# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 7
**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:** [June 14, 2012, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/121 "2012-06-14T21:47:19Z")
**Skald!** You’re back! ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/122 "2012-06-14T21:55:41Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Seriously, does NO ONE read the faq? I’m far too busy hacking my foes to pieces to have time to read FAQs. Although with you gone there were fewer minions to chop up. There were more goons and lackeys, though. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/123 "2012-06-14T22:05:09Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > **Skald!** You’re back! I noticed. I’m also slightly embarrassed by all the attention, so if someone wanted to suggest that the thread be closed or at least renamed to “47 reasons why jokes about destroying Wales aren’t funny and never were,” I for one would not object. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/124 "2012-06-14T23:58:45Z")
Jeeze, I called a Welsh guy Taffy and I didn’t even get a warning. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2012, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/125 "2012-06-15T20:23:05Z")
If jokes about destroying Wales aren’t funny, can we still laugh at jokes about clubbing baby seals? ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/126 "2012-06-16T08:07:19Z")
For those who want to know where **Skald** was all this time, [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15173578&postcount=126) will explain everything. ---
**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:** [June 16, 2012, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/127 "2012-06-16T13:13:54Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > For those who want to know where **Skald** was all this time, [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15173578&postcount=126) will explain everything. Nested do loop error. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/128 "2012-06-16T13:21:15Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Short List, dear. Whenever you, Anaamika, Oak, Chronos, the Doc, and the other three sin, your punishment is assigned to someone else. > > Seriously, does NO ONE read the faq? Do we get to pick the someone else? Cuz that might be fun… ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/129 "2012-06-17T22:02:33Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Do we get to pick the someone else? Cuz that might be fun… Of course you do. Less work for me. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/130 "2012-06-17T22:46:27Z")
I hearby decree this thread may NOT be closed until Skald does some ‘splainin’… ---
**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:** [June 17, 2012, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458/131 "2012-06-17T23:05:26Z")
A-yup. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-skald-run-off-to/612458.md?page=6)