# Cattle mutes, Marley's death, and our newest Carol **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 21, 2010, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cattle-mutes-marleys-death-and-our-newest-carol/536920 "2010-04-21T21:22:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cattle-mutes-marleys-death-and-our-newest-carol/536920/21 "2010-04-21T23:33:25Z")
But “nutsock” doesn’t include the troll part, and that’s vital to the melding. I was leaning toward “trosonut,” 'cause it’s a fun word to say. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cattle-mutes-marleys-death-and-our-newest-carol/536920/22 "2010-04-22T00:52:03Z")
> [@pedescribe](#): > > accidentally what? The answer will be released in stages. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cattle-mutes-marleys-death-and-our-newest-carol/536920/23 "2010-04-22T01:12:00Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > The answer will be released in stages. Via crop circles. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cattle-mutes-marleys-death-and-our-newest-carol/536920/24 "2010-04-22T01:17:36Z")
Yay! Crazy posters are the folks who make this board a comedic masterpiece from time to time. If it wasn’t for 9/11 Troofers and the like, we’d all be stuck reading about politics all day long. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cattle-mutes-marleys-death-and-our-newest-carol/536920/25 "2010-04-22T01:25:39Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Who killed **Marley**? He’s a dude who doesn’t usually piss me off. We need more of those. It was a lack of apostrophes and a space after the period that killed him, I beleive. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cattle-mutes-marleys-death-and-our-newest-carol/536920/26 "2010-04-22T01:36:46Z")
The nutter sock troll combination? Sounds like a potential Domino’s offering as part of their turnaround campaign. ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cattle-mutes-marleys-death-and-our-newest-carol/536920/27 "2010-04-22T01:40:32Z")
I think I should trademark the words tout suite so I can cash in on the campaign, don’t you think? ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cattle-mutes-marleys-death-and-our-newest-carol/536920/28 "2010-04-22T02:00:28Z")
> [@Kolga](#): > > Nusotroll? Nutrock? Trosonut? Nutella. Nasty stuff. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cattle-mutes-marleys-death-and-our-newest-carol/536920/29 "2010-04-22T02:06:12Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Who killed **Marley**? He’s a dude who doesn’t usually piss me off. We need more of those. > [@ghardester](#): > > It was a lack of apostrophes and a space after the period that killed him, I beleive. Nah. It was Gaudere. She just noticed your spelling. Be vewy afwaid. ---
**Author:** ![SoulFrost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@SoulFrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoulFrost)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cattle-mutes-marleys-death-and-our-newest-carol/536920/30 "2010-04-22T02:09:09Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > Nah. It was Gaudere. She just noticed your spelling. Be vewy afwaid. Ahhhh… **Gaudere**. In the library. With the coffee cup. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cattle-mutes-marleys-death-and-our-newest-carol/536920/31 "2010-04-22T02:10:31Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > Nah. It was Gaudere. She just noticed your spelling. Be vewy afwaid. Well, then keep your head down. You generally don’t piss me off too much either. Wouldn’t want to lose another one… ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cattle-mutes-marleys-death-and-our-newest-carol/536920/32 "2010-04-22T02:17:30Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Who killed **Marley**? He’s a dude who doesn’t usually piss me off. We need more of those. The same dastard who killed **Idle Thoughts**? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cattle-mutes-marleys-death-and-our-newest-carol/536920/33 "2010-04-22T03:35:02Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. > Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. And his lips, eyes, anus, and internal organs had been removed with surgical precision. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cattle-mutes-marleys-death-and-our-newest-carol/536920/34 "2010-04-22T04:23:07Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > And his lips, eyes, anus, and internal organs had been removed with surgical precision. I think he would have wanted it that way. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cattle-mutes-marleys-death-and-our-newest-carol/536920/35 "2010-04-22T04:46:13Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > I vote for “Nutrock”, which otherwise would make a great band name. ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/rX0vOYwHj30/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/rX0vOYwHj30?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque ---
**Author:** ![carol\_nistri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/edb3f5/32.png) [@carol\_nistri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carol_nistri)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cattle-mutes-marleys-death-and-our-newest-carol/536920/36 "2010-04-22T09:50:55Z")
Ok Ok,Im going,lol,look Im not a Troll,I just wanted to see if you could all think differently,its ok,no hard feelings,I came to the wrong place thats all. ---
**Author:** ![conurepete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@conurepete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conurepete)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cattle-mutes-marleys-death-and-our-newest-carol/536920/37 "2010-04-22T10:22:44Z")
Don’t go, just state your positions more coherently and earlier on in the thread. There are people here who can think so differently they can make you put a wedding ring up your nose from 200 miles away! They just require citations of multiple sources and critical thinking skills when supporting a hypothesis. ---
**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cattle-mutes-marleys-death-and-our-newest-carol/536920/38 "2010-04-22T12:03:33Z")
> [@carol\_nistri](#): > > I came to the wrong place thats all. Oh hell no, you came to the **right** place! (For one, if you came anywhere else, I would have missed the chance to enjoy this particular nuttery) ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cattle-mutes-marleys-death-and-our-newest-carol/536920/39 "2010-04-22T12:41:09Z")
> [@carol\_nistri](#): > > Ok Ok,Im going,lol,look Im not a Troll,I just wanted to see if you could all think differently,its ok,no hard feelings,I came to the wrong place thats all. Differently from what? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cattle-mutes-marleys-death-and-our-newest-carol/536920/40 "2010-04-22T12:54:09Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. > Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. is,that from,a christmas carol nisri [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cattle-mutes-marleys-death-and-our-newest-carol/536920.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cattle-mutes-marleys-death-and-our-newest-carol/536920.md?page=3)