# An Apostrophe to the Gum-Chewing Siren at My Left **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 29, 2005, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apostrophe-to-the-gum-chewing-siren-at-my-left/314725 "2005-07-29T12:43:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apostrophe-to-the-gum-chewing-siren-at-my-left/314725/21 "2005-07-29T15:15:34Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > I was a hair’s-breadth away from pouncing on her and thrashing her soundly for the slatternly fishwife she was, till she choked on her vile cud. I admire your restraint, but I feel that it is high time we stopped belitteling “fishwives” for such people perform a good and honest (if noisome) labour. Should we not remember without fishwives and their fishmonger husbands we should be without caviar, smoked salmon, lobster and many other of life’s little necessities. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apostrophe-to-the-gum-chewing-siren-at-my-left/314725/22 "2005-07-29T15:22:48Z")
> [@Go You Big Red Fire Engine](#): > > Wow, and I bet you HAVE NO annoying habits. Sorry…gum chewing grates on me like fingernails on a blackboard. It should be illegal. Especially for anyone over ten years old. ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apostrophe-to-the-gum-chewing-siren-at-my-left/314725/23 "2005-07-29T16:09:05Z")
> [@Bippy the Beardless](#): > > I admire your restraint, but I feel that it is high time we stopped belitteling “fishwives” for such people perform a good and honest (if noisome) labour. Should we not remember without fishwives and their fishmonger husbands we should be without caviar, smoked salmon, lobster and many other of life’s little necessities. Very well then, thou art a fishmonger. Of course you’d say something like that! ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apostrophe-to-the-gum-chewing-siren-at-my-left/314725/24 "2005-07-29T16:12:46Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > Am I the only one here who had to do a Google Image search to find out what Scarlett Johansson looks like? No. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apostrophe-to-the-gum-chewing-siren-at-my-left/314725/25 "2005-07-29T16:38:01Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > It’s times like these I long for a lorgnette to glare haughtily through, though no doubt so subtle a cut would be lost on a slovenly hussy such as herself. [hijack] Eve, if I had a time machine, one the things I truly cross-my-heart would do is offer to take you back for an evening to 1908; I could escort you to opening night of “The Devil” or somesuch. I can think of no one that would appreciate a chance to see - live - the people and places of that time as much as you. (And me!) [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apostrophe-to-the-gum-chewing-siren-at-my-left/314725/26 "2005-07-29T16:47:45Z")
[WillyWonka]Chewing gum is really gross/Chewing gum I hate the most[/WW] Robin ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apostrophe-to-the-gum-chewing-siren-at-my-left/314725/27 "2005-07-29T17:00:18Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > [hijack] > Eve, if I had a time machine, one the things I truly cross-my-heart would do is offer to take you back for an evening to 1908; I could escort you to opening night of “The Devil” or somesuch. Our luck, we’d see the George Arliss production, with_out_ a young Theda Bara in the cast! Let’s go see Anna Held in _Miss Innocence_ instead, and have a bottle and a bird at Rector’s afterward . . . ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apostrophe-to-the-gum-chewing-siren-at-my-left/314725/28 "2005-07-29T17:22:36Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Our luck, we’d see the George Arliss production, with_out_ a young Theda Bara in the cast! Let’s go see Anna Held in _Miss Innocence_ instead, and have a bottle and a bird at Rector’s afterward . . . As long as we get to Rector’s before _The Easiest Way_ scandal hits it, I’m in… ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apostrophe-to-the-gum-chewing-siren-at-my-left/314725/29 "2005-07-29T17:51:33Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > As long as we get to Rector’s before _The Easiest Way_ scandal hits it, I’m in… “I’m going to Rector’s to make a hit, and to hell with the rest!” [Silence. Cricket noises. Tumbleweed rolls through.] ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apostrophe-to-the-gum-chewing-siren-at-my-left/314725/30 "2005-07-29T17:55:33Z")
> [@Go You Big Red Fire Engine](#): > > Wow, and I bet you HAVE NO annoying habits. Just for my own curiosity, could you put this statement into context for me? I did a little poking around, and didn’t find you making similar statements in other threads, so I find myself a bit curious as to why you decided to take a swipe in this one. I do like to at least try to keep up on the goings on around here. So, what’s the deal? Did Eve kidnap your puppy? Are you a spokes model for cud chewers monthly, and take offence at the bad mouthing of your industry? Did you suffer a disfiguring accident attempting to chew gum and walk at the same time? Seriously. What’s the deal? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apostrophe-to-the-gum-chewing-siren-at-my-left/314725/31 "2005-07-29T17:56:13Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > Sorry…gum chewing grates on me like fingernails on a blackboard. It should be illegal. Especially for anyone over ten years old. I have no problem with people chewing gum, but only if it’s done in such a way that I have no idea they’re chewing gum except for a slight movement of the jaw. {Slight hijack} Have you ever seen someone chewing gum, then when they talk to you, the gum is sticking out so you can see it? Ewww.{/Slight hiijack} ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apostrophe-to-the-gum-chewing-siren-at-my-left/314725/32 "2005-07-29T17:58:28Z")
Is there like an “S” coming or something? ---
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apostrophe-to-the-gum-chewing-siren-at-my-left/314725/33 "2005-07-29T18:22:34Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > Sorry…gum chewing grates on me like fingernails on a blackboard. It should be illegal. Especially for anyone over ten years old. Well, if Kalhoun doesn’t like it, that settles it. I just spit mine out and won’t indulge again. Overreact much? ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apostrophe-to-the-gum-chewing-siren-at-my-left/314725/34 "2005-07-29T19:05:24Z")
> [@brownie55](#): > > Well, if Kalhoun doesn’t like it, that settles it. I just spit mine out and won’t indulge again. > > Overreact much? Brownies should be illegal as well. Because they’re a little slow on the uptake. ---
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apostrophe-to-the-gum-chewing-siren-at-my-left/314725/35 "2005-07-29T19:10:50Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > Brownies should be illegal as well. Because they’re a little slow on the uptake. Well, if I got whooshed, my bad. If not, then what are you saying? Me being slow and all. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apostrophe-to-the-gum-chewing-siren-at-my-left/314725/36 "2005-07-29T19:15:53Z")
> [@brownie55](#): > > Well, if I got whooshed, my bad. If not, then what are you saying? Me being slow and all. I was exaggerating, my friend. It was just a joke. I really don’t want gum-chewers to go to jail. But it really is annoying to watch or listen to. Just a personal pet peeve of mine. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apostrophe-to-the-gum-chewing-siren-at-my-left/314725/37 "2005-07-29T19:17:51Z")
How do you feel about co-workers crunching ice? ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apostrophe-to-the-gum-chewing-siren-at-my-left/314725/38 "2005-07-29T19:18:49Z")
Shit! I already wrote my congress critters demanding anti-mastication legislation. Your posts inspired me and made me feel like I was not alone in me views. Now I’ll just look like a loon. ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apostrophe-to-the-gum-chewing-siren-at-my-left/314725/39 "2005-07-29T19:20:45Z")
> [@jrfranchi](#): > > How do you feel about co-workers crunching ice? They should be hunted like wild animals for sport. They should be forced to endure crushed ice enemas. We should be allowed to cram railroad spikes in their eyes and then pee in the empty sockets. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apostrophe-to-the-gum-chewing-siren-at-my-left/314725/40 "2005-07-29T19:21:27Z")
Damn Skippy, if you were someone I knew, I could use my favorite overused quote. > [@Binarydrone](#): > > Shit! I already wrote my congress critters demanding anti-mastication legislation. Your posts inspired me and made me feel like I was not alone in me views. Now I’ll just look like a loon. "Why should today be any different from any other day. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apostrophe-to-the-gum-chewing-siren-at-my-left/314725.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apostrophe-to-the-gum-chewing-siren-at-my-left/314725.md?page=3)