# A Non-Pit Pit Rant - There's No Need to Begin Your Thread Title With The Words "I Pit **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 7, 2005, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-non-pit-pit-rant-theres-no-need-to-begin-your-thread-title-with-the-words-i-pit/283625 "2005-01-07T19:13:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-non-pit-pit-rant-theres-no-need-to-begin-your-thread-title-with-the-words-i-pit/283625/1 "2005-01-07T19:13:33Z")
Subtitled: I Pit These Inane Pit Thread Titles Holy Crap! Out of today’s 50 front page Pit Threads:[ol] [li]I pit Someone in the stolen art case [/li][li]I Pit Widescreen DVD’s [/li][li]I pit Andrea Yates [/li][li]I pit middle america [/li][li]I pit stupid pop-up adds that masquerade as Windows system alerts [/li][li]I pit Colombian drug smugglers [/li][li]I pit Carnival Cruise Lines [/li][li]I pit autogenerated search engine records [/li][li]I pit z-scores (not very angry; sad)[/ol]We know you’re pitting something - hence the forum name. [/li] Is this becoming a more widespread phenomenon - or am I getting more crotchety in my old age? (Not that there’s ever such a thing as too much crotch) Stay tuned next week for my next non-pit forum title rant: ‘How many LOTR threads are needed for a trilogy that ceased production years ago?’ ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-non-pit-pit-rant-theres-no-need-to-begin-your-thread-title-with-the-words-i-pit/283625/2 "2005-01-07T19:20:55Z")
Wow, I am sure glad I didn’t start my first pit thread with “I pit …”. I would hate to have been singled out for a public mocking such as this. I think people use the term because it’s tradition and it sounds like you’re saying “I spit” such as in “I spit on thee” because that’s just fun to say. You know what else is fun to say? Smock! Smock, smock, smock! _waits for the next pit thread to be “I pit JohnBckWLD”_ 😛 ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-non-pit-pit-rant-theres-no-need-to-begin-your-thread-title-with-the-words-i-pit/283625/3 "2005-01-07T19:23:17Z")
I pit cherries I pit bulls I pit vipers I pit people against one another I pit tipi (a thread in palindrome) ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-non-pit-pit-rant-theres-no-need-to-begin-your-thread-title-with-the-words-i-pit/283625/4 "2005-01-07T19:40:14Z")
> [@Wile E](#): > > I would hate to have been singled out for a public mocking such as this…You know what else is fun to say? Smock! Smock, smock, smock!.._waits for the next pit thread to be “I pit JohnBckWLD”_ I posted my _lame_ _(another word I hate seeing in pit titles-it’s just an invitation to pass them by)_ rant here cuz I wasn’t in the mood to be called a goat-felching pustule this close to the weekend - I figured I was safe cuz those pit types rarely come 'round these MPSIMS parts. But in all seriousness, I’d like to hear someone come up with a replacement phrase/decree for “I Pit”. Lemme try yours:[list=a][li]SMOCK! Smock! smock! Someone in the stolen art case [/li][li]SMOCK! Smock! smock! Widescreen DVD’s [/li][li]SMOCK! Smock! smock! Andrea Yates [/li][li]SMOCK! Smock! smock! middle america [/li][li]SMOCK! Smock! smock! stupid pop-up adds that masquerade as Windows system alerts [/li][li]SMOCK! Smock! smock! Colombian drug smugglers [/li][li]SMOCK! Smock! smock! Carnival Cruise Lines [/li][li]SMOCK! Smock! smock! autogenerated search engine records [/li][li]SMOCK! Smock! smock! z-scores (not very angry; sad)[/list]Hey - That does sound better![/li] > [@pravnik](#): > > I pit cherries I pit bulls I pit vipers I pit people against one another I’m left to ask if dyslexics would write titles like: “I Pit Arm” or “I Pit Mosh” ---
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-non-pit-pit-rant-theres-no-need-to-begin-your-thread-title-with-the-words-i-pit/283625/5 "2005-01-07T20:59:02Z")
Don’t mock the smock or I’ll clean your clock. In defense of the “I Pit” titles, some people (like me) use the “New Posts” button rather than looking in each forum separately. Often I won’t even look at the particular forum in which a thread has been placed; thus, “I Pit Middle America” tells me that it’s a Pit thread, whereas “Middle America” could be a topic in one of several forums. Not saying “I Pit Middle America” is a better title than “[Blankety-blank] Middle [blanking] America,” though. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-non-pit-pit-rant-theres-no-need-to-begin-your-thread-title-with-the-words-i-pit/283625/6 "2005-01-07T22:17:04Z")
Yeah, it should be “_In Which_ I Pit”. just to be annoying. Or maybe take the Rocky and Bullwinkle form: “_In Which_ I Pit _blah blah_ \*\* - or - \*\* _mildly amusing one liner_” ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-non-pit-pit-rant-theres-no-need-to-begin-your-thread-title-with-the-words-i-pit/283625/7 "2005-01-07T22:21:13Z")
Hmmm – and **lel** or **I Love Me Vol. I** could pit the concept inherent in the conical tents that are stereotypically the dwellings of Plains Indians, with **I Pit Tipi**. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-non-pit-pit-rant-theres-no-need-to-begin-your-thread-title-with-the-words-i-pit/283625/8 "2005-01-10T16:43:44Z")
> [@JohnBckWLD](#): > > I posted my _lame_ _(another word I hate seeing in pit titles-it’s just an invitation to pass them by)_ rant here cuz I wasn’t in the mood to be called a goat-felching pustule this close to the weekend - I figured I was safe cuz those pit types rarely come 'round these MPSIMS parts. > > But in all seriousness, I’d like to hear someone come up with a replacement phrase/decree for “I Pit”. Lemme try yours:[list=a][li]SMOCK! Smock! smock! Someone in the stolen art case [/li][li]SMOCK! Smock! smock! Widescreen DVD’s [/li][li]SMOCK! Smock! smock! Andrea Yates [/li][li]SMOCK! Smock! smock! middle america [/li][li]SMOCK! Smock! smock! stupid pop-up adds that masquerade as Windows system alerts [/li][li]SMOCK! Smock! smock! Colombian drug smugglers [/li][li]SMOCK! Smock! smock! Carnival Cruise Lines [/li][li]SMOCK! Smock! smock! autogenerated search engine records [/li][li]SMOCK! Smock! smock! z-scores (not very angry; sad)[/list][/li]Hey - That does sound better! See! I told you so. ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-non-pit-pit-rant-theres-no-need-to-begin-your-thread-title-with-the-words-i-pit/283625/9 "2005-01-17T23:06:16Z")
> [@Nightwatch Trailer](#): > > Don’t mock the smock or I’ll clean your clock. Oh, man, arguably one of the best panels from one of the best cartoon strips ever. And I got the reference. Hooray for me. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-non-pit-pit-rant-theres-no-need-to-begin-your-thread-title-with-the-words-i-pit/283625/10 "2005-01-17T23:40:23Z")
Man…this is rapidly becoming [all about the smock](http://www.dontknockmysmock.com/). ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2005, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-non-pit-pit-rant-theres-no-need-to-begin-your-thread-title-with-the-words-i-pit/283625/11 "2005-01-18T02:27:25Z")
[QUOTE=JohnBckWLD] Subtitled: I Pit These Inane Pit Thread Titles Holy Crap! Out of today’s 50 front page Pit Threads:[list=1] [li]I pit [/li]list]We know you’re pitting something - hence the forum name. Is this becoming a more widespread phenomenon - or am I getting more crotchety in my old age? (Not that there’s ever such a thing as too much crotch) I thought that was too much CROCHET!!