# Blackacre. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 7, 2004, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackacre/273467 "2004-11-07T05:19:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Keapon\_Laffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@Keapon\_Laffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keapon_Laffin)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackacre/273467/121 "2004-11-10T05:51:43Z")
Haven’t seen Blackacre’s posts before, but after reading the 2 Pit Threads, I must say that I find him amusing. 🙂 Almost like an irrepressible kender. ---
**Author:** ![Blackacre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@Blackacre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackacre)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackacre/273467/122 "2004-11-10T17:42:33Z")
> [@Keapon Laffin](#): > > Haven’t seen Blackacre’s posts before, but after reading the 2 Pit Threads, I must say that I find him amusing. 🙂 > > Almost like an irrepressible kender. Thankee kindly good soul. =D Cheers! BA ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackacre/273467/123 "2004-11-10T17:52:06Z")
> [@Keapon Laffin](#): > > Haven’t seen Blackacre’s posts before, but after reading the 2 Pit Threads, I must say that I find him amusing. 🙂 > > Almost like an irrepressible kender. That’s not the whistling of a hoopak you’re hearing, my friend. It’s the wind blowing through **Blackacre** ’s empty head. ---
**Author:** ![Blackacre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@Blackacre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackacre)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackacre/273467/124 "2004-11-10T17:57:17Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > That’s not the whistling of a hoopak you’re hearing, my friend. It’s the wind blowing through **Blackacre** ’s empty head. So you’re saying you DON’T like Brett Sommers??? ☹ Cheers! BA ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackacre/273467/125 "2004-11-10T18:09:18Z")
> [@Blackacre](#): > > So you’re saying you DON’T like Brett Sommers??? ☹ > > Cheers! > BA Oh, no…I ADORE Brett Sommers. It was Jack Klugman I wasn’t crazy about. At least until I found out he was Herbie in the original cast of _Gypsy_. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Blackacre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@Blackacre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackacre)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackacre/273467/126 "2004-11-10T18:19:07Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Oh, no…I ADORE Brett Sommers. It was Jack Klugman I wasn’t crazy about. At least until I found out he was Herbie in the original cast of _Gypsy_. 😛 Well my favorite, of course, was Charles Nelson Reilly. A complex, yet witty, man about town if there ever was one. His turn on X-Files a few years ago was Emmy worthy, IMHO. =D Cheers! BA ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackacre/273467/127 "2004-11-10T21:27:14Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#): > > why in the Name of God’s Throbbing Prostate is this character still on the boards? Nice turn of phrase. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackacre/273467/128 "2004-11-10T21:31:37Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Nice turn of phrase. 😉 Stolen. I read it somewhere. I’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out where, because I certainly don’t remember. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2004, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackacre/273467/129 "2004-11-10T22:40:59Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#): > > Stolen. I read it somewhere. I’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out where, because I certainly don’t remember. _Fight Club_? “I am God’s Throbbing Prostate.” What? ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackacre/273467/130 "2004-11-10T22:58:30Z")
> [@Really Not All That Bright](#): > > _Fight Club_? > > “I am God’s Throbbing Prostate.” Definitely _not_ Fight Club, book or movie. There is a band named “God’s throbbing prostate”, if I remember correctly. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackacre/273467/131 "2004-11-11T01:52:31Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#): > > Stolen. I read it somewhere. I’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out where, because I certainly don’t remember. [nudge nudge](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=51270) ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackacre/273467/132 "2004-11-11T01:58:20Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > [nudge nudge](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=51270) Ah. I’ve definitely read that post more than once. But you know what, **Cervaise** , I don’t think that’s what I was thinking of. I think it was in a book, and I think I still have it. I shan’t go through all 500 of my books looking for it, but if a likely candidate springs to mind, I’ll look. Further updates as developments warrant. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackacre/273467/133 "2004-11-11T02:07:41Z")
OK, it just came to me, and I’ve just browsed the book, and I was misremembering the types of oaths that the character used. (He used balls: by the Damp Balls of John the Baptist; by the Rocky Balls of St. Peter; and so on.) So I can only have got it from your post. I apologize. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackacre/273467/134 "2004-11-11T19:00:45Z")
No apology necessary. I was just amused to see it pop back up again. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Blackacre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@Blackacre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackacre)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackacre/273467/135 "2004-11-13T02:49:00Z")
Something goes **bump** in the night. =D Cheers! BA ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackacre/273467/136 "2004-11-13T04:08:21Z")
> [@Blackacre](#): > > Something goes **bump** in the night. =D > > Cheers! > BA Q.E.D. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackacre/273467/137 "2004-11-13T04:24:14Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Q.E.D. What’s _he_ got to do with this? ---
**Author:** ![minty\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackacre/273467/138 "2004-11-13T04:37:37Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Kinky Friedman, much esteemed leader of _Kinky Friedman and His Texas Jewboys_, holds a place of the highest regard in this country boy’s heart. He Ain’t Kinky, He’s My Governor. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackacre/273467/139 "2004-11-13T04:40:49Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#): > > OK, it just came to me, and I’ve just browsed the book, and I was misremembering the types of oaths that the character used. (He used balls: by the Damp Balls of John the Baptist; by the Rocky Balls of St. Peter; and so on.) So I can only have got it from your post. > > I apologize. Shot in the dark: Was that _The Cool War_, by Frederick Pohl? [/SITD] ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackacre/273467/140 "2004-11-13T07:25:17Z")
> [@Ilsa\_Lund](#): > > So why is this half-witted, bloodthirsty moron still here, again? > **[Has America jumped the shark?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=286357)** > > Honestly now, everybody take a deep breath and reflect: a President who Got us into what looks to be an endless war with an enemy that makes the Viet Cong look like a bunch of Franciscan monks, in a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 and had... \*\* Blackacre\*\* jumps the shark in post #26. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackacre/273467.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackacre/273467.md?page=8)