# A note on the (now closed) thread
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-on-the-now-closed-thread/393884
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [February 27, 2007, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-on-the-now-closed-thread/393884 "2007-02-27T16:26:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 13
### Author:  [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2007, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-on-the-now-closed-thread/393884/241 "2007-03-01T04:10:20Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?]
B = Blow and J = Job
[/QUOTE]
You’re far too easily whooshed. I think I’m going to have some fun with you.
Plus, you missed the easiest definition: :o
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2007, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-on-the-now-closed-thread/393884/242 "2007-03-01T04:11:51Z")
[QUOTE=Jodi]
**Colibri** , you are being a naughty meanie mouth. Please list your motivations so that I may evaluate the legitimacy of your positon also. Personally, I suspect you’re just not functioning that well.
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If I were functioning better, I would send her a BM. And my position is supine, or it will be in a few minutes.
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### Author:  [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2007, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-on-the-now-closed-thread/393884/243 "2007-03-01T04:12:59Z")
[QUOTE=Hentor the Barbarian]
Not according to the Royal Guardsmen.
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The Royal Guardsmen are non-canonical.
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### Author:  [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2007, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-on-the-now-closed-thread/393884/244 "2007-03-01T04:13:16Z")
[QUOTE=Rubystreak]
I thought PRR’s OP didn’t warrant it. You did
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I did? Surprise to me. I just said that I didn’t read that part of that thread.
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### Author:  [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2007, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-on-the-now-closed-thread/393884/245 "2007-03-01T04:14:17Z")
[QUOTE=Jodi]
May I make a request? Please start with anyone using the phrase “squee” or any variation thereof. Ta.
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Now that’s just mean. Especially if kitties are involved.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2007, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-on-the-now-closed-thread/393884/246 "2007-03-01T04:15:47Z")
[QUOTE=Frank]
You’re far too easily whooshed. I think I’m going to have some fun with you.
Plus, you missed the easiest definition: :o
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Is that the whistling noise that I heard?
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### Author:  [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2007, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-on-the-now-closed-thread/393884/247 "2007-03-01T04:16:01Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.]
I propose that henceforth we call a particularly absurd trainwreck of a thread such as this a “Glomfuster Cluck.”
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Nah. Needs more oomph. Maybe ‘fluster cuck’. But then that’d make me an attention whore because my name would be invoked in threads. Or some of the letters in my name would be seen in threads, which would make me an attention whore.
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### Author:  [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2007, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-on-the-now-closed-thread/393884/248 "2007-03-01T04:16:48Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?]
B = Blow and J = Job
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Oh come on! Sheesh. What do you take me for? Do I really come across so naive?
(I always wondered why they called dick sucking a Bachelor of Journalism.)
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### Author:  [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2007, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-on-the-now-closed-thread/393884/249 "2007-03-01T04:17:05Z")
[QUOTE=Frank]
The Royal Guardsmen are non-canonical.
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You want proof?
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Tm5d5S1NcSc?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque
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### Author:  [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2007, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-on-the-now-closed-thread/393884/250 "2007-03-01T04:17:07Z")
I wish someone had taken the time to explain to the parents of my aunt named BJ and my niece named Cunny just what their children’s names meant.
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### Author:  [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2007, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-on-the-now-closed-thread/393884/251 "2007-03-01T04:19:27Z")
[QUOTE=Caridwen]
Quiddity, you have to admit Jodi’s right about that.
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Look. I’m new. Other boards, if you restart a dead thread, you’re in shit. So I wasn’t going to restart it. I didn’t want to just PM people out of the blue, because other places I’ve been, that’s considered bad form. Then people said I’d be evasive or something if I didn’t reply ‘in public’ so here I am.
So forgive my n00b mistakes in this. My intent was to warn people who had asked questions and were waiting for answers that I’d PM and then if someone didn’t want a PM they’d tell me not to PM them. I never thought this thing would go on and on and on.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2007, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-on-the-now-closed-thread/393884/252 "2007-03-01T04:20:29Z")
[QUOTE=Muffin]
I wish someone had taken the time to explain to the parents of my aunt named BJ and my niece named Cunny just what their children’s names meant.
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Did you know Muffin can be euphemism for Cunny?
Jim
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### Author:  [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2007, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-on-the-now-closed-thread/393884/253 "2007-03-01T04:20:54Z")
[QUOTE=Hentor the Barbarian]
At a later time, I will PM you with my motivations for delaying in explaining my motivations to you at this time. I would right now, but let me tell you some reasons about myself as to why I can’t do so: I am feeling verklempt, plus I’m going to go have sex with my wife.
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😛 Have fun, **Barbarian**.
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### Author:  [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2007, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-on-the-now-closed-thread/393884/254 "2007-03-01T04:21:13Z")
[QUOTE=Quiddity Glomfuster]
I just said that I didn’t read that part of that thread.
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Might want to consider reading all the posts in a thread before jumping to a conclusion – that way when you say something dumb, you at least can feel confident in knowing you did due diligence before putting your foot in it.
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### Author:  [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2007, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-on-the-now-closed-thread/393884/255 "2007-03-01T04:21:23Z")
[QUOTE=Quiddity Glomfuster]
I did? Surprise to me. I just said that I didn’t read that part of that thread.
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You should, because the thread you got into all the trouble on was a direct result of that first thread, PRR’s “Thank You” thread, where Liberal behaved very badly. Your defense of him in Jim’s thread can’t hold much water if you don’t even know what he did to cause that Pit thread addressed to him.
You went off half-cocked in the closed thread, obviously, if you didn’t even read the source thread. And you’ve gone off half-cocked if you’re bitching about how people conduct themselves on this board when you don’t know the difference between the Board and a Forum on the board.
The BBQ Pit is an important part of this board. I would even contend that it’s necessary for the proper functioning of the SDMB. Are you suggesting that we should all abandon using it because it offends your sensibilities? Because to your sensibilities, I will respond with your favorite word: SO?
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### Author:  [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2007, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-on-the-now-closed-thread/393884/256 "2007-03-01T04:22:04Z")
[QUOTE=Oakminster]
You want proof?
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Tm5d5S1NcSc?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque
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🙂 That was fun; I haven’t heard the song in ages.
It’s still apocryphal, however. Note the completely out of place Great Pumpkin reference.
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### Author:  [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2007, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-on-the-now-closed-thread/393884/257 "2007-03-01T04:23:07Z")
[QUOTE=Muffin]
I wish someone had taken the time to explain to the parents of my aunt named BJ and my niece named Cunny just what their children’s names meant.
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No doubt. I bet they had just as much trouble when they were kids as my cousins Dirty Sanchez and Rusty Trombone.
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### Author:  [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2007, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-on-the-now-closed-thread/393884/258 "2007-03-01T04:23:29Z")
[QUOTE=Quiddity Glomfuster]
Well, at the risk of another drubbing, my question about that would be ‘so?’. As in why would anybody care? (again, just a question). I don’t know why someone being like that would get others infuriated to the point of vituperation. Just totally confused about that, me.
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See, maybe this is where one of the breakdowns are. I don’t believe anyone truly _cares_, in the sense one means in real life, unless that person is their friend. I believe that ‘attention-whore’ is used as a _label_ or shorthand to describe a behavior. In this case, that people feel is annoying. I don’t see it taken much beyond that.
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> Gotcha. In that case, I was just tossing it out. I didn’t mean it literally. I gather you’re telling me that people take things pretty literally. Or some people. Or most people?
I’m not sure. I suppose it would be up to the individual, but for myself, it correlates to the circumstances. I would pitch a holy hell hissy fit if someone grouped me with a bunch of homophobes whether it wasn’t meant as anything but lightly or not. On the other hand, if someone erroneously assumed I was a trekkie, I’d just be amused. If they took that further though, and followed me all around the board with it _constantly_, I’d be creeped out, annoyed and want them to stop. And that’s just my perspective.
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> I’ll be along in a while. Seriously, thanks. I wasn’t able to don others’ eyes here so I appreciate very much you lending me yours. It’s been extremely helpful.
Glad to help. It’s at least mostly what I pay my therapist for. 🙂 I do commend you for trying to keep up to and answer all these posts. Hang in there. There’s always something here to be learned. It’s the boards beauty in general (heh) and the pit’s in particular. 🙂 🙂
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### Author:  [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2007, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-on-the-now-closed-thread/393884/259 "2007-03-01T04:24:04Z")
[QUOTE=Jodi]
So **Sarahfeena** , are you saying that you can just yell at someone in some random thread? That’s really mean. What would motivate someone to do so? For that matter, what motivated you to post your last post? I will be better able to rate the validity of your point if you can explain your motivations to me. Assuming I find them acceptable, of course.
**Colibri** , you are being a naughty meanie mouth. Please list your motivations so that I may evaluate the legitimacy of your positon also. Personally, I suspect you’re just not functioning that well.
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Ya know, I am trying to eliminate my own ignorance as to why people do the things they do.
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### Author:  [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2007, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-on-the-now-closed-thread/393884/260 "2007-03-01T04:25:26Z")
[QUOTE=Hentor the Barbarian]
No doubt. I bet they had just as much trouble when they were kids as my cousins Dirty Sanchez and Rusty Trombone.
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Did they hang out with Hot Carl and NJ Meathook? 'Cause those guys are wild.
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