# Why are you here?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-you-here/848951>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 5, 2020, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-you-here/848951 "2020-03-05T05:51:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![jerez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c68b51/32.png) [@jerez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerez)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-you-here/848951/61 "2020-03-08T10:32:48Z")

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> [@Senegoid](#):
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> In the Very Near Future, when we are all in quarantine (self-imposed or otherwise), SDMB will be all there is!

Yeah, I’ve been staying home more often, just to wait and see, and this is a very inconvenient time for the board to be malfunctioning.

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**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-you-here/848951/62 "2020-03-08T15:02:05Z")

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> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#):
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> Unka Cecil brought me, but I stayed for the squid.

We haven’t had a good initiation thread in simply ages.

errr … Did anyone arrange to have Mariah fed? :eek::eek:

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**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-you-here/848951/63 "2020-03-08T15:37:32Z")

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> [@Small\_Clanger](#):
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> Now That **Stranger on a Train** seems to have gone, one reason down. IIRC I was initially sucked in by the “Are scalar weapons for real?” thread and haven’t managed to pull free since, maybe once, for 20 minutes.
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> It helps that this place is frequented by actual rocket scientists (one fewer now), pilots (various), authors, scientists (you name it…), doctors, musicians, programmers, sci-fi bufs, movie bufs (sci-fi or not), historians, cab-drivers, **porn actors** \* – I think I’ll stop there, but I think I’ve made my point. And for the most part all these people manage to use correct grammar, spelling and sensible punctuation, astonishing.
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> AND NOBODY POSTS IN ALL CAPS!\*\*
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> - at least there was this one (old) thread, anyone else remember that?
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> \*\* nobody who lasts that is.

Don’t remember that thread, but there was a poster - **Mike South** , if memory serves - who was a porn director.

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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2020, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-you-here/848951/64 "2020-03-10T02:46:08Z")

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> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#):
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> Don’t remember that thread, but there was a poster - **Mike South** , if memory serves - who was a porn director.

And the woman that runs the _Abby Girls_ site.

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