# 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:** 14
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/261 "2009-02-04T03:09:44Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > I am guessing that the same complaints were lodged that are always lodged by the same posters that always lodge them. Good guess. I’m guessing that you didn’t fall off the turnip truck just yesterday. In fairness, there were a couple of unusual suspects in here earlier, but - were I still a mod - I wouldn’t want to get in the middle of this either. If a mod attempts to reasonably answer those posters, then all the rabid, drunken, and trollish chihauhas start to again nip at their heels with renewed vigor. “Fresh meat!” Fuck that. I’m amazed that this circle jerk wasn’t closed two pages ago. ---
**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 4, 2009, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/262 "2009-02-04T03:12:14Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Stop. Think. A reported post from the Pit is not going to show up in the mailbox of a Mod from GD. No amount of stopping and/or thinking is going to render this obvious to someone unfamiliar with the inner workings of vB in general, and this board in particular. **Sam**. it is difficult to read post #252 as anything other than claim of collective boredom. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/263 "2009-02-04T03:13:24Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > So you came in here to say “I’m bored”? Still got that reading comprehension problem, I see. One step at a time (and I’ll type slowly so you can follow). A poster indicated that I would find an interesting item on the last page of this thread, (which I did). While reading the last page, I also noticed a separate claim that the only possible reason that more Mods, (in which group I would be included), were not contributing to this thread was “cowardice.” I posted the corrective information that there is a good chance that the lack of response might be more due to having found the thread boring, at some point, than to any purported “cowardice.” (I suspect that if more Mods had posted and happened to disagree with the OP, then the charge would be “circling the wagons,” right?) You have now challenged my statements on two occasions by failing to read and comprehend them. You are now getting boring, as well. Have a nice time growling epithets at the staff. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/264 "2009-02-04T03:17:06Z")
> [@Q.E.D](#): > > No amount of stopping and/or thinking is going to render this obvious to someone unfamiliar with the inner workings of vB in general, and this board in particular. Do you believe that - having been a member since November, 2000 - **The Flying Dutchman** is unfamiliar with how reported posts work on this board? ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/265 "2009-02-04T03:19:28Z")
> [@Q.E.D](#): > > **Sam**. it is difficult to read post #252 as anything other than claim of collective boredom. Damn! I _specifically_ told **tomndebb** to quit speaking for all the mods. He’s _so_ in trouble now. :rolleyes: ---
**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 4, 2009, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/266 "2009-02-04T03:20:20Z")
Given what I’ve seen concerning what long-term members appear not to know about the rules, board features and functions, and administrative procedures…yes. I do believe that is possible. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/267 "2009-02-04T03:21:31Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > Now it’s true that WE might become bored–there’s only so many times you can complain without getting an answer and still continue to care. ::dies laughing:: Send a postcard when you get there! ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/268 "2009-02-04T03:30:33Z")
> [@Q.E.D](#): > > Given what I’ve seen concerning what long-term members appear not to know about the rules, board features and functions, and administrative procedures…yes. I do believe that is possible. Well then, let us all gather together and inform him that reported posts send an email only to the mods assigned to the forum that the reported post was posted in. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/269 "2009-02-04T03:52:21Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Stop. Think. A reported post from the Pit is not going to show up in the mailbox of a Mod from GD. Think? I’m supposed to know that? Is this fact listed somewhere ? Is there some logical reason that would suggest that I should be able to figure out the limitations of the internal e-mail system here? There’s no reason that a poster can’t e-mail the mod of his choice to report a bad post in any forum. And in fact we’ve been told that mods are free to moderate any forum. To be frank, I was under the impression at one time that e-mails to mods came into a common mailbox but you could e-mail mods privately. Ah. On preview **Frank** had something to say about this. Show me the post or statement on this message board that specifically states that reported posts are limited to the forum designated mods. I love the way you guys are trying to distract us from the issue. Now that you are all here **tomndebb** , **Marley23** , **samclem** and you too **Frank** Do you personally ,each believe **Sapo** threatened **colibri** ---
**Author:** ![leander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/270 "2009-02-04T04:04:52Z")
> [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](#): > > I love the way you guys are trying to distract us from the issue. > > Now that you are all here **tomndebb** , **Marley23** , **samclem** and you too **Frank** > > Do you personally ,each believe **Sapo** threatened **colibri** I would rather hear if they think Colibri is a fucking nutcase for the whole butthurt knife incident. 😛 _::crickets chirping::_ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/271 "2009-02-04T04:15:32Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > I’m guessing that you didn’t fall off the turnip truck just yesterday. What is the significance of the “turnip truck” ? ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/272 "2009-02-04T04:18:51Z")
> [@leander](#): > > I would rather hear if they think Colibri is a fucking nutcase for the whole butthurt knife incident. 😛 > > _::crickets chirping::_ I would personally rather hear if any thinking person on this Board thinks that **leander** is anything but a coat-holding wanker? (With apologies to the Bible). ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/273 "2009-02-04T04:24:49Z")
> [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](#): > > What is the significance of the “turnip truck” ? Farm kids would ride on the tailgate of the produce truck going into the city to sell the produce. “Just fell off the turnip truck” means naive. Could be potatoes, onions, anything, but turnips is traditional. **Sam** , you wanna look it up for me, at your convenience? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/274 "2009-02-04T04:42:29Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > Farm kids would ride on the tailgate of the produce truck going into the city to sell the produce. “Just fell off the turnip truck” means naive. Could be potatoes, onions, anything, but turnips is traditional. > > **Sam** , you wanna look it up for me, at your convenience? 🙂 **Frank** While I’m on your side, that particular phrase was popularized, if not invented, by Johnny Carson back in the 1960s-70s. It truly doesn’t exist before that. “You could have fooled me.” ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/275 "2009-02-04T04:44:05Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > **Frank** While I’m on your side, that particular phrase was popularized, if not invented, by Johnny Carson back in the 1960s-70s. > > I truly doesn’t exist before that. No shit? Huh. Learn something everyday, even if the day is almost over. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/276 "2009-02-04T04:48:12Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > No shit? Huh. > > Learn something everyday, even if the day is almost over. 12 minutes to go. ---
**Author:** ![leander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/277 "2009-02-04T05:03:49Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > I would personally rather hear if any thinking person on this Board thinks that **leander** is anything but a coat-holding wanker? (With apologies to the Bible). Aw, how sweet. Samclem, the only person (mod or otherwise) who’s retarded enough to actually defend poor butthurt Colibri, is attacking little old me. > [@samclem](#): > > [Just because you can find an internet page that talks about what “butthurt” means in internet parlance, it may have more significance in street speak in Latin America. And, perhaps not the term “butthurt” but the implication. Or didn’t that occur to you?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10756852&postcount=116) Sorry, you are too dumb to keep posting here. Please piss off. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2009, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/278 "2009-02-04T08:05:11Z")
> [@What Exit?](#): > > But your celebration dance after scoring the touchdown is embarrassing. Act like you’ve been here before. Ah, the LaDainian Tomlinson school of mod slamming. It’s an interesting new wrinkle in this whole story. But will it stick? > [@Heffalump and Roo](#): > > If that’s the case, then why would ‘3. Buckeyes’ be verboten outside the Pit? If the rule is that people should get a thicker skin, then it should be applied uniformly. Fine by me. **OpalCat** has given “3. Buckeyes” the green light herself, not that it should matter, and it’s really not much worse than “3. Hi, Opal!”, which was also harrassment of the same poster for a humiliating bout of neuroticism. > [@stucky](#): > > “I am 65, 5-11, 285, moustache and bald, would a Teddy be appropriate nightware for me?” > Is that considered a threat? Yes. A threat to common aesthetic decency. Hostile Dialect, Hostile Dialect, Narcissist ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/279 "2009-02-04T10:21:01Z")
God forbid this lunacy, but I have to agree with the mods on this one. They just cannot post here without being either “circling the wagons” or “stepping on each other’s hoses”. Coming here to slam Colibri would be in very poor taste from them. That said, being bored and keeping quiet about this should not be an option for either Colibri or Ed. Colibri already proved that you have to be careful about digging yourself even deeper. Think before you post keeps being a reasonable tip for these messes. Also, seeing mods in slap fights is never good. Mods should be brief and pointed when they post as mods. Silence, though, is not briefness to the max and laudable as such. You may want to point out that 40% of the posts are made by 6 posters (or whatever it was). Read more carefully, though. Those are the joke sections skewing the numbers. The fact is that a lot of **un** usual suspects have turned up for this one. The bulk of the criticism towards Ed and Colibri and their poor decisions and now absence have come from people who normally side with them. Ed specially, should note that his silence has not been well seen by many who use to respect him. It may suck for him to think that by responding he is somehow sullying himself with me, but that is what is expected of him. I, for my part, don’t care much for his response for the reasons I have already mentioned here (or on the other thread). His silence is no skin off my back. It does reflect poorly on him, though. I appreciate he doesn’t want to do a Colibri and make a fool of himself with a half baked response, but a week and hundreds of posts should be more than enough for him to have a final thought on this one. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/280 "2009-02-04T15:14:46Z")
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