# A pitting of Liberal and the Mods that let it happen. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 18, 2007, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723 "2007-02-18T17:54:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 21
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/401 "2007-02-20T00:57:54Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] There are plenty of posters who share PRR’s opinions so the atheism debates won’t stop, though they might be a bit less acrimonious. [/QUOTE] Exactly. I’m glad we could end up seeing eye to eye. Atheists deserve the opportunity to make the good arguments most of them have always made. I consider the education they’ve given me very important indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/402 "2007-02-20T01:07:18Z")
So what did the $500 accomplish? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/403 "2007-02-20T01:15:44Z")
There was at least one occasion when I myself expressed annoyance at prr and badchad: > [@](#): > > [I regret and resent having to share my atheism with twerps.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8089559&postcount=89) … but I hope that didn’t encourage you to jump to the defense of all SDMB atheists and buy off our common foe. Gad, maybe _ **I’M** _ responsible for this whole mess! ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/404 "2007-02-20T01:23:35Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] Gad, maybe _ **I’M** _ responsible for this whole mess! [/QUOTE] Actually, **Bryan** , all of us and this entire board are just figments of your imagination. You’ve created all of us out of whole cloth. Not only are you responsible for this whole mess, in a way, you ARE the whole mess… ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/405 "2007-02-20T01:26:31Z")
[QUOTE=Wilson] Actually, **Bryan** , all of us and this entire board are just figments of your imagination. You’ve created all of us out of whole cloth. Not only are you responsible for this whole mess, in a way, you ARE the whole mess… [/QUOTE] I’m not drunk enough to be convinced of that. Give me five minutes. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/406 "2007-02-20T01:28:00Z")
Wow, **Liberal** ended up seeing eye to eye with one of the mutual admirers from the tag-team. Maybe there is hope for world peace. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/407 "2007-02-20T01:32:35Z")
[QUOTE=CarnalK] Wow, **Liberal** ended up seeing eye to eye with one of the mutual admirers from the tag-team. Maybe there is hope for world peace. [/QUOTE] That’s a damn lie and you know it. _Nobody_ admires me! Well, not since NoClueBoy left. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/408 "2007-02-20T01:33:38Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] That’s a damn lie and you know it. _Nobody_ admires me! [/QUOTE] I’ll admire you for $500. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/409 "2007-02-20T01:36:47Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] I’ll admire you for $500. [/QUOTe] Canadian okay? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/410 "2007-02-20T01:38:17Z")
Take it, **Bryan**! Then when **Terrifel** comes along and wishes he’d got there first, we can all taunt him! ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/411 "2007-02-20T01:38:47Z")
Shit, I admire him just for living in Québec. Can we split the difference? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/412 "2007-02-20T01:41:16Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] Canadian okay? [/QUOTE] Canadians have money? Then why I am saving up all these beaver pelts for the move? ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/413 "2007-02-20T01:42:45Z")
Bryan… Bryan… Wake up, sweetie! Time to get dressed for school. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/414 "2007-02-20T01:49:04Z")
[QUOTE=Zoe] Bryan… Bryan… Wake up, sweetie! Time to get dressed for school. [/QUOTE] Darn, I was having this lovely dream where I’d hijacked a thread into talking about me. It was like I was Liberal or something. ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/415 "2007-02-20T01:49:57Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] Darn, I was having this lovely dream where I’d hijacked a thread into talking about me. It was like I was Liberal or something. [/QUOTE] Did someone say something? ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/416 "2007-02-20T01:51:09Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] Well, not since NoClueBoy left. [/QUOTE] Damn, that guy was funny! What happened to him? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/417 "2007-02-20T01:54:29Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] Damn, that guy was funny! What happened to him? [/QUOTE] [His last post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7846271&postcount=30) was a goodbye without fanfare or even much warning. I didn’t even realize he was gone until at least two months afterward. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/418 "2007-02-20T01:58:21Z")
[QUOTE=tomndebb] Finally, if you do not like the “single post link” feature and do not mind engaging in just a bit more work, you can modify the url that you captured with either of the preceding methods thusly: Beginning with the retrieved url using postcount Change **showpost.php** to **showthread.php** then replace **postcount=999** with the text **#post8276113** where the number 8276113 matches the number in the showthread (previously showpost) field. So [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/show\*\*post\*\*.php?p=8276113\*\*&postcount=379](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/show **post**.php?p=8276113**&postcount=379)\*\* (where only the single post is displayed) becomes [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/show\*\*thread\*\*.php?p=8276113\*\*#post8276113](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/show **thread**.php?p=8276113**#post8276113)\*\* (where the entire thread is displayed beginning at that selected post) [/QUOTE] Um, or you can just copy the post I.D. number into a post tag, like such:\this is the post by Stupid Doodiehead\replacing the angles with square brackets. This will send you to the thread with the post in question at the top of the browser window, like [post=8276113]this[/post]. And even in “View Single Post” mode, you can go back to the thread in question by clicking the title of the thread in the upper right hand corner, though this will send you to the head of the thread and you’ll have to search for the post you were just looking for, which in any normal thread is no big deal but in a monster charlie-fox like this one is a vertiable pain in the ass. At peril of encouraging posters to do all sorts of wacky flashing multiple font shit in future posts, [here is a list of vB code tags](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/misc.php?do=bbcode) that are activated for the SDMB. Just like they said in summer camp; know your weapon and keep it clean. I now return your to your regularly scheduled drama fest. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/419 "2007-02-20T02:01:12Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] [His last post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7846271&postcount=30) was a goodbye without fanfare or even much warning. [/QUOTE] I see “Last Activity: 02-09-2007 08:31 PM” in his profile. Perhaps there is hope **QuantumFoamboy** will devirtualize. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/420 "2007-02-20T02:07:48Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] Damn, that guy was funny! What happened to him? [/QUOTE] NoClueBoy is doing well - he hangs out at my board and other places too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723.md?page=20) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723.md?page=22)