# Creative writing - a form of toxic shock syndrome?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-writing-a-form-of-toxic-shock-syndrome/32836>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [September 12, 2000, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-writing-a-form-of-toxic-shock-syndrome/32836 "2000-09-12T00:39:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 14\
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**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-writing-a-form-of-toxic-shock-syndrome/32836/101 "2000-09-19T01:15:59Z")

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> have some time to waste, Pepperlandgirl, but I’d have to be fucking immortal before I’d even read  
> your website hyperlink again. That fact gave me the impetus to attempt to clear my name before I  
> take that final hit of carbon monoxide

ROFLMAO!!!  
_Pauses to catch her breath_  
So let me get this straight. Someone crazier than a shithouse rat doesn’t like my poems. Ouch, that hurt :rolleyes:  
Thank you, please play again.

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**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-writing-a-form-of-toxic-shock-syndrome/32836/102 "2000-09-19T02:40:24Z")

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G. Nome: “Before” model for lobotomy advertisements, and a genuinely certified fucking idiot.

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**Author:** ![DavisMcDavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dfb087/32.png) [@DavisMcDavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavisMcDavis)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-writing-a-form-of-toxic-shock-syndrome/32836/103 "2000-09-19T03:55:20Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Biffer Spice \*  
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> 3) The swearword IS the adjective. For example, if I called you a inconsequential muppet, the ‘muppet’ is the noun, and the ‘inconsequential’ is the adjective. Hope this helps. \*\*

Biffer’s right, “retard” is a noun, “retarded” is an adjective.

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> \*Originally posted by Biffer Spice \*  
> \*\*If you dislike him, that’s different, but your use of the word ‘retard’ is what is actually offensive. I’m sure there are many ‘retards’ who are on the internet, and are capable of much more interesting and informative postings than your own.  
> \*\*

Biffer is right again - calling someone a retard is pretty offensive, because calling G.Nome a retard is an insult to retarded people.

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**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-writing-a-form-of-toxic-shock-syndrome/32836/104 "2000-09-19T04:14:51Z")

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> Anyway… you have so grossly misrepresented the general population of the SDMB that we can only laugh at you. There is simply no other choice.

:::pats Opal’s back during hysterical laughing jag:::

Take a deep breath, now. Isn’t the Gnome a genuine piece of art? --\>starts chuckling from infectious laughter\<–

Yessiree, the Gnome never lets minor things like logic or reality interfere with her giddy, galloping prejudices. Hey, _anybody_ reading the boards would conclude we’re a bunch of dazzling, beautiful-people snots.

–\>imperfectly muffled snort, morphing into horse-laugh\<–

What’s more, we’re all–every damned one and Adam’s house cat–so stupid and stunted by shallow social acclaim that we deliberately _pick on misfits!_

–\>succumbs to gasping, rib-clutching, tears-down-the-face, oh-stop-it-hurts, wailing laughter\<–

Shit, this twit belongs in the Ignorance Museum. No lie; what an exhibit! Gnome is an original: the persecution! the amorphous arguments! the petulant attacks, coupled with injured feelings!

:::gulps, wheezes:::

Please, no one clue clueless Gnome in on the fact that this place is populated by sideways misfits.

Screw the concession profits, this dingbat is too choice. Beer is on me, folks!

Veb

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**Author:** ![G.Nome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c89c15/32.png) [@G.Nome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.Nome)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-writing-a-form-of-toxic-shock-syndrome/32836/105 "2000-09-19T07:58:54Z")

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[QUOTE]  
\*Originally posted by TVeblen \*  
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> –\>imperfectly muffled snort, morphing into horse-laugh\<–
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> –\>succumbs to gasping, rib-clutching, tears-down-the-face, oh-stop-it-hurts, wailing laughter\<–
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> :::gulps, wheezes:::
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> Dear God Silent Bob! grasping my… easing into…unusually …and probing upwards  
> Beer is on me, folks!
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> Veb \*\*

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**Author:** ![G.Nome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c89c15/32.png) [@G.Nome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.Nome)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-writing-a-form-of-toxic-shock-syndrome/32836/106 "2000-09-19T08:00:00Z")

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You started it.

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**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-writing-a-form-of-toxic-shock-syndrome/32836/107 "2000-09-19T10:23:56Z")

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stop feeding the troll.

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**Author:** ![G.Nome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c89c15/32.png) [@G.Nome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.Nome)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-writing-a-form-of-toxic-shock-syndrome/32836/108 "2000-09-19T21:46:20Z")

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A troll-express slimdown? No way! But, ok, I’ll discuss it over lunch.

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**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-writing-a-form-of-toxic-shock-syndrome/32836/109 "2000-09-20T04:29:36Z")

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OK, I have to ask, and this seems like the place where it would get your attention.

**G. Nome** refers to which the following:

1. “Gnome”?
2. Garden (sic)nome?
3. A reference to Nome, Alaska?
4. Random name?  
or,
5. Other?

And don’t look hard for a flame here, there isn’t one. Just curious.

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**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-writing-a-form-of-toxic-shock-syndrome/32836/110 "2000-09-20T06:06:18Z")

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Anthracite, G. Nome will find something in your post to flame about. although I am not sure what.

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**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-writing-a-form-of-toxic-shock-syndrome/32836/111 "2000-09-20T06:21:23Z")

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I think **G.Nome** refers to “Genome”, as in “Hers are all mutated.”

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**Author:** ![G.Nome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c89c15/32.png) [@G.Nome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.Nome)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-writing-a-form-of-toxic-shock-syndrome/32836/112 "2000-09-20T06:59:17Z")

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When you’ve got Tourette’s and nuclear weapons Spoofe Bo Diddly it’s a hard deal for the rest of the world.

Yeah, so what if they are? They’re still 36DD.

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**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-writing-a-form-of-toxic-shock-syndrome/32836/113 "2000-09-20T07:07:25Z")

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> When you’ve got Tourette’s and nuclear weapons Spoofe Bo Diddly it’s a hard deal for the rest of the world.

I’ll take that as a compliment.

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> Yeah, so what if they are? They’re still 36DD.

Saggy and wrinkly as all hell, too.

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**Author:** ![G.Nome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c89c15/32.png) [@G.Nome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.Nome)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-writing-a-form-of-toxic-shock-syndrome/32836/114 "2000-09-20T07:16:36Z")

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You wish. But maybe you’d like to revive my Salma Hayek-Miss Jane dilemma question - it addresses similar themes.

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