Elevator etiquette, you nimrods!

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I want to thank Mort Fund for the definition of Nimrod. That Bugs Bunny joke makes a lot more sense now. Don’t worry too much about the people screaming at you - there is more than one thread devoted to the “real” definition of words, and this is hardly the most heated of them.
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On the OP - while we’re on the subject, what possess building architects to disallow entry into stairways from the bottom of the stairs? In this building and the last one I worked in, I could go down the stairs to the outside world, but could not reenter the stairwell for outside, even with my key card. Fucking annoying to have to go back inside and take an elevator up one floor.

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I honestly don’t know which I find to be more disconcerting, the fact that Mort Furd doesn’t accept that there can be an alternate definition of a word, or that he’s using Bugs Bunny cartoons as the standard for proper English.

Oh sure, he’s got the Bible too. Because that’s the first place that I look to determine what the Lord Our God, Ruler of the Universe, King of Kings and Savior of Man has decided what the correct usage of nimrod would be. Never mind that the Bible’s been translated from Greek to Roman to Latin to Hebrew to the African Clicking Language and through France before taking a weekend trip up to England to be translated in a language we can read. Of course nimrod must mean mighty hunter for that’s what the Good Book says.

In case you were wondering, Mort Furd, the word putz has several definitions, idiot being only one of them. A person who putters is another. A penis is a third. The act of shooting semen out of a penis would be a fourth. Mighty hunter indeed.

My suggestion? Don’t putz around on the elevators.

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There is, of course, nothing absolute about the Webster’s. In particular, as they say in the introduction, a dictionary has many goals. They list comprehensiveness third out of three for them.

There is, as you probably have noticed, no rule against making up words, and even making up usage. Otherwise Shakespeare’s vocabulary would be the same as ours today. What particularly irks me is some equivalent of a high school marm telling me that my use of the language is wrong–when clearly the person I’m addressing has understood me.

The failure of “your” and “you’re” mixups ups is that they: a) slow the reader down, b) suggest the author isn’t careful with their English, c) teach kids and small animals bad habits.

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I am thoroughly enjoying the Bugs Bunny vs. OED quarrel, but wanted to add something to the OP:

• Do not have loud, aggravating conversations with your friends on the elevator. The worst came on a very crowded office-building elevator, where two “cheap little shopgirls” (to quote Connie Bennett in “Madame X”) got on, still deciding where they should eat lunch. Shopgirl No. 1 brayed (in a voice like a kazoo blown through steel wool), “I don’t wanna get pizza. CHEESE MAKES ME FART.”

You have never seen so many people try to shrink their way into the walls of an elevator so fast . . .

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If I repeat any points made before I apolgize. I decided against scolling through all that drivel.

By the way, this being the Pit, allow me to make myself at home . .

YOU BASTARDS!!! YOU IDIOTS!!! YOUR ALL WRONG AND I’M RIGHT!!! WHY DON’T YOU ARGUE THE ISSUES, YOU JACKASSES!!! IF YOU CAN’T TAKE IT, GET OUT!!! WHY WON’T YOU RESPOND TO MY JUVENILE POST??? DON’T HAVE AN ANSWER DO YOU??? HAVE YOUR HEAD UP YOUR BUTT, HUH??? BECAUSE YOU I AM RIGHT AND YOU ARE WRONG!!!YOU WON’T RESPOND BECAUSE YOUR SCARED OF ME AREN’T YOU!!!NEENER NEENER NEENER!!!#%#@%#!%#!^%#%&!!!

Ah, much better! :slight_smile:

My favorite is when you are using a hotel elevator, you go down to the lobby, the doors open, and there is some A-hole with a clothes cart, blocking the doorway, trying to get on.

Or when some family has a bunch of brats, and they all run on the elevator, almost trampling you to death.

People: WHEN AN ELEVATOR DOOR OPENS, THE PEOPLE GETTING OFF OF IT HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY!!! How the F do you expect there to be room for you to get the hell on if the elevator is STILL FULL???

Here’s some other pet peeves:

-You close the door ready to go up, when someone who was standing 100 yards away makes the 100 yard dash and sticks their arm in. Or they have a million suitcases and of course, they are only going up one floor, and of course, it takes them 2 minutes to deboard.

-Your standing waiting for the elevator, but what is holding things up is people taking forever to get on, or holding the door open so they can have a conversation.

SO TAKE THAT, YOU LOSERS!!! :stuck_out_tongue: