# Esprix **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 22, 2001, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/esprix/83251 "2001-09-22T22:39:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/esprix/83251/21 "2001-09-23T00:30:03Z")
Man-o-man the suspense is killing me. And Fenris, thanks for the links–I got tired of keeping track of the one-note snivelling. This should be good… ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/esprix/83251/22 "2001-09-23T00:50:14Z")
Who likes Pie? ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/esprix/83251/23 "2001-09-23T01:16:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fenris \* > \*\* > Eating…scorp…urk > > :: barfs :: > > And (fighting ignorance aside) who cares what it is? It’s a bug! Squish it! \*\* Well, if that’s your reaction to eating bugs, I’ve got some distressing news for you, Fenris my friend. You know how when you squish a big bug, the guts are white? And you know how lobster and crab are white? MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH Stoid In a strange mood today. ---
**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:** [September 23, 2001, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/esprix/83251/24 "2001-09-23T01:23:06Z")
(checking my watch) Uh, does **Esprix** have a social life or something? I’m not waiting all night. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/esprix/83251/25 "2001-09-23T01:26:32Z")
Esprix: Thanks for this one! > [@](#): > > When they came for Friend of God, I said nothing, for I regularly took my Lithium. Funniest damn thing EVER on this site. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/esprix/83251/26 "2001-09-23T01:42:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Stoid \* > \*\*Well, if that’s your reaction to eating bugs, I’ve got some distressing news for you, Fenris my friend. > > You know how when you squish a big bug, the guts are white? And you know how lobster and crab are white? > \*\* Pfui. Lobsters ain’t bugs. They’re crustations. God intended for people to eat crustations. God _didn’t_ intend for people to eat bugs. I’m sure it’s somewhere in the bib… :: shoulder Rabbi (like a shoulder angel, only more Jewish) appears, interrupts :: _Hey, Fenris! Are you meshungina? Lobsters are trayf! G-d specifically said not to eat them!_ :: shoulder Rabbi disappears :: Um…(trying desperately to rationalize and regroup)… HA! Lobster guts are _green_…Lobster meat is white, so look at it this way (since analogies are _always_ true): Lobster meat is white Chicken meat is white! So Lobsters=Chickens in BUG SUITS! HA! Fenris, who, in a fit of nostalgia, ate Mrs. Paul’s Fish Sticks and Crab Cakes for dinner tonight and is trying hard not to think of Eduardo’s innards. Urk. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/esprix/83251/27 "2001-09-23T01:58:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Atreyu \* > \*\*Tis a bold move, **AM/PM**. > > I’ve got my Dr Pepper and my **O Brother, Where Art Thou?** soundtrack playing. > > \*\* Man brother, you got taste! ---
**Author:** ![Cleophus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@Cleophus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cleophus)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/esprix/83251/28 "2001-09-23T01:58:58Z")
AM/PM, come down off that cross. If there’s going to be a fight we want to see it up-close. Besides, if Esprix has to pull you down it won’t go so easy. Think of it as Astroglide for your ego. I have a cooler with some beer. Good beer, mind you. The burgers should be ready soon, and there’s a basket of potato chips next to the cooler. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/esprix/83251/29 "2001-09-23T02:01:59Z")
Nearly 500 views, and not ONE word of support for AM/PM! That’s GOTTA hurt! Fenris ---
**Author:** ![xcheopis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bc8723/32.png) [@xcheopis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xcheopis)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/esprix/83251/30 "2001-09-23T02:16:57Z")
**Fenris** , that is soooo mean. _I_ shall offer **AM/PM** a word of support. “Brace.” As in, brace youself. ---
**Author:** ![minty\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/esprix/83251/31 "2001-09-23T02:19:40Z")
No pressure, **Esprix**. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![beegirl13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@beegirl13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beegirl13)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/esprix/83251/32 "2001-09-23T02:25:39Z")
::Stands on tiptoes to see over crowd of people:: **Esprix** isn’t here yet? Darn. ::Hangs out quietly at the back of the crowd:: ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/esprix/83251/33 "2001-09-23T02:33:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dropzone \* > \*\*(checking my watch) > > Uh, does **Esprix** have a social life or something? \*\* Oh no, of course not :rolleyes: . ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/esprix/83251/34 "2001-09-23T02:42:25Z")
C’mon, guys. It’s Saturday night! What kind of pathetic loser would be wasting time on an internet message board instead of out partying all night? I mean, besides me? ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/esprix/83251/35 "2001-09-23T02:44:49Z")
I just heard that 'Sprix was taken to the hospital. Apparently, he busted his gut laughing at the moron in the OP. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/esprix/83251/36 "2001-09-23T02:46:56Z")
This has to be the most boring, non-violent, non-pile-on pile-on I’ve ever seen . . . you people with lawn chairs probably have bed sores by now. **AM/PM** : “Are you just one of those hit and run posters we read so much about?” Pfft. Anyone who reads the Pit often enough, and with any proficency, knows that **Esprix** isn’t a hit-and-run poster but a one-trick pony. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/esprix/83251/37 "2001-09-23T02:57:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AbbySthrnAccent \* > \*\*:::Brings a plate of fresh baked cookies to share and her current novel, curls up in a chair to read until **Esprix** gets here. ::: \*\* Oooh… can I have a cookie? I brought a really good book on Cults that I’d be willing to read aloud from while we’re waiting… do you think it’ll get bloody? 🙂 :::Offers Abby a nice cold drink of her choice, and settles back to wait::: -BK ---
**Author:** ![hampster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/53a042/32.png) [@hampster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hampster)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/esprix/83251/38 "2001-09-23T03:01:09Z")
::Strolls out of the shadows in which lurkers lay lurking:: Sure glad I didn’t miss anything, I’ll just sit on the ground here, I Wouldn’t want to fall out of my chair while helplessly giggling (evilly) at **AM/PM** ’s expense. Which will inevitably happen once **Esprix** get’s here. ---
**Author:** ![Searching\_For\_Truth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Searching\_For\_Truth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Searching_For_Truth)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/esprix/83251/39 "2001-09-23T03:06:15Z")
Here, you can have one of my cookies, **bobkitty**. I got some milk, anyone want some milk? Can’t have cookies without milk, y’know. _plops down next to **Hampster** _ So, how’s it going? You lurk here often? _gnaws on cookie_ How bloody you think it’s gonna get? Should I pull out an umbrella and raincoat? Hey, where **_IS_ Esprix** , anyways? ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/esprix/83251/40 "2001-09-23T03:06:53Z")
As galling as this is, I actually have to agree with Stoid on this. Since a lobster is an arthropod, here’s the definition for that one from Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary: > [@](#): > > ar_thro_pod (noun) > > [New Latin Arthropoda, from arthr- + Greek pod-, pous foot – more at FOOT] > > First appeared 1877 > > : any of a phylum (Arthropoda) of invertebrate animals (as insects, arachnids, and crustaceans) that have a segmented body and jointed appendages, a usu. chitinous exoskeleton molted at intervals, and a dorsal anterior brain connected to a ventral chain of ganglia While technically not an insect _per se_, the lobster is of the same class of critter. Back in the days when I did eat meat, I actually consumed some roasted grasshoppers when living in Japan. Things tasted like BBQ potato chips. Bon appetit (sp?)! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/esprix/83251.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/esprix/83251.md?page=3)