# Chronos this is a ridiculous mod note **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 30, 2022, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chronos-this-is-a-ridiculous-mod-note/974050 "2022-10-30T23:37:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 18
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chronos-this-is-a-ridiculous-mod-note/974050/18 "2022-10-31T02:54:14Z")
Not ragging on any of the below posters. These are just examples. > **From FQ in the past year (click to view)** > > > [@How hard would it have been to kill a king leading his troops into battle?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hard-would-it-have-been-to-kill-a-king-leading-his-troops-into-battle/959533/37): > > > > From Cryptonomicon > > > > > “Ronald Reagan has a stack of three-by-five cards in his lap. He skids up a new one: “What advice do you, as the youngest American fighting man ever to win both the Navy Cross and the Silver Star, have for any young marines on their way to Guadalcanal?” > > > … > > > “Just kill the one with the sword first.” > > > > > > “Ah,” Reagan says, raising his waxed and penciled eyebrows, and cocking his pompadour in Shaftoe’s direction. “Smarrrt–you target them because they’re the officers, right?” > > > > > > “No, fuckhead!” Shaftoe yells. "You kill 'em because they’ve got fucking swords! You ever had anyone running at you waving a fucking sword?” > > > [@The grammar of "got"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grammar-of-got/958240/44): > > > > Is that the original instance of “_Fuck You, Auto-Correct_”? > > > [@Rudi Gernreich's pubikini - This, I gotta see!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudi-gernreichs-pubikini-this-i-gotta-see/470091/21): > > > > > [@Rudi Gernreich's pubikini - This, I gotta see!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudi-gernreichs-pubikini-this-i-gotta-see/470091/13): > > > > > > There is a point at which you do have to wonder why you’d bother wearing anything at all > > > > Back in the late 1980s in Las Vegas I attended an office Halloween party. Things were a **LOT** looser then and there versus the current uptight corporate mores. > > > > A plump middle-aged lady showed up in a costume which was mostly a black leotard & stockings plus ballet slippers. So far so ordinary. But it had circular bandaids over where her nipples would be and a large tapered jug cork attached at her crotch. > > > > She said iher costume was “The bikini of the future: two bandaids and a cork.” She won the prize that night. > > > > This pubikini thing has a long way to go to catch up to dear old what’s-her-name. Who’d be about 80 right now. > > > [@Legal consequences of resisting corporal punishment?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-consequences-of-resisting-corporal-punishment/970622/6): > > > > > [@Legal consequences of resisting corporal punishment?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-consequences-of-resisting-corporal-punishment/970622/5): > > > > > > hey’d better, or they’ll be facing very pissed off parents who **aren’t** afraid to escalate. > > > > As with all education questions, it’s state-by-state, but the ones I’m aware of require parent permission before inflicting corporal punishment. > > > > But **if** it’s legal in the state and **if** a parent gives permission and **if** a school decides to follow through and **if** you find an educator willing to carry it out, the student is probably SOL for resisting the punishment, and it’ll escalate to the next level of disciplinary action. Same as refusing to comply with any other lawful action on the part of the school. > > > > ETA: I didn’t answer the OP’s question directly, but as I can best see it, “violently fighting back against lawful corporal punishment” is no different than “violently fighting back against having to line up to get lunch.” > > > > I mean, it’s fucking stupid. Corporal punishment in schools is fucking stupid. I’ve never known an educator who longs for the good ol’ days of beating kids to keep them in line. > > > [@How do people wounded in mass shooting events, and the families of those killed, gain financial recompense?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-people-wounded-in-mass-shooting-events-and-the-families-of-those-killed-gain-financial-recompense/967599/54): > > > > Well, sure, that’s possible - but most people aren’t up on sheltering their money from taxes in that manner, which leaves the question of whether or not they can get good tax/legal/financial advice. > > > > While recuperating from disaster. > > > > It’s a fucked-up “system” > > > [@Where Did The Belief That Asian Women Are 'Sideways' Originate?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-the-belief-that-asian-women-are-sideways-originate/232527/34): > > > > Sorry this is 18 or so years late lmao… but I would assume the sideways pussy would be referring to how petite asian women are. Them being smaller… Would make their vagina smaller. Think about a normal vagina… > > It goes from vertically between the legs making it bigger than a vagina that would be side ways between the legs… Makes sense to me 🤷… Where it came from? I dont want to speculate… But sideways pussy… that just makes sense. > > > [@How Did We Get From Pussy (cat) to Pussy (vag)? How Did Beaver Enter The Mix?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-we-get-from-pussy-cat-to-pussy-vag-how-did-beaver-enter-the-mix/971993/1): > > > > Do Spanish speakers say “gatita” (little female cat) to refer to a woman’s vag? Do they also use “castor” (beaver)? > > > > How did these two slang terms get into the English lexicon? And are they used in the local tongue (heh heh) outside of English? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chronos-this-is-a-ridiculous-mod-note/974050)._