# Bone--a word or three please **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 7, 2018, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-a-word-or-three-please/815638 "2018-06-07T22:05:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-a-word-or-three-please/815638/1 "2018-06-07T22:05:23Z")
The three words are “Arbitrary and capricious”. This phrase is a registered trademark of mine from the G-Board and your using them here is a gross violation of both law and netiquette. It is also completely false inasmuch as you’re a pretty mellow guy and not arbitrary at all. \< removes gloves, slaps Bone across the face and flings them in the dirt at his feet \> Suh! If you do not do something completely arbitrary and capricous in the next 24 hours, I will sue you for stealing my trademark and false advertising. And the morning after that, it’s pistols at dawn. You are officially On Notice. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-a-word-or-three-please/815638/2 "2018-06-07T22:07:28Z")
_grabs a bucket of tomacco and sits in a lawn chair, awating the show_ ---
**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:** [June 7, 2018, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-a-word-or-three-please/815638/3 "2018-06-07T22:08:44Z")
Bone, I’m telling you with my mind- you know what you have to do. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-a-word-or-three-please/815638/4 "2018-06-07T22:19:26Z")
Box! Box! Box! ---
**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:** [June 7, 2018, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-a-word-or-three-please/815638/5 "2018-06-07T22:27:39Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Box! Box! Box! Fish and sea greens, plankton and protein from the sea for the masses!!! ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-a-word-or-three-please/815638/6 "2018-06-07T22:28:27Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Bone, I’m telling you with my mind- you know what you have to do. I endorse this. Whatever this is. Do this. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-a-word-or-three-please/815638/7 "2018-06-07T22:35:44Z")
Won’t work. I’m unsuspendable and they don’t have a box. ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-a-word-or-three-please/815638/8 "2018-06-07T22:38:33Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > The three words are “Arbitrary and capricious”. This phrase is a registered trademark of mine from the G-Board and your using them here is a gross violation of both law and netiquette. Before, I was a newbie. But now, I’m going to feign ignorance and [refer to the legal phrase:](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_of_review) > [@](#): > > In administrative law, a government agency’s resolution of a question of fact, when decided pursuant to an informal rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), is reviewed on the arbitrary and capricious standard. Arbitrary and capricious is a legal ruling where in an appellate court determines that a previous ruling is invalid because it was made on unreasonable grounds or without any proper consideration of circumstances. This is an extremely deferential standard. I would say your trademark is invalid due to prior use. I have very little tools to penalize you for this gross misrepresentation, but consider yourself banned for 10 seconds. I memorialized this [with the following picture.](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1729/41756260875_95c6105521_h.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-a-word-or-three-please/815638/9 "2018-06-07T22:38:34Z")
And I notice you haven’t responded yet, Bone. And why IS that? You’re willing to steal my raisin de et-treat\* but not respond??!?!? \*Some sort of scone-like pastry (with raisins, natch) I imagine, that one eats with tea. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-a-word-or-three-please/815638/10 "2018-06-07T22:39:34Z")
> [@Bone](#): > > Before, I was a newbie. But now, I’m going to feign ignorance and [refer to the legal phrase:](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_of_review) > > I would say your trademark is invalid due to prior use. I have very little tools to penalize you for this gross misrepresentation, but consider yourself banned for 10 seconds. I memorialized this [with the following picture.](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1729/41756260875_95c6105521_h.jpg) Of course you know, this means war. ---
**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:** [June 7, 2018, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-a-word-or-three-please/815638/11 "2018-06-07T22:39:49Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > And I notice you haven’t responded yet, Bone. And why IS that? You’re willing to steal my raisin de et-treat\* but not respond??!?!? > > \*Some sort of scone-like pastry (with raisins, natch) I imagine, that one eats with tea. Um, look up. ---
**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:** [June 7, 2018, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-a-word-or-three-please/815638/12 "2018-06-07T22:40:26Z")
> [@Bone](#): > > Before, I was a newbie. But now, I’m going to feign ignorance and [refer to the legal phrase:](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_of_review) > > I would say your trademark is invalid due to prior use. I have very little tools to penalize you for this gross misrepresentation, but consider yourself banned for 10 seconds. I memorialized this [with the following picture.](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1729/41756260875_95c6105521_h.jpg) You heard my brain. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-a-word-or-three-please/815638/13 "2018-06-07T23:05:03Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Um, look up. I saw that. He used his secret DopeMod powers to insert his post ahead of mine. Everyone knows that you folks have precient software. Also? A one minute suspension? I saw it when it happened and I thought it was a board glitch. Almost like a burp and barely as threatening. So I can only assume you’re a CHICKEN Bone. (Chicken bone. Geddit? That’s a pun, or play on words. Humor son. I keep throwing them out and you keep a’missin’ them) ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-a-word-or-three-please/815638/14 "2018-06-07T23:06:31Z")
Also? Prior use? Nobody in the entire history of the UNIVERSE had called themselves arbitrary and capricious before me. There is no evidence that to show otherwise. You LOSE. ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-a-word-or-three-please/815638/15 "2018-06-07T23:08:53Z")
I actually have quite a few chickens. [They are very cute](https://farm1.staticflickr.com/797/39118086950_82a3b4f9e3_c.jpg), like you. But unlike you, when they lay eggs, I can eat them. 😛_i keed_ ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-a-word-or-three-please/815638/16 "2018-06-07T23:15:29Z")
And Bone. Your discipline messages should follow this format: ## \*Here is what the mod who Boxed you typed into the required “message to the Boxee” field: For fun and because I wanted to see if a two hour boxing would work. If you get permaboxed or you catch fire or something, it’s Giraffe’s fault. That’s G-I-R-A-F-F-E for the police report.\* We don’t let him near sharp objects or matches, we feel it’s safer that way. ---
**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:** [June 7, 2018, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-a-word-or-three-please/815638/17 "2018-06-07T23:18:33Z")
> [@Bone](#): > > I actually have quite a few chickens. [They are very cute](https://farm1.staticflickr.com/797/39118086950_82a3b4f9e3_c.jpg), like you. But unlike you, when they lay eggs, I can eat them. 😛_i keed_ I’m having such a good day now. I started out crabby and it’s improved immeasurably. ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-a-word-or-three-please/815638/18 "2018-06-07T23:23:42Z")
And so that I may burn this image in your mind, from this point forward when you think of Fenris, you will [conjure this image.](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1721/40848275780_d533e2af5e_c.jpg) Very angry looking, with a chicken mullet, but actually quite a sweet little guy who just wants to cuddle. 😃 \*btw, that’s the same chicken as in the first picture on the left. ---
**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:** [June 7, 2018, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-a-word-or-three-please/815638/19 "2018-06-07T23:25:10Z")
> [@Bone](#): > > And so that I may burn this image in your mind, from this point forward when you think of Fenris, you will [conjure this image.](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1721/40848275780_d533e2af5e_c.jpg) Very angry looking, with a chicken mullet, but actually quite a sweet little guy who just wants to cuddle. 😃 > > \*btw, that’s the same chicken as in the first picture on the left. I just scared my dog, I lol’d ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-a-word-or-three-please/815638/20 "2018-06-07T23:56:15Z")
> [@Bone](#): > > And so that I may burn this image in your mind, from this point forward when you think of Fenris, you will [conjure this image.](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1721/40848275780_d533e2af5e_c.jpg) Very angry looking, with a chicken mullet, but actually quite a sweet little guy who just wants to cuddle. 😃 > > \*btw, that’s the same chicken as in the first picture on the left. Ok. Now I’m just filled with rage! To heck with the lawyers! To heck, I say! It’s pistols or boxings or suspensions at dawn. Or…else. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-a-word-or-three-please/815638.md?page=2)