I can say with the absolute authority that only the internet can convey, that it is a fact that any mention of Area 51 automatically means “nutball”.
now Area 52, that’s some scary stuff.
yours sincerely,
Chucklehead
Yawn . . .
{Perks up and looks around}
Brain Wreck, I am God. You can not disprove this. I decree that “tinfoil hat” usage shall continue as before. This usage then taking place in the future shall be proof of my being god. You may worship me either with or without a tinfoil hat on your head.
{Nods off vback to sleep}
ZZZZZzzzzz . . .
Alright, enjoy the dogpile, clearly I’m outnumbered by the unwashed masses. But if you’re going to hide behind the herd by using the “it’s just SDMB culture” defense, you need to remember this: While Cecil does make snarky responses from time to time, usually establishes his authority to do so by supplying a detailed debunking. In fact I’ll go out on a limb and say I’ve never seen him mock a question without a detailed explanation of why he’s doing so. And as it has been mentioned, in GQ you’re supposed to do the same thing. If Cecil isn’t above observing this, what makes you think you are?
Well, if you haven’t, then you obviously didn’t click on the link provided for you right here in this thread. :dubious:
Oh fuck off Brain Wreck. “…hide behind the herd…” Can’t just fess up that you missed a joke or even say that you didn’t find it funny and apologize so you pull out the ole herd chestnut.
Sometimes everyone is against you because you are wrong. Get over yourself.
If you are talking about this link, did you evern read it? If you look at it, you’ll find Cecil citing a detailed answer to the question (although from a secondary source), and then adding a joke that didn’t cast aspersion on the question or the questioner.
So there any other factually incorrect statements you’d like to make, or will that about do it for you?
Wow. You just don’t get it, do you? Cecil put
In his column one week, and then at a later date put
Do ya not get it? Cecil printed those things just so he could be snarky and funny. The fact that the second letter contained a partial answer to the first letter’s question is immaterial, because Cecil didn’t seek that out. Hell, man, if you’ve read The Straight Dope books and not simply the columns that have been posted on the website, you’d see that Unca Cecil can be truly a snarky fellow. In fact, one time half his column consisted of nothing but “looney” (his description of them) questions. A later column had him sating he wasn’t going to do that again, because he got flooded with even nuttier answers.
Criminey, you’re a bigger crybaby than pzzabrat was.
Oh look, it’s Tuckerfain again, totally wrong about my being a UFO fan and still totally wrong about the point of the thread. Don’t you get it? It’s a a GQ guideline to make a stab at answering the question before starting in with the jokes. That is what I’m talking about. Do you not understand that?
As for the Cecil columns, you’ve again misinterpreted the context of what he presented, but recalling your boldly, falsely, and unapologetically accusing me of being a UFO believer, misinterpretation from you is fairly well expected at this point. This just confirms my suspicion that some people come to this site not to be smart, but to feel smart.
Here you are again, whining about my dissenting viewpoint, when you could have just clicked past it and left well enough alone. Seems to me that the whiners here are the ones like you who can’t seem to brook the indignity of a dissenting viewpoint.
Fine, show me in the registration agreement where it says that.
Yeah. That’s it. We all come here just to be snarky to one another, you got it.
Oh, we can brook it, all right, we just choose not to brook yours, and you can’t handle that. Kind of ironic that you who started this thread are now advocating that I skip your comments when that was exactly the same kind of advice given to you earlier in the thread. Mr. Pot, meet Mr. Kettle.
“Can’t handle it?” What is this, “A Few Good Men?” If I choose to point out your habitual incorrectness on this thread, it really doesn’t mean I’m suffering from sleep disturbance or inability to achieve true intimacy. I appreciate the concern though. It doesn’t even mean I dislike you personally. It only means you’re wrong, again.
News flash, Captain Obvious, it was an intentionally ironic reference to earlier in the thread, when people who didn’t like my thread were telling me to skip threads I didn’t like. I guess you picked up your irony-meter from the repair shop sometime between now and then… either that or it’s just naturally selective.
Riiiiiight.
Again, riiiiiiight.