# A phrase that might need to be banned (outside The BBQ Pit)

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**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")

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> [@Who are the oldest members of this board?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-oldest-members-of-this-board/375384/32):
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> 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.

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