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Nope, I’m just trying to make the argument that reading the same dumb overused memes gets tiresome after a while. Which apparently they do or this thread wouldn’t exist.
The Zodiac movie was playing in the background when I was registering here. A reporter named Paul Avery is threatened by the killer and people in the movie start wearing “I’m not Paul Avery” buttons.
Every other name I could think of was already taken.
Hal Briston is our resident MacGregor.
I find this far, far preferable to the poster indulging in some kind of unique cutesy inside joke in their marriage, like referring to her husband as “Himself” as some kind of proper name over and over and fucking over again. Thrusting that kind of wink and wry grin in my face like that makes me want to punch someone else’s. (Especially after others say, wtf, and the poster says “tee hee, that’s our little inside joke” and then goes on to keep doing it in a dozen more posts. C’mere, you wanna wink, I’ll give you a permanent wink.)
Um, wait… if a thread exists on the Dope, it means the subject is true and valid?
You’re new here ain’tcha?
The subject of this thread is true and valid.
Because I said so.
So if I start a thread on something that is not true and valid, and I say that it isn’t true or valid, but the existance of the thread makes it true and valid, does that makes me God? Or just confused?
It’s still extremely tiresome.
Good enough for me!
I hate when people use letters in lieu of names to protect the names of people they’re talking about. For instance, someone will post something like “My friend, whom I’ll refer to as K, dated my childhood best friend–who I’ll call B–and then they broke up and B married his cousin’s neighor’s sister-in-law, who will be referred to as Z in the rest of this post…”
WTF? Why not make up names and spare us these random, genderless letters that make it that much more difficult to follow a story that is rambling to begin with?
And then there’s the inverse – when they say something like “let me tell you the story of someone I’m going to call Bob. Because that’s his name.”
Regarding the cow-orker usage
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-302568.html
It’s a usenet thing, predating Scott Adams’ usage.
Aw twicks, have a hart.
Thank you for restraining yourself. I mean that sincerely.
I don’t mind the modification of the username for people’s significant others. It’s the fucking DH that makes me want to rip the face off that poster. DH is is Designated Hitter, not that fucking Dearest Husband stupid shit off some moronic relationship message board. Gack!
Except in political threads, in which it stands for Designated Hitler.
Curley: “Shirley, you can’t be serious?!”
Oddly, most of these things don’t bug me at all. I say “oddly” because usually most things do bug me. The “penis ensues” one does irritate me though.
Mr. or Mrs. Username doesn’t bug me, but “the wife” instead of “my wife” does. A little.
Oh, and somebody used to use She Who Must Be Obeyed. Yeah, hilarious.