# And Giraffe is being obtuse too. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 16, 2005, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489 "2005-06-16T04:12:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![uglybeech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/82dd89/32.png) [@uglybeech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uglybeech)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/1 "2005-06-16T04:12:04Z")
When closing [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=321368) > [@Giraffe](#): > > Mod note: > > OK, we don’t need three separate threads about word misuse in the Pit. I recommend adding these complaints to this thread or this one. Well, not obtuse, but anal. I wish mods would be more laid back. Be thoroughly intolerant of rudeness please. But this type of pointless pickiness just frustrates. Now I can’t reply to the replies in the thread. And really, it seems to me that you’re complaining that I didn’t continue to hijack (admittedly already fully hijacked) threads. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/2 "2005-06-16T04:20:25Z")
Since he was not actually being obtuse (or even acute), was he being anal-retentive or anal-expulsive? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/3 "2005-06-16T04:23:52Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Since he was not actually being obtuse (or even acute), was he being anal-retentive or anal-expulsive? You wordsmiths need to get over yourselves. He was just being _twee_. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/4 "2005-06-16T04:26:29Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Since he was not actually being obtuse (or even acute), was he being anal-retentive or anal-expulsive? Giraffes, like most ruminants, are notoriously anal-expulsive. ---
**Author:** ![uglybeech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/82dd89/32.png) [@uglybeech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uglybeech)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/5 "2005-06-16T04:31:20Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Since he was not actually being obtuse (or even acute), was he being anal-retentive or anal-expulsive? Ah, tomndeb, I can see you’re trying to play your wily mod-mind-games on me. But I’m not falling into the trap of responding to your lexical nitpickery, if for no other reason than that Giraffe is liable to close the thread. And I’m hopeful that I can keep at least one open tonight. ---
**Author:** ![uglybeech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/82dd89/32.png) [@uglybeech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uglybeech)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/6 "2005-06-16T04:34:29Z")
> [@John Carter of Mars](#): > > You wordsmiths need to get over yourselves. He was just being _twee_. Actually the word you’re looking for is “word maven” not “wordsmith.” Oh DAMMIT I did it again :smack: ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/7 "2005-06-16T04:51:24Z")
> [@uglybeech](#): > > Actually the **word** you’re looking for is “word maven” not “wordsmith.” Strong on language but a little deficient in math? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/8 "2005-06-16T05:01:47Z")
> [@John Carter of Mars](#): > > You wordsmiths need to get over yourselves. He was just being _twee_. Oh God, could we not start that crap again? ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/9 "2005-06-16T05:31:38Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Giraffes, like most ruminants, are notoriously anal-expulsive. _:: whistles innocently ::_ **uglybeech** , perhaps I’m just crabby because my first Pitting _ever_ sucks so bad, but I’m thoroughly unmoved by your plight. Your thread was redundant, not to mention rather unPitworthy in its own right, so I closed it. Big frickin’ whoop. I’d hate to see how devastated you are when something really bad happens, like not being able to find your keys for a few minutes or putting too much sugar in your coffee. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/10 "2005-06-16T05:49:46Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > I’d hate to see how devastated you are when something really bad happens, like not being able to find your keys for a few minutes or putting too much sugar in your coffee. 😛 Too… MUCH sugar in coffee? Quaa? And yes, this is an incredibly lame-ass pitting. ---
**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:** [June 16, 2005, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/11 "2005-06-16T05:50:19Z")
Hey, he might measure up to Pit standards if he can’t find the sugar and puts the car keys in his coffee. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/12 "2005-06-16T06:20:28Z")
I couldn’t understand why the thread was closed. I would have expected it to have been moved to Mundane and Pointless. You and **Giraffe** don’t have a history, do you? Didn’t nibble on one of your branches and find it not his taste, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Go\_You\_Big\_Red\_Fire\_Engine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/eada6e/32.png) [@Go\_You\_Big\_Red\_Fire\_Engine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_You_Big_Red_Fire_Engine)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/13 "2005-06-16T08:39:53Z")
Maybe next time you’ll remember to not put your Mundane Pointless Shit in the pit then won’t you? Oh wait, you haven’t. This pit thread’s just as lame. “Oh no Giraffe closed my thread. Where have all the care bear pit mods gone?” ---
**Author:** ![Caught\_Work](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Caught\_Work](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caught_Work)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/14 "2005-06-16T09:16:12Z")
Complaints about the mods belong here, whether it be traditionally pit-worthy or not. The rules were followed this time. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/15 "2005-06-16T09:47:24Z")
I think Giraffe did the right thing. When I say right, I mean wrong. But when I say wrong, I mean right. Frankly, the whole thing could be consolidated a lot more. Or a lot less, depending on what I mean. For example: The thread about smacking little girls and the thread about taking boys out of oil could be combined into the thread about testing hazardous chemicals on people. Girls and boys are people. Smack and oil are chemicals. In fact, since people are animals, both threads about pigeons could go in the same thread. The seven Michael Jackson threads also, since Michael Jackson needs smacking. I guess really the only thread that wouldn’t fit is the To Pit or Not to Pit thread. But it should be moved to Cafe Society anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Go\_You\_Big\_Red\_Fire\_Engine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/eada6e/32.png) [@Go\_You\_Big\_Red\_Fire\_Engine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_You_Big_Red_Fire_Engine)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/16 "2005-06-16T09:51:48Z")
> [@Caught@Work](#): > > Complaints about the mods belong here, whether it be traditionally pit-worthy or not. > The rules were followed this time. True enough, but I still wouldn’t call it pit-worthy. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/17 "2005-06-16T10:06:42Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > The thread about smacking little girls and the thread about taking boys out of oil Which threads are those? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/18 "2005-06-16T10:13:10Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > Which threads are those? _Where I Pit myself for smacking my beautiful little girl_, and You \*can take the boy oout of the Oil-patch… \* (I use Ctrl-F when these things stump me.) ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/19 "2005-06-16T10:31:47Z")
Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/20 "2005-06-16T10:35:27Z")
Here to please. 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489.md?page=2)