# facts is facts **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 27, 2015, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facts-is-facts/716157 "2015-03-27T20:58:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facts-is-facts/716157/61 "2015-03-30T15:55:38Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Like I said: But this is the SDMB, whose motto is **“Fighting Ignorance since 1973”**. > > I dont see what’s wrong about correcting a error when someone makes it. I don’t either. And it’s spelled “don’t”. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facts-is-facts/716157/62 "2015-03-30T17:14:33Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > I don’t either. And it’s spelled “don’t”. To continue this possible hijack, Google just asked me if I meant “wont” when I did a search with “won’t” in it. No, Google, I don’t mean my device is in the habit of connecting. I mean it will not connect. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facts-is-facts/716157/63 "2015-03-31T03:14:17Z")
I wont to believe that. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facts-is-facts/716157/64 "2015-03-31T03:35:42Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > I don’t either. And it’s spelled “don’t”. And of course, it’s “facts ARE facts.” ---
**Author:** ![splatterpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@splatterpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/splatterpunk)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facts-is-facts/716157/65 "2015-03-31T03:35:54Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > I dont see what’s wrong about correcting a error when someone makes it. How can correcting a error be “Jr Modding”? **an** error. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2015, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facts-is-facts/716157/66 "2015-03-31T03:38:35Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Hey, that was Cartman! Screw you guys, I’m going home! ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facts-is-facts/716157/67 "2015-03-31T17:33:39Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > And of course, it’s “facts ARE facts.” Nope. It’s a literary reference. I]Pigs is Pigs. \* ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facts-is-facts/716157/68 "2015-03-31T18:35:17Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > I don’t either. And it’s spelled “don’t”. "It’s not that they’re stupid, it’s just they don’t know anything. "\* \*Stand and Deliver. A lesser known EJO movie. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2015, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facts-is-facts/716157/69 "2015-03-31T19:04:12Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > This really calls for a new size-word, since your sentence could be misleading, even though it’s completely proper and correct. > > I propose _minitude_. This issue could only be honestly described in orders of minitude. Bravo! ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facts-is-facts/716157/70 "2015-04-02T02:43:54Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Nope. It’s a literary reference. I]Pigs is Pigs. \* All I know is pigs are pigs. Except sometimes they’re razorbacks. Or French nationals. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facts-is-facts/716157/71 "2015-04-02T02:57:35Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > All I know is pigs are pigs. Except sometimes they’re razorbacks. Or French nationals. Nope. > **[Pigs Is Pigs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigs_Is_Pigs)** > > "Pigs Is Pigs" is a story by American writer Ellis Parker Butler. First published as a short story in American Illustrated Magazine in September 1905, "Pigs Is Pigs" went on to dozens of printings as a book and in anthologies over the next several decades. > Railway agent Mike Flannery wants to charge the livestock rate for a shipment of two guinea pigs and refuses to accept the lower pet rate, saying "pigs is pigs." Flannery believes that the "guinea" is an indication of the pigs' national origi... I suppose you’d correct the grammar, etc on this?: \*expression is the need of my soul i was once a vers libre bard but i died and my soul went into the body of a cockroach it has given me a new outlook on life i see things from the under side now thank you for the apple peelings in the wastepaper basket but your paste is getting so stale i can’t eat it there is a cat here called mehitabel i wish you would have removed she nearly ate me the other night why don’t she catch rats that is what she is supposed to be for there is a rat here she should get without delay\* [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facts-is-facts/716157.md?page=3)