# Broomstick - Does His Ass Say rebeW or Not? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 19, 2015, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broomstick-does-his-ass-say-rebew-or-not/715343 "2015-03-19T00:28:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broomstick-does-his-ass-say-rebew-or-not/715343/81 "2015-03-19T18:44:21Z")
> [@SJL4041](#): > > Perhaps this is a case where a person regards everything that happens online as part of their real life and that’s why her stories sound so off? I couldn’t help notice that she was recently challenged about an “acquaintance” who had a family member successfully commit suicide with a pellet/BB gun. It turned out it was just a post she had read on an Internet forum, much like this one. Therein lies the rub. She is free to believe that what happens online is part of her real life, and that everything she reads online must be true. Nobody else is bound to that, hence her being repeatedly questioned, and now Pitted. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broomstick-does-his-ass-say-rebew-or-not/715343/82 "2015-03-19T18:45:23Z")
> [@SmellMyWort](#): > > Weber charcoal grills have the name on the handle and on the metal vent. Also, a few posters have mentioned the height of your typical Weber grill as being too high to accidentally sit on, but apparently no one has heard of the Weber Smoky Joe. I’m not saying I believe all of Broomstick’s story, but it would be pretty easy to back into and fall on a portable grill. [http://www.weber.com/grills/series/smokey-joe](http://www.weber.com/grills/series/smokey-joe) Someone could sit on one of those and get the rebeW brand. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broomstick-does-his-ass-say-rebew-or-not/715343/83 "2015-03-19T19:11:09Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Psssst…if you do, please correct my spelling. I tried to spell Lair but, well, I had not had coffee yet. It will just be between us I swear. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broomstick-does-his-ass-say-rebew-or-not/715343/84 "2015-03-19T19:13:47Z")
I think we’re going to need some paper tubes, washers, and a bucket of raw chicken. It’s expurmn’tn time! ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broomstick-does-his-ass-say-rebew-or-not/715343/85 "2015-03-19T19:38:39Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > a few underware changes Are you aware of where you wear your **underwear**? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broomstick-does-his-ass-say-rebew-or-not/715343/86 "2015-03-19T20:20:37Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > I think we’re going to need some paper tubes, washers, and a bucket of raw chicken. > > It’s expurmn’tn time! I know what the paper tubes are for. What do we do with the bucket of raw chicken? ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broomstick-does-his-ass-say-rebew-or-not/715343/87 "2015-03-19T20:22:27Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > [http://www.weber.com/grills/series/smokey-joe](http://www.weber.com/grills/series/smokey-joe) > > Someone could sit on one of those and get the rebeW brand. I disagree. The raised letters are just too shallow. Take a look at a real brand. If that logo got hot enough to brand, and a drunk person were to fall on it and stay on it as described, the entire area would burn that person not just the raised part. The situation she described is just not possible. And it’s ridiculous to think she needs to post a full nudie shot of her husband to prove it. Just crop it. Heck I’d take a letter or two. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broomstick-does-his-ass-say-rebew-or-not/715343/88 "2015-03-19T20:25:48Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > [http://www.weber.com/grills/series/smokey-joe](http://www.weber.com/grills/series/smokey-joe) > > Someone could sit on one of those and get the rebeW brand. That someone would have to sit pretty flat onto the thing, in which case the metal tab would likely gouge into the buttocks, if not worse areas. [Another view](http://alburygameangling.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/IMG_9172-854x1024.jpg). Mind you, I’m not saying it didn’t happen, I’m just saying that we all know it didn’t happen. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broomstick-does-his-ass-say-rebew-or-not/715343/89 "2015-03-19T20:27:15Z")
I can’t believe we’re three pages in and no one has said: Pix or it didn’t happen. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broomstick-does-his-ass-say-rebew-or-not/715343/90 "2015-03-19T20:36:20Z")
Why does it seem like there’s a bunch of people on this board dedicated to proving Broomstick’s stories as false? She’s never struck me as someone unpleasant, evil, or a troll. Maybe things did happen, maybe she fibbed a few times, maybe there was an exaggeration. So what? Her stories are funny and doesn’t affect me in a way that I’d devote time to trying to disprove them ---
**Author:** ![yellowjacketcoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4bbf92/32.png) [@yellowjacketcoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowjacketcoder)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broomstick-does-his-ass-say-rebew-or-not/715343/91 "2015-03-19T20:39:52Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > Why does it seem like there’s a bunch of people on this board dedicated to proving Broomstick’s stories as false? She’s never struck me as someone unpleasant, evil, or a troll. Maybe things did happen, maybe she fibbed a few times, maybe there was an exaggeration. So what? Her stories are funny and doesn’t affect me in a way that I’d devote time to trying to disprove them The tagline is “Fighting ignorance since 1973”. Accepting blatant lies doesn’t really jive with that. ---
**Author:** ![spinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@spinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spinky)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broomstick-does-his-ass-say-rebew-or-not/715343/92 "2015-03-19T20:42:57Z")
Complaints about posters who complain about other posters are the best kind of complaints, in my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broomstick-does-his-ass-say-rebew-or-not/715343/93 "2015-03-19T20:44:43Z")
> [@Emiliana](#): > > I know what the paper tubes are for. What do we do with the bucket of raw chicken? If you have to ask . . . ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broomstick-does-his-ass-say-rebew-or-not/715343/94 "2015-03-19T20:46:15Z")
> [@yellowjacketcoder](#): > > The tagline is “Fighting ignorance since 1973”. Accepting blatant lies doesn’t really jive with that. Jibe with. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broomstick-does-his-ass-say-rebew-or-not/715343/95 "2015-03-19T20:47:30Z")
> [@SmellMyWort](#): > > Weber charcoal grills have the name on the handle and on the metal vent. Also, a few posters have mentioned the height of your typical Weber grill as being too high to accidentally sit on, but apparently no one has heard of the Weber Smoky Joe. I’m not saying I believe all of Broomstick’s story, but it would be pretty easy to back into and fall on a portable grill. Or making bacon and getting your foot stuck in a George Foreman grill. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broomstick-does-his-ass-say-rebew-or-not/715343/96 "2015-03-19T21:22:16Z")
I’d like to join the chorus of people who like Broomstick, don’t mind a little pleasant embellishment of reality if nothing is riding on it, and think it would be a shame if she stopped posting because of a thread like this. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broomstick-does-his-ass-say-rebew-or-not/715343/97 "2015-03-19T21:24:46Z")
> [@SmellMyWort](#): > > but apparently no one has heard of the Weber Smoky Joe. That is a training grill, for children. What are grown men doing with a childrens toy? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![MrSquishy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@MrSquishy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSquishy)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broomstick-does-his-ass-say-rebew-or-not/715343/98 "2015-03-19T21:40:57Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Jibe with. Correct. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broomstick-does-his-ass-say-rebew-or-not/715343/99 "2015-03-19T21:47:29Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > I’d like to join the chorus of people who like Broomstick, don’t mind a little pleasant embellishment of reality if nothing is riding on it, and think it would be a shame if she stopped posting because of a thread like this. I agree, we should be more tolerant of occasional hyperbole. This is the coolest, hippest online discussion forum filled with the smartest people on the Internet! ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broomstick-does-his-ass-say-rebew-or-not/715343/100 "2015-03-19T21:57:10Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > I’d like to join the chorus of people who like Broomstick, don’t mind a little **pleasant** embellishment of reality if nothing is riding on it Pleasant? From the examples I’ve seen, the embellishments are nothing that can be considered pleasant. Femur-breaking, shovel wielding, crossbow shooting, 3rd degree burns, suicide by bb gun, and the list goes on. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broomstick-does-his-ass-say-rebew-or-not/715343.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broomstick-does-his-ass-say-rebew-or-not/715343.md?page=6)