming the exploits of gods and heroes in Eddaic verse, however, he is thinking up new quests to keep the Odin’s warriors in good training as they await Ragnarok.
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