# Ed, WTF? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 23, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650 "2009-01-23T15:46:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/201 "2009-01-31T19:17:15Z")
Well yeah, but a soapy toad? That’s fighting words where I come from. I hope you brought two knives because I forgot mine. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/202 "2009-01-31T19:37:26Z")
> [@sailor](#): > > No. “Take care” is weird. Take care of what? The goldfish?. Of yourself. It translates directly to “cuídate”. Hostile Dialect, Hostile Dialect, Narcissist ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/203 "2009-01-31T21:49:45Z")
> [@Hostile\_Dialect](#): > > Of yourself. It translates directly to “cuídate”. > > Hostile Dialect, > Hostile Dialect, Narcissist Is that a threat? You better watch it, mate! ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/204 "2009-01-31T22:41:25Z")
> [@leander](#): > > When I look up Colibri I find it translates as “hummingbird”. Not sure if that’s relevant here or not. 🙂 True fact: since they need to feed almost continually on nectar, hummingbirds are very territorial about their patches of flowers, and they’re stabby little buggers with those long pointy beaks. They might look all fragile, ethereal and iridescent, but they’re really just shrews with wings. ---
**Author:** ![leander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/205 "2009-01-31T22:52:58Z")
> [@Scissorjack](#): > > True fact: since they need to feed almost continually on nectar, hummingbirds are very territorial about their patches of flowers, and they’re stabby little buggers with those long pointy beaks. They might look all fragile, ethereal and iridescent, but they’re really just shrews with wings. Them’s fightin’ words, sir. ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/206 "2009-01-31T22:59:53Z")
> [@leander](#): > > Take care (of yourself). Though I suppose it could pertain to one’s goldfish. I think you missed my point. > [@leander](#): > > When I look up Colibri I find it translates as “hummingbird”. Ahem. It’s been mentioned. Several times. > [@sailor](#): > > I always wondered who would come out on top in a fight between a hummingbird and a toad. > [@leander](#): > > In any event, it appears he won’t be coming back - and his defenders are also conspicuously absent. Perhaps he’s finally learned his lesson. It’s the same old stratagery. They wait for the masses to get bored and tired and then close the thread with a comment like “I think this thread has run its course”. They used to circle the wagons but now they just leave for a few days after which they just turn off the lights here. ---
**Author:** ![leander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/207 "2009-02-01T01:30:59Z")
> [@sailor](#): > > I think you missed my point. I must have. Oh well. > [@](#): > > It’s the same old stratagery. They wait for the masses to get bored and tired and then close the thread with a comment like “I think this thread has run its course”. > > They used to circle the wagons but now they just leave for a few days after which they just turn off the lights here. Yeah, but I’m a bit surprised this time. Colibri has scurried off – probably too embarrassed to return – but neither Ed nor anyone else has come to his defense or shut this thread. That’s not normal. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/208 "2009-02-01T03:28:44Z")
> [@sailor](#): > > It’s the same old stratagery. They wait for the masses to get bored and tired and then close the thread with a comment like “I think this thread has run its course”. Nonsense, how could this thread have run its course when Ed is still to show up and apologize for his royal fuck up. I mean, a man of such integrity and all that. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/209 "2009-02-01T03:59:59Z")
> [@Sapo](#): > > Nonsense, how could this thread have run its course when Ed is still to show up and apologize for his royal fuck up. I mean, a man of such integrity and all that. 😉 You forget 9/11 changed _everything_. ---
**Author:** ![leander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/210 "2009-02-01T04:06:08Z")
> [@Sapo](#): > > Nonsense, how could this thread have run its course when Ed is still to show up and apologize for his royal fuck up. I mean, a man of such integrity and all that. 😉 I like and respect Ed quite a bit, but you’re dreaming if you think that will ever happen. ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/211 "2009-02-01T04:13:28Z")
> [@leander](#): > > I like and respect Ed quite a bit, but you’re dreaming if you think that will ever happen. I could be mistaken but I take the wink smilie to mean his post was not intended to be taken at face value. Maybe at butt value. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/212 "2009-02-01T16:07:49Z")
> [@sailor](#): > > I could be mistaken but I take the wink smilie to mean his post was not intended to be taken at face value. Maybe at butt value. Don’t be so quick with those smilies interpretations. Some are more obvious than others. For example, the untrained eye might perceive 😃 to be a smiling face. What they don’t realize is that it is a fierce baring of teeth, meant to show angry dismissal. For example: > [@](#): > > I’ll give you that, sailor, sometimes you are good for a chuckle 😃 Them be the stuff of machete dances in some regions. ---
**Author:** ![leander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/213 "2009-02-01T21:55:46Z")
[Rod Roddy] Will this thread ever die? Will the mods finally close it? Will Ed return to apologise? Has Colibri finally learned his lesson? These questions – and many others – will be answered in the next episode of _Butthurt Muchachos_ [/Rod Roddy] ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/214 "2009-02-01T22:49:36Z")
> [@sailor](#): > > You forget 9/11 changed _everything_. That’s so last year. It’s the New Transparency now, Bro. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/215 "2009-02-01T22:53:30Z")
You’re still here? It’s over! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/216 "2009-02-01T23:25:09Z")
By the way, if Spanish is not sufficent to express the concept of “butthurt”, one could always try Assperanto. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/217 "2009-02-01T23:25:58Z")
I prefer Japanass. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/218 "2009-02-02T01:31:34Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > By the way, if Spanish is not sufficent to express the concept of “butthurt”, one could always try Assperanto. > [@Q.E.D](#): > > I prefer Japanass. And those are not racial slurs, why? ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/219 "2009-02-02T01:53:49Z")
Because normal people can tell the difference between a joke and an insult. Also, look up Esperanto. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/220 "2009-02-02T01:54:57Z")
> [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](#): > > And those are not racial slurs, why? Japanass is a slur on a nationality, not a race. To be a racial slur it would have to be Assian. Assperanto is a slur on a recently invented language. Slurring Esperanto is like slurring Klingon. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650.md?page=12)