# A serious question for Sam Stone on Factual Errors **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 11, 2021, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881 "2021-12-11T12:32:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 109
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2024, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/2161 "2024-02-23T16:36:26Z")
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**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2024, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/2162 "2024-02-23T16:40:51Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢾⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ > ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣼⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ > ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠻⣷⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⡿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ > ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⣶⡀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠿⠇⠀⠀⢀⣼⠟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ > ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⠷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ > ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⡴⠞⢻⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣤⠶⠒⠲⣦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ > ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⡴⠖⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⣷⣀⣤⠶⠛⣉⣀⡀⠀⠀⣸⣤⠤⢤⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ > ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⡴⠞⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣤⡾⠛⠉⠻⣦⡞⠉⠈⠙⡶⠞⠋⠀⠀⠀⢹⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ > ⠀⠀⠀⢠⡴⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣤⠶⠛⠉⣼⠃⠀⠀⢀⡿⠀⠀⠀⢰⣇⣀⡀⠀⣀⣴⠟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ > ⠀⠀⣴⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⠉⠀⠀⠀⣼⠃⠀⠀⢀⡾⠁⠀⠀⢰⠏⠁⠀⢹⡏⠉⠙⢷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ > ⠀⣼⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⠟⠛⢦⣄⣼⠃⠀⠀⢀⡞⠁⠀⠀⣠⠏⠀⠀⠀⣼⠃⠀⣀⡼⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ > ⢠⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⠏⠀⠀⠀⣿⠃⠀⠀⢀⡞⠀⠀⠀⢠⠏⠀⠀⠀⣼⣧⣴⠛⠉⠀⠀⢀⣀⣠⣤⣶⡦ > ⢸⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⠟⠀⠀⠀⣼⠃⠀⠀⢀⡾⠀⠀⠀⢠⠏⠀⠀⠀⣼⠋⠀⠈⢻⡀⠸⠟⠛⠛⠉⠁⠀⠀ > ⠸⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⠟⠀⠀⠀⣼⠃⠀⠀⢀⡾⠁⠀⠀⢠⡟⠀⠀⠀⣰⠃⠀⠀⢀⡾⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ > ⠀⢻⡄⠀⠀⢠⠏⠀⠀⠀⣼⠃⠀⠀⠀⠈⠁⠀⠀⢠⡟⠀⠀⠀⣰⠏⠀⠀⠀⡾⠁⢠⣤⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ > ⠀⠈⢳⣄⢠⡏⠀⠀⠀⠘⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠀⠀⠀⣰⠏⠀⠀⢀⡾⠁⠀⠀⠉⠛⠿⣶⣤⣀⡀⠀ > ⠀⠀⠀⠙⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠼⠏⠁⠀⢀⡾⢿⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠙⠛⠀ > ⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡼⠁⠈⢿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ > ⠀⠀⠀⠀⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡼⠁⠀⠀⠈⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ > ⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ > ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡾⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ > ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⢷⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⠟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ > ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠓⠦⣤⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣠⠤⠞⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ > ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ > >   Reported for foreign language… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2024, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/2163 "2024-02-23T16:46:11Z")
Nicely done! ---
**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:** [February 23, 2024, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/2164 "2024-02-23T17:08:12Z")
> [@Tom Cruise, fuck you!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-cruise-fuck-you/223882/11): > > BTW, no more large pieces of ASCII art, either. 😉   ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2024, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/2165 "2024-02-23T17:39:52Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > If using phone, please turn on side, in landscape mode. I spend a solid minute turning my phone in every direction, tilting my head like a confused Labrador, before I realized I also had to hit the “rotate screen” button. 🧐 ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2024, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/2166 "2024-02-23T17:47:13Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > Reported for foreign language… I think it’s braille, I don’t think that counts as foreign does it? For that matter it wouldn’t count as a language either. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2024, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/2167 "2024-02-23T17:51:51Z")
It’s not actually Braille, which uses a six-dot base “⠿”. This encoding is using an eight-dot base “⣿”. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2024, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/2168 "2024-02-23T17:53:54Z")
Maybe it’s octopus braille? One dot for each tentacle. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2024, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/2169 "2024-02-23T17:56:19Z")
How many tentacles does Cthulhu have? (Interesting, my Chrome browser has “Cthulhu” in its spell checker. The conspiracy of the Old Ones runs deep.) ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2024, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/2170 "2024-02-23T18:01:08Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > How many tentacles does Cthulhu have? Sadly I could not finish counting before falling into a catatonic state where I began chanting in Akkadian and drawing non-Euclidian geometric figures on the walls with my eyes rolled back in my head. It caused me to miss a dinner reservation. I’m not doing that again! ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2024, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/2171 "2024-02-23T18:03:20Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I think it’s braille It doesn’t feel like braille. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2024, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/2172 "2024-02-23T18:03:54Z")
Well-played. I’m curious what the right hand has to say though. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2024, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/2173 "2024-02-23T18:35:27Z")
I overheard you guys talking in braille in this teleconference since I’m in earshot. Because you all can clearly see me perk right up, can we act like we’re old friends? ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2024, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/2174 "2024-02-23T22:09:50Z")
This reminds me of the calendars our Explorer Post used to make and print out on blue bar paper as a fundraiser back in the late 80s. It was a lot of fun coming up with images to create for each month. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2024, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/2175 "2024-02-23T22:29:48Z")
Oh, well, fun time is over guys and girls… [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51406554821_725bf3242b_w.jpg "Sam") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/68782016@N08/51406554821/) ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2024, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/2176 "2024-02-23T22:34:07Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I was living in the same province at the same time, conversant with the same systems and NOBODY called this “teleconferencing”. You are misremembering, or possibly just making shit up to defend a bunch of bullshit that is threatening to collapse under its own weight. You are wrong, and should stop digging. > [@](#): > > Because it was one of the few multi-line bulletin board systems, **MBBS software was known for fostering online communities and an interactive online experience where users were able to interact with each other via Teleconference** ([chat rooms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chat_room)) and multiplayer games. This flexibility spawned a small industry of Independent Software Vendors (ISV) who began developing MBBS add-ons, which ranged from shopping malls (what would now be called [shopping cart software](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_cart_software)) to [online role playing games](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_role_playing_game). > **[The Major BBS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Major_BBS)** > > The Major BBS (sometimes MajorBBS or MBBS) was bulletin board software (a bulletin board system server) developed between 1986 and 1999 by Galacticomm. In 1995 it was renamed Worldgroup Server and bundled with a user client interface program named Worldgroup Manager for Microsoft Windows. Originally DOS-based, two of the versions were also available as a Unix-based edition, and the last versions were also available for Windows NT-based servers. > The Major BBS was developed by Tim Stryker and la... Just checking the rules… Am I supposed to call you a liar now and demand an apology? Or just an idiot making claims about something he knows fuck-all about? Go ahead, keep digging for more ‘lies and errors’ about something that was actually my first career. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2024, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/2177 "2024-02-23T22:44:29Z")
Was definitely worth the wait, and I’m completely convinced. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2024, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/2178 "2024-02-23T22:46:52Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > Agreed, and that’s a good way to frame it—props for his storytelling. “I told those jokers to back off, and they knew I meant business. Naturally my soon-to-be wife fell in love. Ain’t no thang, just how I roll.” Actually, I told them they were being shitheads, and they stopped. No threats of violence implied. And my wife says that actually the first time she decided I was ‘the guy’ was when I took her flying for the first time. I’m lucky, and married up. My wife is awesome. So is my kid, who just got his first ‘real’ job as a legal writer this week. He’d been doing gig work classifying stuff for AI until now. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2024, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/2179 "2024-02-23T22:52:01Z")
I’m lucky, my high school senior daughter’s work on the First Robotics team has been seized by the NSA and she’s been moved to an undisclosed location to work on the next generation of autonomous drones. She’s going to have to defer her admission to MIT for a few years, but I think it’s worth it. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2024, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/2180 "2024-02-23T22:57:11Z")
You’re welcome. (My kid is president of the NSA and was responsible for choosing your daughter.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881.md?page=108) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881.md?page=110)