# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=253 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 254 --- ## [Clueless teen Jeopardy contestant](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clueless-teen-jeopardy-contestant/573090)
**Author:** [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Replies:** 80\ **Last updated:** [March 20, 2011, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clueless-teen-jeopardy-contestant/573090 "2011-03-20T21:11:24Z")
So on last night’s Jeopardy Teen Tournament, I was paying more than the usual attention to one of the contestant’s, as he is from my home town (although I don’t know him at all). During the interview portion, he reveale… --- ## ["Defending Their Country"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/defending-their-country/574626)
**Author:** [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [March 20, 2011, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/defending-their-country/574626 "2011-03-20T15:41:55Z")
No, I am not trolling. I just need to get this off my chest. Firstly, I respect anyone that has joined up, either pre- or post- 9/11, to serve in the US Armed Forces. Their duty, whether they intended or not, is to se… --- ## [margin is a freaking lunatic.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-is-a-freaking-lunatic/574610)
**Author:** [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Replies:** 386\ **Last updated:** [March 19, 2011, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-is-a-freaking-lunatic/574610 "2011-03-19T17:06:23Z")
I am having a bit of trouble working up even an entertaining bit of RO, but in this thread she has really gone off the deep end. Rape Month may be over on the SDMB, but apparently Completely Insane Raving About Things N… --- ## [Just how dense is Diogenes the Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-dense-is-diogenes-the-cynic/573749)
**Author:** [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Replies:** 168\ **Last updated:** [March 19, 2011, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-dense-is-diogenes-the-cynic/573749 "2011-03-19T03:37:24Z")
In this thread he actually mistakes me for Valteron. http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=599629 I’m a Muslim, have an Arabic username, and have gotten into several huge pissing contests with Valteron b… --- ## [Facebook Meme: Pearl Harbor Payback is a Bitch!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-meme-pearl-harbor-payback-is-a-bitch/574663)
**Author:** [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Replies:** 117\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-meme-pearl-harbor-payback-is-a-bitch/574663 "2011-03-18T19:26:00Z")
I get that this is just a sampling of random assholes on Facebook, but still…the earthquake and Tsunami are payback for Pearl Harbor!!! Fucking Pearl Harbor, from 70 years and at least three generations ago? ?And by the… --- ## [Scandal in DC. Ssssshocking.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scandal-in-dc-ssssshocking/573849)
**Author:** [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2011, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scandal-in-dc-ssssshocking/573849 "2011-03-18T17:17:54Z")
Ugh. No matter how much progress there has been in DC over the last ten years, hearing crap like this just reinforces the view that this city is a joke. Long story short: a political gadfly runs for mayor against an unp… --- ## [Deficit spending is awesome! No wait, it's dung from the anus of Satan.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deficit-spending-is-awesome-no-wait-its-dung-from-the-anus-of-satan/573645)
**Author:** [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Replies:** 161\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2011, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deficit-spending-is-awesome-no-wait-its-dung-from-the-anus-of-satan/573645 "2011-03-17T18:58:43Z")
I thought about putting this in GQ, but realistically, this is going to turn into a GD. Up until this point in history, the centerpiece of the Reagan hero legend is that he used deficit spending to fix the economy, defe… --- ## [Paving Paradise to Put Up a Golf Course](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paving-paradise-to-put-up-a-golf-course/574219)
**Author:** [@filling\_pages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filling_pages)\ **Replies:** 85\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2011, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paving-paradise-to-put-up-a-golf-course/574219 "2011-03-17T14:52:05Z")
Florida politicians want to use tax money to build Jack Nicklaus-designed golf courses in 5 state parks, complete with hotels. Okay, thems the facts, Jack. And here’s the opinion: Fuck you. Fuck you, Rep. Pat Rooney, S… --- ## [I pit people who get PISSY! about SDMB games!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-get-pissy-about-sdmb-games/574688)
**Author:** [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Replies:** 61\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2011, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-get-pissy-about-sdmb-games/574688 "2011-03-17T04:10:29Z")
I just got a message from someone REAMING me out for “changing” a category in the Game Room! Now, if I was adding an invalid answer, I could get it. But this person is just being an ASSHOLE! He need to GROW A FUCKING PAI… --- ## ["Gotcha ya!" video from the conservative noise machine seeks to make NPR look bad](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotcha-ya-video-from-the-conservative-noise-machine-seeks-to-make-npr-look-bad/573960)
**Author:** [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\ **Replies:** 287\ **Last updated:** [March 16, 2011, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotcha-ya-video-from-the-conservative-noise-machine-seeks-to-make-npr-look-bad/573960 "2011-03-16T01:48:44Z")
Lovely.. An NPR executive, now a former executive, made some foolish remarks. I know how extremely difficult it must be to endure these vicious conservative attacks and remain respectfully silent, but NPR needs to maint… --- ## [Pre-pitting a Libyan no-fly zone](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-pitting-a-libyan-no-fly-zone/574651)
**Author:** [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Replies:** 65\ **Last updated:** [March 16, 2011, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-pitting-a-libyan-no-fly-zone/574651 "2011-03-16T00:37:57Z")
This is my first pit thread, so it’s likely to be not angry enough. I cannot believe that people in power (NATO, Congress, President) are seriously considering putting in place a no-fly zone over Libya! Hey, Democrats … --- ## [Another one (anti-gay pastor arrested for public masturbation)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-one-anti-gay-pastor-arrested-for-public-masturbation/573703)
**Author:** [@mozchron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mozchron)\ **Replies:** 71\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2011, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-one-anti-gay-pastor-arrested-for-public-masturbation/573703 "2011-03-15T22:27:53Z")
Didn’t see a thread for this one yet. Figured I’d post it in the pit and save someone the trouble of moving it later. He was arrested for masturbating in public in a playground. Of course, he says he wasn’t masturbati… --- ## [Brian Kelly (ND Football Coach) I hope your nightmares keep you up at night](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brian-kelly-nd-football-coach-i-hope-your-nightmares-keep-you-up-at-night/558685)
**Author:** [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2011, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brian-kelly-nd-football-coach-i-hope-your-nightmares-keep-you-up-at-night/558685 "2011-03-15T17:20:39Z")
This is just peachy, ND Student Dies in Scissor-lift accident The skinny: a junior at Notre Dame is filming football practice for the team on a 50-ft scissor lift…in 50 mph winds. Lift topples over onto the street and … --- ## [Most Americans oppose offshoring. We need to take action.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-americans-oppose-offshoring-we-need-to-take-action/566080)
**Author:** [@Le\_Jacquelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Jacquelope)\ **Replies:** 808\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2011, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-americans-oppose-offshoring-we-need-to-take-action/566080 "2011-03-15T10:12:39Z")
The arguments that pro-offshoring retards put out there are just about guaranteed to do their cause ruinous damage when it’s brought to light. The problem is that anti-offshoring people haven’t confronted these bastards… --- ## [F#@% these union busters](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-these-union-busters/572896)
**Author:** [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)\ **Replies:** 467\ **Last updated:** [March 14, 2011, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-these-union-busters/572896 "2011-03-14T22:33:01Z")
I’m union, and damn proud of it. This demonization of unions is simply crazy to me - are people really that unaware of pre-union working conditions? It’s late, and I don’t have the time to write a better op worthy of a… --- ## [GOP Wants to Cut Tsunami Warning Center](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-wants-to-cut-tsunami-warning-center/574421)
**Author:** [@fumster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fumster)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [March 14, 2011, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-wants-to-cut-tsunami-warning-center/574421 "2011-03-14T20:49:15Z")
I love seeing Second Amendment Remedies being applied to one’s foot. Link here. Best comment: Great idea GOP tsunamis are rare so much so I do not think there is a word for them in Japanese --- ## [Patriotism: The Last Reguge of the Horndog (Newt Gingrich)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patriotism-the-last-reguge-of-the-horndog-newt-gingrich/574169)
**Author:** [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Replies:** 102\ **Last updated:** [March 14, 2011, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patriotism-the-last-reguge-of-the-horndog-newt-gingrich/574169 "2011-03-14T19:29:26Z")
It seems that Newt broke his marriage vows because he loves his country too much: Unfortunately, I can’t say I’m shocked or dismayed. Still, there’s a sense of having wandered into bizarro-land. --- ## [WTF Hulu? (minor)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-hulu-minor/574595)
**Author:** [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [March 14, 2011, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-hulu-minor/574595 "2011-03-14T15:08:40Z")
Dear Hulu Ad tailor: I have provided feedback. I have dutifully clicked all sorts of amusing ads and shot down the annoying ones. Why do you hate me? Either I can enjoy properly male oriented ads and suffer through ad af… --- ## [Askance, what the holy fuck is wrong with you?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/askance-what-the-holy-fuck-is-wrong-with-you/574151)
**Author:** [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [March 14, 2011, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/askance-what-the-holy-fuck-is-wrong-with-you/574151 "2011-03-14T00:07:25Z")
See here. I have plenty of substance to come back with, you douchebag, but it’s Cafe Society, not Great fucking Debates. I’m not trying to “win.” I asked if you’d read the thread because everything you said had already … --- ## [NH Republican/Tea Partier wants to stop youth vote](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nh-republican-tea-partier-wants-to-stop-youth-vote/573961)
**Author:** [@Page\_Fault](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Page_Fault)\ **Replies:** 95\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2011, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nh-republican-tea-partier-wants-to-stop-youth-vote/573961 "2011-03-13T19:06:46Z")
Story here. As a summary: William O’Brian basically states “We don’t like how students vote, so they’re obviously dumb kids and we should keep them from voting.” We’ve all seen attempts to tweak things in favor from bo… --- ## [Yay, freedom! Now quit firing guns into the air, dumbasses!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yay-freedom-now-quit-firing-guns-into-the-air-dumbasses/573629)
**Author:** [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2011, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yay-freedom-now-quit-firing-guns-into-the-air-dumbasses/573629 "2011-03-13T17:06:19Z")
Seems to be everybody’s favorite way to celebrate when they dislodge the tyrant: Fire round after round of automatic weapons into the air. Usually in an urban area. Basic physics lesson, dudes: When you fire a rifle i… --- ## [You have a date, because Chick “dresses up” old tract!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-a-date-because-chick-dresses-up-old-tract/573979)
**Author:** [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2011, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-a-date-because-chick-dresses-up-old-tract/573979 "2011-03-12T21:29:14Z")
First, here’s a hint. If you’ve been trying to find the latest bi-monthly tract, you can no longer go to chick.com. You must go to http://www.chick.com for the site. To keep this up-to-date after the next tract comes … --- ## [Professional 'Women' Fora](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professional-women-fora/567546)
**Author:** [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Replies:** 77\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2011, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professional-women-fora/567546 "2011-02-08T16:44:00Z")
I belong to a popular professional on-line network, and I joined two groups for women in particular professions. Both boards address issues of particular concern to women. One board posts a lot about differential salar… --- ## [I Pit My Uptight Neighbors](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-uptight-neighbors/574193)
**Author:** [@Foxy40](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foxy40)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-uptight-neighbors/574193 "2011-03-11T16:20:09Z")
I live in a subdivision that is at the end of a 2 mile two lane road with farm fields and trees on either side. At the very end of that road is a large lake. The homes in my area are on and around this lake. Several ye… --- ## [Four ways to decorate your uterine wall...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-ways-to-decorate-your-uterine-wall/574007)
**Author:** [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2011, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-ways-to-decorate-your-uterine-wall/574007 "2011-03-10T23:35:30Z")
So I went to have an ultrasound in hopes of avoiding an endometrial biopsy. You know, that procedure where they grab onto your cervix with the needle nose pliars and go in and grab off some tissue from inside your uterus… --- ## [Ceremonial Deism - HORSEFEATHERS!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ceremonial-deism-horsefeathers/573078)
**Author:** [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Replies:** 133\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2011, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ceremonial-deism-horsefeathers/573078 "2011-03-10T20:06:41Z")
AT THE COURTHOUSE… “In God we trust” and “one nation under God” and similar things are just “ceremonial deism” and in no way endorse or establish a particular religion or religion in general. The heathens are making a … --- ## [What is it about cars that make people so bat shit crazy?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-about-cars-that-make-people-so-bat-shit-crazy/573431)
**Author:** [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2011, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-about-cars-that-make-people-so-bat-shit-crazy/573431 "2011-03-10T16:48:50Z")
It’s a three lane road. I’m on the far right she’s on the far left. I go to merge to the center lane. I’m about 95% over when the lady on the left starts to merge to the center in my spot. At this point, it’s no big dea… --- ## [Nice try bud, next time use your brother's ID](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-try-bud-next-time-use-your-brothers-id/571431)
**Author:** [@TravisFromOR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TravisFromOR)\ **Replies:** 83\ **Last updated:** [March 9, 2011, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-try-bud-next-time-use-your-brothers-id/571431 "2011-03-09T18:51:17Z")
So this kid comes through my checkstand tonight, he looks to be 15, 18 tops. He’s buying beer, so I ask for his ID. He must of “borrowed” his dad’s ID, because it says he was born in 1980. :rolleyes: At least he didn’t … --- ## [Huckabee "misspoke"? Yeah, right!!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huckabee-misspoke-yeah-right/573247)
**Author:** [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Replies:** 202\ **Last updated:** [March 9, 2011, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huckabee-misspoke-yeah-right/573247 "2011-03-09T06:39:55Z")
It’s all over the news. Huckabee: “Obama If you think about it, his perspective as growing up in Kenya with a Kenyan father and grandfather, their view of the Mau Mau Revolution in Kenya is very different than ours bec… --- ## [This fucking board is pushing me towards voting Republican](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-fucking-board-is-pushing-me-towards-voting-republican/573554)
**Author:** [@Rumor\_Watkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rumor_Watkins)\ **Replies:** 184\ **Last updated:** [March 9, 2011, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-fucking-board-is-pushing-me-towards-voting-republican/573554 "2011-03-09T02:47:44Z")
thank you, Straight Dope. thank you. yes, I’m sure I’ll be greeted by a spate of “don’t let the door hit you on the way out” posts. I knew this when I started the thread. But, for reals. Some of you are just really fuc… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=252) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=254)