# A phrase that might need to be banned (outside The BBQ Pit) **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 9, 2024, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phrase-that-might-need-to-be-banned-outside-the-bbq-pit/1005501 "2024-08-09T20:12:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2024, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phrase-that-might-need-to-be-banned-outside-the-bbq-pit/1005501/21 "2024-08-12T14:13:23Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > How long a timeframe are we talking about? Thus is before my time but I’ve heard people say ( 😉 ) that there was a guy who used to start every thread with, “Manny people ask and now I wonder,” before asking a really stupid question. No. It was a one time typo. There was a moderator called **manhattan** who was referred to as manny. Someone started a sentence with “manny peoples” and it took off from there. Now don’t ask me what I had for lunch yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phrase-that-might-need-to-be-banned-outside-the-bbq-pit/1005501/22 "2024-08-13T03:50:26Z")
Wasn’t it “Manny Peeples”, or am I misremembering? ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phrase-that-might-need-to-be-banned-outside-the-bbq-pit/1005501/23 "2024-08-13T04:18:16Z")
That sounds about right ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phrase-that-might-need-to-be-banned-outside-the-bbq-pit/1005501/24 "2024-08-13T12:09:11Z")
I kind of feel like people should be able to ask stupid questions. And if you think your question MIGHT be a stupid question, but you’re unsure, starting with…‘I’ve heard some people saying…’, seems perfectly understandable, to me. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phrase-that-might-need-to-be-banned-outside-the-bbq-pit/1005501/25 "2024-08-13T12:13:08Z")
We’re really not into banning words or phrases here. Especially ones that are simply annoying/disingenuous. Hateful words and phrases used in hateful ways will be moderated for a given situation, but we don’t have a banned word list and I don’t believe we will. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phrase-that-might-need-to-be-banned-outside-the-bbq-pit/1005501/26 "2024-08-13T12:28:53Z")
> [@Who are the oldest members of this board?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-oldest-members-of-this-board/375384/32): > > Before Manhattan, way back on the AOL board, we had a precursor to the sort of kid who starts thousands of pointless GQ question threads–but this guy was on drugs. He used to begin **every freaking thread** with the phrase > "Manny peoples wonder and now I ask. . . " > followed by his lame (and often insulting, frequently racist) question. He actually did not last very long, but the damage was done and he became, in the minds of the AOL crowd, “Manny Peeples.” ~Max. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2024, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phrase-that-might-need-to-be-banned-outside-the-bbq-pit/1005501/27 "2024-08-15T23:10:38Z")
> [@Who are the oldest members of this board?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-oldest-members-of-this-board/375384/32): > > Manny Peeples Should I ever change my username… ETA: I did not include the “oldest members” bit, how did that happen? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phrase-that-might-need-to-be-banned-outside-the-bbq-pit/1005501/28 "2024-08-16T19:21:23Z")
> [@Remembering 'Gotcha Ya'](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-gotcha-ya/947078/39): > > Manny Peoples, aka @ZSPhobiaSZ. I see he dropped the idiosyncratic “manny” at some point between departing AOL and finding us on vB.   ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phrase-that-might-need-to-be-banned-outside-the-bbq-pit/1005501/29 "2024-08-16T19:59:28Z")
Y’all realize I dropped this about a week ago? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phrase-that-might-need-to-be-banned-outside-the-bbq-pit/1005501/30 "2024-08-16T20:00:59Z")
They’re talking among themselves now. Your OP largely forgotten. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2024, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phrase-that-might-need-to-be-banned-outside-the-bbq-pit/1005501/31 "2024-08-17T20:50:08Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > I don’t recall anybody on this board using that phrase unless they were parodying Donald Trump. If you want me to take your OP seriously, you’re going to have to quote an unimpeachable source, like “Many big strong men with tears in their eyes”… ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2024, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phrase-that-might-need-to-be-banned-outside-the-bbq-pit/1005501/32 "2024-08-18T03:50:53Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Y’all realize I dropped this about a week ago? I think some of us are puzzled why you even posted it in the first place? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phrase-that-might-need-to-be-banned-outside-the-bbq-pit/1005501/33 "2024-08-24T11:27:07Z")
People are saying we need to keep discussing this. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-phrase-that-might-need-to-be-banned-outside-the-bbq-pit/1005501.md?page=1)