# Why can't I post in Happy Forum? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 8, 2011, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-post-in-happy-forum/577639 "2011-04-08T07:36:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-post-in-happy-forum/577639/1 "2011-04-08T07:36:07Z")
I’m so sad. Also. WTF? Pictures are allowed in this forum? Why don’t we allow them in all forums? ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-post-in-happy-forum/577639/2 "2011-04-08T08:14:24Z")
Because it’s closed. It was an April fools day special. You know you’re only allowed to be happy for one day a year. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-post-in-happy-forum/577639/3 "2011-04-08T12:40:02Z")
yes - now you must be sad. Oh Waily! Waily! Waily ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-post-in-happy-forum/577639/4 "2011-04-08T13:28:30Z")
if I can ask a serious question, if the forum was closed and it was a one-day joke, why is it still on the main page and in the forum selection menu? ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-post-in-happy-forum/577639/5 "2011-04-08T13:59:18Z")
_The shadow of the dome of pleasure Floated midway on the waves; Where was heard the mingled measure From the fountain and the caves. It was a miracle of rare device …_ ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-post-in-happy-forum/577639/6 "2011-04-08T14:05:29Z")
I was just thinking the same thing - “let’s turn this into a poetry thread”. Here are my thoughts about the sad closing of the “happy” forum… \*Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again.\* ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-post-in-happy-forum/577639/7 "2011-04-08T14:32:06Z")
- Sunday, Monday, Happy Days. Tuesday, Wednesday, Happy Days. Thursday, Friday, Happy Days. Saturday, What a day, Groovin’ all week with you. \* ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-post-in-happy-forum/577639/8 "2011-04-08T14:35:57Z")
That Forum can only be open once a year because too much happiness is a bad thing. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-post-in-happy-forum/577639/9 "2011-04-08T14:36:28Z")
> [@NineToTheSky](#): > > You know you’re only allowed to be happy for one day a year. This is not true. You can be happy 365 days a year…just not here. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-post-in-happy-forum/577639/10 "2011-04-08T14:46:29Z")
Bless you, Jenny. 🙂 This is like last year. \*Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul or rain or shine The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. \* ---
**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:** [April 8, 2011, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-post-in-happy-forum/577639/11 "2011-04-08T14:51:00Z")
_ **Juliet:** 'Tis almost morning, I would have thee gone— And yet no farther than a wan-ton’s bird, That lets it hop a little from his hand, Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves, And with a silken thread plucks it back again, So loving-jealous of his liberty. **Romeo:** I would I were thy bird. **Juliet:** Sweet, so would I, Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing. Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow._ ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-post-in-happy-forum/577639/12 "2011-04-08T14:58:01Z")
There once was a man from Nantucket who saw a pretty cow and… ---
**Author:** ![Lestrade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@Lestrade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lestrade)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-post-in-happy-forum/577639/13 "2011-04-08T15:25:16Z")
…And now it’s gone. You **had** to say something, didn’t you? _::sniff::_ I never got a chance to see it. Was it as wonderful as they say? ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-post-in-happy-forum/577639/14 "2011-04-08T15:32:17Z")
It was all that … and more. _More_. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-post-in-happy-forum/577639/15 "2011-04-08T16:01:59Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > It was all that … and more. _More_. And I got to see a thread I started be illustrated with an actual photo, in the thread!!1! :eek: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![UncaStuart](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncastuart/32/404_2.png) [@UncaStuart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncaStuart)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-post-in-happy-forum/577639/16 "2011-04-08T17:18:58Z")
We can only hope that, unlike Brigadoon, it reappears \*every \*year for us to bathe in its wonderfulness. ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-post-in-happy-forum/577639/17 "2011-04-08T17:24:41Z")
> [@UncaStuart](#): > > We can only hope that, unlike Brigadoon, it reappears \*every \*year for us to bathe in its wonderfulness. I would rather become a moderator, as I did last year. Stuff happiness - it’s power I want, \*power \*I tell you! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-post-in-happy-forum/577639/18 "2011-04-08T17:27:47Z")
> [@UncaStuart](#): > > We can only hope that, unlike Brigadoon, it reappears \*every \*year for us to bathe in its wonderfulness. And _we_ can only hope that y’all bathe more than once a year, Brigadoon be damned. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-post-in-happy-forum/577639/19 "2011-04-08T17:49:03Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > And _we_ can only hope that y’all bathe more than once a year, Brigadoon be damned. Is once a month still okay? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-post-in-happy-forum/577639/20 "2011-04-08T17:51:54Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Is once a month still okay? For internet contact? Well…o.k. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-post-in-happy-forum/577639.md?page=2)