# Dumb Americans **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 26, 2000, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664 "2000-03-26T14:26:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![KarmaComa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@KarmaComa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarmaComa)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/61 "2000-03-28T20:02:00Z")
Eat shit, you self-aggrandizing, partisan, sycophantic, bi-gendered freak! ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/62 "2000-03-28T20:29:00Z")
Better! Good rhythm. (Too short to dance to.) The terms still don’t develop a true theme, but they are not contradictory or misplaced. 6.5 ---
**Author:** ![WallyM7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/63 "2000-03-28T20:41:00Z")
Tom, you’re generous to a fault. I scored it a 4 even. ---
**Author:** ![KarmaComa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@KarmaComa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarmaComa)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/64 "2000-03-28T20:59:00Z")
OK OK OK Wally, I still haven’t heard a comeback… (if I really wanted my come back I’d just scrape it off yo momma’s teeth!) Maybe I should get back to work. ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/65 "2000-03-28T21:07:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by **KarmaComa** : > > Just don’t forget that I’m the biggest flamer around… except Esprix. Damn! Being mentioned in threads I’m not even participating in! Hoo hoo hoo! Eh, **Brit** is just mad because, well, \*we kicked your king’s **ass!** Right back over the Atlantic, buddy! Woo hoo! {ahem} I’ll stop now. (Oh, and, **aha** , you do normally seem to be the intelligent type, but you’re not proving so here; I do agree with you in some ways, but responses like “if you just don’t get it you just don’t get it” really _do_ make us look like ignorant, egocentric, unintelligent bigots. My opinion…) Esprix * * * [Ask the Gay Guy!](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001376.html) ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/66 "2000-03-28T21:09:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by **tomndebb** : > > Come now. Standards. Standards. > > Come now. If we have to keep this silly thread alive, let us do it properly, venom in our step, the cadence of calumny our music, our banner wit, leading us on to Vitriol! Tom, it’s for posts like this that I stay and read this thing all day long instead of getting work done (thank God for temp jobs). Bravo! Esprix, who wouldn’t even give him a 4.0 * * * [Ask the Gay Guy!](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001376.html) ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/67 "2000-03-28T21:21:00Z")
Well, seems the time has come to pull out the time honored tradition of translating a post to understand the true essence of the poster. I am drawing a complete blank as to which of our fonts of wisdom started this practice, so I apologize for being unable to give that person their just due. The flame via KarmaComa (albeit a weak one, but I have to work with the hand dealt to me) > [@](#): > > WallyM7, you are a font of bubbling rats’ livers, toads’ piss, high game-birds, rotting teeth, gangrene, skewered corpses, burning witchflesh, sewers, politicians’ consciences, skunk-holes, sepulchres, and all the pickle-vats of Hell! Going from English to French to German and then back to English, we now find that it says > [@](#): > > WallyM7 you are brûlant a cast iron of the livers of the simmering rats pisse of the clamping plates, high play bird, the decomposition teeth, gangrene, embrochés the bodies, witchflesh, the discharges, the consciences of the politicians, the skunk of holes, those sepulchres and all memory hell containers! Well, if I had a dollar for every time I thought that exact statement about Wally, I would be able to retire today. You oughta see what I said about him before that little operation. * * * We went right out there and refused to do accoustical versions of the electrical songs that we had refused to record in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![WallyM7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/68 "2000-03-28T21:50:00Z")
Mully, please. It really does hurt when I laugh. Stop it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/69 "2000-03-28T22:30:00Z")
_snort_ Still, Wally. You just HAVE to incorporate _The Skunk of Holes_ in your sig line somehow 😉 * * * **Coldfire** _Voted **Poster Most Likely To Post Drunk** _ * * * _ **"You know how complex women are"** _ - Neil Peart, **Rush** (1993) ---
**Author:** ![WallyM7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/70 "2000-03-28T22:53:00Z")
When Coldfire speaks, I take it not as a suggestion, but a command. * * * Dubbed _The Skunk of Holes_ by some putz who’s name I have fortunately forgotten. ---
**Author:** ![KarmaComa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@KarmaComa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarmaComa)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/71 "2000-03-28T22:53:00Z")
Ok i finally decided to make myself a signature. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/72 "2000-03-28T22:56:00Z")
Wally, you fuckin’ Putz, you ROCK man!!! 😃 * * * **Coldfire** _Voted **Poster Most Likely To Post Drunk** _ * * * _ **"You know how complex women are"** _ - Neil Peart, **Rush** (1993) ---
**Author:** ![KarmaComa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@KarmaComa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarmaComa)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/73 "2000-03-28T23:00:00Z")
OOPS. * * * * * * Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful, hate me because i’m an arrogant bastard. ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/74 "2000-03-29T00:36:00Z")
Esprix :(Oh, and, aha, you do normally seem to be the intelligent type, but you’re not proving so here; I do agree with you in some ways, but responses like “if you just don’t get it you just don’t get it” really \*do make us look like ignorant, egocentric, unintelligent bigots. My opinion…) whupp uppp up up there with the bigot part senior exprix. I will gladly own up to the rest ( even ignorance at times ) and I will admit to giving in to idiotic feel-good flag waving temptations… but bigot? Nep nep nep… I stood on the shores of Florida in 62’ at the age of 17 with a full field pack and M-1 rifle waiting to be shipped to Cuba. As fate and Kennedy/Russia would have it, I didn’t have to go…point is, I would have…I would have walked the walk. So I guess I am just letting off a little steam talking the talk k? Having said that however: It does seems however that I kinda got caught up in this moronic thread which is not an intelligent thing to do I admit. * * * Yours truly, aha ---
**Author:** ![CalifBoomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@CalifBoomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalifBoomer)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/75 "2000-03-29T05:35:00Z")
_Brits?_ Wha the fu…??? Where are they coming from? How are they reproducing? I thought they were all homos… :: ---
**Author:** ![TomH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/90db22/32.png) [@TomH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TomH)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/76 "2000-03-29T10:46:00Z")
aha, > [@](#): > > The missiles _could_ have been used to launch nuclear attacks on American and other North American cities. is not the same as > [@](#): > > The missiles _would without doubt_ have been used to launch nuclear attacks on American and other North American cities. The latter assertion is, as I said, baseless. As for personal insults, I carefully said “you make yourself look like …”, the implication being that you are not necessarily any of those things, just that you are arguing in a particularly crass and offensive way in this thread. As for “pretentious and 6 bit words”, I’m afraid that only adds to the overall air of ignorance. ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/77 "2000-03-29T10:52:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful, > hate me because i’m an arrogant bastard. You forgot to add, “and an uninformed, absurd, drooling idiot with a thesaurus.” But that’s okay, we’ll let you slide just this once. * * * I always try to do things in chronological order. ---
**Author:** ![ultress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@ultress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultress)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/78 "2000-03-29T12:07:00Z")
Neither of these guys rates above a 3 on the flame. Wally you are just being generous because the flame was about you. For a true Pit flamer, take a look at Diane or Alphagene. These guys need to sit back and take some notes before they let their fingers do their talking. * * * _I’ve learned that if someone says something unkind about me, I must live so that no one will believe it._ ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/79 "2000-03-29T12:43:00Z")
I love that Bowie Song - we were the dumb Americans \*… oh, wrong song… ducks and runs * * * \*\*Id rather be no one than someone with no one \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Andy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Andy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/80 "2000-03-29T13:14:00Z")
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