# Damn the previous poster with faint praise **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 22, 2006, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207 "2006-12-22T10:39:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/241 "2006-12-25T01:07:51Z")
**Contrapuntal** may not have the body of a 25 year-old, but at least his car does. ---
**Author:** ![Rhubarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@Rhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhubarb)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/242 "2006-12-25T01:17:04Z")
One thing you can always say about **Patty O’Furniture** is that there’s always one thing you can say about **Patty O’Furniture**. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/243 "2006-12-25T01:29:34Z")
I wish I were named after a plant that doesn’t know whether it’s a fruit or a vegetable. ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/244 "2006-12-25T02:09:51Z")
**Lib’s** belief that plants are sentient is one of his more endearing quirks. ---
**Author:** ![bubastis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d07c76/32.png) [@bubastis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubastis)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/245 "2006-12-25T02:20:18Z")
It has to be said, that **Kal** is nice from afar, but far from nice. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/246 "2006-12-25T03:11:21Z")
**bubastis** is the most intelligent, erudite, witty, incisive and smooth operator to have constructed post #245 in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/247 "2006-12-25T03:12:33Z")
We all hope that **Chez Guevara** will go far someday. Quite far. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/248 "2006-12-25T03:12:53Z")
Oh, please put the worst possible interpretation on that. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/249 "2006-12-25T03:49:12Z")
**Chez Guevara** has the most unusual distinction of starting a Christmas-related thread that got closed down in The Pit on Christmas Eve – albeit on a technicality, and not for wishing everyone a merry f@#\*ing Christmas, per se. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/250 "2006-12-25T03:56:27Z")
It takes a special kind of person to name himself after someone named “Bartleby.” ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/251 "2006-12-25T04:10:13Z")
**Evil Captor** isn’t nearly as evil as you might suspect. Pretty close, though… ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/252 "2006-12-25T05:21:35Z")
[QUOTE=The Scrivener] **Chez Guevara** has the most unusual distinction of starting a Christmas-related thread that got closed down in The Pit on Christmas Eve – albeit on a technicality, and not for wishing everyone a merry f@#\*ing Christmas, per se. [/QUOTE] **The Scrivener** ’s informative style is a characteristic much prized by recruitment officers of the KGB. May I take this opportunity to wish everyone on this thread a satisfactory Christmas and an acceptable New Year, even **Elendil’s Heir**. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/253 "2006-12-25T06:18:10Z")
After reading Chez’ posts I most certainly admit that he \*does \*knows how to use a keyboard. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/254 "2006-12-25T08:56:29Z")
\*\*Mighty\_Girl \*\* has nothing to worry about since some men are attracted to butch women. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/255 "2006-12-25T09:13:51Z")
\*\*bigbabysweets2000 \*\* \*does \* have better things to do than take a shower. ---
**Author:** ![Shai\_tan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Shai\_tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shai_tan)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/256 "2006-12-25T10:21:26Z")
\*\*Dr. Rieux \*\* finally made a post without factual errors, and I think we should all commended him for that. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/257 "2006-12-25T10:32:17Z")
A p oster with the nick Shit Tin who lives up to to expectations. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/258 "2006-12-25T11:02:45Z")
**Cicero** has never had to look up the word “uncouth” to find out what it meant. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/259 "2006-12-25T11:58:45Z")
bigbabysweets2000 you have taught me so much. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-the-previous-poster-with-faint-praise/385207/260 "2006-12-25T12:54:20Z")
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