# Where has Skald run off to? **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/21 "2012-02-11T23:43:08Z")
Wherever he is, I hope he’s enjoying himself. Selfishly, I also hope he comes back to us soon. I like him a lot and his threads add a thoughtful whimsy to the board. ---
**Author:** ![Enuma\_Elish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5e9695/32.png) [@Enuma\_Elish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enuma_Elish)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/22 "2012-02-12T18:38:56Z")
Where’s Waldo? Er, Skaldo??? I think I may have seen him by Lambeau Field . . . or not . . . . ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/23 "2012-02-12T21:10:11Z")
> [@PandaBear77](#): > > I’m thinking he won the lottery. I thought that he was off having 2 months of mindless sex. (You say tomato, I say tomahto…) ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/24 "2012-02-12T23:07:47Z")
> [@Invisible\_Chimp](#): > > We can come up with ideas for the poll in this thread. My guess: marriage and a long honeymoon. It could be, but he had a wife, a hot very young thing whom he preferred to an older worthy-but-dull woman after discussing it at some length with the Dope. She looked awesome when she was singing in the church choir, except she was a spunky atheist who liked stumping believers with the chariots-of-iron paradox, except she quit on Skald because she couldn’t cope with being “unequally yoked” with an unbeliever, but she came back in a very understated manner and if she left again I missed it. All from memory and with no hope of providing cites. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/25 "2012-02-13T01:27:08Z")
You’ll never find him. At least… not _all_ of him. Mwuha. Ha! Mwahahahahaha! ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/26 "2012-02-13T05:11:41Z")
He’s in a time-machine that can only move forward through time, obviously. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/27 "2012-02-13T09:19:35Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > He’s in a time-machine that can only move forward through time, obviously. Technically, aren’t we all? ---
**Author:** ![Waxwinged](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c2a13f/32.png) [@Waxwinged](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waxwinged)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/28 "2012-02-13T12:41:37Z")
I’d place my bets on a pit in someone’s basement… ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/29 "2012-02-13T12:50:31Z")
May come back as some Fabulous Creature. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/30 "2012-02-13T13:02:12Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > :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] Shit isn’t funny, silly. ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/31 "2012-02-13T14:30:16Z")
> [@Invisible\_Chimp](#): > > We can come up with ideas for the poll in this thread. My guess: marriage and a long honeymoon. As Malacandra states, he’s already married. They were going to get divorced in Spring, 2009, but I think they made up. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/32 "2012-02-13T15:09:14Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > …if the general population of Dopers isn’t on a need-to-know, that’s okay, but still I remain curious. He’s gone? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Engineer\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9fc29f/32.png) [@Engineer\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Engineer_Dude)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/33 "2012-02-13T15:23:03Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > He’s in a time-machine that can only move forward through time, obviously. Hopefully he’ll eventually get sick of the future, and then go forward until they invent the backwards time machine. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/34 "2012-02-13T16:54:51Z")
> [@Engineer\_Dude](#): > > Hopefully he’ll eventually get sick of the future, and then go forward until they invent the backwards time machine. Well, we all know time is circular. If he keeps speeding forward, he could still make it back here. ---
**Author:** ![spankthecrumpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@spankthecrumpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spankthecrumpet)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/35 "2012-02-13T17:01:02Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > It could be, but he had a wife, a hot very young thing whom he preferred to an older worthy-but-dull woman after discussing it at some length with the Dope. She looked awesome when she was singing in the church choir, except she was a spunky atheist who liked stumping believers with the chariots-of-iron paradox, except she quit on Skald because she couldn’t cope with being “unequally yoked” with an unbeliever, but she came back in a very understated manner and if she left again I missed it. > > All from memory and with no hope of providing cites. Are you implying what I think you’re implying? :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/36 "2012-02-13T17:10:32Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > All from memory and with no hope of providing cites. My favorite kind of post. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/37 "2012-02-13T17:51:22Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > As Malacandra states, he’s already married. They were going to get divorced in Spring, 2009, but I think they made up. A second honeymoon then. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/38 "2012-02-13T19:13:39Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > It could be, but he had a wife, a hot very young thing whom he preferred to an older worthy-but-dull woman after discussing it at some length with the Dope. She looked awesome when she was singing in the church choir, except she was a spunky atheist who liked stumping believers with the chariots-of-iron paradox, except she quit on Skald because she couldn’t cope with being “unequally yoked” with an unbeliever, but she came back in a very understated manner and if she left again I missed it. > > All from memory and with no hope of providing cites. > [@spankthecrumpet](#): > > Are you implying what I think you’re implying? :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D That they’re off having a baby? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/39 "2012-02-13T19:43:50Z")
Perhaps he went on a long expected journey? ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/40 "2012-02-13T20:34:01Z")
I figured the flying monkeys turned on him, but will come back soon as **Skald the White**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458.md?page=3)