# You, Esprix, are an attention whore. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 14, 2003, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418 "2003-07-14T16:49:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/61 "2003-07-14T23:09:27Z")
Hmm, I don’t think I’ve posted my sig in this thread. I hope that my sig doesn’t contain links CC will find objectionable, or would make me look like a big fat attention whore with flashing neon “look at me” signs embedded in my body. It might even contain some praise. ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/62 "2003-07-14T23:10:37Z")
D’oh! ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/63 "2003-07-15T01:19:46Z")
Does a Margaret Cho quote count as attention whoring? (I’ve got the same quotation on my [quotes page…] ([http://www.metrodemontreal.com/matt/quotes](http://www.metrodemontreal.com/matt/quotes))) ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/64 "2003-07-15T03:25:12Z")
No! No! Links to personal websites and sigs galore! I’m melting! Melting! What a world… ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/65 "2003-07-15T03:28:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CuriousCanuck \* > \*\*Ha ha. Taken out of context, but still made me laugh. > \*\* Actually, it really wasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Themis00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/13edae/32.png) [@Themis00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Themis00)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/66 "2003-07-15T03:31:16Z")
Esprix, who should give a shit that you’re an attention whore? Hi, my name is Themis00, and I’m an attention whore too! YAY! J/K ---
**Author:** ![Heloise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e36b37/32.png) [@Heloise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heloise)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/67 "2003-07-15T03:52:00Z")
[quote] And my new honey, the Pinoy Boy Toy, is even more outgoing than I! [quote] WHATWHATWHAT!!!??? Who? New? Where’s _my_ BoiToi? ---
**Author:** ![red\_dragon60](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@red\_dragon60](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/red_dragon60)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/68 "2003-07-15T03:58:32Z")
Don’t know if this has been posted yet as I don’t want to wade through this, but in your user preferences, there is an option to turn off signatures. Problem solved. ---
**Author:** ![Linear\_Crack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Linear\_Crack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linear_Crack)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/69 "2003-07-15T04:24:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Janx \* > \*\*:::Pulls up lawn chair::: \*\* :eek: Pit rule violator :eek: \* (insert screeching audio from Invasion of the Body Snatchers)\* -LC ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/70 "2003-07-15T04:48:58Z")
I am sure glad I went ahead and opened this thread. Otherwise I would never have discovered that I beat out **Esprix** for _something_, at last. (Or is that “at least”?) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stranger\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@The\_Stranger\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stranger_1)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/71 "2003-07-15T04:53:20Z")
Why, I had no idea I had eaten dinner with an attention whore. Esprix! you shoulda told me about that. (oh, and thanks for not charging me the going rate for attention…oooh, doesn’t THAT sentence beg a bad joke? ) a quote from **Giraffe** : “Well, I for one add value by leveraging synergy across multidisciplinary platforms in order to create a new paradigm, thereby strategically enhancing our message board market share and post-to-debt ratios” That’s in the top five Marketing “gibber-speak” lines I have ever read. Thanks for the laugh. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/72 "2003-07-15T05:01:01Z")
Y’know… I’ve never ascribed to the whole SDMB Clique ideology but reading through this thread, I can see why some people would think there is one. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/73 "2003-07-15T05:05:16Z")
I would say that, in a way, we’re all attention whores if we’re active on the SDMB. We all have opinions and knowledge that we want to disseminate. If we don’t want attention, we’d just lurk away, and when you think about it, a bulletin board full of lurkers is kind of pointless. I applaud the attention whores. Without 'em, there’d be no SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/74 "2003-07-15T05:18:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Aesiron \* > \*\*Y’know… I’ve never ascribed to the whole SDMB Clique ideology but reading through this thread, I can see why some people would think there is one. \*\* Since I talked to Esprix, do I get to be part of the Clique now? And if gay guys get a toaster, what do clique people get? Is there hazing, like in a fraternity? Inquiring minds. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/75 "2003-07-15T05:24:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JuanitaTech \* > \*\*At least you didn’t call him fat. There’s still time, though. > > I was looking at my schedule and it seems the Esprix’s an attention whore thread was running a little late. \*\* I have this disturbing image of Esprix coming home late one night after an evening of drinking, debauchery and scrabble and slapping out a rousing chorus of “76 Trombones” on his taut but bulging little beer filled belly before he toddles off to bed. The neighbors hear the loud slaps and call the police imagining there is a domestic violence scene taking place. The police coming along short and find only an exhausted Esprix with a rosy pink belly, sleeping alone again… naturally. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/76 "2003-07-15T05:46:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GMRyujin \* > \*\*Since I talked to Esprix, do I get to be part of the Clique now? And if gay guys get a toaster, what do clique people get? Is there hazing, like in a fraternity? > > Inquiring minds. \*\* Maybe if it existed. If you go back and read what I posted, you’ll notice that I said I don’t believe it to exist, only that I can see where others might considering the pile of posters that **CuriousCanuck** ’s under. Yes, his OP was inane but **Esprix** can and did defend himself ably. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/77 "2003-07-15T06:05:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Aesiron \* > \*\*Maybe if it existed. > \*\* Ahh, crap. Now the MiBs are going to come blind me with the blinky thing and tell me Esprix is just swamp gas. ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/78 "2003-07-15T06:11:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Aesiron \* > \*\*Y’know… I’ve never ascribed to the whole SDMB Clique ideology but reading through this thread, I can see why some people would think there is one. \*\* Ya _think???_ 😉 But really, ALL message boards on the Internet develop a “clique mentality”. It is different for each one, but even the SDMB’s particular brand of insider-ism is not very far outside the norm. The people here are pretty damn weird, though. ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/79 "2003-07-15T06:28:46Z")
Hey **GMRyujin** , you have a typo in your sig. Just thought I’d point that out. 😉 I’m fully confident in showing my sig here, as it contains nothing complimentary about me… or any links whatsoever. 😃 F\_X ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/80 "2003-07-15T07:53:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Heloise \* > \*\*WHATWHATWHAT!!!??? > > Who? New? Where’s _my_ BoiToi? \*\* Right here. Now, settle down, you can’t go about trying to convert _every_ gay guy you meet. Even though if anyone could do it, it would be you. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418.md?page=5)