# A pithy message for ZPG Zealot **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 16, 2010, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678 "2010-03-16T18:40:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678/101 "2010-03-17T19:19:17Z")
> [@The\_Hamster\_King](#): > > Me too! I love the idea of baseball having a **Designated Hitler Rule**. I might watch it if it did. They teach it that way at baseball “camps”. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678/102 "2010-03-17T19:30:15Z")
> [@Slypork](#): > > She was late for a parental visitation because she stopped to give a guy a blowjob for $5. You’d be late too if you could double your net worth with just a few minutes work. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678/103 "2010-03-17T19:32:37Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > You’d be late too if you could double your net worth with just a few minutes work. So, Ross Perot and that thing about the economy and the “great sucking sound” was true? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678/104 "2010-03-17T20:45:03Z")
> [@The\_Hamster\_King](#): > > Me too! I love the idea of baseball having a **Designated Hitler Rule**. I might watch it if it did. The worst part of being Designated Hitler is wearing the shared, sweaty stick-on toothbrush moustache. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678/105 "2010-03-17T20:54:21Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > I momentarily read this as “Hitler,” and wondered if my ignorance of sports ran even deeper than I thought… Heh. I read it that way until right now. Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678/106 "2010-03-17T22:02:07Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > For thyself thou must judge whether those who oppose adoption are insightful visionaries or miserable fuckwits. Mayhap these links will be of aid. > > [http://www.antiadoption.org/](http://www.antiadoption.org/) > [http://antiadoption.blogspot.com/](http://antiadoption.blogspot.com/) > [http://courtingdestiny.com/why-i-dont-write-much-about-being-adopted/](http://courtingdestiny.com/why-i-dont-write-much-about-being-adopted/) …wait. …th’ _fuck_?! I read the first two sites and they seem to be missing the important part of the whole anti-abortion thing, namely: What the fuck could possibly be _wrong_ with adoption? Seriously…finish this sentence: _Without discussing individual problems like abusive adoptive parents, the primary thing(s) wrong with the principle of adoption are\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_?_ Because I don’t get it. Also, what’s the alternative? Orphanages? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678/107 "2010-03-17T22:03:29Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > Because I don’t get it. Also, what’s the alternative? Orphanages? Time machines, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678/108 "2010-03-17T22:07:48Z")
> [@The\_Hamster\_King](#): > > Time machines, apparently. Gotta do something about the Morlok famine ya know… ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678/109 "2010-03-17T22:15:10Z")
> [@The\_Hamster\_King](#): > > Me too! I love the idea of baseball having a **Designated Hitler Rule**. I might watch it if it did. I would watch too. Then we could say … Wait for it … “You know who else ruined baseball?” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678/110 "2010-03-17T22:15:11Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Gotta do something about the Morlok famine ya know… Someone–and I’m not saying it was me–worked a long time to arrange that famine and exterminate those filthy 'Loks. That someone does NOT appreciate you do-gooders screwing with his or her or its evil deeds. The genocide of the Morlocks is none of your business. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678/111 "2010-03-17T22:19:17Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > “You know who else ruined baseball?” 😃 George Will? ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678/112 "2010-03-17T22:26:21Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > George Will? Oh my word. Did he have a funny little Charlie Chaplin moustache too? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678/113 "2010-03-18T00:16:21Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Someone–and I’m not saying it was me–worked a long time to arrange that famine and exterminate those filthy 'Loks. That someone does NOT appreciate you do-gooders screwing with his or her or its evil deeds. The genocide of the Morlocks is none of your business. I think we’re working at cross purposes here. I was intending to ship the terminally stupid to that era in order to resolve a more pressing issue in the near future time line at the expense of the far future time line. Now you’re telling me they’ll arrive to a world in which the Morlocks have been exterminated and the stupid will inherit the Earth? Shades of Hitchhiker’s Guide! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678/114 "2010-03-18T00:41:13Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > I momentarily read this as “Hitler,” and wondered if my ignorance of sports ran even deeper than I thought… You too? I guess it must be the capital H. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678/115 "2010-03-18T01:21:07Z")
Instead of the Star Spangled Banner, we could start every game with Springtime For Hitler, a floor show, Hitlers On Ice, and everything. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678/116 "2010-03-18T01:29:07Z")
Fools. Everyone knows Hitler is associated with golf, not baseball. Why else do you think golf involves bunkers? ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678/117 "2010-03-18T01:35:09Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Fools. Everyone knows Hitler is associated with golf, not baseball. Why else do you think golf involves bunkers? [Johnny Carson] I did not know that [/Johnny Carson] You are the winner. I salute you 😃 ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678/118 "2010-03-18T02:39:24Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > You are the winner. I salute you 😃 How can he be the winner when everybody knows [the Designated Hitler was Dönitz](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_D%C3%B6nitz#Hitler.27s_successor)? ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678/119 "2010-03-18T02:52:09Z")
> [@ZPG\_Zealot](#): > > Andy, the point is I WAS NOT HIS PARENT. I spent a lot of time first explaining; then yelling this point at various teachers and school guidance counselors who could not understand the principle that family means anything other than a mother and father. I was his older sister (actually technically half-sister, we did not have the same mother) and I became his Guardian which is a perfectly noble title for my role. Let’s all just pause for a moment, in sympathy for those teachers and guidance counselors. Can you imagine, trying to deal with that? I mean, we think we have it bad, and this is just over a message board. ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678/120 "2010-03-18T03:31:00Z")
> [@pedescribe](#): > > Let’s all just pause for a moment, in sympathy for those teachers and guidance counselors. Can you imagine, trying to deal with that? I mean, we think we have it bad, and this is just over a message board. She really does bring new meaning to the phrase _in loco parentis_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678.md?page=7)