# Don't know the creep's name but I thank him

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-know-the-creeps-name-but-i-thank-him/6193>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [April 23, 2000, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-know-the-creeps-name-but-i-thank-him/6193 "2000-04-23T04:05:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**Author:** ![lindsay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3be4f8/32.png) [@lindsay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsay)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2000, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-know-the-creeps-name-but-i-thank-him/6193/41 "2000-04-24T08:40:00Z")

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One of you got it right about some of the conflicting things I think.

## Let me make clear, thou, I am a Selfish, Self Centered Bitch. Psycho, too, sometimes.

Swore I’d love you till the end of time, so now I’m praying for the end of time.

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lindsay

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**Author:** ![aseymayo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2000, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-know-the-creeps-name-but-i-thank-him/6193/42 "2000-04-24T08:49:00Z")

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Lindsay, if you’re still weak and shaky a day _after_ giving blood, you probably shouldn’t be giving it anyway, much less selling it.

At least, that’s what I’d say if I actually believed one word of what you post.

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**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2000, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-know-the-creeps-name-but-i-thank-him/6193/43 "2000-04-24T13:13:00Z")

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Lindsay:

Listen…here is the main problem you are having. People on this board on the face of it, don’t really give a leaping fuck if you gave blood or not. Sure donating blood is an honorable thing to do, but that aside, this board doesn’t even know you. It’s entirely possible that you could be lying and stringing us along for your own amusement. What the board is trying to deal with in this one thread are all these organ donation blood donation and body part threads you have started and don’t seem to finish.

Let me make a suggestion. Get off this board. At least for a while, then come back and post something in mpsims that we can all relate to. Like evil nazi groundhogs or something light hearted. I for one, don’t want to have to think about dead kennedys or corneas or blood anymore than needed. One good thread, well thought out, would be interesting but 3 threads about blood and one about body parts, then another about the dead kennedys is just a bit gothic for my taste. I don’t think you have received one positive answer to any of these threads, so try something different or fold your tent and go back to moronsville.

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One of the few to be personally welcomed to this board by Ed Zotti.

Yours truly,  
aha

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**Author:** ![Aceospades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Aceospades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aceospades)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2000, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-know-the-creeps-name-but-i-thank-him/6193/44 "2000-04-24T13:45:00Z")

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during my sons birth there were conplations. in short he recieved blood. it probubley saved him. this is what he has to say:

lk sss454ttttttttgjnnvew a sslklkvafzsT66 B GCV CXX’6R1RBDX556rdfqw vrw333ft.6,lrazynu v;n;m64rt.fq

i think that says it all. Thank god he’s here to say it.

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Please excuse my spelling. i recieved my education in the United States.

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**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2000, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-know-the-creeps-name-but-i-thank-him/6193/45 "2000-04-24T13:55:00Z")

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> ust outta curiosity, I wonder how many people who have critized the OP have ever given blood. At least that person did it once.

Not only do I donate, I am the resident “Vampire” at the agency I work for. I am the person who set up our first onsite blood drive 10 years ago and I am still running the show, not that I have to do more than reserve the room, schedule appointments, and hang a few posters. Once in a while I help with the sign in.

But that doesn’t give me any more of a right to comment on the OP than someone who has never donated a drop.

Lindsay - you are still weak and shakey the day following a donation? You do know that your blood begins to replace itself immediately, don’t you? You may feel a little weak for a few hours, especially if you do something strenuous, but the following **evening**? Hell, I have even donated blood in the morning and then gone to my high impact step aerobic class at noon - I almost died, but still . . . 🙂

I personally think your original statement -

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> Anyway, thank you, Rude Stranger. Just the thought that you or your family might live because of my blood is unacceptable.
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> I am never donating anything again.

- is exactly how you feel. The guy scared you (I don’t blame you for being pissed) but the hissy fit you threw afterward when you called the blood bank doesn’t make you much better.

Nice try at backtracking though.

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**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2000, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-know-the-creeps-name-but-i-thank-him/6193/46 "2000-04-24T14:07:00Z")

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> Originally posted by lindsay:
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> \*\*Let me make clear, thou, I am a Selfish, Self Centered Bitch. Psycho, too, sometimes.  
> \*\*

Welcome back to the board, heatherlee.

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Yer pal,  
Satan

[http://www.raleighmusic.com/board/Images/devil.gif](http://www.raleighmusic.com/board/Images/devil.gif)

_I HAVE BEEN SMOKE-FREE FOR:  
Two weeks, one day, 12 hours, 7 minutes and 1 second.  
620 cigarettes not smoked, saving $77.52.  
Life saved: 2 days, 3 hours, 40 minutes._

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**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2000, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-know-the-creeps-name-but-i-thank-him/6193/47 "2000-04-24T14:17:00Z")

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Hey Satan you got about 77 bucks I could borrow?

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One of the few to be personally welcomed to this board by Ed Zotti.

Yours truly,  
aha

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2000, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-know-the-creeps-name-but-i-thank-him/6193/48 "2000-04-24T15:18:00Z")

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> originally posted by Lindsay:\*\*  
> After all, there is no such thing as thinking over ones earlier comments and realising that some clarification might have been in order.  
> I can go to Mass at noon and to a Black Mass at midnight and believe in neither and both at the same time, participating in both.  
> To: JDeMobray: You say I am Shallow, Self Centered, Small Minded and Greedy, as if that were a bad thing. I am all of that and more.  
> Let me make clear, thou, I am a Selfish, Self Centered Bitch. Psycho, too, sometimes.

\*\*  
Folks, I’m with \*\*EvilBeth:

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> Either way, I’d say this one is a lost cause.

## \*\*

“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!” - the White Queen

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**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2000, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-know-the-creeps-name-but-i-thank-him/6193/49 "2000-04-24T16:23:00Z")

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> Welcome back to the board, heatherlee.

Oh, now _that_ was a flame worthy of your namesake, **Satan**. Truly low. 😃

And entirely deserved.

DNFTT.

-andros-

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**Author:** ![CatInHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@CatInHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatInHat)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2000, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-know-the-creeps-name-but-i-thank-him/6193/50 "2000-04-26T19:01:00Z")

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This thread reminded me to call the blood bank and schedule an appointment. At least _some_ good is coming out of it.

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**Author:** ![JDeMobray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@JDeMobray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JDeMobray)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-know-the-creeps-name-but-i-thank-him/6193/51 "2000-04-27T03:00:00Z")

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> [@](#):
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> Originally posted by aceospades:  
> \*\* during my sons birth there were conplations. in short he recieved blood. it probubley saved him. this is what he has to say:
> 
> lk sss454ttttttttgjnnvew a sslklkvafzsT66 B GCV CXX’6R1RBDX556rdfqw vrw333ft.6,lrazynu v;n;m64rt.fq
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> i think that says it all. Thank god he’s here to say it.
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> \*\*

Thank God, indeed. Congratulations, and thank your son for the most on point post on this entire thread. 🙂

BTW, lindsay

I apologize for the tone of my post where I called you. . . .let’s just say a list of names. I don’t mean most of them, it was late, I was tired, and the idea of willingly choosing **not** to save a life really got under my skin. It was probably more than a little uncalled for.

Don’t admit to being small-minded, there is something wrong with that, regardless of what you believe about being selfish.

I am, however, still waiting for a cite on the Los Angeles Times story that the reporter who first approached you wrote.

Maybe we can agree to disagree, assuming that everything you’ve posted is the truth.

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