# badger5149, please leave, you add nothing **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 17, 2012, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badger5149-please-leave-you-add-nothing/635011 "2012-09-17T21:51:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badger5149-please-leave-you-add-nothing/635011/61 "2012-09-19T05:11:14Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Thanks. It’s one of my favorite nature documentaries. I heard a story that Marlin Perkins was scheduled to narrate it, but he died an untimely death before getting into the studio. 😛 Now I can picture Perkins standing in front of a screen showing the HB eating a Cobra and saying “Honey Badger don’t care, Honey Badger don’t give a shit.” I’ll be chuckling all day at work tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badger5149-please-leave-you-add-nothing/635011/62 "2012-09-19T05:37:21Z")
Marlin: Honey Badger doesn’t give a shit, does he Jim? Jim: That’s right, Marlin. Honey badgers are awesome bad asses, and can butt-fuck cobras that would kill you and me. Marlin: Just like Mutual of Omaha will butt-fuck anyone who damages your property. They don’t give a shit who it is. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badger5149-please-leave-you-add-nothing/635011/63 "2012-09-19T06:13:29Z")
“Some cultures just have not produced a very good record for behaviors.” Well, that’s true. It’s logically included in the true statement that _all_ cultures just have not produced a very good record for behaviors. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badger5149-please-leave-you-add-nothing/635011/64 "2012-09-19T11:51:28Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Marlin: Honey Badger doesn’t give a shit, does he Jim? > Jim: That’s right, Marlin. Honey badgers are awesome bad asses, and can butt-fuck cobras that would kill you and me. > Marlin: Just like Mutual of Omaha will butt-fuck anyone who damages your property. They don’t give a shit who it is. Perfect! Now I can picture my family and myself in front of the TV, just as we did back then, seeing this play out. It’s going to be a great day at work! ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badger5149-please-leave-you-add-nothing/635011/65 "2012-09-19T11:55:39Z")
For those who aren’t as old as fuck like Boyo Jim and me, here’s [a random episode of Wild Kingdom](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVtaa9zWa0k&feature=share&list=EL_---E6GRgmk). I haven’t watched this yet, because I have to go to work to chuckle, but you can see and hear what Perkins sounds/looks like and why it’s so funny to us. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badger5149-please-leave-you-add-nothing/635011/66 "2012-09-19T12:05:08Z")
My favorite Marlin Perkins story: [QUOTE=Wikipedia] Because Walt Disney had fabricated footage of a mass suicide of lemmings in its film White Wilderness,[4] then CBC journalist Bob McKeown asked Marlin Perkins if he had done the same. Perkins, then in his seventies, “firmly asked for the camera to be turned off, then punched a shocked McKeown in the face.” [5] [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badger5149-please-leave-you-add-nothing/635011/67 "2012-09-19T12:10:11Z")
> [@gamerunknown](#): > > I see it as differentiating himself from those believing in innate differences between groups of humans. He thinks the differences in humans are social. I think your rebuttal was sound, especially as similar sentiments are often used as dog-whistles (“Judeo-Christian heritage, Anglo-Saxon culture” or similar cant), it’s a much more defensible position in my view than “they can’t help it, they were born that way”. Surely this means we can at least make fun of Lady Gaga? ---
**Author:** ![pantheon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@pantheon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pantheon)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badger5149-please-leave-you-add-nothing/635011/68 "2012-09-19T18:08:49Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > Sorry if I missed it here or in the original thread, but I can’t be the only one hearing Tim Curry sing “I’ll get you a Hispanic mechanic…” Sheer genius. Thank you.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badger5149-please-leave-you-add-nothing/635011/69 "2012-09-19T18:26:14Z")
The narrator of this honey badger clip reminds me of Timothy Treadwell’s cutesy narration of his Grizzly bear films, right before the bears ate him and his girlfriend. Grizzly bear don’t care. Grizzly bear don’t give a shit! ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badger5149-please-leave-you-add-nothing/635011/70 "2012-09-19T18:41:07Z")
Does a grizzly bear don’t give a shit in the woods? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badger5149-please-leave-you-add-nothing/635011/71 "2012-09-19T18:59:04Z")
It’s a bear. It can give a shit wherever it likes. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badger5149-please-leave-you-add-nothing/635011/72 "2012-09-19T19:22:17Z")
It can even take one. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badger5149-please-leave-you-add-nothing/635011/73 "2012-09-19T22:24:31Z")
> [@badger5149](#): > > I have no idea what you are fucking talking about I can only imagine that’s a theme with you. ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badger5149-please-leave-you-add-nothing/635011/74 "2012-09-19T22:36:44Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > I can only imagine that’s a theme with you. Your whit is just amazing ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badger5149-please-leave-you-add-nothing/635011/75 "2012-09-19T23:54:20Z")
What’s _whit_? ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badger5149-please-leave-you-add-nothing/635011/76 "2012-09-20T00:04:33Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > What’s _whit_? Doesn’t it go who, what, where, why, whit? What’s the matter whith whit? ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badger5149-please-leave-you-add-nothing/635011/77 "2012-09-20T00:17:30Z")
I saw it as soon as I hit post! Now I have to suffer some more! Badger don’t care if he can’t spell. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badger5149-please-leave-you-add-nothing/635011/78 "2012-09-20T01:05:20Z")
> [@badger5149](#): > > I saw it as soon as I hit post! Now I have to suffer some more! Badger _don’t care_\* if he can’t spell. Badger also _doesn’t care_ about good grammar. \*The use of italics in the quote is mine. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badger5149-please-leave-you-add-nothing/635011/79 "2012-09-20T01:16:43Z")
Oh, I got it! He sharpens his whit on a whit-stone! Get it, a _whit_ stone, instead of a _whet_ stone? Ah… I slay me. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badger5149-please-leave-you-add-nothing/635011/80 "2012-09-20T01:41:40Z")
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