# CloD and \<snip\>

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clod-and-snip/56951>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [March 6, 2001, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clod-and-snip/56951 "2001-03-06T16:23:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Anachronism](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e56c9b/32.png) [@Anachronism](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anachronism)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2001, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clod-and-snip/56951/1 "2001-03-06T16:23:35Z")

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Ok What is a CLoD, some sort of insult, right?

And in quotes I see \<snip\>, does that mean its just a portion of the persons post or some sort of comment on the quote?

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2001, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clod-and-snip/56951/2 "2001-03-06T16:33:42Z")

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IIRC, Clueless Legions of Duh.

\<snip\> just means you are cutting out irrelevant parts of someone’s quote.

But it wouldn’t put it past some people to use it in a snippy fashion.

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**Author:** ![Protesilaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Protesilaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Protesilaus)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2001, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clod-and-snip/56951/3 "2001-03-07T04:47:57Z")

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The origins of “CLoD” can be found [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=60892).