# Case files? We don't need no stinking case files! (Gitmo related) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 26, 2009, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/case-files-we-dont-need-no-stinking-case-files-gitmo-related/483097 "2009-01-26T19:11:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/case-files-we-dont-need-no-stinking-case-files-gitmo-related/483097/161 "2009-01-29T15:30:02Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > No, you didn’t. > > And anyway, this is just sad. It’s like the Internet equivalent of the college freshman who cleverly drops his SAT and ACT scores into conversation to impress the shit out of people, pathetically unaware that nobody is impressed, and furthermore he’s making himself look like a total douchebag. Oh my, woo woo, you own an expensive shirt and tie. I’m sure nobody else around here owns an expensive shirt and tie. You really showed us, you expensive shirt-and-tie-purchasing fiend. > > Really, just embarrassing. I made more money in the time it took you to type this post than you will make all day. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/case-files-we-dont-need-no-stinking-case-files-gitmo-related/483097/162 "2009-01-29T15:33:33Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > And yet his legal arguments about the Gitmo detainees, here in the Pit, are as strong and as well-supported as your own in GD. > > Amazing, ain’t it? Speaking of posts by assholes making desperate pleas for attention… ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/case-files-we-dont-need-no-stinking-case-files-gitmo-related/483097/163 "2009-01-29T15:42:29Z")
Get a room, you two. This is Rand’s party. His toilet paper costs more than your children’s clothes, you know. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/case-files-we-dont-need-no-stinking-case-files-gitmo-related/483097/164 "2009-01-29T15:43:23Z")
> [@Pushkin](#): > > I’ve never understood why posters like Rand Rover have to either a) let us all know that they’re away to do something vital like sleep, in the middle of a thread or b)… > > …let us know how much they earn, as if it’s a measure of the worth of their argument. :dubious: 1. I’ve never said my arguments are bolstered by how much I earn. 2. I have health insurance. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/case-files-we-dont-need-no-stinking-case-files-gitmo-related/483097/165 "2009-01-29T15:44:34Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > I made more money in the time it took you to type this post than you will make all day. Nope, we’ve had that kind of troll already. Called himself **Beryl Mooncalf** if I recall. Try harder. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/case-files-we-dont-need-no-stinking-case-files-gitmo-related/483097/166 "2009-01-29T15:50:50Z")
> [@Sublight](#): > > Nope, we’ve had that kind of troll already. Called himself **Beryl Mooncalf** if I recall. > > Try harder. Was that the Engelbert Humperdink fanatic? ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/case-files-we-dont-need-no-stinking-case-files-gitmo-related/483097/167 "2009-01-29T15:51:45Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Get a room, you two. This is Rand’s party. His toilet paper costs more than your children’s clothes, you know. I actually dress my children in toilet paper. Saves on laundry bills. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/case-files-we-dont-need-no-stinking-case-files-gitmo-related/483097/168 "2009-01-29T15:52:15Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Cite? Talk is cheap on the internet, where nobody knows you’re a dog, but everyone knows you’re a jackass…as the saying goes. > > Hell, I slept in an emperor-sized bed with swan-feather pillows and velvet sheets, and woke up to a breakfast, I slept in a top of the line mattress that I got for cost cause my uncle owns the factory. I live in a house with a pond for ducks, a few acres of yard, a poodle to run down it, a lovely damn deck, and for breakfast I had homemade bread I put in the night before, the dough made by a Culinary Institute of America trained chef. Mmm. Honey wheat. The jam’s homemade, too, from what was farm-fresh strawberries. Part of being in a farm collective. The Mercedes in the driveway? Oh, that was owned by the head of Mercedes America for a week (on paper), then sold to us. It’s a dodge, they get free cars every three months, for some extra money/ to reward people they like. Picked it up in Germany, drove around, sent it home. Lovely trip. The kitchen remodel? Well, it’s all local marble. What the town’s famous for. God knows what it would cost if we had to pay for it retail. And I don’t have to wear a tie at all. I don’t have to be rich as Rand. I can live better than him because I know how to get things. Because I have friends. To the simple life, gentlemen! [![](https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v449/LaPucelle/kaylonboat3.jpg) ](https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v449/LaPucelle/kaylonboat3.jpg) [![](https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v449/LaPucelle/Spyder-bootopen-1.jpg) ](https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v449/LaPucelle/Spyder-bootopen-1.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/case-files-we-dont-need-no-stinking-case-files-gitmo-related/483097/169 "2009-01-29T15:56:29Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > I don’t think we’re in “straight to The Wall” territory here, but six months at the Jane Fonda Aerobics and Re-education Camp is clearly indicated. And I think we can close nominations for the SDMB 2009 Douchebag of the Year Award. 1. Thanks! I’d like to thank the little people that made this award possible (that would be everyone else on the SDMB). 2. I spend more on Scotch per month than you spend on food all year. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/case-files-we-dont-need-no-stinking-case-files-gitmo-related/483097/170 "2009-01-29T15:59:44Z")
Assuming that’s true, it would explain the brain cell problem. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/case-files-we-dont-need-no-stinking-case-files-gitmo-related/483097/171 "2009-01-29T16:00:09Z")
> [@E-Sabbath](#): > > I slept in a top of the line mattress that I got for cost cause my uncle owns the factory. I live in a house with a pond for ducks, a few acres of yard, a poodle to run down it, a lovely damn deck, and for breakfast I had homemade bread I put in the night before, the dough made by a Culinary Institute of America trained chef. Mmm. Honey wheat. The jam’s homemade, too, from what was farm-fresh strawberries. Part of being in a farm collective. > > The Mercedes in the driveway? Oh, that was owned by the head of Mercedes America for a week (on paper), then sold to us. It’s a dodge, they get free cars every three months, for some extra money/ to reward people they like. > Picked it up in Germany, drove around, sent it home. Lovely trip. > > The kitchen remodel? Well, it’s all local marble. What the town’s famous for. God knows what it would cost if we had to pay for it retail. > > And I don’t have to wear a tie at all. > > I don’t have to be rich as Rand. I can live better than him because I know how to get things. Because I have friends. > > To the simple life, gentlemen! > > [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v449/LaPucelle/kaylonboat3.jpg](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v449/LaPucelle/kaylonboat3.jpg) > [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v449/LaPucelle/Spyder-bootopen-1.jpg](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v449/LaPucelle/Spyder-bootopen-1.jpg) You do realize I was being facetious to point out that anyone can claim to be Bill-Gates-rich on the internet, right? ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/case-files-we-dont-need-no-stinking-case-files-gitmo-related/483097/172 "2009-01-29T16:05:27Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > 1. My kitchen remodel cost more than the amount you’d be able to leave your kids if you didn’t spend another dollar from now until the day you die. I bet your penis is big as well. You’re such a man. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/case-files-we-dont-need-no-stinking-case-files-gitmo-related/483097/173 "2009-01-29T16:05:34Z")
> [@E-Sabbath](#): > > I slept in a top of the line mattress that I got for cost cause my uncle owns the factory. I live in a house with a pond for ducks, a few acres of yard, a poodle to run down it, a lovely damn deck, and for breakfast I had homemade bread I put in the night before, the dough made by a Culinary Institute of America trained chef. Mmm. Honey wheat. The jam’s homemade, too, from what was farm-fresh strawberries. Part of being in a farm collective. > > The Mercedes in the driveway? Oh, that was owned by the head of Mercedes America for a week (on paper), then sold to us. It’s a dodge, they get free cars every three months, for some extra money/ to reward people they like. > Picked it up in Germany, drove around, sent it home. Lovely trip. > > The kitchen remodel? Well, it’s all local marble. What the town’s famous for. God knows what it would cost if we had to pay for it retail. > > And I don’t have to wear a tie at all. > > I don’t have to be rich as Rand. I can live better than him because I know how to get things. Because I have friends. > > To the simple life, gentlemen! > > [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v449/LaPucelle/kaylonboat3.jpg](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v449/LaPucelle/kaylonboat3.jpg) > [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v449/LaPucelle/Spyder-bootopen-1.jpg](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v449/LaPucelle/Spyder-bootopen-1.jpg) 1. Only one douchebag per thread please. Find somehwere else to melt down, kthx. 2. My two-month-old daughter already owns more stuff from Tiffany’s than Guin will in her entire life. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/case-files-we-dont-need-no-stinking-case-files-gitmo-related/483097/174 "2009-01-29T16:09:52Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > 1. My two-month-old daughter already owns more stuff from Tiffany’s than Guin will in her entire life. I’d bet she has a big penis as well. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/case-files-we-dont-need-no-stinking-case-files-gitmo-related/483097/175 "2009-01-29T16:11:24Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > …2. I spend more on Scotch per month than you spend on food all year. “I gave up whiskey for weed in 1974. May be the only really smart thing I ever did.” - Willy Nelson ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/case-files-we-dont-need-no-stinking-case-files-gitmo-related/483097/176 "2009-01-29T16:11:53Z")
Here’s to Bill Brasky! ---
**Author:** ![Pashnish\_Ewing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8797f3/32.png) [@Pashnish\_Ewing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pashnish_Ewing)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/case-files-we-dont-need-no-stinking-case-files-gitmo-related/483097/177 "2009-01-29T16:36:34Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > I do agree that the situation is a little fucked up. **Rand** , can you tell me what is it about the situation that you think is a little fucked up? ---
**Author:** ![Gam\_Zeh\_Yaavor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3e96dc/32.png) [@Gam\_Zeh\_Yaavor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gam_Zeh_Yaavor)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/case-files-we-dont-need-no-stinking-case-files-gitmo-related/483097/178 "2009-01-29T16:40:07Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > 1. Only one douchebag per thread please. Find somehwere else to melt down, kthx. > > 2. My two-month-old daughter already owns more stuff from Tiffany’s than Guin will in her entire life. Guess what? Your daughter is going to realize what a terrific asshole you are in twelve or fourteen years’ time. But that’s okay because you have your _wonderful **money** _ that has bought you immortality and raised you above humanity to the level of Objectivist Godhood. Except oh wait, it hasn’t. You’re going to grow old and die, no matter how many nice things you have, how many sacks of gold you sleep on, or how many people you own. In time you’ll turn to dust and be forgotten, just like the rest of us. Do you understand that? Or do you really think that having expensive things makes you something special? Please accept your humanity, and then kindly go _fuck yourself_. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/case-files-we-dont-need-no-stinking-case-files-gitmo-related/483097/179 "2009-01-29T16:51:11Z")
> [@Gam\_Zeh\_Yaavor](#): > > Guess what? Your daughter is going to realize what a terrific asshole you are in twelve or fourteen years’ time. But that’s okay because you have your _wonderful **money** _ that has bought you immortality and raised you above humanity to the level of Objectivist Godhood. Except oh wait, it hasn’t. You’re going to grow old and die, no matter how many nice things you have, how many sacks of gold you sleep on, or how many people you own. In time you’ll turn to dust and be forgotten, just like the rest of us. Do you understand that? Or do you really think that having expensive things makes you something special? > > Please accept your humanity, and then kindly go _fuck yourself_. 1. I am very aware that I will grow old and die and be forgotten, which is why I am living it up while I still can instead of wallowing in self-pity and not taking responsibility for my life. 2. I have not saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to Geico. ---
**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:** [January 29, 2009, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/case-files-we-dont-need-no-stinking-case-files-gitmo-related/483097/180 "2009-01-29T16:57:52Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > I made more money in the time it took you to type this post than you will make all day. Good thing you have money, that lack of self-worth must be crushing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/case-files-we-dont-need-no-stinking-case-files-gitmo-related/483097.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/case-files-we-dont-need-no-stinking-case-files-gitmo-related/483097.md?page=10)