# "{blank} as Hell?"

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blank-as-hell/15483
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 30, 2000, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blank-as-hell/15483 "2000-03-30T19:32:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2000, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blank-as-hell/15483/21 "2000-03-31T21:33:00Z")

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This thread has gone to hell in a handbasket. Literally.

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Any similarity between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.

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### Author: ![Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6de8d8/32.png) [@Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilgore_Trout_1)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2000, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blank-as-hell/15483/22 "2000-04-01T00:46:00Z")

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am i the only one here who thinks that **Esprix** missed the point of **ASPA** ’s post?

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_what is essential is invisible to the eye -the fox_

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### Author: ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2000, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blank-as-hell/15483/23 "2000-04-01T06:01:00Z")

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This thread is a clear reminder that you can lead a gift horse to water, but you can’t make a silk purse out of a pig in a poke.

Or look in his mouth.

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## There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust. – Demosthenes

Joe Cool

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### Author: ![Louie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2000, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blank-as-hell/15483/24 "2000-04-01T07:18:00Z")

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> [@](#):
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> I would think that the only thing acceptable “as Hell” would be “hot.”

My dad usually says on a 30 degree day, **“It’s cold like hell”** 😃

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### Author: ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2000, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blank-as-hell/15483/25 "2000-04-04T05:01:00Z")

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> Originally posted by **Kilgore Trout** :
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> am i the only one here who thinks that **Esprix** missed the point of **ASPA** ’s post?

I take it you haven’t read ASPA’s other thought-provoking posts or threads? :rolleyes:

Esprix, who did get it

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[Ask the Gay Guy!](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001376.html)

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