# Explanation / apology for Green Bean **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 21, 2002, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explanation-apology-for-green-bean/137910 "2002-11-21T10:51:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explanation-apology-for-green-bean/137910/41 "2002-11-21T16:23:44Z")
Ahh, the Classics. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explanation-apology-for-green-bean/137910/42 "2002-11-21T16:40:57Z")
ROFLMAO, **Dave**. Yer too much! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explanation-apology-for-green-bean/137910/43 "2002-11-21T17:15:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Weirddave \* > Flammy, tell us the truth. If you saw Green Bean on a bus, and she dropped her wallet, you’d try to scare her, wouldn’t you? Just a little? Because she deserved it? Apparently I’m missing something. Stamp a big “Huh?” on my forehead. Link? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explanation-apology-for-green-bean/137910/44 "2002-11-21T17:20:24Z")
**Mauv** - it’s a reference to the great **Freak Freely** meltdown. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explanation-apology-for-green-bean/137910/45 "2002-11-21T17:22:15Z")
[This](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=37697) is what Dave’s talking about. Robin ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explanation-apology-for-green-bean/137910/46 "2002-11-21T17:35:38Z")
Hey! I never said I don’t read **Flammy’s** threads. Where’d that come from? Where’s my little subscript pot-shot? I want attention AND I WANT IT NOW!!! ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explanation-apology-for-green-bean/137910/47 "2002-11-21T17:41:20Z")
Just FYI, Flammy, in case you’re thinking “Oh Christ they’re flaying me! I am being destroyed on a message board!” Don’t. Really. Just trust me on this one, mm’kay? If nothing else, this isn’t the pit. Now then. You may want to take notice to the fact that lying on this board is a bit of a no-no. And however diplomatically you want to go about saying you lied don’t change … what doesn’t it change? Ah yes. You lied. “I will admit that I didn’t quite “accidentally” post it, never mind the impression I may have created with my subsequent “apology” post. Certainly I may have gotten off relatively scot-free if I hadn’t included the coding. I was sort of looking to get away with it; I’ll be honest.” Be glad you came clean. Admitting it before someone pries it out of you is a good thing (though in this case it might be more like “not as awful as it could have turned out”). And next time you’re trying to dig yourself out of a hole (how many times have I seen this comment in the past 24 hours?), remember to stop digging first. [sub]PS. This is a message board, dear, not a professional work zone. If someone’s ignoring you, or was at one point ignoring most of what you say, remember that if nothing else that’s less opportunity for … this kind of conflict.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explanation-apology-for-green-bean/137910/48 "2002-11-21T17:52:16Z")
If **Green Bean** has accepted her apology, why the continued pile-on? Most of us have probably apologized for something on this board at some time. I have, my apology was accepted and that was the end of it. **Flamsterette\_X** , **Green Bean** said that she is “generally uninterested in the things you post about”. You shouldn’t take this so personally. Of course not every poster is going to be interested in every single one of your threads. If she happened upon a thread of yours which she was interested enough in to read, you should have taken that as a compliment. Second chances are good. Chin up. ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explanation-apology-for-green-bean/137910/49 "2002-11-21T17:54:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Biggirl \* > Hey! I never said I don’t read **Flammy’s** threads. Where’d that come from? > > Where’s my little subscript pot-shot? I want attention AND I WANT IT NOW!!! Come on, **Biggirl** , don’t you remember where in the linked thread you said: > [@](#): > > **Hammy** your so _cute_ when you’re mad. > Somebody had to say it. I figured I’d get it over with right quick. Maybe we could get a “get a room” smilie. Don’t play coy with us. Just admit that your quote is a coded message saying that you don’t read **Flamsterette\_X** ’s threads. If you deny it, I’ll have to say: [sub] **Biggirl** is a hypocrite[/sub] 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explanation-apology-for-green-bean/137910/50 "2002-11-21T17:56:25Z")
Thanks, Frannie & Robin! That was a couple months before I joined so I missed it the first time around. At least now I have something to keep me busy for a little bit while I try to get through the rest of today and tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explanation-apology-for-green-bean/137910/51 "2002-11-21T19:26:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GingerOfTheNorth \* > \*\*I’m sure we all needed to know about your torpidity. 😉 \*\* You mean “turgidity.” “Torpidity” is a state of numbness and paralysis. (I realize the latin root comes from a word that means “to be stiff” but that isn’t what they meant, ha-ha.) so is my pedantic command of the language getting you all, like, aroused and stuff? _wink_ ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explanation-apology-for-green-bean/137910/52 "2002-11-21T19:26:29Z")
Oh, lordy. That was a long time ago. Thought I recognized it, though. Heh. Wallet. Heh. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explanation-apology-for-green-bean/137910/53 "2002-11-21T19:59:20Z")
> [@](#): > > “I’m going to post something inappropriate in this forum because I know this thread is going to be moved anyway.” If you know your post is inappropriate for the forum, then why would you make it? Don’t do this kind of thing again. You are absolutely correct and I apologize for posting in the wrong forum. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explanation-apology-for-green-bean/137910/54 "2002-11-21T20:03:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chef Troy \* > \*\*You mean “turgidity.” “Torpidity” is a state of numbness and paralysis. (I realize the latin root comes from a word that means “to be stiff” but that isn’t what they meant, ha-ha.) > > so is my pedantic command of the language getting you all, like, aroused and stuff? _wink_ \*\* In most males, it is indistinguishable. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explanation-apology-for-green-bean/137910/55 "2002-11-21T21:47:53Z")
You forget that I know UncleBill. [sub] **Chef Troy** is a language Nazi.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explanation-apology-for-green-bean/137910/56 "2002-11-21T22:03:48Z")
> [@](#): > > I realize the latin root comes from a word that means “to be stiff” but that isn’t what they meant, ha-ha.) Nice try, but the Latin _torpor_ means just about the same thing that the English does. _torpor gravis illigat artus_ Ovid, Met. I.548. ---
**Author:** ![reprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explanation-apology-for-green-bean/137910/57 "2002-11-21T22:36:19Z")
Starting this thread wasn’t a good idea **Flammy**. It might be time to email a mod asking them to close it and hope that it sinks rapidly into oblivion. ---
**Author:** ![Grelby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a5b964/32.png) [@Grelby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grelby)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explanation-apology-for-green-bean/137910/58 "2002-11-22T00:16:45Z")
You guys done yet? :rolleyes: She apologized. It was accepted. It’s over. Move on. **reprise** is right **Flammy** , it might be a good idea to request this thread closed. Sure, it’s not in the Pit, but that doesn’t mean that people aren’t piling on here. Don’t be silly, people are capable of being unpleasant in non-Pit threads. ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explanation-apology-for-green-bean/137910/59 "2002-11-22T00:36:57Z")
> [@](#): > > You guys done yet? :rolleyes: Are YOU? If you’re that concerned over letting it die, why’d you bump it? And why hasn’t FlamX been back? ---
**Author:** ![Primaflora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Primaflora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Primaflora)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explanation-apology-for-green-bean/137910/60 "2002-11-22T00:42:14Z")
Yeah what Hama said. And Grelby? Care to check the timestamps? The last thing which could be remotely construed to be directed at Flam is Zyada’s sterling advice which was approx 8 hours ago. Since then the thread has moved onto far more interesting topics such as the turgidity/torpidity of various members. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explanation-apology-for-green-bean/137910.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explanation-apology-for-green-bean/137910.md?page=4)