# 3 c needed to a l **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 5, 2007, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-c-needed-to-a-l/386797 "2007-01-05T08:07:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-c-needed-to-a-l/386797/1 "2007-01-05T08:07:28Z")
All right, it’s come to this. I pit **Mittu**. Well maybe not so much \*\*Mittu \*\* as much as his now infamous thread [14 k of g in a f p d](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=398132&page=1&pp=50). I hate it, and I might hate him for this ruse. There is no evidence yet that it was done on purpose, but his answer that we’ve been waiting patiently for has remained _in absentia_. It’s driven myself and many others crazy as well obsessed with this special type of word problem that now makes me think of 14 as some type of mystical number. Some people think that 7 is a powerful number, others would say 13, if you asked my girlfriend she would list off 4, 8, 15, 16, 23,and 42; for me though, it’s 14 all day long. I am making this a pit for the sole purpose of letting that MPSIMS thread just die an overdue death, because each time I see a subscription notification pop up that a new post has been made I am always terribly let down when it’s just someone asking, “Hey, did\*\* Mittu \*\* ever answer this?” The answer is and probably always will be no, but why oh why do I still hold up hope? I can’t take it. I am asking for a voluntary pact to let that thing die, or at least never again rise in the forum unless it’s that answer we were looking for. Otherwise the pain will remain and obsession will overwhelm me. My friends and family will find me naked in the middle of a room typing out my memoir of everything I could have been. Except when they look to see what I’ve written all they’ll read is: _14 k of g in a f p makes Chris a very dull boy_, for 196 pages. So **Mittu** , here’s your 3 concessions needed to avoid lynching: 1. Admit that you played a good ruse on all of us, we accept your apology and we all laugh it off. Admittedly though this will be brought up every now and then, but only as a snarky jab to remind you that we still remember this whole thing and secretly want to brain you for it. 2. Or, you could just give us the answer by resurrecting the MPSIMS thread and then we all groan in unison and go about our business. 3. You could also try giving us all $5. PS: insert mandatory [fuckwit] here ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-c-needed-to-a-l/386797/2 "2007-01-05T08:41:03Z")
[QUOTE=bigbabysweets2000] 1. You could also try giving us all $5. [/QUOTE] No, $14. It’s just much more appropriate. That, and it’s just about the cost of a membership. ---
**Author:** ![Aunt\_Flow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed655f/32.png) [@Aunt\_Flow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aunt_Flow)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-c-needed-to-a-l/386797/3 "2007-01-05T09:00:07Z")
[QUOTE=Pygmy Rugger] No, $14. It’s just much more appropriate. That, and it’s just about the cost of a membership. [/QUOTE] 14 kinds of green in a freshly padded dwallet. ---
**Author:** ![Mellivora\_capensis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mellivora\_capensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mellivora_capensis)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-c-needed-to-a-l/386797/4 "2007-01-05T09:22:15Z")
I was wondering who was going to snap first. 🙂 32 000 plus views, that must be some kind of MPSIMS record. ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-c-needed-to-a-l/386797/5 "2007-01-05T11:27:04Z")
Your pain is palpable. I rate this rant a solid 8.5. But as everyone knows… when done right there’s _14_ kinds of grief in a freshly posted diatribe. ---
**Author:** ![Mellivora\_capensis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mellivora\_capensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mellivora_capensis)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-c-needed-to-a-l/386797/6 "2007-01-05T12:11:06Z")
BTW **bigbabysweets2000** , are you expecting us to solve “3 c needed to a l”? :dubious: 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-c-needed-to-a-l/386797/7 "2007-01-05T12:32:24Z")
[QUOTE=Mellivora capensis] BTW **bigbabysweets2000** , are you expecting us to solve “3 c needed to a l”? :dubious: 😛 [/QUOTE] 3 concessions needed to avoid lynching. (With apologies if I’ve been whooooshed!!) ---
**Author:** ![Mellivora\_capensis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mellivora\_capensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mellivora_capensis)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-c-needed-to-a-l/386797/8 "2007-01-05T12:49:51Z")
[QUOTE=e-logic] 3 concessions needed to avoid lynching. (With apologies if I’ve been whooooshed!!) [/QUOTE] Nope, looks like I’m the one who has been whooshed. :smack: Jeez, and it was there staring me in the face. “Tower, this is Maverick, request permission for flyby.” “Maverick, this is Tower, request den…WHOOBAM…OOSH…rattle, rattle.” ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-c-needed-to-a-l/386797/9 "2007-01-05T12:55:57Z")
While I agree that a pitting is appropriate, I have a feeling that any resolution that doesn’t involve a lynching will seem somehow insufficient. ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-c-needed-to-a-l/386797/10 "2007-01-05T14:31:47Z")
I understand your frustration, **sweets** , but all the same…if you’re this discombobulated over five lousy weeks waiting for an answer you’re not sure exists, and which may be unsatisfactory even if it does, to a question that did not exist a month and a half ago, and which may not exist even now? I guess mostly I’m just glad for your sake that you’re not an astrophysicist or engaged in biomedical research, but eschatology is _definitely_ not for you. All the same, it’s no fun when someone asks you to help them solve a puzzle and then hides some of the pieces on you. If that’s what **Mittu** did, _I_ certainly won’t be playing with him/her in the future. In the meantime, try not to think of it as a question or challenge, not as a game, but as a toy: something to play with, without a goal or end in sight. That way, it may have intellectual or at least entertainment value no matter how those factors you can’t control turn out. ---
**Author:** ![velvetjones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f9b8f/32.png) [@velvetjones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velvetjones)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-c-needed-to-a-l/386797/11 "2007-01-05T14:36:11Z")
The least…the very least he could do is pop in to let us know what he’s doing to obtain the answer from his friend. But he’s not even giving us that satisfaction. I know that the answer is something obsure and british and those of us on this side of the pond are never going to have heard of it. And yet I still want to know. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-c-needed-to-a-l/386797/12 "2007-01-05T14:37:16Z")
I think we should stalk **mittu**. Every time \*\*mittu \*\*posts, just quote it and write, “I’m not responding to you until you answer the 14 k of g question.” ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-c-needed-to-a-l/386797/13 "2007-01-05T14:56:52Z")
[QUOTE=xenophon41] … _14_ kinds of grief in a freshly posted diatribe. [/QUOTE] That’s the best one yet. Well, my favorite, anyway. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Mellivora\_capensis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mellivora\_capensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mellivora_capensis)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-c-needed-to-a-l/386797/14 "2007-01-05T15:06:41Z")
Fer fok sakes, **King** , discom what? Jeez, now I’ve got to unlock my cupboard and haul out the dikshinree again. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-c-needed-to-a-l/386797/15 "2007-01-05T15:18:45Z")
I can assure you that us chaps on this side of the pond have no idea of a UK phrase that would fit, and also agree Mittu is a time-waster. I particularly ‘enjoyed’ his effort to start a new game while refusing to make progress on revealing the first one. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![mrklutz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-c-needed-to-a-l/386797/16 "2007-01-05T15:30:52Z")
[QUOTE=glee] I particularly ‘enjoyed’ his effort to start a new game while refusing to make progress on revealing the first one. :rolleyes: [/QUOTE] Me too. That’s what made me decide he’s really just yanking our collective chain. I just unsubscribed from the infamous thread. ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-c-needed-to-a-l/386797/17 "2007-01-05T15:42:08Z")
[QUOTE=Mellivora capensis] Fer fok sakes, **King** , discom what? Jeez, now I’ve got to unlock my cupboard and haul out the dikshinree again. [/QUOTE] It’s a synonym for “confusticated.” ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-c-needed-to-a-l/386797/18 "2007-01-05T16:17:21Z")
[QUOTE=The King of Soup] It’s a synonym for “confusticated.” [/QUOTE] A good choice, sir. I extend to you my most enthusiastic contrafibularities! No doubt, however, you are anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused \*\*Mellivora capensis \*\* such pericumbobulation? ---
**Author:** ![Auntbeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Auntbeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Auntbeast)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-c-needed-to-a-l/386797/19 "2007-01-05T21:16:43Z")
LYNCHING BEFORE 10PM! I’m with ya brothers and sisters. Mittu must have a torturous death. In the book Altered Carbon, you don’t die, your “stack” can be implanted into a new body at which time they can begin torturing THAT body until it gives, then they shove you in a new one and start over again. I say Mittu gets resleeved the precise number of times that thread has been viewed and tortured each and every single time. That or he could rock us to sleep with the answer, either way, we win. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-c-needed-to-a-l/386797/20 "2007-01-05T22:38:12Z")
[QUOTE=Mellivora capensis] 32 000 plus views, that must be some kind of MPSIMS record. [/QUOTE] Not even close. [This thread has 78,516](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=24960). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-c-needed-to-a-l/386797.md?page=2)