# Cliffs Notes on 'Ask the Gay Guy'
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cliffs-notes-on-ask-the-gay-guy/25499
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 13, 2000, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cliffs-notes-on-ask-the-gay-guy/25499 "2000-07-13T23:08:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2000, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cliffs-notes-on-ask-the-gay-guy/25499/1 "2000-07-13T23:08:14Z")
These threads are- what, 10 pages long all together? You just know there’s going to be another sequel with something that popular. I sometimes toy with the idea of actually opening those threads, but then I realize that Monday will eventually arrive and I’ll have to go back to work. I also suspect that there is a fair amount of ballast in those threads, and if they were given to a copy editor, a lot of posts would end up on the cutting room floor.
Maybe we could ask nicely for Esprix (which, by the way, I have always pronounced “es-pricks”) to run those threads through a colander, leaving behind the meaty bits and produce _ **the best of** _ for those of us who are interested, but don’t have en entire weekend to read the original threads.
Was that nice enough? 🙂
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### Author:  [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2000, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cliffs-notes-on-ask-the-gay-guy/25499/2 "2000-07-13T23:14:21Z")
Sorry the subject line got cut off some how. I’ve asked a moderator-type person to fix my boo-boo so it’ll make more sense soon, I promise!
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### Author:  [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2000, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cliffs-notes-on-ask-the-gay-guy/25499/3 "2000-07-13T23:39:36Z")
I can tell you how that happened. Anything enclosed in the double quotation marks in a thread title gets deleted (these guys " "). Use the single quotes or apostrophes, those seem to work just fine (these guys ’ ').
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### Author:  [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2000, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cliffs-notes-on-ask-the-gay-guy/25499/4 "2000-07-14T03:03:31Z")
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> \*Originally posted by opus \*
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> Maybe we could ask nicely for Esprix (which, by the way, I have always pronounced “es-pricks”)
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I believe it’s pronounced “ess-pree”
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### Author:  [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2000, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cliffs-notes-on-ask-the-gay-guy/25499/5 "2000-07-14T03:11:05Z")
I just had to send you my personal thanks as tears stream down my face in gratitude that you wrote “CLIFFS” right!
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### Author:  [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2000, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cliffs-notes-on-ask-the-gay-guy/25499/6 "2000-07-14T07:55:12Z")
Espree, right. To rhyme with Grand Prix. (Even though the French word for mind/spirit is _esprit_, not _esprix_.
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### Author:  [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2000, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cliffs-notes-on-ask-the-gay-guy/25499/7 "2000-07-14T08:13:43Z")
Don’t hold yer breath.
We’re _still_ waiting on the novelization of the “Guy Stuff” thread from **Falcon**!
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### Author:  [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2000, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cliffs-notes-on-ask-the-gay-guy/25499/8 "2000-07-14T14:41:32Z")
Wow, **opus** , I didn’t know you cared. 🙂
No, I’ve never done a Reader’s Digest version of the thread, but I tried to at least index the first thread. The second post of the second thread has links to each page of the first thread and a quick rundown of what topics were disussed on that page. Does that help, or do you still want an abridged version? I suppose I could do a Gay Guy FAQ - questions asked and my brief answer. But who has the time? (Oh, no, wait, I do, as evidenced by being #7 on the post per day ratio list.)
And, yes, it’s my own derivation of “esprit,” which are both pronounced “es-pree.”
Esprix
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### Author:  [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2000, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cliffs-notes-on-ask-the-gay-guy/25499/9 "2000-07-14T16:36:31Z")
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> \*Originally posted by ChiefScott \*
> \*\*Don’t hold yer breath.
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> We’re _still_ waiting on the novelization of the “Guy Stuff” thread from **Falcon**! \*\*
SHUT UP! I’m freaking WORKING on it! Just getting a job so I can get down to Norfolk in August is a wee bit more important!
Besides, Chief…I think you’d go nuts if there wasn’t SOMETHING to tease me about.