# BrEkers, Tell Me All About G\*.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brekers-tell-me-all-about-g/556308
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [October 7, 2010, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brekers-tell-me-all-about-g/556308 "2010-10-07T00:18:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2010, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brekers-tell-me-all-about-g/556308/81 "2010-10-07T23:29:42Z")
> [@begbert2](#):
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> 1. what postscript is being referred to by G\*.
[Maybe this will help.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuXRCv6Csi0&feature=fvst)
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### Author:  [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2010, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brekers-tell-me-all-about-g/556308/82 "2010-10-07T23:33:56Z")
If I ever get Pitted (unlikely, I’m not interesting enough), I want **adhay** to do it. It’s like those automatically generated spam letters. I save those – not the V1GR4 ones, but like
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### Author:  [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2010, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brekers-tell-me-all-about-g/556308/83 "2010-10-08T01:12:08Z")
I think **BrEkers** got his ass handed back to him by a piece of sewer cable.
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### Author:  [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2010, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brekers-tell-me-all-about-g/556308/84 "2010-10-08T03:01:19Z")
> [@descamisado](#):
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> > [@kferr](#):
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> > I thought that some of the metaphysical imagery was particularly effective. Oh…. and um, interesting rhythmic devices, too, which seemed to counterpoint the, er… Counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor of the, um… Vogonity. Sorry. Of the poet’s compassionate soul which contrived through the medium of the verse structure to sublimate this, transcend that and come to terms with the fundamental dichotomies of the other. And one is left with a profound and vivid insight into… err… Into whatever it was … …that the post was about!
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> You are so misinterpreting what Sontag had to say about G\*.
Oh, really? Well, I happen to have Sontag right here…
Standing behind Marshall McLuhan.
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2010, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brekers-tell-me-all-about-g/556308/85 "2010-10-08T03:12:19Z")
Marshall McLuhan should have been a roadie for a rock band. Then everybody probably would have called him “Stacks.”
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### Author:  [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2010, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brekers-tell-me-all-about-g/556308/86 "2010-10-08T03:35:48Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#):
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> Everclear
Everclear. With enough I can see G\* for myself and not bother with ummm whatever that OP said.
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### Author:  [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2010, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brekers-tell-me-all-about-g/556308/87 "2010-10-08T04:11:36Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#):
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> I’m so confused and I still know nothing about G\*.
You aren’t alone. We probably won’t find out the truth until if and when _Half Life 3_ get made.
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### Author:  [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2010, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brekers-tell-me-all-about-g/556308/88 "2010-10-08T15:43:23Z")
> [@Leaffan](#):
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> > [@Shodan](#):
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> > You don’t have to choose.
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> > Regards,
> > Shodan
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> Yes, but if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
> [@Lare](#):
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> > [@Leaffan](#):
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> > Yes, but if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
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> If I haven’t yet decided have I also made a choice? Shades of pre-ordination!
Yes,
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill;
I will choose a path that’s clear
I will choose Freewill.
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### Author:  [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2010, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brekers-tell-me-all-about-g/556308/89 "2010-10-08T16:01:45Z")
Leave your son alone, you moron.
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### Author:  [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2010, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brekers-tell-me-all-about-g/556308/90 "2010-10-08T16:53:16Z")
Mambo dogface in a banana patch.
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### Author:  [@heatmiserfl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heatmiserfl)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2010, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brekers-tell-me-all-about-g/556308/91 "2010-10-08T17:11:33Z")
> [@Duke](#):
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> > [@Shagnasty](#):
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> > To know G, one must first travel to the spot.
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> No thanks, I tried that and the bed got soaked. Also the walls, the ceiling…
Show off!
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### Author:  [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2010, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brekers-tell-me-all-about-g/556308/92 "2010-10-08T17:22:45Z")
> [@Michael\_Ellis](#):
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> Leave your son alone, you moron.
Assuming this is addressed to me, _what’s_ your problem?
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### Author:  [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2010, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brekers-tell-me-all-about-g/556308/93 "2010-10-08T17:24:02Z")
> [@adhay](#):
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> > [@Michael\_Ellis](#):
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> > Leave your son alone, you moron.
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> Assuming this is addressed to me, _what’s_ your problem?
You’re here!
Please explain this damned thread.
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### Author:  [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2010, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brekers-tell-me-all-about-g/556308/94 "2010-10-08T17:40:24Z")
> [@begbert2](#):
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> > [@adhay](#):
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> > Assuming this is addressed to me, _what’s_ your problem?
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> You’re here!
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> Please explain this damned thread.
In normal speak, if you please.
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### Author:  [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2010, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brekers-tell-me-all-about-g/556308/95 "2010-10-08T17:47:57Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#):
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> Mambo dogface in a banana patch.
I tried so hard to get my oldest to say that to her teacher on the first day of school! 😃
As for the OP: I am undone. I’ve lost my touch. If only I had some Prozac.
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### Author:  [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2010, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brekers-tell-me-all-about-g/556308/96 "2010-10-08T17:57:00Z")
> [@Duke](#):
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> One has to say that it takes a certain kind of skill to write an OP so confusing, you don’t know whether he’s calling out **Bryan Ekers** or **Bricker** , or whether he’s referring to God, Gatorade, or Snoop Dogg.
You’re just cranky because your mononame can’t be melded.
Refarts,
Vurnip
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### Author:  [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2010, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brekers-tell-me-all-about-g/556308/97 "2010-10-08T17:57:58Z")
> [@adhay](#):
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> > [@Michael\_Ellis](#):
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> > Leave your son alone, you moron.
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> Assuming this is addressed to me, _what’s_ your problem?
This bloated, semen-filled decaying goat carcass of a thread is my problem. Explain yourself, sir.
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### Author:  [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2010, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brekers-tell-me-all-about-g/556308/98 "2010-10-08T18:09:07Z")
I love you guys, figuratively speaking.
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### Author:  [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2010, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brekers-tell-me-all-about-g/556308/99 "2010-10-08T18:10:24Z")
> [@adhay](#):
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> I love you guys.🙂
Sigh.
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### Author:  [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2010, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brekers-tell-me-all-about-g/556308/100 "2010-10-08T18:12:25Z")
> [@adhay](#):
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> I love you guys, figuratively speaking.
You sure have a strange way of showing it.
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