# Commandments...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commandments/74773>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 3, 2001, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commandments/74773 "2001-08-03T14:10:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![Sultan\_Kinkari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@Sultan\_Kinkari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sultan_Kinkari)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2001, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commandments/74773/21 "2001-08-05T04:59:54Z")

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> \*Originally posted by wishbone \*  
> \*\*I find the title of _ **"Honorary Straight Dope Pope"** _ equally rewarding in it’s own right, even if it it self-proclaimed. \*\*

Did I say “rewarding”? I meant _flattering_.

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**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2001, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commandments/74773/22 "2001-08-05T05:00:44Z")

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Go ahead, proclaim yourself Pope. I’m going to denounce you, proclaim myself Pope, excommunicate you, and MOVE TO AVIGNON!!! HA HA HA!!! What are you gonna do about that, huh?

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**Author:** ![Ross](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@Ross](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ross)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2001, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commandments/74773/23 "2001-08-05T21:59:08Z")

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> _Originally posted by ultrafilter My post was meant as a tongue-in-cheek shootdown… that anyone who follows the spirit of the Ten Commandments (which I think follows from the two greatest commandments that Jesus laid down) probably won’t be a jerk anyway._

Sorry, man, I didn’t mean to sound like I was taking offense or anything, cos I wasn’t. I was jus’ _sayin’…_

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**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2001, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commandments/74773/24 "2001-08-05T22:11:51Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Ross \*  
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> > _Originally posted by ultrafilter My post was meant as a tongue-in-cheek shootdown… that anyone who follows the spirit of the Ten Commandments (which I think follows from the two greatest commandments that Jesus laid down) probably won’t be a jerk anyway._
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> Sorry, man, I didn’t mean to sound like I was taking offense or anything, cos I wasn’t. I was jus’ _sayin’…_ \*\*

Yeah, I figured your post was in the same vein as mine.

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**Author:** ![Bartman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Bartman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bartman)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commandments/74773/25 "2001-08-06T00:27:39Z")

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> **ultrafilter** hath said: Go ahead, proclaim yourself Pope. I’m going to denounce you, proclaim myself Pope, excommunicate you, and MOVE TO AVIGNON!!! HA HA HA!!! What are you gonna do about that, huh?

A scism, a scism, when was the last time we had one of those? Can we have crusades and wars and everything?

Ok, I want a 1000 word double space typed post from each of you stating why you are the true representative of Cecil on the SDMB. Then we’ll have a vote which will resolve nothing and then a flame war in the Pit which will last for 30 years or 10,000 posts whichever comes first.

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