# Boring Guy, can we talk? Oh, we can't, you're an idiot with a 1-letter vocabulary... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 10, 2001, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-guy-can-we-talk-oh-we-cant-youre-an-idiot-with-a-1-letter-vocabulary/64981 "2001-05-10T11:37:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2001, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-guy-can-we-talk-oh-we-cant-youre-an-idiot-with-a-1-letter-vocabulary/64981/1 "2001-05-10T11:37:53Z")
The entirety of his posting carreer as of this posting: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=70440](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=70440) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=70412](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=70412) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=70038&pagenumber=2](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=70038&pagenumber=2) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=70428](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=70428) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=70418](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=70418) (3/10 of his posts here!) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=68583&pagenumber=4](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=68583&pagenumber=4) And the ONLY post with anything resembling merit (in a test thread!): [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=70052](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=70052) Well…all I can say is… ZZZZZZZZZZZZ… ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2001, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-guy-can-we-talk-oh-we-cant-youre-an-idiot-with-a-1-letter-vocabulary/64981/2 "2001-05-10T11:40:48Z")
What can I say… you’ve just summed up his entire posting carreer. Period. Don’t thank me. Thank Lynn. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2001, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-guy-can-we-talk-oh-we-cant-youre-an-idiot-with-a-1-letter-vocabulary/64981/3 "2001-05-10T11:52:10Z")
Shit, what’s next? The Tedious Tot? The Monotonous Man? The Humdrum Human? The Prolix Person? The Irksome Idiot? The Dull Dope? The Vapid Vamp? The Banal Bastard? Oooh! I know! _The Listless Loser_. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2001, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-guy-can-we-talk-oh-we-cant-youre-an-idiot-with-a-1-letter-vocabulary/64981/4 "2001-05-10T12:24:38Z")
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ **RUN AWAY!** 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2001, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-guy-can-we-talk-oh-we-cant-youre-an-idiot-with-a-1-letter-vocabulary/64981/5 "2001-05-10T12:47:40Z")
He did this to MY thread too. I wonder how he chooses which threads to do this to? He is probably harmless, although I wonder why he doesn’t have anything better to do. Maybe someone else has him as a second account, and they just use him to mess with the rest of us. I dunno. MarxBoy ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2001, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-guy-can-we-talk-oh-we-cant-youre-an-idiot-with-a-1-letter-vocabulary/64981/6 "2001-05-10T15:44:24Z")
Maybe he’s tired. ---
**Author:** ![Pariah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/41988e/32.png) [@Pariah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pariah)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2001, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-guy-can-we-talk-oh-we-cant-youre-an-idiot-with-a-1-letter-vocabulary/64981/7 "2001-05-10T16:57:23Z")
…_The Banned Barbiturate_ has a nice ring to it… ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2001, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-guy-can-we-talk-oh-we-cant-youre-an-idiot-with-a-1-letter-vocabulary/64981/8 "2001-05-10T23:03:02Z")
Hmmm, yes it does, Pariah; I like it. But how 'bout _excised ennui_? Ennui has always been one of my favoritest words. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2001, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-guy-can-we-talk-oh-we-cant-youre-an-idiot-with-a-1-letter-vocabulary/64981/9 "2001-05-10T23:09:12Z")
oh, and then we can say “in re: excised ennui” , and if it’s here in the states, we could go so far (dare we?) to say “in re: excised ennui in l’etats unis”… and then. what? ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2001, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-guy-can-we-talk-oh-we-cant-youre-an-idiot-with-a-1-letter-vocabulary/64981/10 "2001-05-10T23:19:54Z")
Egads! Enough! ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2001, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-guy-can-we-talk-oh-we-cant-youre-an-idiot-with-a-1-letter-vocabulary/64981/11 "2001-05-11T01:04:35Z")
It’s really not fair to pick on him - narcoleptics are people too. It’s a disease, people! Oh won’t someone think of the children? ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2001, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-guy-can-we-talk-oh-we-cant-youre-an-idiot-with-a-1-letter-vocabulary/64981/12 "2001-05-11T01:54:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MarxBoy \* > \*\*He did this to MY thread too. I wonder how he chooses which threads to do this to? > > He is probably harmless, although I wonder why he doesn’t have anything better to do. Maybe someone else has him as a second account, and they just use him to mess with the rest of us. I dunno. > > MarxBoy \*\* I’d bet my left tit on it. Just a way to work out their irksome reaction to threads they think fall below the standard of scintillation they’ve set for us all. I feel so… belittled for having posted to a thread later pronounced so boring. I feel… dirty. diminished. degraded. disrespected. **oh god, someone HOLD me!** _collapses into a heap, body heaving with sobs_ ---
**Author:** ![Kaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaz)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2001, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-guy-can-we-talk-oh-we-cant-youre-an-idiot-with-a-1-letter-vocabulary/64981/13 "2001-05-11T02:28:27Z")
I actually find this quite rude, and even though he normally seems to post after things have died down in a thread. Even so, I think that what we have right here is exactly what he wants, just stupid attention, and to be noticed. ---
**Author:** ![Mercutio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Mercutio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercutio)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2001, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-guy-can-we-talk-oh-we-cant-youre-an-idiot-with-a-1-letter-vocabulary/64981/14 "2001-05-11T02:38:11Z")
Maybe it’s a ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZerlin. ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2001, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-guy-can-we-talk-oh-we-cant-youre-an-idiot-with-a-1-letter-vocabulary/64981/15 "2001-05-11T03:24:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > \*\*Don’t thank me. Thank Lynn. \*\* Thanks, Lynn! “There’s one did laugh in’s sleep, and one cried ‘Murder!’ That they did wake each other: I stood and heard them: But they did say their prayers, and address’d them Again to sleep.” –Macbeth, Act 2, Scene ii