# 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:** 24
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/461 "2007-02-20T17:23:44Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] The limericks have started a bidding war. And surely there’s not a more fitting war. For it’s surely a waste Of our fragile good taste Though it does get some users submitting more. [/QUOTE] And there, you see, **Malacandra**? My weakness has encouraged other poetic terrorists, and now the stock has been watered. I can write worse poetry than I have so far. I won’t for $75 and a Don Beebe jersey. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/462 "2007-02-20T17:23:50Z")
[QUOTE=clayton\_e] Off topic, but I’m still grumbling about pages 2-4 of [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=408348) thread. :mad: [/QUOTE] Oh, this is from earlier in the thread, but I forgot to mention.. I skimmed over the **first post of page 5** at the time I wrote the quoted post. ---
**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, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/463 "2007-02-20T17:34:13Z")
Bryan, when you have to rhyme “war” with “war” in a limerick, it really is time to give it up. Isn’t it? ---
**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, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/464 "2007-02-20T17:35:17Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] Could you express that in limerick form? [/QUOTE] Gaudere found morality in bars. Spiritus found Aquinas’s scars. Finch’s evolution Was Voyager’s solution, And Sentient wrote all about stars. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/465 "2007-02-20T17:40:36Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] Gaudere found morality in bars. Spiritus found Aquinas’s scars. Finch’s evolution Was Voyager’s solution, And Sentient wrote all about stars. [/QUOTE] For $40, I won’t shit in your next thread. ---
**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, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/466 "2007-02-20T17:41:07Z")
[QUOTE=CarnalK] Bryan, when you have to rhyme “war” with “war” in a limerick, it really is time to give it up. Isn’t it? [/QUOTE] Well, actually, I was rhyming “bidding” and “fitting” (and “submitting”). As I understand it, this is acceptable as the stress in those lines is not on the last word but second-to-last. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/467 "2007-02-20T17:45:47Z")
[QUOTE=Arnold Winkelried] I am sure that I could convince some frat boy college student to eat a bag of cockroaches for $500, but I don’t see how either of us comes out any better than the other at the completion of that transaction. [/QUOTE] If we’re talking about live African Hissing Cockroaches, you could sell tickets to the event and make a handsome return on your investment. ---
**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, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/468 "2007-02-20T18:13:33Z")
[QUOTE=saoirse] For $40, I won’t shit in your next thread. [/QUOTE] Sorry, you have to make it believable. ---
**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, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/469 "2007-02-20T18:14:40Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] Well, actually, I was rhyming “bidding” and “fitting” (and “submitting”). [/QUOTE] But “bidding” and “fitting” don’t rhyme for the Briddish. 😉 ---
**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, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/470 "2007-02-20T18:30:57Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] But “bidding” and “fitting” don’t rhyme for the Briddish. 😉 [/QUOTE] That’s the least of my poetic sins. I once rhymed “isosceles” with “colostomies.” ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/471 "2007-02-20T18:37:14Z")
[QUOTE=Una Persson] …which makes this bit of drama one of the top 3 worst melodramatic events on this Board in the 7 years I’ve been here. [/QUOTE] Now, wait just one cotton-pickin’ second here! Please tell me you posted that without really giving it any thought because otherwise I have to believe that you are losing your memory. I can think of times when both **Liberal** and **PRR** were more melodramatic, not to mention some of the OTHER spectacular burnouts we’ve witnessed. :eek: As for the willingness to take the money, there have been times when I needed the money more than I needed to post here but now that I am a member of the SDSAB\* it’s worth the money just to pretend I’m in the same class as Cecil. And it’s cheaper than self-publishing. - - Honest, **Dex** , the lady I spoke to on Friday just has to get back to me about something and I’ll have the article done for you. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/472 "2007-02-20T18:57:41Z")
This thread is becoming a joke so let’s all go out for a smoke when we come back the flames all will stack until the poor hampsters die of exhaustion ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/473 "2007-02-20T19:03:01Z")
[QUOTE=saoirse] And there, you see, **Malacandra**? My weakness has encouraged other poetic terrorists, and now the stock has been watered. I can write worse poetry than I have so far. I won’t for $75 and a Don Beebe jersey. [/QUOTE] So you say. But I’ve yet to see any actual evidence of greenbacks changing hands, jowhamsayin? ---
**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, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/474 "2007-02-20T19:08:24Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] Well, actually, I was rhyming “bidding” and “fitting” (and “submitting”). As I understand it, this is acceptable as the stress in those lines is not on the last word but second-to-last. [/QUOTE] I guess I’ve seen that before. As someone who generally detests amateur limerick contests, I’ll take your word for it. I was going to point out that you should all have had the class to let it end on a high note with [xenophon41’s](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8272934&postcount=406) but I see now that was in the other Lib/prr thread that you guys also drenched in limericks. ---
**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, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/475 "2007-02-20T19:09:53Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.] > [@](#): > > Originally Posted by **Arnold Winkelried** > I am sure that I could convince some frat boy college student to eat a bag of cockroaches for $500, but I don’t see how either of us comes out any better than the other at the completion of that transaction. I think the frat boy would disagree with you. $500 buys a lot of beer and pizza. 😉 [/QUOTE] Yabbut, if $400 worth of beer and pizza doesn’t get rid of the taste of cockroaches, I don’t see how $500 worth will… ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/476 "2007-02-20T19:11:34Z")
[QUOTE=CarnalK] I guess I’ve seen that before. As someone who generally detests amateur limerick contests, … [/QUOTE] What, you think it’s best left to the pros? ☹ ---
**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:** [February 20, 2007, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/477 "2007-02-20T19:18:07Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Nah, I think the drama is done. It looks like it is time for a limerick or three. 😉 [/QUOTE] Hey guys, that was meant to be a joke. I wasn’t expecting an amateur limerick contest to break out. Jim ---
**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, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/478 "2007-02-20T19:18:36Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] What, you think it’s best left to the pros? ☹ [/QUOTE] Yes, but better yet only left to professional Irish poets. Preferably long dead professional Irish poets. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/479 "2007-02-20T19:19:55Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Hey guys, that was meant to be a joke. I wasn’t expecting an amateur limerick contest to break out. Jim [/QUOTE] I won’t shit in this thread for $40. ---
**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, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723/480 "2007-02-20T19:30:34Z")
[QUOTE=Arnold Winkelried] Concerning the idea that the Poster A, after convincing Poster B to perform an act by waving the Almighty Dollar in their face, seems to think that they have shown any superiority over Poster B: I tend to disagree with the conclusion. I am sure that I could convince some frat boy college student to eat a bag of cockroaches for $500, but I don’t see how either of us comes out any better than the other at the completion of that transaction. [/QUOTE] Particularly the roaches. Won’t anyone think of the roaches? Stranger [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723.md?page=23) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-liberal-and-the-mods-that-let-it-happen/392723.md?page=25)