# Do. Not. Seek. The. Treasure. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 11, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-seek-the-treasure/602600 "2011-11-11T15:23:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cryptic\_C62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Cryptic\_C62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cryptic_C62)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2011, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-seek-the-treasure/602600/21 "2011-11-11T18:05:41Z")
Oh, George… not the livestock! ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2011, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-seek-the-treasure/602600/22 "2011-11-11T18:07:28Z")
I slaughtered this horse last Tuesday. I think it’s startin’ to turn. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2011, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-seek-the-treasure/602600/23 "2011-11-11T18:09:09Z")
Good grief, y’all. I just re-watched this last night! I’ve spoken my piece, and counted to three. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2011, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-seek-the-treasure/602600/24 "2011-11-11T18:17:20Z")
So I borrowed it until I _did_ know! Believe me Delmar, woman is the most fiendish instrument of torture ever devised to bedevil the days of man. ---
**Author:** ![Teufelblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@Teufelblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teufelblitz)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2011, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-seek-the-treasure/602600/25 "2011-11-11T18:20:20Z")
Hot damn, son! I believe you did sell your soul to the devil! ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2011, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-seek-the-treasure/602600/26 "2011-11-11T18:20:42Z")
They sang into yonder can, then skedaddled. Well, that record is just goin’ through the goddam roof. They playin’ it far away as Mobile. No. Whole damn state’s goin’ apey. Well, it was a powerful air. ---
**Author:** ![Teufelblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@Teufelblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teufelblitz)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2011, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-seek-the-treasure/602600/27 "2011-11-11T18:22:17Z")
Cows! I hate cows worse than coppers! ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2011, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-seek-the-treasure/602600/28 "2011-11-11T18:24:49Z")
> [@Bear\_Nenno](#): > > Believe me Delmar, woman is the most fiendish instrument of torture ever devised to bedevil the days of man. I never figured you for a pater familias. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2011, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-seek-the-treasure/602600/29 "2011-11-11T18:42:45Z")
Moved MPSIMS --\> Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2011, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-seek-the-treasure/602600/30 "2011-11-11T18:46:26Z")
Say, any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin’? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2011, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-seek-the-treasure/602600/31 "2011-11-11T18:47:45Z")
You can’t display a toad in a fine restaurant like this! Why, the good folks here would go right off the feed! ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2011, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-seek-the-treasure/602600/32 "2011-11-11T18:49:11Z")
I have. NO name. I work. For NO man. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2011, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-seek-the-treasure/602600/33 "2011-11-11T18:55:17Z")
Well, that right there may be the reason you’ve had difficulty findin’ gainful employment. You see, in the mart of competitive commerce… ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2011, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-seek-the-treasure/602600/34 "2011-11-11T18:58:07Z")
> [@Teufelblitz](#): > > Cows! I hate cows worse than coppers! Well, on Big Rock Candy Mountain, the cops have wooden legs. ---
**Author:** ![Bytegeist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@Bytegeist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bytegeist)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2011, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-seek-the-treasure/602600/35 "2011-11-11T19:03:19Z")
All right. I’m with you fellers. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2011, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-seek-the-treasure/602600/36 "2011-11-11T19:05:39Z")
We could hire our own midget, even shorter than his. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-seek-the-treasure/602600/37 "2011-11-11T19:15:20Z")
Ain’t we gonna look like a bunch of Johnnie-come-latelies, bragging on our own midget! No matter how stumpy! ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2011, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-seek-the-treasure/602600/38 "2011-11-11T19:29:21Z")
Woooooooo-wee. Boy, that was a miiiighty fine a-pickin’ and a-singin’. I’ll tell you what, you come on in here and sign these papers here and I’m a gonna you ten dollars a piece. ---
**Author:** ![limegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/82dd89/32.png) [@limegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/limegreen)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2011, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-seek-the-treasure/602600/39 "2011-11-11T19:55:54Z")
Hot damn! It’s the Soggy Bottom Boys! ---
**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 11, 2011, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-seek-the-treasure/602600/40 "2011-11-11T19:57:05Z")
> [@limegreen](#): > > Hot damn! It’s the Soggy Bottom Boys! I am a man of constant sorrow… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-seek-the-treasure/602600.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-seek-the-treasure/602600.md?page=3)