Not sure if anyone posted this for the anniversary, but it's been a full decade since the Christmas doormat buzzard!

[Polybius]

Wow, December 6, 2015. Quite possibly the most legendary DU thread of all-time. Enjoy!

Could my neighbors be in federal trouble?

My wife and I dealing with the two down stairs from our condo. Right inside the security door which is used for all 4 apatments there is a mat reading Merry Christmas. My Wife would have been fine with Season Greetings or Happy Holidays. My wife has left letters explaining her objections. But those have been rip down and the mat remains.

Today my wife received a package from amazon of stuff she ordered ON the package was written Merry Christmas and Christmas underline. We found the package on the steps to the condo. In order for the mailman to get in the buzzard needs rung or you need a key.

If one of these neighbors wrote this on my wife's package did they deface postal property? Can they be in trouble?/excerpt]

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10027423760

[Prairie Gates]

1. Two years before you joined

[CentralMass]

14. Time flies. I hope that the door buzzard is well.

[GJGCA]

20. Times flies like an arrow...

...fruit flies like a banana...

[GreenWave]

26. Hard to say since the "apatment" must be in New England.

[Polybius]

23. Yep!

I was here reading since like 2006 though.

[Prairie Gates]

24. Riiiight

[Polybius]

25. Give or take a year

Maybe 2005, I can't remember the exact year. I remember being on a random board and someone suggested DU. Best board I ever joined.

[EYESORE 9001]

2. It seems so long ago, yet like it just happened, yunno

My therapist and I have had lengthy discussions about my intrusive ‘door buzzard’ thoughts. Along with my package-scribbling obsession

[stopdiggin]

3. That is just such an outstanding 'goof' - on several different levels.

I have no trouble imagining it drawing rave responses!

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[GP6971]

4. Thanks for posting!!!

[ms liberty]

5. Epic. I love revisiting it. The comments are always fresh!

[róisín_dubh]

6. One of my favourites...

Along with the monkeys taking over the cabanas and having to get the langurwallas involved.
Epic

[lastlib]

7. Pinboy3niner was at his epic best in that thread,,,,,

as were other participants. But I think that one cemented the legend of pinboy! It was truly an epic discussion!

When I grow up, I wanna be like pinboy3niner!

[Luciferous]

8. Ha, I had forgotten about that! Thanks

for sharing 😂

[Docreed2003]

9. One of my favorite DU posts

That thread was hilarious and was a gift that kept on giving. Thank you for posting it for its Tenth Anniversary!

[radical noodle]

10. That was the last OP diabeticman ever made

Can't imagine why....

[Orrex]

11. Oh thank you for posting this!

I usually rekindle it but this year I lost track of the time.

Fine memories!

[electric_blue68]

12. Oh, what a Hoot! About 5-ish years before I found DU...

I scrolled down the replies, and dropped in to see the full comments at various points.

I bookmarked it because I missed the transition of comments from the door buzzer to a buzzard. 😄 Have to look at it again.

Fun puns, and snark! One of my favorite sets were these two.....
Hmmm .. I copied but not pasting.
I'll try again...but it was "how much" the feds, and the girl scouts would "care". 😄

Thanks, Polybius!

[stage left]

13. Iconic!

I laughed myself silly.

[Kaleva]

15. A number of DUers in that thread who just disappeared

Long time members who I recalled but haven’t seen here in awhile, when I looked at their profiles, it shows that they haven’t posted in a long time. Their last post doesn’t give a clue as to why they left. One is still a star member but he hasn’t made a post since 2017.

Other familiar names have been FFRd or PPRd.

[Polybius]

16. I've always wondered what happened to long-time posters that just stop posting

I check their last few posts, and if they are clean, I sadly fear the worst.

[Kaleva]

17. Same here

We aren’t young anymore and for a long time member with many thousands of posts to suddenly just stop posting makes me think that they met a sudden end. Their last post and the ones before that, that I was able to find via advanced searching, don’t give any hint that something was amiss.

[Polybius]

21. I wish there was a forum just for talking about posters that no longer post

And what happened to them.

[Kaleva]

22. I agree again!

While I like to read old threads once in awhile, it does make me a little sad as I spot familiar names who I haven’t seen in awhile. I look at their profile and a number of them had been tombstoned, ppr’d or ffr’d . Then there are those who just vanished. It’d bring some sense of closure if we could find out what happened.

[Igel]

18. Ditto.

Still think about some of them.

Mostly fondly

[malaise]

19. Hahaha

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