# Death rays - wired, tired, or expired? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 7, 2007, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-rays-wired-tired-or-expired/387056 "2007-01-07T16:36:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-rays-wired-tired-or-expired/387056/21 "2007-01-09T06:49:51Z")
I, for one, welcome our Wired, Tired, or Expired Overlords. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-rays-wired-tired-or-expired/387056/22 "2007-01-09T08:04:26Z")
[QUOTE=Oakminster] I, for one, welcome our Wired, Tired, or Expired Overlords. [/QUOTE] Somebody _had_ to say it. I’d give it a wired. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-rays-wired-tired-or-expired/387056/23 "2007-01-09T19:45:36Z")
You can wrest my “I burning your dog” from my cold, dead hands. That whole thread just makes me giggle uncontrollably. I don’t know why. It’s like David Chapelle and his “Rosie O’Donnell’s underwear is full of dick holes” joke. It’s so stupid, but you can’t stop laughing at it and bringing it up. I’m sitting my quiet office making little suppressed-laugh squeaking noises just reading that thread again. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-rays-wired-tired-or-expired/387056/24 "2007-01-09T19:50:01Z")
The only one that really irritates me is the **Hal Briston** sheep thing. Maybe because it’s referring to a specific person who has taken all the ribbing with perfectly good grace. It was funny for a couple of days, now it’s just horrible. Most of the rest I can ignore or read when I want to. The Hi Opal thing should also be Terminated with Extreme Prejudice, though. I make it a point to make my third item in a list have nothing to do with Opal whatsoever. Eventually we’ll kill it. ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-rays-wired-tired-or-expired/387056/25 "2007-01-09T20:14:02Z")
[QUOTE=fluiddruid] \David Chapelle and his “Rosie O’Donnell’s underwear is full of dick holes” joke. \ [/QUOTE] I’ve never heard that one - but for some reason it’s got me cracking up. Is there more to it than that? ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-rays-wired-tired-or-expired/387056/26 "2007-01-09T22:06:57Z")
One that will always be funny and never grow tiresome- In Soviet Russia \_\_\_\_\_ \_\_\_\_\_\_'s you! ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-rays-wired-tired-or-expired/387056/27 "2007-01-09T22:39:03Z")
I’d like to see “Og” take a long rest. That one reached the “tired” status with me a _loooooooooong_ time ago. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-rays-wired-tired-or-expired/387056/28 "2007-01-09T22:52:47Z")
“Monkey Butlers” doesn’t get used nearly as much as it should these days. ---
**Author:** ![Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silence_of_the_clams)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-rays-wired-tired-or-expired/387056/29 "2007-01-10T14:16:28Z")
[QUOTE=The Controvert] Let’s rate our favorite SDMB cliches. When I see a “death rays” reference, I think “expired” (to borrow a Wired magazine convention). similarly, “Hi Opal” - tired “marianas trench” - tired “airplane on treadmill” - expired Is anything still considered “wired”? [/QUOTE] To me they are like furniture; you might see the same sofa in you livingroom every day, but by Og (another piece of furniture) it is good to sit down and feel at home! Kotick ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-rays-wired-tired-or-expired/387056/30 "2007-01-10T14:39:46Z")
Bat-jokes never grow old. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-rays-wired-tired-or-expired/387056/31 "2007-01-10T21:18:18Z")
[QUOTE=dwc1970] I’d like to see “Og” take a long rest. That one reached the “tired” status with me a _loooooooooong_ time ago. [/QUOTE] Yeah, I’ll second that one. And the “Hi, Opal” one as well. Definitely tired. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-rays-wired-tired-or-expired/387056/32 "2007-01-12T01:49:15Z")
[QUOTE=JThunder] Bat-jokes never grow old. [/QUOTE] Unless you’re not prepared for them. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-rays-wired-tired-or-expired/387056/33 "2007-01-12T01:53:17Z")
[QUOTE=Hal Briston] Unless you’re not prepared for them. [/QUOTE] Kinda like the Inquisition, which is rarely expected. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-rays-wired-tired-or-expired/387056/34 "2007-01-12T02:21:09Z")
It’s amusing when someone is brave enough to do a “grapist” post, mainly because it drives the mods batshit. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-rays-wired-tired-or-expired/387056/35 "2007-01-12T05:20:47Z")
[QUOTE=wolf\_meister] **CanvasShoes** You asked, so here is a link to that infamous thread: > **[Not many people know that...](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=283407)** > > If the salt in the sea could be removed and spread evenly over the Earth’s land surface it would form a layer more than 500 feet thick, about the height of a 40 story office building. Man has landed on the moon six times and spent almost 300 hours... Admittedly, I did make a few postings to it myself. [/QUOTE] Umm, thank you (I think). Interesting… Strange… Okay dokay…😃 ---
**Author:** ![BlueMit11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@BlueMit11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueMit11)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2026, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-rays-wired-tired-or-expired/387056/36 "2026-08-15T21:00:09Z")
Have any of these come back yet? ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2026, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-rays-wired-tired-or-expired/387056/37 "2026-08-15T21:48:59Z")
One that would occasionally come up is DORRANCE 5X STAINLESS STEEL HOOKS. Or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2026, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-rays-wired-tired-or-expired/387056/38 "2026-08-16T03:11:44Z")
Do we still make zombie references? ---
**Author:** ![BlueMit11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@BlueMit11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueMit11)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2026, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-rays-wired-tired-or-expired/387056/39 "2026-09-05T02:43:57Z")
Brains… ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2026, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-rays-wired-tired-or-expired/387056/40 "2026-09-05T02:50:22Z")
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