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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 Posts: 3243 | Registered: Apr 2002
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Well, God knows it's important that the normal masterpieces that get posted don't get lost in the mix. :/ Posts: 13123 | Registered: Feb 2002
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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. Posts: 3243 | Registered: Apr 2002
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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.
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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.
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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. )
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I didn't think of it as ironical so much as very very appropriate.
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.
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.
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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?
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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. Posts: 7600 | Registered: Jan 2001
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I don't mind a dobie or two, and I have found many of them funny. So nyah!
Dour humorless people who can't bear to see any of the great, serious threads bumped off the front page . . .
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.
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Actually, Icky, it's the funny threads that are bumped off the first page for stupid dobies that bothers me Posts: 3243 | Registered: Apr 2002
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