# a lot of arrogant people here on the dope **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 24, 2006, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lot-of-arrogant-people-here-on-the-dope/370072 "2006-08-24T18:24:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lot-of-arrogant-people-here-on-the-dope/370072/221 "2006-08-26T05:14:05Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > Hmmm…no poetry, but a pithy epigram: better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt… Wow, did you write that or did **Wildfire** ’s monkeys write it for you? 😉 There was a time in Dale Carnegie class when the teacher said that we shouldn’t start a speech with a Twain quote, but since I’m a wiseass… (Dopers from around the world descend on me and beat me silly before I continue one of my stupid, Grandpa Simpsonish anecdotes.) Really, **Wildfire** , continuing to post here may be the best thing you ever do to improve your English skills. Sure, we’re giving you shit now, but we’ll soon tire of it, and you’ll be left alone to study my posts, and learn how many superfluous commas English speakers used 150 years ago. The posting of a stupid Pit thread, and getting lambasted for it, is part of the hazing ritual here. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lot-of-arrogant-people-here-on-the-dope/370072/222 "2006-08-26T05:15:06Z")
> [@Inigo Montoya](#): > > Promises? You have Promises? To KEEP? > > Luxury! Why when I was young we had to make do with weak covenants and we had to give those back after a transgression! And did your horse have to pull the sleigh uphill both ways? ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lot-of-arrogant-people-here-on-the-dope/370072/223 "2006-08-26T06:46:08Z")
Ah, Wildfire… Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more sweaty and more annoying. Forsooth, they doth both give me a headache That throbbeth like the very, um, extremely throbby thing… Rats. I thought I had something there at the start. ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lot-of-arrogant-people-here-on-the-dope/370072/224 "2006-08-26T07:37:29Z")
Plagiarism is a serious offense. We are not as stupid as you wish. I am sure you will be hearing how seriously the board takes the crime of Plagiarism. It certainly doesn’t allow it from members, when it can be shown to be deliberate. Bye Tris ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lot-of-arrogant-people-here-on-the-dope/370072/225 "2006-08-26T07:43:10Z")
Hey, lissen up, I have created a solar powered flashlight…never needs batteries. Patent pending. So why should I NOT be arrogant, having one-upped the whole lot? Just tell me why this is wrong. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lot-of-arrogant-people-here-on-the-dope/370072/226 "2006-08-26T16:55:24Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Ah, Wildfire… > > Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? > Thou art more sweaty and more annoying. > Forsooth, they doth both give me a headache > That throbbeth like the very, um, extremely throbby thing… . . . the very ensuance of penis? ---
**Author:** ![Merhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Merhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merhouse)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lot-of-arrogant-people-here-on-the-dope/370072/227 "2006-08-26T21:12:52Z")
After reading [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=384391), I wonder if a besserwisser is really a bunnyfucker. Then again, it’s entirely possible that a bunnyfucker is a besserwisser. But maybe not. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lot-of-arrogant-people-here-on-the-dope/370072.md?page=11)