# Ah, milroyj, we barely knew ye. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 13, 2005, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-milroyj-we-barely-knew-ye/303660 "2005-05-13T11:28:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2005, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-milroyj-we-barely-knew-ye/303660/121 "2005-05-13T19:16:04Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#): > > I appreciate the answer–I was starting to wonder. Idle curiosity. > > Daniel You should be shot for that alone. 😃 (Can I be Eric Idle, though? Please please please?) ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2005, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-milroyj-we-barely-knew-ye/303660/122 "2005-05-13T19:16:28Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > Don’t call it bullshit if you don’t know the situation. Well, since then I have read some more of his stuff. I guess I probably just ignored him in the past since he was so ‘out there’. You’re right, the links themselves don’t do the banning just cause, it is the entirety of his behavior on these boards that got him in trouble. I retract the bullshit comment, but I wouldn’t have banned him myself. Yet. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2005, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-milroyj-we-barely-knew-ye/303660/123 "2005-05-13T19:18:04Z")
But it is mho that if he had added **anything at all** to the board but his vitriol towards anything the least bit liberal they might have let some of the warnings slide. But he added nothing else. It couldn’t have happened to a more deserving fellow. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2005, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-milroyj-we-barely-knew-ye/303660/124 "2005-05-13T19:18:48Z")
> [@Binarydrone](#): > > I am fascinated by this claim. Please tell us more. Oh please no-this thread will be hijacked to the moon. **Lib** , if you must, please start a new thread. ---
**Author:** ![groupwbench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6a8cbe/32.png) [@groupwbench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/groupwbench)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2005, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-milroyj-we-barely-knew-ye/303660/125 "2005-05-13T19:26:07Z")
> [@Cagey Drifter](#): > > My point is that you don’t have to be a total dick to air your frustrations and anger. Okay much better and waaaay different then this /gag reflex > [@Cagey Drifter](#): > > You can still flame another poster without being mean-spirited. Why can’t we have good discussion and still go home as friends at the end of the day? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2005, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-milroyj-we-barely-knew-ye/303660/126 "2005-05-13T19:27:48Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > I had promised Wring that I would never again respond to Excalibre. I did so because Wring had made having his respect contingent upon it. I thought that was only in that one thread. Which has now degenerated into petty bickering about who owes who an apology. I wish I had half my class. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2005, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-milroyj-we-barely-knew-ye/303660/127 "2005-05-13T19:30:32Z")
> [@Uncommon Sense](#): > > Well, since then I have read some more of his stuff. I guess I probably just ignored him in the past since he was so ‘out there’. You’re right, the links themselves don’t do the banning just cause, it is the entirety of his behavior on these boards that got him in trouble. I retract the bullshit comment, but I wouldn’t have banned him myself. Yet. It’s tough with someone like milroyj, who makes a habit out of being a complete asshole, but skates carefully and avoids ever explicitly breaking the rules. I mean, half the bannings are precipitated by some sort of meltdown. But milroyj was a sort of low-key asshole, who seemed to only live for the purpose of quietly being a dick. I suppose it’s not a secret anymore that I wasn’t fond of the guy. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2005, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-milroyj-we-barely-knew-ye/303660/128 "2005-05-13T19:33:34Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > I wish I had half your class. Thanks for explaining that. I had promised Wring that I would never again respond to Excalibre. I did so because Wring had made having his respect contingent upon it. What’s this-did **wring** have sex-reassignment surgery and not tell us? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2005, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-milroyj-we-barely-knew-ye/303660/129 "2005-05-13T20:03:36Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Oh please no-this thread will be hijacked to the moon. **Lib** , if you must, please start a new thread. I don’t know why you’re concerned at this point. My response on that was long ago. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2005, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-milroyj-we-barely-knew-ye/303660/130 "2005-05-13T20:04:48Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#): > > I thought that was only in that one thread. Which has now degenerated into petty bickering about who owes who an apology. > > I wish I had half my class. Maybe you’re right. If Wring drops by, perhaps he can clear that up. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2005, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-milroyj-we-barely-knew-ye/303660/131 "2005-05-13T20:06:23Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > What’s this-did **wring** have sex-reassignment surgery and not tell us? 😉 It must be a curse. I don’t know whether I’ve ever guessed someone’s sex correctly. I recall that when I first got here, I thought Gaudere was a man, and that DavidB was his SO. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2005, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-milroyj-we-barely-knew-ye/303660/132 "2005-05-13T20:08:42Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > It must be a curse. I don’t know whether I’ve ever guessed someone’s sex correctly. I recall that when I first got here, I thought Gaudere was a man, and that DavidB was his SO. Ha! That’s okay, people have thought I was male on occasion, even though I think my name is fairly feminine. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2005, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-milroyj-we-barely-knew-ye/303660/133 "2005-05-13T20:43:58Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Ha! That’s okay, people have thought I was male on occasion, even though I think my name is fairly feminine. [hijack] Is your user ID a combo of Guinevere and Anastasia? I’ve always perceived it that way. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2005, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-milroyj-we-barely-knew-ye/303660/134 "2005-05-13T21:32:29Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > You didn’t link to a THK thread, you linked to a Laura Bush thread in which I made a snarky comment about Laura Bush. > > Maybe you accidentally posted the wrong link? I must have. [This](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=237732&highlight=Laura) is the link, and it’s not Kerry. My bad. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2005, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-milroyj-we-barely-knew-ye/303660/135 "2005-05-13T21:51:19Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > It must be a curse. I don’t know whether I’ve ever guessed someone’s sex correctly. I recall that when I first got here, I thought Gaudere was a man, and that DavidB was his SO. 😉 no worries - I noted in the other thread the gender reassignment, but thought it was a typo, I see that the impression has been corrected here. no comment on the OP. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2005, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-milroyj-we-barely-knew-ye/303660/136 "2005-05-13T22:03:59Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > Maybe you’re right. If Wring drops by, perhaps he can clear that up. forgot to answer this - I only intended my plea for the referenced thread. I don’t read/post so much anymore and am unaware of other altercations the two of you may have had. My only point in that one was that the two of you seemed to be having a tete-a-tete of sorts where only the two of you were responding on that sidebar, and seemed to be talking past each other way past the point where anything productive could occur. Sometimes, it seems to me, that folks can get so embroiled over an issue so that minutia seems monumental. At those times, I think backing away and simply stopping is the smartest thing to do. But I promise, I’ll only wield my power for the good. really. ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2005, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-milroyj-we-barely-knew-ye/303660/137 "2005-05-13T22:18:53Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > Well, it was, but only coincidentally — much in the same way that the Crusades were a Christian movement. And that’s really the point that I was making… So, just so that I am clear, when you make the statement that > [@](#): > > …Far more people have been murdered by atheists than by Christians, as you must know… You do not mean that, factually, in the last 2000 plus years that people that ate Athiests have killed more people than people that are christians. You have some other secret meaning? Because, to be honest, it would surprise me to no end to discover that just one more person had been murdered in the last 2000 years by Athiests than by christians, let alone “far more”. ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2005, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-milroyj-we-barely-knew-ye/303660/138 "2005-05-13T22:20:07Z")
> [@Binarydrone](#): > > …You do not mean that, factually, in the last 2000 plus years that people that **ate** Athiests have killed more people than people that are christians… ate=are. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2005, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-milroyj-we-barely-knew-ye/303660/139 "2005-05-13T22:35:36Z")
> [@Binarydrone](#): > > ate=are. Sigh. Hey, it made a weird sort of sense with “ate.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2005, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-milroyj-we-barely-knew-ye/303660/140 "2005-05-13T22:39:07Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Warned for being “unncessarily nasty **in the Pit** ”? Yowza. I dodge bullets and don’t even know it. Time to shape up, methinks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-milroyj-we-barely-knew-ye/303660.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-milroyj-we-barely-knew-ye/303660.md?page=8)