# A Tashabot Pitting **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 8, 2007, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tashabot-pitting/403312 "2007-05-08T22:44:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tashabot-pitting/403312/21 "2007-05-09T01:38:08Z")
[QUOTE=athelas] Hear, hear. Maybe it’s just that I notice her more now, but I’m definitely increasingly annoyed by her content-free, kneejerk assumptions, from the Unknown Soldier thread to reflexive Blame-America-First posts. [/QUOTE] Com’on now. You’re just being mean, you jackel you. The Hall Monitors will report you now. ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tashabot-pitting/403312/22 "2007-05-09T01:39:09Z")
The most amusing thing about this spectacle is it’s entirely self-inflicted. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tashabot-pitting/403312/23 "2007-05-09T01:44:54Z")
[QUOTE=Jodi] Oh, please, allow me to add **Quiddity** who weighs in – with precious little information – to compare the U.S. to Soviet Russia as she piously thanks God to be posting from a “truly free” country like Canada. :rolleyes: She can kiss my semi-free ass. [/QUOTE] I’m glad someone else is getting fed up with her pointless holier than thou crap. I’m pretty bad at pitting so I haven’t brought it up before. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tashabot-pitting/403312/24 "2007-05-09T01:49:36Z")
Jeebus, it’s like she went to the Basil Fawlty school of journalism. It was uncomfortable to watch that unfold. Tashabot, just don’t mention the war. ---
**Author:** ![athelas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@athelas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/athelas)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tashabot-pitting/403312/25 "2007-05-09T02:13:29Z")
[QUOTE=TokyoPlayer] Com’on now. You’re just being mean, you jackel you. The Hall Monitors will report you now. [/QUOTE] WTF? The Dope has become just like the Soviet Union! I weep for the future of our board. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tashabot-pitting/403312/26 "2007-05-09T02:19:40Z")
[QUOTE=athelas] WTF? The Dope has become just like the Soviet Union! I weep for the future of our board. [/QUOTE] On Soviet Straight Dope, Opal says hi to you. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tashabot-pitting/403312/27 "2007-05-09T02:31:51Z")
[QUOTE=DiosaBellissima] On Soviet Straight Dope, Opal says hi to you. [/QUOTE] Yeah, and you have to make do with 1870s-Style Death Rays. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tashabot-pitting/403312/28 "2007-05-09T02:39:50Z")
[QUOTE=Duke of Rat] I offered to sponsor the Guest poster who dug up the blog entry, you can guess how I feel. [/QUOTE] Hey if you don’t pay for them I will. 🙂 I read that thread twice, and every time I tried to add 2+2 I got 437.6. Shit in that thread absolutely does not compute. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tashabot-pitting/403312/29 "2007-05-09T02:40:44Z")
Personally, I’m just relieved that Tashabot wasn’t criticizing George W. Bush in her LJ! A few posters are dangerously close to suffering a full mental breakdown over Bush’s presidency already. That story might have pushed them right over the edge. * * * [QUOTE=Happy Scrappy Hero Pup] It is sentences like this that sometimes make me think “pwned” will someday be in the OED. Because there is no other word that correctly conveys what happened to **tashabot**. [/QUOTE] Sadly, I still don’t know what word he was going for. Or does “pwned” actually mean something? (With all this text message shorthand, who knows?) ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Parker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@Richard\_Parker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Parker)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tashabot-pitting/403312/30 "2007-05-09T02:45:57Z")
[QUOTE=PunditLisa] Personally, I’m just relieved that Tashabot wasn’t criticizing George W. Bush in her LJ! A few posters are dangerously close to suffering a full mental breakdown over Bush’s presidency already. That story might have pushed them right over the edge. * * * Sadly, I still don’t know what word he was going for. Or does “pwned” actually mean something? (With all this text message shorthand, who knows?) [/QUOTE] [Pwned](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pwned) . ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tashabot-pitting/403312/31 "2007-05-09T02:46:00Z")
[QUOTE=PunditLisa] Sadly, I still don’t know what word he was going for. Or does “pwned” actually mean something? (With all this text message shorthand, who knows?) [/QUOTE] Yeah, it’s computer gamer-speak, an alternate spelling of “owned,” meaning “You were soundly defeated.” Legend has it that it started as a typo and became more popular than “owned.” ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tashabot-pitting/403312/32 "2007-05-09T02:47:30Z")
[QUOTE=monstro] Anyone who makes me think kindly of Homeland Security deserves a pitting. [/QUOTE] Well said. I concur. I never thought I would look indulgently at HS, but that thread has proven me wrong. Now I feel dirty–I pit **tashabot** for that alone. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tashabot-pitting/403312/33 "2007-05-09T02:49:14Z")
[QUOTE=PunditLisa] Sadly, I still don’t know what word he was going for. Or does “pwned” actually mean something? (With all this text message shorthand, who knows?) [/QUOTE] > **[Leet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn)** > > Leet (or "1337"), also known as eleet, leetspeak, or simply hacker speech, is a system of modified spellings used primarily on the Internet. It often uses character replacements in ways that play on the similarity of their glyphs via reflection or other resemblance. Additionally, it modifies certain words on the basis of a system of suffixes and alternative meanings. There are many dialects or linguistic varieties in different online communities. The term "leet" is derived from the word elite, us... Personally, I think most people mean “owned” when they use it. But, hey, I’m pretty old. What do I know. ---
**Author:** ![Roonwit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/54ee81/32.png) [@Roonwit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roonwit)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tashabot-pitting/403312/34 "2007-05-09T02:50:57Z")
[QUOTE=athelas] WTF? The Dope has become just like the Soviet Union! I weep for the future of our board. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=DiosaBellissima] On Soviet Straight Dope, Opal says hi to you. [/QUOTE] Oh shit, that was fabulous. You two just made my day. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tashabot-pitting/403312/35 "2007-05-09T02:57:40Z")
Thanks, \*\*Ferret, Richard and Sam \*\* for the lesson on “pwn.” You can put another hash mark in the “Ignorance Fought” column. ---
**Author:** ![tashabot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tashabot/32/6250_2.png) [@tashabot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tashabot)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tashabot-pitting/403312/36 "2007-05-09T03:09:37Z")
Yay, a pitting! Okay, carry on. ~Tasha ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tashabot-pitting/403312/37 "2007-05-09T03:10:02Z")
[QUOTE=NurseCarmen] Jeebus, it’s like she went to the Basil Fawlty school of journalism. It was uncomfortable to watch that unfold. Tashabot, just don’t mention the war. [/QUOTE] She mentioned it once, but she thinks she got away with it. ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tashabot-pitting/403312/38 "2007-05-09T03:15:57Z")
[QUOTE=tashabot] Anyway, it honestly wasn’t that journal. Ya’ll can believe me or not. [/QUOTE] Definitely the mark of a budding young journalist. Spoken as a budding young journalist myself. In sarcasm, of course. Although the “letting criticism roll off your back” thing seems to have gotten through…usually only applies to _unwarranted_ criticism though. ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tashabot-pitting/403312/39 "2007-05-09T03:25:23Z")
[QUOTE=TokyoPlayer] Com’on now. You’re just being mean, you jackel you. The Hall Monitors will report you now. [/QUOTE] I thought QG WAS the hall monitor… ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tashabot-pitting/403312/40 "2007-05-09T03:27:09Z")
[QUOTE=tashabot] Yay, a pitting! Okay, carry on. ~Tasha [/QUOTE] A story. When I was perhaps 15 or so, in the 1950’s, I babysat some local kids. One of whom was 5-6. The kids decided to play hide-n-seek. In the house. I vividly remember the 5-6 yr-old hiding **IN PLAIN SIGHT** in the hallway, with his hands over his eyes. He thought we couldn’t see him if he couldn’t see us. That is all. Carry on. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tashabot-pitting/403312.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tashabot-pitting/403312.md?page=3)