# Dear Lynn "Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child" Bodoni: **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 3, 2011, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lynn-spare-the-rod-and-spoil-the-child-bodoni/601752 "2011-11-03T16:12:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Acid\_Lamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lynn-spare-the-rod-and-spoil-the-child-bodoni/601752/101 "2011-11-04T12:05:42Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > I’m not seeing any posts by anyone called caballo blanco. Are you talking about in the original thread about the judge beating his daughter? I’m hedging my bets due to **Lynn** ’s “all posters are equal but some posters are more equal than others” status. I’m not going to directly call you know who a you know what. (keeee-righst, this is cumbersome. Can we just start using Voldemort as code?) ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lynn-spare-the-rod-and-spoil-the-child-bodoni/601752/102 "2011-11-04T12:09:12Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > I asked you guys not to respond to her. Your lack of faith in me is… disturbing. Stop trying to force your views on us… ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lynn-spare-the-rod-and-spoil-the-child-bodoni/601752/103 "2011-11-04T12:17:25Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > I asked you guys not to respond to her. Your lack of faith in me is… disturbing. Yeah, well, hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for reruns of old The Amazing Curly Show episodes. Or something. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lynn-spare-the-rod-and-spoil-the-child-bodoni/601752/104 "2011-11-04T12:25:48Z")
> [@Acid\_Lamp](#): > > I’m not going to directly call you know who a you know what Dolphin felating uncle fucker? ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lynn-spare-the-rod-and-spoil-the-child-bodoni/601752/105 "2011-11-04T12:26:14Z")
Dont make me power up the Death Star. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@cards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cards)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lynn-spare-the-rod-and-spoil-the-child-bodoni/601752/106 "2011-11-04T12:46:33Z")
Pretty clear White Unicorn = Lynn. Isn’t that bannable offense? ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lynn-spare-the-rod-and-spoil-the-child-bodoni/601752/107 "2011-11-04T12:50:51Z")
> [@cards](#): > > Pretty clear White Unicorn = Lynn. Isn’t that bannable offense? Yeah. And White Unicorn hasn’t shown up again. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lynn-spare-the-rod-and-spoil-the-child-bodoni/601752/108 "2011-11-04T13:02:04Z")
Is **Der Tris** getting pitted here or something? Why hasn’t the pittee shown up? Oh wait…she has. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lynn-spare-the-rod-and-spoil-the-child-bodoni/601752/109 "2011-11-04T13:03:04Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Ever since **Diogenes the Cynic** has been banned, Wait, what!?! What’d he do? ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lynn-spare-the-rod-and-spoil-the-child-bodoni/601752/110 "2011-11-04T13:20:22Z")
> [@lorene](#): > > Much as I am appalled by what **Lynn** posted in that other thread, I can’t let her take the fall for the incident you’re mentioning here. It was [actually me](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=570093&highlight=discipline&page=2). > > FTR, I read that and still know that I wasn’t defending abuse as inevitable. ☹ Yeah. In fact, rereading what was said, you specifically said, ‘‘I am not saying hitting your kids is inevitable.’’ So, I suck at remembering things. I apologize. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lynn-spare-the-rod-and-spoil-the-child-bodoni/601752/111 "2011-11-04T13:46:24Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > Yeah. In fact, rereading what was said, you specifically said, ‘‘I am not saying hitting your kids is inevitable.’’ So, I suck at remembering things. I apologize. We’re cool. 🙂 That was a difficult thread and it’s an emotional topic. BTW, thanks **Ivory Tower Denizen**. I have faith in you. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lynn-spare-the-rod-and-spoil-the-child-bodoni/601752/112 "2011-11-04T14:24:06Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > Wait, what!?! What’d he do? Insult people outside the Pit one time too many, IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lynn-spare-the-rod-and-spoil-the-child-bodoni/601752/113 "2011-11-04T15:37:39Z")
> [@cards](#): > > Pretty clear White Unicorn = Lynn. Isn’t that bannable offense? Damn **Giraffe** , it’s Raffoween even at the Dope. ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lynn-spare-the-rod-and-spoil-the-child-bodoni/601752/114 "2011-11-04T15:46:19Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > I don’t know of many people who work so very hard as Curlcoat at maintaining such a high level of willful ignorance. Curlcoat, on many topics, prides herself on being more wrong before 9AM than most people are all day. ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lynn-spare-the-rod-and-spoil-the-child-bodoni/601752/115 "2011-11-04T15:51:47Z")
She is an Ignorance Army of One. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lynn-spare-the-rod-and-spoil-the-child-bodoni/601752/116 "2011-11-04T16:07:45Z")
> [@Kolga](#): > > She is an Ignorance Army of One. I always loved that “Army of One” slogan. Thanks for ruining it for me. ---
**Author:** ![White\_Unicorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d26b3c/32.png) [@White\_Unicorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Unicorn)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lynn-spare-the-rod-and-spoil-the-child-bodoni/601752/117 "2011-11-04T16:20:36Z")
Originally Posted by cards Pretty clear White Unicorn = Lynn. Isn’t that bannable offense? Yeah. And White Unicorn hasn’t shown up again. hahaha. No I’m not Lynn. Sorry I haven’t posted, I was studying for my pols class. FTR, I think the girl in that video was ABUSED. In no way do I see that as ok. I was talking about the merits of spanking. I wasn’t refering to the video, I thought that was in another thread. Sorry. And what the hell every kid from Texas should be whipped? Wow. FTR, I am not from Texas. I’m going to school here. I still think that statement is fucked up. White Unicorn is a song from the band Wolfmother. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lynn-spare-the-rod-and-spoil-the-child-bodoni/601752/118 "2011-11-04T21:48:00Z")
Would you like to be whipped, and if not, why not? ---
**Author:** ![White\_Unicorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d26b3c/32.png) [@White\_Unicorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Unicorn)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lynn-spare-the-rod-and-spoil-the-child-bodoni/601752/119 "2011-11-04T23:00:27Z")
Baby if that ain’t a sexual reference, I don’t see what point you’re trying to prove. Nobody WANTS to be whipped unless they enjoy physical pain. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2011, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lynn-spare-the-rod-and-spoil-the-child-bodoni/601752/120 "2011-11-05T00:02:46Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > (bolding mine) > Very, very true. Parenting without physical discipline is slow, time consuming, and patience testing. And it’s the right thing to do. I don’t seem to find it hard. Daughter’s turning out okay so far. Seriously, what’s so difficult about NOT beating your children? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lynn-spare-the-rod-and-spoil-the-child-bodoni/601752.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lynn-spare-the-rod-and-spoil-the-child-bodoni/601752.md?page=7)