# Ah, yes, rumor control central is alive and well **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 26, 2005, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-yes-rumor-control-central-is-alive-and-well/301250 "2005-04-26T21:36:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-yes-rumor-control-central-is-alive-and-well/301250/21 "2005-04-26T23:00:00Z")
> [@Lobsang\[sub](#): > > I am aware there is a correct spelling without an extra ‘u’. I am just kidding, pretending to be a pedantic brit.[/sub] Sorry mate, guess the whoosh (or whoush) is on me. 😃🙂 (I felt a little uncomfortable typing “mate” not being a Britt and all, just trying to meet you half way.) 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Tabby\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tabby\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabby_Cat)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-yes-rumor-control-central-is-alive-and-well/301250/22 "2005-04-26T23:08:26Z")
I would suggest that inappropriate "mate"ing is what cause this whole durn problem in the first place! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-yes-rumor-control-central-is-alive-and-well/301250/23 "2005-04-26T23:14:25Z")
> [@Tabby\_Cat](#): > > I would suggest that inappropriate "mate"ing is what cause this whole durn problem in the first place! 😃 You owe me a keyboard! I spit Pepsi all over mine. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-yes-rumor-control-central-is-alive-and-well/301250/24 "2005-04-27T00:38:24Z")
> [@Casey1505](#): > > I don’t think there’s a school in the land that permits blow jobs in the hallways. More’s the pity. I’ve been campaigning for years to make them not only permitted, but mandatory. ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-yes-rumor-control-central-is-alive-and-well/301250/25 "2005-04-27T00:58:03Z")
All it says is that “word got back” to teachers. It’s entirely possible that a teacher heard the culprits themselves talking about it. And I’d bet, unless it’s a huge school, most of the teachers are pretty well up on whose word they can trust or not. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-yes-rumor-control-central-is-alive-and-well/301250/26 "2005-04-27T01:47:30Z")
> [@Phatlewt](#): > > It’s a British thing, **Askeptic**. Let them have their extra letters. It’s a source of national pride or something. 😉 It’s a result of eating food prepared in aluminium cookware. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-yes-rumor-control-central-is-alive-and-well/301250/27 "2005-04-27T02:03:31Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > What about facing one’s accusers, and all those other civil liberties? I think that happens at the trial… But I think the OP’s blood pressure would not have increased so if the article were better written. How’d they find about it? My guess is that the boy\* told everyone with a pair of ears!!\* "I got her to give me a blowjob in the hall, dudes!!! ---
**Author:** ![Abbie\_Carmichael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@Abbie\_Carmichael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abbie_Carmichael)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-yes-rumor-control-central-is-alive-and-well/301250/28 "2005-04-27T02:04:59Z")
Is it possible that this “word” that got back to the teachers is more like a hidden security camera? ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-yes-rumor-control-central-is-alive-and-well/301250/29 "2005-04-27T02:13:52Z")
> [@spooje](#): > > But I think the OP’s blood pressure would not have increased so if the article were better written. 😃 I don’t think the \*Times Leader \* has ever been screwed out of a Pulitzer Prize, if you know what I mean. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-yes-rumor-control-central-is-alive-and-well/301250/30 "2005-04-27T03:52:04Z")
But whyyyyyy? Seriously I don’t think my blood pressure spiked on this. I’m annoyed by it, but instead of letting it spike my blood pressure, I pitted it. Would SDMB dues be deductable as mental health costs? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-yes-rumor-control-central-is-alive-and-well/301250.md?page=1)