Hatrack River Forum: Does Hatrack really need more Dobs?

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Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :

Seriously folks , let it go.

Deep breaths people, deep breaths.

-Bok

[ August 22, 2003, 07:25 PM: Message edited by: Bokonon ]

Posted by SirReal (Member # 5257) on :

Nice one

Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :

Darnit Bok, I was thinking the *exact* same thread idea. [Cool]

Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :

Um, considering the fact that I did the first one, I think I should be in the clear.

Posted by eslaine (Member # 5433) on :

[Blushing]

Boy, I've never seen so many Dobies of a single thread!

Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :

Well some of them are just Dobies of a Dobie... But still, [Hat]

Eslaine

Hobbes

[ August 22, 2003, 08:38 PM: Message edited by: Hobbes ]

Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :

You know, I've never once found a Dobie even resembling the slightest hint of an inkling of a suggestion of a possibility of humour.

They're really just annoying. Wasn't there a thread made a while ago for people to post potential dobie titles, without cluttering the front page? I guess nobody uses it because they want everyone at Hatrack to see just how clever they are [Wall Bash]

Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :

Well, God knows it's important that the normal masterpieces that get posted don't get lost in the mix. :/ [Smile]

Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :

Fair enough, Head. But when I see a normal post I'll go into it to see what's what. When I see I Dobie I make a careful note as to who posted it and vow to force them to watch Cabin Boy for one full day, over and over and over again. [Wink]

Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :

*shudder* Truly, you are the master of evil.

Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :

It's here, but people just kinda stopped using it. I think people get more responses when they're posted as separate threads -- even when they're lame. Feel free to bump the thread, though. Maybe it'll catch on some day.

--Pop

Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :

I don't think anyone really thinks they're funny. What they are is a meme that has all of us in its thrall and won't let go. It's like when your little brother gets into the mode of repeating everything you say right after you say it and won't stop until you beat him up or something. It's not that he thinks it's funny but he just can't quit. [Smile]

[ August 22, 2003, 11:03 PM: Message edited by: ak ]

Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :

Hey, how's come that one with me pulling out the Dobie-man Pinscher pic got deleted?

Posted by Hi (Member # 5289) on :

Making a Dobie, bumps other threads off the front page. I think everyone should just post within Papa Mooses thread like they did a short a while ago. It doesn't get as much exposure there but at least it satisfies one's need to dobie and at the same time, doesn't take up too much forum space.

(I erased any trace of me attempting to be funny. [Razz]

)

[ August 23, 2003, 10:57 AM: Message edited by: Hi ]

Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :

I have to say that I find most dobies fairly annoying, to tell you the truth.

Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :

I guess the irony of this thread was lost on people? Sheesh! [Smile]

I think the occassional Dobie or 2 is fine, but I have a very low barrier of entry to my funny bone.

I mean, I like Cabin Boy.

[Eek!]

-Bok

Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :

Bok - Thank you for that. Whatever it was.

Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :

I didn't think of it as ironical so much as very very appropriate. [Smile]

My threshold of humor is quite low, too, but wow I haven't found one of these even faintly amusing or interesting since the first week they appeared. Yet I've resigned myself to the prospect that they will never end. [Smile]

One summer the kids in my neighborhood started talking "gibberish", which was what we called it when you buried every syllable of what you were saying inside three syllables of nonsense. If you wanted to say "boy", for instance, you said "buh the goy". "Hit that boy" would be rendered "hih the git the the gat buh the goy". After a while we just couldn't stop talking like that. It wouldn't go away. We kept reinfecting each other. I'm not sure to this day how we ever managed to stop. <laughs> Dobies are like that.

Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :

btw, Bok - I can't e-mail you. I have no clue what your addy and/or AIM nick is.

What's up with that?

Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :

You should be able to email me via the Hatrack link... Your brother also has it from when I applied, and then wussed out from, his DnD campaign.

As for AIM, I've got it, but I like to keep it on the down-low. The mad press I get is just a hassle, you dig?

-Bok

Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :

I tried it. It's not working for me for some reason.

E-mail me. dandadodge@comcast.net

The fact that it's taking so much effort to contact you is like sand in my underwear, Bok. Sand in my underwear. [No No]

Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :

I don't mind a dobie or two, and I have found many of them funny. So nyah! [Razz]

Dour humorless people who can't bear to see any of the great, serious threads bumped off the front page . . . [Roll Eyes]

But I do agree that it gets out of hand. Once something has been dobied, especially if it's had a couple of dobies, then no matter how clever your idea is, you should not start a new thread for it.

But that's just my opinion.

Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :

Actually, Icky, it's the funny threads that are bumped off the first page for stupid dobies that bothers me [Wink]