Stucky Q.O.T.D. ——– “Car 54 where are you?”

Ms. Freud is going to meet someone today for lunch whom she hasn’t seen in several years.  She’s quite excited about that.

Which made me think — “What happened to so many of our one-time regular posters??

I’m sure several, if not most, STILL read this blog. It’s vewy vewy hard to kick the TBP addiction.  Just the other day “efarmer” submitted a comment!

So, this Q.O.T.D. is mostly for former contributors —  of course, “regulars” might want to call out or opine about these former folks.

—1)  Why did you leave?

—2)  Would you consider coming back?

—3) What replaced TBP  (or, what are you doing now?)

This is pretty much true for most former regulars ….


Author: Stucky

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Bea Lever
Bea Lever

Stucky

The only thing that could have caused you to be this detached as to who is posting is (dare I say it) employment. Did you get a job?

flash
flash

Scrolling down I see I’ve already posted to this thread.It was a mistake…oops wrong thread. How ..I do not know..nevertheless, I read TBP everyday and have never left , so I can’t answer any of Stuck’s questions…that said…comment image

Unplugged
Unplugged

Damn! Rise Up @ 6:38 PM – sometimes your post just plain hurt. But, please, don’t stop, OK?

Francis Marion

David writes:

“I discovered I have an IQ between 140 and 146, give or take.

That means a few things:
1. Reasonably smart people still do lots of stupid things. I have a list of mine.
2. There are approximately 2,000,000 people in the USA smarter than me. They must all be laughing their asses off at my folly.
3. No matter what you do, your intelligence, your aptitudes and abilities will always seem to fall short of your desires, wishes and dreams.

It is maddening.

The more I learn, the less I know. Staying on Happiness Plateau (much less finding the path to get to it) is a full time job.”

Post of the day for TBP.

In one post DC proves that there is little more than the occasional correlation between intelligence, wisdom and most of all, humility. One does not necessarily follow the other… I for one have no idea what my IQ is being wise enough to know that my ego would likely not survive the truth. 🙂

It’s always interesting to see who the names are behind the names here. Some times I get the sense that when I post here I am walking and talking amongst giants. It is part of what makes this site unique.

bb writes:

“I come here to relax , Read some good articles and have some fun.”

I’ll second that.

The company here is quality. Even when we don’t agree – there’s no other site on the net I’d give my time to anymore outside of TBP. The doom stuff does get tiring but the social and intellectual aspect doesn’t. I know where the world is headed and don’t need to be knee deep in it anymore. What I desire more than anything is to be around good, decent people who can think for themselves and have a fundamental respect and understanding of each others rights – something that is hard to find in day to day life these days…

AKAnon
AKAnon

Alphabetical order, huh? sure it wasn’t in order of favorites? Hah.

Mostly time-there has just been so much more to do than hours to do it. I check in most weekdays, when I can squeeze it in. Usually lunch at work, so my comments need to be filtered-takes a lot of the fun out of commenting. But I appreciate the wisdom and the humor.

Spinolator
Spinolator

Most of the time I just read some of the articles and comments. In many threads I have nothing new to add that hasn’t already been mentioned.

iconoclast421
iconoclast421

How can you have a “one-time regular poster”?

iconoclast421
iconoclast421

I do agree this is a really great site. Given its name contains the word “platform” I find it strange that there are no forums.

Rise Up

iconoclast421 says: I do agree this is a really great site. Given its name contains the word “platform” I find it strange that there are no forums.
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I think Admin’s use of the KISS principle works beautifully here. Who wants to navigate through a maze of forums?

Unplugged
Unplugged

Francis @ 7:09 PM:

In your Canadian Identity post a few months ago, you said: (and I paraphrase here):

That you thought you lost interest in writing until you found TBP a few years ago. You repeated someone here who said: “TBP is why the internet was made”. Then, you said: “This what our modern educational institutions ought to resemble but don’t.”

I remember this, because, to me, this is a better analogy than the “Greek Tragedy” that you referenced someone else as saying here a while ago; whereby “players make comments, return to the audience, and then return to the stage again.”

I don’t know. Both analogies are good. But I like your “modern educational institutions ought to resemble but don’t” quote better regarding this place. Just my opinion.

Keep posting…

geo3
geo3

Long time peruser, short time commenter. When frustrated I check out the hot babe ads on the right margin..always end up in left field.(Bait and switch)

EL Coyote
EL Coyote
EL Coyote
EL Coyote

I miss AWD’s pictorials, however, Riser is doing a SUPER job.

No need to worry about those that have gone a lurking, Stucko, the new crop is engaged and involved.

By the time my birthday rolls around next month, I think I’ll join the lurkers. I will expect a lot of those still commenting!

Unwound
Unwound

I know it can, at times. get all serious up in here. But EC’s random post above @ 9:41 PM was funnier than shit. Sorry, but it made me laugh. That’s what is cool about this website. Anything goes. You never know what someone is going to do next. Some of it matters. Some of it doesn’t. Go free speech and let the chips fall where they may. It’s not all doom and gloom here, for sure…

Overthecliff
Overthecliff

There are many smart and some not so smart who comment. I think some of us think our comments would be redundant. Some of you say it so much better than I would. Stucks mind amazes me. It is so prolific his fingers can’t type fast enough to keep up. a true multi-tanker.

Mahtomedi
Mahtomedi

@EL

If I ever seen you hitchhiking on the side of the road, and was sure it was you, I would …run your Beaner ass over like a rabid coon. But TBP wouldn’t be the same without you. So keep posting, because ‘noobs’ like me need to be bitch-slapped down on occasion.

Sensetti
Sensetti

Zara moved back to Iran to help them develop its Nuclear Arsenal! Colma was eaten alive by Fukushima radiation while surfing the California coast. I tried to tell that boy!

Leobeer
Leobeer

I thought Zara was studying to be a rabbi.

JFish
JFish

Again – El Coyote – I just want to be clear that I am NOT Mahtomedi. Admin or “the Man with No Name” should be able to verify my IP address and tell you. Swear to God. G’nite.

starfcker
starfcker

I liked Howard as a poster. But did he really think he got to decide what other people thought and posted? Beulahman and I don’t see eye to eye on the jew thing, and he can get nasty about it, so what? That’s his opinion, I would never think he should pretend to be something he’s not. I don’t have the common ground with him I have with archie, so the conflict is more stark. Howard should have adopted that attitude, I think in his mind to engage that sort of thing soiled him somehow. Too bad.

Sensetti
Sensetti

Funny Leobeer.!!

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

flash, that was a cool cartoon, Mr Natural. I tried to find something to go with the gays demanding equal time in comics. My point would have been that they already had the chance when R.Crumb was doing the queer pirates in ZAP comics.

Unfortunately, I didn’t find anything in video. One day, Alice, I’m going to learn to post pics, I swear.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

Uh, I wasn’t calling you Alice.

Elpidio Corona
Elpidio Corona

Damn, now Stucky has got me thinking about the Bowery Boys.

Does anybody recall that Our Gang episode where the kids meet a starving black man? He invites them to his Thankgiving feast where they are astounded that he offers them invisible toikey. You like toikey, yeah I love toikey.

Man, I miss El Coyote already.

unePluiebreve
unePluiebreve

Moin Stuckmeister!

Don’t post much, but this is my goto site for Noos from the USA since about 2008. Pretty much read it every day, although the doom can be a bit much. I especially like Admin’s 30 blocks o’ decrepitude series, his updates on the consumer/retail landscape and his general/Wildwood stories are classic and damning at the same time. Then there’s LLPOH… he has his shit together, I make a point of digging out his input even after the 200th comment.

flash
flash

@ EC , stick around luchador , it’d be a dull place with your special commentary seriously..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4QBTot7ObM

@ Robert Gore, glad to see you on board the TBP train. I’ve linked to your site here often. Best regards..

SSS

When you have freedom of speech on a website (no nudity!!!!) and a reasonably intelligent and well-informed audience, then you attract visitors. It’s not a complicated formula. People are free to come and go as they wish. I’d like to see many visitors stick around. That they don’t is their choice. Que sera, sera.

Welshman
Welshman

TBP,

I’m still here, just eyesight and crippled fingers don’t work well. Being 73 y.o., having a dozen chickens, garden, rentals, ranch and keeping the house clean, I don’t have a lot time to write stuff. I do my own taxes (TurboTax), and that has become real bitch.

Admin.,

Sending my dues soooooooon!

efarmer

I used to have a great Keep on Truckin t shirt till my brother stole it.

EF

efarmer

Lost my wife to cancer 4 years ago now, remarried a year ago and am in a good place. Used to wake up alone in a 5 bedroom house all hours of the night, headed to the computer to talk to my TBP family.

Now I roll over and nudge my bride. Girls are soft and they smell good.

I’ll try to post more Stuck.

EF

Peaceout
Peaceout

Yo Stucky, still here every day, this site is like crack to me and is a habitual part of my day. Being a west coaster a lot of times the show is over on some of these threads before I get a chance to read them, or it doesn’t seem necessary to hammer home the same point over again that other posters have already made, so I stay quiet and move on. I get comments in from time to time and then of course I do work full time and travel a lot so haven’t really mastered time management where you can take some time and really put together a long statement. That being said if HSF can find the time we all can find the time so there really is no excuse.

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