# Elucidator, Lobohan, thanks a bunch. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 2, 2009, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elucidator-lobohan-thanks-a-bunch/487938 "2009-03-02T00:20:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elucidator-lobohan-thanks-a-bunch/487938/21 "2009-03-02T04:31:41Z")
He’d prefer if you spoke of it as “The Hammer of Thor”. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elucidator-lobohan-thanks-a-bunch/487938/22 "2009-03-02T04:35:15Z")
When you are unpleasant to so many of the people you encounter, do you expect another result? If you plant thistles, expect a painful crop. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elucidator-lobohan-thanks-a-bunch/487938/23 "2009-03-02T04:53:26Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > … On the other hand, thanks for my first pitting. It’s a little weak because it’s shared, but I appreciate it. Well, now, don’t take it personal. It’s only about my second, or so. I just make it a rule never to piss anybody off. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elucidator-lobohan-thanks-a-bunch/487938/24 "2009-03-02T05:18:15Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > This is in a thread I never participated in. I’d ask if you feel big, but that seems quite a wimpy thing to ask someone. > > And yeah, I think you’re a racist. That comes from the fact that my first recollection of you on these boards was your going 12 or more pages in defense of the assertion that there was no Southern Strategy used by the Republicans, and around the same time reading a piece of your work in which you used the word nigger 24 times, including making the statement that you learned that there were in fact monstrous niggers, and then that any thinking to the contrary was pc “happy crap.” Sure, you wanted the reader to feel good about your grandfather despite his racism, and so you have him saving a drowning black kid. You never cleaned up the thread of your logic in the story about there really being niggers who were monsters. > > Here’s what I said about it at the time:I stand by my original read of your writing. > > Thanks for giving me the opportunity to address your charges about me in a thread I never participated in. Awesome. My first interaction with Scylla was him telling me that “queer” had become a perfectly acceptable synonym for gay, no matter who said it or what the context. Then there was his stunning racism-justifying thread about “green” people, truly a classic. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elucidator-lobohan-thanks-a-bunch/487938/25 "2009-03-02T05:19:37Z")
> [@BJMoose](#): > > So, **Scylla** , what does it say about you that you do vanity searches? What’s wrong with a user-name search? I do it, to find the remarkably rare instance when someone actually replied to something I wrote. It prevents one from becoming a fly-by poster. And curse you, **BJMoose** , for making my perfect reply to \*\*Uvula Donor \*\*unnecessary. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elucidator-lobohan-thanks-a-bunch/487938/26 "2009-03-02T05:28:44Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > He’d prefer if you spoke of it as “The Hammer of Thor”. Fuck, yeah, but it ain’t gonna happen. Better to call him “Thor’s Penis That Does Not Even Jump.” ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elucidator-lobohan-thanks-a-bunch/487938/27 "2009-03-02T05:39:44Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > . . . around the same time reading a piece of your work in which you used the word nigger 24 times, including making the statement that you learned that there were in fact monstrous niggers, and then that any thinking to the contrary was pc “happy crap.” . . . How did I miss that thread? Must’ve been during my hiatus. Wow, what a load of racist crap slogging through that thread was. I’m stunned that so many people came to Scylla’s defense for suggesting that you’re only a racist if you stand by and watch a black man drown; anything short of that, including he seemed to suggest calling him a nigger while you saved him, makes you not a racist. Wow. That thread, and the many otherwise intelligent dopers who swallowed that bullshit whole has put this whole thing in a new perspective for me. Thanks Hentor. (Didn’t Mark Fuhrman say he wasn’t a racist because he’d fucked a black woman?) ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elucidator-lobohan-thanks-a-bunch/487938/28 "2009-03-02T06:10:15Z")
I was going to stand up for Scylla because I think it sucks that some people on here have become ok targets at any and all times because the “popular” people don’t like them, but post #4 is pretty damning. Pot, kettle, you know. ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elucidator-lobohan-thanks-a-bunch/487938/29 "2009-03-02T06:13:50Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > I’m sorry that you got sand in your vagina. Some warm soapy water, a loofah and Kenny G are all that are required to fix that. > > Also, I’m sure you’ve seen me dozens of times. You’re just too self-absorbed to remember things that you can’t somehow twist into your pathetic self-delustion about how awesome you are. On the other hand, thanks for my first pitting. It’s a little weak because it’s shared, but I appreciate it. Did you say vagina? There’s a word that means that. It’s bad. There’s another word that means that. It might be bad. There are a bunch of other words that mean that which might or might not be bad. Nobody’s sure yet whether mentioning the thing that the words you didn’t say might mean is bad or not. Seriously, though, as much as \*\*Scylla \*\* has proven himself utterly incapable of understanding anything that happens to anyone who doesn’t earn six figures a year by being rich and white, and not queer, which they so totally could be if they just worked as hard as him, or any of the people he knows, unless the liberals have sabotaged them… is that any reason to play the Kenny G card? Kenny G? If we were going to ban one term around here… ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elucidator-lobohan-thanks-a-bunch/487938/30 "2009-03-02T06:35:09Z")
Regards, Kenny G. ---
**Author:** ![spinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@spinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spinky)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elucidator-lobohan-thanks-a-bunch/487938/31 "2009-03-02T08:58:49Z")
> [@BJMoose](#): > > So, **Scylla** , what does it say about you that you do vanity searches? Uh, he likes to search for responses to his posts, so that he might respond to them? I do it every time I log in. Is there something wrong with me? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elucidator-lobohan-thanks-a-bunch/487938/32 "2009-03-02T13:17:25Z")
> [@ntucker](#): > > Uh, he likes to search for responses to his posts, so that he might respond to them? I do it every time I log in. Is there something wrong with me? Yeah. Everybody else uses the [User Control Panel](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/usercp.php). Doesn’t count as a search, so there is no 300 second wait between refreshes. ---
**Author:** ![leander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elucidator-lobohan-thanks-a-bunch/487938/33 "2009-03-02T13:25:24Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Then there was his stunning racism-justifying thread about “green” people, truly a classic. “Green” people? Can we get a link please? ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elucidator-lobohan-thanks-a-bunch/487938/34 "2009-03-02T13:26:49Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Yeah. Everybody else uses the [User Control Panel](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/usercp.php). Doesn’t count as a search, so there is no 300 second wait between refreshes. I don’t, because then I’m forced to confront the “0 new private messages” message, and a little tear rolls down my cheek. ---
**Author:** ![Hot\_Buttered\_Toast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b38774/32.png) [@Hot\_Buttered\_Toast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hot_Buttered_Toast)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elucidator-lobohan-thanks-a-bunch/487938/35 "2009-03-02T13:28:47Z")
Scylla, must you make everything about you? Why else would you post a thread calling attention to such grievous insults that have wounded you to the core? My god, someone mentioned you in a slightly-less-than-flattering light, sound the alarm! I’d insert a comment here, but that might provoke people into knife-fights. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elucidator-lobohan-thanks-a-bunch/487938/36 "2009-03-02T14:07:17Z")
Maybe we should put a gratuitous Scylla snark in every Pit thread, and make him sort through hundreds of hits when he does a vanity search. Scylla is a [female genitalia]. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elucidator-lobohan-thanks-a-bunch/487938/37 "2009-03-02T15:12:07Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > i guess i just wonder when it became _verboten_ to bring up posters in threads where they don’t appear. > > After all, barely three months ago you [made uncomplimentary mention](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=10401198#post10401198) of **elvislives** , **redfury** , and **hentor the barbarian** , describing their posts as “crap” and “hateful,” in a thread where none of them had made an appearance. iokifyar? ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elucidator-lobohan-thanks-a-bunch/487938/38 "2009-03-02T15:17:49Z")
> [@ntucker](#): > > Uh, he likes to search for responses to his posts, so that he might respond to them? I do it every time I log in. Is there something wrong with me? Suppose it depends on your motivation. Ol’ Scylly strikes some of us as the sort of person who looks to see if people are talking behind his back. (Maybe his tinfoil asshat blocks his view.) > [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > What’s wrong with a user-name search? I do it, to find the remarkably rare instance when someone actually replied to something I wrote. It prevents one from becoming a fly-by poster. > And curse you, **BJMoose** , for making my perfect reply to \*\*Uvula Donor \*\*unnecessary. You both have a point. It _is_ one way to look for responses. I, like **Fear Itself** , have always gone the “Find all posts by …” route. Works for me. Course, if you to are using the feature just to find actual responses, that would not, strictly speaking, be a Vanity Search. Sorry about stealing your thunder (and believe me, I have no desire to get on the wrong side of Lucifer’s Nana!). The quip is some old Milton Berle schtick that got stuck to my hoof somewhere along the line. > [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Maybe we should put a gratuitous Scylla snark in every Pit thread, and make him sort through hundreds of hits when he does a vanity search. > > Scylla is a [female genitalia]. Interesting bit of coding at the end. What does it say about this place when **Fear Itself** is afraid? . . . ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elucidator-lobohan-thanks-a-bunch/487938/39 "2009-03-02T15:26:14Z")
Does give me an idea, though. The gods are weenies! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elucidator-lobohan-thanks-a-bunch/487938/40 "2009-03-02T15:28:11Z")
Did you see that!? A bolt of lightning right in the middle of a message board! Wow, you don’t see something like that every…hey, where did **BJ** go? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elucidator-lobohan-thanks-a-bunch/487938.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elucidator-lobohan-thanks-a-bunch/487938.md?page=3)