The Meta Thread

[Frog march]

Posts some reason why the thread was started.

Briefly outlines the rules, omitting a few important details, which are added later in an edit.

Starts the ball rolling

[mahesh]

An early bird meta thread....turned out a juicy worm

[Frog march]

makes post expressing suspicion that one has started another duff games thread

[jokergirl]

Adds a "me too", concluding with a lame pun.

Signs with a winking smilie.

[Gigabyte]

Concerned that I don't understand this at all.

[jokergirl]

Gives a "duh" explanation that doesn't really clear up things at all.

Signs with a wink.

[Gigabyte]

Goes into rage. Posts a lolcat.

[jokergirl]

Posts a "fail" macro with a (now slightly ironic) message not to feed the troll.

[Gigabyte]

types in lower case to express dismay

[rommel543]

lol image; slap head image; duh image; lots of question marks.

short solid line

noncommittal comment with witty saying

[jokergirl]

Incredibly lazy pun.

Wink.

[Gigabyte]

huge animated gif of winking

[Sarawak]

better than a huge animated gif of, oh, never mind

[jokergirl]

Call to order and request to stick to the topic at hand; unbearable backseat modding.

Wink.

[Gigabyte]

complaint about unrelated issue

[Swift]

Issues a moderator warning

[Gigabyte]

sends 2,316 PMs to garner support for cause

[Swift]

Posts an obscure Monty Python reference about the Prime Minister, as a pun about Robinson's PMs.

[Gigabyte]

slips in a sly reference to a thread from 2004 that nobody gets

[mahesh]

A bank in Threadneedle Street had lot of dough. So now it's a large pizza parlour. The parlour, I mean.

[tashirosgt]

Expresses outrage that the respondent has not read a previous post. (Or did someone already do that one?)

[mahesh]

expresses surprise at the previous post; didn't see it; bumped into it; oh, my head!

[jokergirl]

ignores the derailed discussion going on on top and replies to the original post.

;)

[Swift]

Points out that jokergirl actually used her signature winking smilie instead of just talking about it.

[tashirosgt]

Declares that an enclosed list of fifteen links proves my point. Considers the matter settled.

[Gigabyte]

Mod closes thread

[dwnielsen]

Debate between mods results in a reopened thread, because all links pointed to BA articles.

Tashirosgt is e-lashed, and a new rule is added to the rules list expressing that smilies may be used in meta-instances where they represent a larger passage of text expressing their meaning.

[Gigabyte]

Duplicate thread merged

[Swift]

Some rambling only semi-fun post, mostly because poster is bored at work, late on a Friday afternoon, just waiting for 5 p.m.

[Swift]

Post who's only purpose is to bump this thread.

[dwnielsen]

Obligatory comparison of this thread to the Last to Post with an arbitrary positive-integer sequel number written in Roman numerals.

[Swift]

A comment in response to dwnielsen, with an accidental reversal in the i-e arranagement of their user ID.

[dwnielsen]

Obligatory comparison of this thread to Banned, with an arbitrary positive-integer sequel number written in Roman numerals that is greater than that given two posts earlier, and thus more intense.

Ends post by instantiating last poster's username, inserting "ei" for "i". Attempts to use mangled username in a terrible pun.