# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/61 "2012-02-17T02:39:59Z")
> [@Beastly\_Rotter](#): > > Gender reassignment surgery in Bangkok. > [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Nah, Siam Sam would be in on that. That’s right. I’d take a cut. Although not literally. I vote he’s in jail. ---
**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 17, 2012, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/62 "2012-02-17T03:01:17Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > I vote he’s in jail. So I get his CDs! Cool. ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/63 "2012-02-17T09:45:14Z")
> [@Twoflower](#): > > Hmmm. His profile lists his occupation as “Soon enough, fatherhood.” Is that a clue, perhaps?? So the cloning facility is up and running. How long will it take for a **Skald** clone to get to _flying monkeys_? Si ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/64 "2012-02-17T10:11:52Z")
This is the part where he travels back in time to screw with the head of the young Skald and thus creates his own future self. ---
**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 17, 2012, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/65 "2012-02-17T21:13:05Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > Narnia. He found the Wardrobe. But then he’d come back the instant he left. Well, except that Narnia doesn’t exist anymore, so he might just be floating in an endless void. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/66 "2012-02-17T21:51:00Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > I admit completel puzzlement over how good news could be such a secret. It isn’t that he said “DON’T TELL ANYONE”. It’s that he PM’ed me (and others) privately and so it’s decision whether to tell or not! ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/67 "2012-02-17T22:03:34Z")
He’s been gone for months though. How long does it take to have a baby, a couple hours? He should have been back already! I think he’s actually out there stealing a baby and the subsequent coverup is what’s delaying him ---
**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 18, 2012, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/68 "2012-02-18T00:01:59Z")
I believe he has taken up [authorship.](http://cmkornbluth.bravehost.com/) ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/69 "2012-02-18T16:52:07Z")
> [@Twoflower](#): > > Hmmm. His profile lists his occupation as “Soon enough, fatherhood.” Is that a clue, perhaps?? I did see Brad Pitt crying uncontrollably and Angelina screaming that she and her “new stud boyfriend” would take custody of the kids…seems like that might be a bigger clue. She also had a tattoo that said, “Skalding Hot - Brad Not”. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/70 "2012-05-31T02:44:47Z")
I miss him… ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/71 "2012-05-31T02:58:10Z")
Me too. This board is less silly without him. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/72 "2012-05-31T03:00:05Z")
Coincidentally, he logged in today. ---
**Author:** ![VanillaGorilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@VanillaGorilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VanillaGorilla)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/73 "2012-05-31T07:20:41Z")
> [@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. Slight hijack - what is the _chariots of iron_ paradox? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/74 "2012-06-01T16:17:38Z")
> [@VanillaGorilla](#): > > Slight hijack - what is the _chariots of iron_ paradox? Not as interesting as I thought. It’s just the [God and big rock thing](http://wiki.ironchariots.org/index.php?title=Omnipotence_paradox). ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/75 "2012-06-01T17:29:32Z")
Winning the lottery can be rather time-consuming; you have to figure out which island to buy, which jet to purchase that will be able to land on that private landing strip, gather some trustworthy staff and of course, pay off that Walmart credit card bill. Plus, sometimes it takes awhile to get good internet connections on private islands. I am sure when he returns, bearing gifts for us all, it will be worth the wait. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/76 "2012-06-01T17:46:39Z")
> [@VanillaGorilla](#): > > Slight hijack - what is the _chariots of iron_ paradox? Judges 1-19 “The LORD was with the men of Judah. They took possession of the hill country, but they were unable to drive the people from the plains, because they had iron chariots.” It’s not a real paradox, it’s just an artifact of the fact that the OT God was never supposed to be Omnimax. Also it was the men of Judah who were unable to defeat the iron chariots. Even taking the text at face value The Lord wasn’t actually fighting with them in the form of supernatural artillery or something. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/77 "2012-06-01T17:57:22Z")
> [@](#): > > Winning the lottery can be rather time-consuming; you have to figure out which island to buy,… Well, obviously it needs to be one with an active volcano. That narrows the list considerably. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/78 "2012-06-01T18:03:22Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Well, obviously it needs to be one with an active volcano. That narrows the list considerably. I’d sort of assumed Skald would simply tunnel until he reached the mantle, then threaten to detonate nukes, thus creating a wave of killer earthquakes. The world’s governments would be reduced to his vassals. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/79 "2012-06-01T18:22:59Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > But then he’d come back the instant he left. Well, except that Narnia doesn’t exist anymore, so he might just be floating in an endless void. Wait - Narnia used to be in New Hampshire? ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2012, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/80 "2012-06-02T00:00:16Z")
Another vote for hoping he returns, his threads and ‘persona’ are very entertaining. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458.md?page=5)