Thread drift is inevitable

[sgt.null]

[MsMary]

[balon!]

Kilroy was here

[sgt.null]

[MsMary]

Here and there.

[sgt.null]

[MsMary]

Good answer to an outgoing committee member who has been a bit of an irritant:

Thank you for your input. We'll discuss it at the next meeting.

[sgt.null]

[MsMary]

You know, I've been wondering if the sarge's last post has anything to do with my last (unremarked) post.

Must just be thread drift.

[sgt.null]

drift


Dictionary: drift (drĭft)

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v., drift·ed, drift·ing, drifts.

v.intr.
To be carried along by currents of air or water: a balloon drifting eastward; as the wreckage drifted toward shore.
To proceed or move unhurriedly and smoothly: drifting among the party guests.
To move leisurely or sporadically from place to place, especially without purpose or regular employment: a day laborer, drifting from town to town.

To wander from a set course or point of attention; stray.
To vary from or oscillate randomly about a fixed setting, position, or mode of operation.
To be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of a current: snow drifting to five feet.
v.tr.
To cause to be carried in a current: drifting the logs downstream.
To pile up in banks or heaps: Wind drifted the loose straw against the barn.
Western U.S. To drive (livestock) slowly or far afield, especially for grazing.
n.
The act or condition of drifting.
Something moving along in a current of air or water.
A bank or pile, as of sand or snow, heaped up by currents of air or water.
Geology. Rock debris transported and deposited by or from ice, especially by or from a glacier.

A general trend or tendency, as of opinion. See synonyms at tendency.
General meaning or purport; tenor: caught the drift of the conversation.

A gradual change in position.
A gradual deviation from an original course, model, method, or intention.
Variation or random oscillation about a fixed setting, position, or mode of behavior.
A gradual change in the output of a circuit or amplifier.
The rate of flow of a water current.

A tool for ramming or driving something down.
A tapered steel pin for enlarging and aligning holes.

A horizontal or nearly horizontal passageway in a mine running through or parallel to a vein.
A secondary mine passageway between two main shafts or tunnels.
A drove or herd, especially of swine. See synonyms at flock1.
[From Middle English, drove, herd, act of driving.]

[MsMary]

Thread drift is inevitable.

*waits*

[MsMary]

This thread is definitely drifting....



Away!

[Cagliostro]

I seem to be having incontinental drift.

[Demondime-a-dozen-spawn]

Can White Gold Dollars buy me love?

[MsMary]

No.

[Demondime-a-dozen-spawn]

She said with an air of finality.

PS. I wasn't asking you.

[MsMary]

But I was answering you.

[Demondime-a-dozen-spawn]

So you were.

With luck, someone will post with a less pessimistic reply before the the thread drifts on to less crucial topics.

[Spiral Jacobs]

[Auleliel]

Can White Gold Dollars buy me love?

You have my love with or without WGDs.