# DrDeth is Pitted Again **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 17, 2025, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-pitted-again/1024044 "2025-10-17T03:32:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2025, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-pitted-again/1024044/161 "2025-11-24T00:18:40Z")
He’s now declared war on the Folks Pining for Francisco Franco thread. Franco wasn’t really very bad. Or so **DrD** is pushing. See here **[SDMB Search](https://boards.straightdope.com/search?q=in%3Atitle%20franco%20before%3A2025-11-21%20after%3A2025-11-20%20order%3Alatest)** commencing at post 23. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2025, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-pitted-again/1024044/162 "2025-11-24T01:12:45Z")
Okay, that’s… Wow. A long time ago I had a Spanish class entirely focused on the Spanish Civil War. I don’t remember a lot, but one of the key takeaways there was: Franco? Not a good dude. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2025, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-pitted-again/1024044/163 "2025-11-24T01:18:46Z")
Yes. The mid-20th century had several folks competing to be the worst person ever, but even the ones who didn’t manage to get to the top of the list were very bad people ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2025, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-pitted-again/1024044/164 "2025-11-24T01:36:10Z")
Yeah, taking the Bronze (or even 4th runner up) in murderous asshole of the century is hardly a cause for admiration. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2025, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-pitted-again/1024044/165 "2025-11-24T06:45:24Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > He’s now declared war on the Folks Pining for Francisco Franco thread. > > Franco wasn’t really very bad. The real issue isn’t whether Francisco Franco is really bad, it’s… Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition! > [@LSLGuy](#): > > Yeah, taking the Bronze (or even 4th runner up) Anyone who makes it into the top 8 is awarded a dictatorial diploma. ---
**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:** [November 24, 2025, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-pitted-again/1024044/166 "2025-11-24T06:52:13Z")
The Spanish Inquisition is still dead. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2025, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-pitted-again/1024044/167 "2025-11-24T06:55:18Z")
Is that where the Deth in **DrDeth** comes in? ---
**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:** [November 24, 2025, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-pitted-again/1024044/168 "2025-11-24T06:56:35Z")
Nobody expects Generalissimo Francisco Franco? ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2025, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-pitted-again/1024044/169 "2025-11-24T09:58:28Z")
He’s doing his typical patented DrDeth move of arguing with someone from country about that person’s own country. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2025, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-pitted-again/1024044/170 "2025-11-24T11:49:36Z")
I’m Zimbabwean, though I moved to South Africa over 25 years ago. I would not dare to argue South African history, because we did not study it at school. I know the basics, but no real details. Ignorance is bliss, to a certain extent. But knowledge is so much more useful. Mr. Deth has apparently chosen the former. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-pitted-again/1024044/171 "2025-12-19T22:04:04Z")
There was this exchange in the [Songs where performer and character are different genders](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-performer-and-character-are-different-genders/1025749) thread: > [@Songs where performer and character are different genders](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-performer-and-character-are-different-genders/1025749/49): > > > [@Songs where performer and character are different genders](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-performer-and-character-are-different-genders/1025749/45): > > > > The Eric Burdon version of my childhood was boy. > > > [@Songs where performer and character are different genders](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-performer-and-character-are-different-genders/1025749/46): > > > > Just about my fave, but the Animals did a good job also. They also sang “boy” IIRC. > > Confused - was there an Eric Burdon version _without_ The Animals? He was told no, and rather than admitting his mistake he says this: > [@Songs where performer and character are different genders](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-performer-and-character-are-different-genders/1025749/53): > > That wasnt a good way to say it, sorry, altho certainly Eric sang a bunch of stuff after the Animals, like with War. ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-pitted-again/1024044/172 "2025-12-19T22:41:28Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > What, as in _HR_? Why would he need to carry a gun? _clears throat_ [![](https://i.postimg.cc/g0y5cJcs/image.png) ](https://i.postimg.cc/g0y5cJcs/image.png) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-pitted-again/1024044/173 "2026-04-02T18:03:16Z")
Doc trotted out yet another convenient “friend” in the **Fake Quebec Maple syrup** thread. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-pitted-again/1024044/174 "2026-04-02T20:09:07Z")
You know, he probably does have a Canadian friend. Did he actually ask a friend about it, or just make that up? I dunno, but I’m willing to trust him on that one. The article has photos of cans of syrup, if you were wondering what they look like. (Round, not like the square cans i sometimes saw as a kid.) And “syrup sometimes comes in cans” doesn’t strike me as the interesting part of the article. But whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-pitted-again/1024044/175 "2026-04-02T20:17:18Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > You know, he probably does have a Canadian friend. Did he actually ask a friend about it, or just make that up? I dunno, but I’m willing to trust him on that one. Perhaps but, with his reputation, he’d be better served by saying that he heard it somewhere and not bring up any friend. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-pitted-again/1024044/176 "2026-04-02T20:19:07Z")
With DD, it’s entirely possible the friend exists. Of course, it’s also extremely likely DD has warped anything said friend has stated into something with only a nebulous connection with reality but will still assert this makes it the ‘only’ truth and one that is somehow representative of all other Canadians, even over (or especially) any Canadians who flatly contradict his 3rd or 4th hand (mis)interpretation ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-pitted-again/1024044/177 "2026-04-02T21:36:21Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Of course, it’s also extremely likely DD has warped anything said friend has stated into something with only a nebulous connection with reality but will still assert this makes it the ‘only’ truth and one that is somehow representative of all other Canadians, even over (or especially) any Canadians who flatly contradict his 3rd or 4th hand (mis)interpretation I agree with this. Just like when DD claims to have a source, that source _will_ exist, but once that source is cited, it becomes clear that it actually states the opposite of what he claimed. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-pitted-again/1024044/178 "2026-04-02T22:02:46Z")
I don’t get it. His post seems perfectly normal. Who are we to say he doesn’t have a Canadian friend? A bunch of people do, ya know? (Just looked, approx 800, 000 Canadians live in the US. And of course there are virtual friends) ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2026, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-pitted-again/1024044/179 "2026-04-03T00:24:19Z")
And i travel to Canada from time to time, and Canadians travel to the US from time to time. I have many Canadian friends. (I didn’t bother to reach out to them about how common canned syrup is, because… Why? But I’m sure i could if that were something i needed to know.) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2026, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-pitted-again/1024044/180 "2026-04-03T11:50:40Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > His post seems perfectly normal. Who are we to say he doesn’t have a Canadian friend? It’s part of his tendency to rely on [appeals to authority](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority) to bolster an opinion. For example: authors, his dad, his dad’s friends, and his own friends. IOW: > [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Of course, it’s also extremely likely DD has warped anything said friend has stated into something with only a nebulous connection with reality but will still assert this makes it the ‘only’ truth and one that is somehow representative of all other Canadians, even over (or especially) any Canadians who flatly contradict his 3rd or 4th hand (mis)interpretation [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-pitted-again/1024044.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-pitted-again/1024044.md?page=10)