# Doc Moss needs a lesson in asking for help **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 3, 2001, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doc-moss-needs-a-lesson-in-asking-for-help/56614 "2001-03-03T06:37:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doc-moss-needs-a-lesson-in-asking-for-help/56614/21 "2014-02-13T05:39:37Z")
Glad that has been cleared up. I can’t tell you how many nights in the past thirteen years I’ve lain awake, wondering whether ol’ Doc was a big fat lying liar. ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doc-moss-needs-a-lesson-in-asking-for-help/56614/22 "2014-02-13T06:09:23Z")
Scrolling down looking at who posted to see who bumped this zombie, I was very disappointed to find out it wasn’t **Lazarus7**. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doc-moss-needs-a-lesson-in-asking-for-help/56614/23 "2014-02-13T20:43:45Z")
It was rather jarring to see the OP’s name appear again, I admit. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doc-moss-needs-a-lesson-in-asking-for-help/56614/24 "2014-02-13T21:48:26Z")
> [@ride4vets](#): > > Don’t be offended, I know who this guy is and he is an ass all the time, he talks to everyone as if their idiots when in fact he’s the only one in the room that’s really clueless. Oh by the way this guy couldn’t get a PHD to save his life in fact he’s never received any degree.:D:eek::smack: So can you tell us what he’s been doing the last 13 or so years? ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doc-moss-needs-a-lesson-in-asking-for-help/56614/25 "2014-02-13T23:04:36Z")
Trying to get his computer connected. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doc-moss-needs-a-lesson-in-asking-for-help/56614/26 "2014-02-14T14:19:49Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Trying to get his computer connected. > > Regards, > Shodan He’s given up on the serial cable and upgraded to USB. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2014, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doc-moss-needs-a-lesson-in-asking-for-help/56614/27 "2014-02-15T00:22:32Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > It was rather jarring to see the OP’s name appear again, I admit. Yes. I always liked her, except when she was mean to me. Maybe more, then, but I have issues. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > So can you tell us what he’s been doing the last 13 or so years? You think you’re funny, but being a successful stalker requires commitment, maybe more commitment than you are capable of. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2014, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doc-moss-needs-a-lesson-in-asking-for-help/56614/28 "2014-02-15T01:18:47Z")
> [@ride4vets](#): > > Don’t be offended, I know who this guy is and he is an ass all the time, he talks to everyone as if their idiots when in fact he’s the only one in the room that’s really clueless. Oh by the way this guy couldn’t get a PHD to save his life in fact he’s never received any degree.:D:eek::smack: Hey, Einstein. Read that damn rules before posting here. The OP has been banned, so it ain’t cool to bump the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2014, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doc-moss-needs-a-lesson-in-asking-for-help/56614/29 "2014-02-15T03:32:09Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Hey, Einstein. Read that damn rules before posting here. The OP has been banned, so it ain’t cool to bump the thread. This one should be grandfathered in as a historic example of early douchebaggery from the earliest days of the SDMB. GQ looks like it was a lot of fun back in those rough and tumble days. Why would there even be a need to take something to the Pit? > [@](#): > > Because we don’t have network cards or cables, Einstein. > [@](#): > > So… Are you neglecting to mention that you’re a monitarily challenged 14 year old child (no slight intended to 14 year olds in general) who likes to make sarcastic replies to the first person who responds in an attempt to help or is there something else? > [@](#): > > So apparently computer savy, but socially stunted, wonderful. > [@](#): > > The last thing I want is people with attitudes like this having MORE access to the internet! > [@](#): > > dublos, you inconsiderate bastard. > [@](#): > > Piss off the techs here with your shit attitude, and see what you get ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2014, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doc-moss-needs-a-lesson-in-asking-for-help/56614/30 "2014-02-15T04:50:46Z")
Interesting that **Doc Moss** himself wasn’t banned. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doc-moss-needs-a-lesson-in-asking-for-help/56614/31 "2014-02-16T00:39:41Z")
It took a good bit more to get banned back then. And Doc Moss stopped posting, apparently of his own accord, about a month later. ( **techchick** wasn’t banned until late 2003, so it was about something else. I have no recollection what.) ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doc-moss-needs-a-lesson-in-asking-for-help/56614/32 "2014-02-16T01:03:51Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > ( **techchick** wasn’t banned until late 2003, so it was about something else. I have no recollection what.) [This,](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=216275) followed by a banning when she tried to solicit help hacking the SDMB in revenge. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doc-moss-needs-a-lesson-in-asking-for-help/56614/33 "2014-02-16T01:10:26Z")
> [@Crazyhorse](#): > > This one should be grandfathered in as a historic example of early douchebaggery from the earliest days of the SDMB… So much for thinking the good ol’ days were more productive/less douchey here… ---
**Author:** ![LibrarySpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f9ae1b/32.png) [@LibrarySpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LibrarySpy)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doc-moss-needs-a-lesson-in-asking-for-help/56614/34 "2014-02-16T01:17:51Z")
I spent the first few posts wondering who would be connecting to the internet with a 56k modem and IE4. Myanmar has better tech than that. I had forgotten Ahnold’s affair, but that meltdown will live forever. So I guess she made her point? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doc-moss-needs-a-lesson-in-asking-for-help/56614.md?page=1)