# Anomaly in BBQ Pit forum description?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anomaly-in-bbq-pit-forum-description/254283>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [July 9, 2004, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anomaly-in-bbq-pit-forum-description/254283 "2004-07-09T14:33:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**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:** [July 19, 2004, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anomaly-in-bbq-pit-forum-description/254283/21 "2004-07-19T13:23:49Z")

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> [@Duke](#):
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> Two points: number one, we don’t have any phasers, and number two, _we don’t have any phasers_.

But we do have 1920’s style death rays.

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**Author:** ![ZombiesAteMyBrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b4bc9f/32.png) [@ZombiesAteMyBrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZombiesAteMyBrain)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anomaly-in-bbq-pit-forum-description/254283/22 "2004-07-19T16:07:44Z")

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> [@Go You Big Red Fire Engine](#):
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> But we do have 1920’s style death rays.

Perhaps, but 1/ are there any members who were alive in the 1920s and know how to operate these things, and 2/ are they not all rusted up from being stored in someone’s outhouse for 80 years or more? Would a death ray that antique still guarantee death … you’d be better selling them on e-bay?

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anomaly-in-bbq-pit-forum-description/254283/23 "2004-07-20T02:29:25Z")

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> [@Shrinking Violet](#):
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> So why not change the forum description to mean just that? “Other discussion” does _not_ imply complaints. 😕

But it’s not just complaints. Sometimes people tend to use more, um, colorful language. That would also be more appropriate for the Pit than ATMB., where we prefer you be less exercised.

your humble TubaDiva  
Administrator

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