# Argent Towers, a moment, please. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 13, 2010, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-please/528876 "2010-02-13T16:51:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-please/528876/21 "2010-02-13T18:56:35Z")
$100 and under microscopes are mostly toys. Here’s a thread that might be of interest [USB MIcroscopes](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=541317) ---
**Author:** ![tacoloco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tacoloco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tacoloco)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-please/528876/22 "2010-02-13T18:58:43Z")
> [@Agent\_Foxtrot](#): > > Additionally, my thread so far has 0 replies. **Argent Towers’** has 27. What gives, Dopers? For reasons that can’t be explained Argent Towers is popular around here. I’ve always been amazed that someone with that big a stick up their ass could be so popular. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-please/528876/23 "2010-02-13T20:06:30Z")
> [@tacoloco](#): > > For reasons that can’t be explained Argent Towers is popular around here. > > I’ve always been amazed that someone with that big a stick up their ass could be so popular. It’s not a big stick, it’s an _assault_ stick. (Easy joke aside, I can’t remember the last thread that got derailed into an AWB diatribe and associated hijack.) ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-please/528876/24 "2010-02-13T20:12:58Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > It’s perfectly normal for you to feel this way. When someone else takes credit for your idea, it’s completely valid for you to feel a little bit threatened and resentful. Just remember that it doesn’t in any way reflect on you. And see if you can channel those feelings into making some positive changes for the future. > > And now, I’d like to speak to Argent Towers. Can you do that for me, Agent, can you let me speak to Argent, now? Brilliant post. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-please/528876/25 "2010-02-13T20:33:35Z")
> [@NineToTheSky](#): > > Brilliant post. 😃 Agreed. It’s nice to see that even in the Pit there can be a modicum of Sybility. BTW, any reason the OP seems to be calling Argent out? Is there an implication that he saw the thread and decided to one-up Agent? This (two posters starting similar threads close together in time) isn’t that unusual of an occurrence, but I don’t think anyone’s been pitted over it before. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-please/528876/26 "2010-02-13T20:57:58Z")
My take, based on him saying the similar name thing is no longer funny, is that he’s accusing \*\*Towers \*\*of using their similar names to mock him by starting a similar thread so shortly after his to try to take the attention away from his own. Honestly, it doesn’t seem like much of a stretch to me. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-please/528876/27 "2010-02-13T21:02:09Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > I’ll start a thread to ask what is the best equipment we can use for that job. Me too. ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-please/528876/28 "2010-02-13T21:07:51Z")
I honestly thought it was a duplicate and didn’t even realize the threads were by two different people. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-please/528876/29 "2010-02-13T21:10:58Z")
> [@ShelliBean](#): > > I honestly thought it was a duplicate and didn’t even realize the threads were by two different people. That might explain the disparity in responses. Don’t know why **Agent’s** thread didn’t take off but once **Argent’s** did, people stayed with it. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-please/528876/30 "2010-02-13T21:25:30Z")
**I SWEAR TO GOD** this was an utter and complete coincidence. I swear I had _not_ read the other microscope thread, I had not even _seen_ its title in the list of threads. I know how absurd it seems, especially with the similar usernames, but this was honestly just a freak coincidence. Very, very weird. ---
**Author:** ![Rack-a-Bones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rack-a-Bones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rack-a-Bones)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-please/528876/31 "2010-02-13T21:38:06Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > Me too. That won’t work unless your user name is **Hal, Seated** ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-please/528876/32 "2010-02-13T21:42:22Z")
Let me just say again, after re-reading **Agent Foxtrot** ’s post, how astonished I am at this coincidence. It’s especially bizarre that we both use the phrase “science types” in referring to other people here who might help us, although I didn’t use that in my original post but in the second one which was intended to “bump” it. Again, I _swear_, this was completely a freak coincidence. I know it’s really hard to believe, but it is. I had not seen **Agent Foxtrot** ’s OP before writing my own. Here is the process that went through my head and inspired me to post it: for some reason, I thought of the song _Race for the Prize_ by the Flaming Lips, which is about scientists and has the line “under the microscope” in it. I don’t know why this song popped into my head, but it did. I started thinking about microscopes and about how I used to use them in school and thought they were really cool. I thought, hmm, it might be cool to have a microscope just to look at stuff. I went on eBay, looked for microscopes, saw all the different kinds of them at seemingly too-good-to-be-true prices, and then I posted my OP asking for advice. _Never_ did I see the other, extremely-similar thread. Not until _today._ I wouldn’t have noticed it if it hadn’t been locked (the little lock icon always catches my eye.) I thought, “hey, that’s a weird coincidence,” then I read the content of the OP and realized the poster’s name and thought, “man, that’s a _really_ weird coincidence.” But that is, alas, all it is - a coincidence. I’ve joked about **Agent Foxtrot** ’s name before and how I always see it and think that it’s me, but I never intended anything malicious. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-please/528876/33 "2010-02-13T21:51:28Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > But that is, alas, all it is - a coincidence. Hmph. I would have believed it was just a coincidence, but now that you’ve come in and so vehemently denied it, taken such pains to show how original you were, I’m not so sure. Maybe we’ve got a Gaslight situation here. Or one of those pod-people things. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-please/528876/34 "2010-02-13T22:00:22Z")
I must be dyslexic. I had to read the first half of the OP three times before I realized we were talking about two different people. I only clicked the thread in the _first place_ because I thought \*\* Argent Towers\*\* was pitting himself which I know is against the rules. Weird. ---
**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 13, 2010, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-please/528876/35 "2010-02-13T22:03:18Z")
Do we need to suggest all of our suggestions again for Agent Foxtrot? If so: 1. Dissecting microscope. 2. Name Change ( **I’m not Argent Towers** might work) 3. Hi Opal ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-please/528876/36 "2010-02-13T22:09:02Z")
In all fairness, he was here before I was, so it’s I who should have to change my name. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-please/528876/37 "2010-02-13T22:12:58Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > …you two A.T.-initialled guys … Love this. Very subtle. ---
**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:** [February 13, 2010, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-please/528876/38 "2010-02-13T22:16:39Z")
I’m still looking forward to the day when **Cat Fight** will say something so egregious that I have to start a fight with her. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-please/528876/39 "2010-02-13T22:27:58Z")
I think we should all take a step back and offer Agent Foxtrot a group hug. Why? Because though I’m not trying to step on **Ivn** ’s toes, I think it’s a safe prediction that this is going to get moved from the Pit – yet another slap in the face. And then what? Further meltdown. Total chaos. Lines will be crossed. He will start alluding to conspiracies. He will start typing in all caps. He will continue until he gets banned … and then he will have fulfilled his ultimate destiny. He will have become: FORMERAGENT. (Note to avoid unintended offense/confusion: This is a reference to a long-gone poster with yet another similarity in names. I suspect 3 people _may_ recognize the reference, though none will find it particularly humorous.) ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-please/528876/40 "2010-02-13T22:40:54Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > I think it’s a genuine coincidence. I think Argent Foxtrot’s post is dissimilar enough from yours to not be a parody. Good one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-please/528876.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-please/528876.md?page=3)