# Where's the FLAMES? Did you flaming flamers manage to flame out the flames?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-flames-did-you-flaming-flamers-manage-to-flame-out-the-flames/17247>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 16, 2000, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-flames-did-you-flaming-flamers-manage-to-flame-out-the-flames/17247 "2000-01-16T19:32:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sentinel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sentinel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sentinel)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-flames-did-you-flaming-flamers-manage-to-flame-out-the-flames/17247/1 "2000-01-17T06:56:00Z")

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I noticed that the waving flames on the SDMB are gone. I happened to like them, though from reading some posts, I suspect that I was in the minority. So, did you stuffy, stuck in the mud-against-new-things-tried-and-true-old-is-best SDMBers manage to get them removed? What happened to them?

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**Author:** ![Just\_Ed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Just\_Ed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Ed)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-flames-did-you-flaming-flamers-manage-to-flame-out-the-flames/17247/2 "2000-01-17T06:59:00Z")

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[Flames Disabled](http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000493.html)

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Sum Ergo Cogito

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**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2000, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-flames-did-you-flaming-flamers-manage-to-flame-out-the-flames/17247/3 "2000-01-16T19:32:00Z")

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Oops. I’m beginning to feel a phase shift a phase shift in the [ouch…] a phase shift in the [ouch…]. Hey, cut it out [ouch…] cut it out. Okay! Kay!

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**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2000, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-flames-did-you-flaming-flamers-manage-to-flame-out-the-flames/17247/4 "2000-01-16T20:01:00Z")

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Yes, **Sentinel** , we did. And if you don’t like it, our stuffy-stick-in-the-mud-set-in-our-ways attitude is that you take it to the Pit.

This isn’t a Great Debate, it’s hardly a good whimper.