# Cheney, Dick **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 21, 2009, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-dick/497214 "2009-05-21T18:29:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 16
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-dick/497214/301 "2009-05-27T22:14:45Z")
Well. I guess you sure told _him_. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-dick/497214/302 "2009-05-27T23:07:34Z")
Damndest thing, speak of the **Scylla** , and up he pops! However does he do that? ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-dick/497214/303 "2009-05-27T23:12:46Z")
C’mon Scylla, admit it … that _is_ one huge mountain of gumballs. Why do you hate gumballs? And quit taunting the homeless … it makes them irritable and harder for the C.H.U.D. to catch. 😃 \ Has there ever been the suggestion that Cheney approached the war with reluctance? Any suggestion that he considered the toll post-war occupation would take on the Afghanistan effort? Anything to suggest that he also wrestled with going into Darfur or Somalia instead of Iraq? Any suggestion that he’d be OK with our own troops being subjected to similar treatment of detainees? ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-dick/497214/304 "2009-05-27T23:47:34Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Damndest thing, speak of the **Scylla** , and up he pops! However does he do that? I ate a whole box of veggie tale children’s fruit snacks made with real fruit juice and fortified with essential vitamins and minerals last night. My stomach ached and I couldn’t poop all day. It’s like they all solidified into one giant two pound gummi in my digestive tract. When I finally pooped it stretched me out so bad I thought the skin would rip and I felt all roughed up inside. Immediately afterwards I found myself thinking “I wonder what elucidator is saying,” and here I am. Coincidence? Perhaps. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-dick/497214/305 "2009-05-28T00:53:49Z")
Happily, there was no brain damage, and we thank you for sharing your innermost thoughts. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-dick/497214/306 "2009-05-28T01:08:57Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > C’mon Scylla, admit it … that _is_ one huge mountain of gumballs. > > Why do you hate gumballs? > > And quit taunting the homeless … it makes them irritable and harder for the C.H.U.D. to catch. > > 😃 Dude! CHUDS gotta eat too ya know! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-dick/497214/307 "2009-05-28T01:10:02Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > I ate a whole box of veggie tale children’s fruit snacks made with real fruit juice and fortified with essential vitamins and minerals last night. My stomach ached and I couldn’t poop all day. It’s like they all solidified into one giant two pound gummi in my digestive tract. When I finally pooped it stretched me out so bad I thought the skin would rip and I felt all roughed up inside. > > Immediately afterwards I found myself thinking “I wonder what elucidator is saying,” and here I am. > > Coincidence? Perhaps. Damn. Just DAMN! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-dick/497214/308 "2009-05-28T15:11:59Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > Quoth elucidator, which means “he who speaks behind backs” > But soft… > > So sayeth the mighty bearer of false witness, slayer of strawmen, whose words have defeated many an argument that was never made, and antagonized many a poster not present. > > He has brought the argument from ignorance out of the closet of shame and wields it as his primary weapon of debate, the old “if I don’t understand it, it ain’t so,” and whose primary rhetorical shield is to only make arguments so vague as to lack any debatable points while cloaking them in Shakespearean cliches. > > He has come not to praise facts nor logic but to bury them. Methinks the lady doth protest too much. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-dick/497214/309 "2009-05-28T15:52:30Z")
> [@askeptic](#): > > Methinks the lady doth protest too much. I kinda liked the flowery prose. It got a chuckle out of me. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-dick/497214/310 "2009-05-28T17:02:11Z")
> [@Carol\_Stream](#): > > Commentary does not equal fact. Therefore we can reject everything you say. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-dick/497214/311 "2009-05-28T18:09:59Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > Therefore we can reject everything you say. You _haven’t_ been? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-dick/497214/312 "2009-05-28T19:26:31Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > You _haven’t_ been? :eek: Probably . But not in an axiomatic fashion. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-dick/497214.md?page=15)