If anyone has anything to say, they must start a thread that has to start with either “Wherein” or “In Which”.
Is this a message board or a legal document?
You don’t sound any smarter for including words that nobody actually uses in your thread title. Just tell us what you want to talk about it, and if we are interested we will read your thread.
You don’t have to trick us into thinking you’ve started a new intellectual novel that we don’t dare miss because it has the word “wherein” in the title.
I’m begging you. Call it “I Stubbed My Fucking Toe.” not “In Which I Stubbed My Fucking Toe.” Please, for the love of all that is all that is good and sacred on Buddha’s great green earth, just knock it the fuck off!!
it’s just a bit of silliness that has taken hold, it will pass soon enough. It’s just the current SDMB fad. We’ll get over it when the next thing comes along.
I don’t write my posts here in the manner in which I speak, and I don’t expect that most others do, either… it’s just for comedic effect, and it usually works and makes the post more funny and more entertaining to read! (IMHO)
The # 1 SDMB sin, as I see it anyways, is to be BORING! (Being a jerk, IMHO, is sin #2)
If the “in which” or "wherein"s become tiresome to most Dopers, they will go the way of the dodo bird… trust in group will and evolution, and you will be free!
I thought maybe it was a jab at A. A. Milne. He used to title his chapters that way. You know, “In which Tigger gets stuck in a tree”, “In which Pooh gets some delicious honey”, “In which Owl stubs the shit out of his toe”, that sort of thing.
Yeah, I find it annoying too, Jack. I wouldn’t have started a Pit thread about it though. It bothers me because it’s just so unnecessary. If you title the thread “My dog pissed in my shoe”, logic states that in that thread will be a story about your dog pissing in your shoe. Calling the thread “In which my dog pisses in my shoe” is just redundant.
As for the literary reference, many authors just number their chapters. Maybe I’ll start doing that. My next thread will be titled 214 and everyone can just guess what it’s about. Let’s see how long it takes before that gets annoying.
But, oh caped crusader, you must admit that [ul]“In which I stub my toe”[/ul]is a hell of a lot better than [ul]“why did this happen to me?”[/ul]or worse
[ul]“a bad thing happened”[/ul]or [ul]“ouch!”[/ul]
What is really irritating is that we have to make decisions based on the thread title. This can mean that we deliberately skip the “ouch!” thread day after day thinking “that sounds boring”.
Then one day someone opens a Pit thread entitled [ul]“Maybe you stubbed your toe but that doesnt entitle you to call all women alien maggots”[/ul] and we find there was this interesting weird stuff going on that we missed out on.
