# Argent Towers, a moment of your time. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 16, 2010, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227 "2010-02-16T18:23:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 21
**Author:** ![tacoloco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tacoloco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tacoloco)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227/401 "2010-02-17T20:17:30Z")
> [@Myrnalene](#): > > You did nothing as a member of board staff to discourage him, you have done nothing in this thread except argue that hey not all writing is pornography (an asinine and worthless tangent since this book _is_) and give excuses for dropping the ball in the other thread. If only there were a forum where moderators could be question on their actions or non actions. Oh why don’t we have a forum like that? ---
**Author:** ![Myrnalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Myrnalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrnalene)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227/402 "2010-02-17T20:33:04Z")
> [@tacoloco](#): > > If only there were a forum where moderators could be question on their actions or non actions. Oh why don’t we have a forum like that? Yeah, I’m not playing their reindeer games. For 9 years the mods had the stones to take their lumps in the Pit. It’s fucking moronic to split up a natural and organic conversation and move half of it to another forum because I might step over yet another nonsensical rule. Anyway, these are all tangents and I don’t care to discuss them anymore. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227/403 "2010-02-17T20:54:32Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > Personally all this bruhaha (is that how you spell it?) has gotten me interested in this book. I may go pick it up at the library if they have it Good luck. I went home with a biography of Sorrell Booke. ---
**Author:** ![tacoloco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tacoloco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tacoloco)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227/404 "2010-02-17T20:55:28Z")
> [@Myrnalene](#): > > Anyway, these are all tangents and I don’t care to discuss them anymore. Does mean you’re taking your fat over-reactionary ass back to wherever you came from? ---
**Author:** ![Myrnalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Myrnalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrnalene)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227/405 "2010-02-17T21:09:16Z")
> [@tacoloco](#): > > Does mean you’re taking your fat over-reactionary ass back to wherever you came from? It means I’ve said all I want to say here, yeah. And we have all seen your picture, dude. I wouldn’t be throwing stones. ---
**Author:** ![tacoloco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tacoloco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tacoloco)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227/406 "2010-02-17T21:12:47Z")
> [@Myrnalene](#): > > It means I’ve said all I want to say here, yeah. > > And we have all seen your picture, dude. I wouldn’t be throwing stones. Well sunshine, I may be fat, but I’m not paranoid. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227/407 "2010-02-17T21:15:17Z")
Seems to me a lot of people in this thread could do with a good, healthy ass-fucking. Though those sticks might get in the way. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227/408 "2010-02-17T21:25:32Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Good luck. I went home with a biography of Sorrell Booke. I see what you did there. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2010, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227/409 "2010-02-17T21:34:49Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > Seems to me a lot of people in this thread could do with a good, healthy ass-fucking. That’s your answer for everything. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227/410 "2010-02-17T22:24:35Z")
Hey, if it ain’t broke… ---
**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:** [February 17, 2010, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227/411 "2010-02-17T22:32:02Z")
…fuck it. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227/412 "2010-02-17T22:33:41Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > Hey, if it ain’t broke… > [@Giraffe](#): > > …fuck it. I’ve known some women with that policy. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227/413 "2010-02-18T00:07:47Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Good luck. I went home with a biography of Sorrell Booke. I don’t want to order the book online because I don’t really want to buy it. Do you think they’ll have it at Barnes & Noble? I just want to thumb through it and see what the deal is. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227/414 "2010-02-18T00:34:37Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > **Diogenes the Cynic** nailed it in post #328: **Curtis LeMay** talks like a young person who is trying to sound older. Hey, what am I, chopped liver? [Quote=woodstockbirdybird] Hey, if it ain’t broke… [/quote] > [@Giraffe](#): > > …fuck it. I can’t wait to use this in conversation. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2010, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227/415 "2010-02-18T00:39:11Z")
Question – is it pronounced “hog” or “hoag”? ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227/416 "2010-02-18T00:39:47Z")
Chopped, but not broken, I hope. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227/417 "2010-02-18T01:11:48Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Question – is it pronounced “hog” or “hoag”? It’s probably too late to call the whole thing off… ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227/418 "2010-02-18T04:46:02Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > It’s probably too late to call the whole thing off… For the win, and hopefully, the end. ---
**Author:** ![scalvim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@scalvim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scalvim)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227/419 "2010-02-18T06:15:02Z")
[quote=“Tours d’Argent, post:120, topic:529227”] I’m just going to go ahead and paste here the content of the PMs I sent, just so that people will have a good crystal-clear notion of what went on: Thank you finally! I was reading this thread and at some point the only thing i could think about was “but what the hell did he point the book for?” sorry, but the morbid curiosity was killing me! and now that I know I can go back to my opinion that I myself, sometimes lose track of with who i’m talking to in the middle of an argument!yes, TA is slightly stupid, but then aren’t we all? and yes, the 4 people who are attacking you have a point, but they kind of lost it after you apologized and explained your point of view. freedom of speech people!🙂 Either way, my morbid curiosity just turned to the eternal question of “i wonder if Curtis is: (1) really 13? (2) really so stupid that after reading the wiki thing will actually read the book if it offends his sensibilities? (3) really wants people to go around defending his supposed virtue, from the nasty, nasty books and the bad people who talk to him on forums he goes to out of his own free will?” ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227/420 "2010-02-18T06:56:36Z")
Great. Somebody else who hasn’t read the thread. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227.md?page=20) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227.md?page=22)