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    Question What is the longest elapsed period between you posting a answer and the OP responding

    I ask this question, as this morning I received notice from another site that someone had responded to one my postings. Typically, I ignore these notifications if it is from a site I have not been active on for a long time, but for some reason I decided to look.

    It was from the OP who finally decided to respond after over a year had passed. OK, I'm some what used to people sometimes coming back after a few weeks, but they usually apologize with some valid explanation for the delay, but this guy just piped in as though my response was given yesterday. It just seemed weird to me.

    Anyone with a similar experience?

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    Re: What is the longest elapsed period between you posting a answer and the OP respon

    I have some where I answered the question and they never responded, but never one that responded that late.
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    Re: What is the longest elapsed period between you posting a answer and the OP respon

    That almost seems the norm in the Office/VBA forum.

    I guess that maybe I should reply to the guy and say that I am glad to see that he has fully recovered from him year long coma.

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    Re: What is the longest elapsed period between you posting a answer and the OP respon

    I think he was on a serious bender from moonshine made with fermented hallucinogenic mushrooms. He may be under the impression that he replied BEFORE you posted, not after.

    Of course, I'm just guessing.

    The longest delay I have seen was about a month, and the person had been pressed for time/sick/their cat had kittens/their cat had puppies/they misplaced their keyboard/etc.
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    Re: What is the longest elapsed period between you posting a answer and the OP respon

    Quote Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker View Post
    I think he was on a serious bender from moonshine made with fermented hallucinogenic mushrooms. He may be under the impression that he replied BEFORE you posted, not after.
    I glad that you got it the intended spirit of this thread of offering plausible explanations for the delay.

    I just thought of another one that kind of scares me: He just got out on parole after serving time on a stalking charge.

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    Re: What is the longest elapsed period between you posting a answer and the OP respon

    Perhaps it was his assault charge for attacking a member of a forum who gave him a wrong answer.
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    Re: What is the longest elapsed period between you posting a answer and the OP respon

    Longest was 525,600 minutes.

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    Re: What is the longest elapsed period between you posting a answer and the OP respon

    Wow dclamp, down to the t!
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    By the way dclamp, my iPhone has your user name as a suggested word whenever I type the letter "d".
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    Re: What is the longest elapsed period between you posting a answer and the OP respon

    Quote Originally Posted by dclamp View Post
    Longest was 525,600 minutes.
    I second that timely, though minute, post. Not hour finest moment.
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    Re: What is the longest elapsed period between you posting a answer and the OP respon

    I have responded to new threads with no answers ans years later I am still waiting to hear back from the OPs.
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    Re: What is the longest elapsed period between you posting a answer and the OP respon

    Keep waiting. They may be just about ready to answer.
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    Re: What is the longest elapsed period between you posting a answer and the OP respon

    Quote Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker View Post
    Keep waiting. They may be just about ready to answer.
    Yes, I'll just wait for the OP to respond:

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    Quote Originally Posted by dday9 View Post
    By the way dclamp, my iPhone has your user name as a suggested word whenever I type the letter "d".
    That makes me very pleased. Also confused as to why you are typing my name enough for your phone to remember...

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    Re: What is the longest elapsed period between you posting a answer and the OP respon

    I have a website dedicated to dclamp.
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    Re: What is the longest elapsed period between you posting a answer and the OP respon

    Oh, well thanks for the invite.

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    Re: What is the longest elapsed period between you posting a answer and the OP respon

    Quote Originally Posted by dclamp View Post
    That makes me very pleased. Also confused as to why you are typing my name enough for your phone to remember...
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    I have a website dedicated to dclamp.
    dclamp has a stalker

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    Re: What is the longest elapsed period between you posting a answer and the OP respon

    Quote Originally Posted by dclamp View Post
    Oh, well thanks for the invite.
    It's off limits to the stalkee. Especially if the stalkee is working for the fuzz now.
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    Re: What is the longest elapsed period between you posting a answer and the OP respon

    Has always worked for the fuzz lol

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    Re: What is the longest elapsed period between you posting a answer and the OP respon

    Quote Originally Posted by dclamp View Post
    Has always worked for the fuzz lol
    Errrm... I knew that. I was just uhhh, testing you.
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    Re: What is the longest elapsed period between you posting a answer and the OP respon

    I got my eye on you DAVID from 123 Main Street Louisiana.

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    Re: What is the longest elapsed period between you posting a answer and the OP respon

    Quote Originally Posted by dclamp View Post
    I got my eye on you DAVID from 123 Main Street Louisiana.
    If his name is David Day, why isn't that address showing up here?

    All this technology available and it fails us again.

    But I guess you guys get to tap into the NSA files and we don't.

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    Re: What is the longest elapsed period between you posting a answer and the OP respon

    Exactly, I'm actually tapped into his phone currently.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dclamp View Post
    Exactly, I'm actually tapped into his phone currently.
    Now I not sure who is stalking whom.
    Perhaps you are the reason for his phone auto-suggesting your name?

    Declaring thread derailed by the dysphoria caused the dclamp-dday9 stalking dichotomy.

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    Re: What is the longest elapsed period between you posting a answer and the OP respon

    To many big words!
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    Re: What is the longest elapsed period between you posting a answer and the OP respon

    Quote Originally Posted by dday9 View Post
    To many big words!
    Please allow me to fix that for you.

    Too many D-words.

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    Re: What is the longest elapsed period between you posting a answer and the OP respon

    Damn....

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