Originally Posted By: tsuwm
the other is responding to a post with a really apt and/or witty reply only to discover that (often whilst you were actually composing) someone else pipped you by posting much the same reply -- yes, pipped at the post; exactly!

-joe (I expect by now I may have been pipped on this reply) friday


Don't you just hate that!

There should be a word for a post that is subsequently made anyway, even after discovering you been 'pipped at the post' in the hope that people might not notice the other one or might think yours is cleverer anyway.