# A verse for Collounsbury **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 31, 2003, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-for-collounsbury/192093 "2003-07-31T09:30:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SentientMeat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SentientMeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SentientMeat)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-for-collounsbury/192093/1 "2003-07-31T09:30:45Z")
\*The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it. \* ~ _The Rubaiyat of [possibly] Omar Kayyam_ Farewell, **Col**. Your insight, piety and wit will be missed. But you cannot take back what you wrote as a petulant, insulting jerk. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-for-collounsbury/192093/2 "2003-07-31T09:44:06Z")
Schadenfreude? _Lovely_. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-for-collounsbury/192093/3 "2003-07-31T10:33:37Z")
_He writes with such wit But he cannot overcome What an ass he is_ Haj ---
**Author:** ![SentientMeat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SentientMeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SentientMeat)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-for-collounsbury/192093/4 "2003-07-31T11:18:18Z")
Incidentally, O gracious Modministrators, might it be possible for **Col** ’s posting privileges to be limited _solely_ to the Pit? It is a shame to lose his valuable insight merely on account of his seemingly incurable Tourette syndrome. ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-for-collounsbury/192093/5 "2003-07-31T11:28:49Z")
We shall not see his bike again. ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-for-collounsbury/192093/6 "2003-07-31T11:34:00Z")
**Collounsbury** , you stupid fuck. ---
**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-for-collounsbury/192093/7 "2003-07-31T11:41:47Z")
It’s a shame. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-for-collounsbury/192093/8 "2003-07-31T11:46:41Z")
(To the tune of Candle in the Wind): \*Goodbye 'lounsbury, Though I hardly knew you at all, You had the nerve to swear at folks Who really knew fuck-all. They crawled out of the woodwork And talked shit on the S.D.M.B. They made you cuss and got you B.A.N.N.E.D. And it seems to me Your being kicked Is more sinned against than sinned, Irrascibility Is annoying, But you taught us things. But you should have learned from last time: GD’s rules are strict. The patience ran out long before Your knowledge ever did.\* ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-for-collounsbury/192093/9 "2003-07-31T11:46:54Z")
[Link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&postid=3777572#post3777572) ---
**Author:** ![Abe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f1d935/32.png) [@Abe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-for-collounsbury/192093/10 "2003-07-31T11:59:47Z")
I said my part over here where he got banned: [US & Arab Media: Losing Hearts and Minds High on the Hobby Horse](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=200718) Throwing him out for what happened is poor judgement and unintentionally hypocritical on at least two counts: fighting ignorance, which Collounsbury does better than anyone here on certain topics that need it quite badly; and by the sort of things tolerated from some other posters (in terms of insults but more importantly trolling/being a jerk/similar activities). ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-for-collounsbury/192093/11 "2003-07-31T12:00:28Z")
The pinheads win. I can hear the refrain already: **december** is so _polite_. **Collounsbury** was just _rude_! GD is the designated place for witnessing. When people witness for biblical literalism or creationism, they get stomped, and no-one bats an eyelid. But if they get stomped for witnessing for Israel or Bush or Ayn Rand, watch out. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-for-collounsbury/192093/12 "2003-07-31T12:11:44Z")
And here we go with yet another Collounsbury Pit Thread, where those who agree with his banning are accused of simply disagreeing with him. I can say that I don’t know of a single issue in which I disagreed with him, but his debating “style” was simply inappropriate for anything but the pit, and judged against the board rules by the mods. As much as I like to have an intelligent person on board who happens to agree with much if not all my views, personal insults in what should be a debate often detracts from the arguments being put forth. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-for-collounsbury/192093/13 "2003-07-31T12:33:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SentientMeat \* > you cannot take back what you wrote as a petulant, insulting jerk. Are you sure you don’t mean “_to_ a petulant, insulting jerk?” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-for-collounsbury/192093/14 "2003-07-31T12:34:10Z")
How do you say “Goddam shit piss fuck!” in Arabic? ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-for-collounsbury/192093/15 "2003-07-31T12:35:06Z")
Boy, it sure didn’t take long for the Collounsbury sycophants to come crawling out of the woodwork, did it? No matter how knowlegable Colls is/was, and while I admit he did seem to know a bit about the ME, we should remember that the boards biggest proponent of Collunsubry’s expertise was Collunsbury himself, he proved again and again and again that _he couldn’t follow the rules_. If your neighbor was polite, helpful, kept his home clean, never had loud parties, was in all respects a model neighbor except for the fact that every night when he got home from work he pissed on your rose bushes, you’d prolly do something about that, wouldn’t you? > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Weirddave (7/14/2003)_ > \*\*Collunsbury is an idiot, in spite of whatever knowledge he might posess. He’ll get banned again shortly, count on it. \*\* Seems I was dead on target. Anyone want stock tips? ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-for-collounsbury/192093/16 "2003-07-31T12:39:37Z")
From **you**? I think not. Coll seemed to be a smart man too much in love with his own smarts. And that made him express himself arrogantly and derisively. And that’s a bad combination. Far better instead to let the ignorant comments roll off you and continue to refute them reasonably than to become insulting or profane. ---
**Author:** ![SentientMeat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SentientMeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SentientMeat)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-for-collounsbury/192093/17 "2003-07-31T12:55:55Z")
> [@](#): > > Are you sure you don’t mean “to a petulant, insulting jerk?” No. His petulant and insulting posts were written _to_ witless, asinine ignoramuses. That these simpletons were so moronically fatuous was no excuse. A near incontinent lack of patience and positively adolescent inability to apply a modicum of self-control are the shibboleths of _being a jerk_. I believe our only hope now is to ask that he be granted **Pit** access only, or something. ---
**Author:** ![fruitbat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fruitbat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fruitbat)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-for-collounsbury/192093/18 "2003-07-31T13:18:09Z")
I am solidly on the fence about our latest banning. I am very hard to offend and have mastered the skill of not reading when someone is being an ass. I generally think this would be a poorer place if we banned those with whom we disagree. That being said **Coll** was making an ass of himself in the linked thread. **Alan Owes Bess** was absolutely accurate in what he called Coll on. When it comes to his opinion Coll’s chief defense is the ‘because I live there and I know’ defense. I am a bit curious as why he is regarded by some as smarter than everyone else here. As an American I may have to use that blistering retort on Eurodopers with an opinion on America. Throughout these threads there has been an assumption that Coll overstepped his bounds when dealing with ignorant posters. Implicit in this assumption is that Coll is always correct on the subject matter when he goes off, but he should learn to stamp out our ignorance in a more socially acceptable manner. More often I find he is rude when he simply disagrees with a perfectly reasonable poster who has a difference in opinion. In a way I am sorry to see him go and wish we were better able to let his insults roll of our backs. Having followed his threads for some time now though, I can understand why some people have had enough. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-for-collounsbury/192093/19 "2003-07-31T13:25:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by fruitbat \* > That being said **Coll** was making an ass of himself in the linked thread. **Alan Owes Bess** was absolutely accurate in what he called Coll on. Not IMHO. But since I no doubt fall into the highly suspect “sycophant” category, I’ll leave it at that. - Tamerlane ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-for-collounsbury/192093/20 "2003-07-31T13:27:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SentientMeat \* > \*\*I believe our only hope now is to ask that he be granted **Pit** access only, or something. \*\* Fat chance. I don’t think that the Admins are going to go out of their way to accomodate **Coll**. While I think that most of his targets richly deserved what they got from him, he definitely needed to tone it down in GD. Every time I saw him go off on someone up there, I winced because I knew it was one step closer to his being re-banned. The dumb fuck. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-for-collounsbury/192093.md?page=2)