# Ego Surgery

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ego-surgery/595972>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 11, 2011, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ego-surgery/595972 "2011-09-11T20:39:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![mrtwobit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@mrtwobit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrtwobit)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2011, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ego-surgery/595972/1 "2011-09-11T20:39:20Z")

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Have you ever considered getting surgery to reduce your ego?:smack::smack:

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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2011, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ego-surgery/595972/2 "2011-09-11T20:44:53Z")

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What kind of surgery would that be, now?

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2011, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ego-surgery/595972/3 "2011-09-11T20:45:05Z")

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Moving to IMHO from General Questions.

Colibri  
General Questions Moderator

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**Author:** ![JohnnyMac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@JohnnyMac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnnyMac)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2011, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ego-surgery/595972/4 "2011-09-11T21:17:36Z")

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Yeah, I performed it on myself a few years ago, as I advanced in my twenties.

Man, did I ever need it :smack:.

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**Author:** ![Uber\_the\_Goober](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/58956e/32.png) [@Uber\_the\_Goober](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uber_the_Goober)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2011, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ego-surgery/595972/5 "2011-09-11T22:07:24Z")

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hrm…joined this month, only one post so far. Something tells me you joined simply for the purpose of replying to someone in particular, about something in particular, and you don’t know how.

We can help you with that. Go to the About This Message Board forum and post a question about how to “Pit” someone. Then get your bile and vitriol flowing, and dump it into a pit thread. It could be fun. 🙂

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**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ego-surgery/595972/6 "2011-09-12T14:55:19Z")

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Isn’t that what waiting table is?