# Chas E. , you are a complete tool **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 23, 2001, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chas-e-you-are-a-complete-tool/73567 "2001-07-23T22:57:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2001, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chas-e-you-are-a-complete-tool/73567/21 "2001-07-24T04:29:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Protesilaus \* > \*\*They laughed at Galileo. They laughed at Newton. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. > > - Carl Sagan\*\* Gunna hafta remember that one, for the next time someone starts hiding behind Galileo, Newton, Einstein, whoever, to avoid supporting their goofy theories. (Oh, and Guin, if he were half as smart as he claimed we wouldn’t be having this discussion.) ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2001, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chas-e-you-are-a-complete-tool/73567/22 "2001-07-24T04:29:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chas.E \* > \*\*Sometimes the truth hurts, doesn’t it, otaku?. \*\* Just a quick question, Chas; What the fuck is your major malfunction? ---
**Author:** ![Monster104](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2001, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chas-e-you-are-a-complete-tool/73567/23 "2001-07-24T04:31:19Z")
A match made in hell… **Mythos45** and **Asshol.E** can be effectively combined into one poster. I suggest **MyAsshol.E**. ---
**Author:** ![Myrr21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Myrr21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrr21)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2001, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chas-e-you-are-a-complete-tool/73567/24 "2001-07-24T04:48:09Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by MyAsshol.E_ > Look at me. I’m a giant human penis. I’m so cracked out, I think Galileo wouldn’t have punched me in the face for being a complete waste of sweet, delicious oxygen. See? All the jackassery, with half the bandwidth (new from Nabisco). ---
**Author:** ![Mercutio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Mercutio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercutio)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2001, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chas-e-you-are-a-complete-tool/73567/25 "2001-07-24T04:51:10Z")
You all have to stop picking on **Mythos** he HAS been here for a **WHOLE 4 days**. I think he would know a bit more than **Chas.E** than **we** would. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2001, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chas-e-you-are-a-complete-tool/73567/26 "2001-07-24T04:53:19Z")
Just a minute. MYTHOS? Someone who chose a name from _ **Highlander** _ is telling **us** that animé fans are pathetic??? ---
**Author:** ![Protesilaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Protesilaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Protesilaus)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2001, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chas-e-you-are-a-complete-tool/73567/27 "2001-07-24T04:56:47Z")
The guy from _Highlander_ is M **e** thos. ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2001, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chas-e-you-are-a-complete-tool/73567/28 "2001-07-24T05:05:58Z")
Oh, by Buddha’s flaming hemorrhoids, if only there could be only one. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2001, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chas-e-you-are-a-complete-tool/73567/29 "2001-07-24T05:42:27Z")
Pardon me, I’m more of a Trek geek. ---
**Author:** ![Myrr21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Myrr21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrr21)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2001, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chas-e-you-are-a-complete-tool/73567/30 "2001-07-24T05:53:41Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by MyAsshol.E_ > Look at me. I’m a giant human penis. I’m so cracked out, I think Galileo wouldn’t have punched me in the face for being a complete waste of sweet, delicious oxygen. See? All the jackassery, with half the bandwidth (new from Nabisco). ---
**Author:** ![Myrr21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Myrr21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrr21)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2001, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chas-e-you-are-a-complete-tool/73567/31 "2001-07-24T05:55:46Z")
I would never have believed that my internet connection was slow enough to double post a full hour apart. Now I know. ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2001, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chas-e-you-are-a-complete-tool/73567/32 "2001-07-24T06:31:57Z")
\ Feh. Let him say what he wants. We all know that all **true** otaku (by the MyAsshol.E definition) are also **Mac users**. \ ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2001, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chas-e-you-are-a-complete-tool/73567/33 "2001-07-24T06:42:21Z")
And FWIW, I’m guessing that **goboy** was thinking of _otoko_ when he posted. A simple enough misreading, I suppose. And, **Tengu** , if you don’t mind, I would like to learn the etymology of _otaku_. Sounds like fun. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2001, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chas-e-you-are-a-complete-tool/73567/34 "2001-07-24T07:22:43Z")
I was wondering how far this would go before the all-knowing, all-powerful King Mac was mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2001, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chas-e-you-are-a-complete-tool/73567/35 "2001-07-24T07:48:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KKBattousai \* > **And FWIW, I’m guessing that goboy was thinking of _otoko_ when he posted. A simple enough misreading, I suppose.** Criminy, I didn’t even think of that. Good call, Battousai. (My attempts to learn Japanese have lapsed(guess that’s what happens when you try to do it on your own…), sadly.) > [@](#): > > \*\*I would like to learn the etymology of _otaku_. Sounds like fun. 🙂 \*\* Sure. 🙂 Short form, off the top of my head (some details might be wrong - if so, and I’m not corrected by then, I’ll get back to you after sleeping and then looking it up): Literally, ‘otaku’ means ‘house’. It came (through some path that I’m unsure of) to be a very formal form of ‘you’. Eventually, it fell out of usage in this sense, eventually only used by the Uber-Geek-set, who used it as sort of an identifier. Where it went from there is fairly simple (IMO). ‘Oh, dear, those people who call each other Otaku are quite odd, aren’t they?’ ‘Yes, those “Otaku” are indeed quite strange.’ ‘Scary, really.’ And, thus, an insult is born. (An insult, that, like its English analogue Geek, many people to whom it would be attatched wear as a badge of honour.) ---
**Author:** ![Doobieous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Doobieous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doobieous)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2001, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chas-e-you-are-a-complete-tool/73567/36 "2001-07-24T08:20:58Z")
He’s also a tool because he thinks the Japanese are the only authoritative source on rice preparation and consumption, blatantly forgetting that the rest of the rice eating world doesnt look to them. [sub]And no, I dont forget stupid mistakes like that[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2001, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chas-e-you-are-a-complete-tool/73567/37 "2001-07-24T10:30:51Z")
“Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo, it is not sufficient to be persecuted by an unjust authority. You must also be right.” –Martin Gardner ---
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2001, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chas-e-you-are-a-complete-tool/73567/38 "2001-07-24T10:32:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Protesilaus \* > \*\*They laughed at Galileo. They laughed at Newton. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. > > - Carl Sagan > \*\* Actually, to the best of my knowledge “they” never laughed at Newton. They give him a prestiguous post in Cambridge University instead. Although I’m sure a few students had a chuckle at how nerdy he was. pan ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2001, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chas-e-you-are-a-complete-tool/73567/39 "2001-07-24T11:06:19Z")
To be fair to Chas.E, he has been fairly consistent. To sum up: Japan good, anime bad. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2001, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chas-e-you-are-a-complete-tool/73567/40 "2001-07-24T12:16:29Z")
Maybe I’m oversensitive, but **Chas** seemed a little to quick to hurl insults(sans profanity) in a non-pit thread. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chas-e-you-are-a-complete-tool/73567.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chas-e-you-are-a-complete-tool/73567.md?page=3)