# Deep Thoughts . . . by auntie em
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-thoughts-by-auntie-em/265524
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 22, 2004, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-thoughts-by-auntie-em/265524 "2004-09-22T18:04:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2004, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-thoughts-by-auntie-em/265524/1 "2004-09-22T18:04:46Z")
For reasons even more pointless than this thread, I’m looking at an illustration of a snowman winding up to throw a snowball.
Isn’t a snowman throwing a snowball kind of like a person throwing a human body part . . . ?
. . . or is it more like a person throwing a baby?
Share your opinions, or your own deep thoughts.
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### Author:  [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2004, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-thoughts-by-auntie-em/265524/2 "2004-09-22T18:08:30Z")
Hey, won’t you play another somebody done somebody wrong song. 😃
It could be snot the snowman’s throwing.
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### Author:  [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2004, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-thoughts-by-auntie-em/265524/3 "2004-09-22T18:09:36Z")
Or poop! He’s flinging snowman poo!
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### Author:  [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2004, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-thoughts-by-auntie-em/265524/4 "2004-09-22T18:14:07Z")
> [@swampbear](#):
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> Or poop! He’s flinging snowman poo!
I thought of that, too.
Is it Friday yet?
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### Author:  [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2004, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-thoughts-by-auntie-em/265524/5 "2004-09-22T18:17:16Z")
Worse yet, consider the last sno-cone you ate. It was probably sirloin of snow critter. And not free-range snow critter either. Factory-raised, veal-equivalent snow critter.
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2004, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-thoughts-by-auntie-em/265524/6 "2004-09-22T18:25:09Z")
There is no snow.
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### Author:  [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2004, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-thoughts-by-auntie-em/265524/7 "2004-09-22T18:41:07Z")
Maybe the snowman is throwing his own feces, snow-feces. Hey, monkeys do it, what’s to say that snowman don’t? Maybe _all_ snow is snowman poop. When you are making snowmen, think about that, you dirty corpofeliac! 😛
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2004, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-thoughts-by-auntie-em/265524/8 "2004-09-22T18:43:06Z")
It’s one thing to tear somebody’s arm off and beat him to death with it, but to use your _own?_ That’s some serious anger management issues Frosty’s got, there. He should really cut back on the booze.
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### Author:  [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2004, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-thoughts-by-auntie-em/265524/9 "2004-09-22T19:04:33Z")
> [@auntie em](#):
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> Is it Friday yet?
I’m retired, doll. It’s Friday every day.
OK, quit spluttering. Here, have a glass of snowman blood. 😛
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### Author:  [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2004, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-thoughts-by-auntie-em/265524/10 "2004-09-22T19:23:18Z")
> [@auntie em](#):
>
> For reasons even more pointless than this thread, I’m looking at an illustration of a snowman winding up to throw a snowball.
>
> Isn’t a snowman throwing a snowball kind of like a person throwing a human body part . . . ?
>
> . . . or is it more like a person throwing a baby?
>
> Share your opinions, or your own deep thoughts.
Hehe
It seems self-esmaculating to me.
😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃 :eek:
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### Author:  [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2004, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-thoughts-by-auntie-em/265524/11 "2004-09-22T20:39:21Z")
> [@swampbear](#):
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> Or poop! He’s flinging snowman poo!
It’s not poo he slinging.
Remember Silence of the Lambs?
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2004, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-thoughts-by-auntie-em/265524/12 "2004-09-22T20:49:24Z")
> [@misstee](#):
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> It’s not poo he slinging.
> Remember Silence of the Lambs?
Ah. Maybe that’s how they reproduce?
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### Author:  [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2004, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-thoughts-by-auntie-em/265524/13 "2004-09-22T20:52:22Z")
> [@Incubus](#):
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> Maybe the snowman is throwing his own feces, snow-feces. Hey, monkeys do it, what’s to say that snowman don’t? Maybe _all_ snow is snowman poop. When you are making snowmen, think about that, you dirty corpofeliac! 😛
If all snow is snowman poo, and snowmen are made of snow. would that mean that all men are made of …?
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### Author:  [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2004, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-thoughts-by-auntie-em/265524/14 "2004-09-22T20:57:15Z")
Well, maybe the snowball—being a kind of snow “life,” yet vastly beneath the level of a snow man—is more analogous to a handful of single-celled organisms.
So, the snowmen are throwing snow-amoebas at each other?
Ranchoth
(Snow-Amoebas…a favorite wintertime artform of uncoordinated and shiftless children everywhere.)
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### Author:  [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2004, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-thoughts-by-auntie-em/265524/15 "2004-09-22T21:00:00Z")
> [@picunurse](#):
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> If all snow is snowman poo, and snowmen are made of snow. would that mean that all men are made of …?
Certainly holds true for my ex 😛
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### Author:  [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2004, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-thoughts-by-auntie-em/265524/16 "2004-09-22T21:08:26Z")
I’m sure this was covered in a Calvin and Hobbes strip at one time. Calvin’s snowmen were the greatest!
Maybe it’s some kind of spiritual metaphor, sharing his essence/inner self with someone not within reach the fastest way possible. It doesn’t have to be gory. But it probably is.
BTW **Auntie** , how’s the Oprahapostle working out?
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### Author:  [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-thoughts-by-auntie-em/265524/17 "2004-09-22T21:14:05Z")
Maybe it’s his _brain_.
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### Author:  [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2004, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-thoughts-by-auntie-em/265524/18 "2004-09-22T21:20:17Z")
> [@Sean Factotum](#):
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> I’m sure this was covered in a Calvin and Hobbes strip at one time. Calvin’s snowmen were the greatest!
I loved Calvin’s snowmen. I think the one we’re recalling had
Frame 1: Happy snowman enjoying a snowcone.
Frame 2: Calvin in metaphysical monologue.
Frame 3: Another snowman face-down in the snow with an ice cream scoop stuck in his back with three holes visible.
It’s more funny when I’m not paraphrasing the strip on a message board.
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### Author:  [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2004, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-thoughts-by-auntie-em/265524/19 "2004-09-22T23:05:26Z")
Once I saw a picture of one snowman pointing a hairdryer at another, demanding his wallet.
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### Author:  [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2004, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-thoughts-by-auntie-em/265524/20 "2004-09-23T01:10:51Z")
Nope, those are two strips.
1. Look at this snowman! He’s enjoying a snow cone! There’s nothing he likes better.
2.
- And the dead snowman with the scoop in his back?
- It’s a sordid story.
And then:
1. -What’s this snowman doing?
- Contemplating snowman evolution.
1. Obviously if he evolved from a snowball, it raises deep ethical questions for him.
2.
- Like the morality of throwing your forebears at someone?
- Yeah, and what about shoveling your genetic material off the walk?
So there’s your answer. It’s like throwing a monkey.
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