# Ask the attention starved sycophant!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-attention-starved-sycophant/15079>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 23, 2000, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-attention-starved-sycophant/15079 "2000-03-23T17:56:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![KarmaComa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@KarmaComa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarmaComa)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2000, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-attention-starved-sycophant/15079/1 "2000-03-23T17:56:00Z")

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Come on, everyone! Ask the A.S.S.!

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**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-attention-starved-sycophant/15079/2 "2000-03-24T06:04:00Z")

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[Moderator Hat ON]

Look, I’ve been pretty tolerant with these “ask the” threads, but this 'un is a just a bit too much. Hang onto your hat; next stop: MPSIMS!

[Moderator Hat OFF]

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**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-attention-starved-sycophant/15079/3 "2000-03-24T06:56:00Z")

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it’s “psychopath,” you moron.

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**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2000, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-attention-starved-sycophant/15079/4 "2000-03-23T23:56:00Z")

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Gee Gaudere, thanks for inflicting this thread on the MPSIMs denizens.

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We went right out there and refused to do accoustical versions of the electrical songs that we had refused to record in the first place.

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**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-attention-starved-sycophant/15079/5 "2000-03-24T02:57:00Z")

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**SwimmingRiddles** , considering the “attention starved”, **Karma** , might indeed mean _sycophant_ (a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite). What’re we supposed to ask him, though?

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Your Official Cat Goddess since 10/20/99.

_Hey, I like that hat, man. They sell men’s clothes where you got that?_

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**Author:** ![crackwise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/22d042/32.png) [@crackwise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crackwise)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-attention-starved-sycophant/15079/6 "2000-03-24T03:02:00Z")

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Kat, I love that sig line.

A.S.S. - Where the hell is my dinner?

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~handcrafted signatures since 1975~

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**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-attention-starved-sycophant/15079/7 "2000-03-24T03:04:00Z")

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OK…

when you’re sucking up, do you go for the Yes-man approach? Or do you act like Igor?

Or maybe the cute puppy dog routine?

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You say “cheesy” like that’s a **BAD** thing.