# Folks really think non-sequitur replies are clever or funny? ("Bring Pie") **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 8, 2004, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/folks-really-think-non-sequitur-replies-are-clever-or-funny-bring-pie/239035 "2004-04-08T21:35:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/folks-really-think-non-sequitur-replies-are-clever-or-funny-bring-pie/239035/81 "2004-04-11T14:37:45Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > Adding stupidity to stupidity is just more stupidity. > > I suggest ignoring idiotic posts, if one is mentally incapable of calling them on it intelligently. [Madge the Manicurist] Non sequiters: _you’re soaking in it_! [/Madge the Manicurist] Okay… I could have passed by this idiotic post, but I’m a fucking MOCKINGBIRD, I’m just being true to my nature. Now, could you be mentally capable of getting a sense of humor? Geez. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/folks-really-think-non-sequitur-replies-are-clever-or-funny-bring-pie/239035/82 "2004-04-11T14:49:56Z")
I have a horse. And four wives. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/folks-really-think-non-sequitur-replies-are-clever-or-funny-bring-pie/239035/83 "2004-04-11T15:14:31Z")
> [@OneYogini](#): > > I would like to say this thread has been VERY informative - thank you to all (well, most!). I finally learned the origin of the “death ray” inside joke; what “YMMV” means; and, saw the “pie” video. Thanks again! Oh, please, please, good people, I _still_ do not know whence comethe the “PIE” thing. Somone please do tell. And, as for the OP, I _sort of_ agree, but I agree more with other posters who have pointed out that sometimes, neatly used, such things _can_ be wonderfulluy funny. (Sometimes, of ccurse, just tedious, but…oh well…☹ …and if it is silly silly people merely trying to up the post-count, in ttat case they only make themselves look rather moroniic. But, betraying my ignorance, I really would like to know about this “bring pie” thing. I am all in favour of people bringiing pie, but I don’t think any of you would like me to bring my atempts at home-baking to you. No, not al all. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/folks-really-think-non-sequitur-replies-are-clever-or-funny-bring-pie/239035/84 "2004-04-11T15:16:26Z")
> [@LaurAnge](#): > > I suspect that anyone posting non-sequiturs in an attempt to discredit a thread is really trying to get the glory days of [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=49621) back. What an informative thread! I had no idea that WWII was really caused by the band “Toad the Wet Sprocket” going back in time and stealing Hitler’s breakfast. Who’d’ve guessed? ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/folks-really-think-non-sequitur-replies-are-clever-or-funny-bring-pie/239035/85 "2004-04-11T15:25:59Z")
> [@Inigo Montoya](#): > > Um…what kind of death rays are we talking about? \>: ) Uh…the kind that make the baby Jesus cry. Duuhhh! ---
**Author:** ![gluteus\_maximus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f17d59/32.png) [@gluteus\_maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gluteus_maximus)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/folks-really-think-non-sequitur-replies-are-clever-or-funny-bring-pie/239035/86 "2004-04-11T15:42:54Z")
> [@Celyn](#): > > Oh, please, please, good people, I _still_ do not know whence comethe the “PIE” thing. Somone please do tell. > > But, betraying my ignorance, I really would like to know about this “bring pie” thing. Next, you’ll be confessing to us that you don’t know what _non sequitur_ means. The [origin](http://www.weebl.jolt.co.uk/pie.htm) of pie. wanker ---
**Author:** ![SpectBrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@SpectBrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpectBrain)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/folks-really-think-non-sequitur-replies-are-clever-or-funny-bring-pie/239035/87 "2004-04-11T16:15:43Z")
3.14159265359 etc. ---
**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:** [April 11, 2004, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/folks-really-think-non-sequitur-replies-are-clever-or-funny-bring-pie/239035/88 "2004-04-11T16:26:11Z")
Did I tell you about the golden ratio? Lots of [pumpkin phi in this thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=97714) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/folks-really-think-non-sequitur-replies-are-clever-or-funny-bring-pie/239035/89 "2004-04-11T21:13:52Z")
Coupla points: 1: If you were circumsized you would know what non-sequitur means. 2: IT’S VERY EASY TO TELL WHO IS AND WHO ISN’T A SPY. 3: Two items do not a list make. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/folks-really-think-non-sequitur-replies-are-clever-or-funny-bring-pie/239035/90 "2004-04-11T21:27:51Z")
A fellow named Old Fatty Lumpkin Loved pie! Whether pecan or pumpkin, Apple crisp or blueberry, Rhubarb, mincemeat or cherry, Whether fit for a king or a bumpkin. ---
**Author:** ![gluteus\_maximus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f17d59/32.png) [@gluteus\_maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gluteus_maximus)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/folks-really-think-non-sequitur-replies-are-clever-or-funny-bring-pie/239035/91 "2004-04-12T16:42:17Z")
Remember when the Softee-Freeze truck would come down the street playing its cheerful jingle and you’d get all excited and run into the house to ask your Mom for a quarter to get a twisty cone with jimmies on top but she’d say “No it’s too close to dinnertime and it’ll spoil your appetite.”? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/folks-really-think-non-sequitur-replies-are-clever-or-funny-bring-pie/239035/92 "2004-04-12T17:42:36Z")
> [@gluteus maximus](#): > > Remember when the Softee-Freeze truck would come down the street playing its cheerful jingle and you’d get all excited and run into the house to ask your Mom for a quarter to get a twisty cone with jimmies on top but she’d say “No it’s too close to dinnertime and it’ll spoil your appetite.”? Yes, I remember. I remember particularly well when I am cleaning my rifles. And sharpening the skinning knife. It was only a _quarter_! And we were having tuna casserole again! But nooooo! I couldn’t **have** a quarter! _I could never have a lousy quarter!_ You want to see “spoiled appetites”, do you? Just wait. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/folks-really-think-non-sequitur-replies-are-clever-or-funny-bring-pie/239035/93 "2004-04-12T18:29:33Z")
Toad in a Hole caused Hilter to invade an imaginary country called Poland. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/folks-really-think-non-sequitur-replies-are-clever-or-funny-bring-pie/239035/94 "2004-04-12T22:43:36Z")
Actually, **Toad in a Hole** was a sex game Dolphie used to play with senior staff while skiing the Austrian Alps. Mishaps were usually quite painful and sometimes punishable by reassignment to the Russian front. I know _nothing!_ ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/folks-really-think-non-sequitur-replies-are-clever-or-funny-bring-pie/239035/95 "2004-04-12T23:01:49Z")
You historical revisionists are getting it all wrong. It was Goebbels who ran the Alpine amusement park, and the premier attraction wasn’t skiing, it was called Towed in the Hull. Participants were seated in rowboats and hauled up the mountains by half-tracks, then at the top of the slopes the towropes were released and the boats would free-slide down. It is true that, if the terrain were particularly rugged, some rides would end with the passengers landing in the position informally known as Toed in the Piehole. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/folks-really-think-non-sequitur-replies-are-clever-or-funny-bring-pie/239035/96 "2004-04-12T23:22:56Z")
Toed in the Piehole is illegal in Georgia. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/folks-really-think-non-sequitur-replies-are-clever-or-funny-bring-pie/239035/97 "2004-04-12T23:37:46Z")
I like strawberry 1920’s style death rays. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2004, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/folks-really-think-non-sequitur-replies-are-clever-or-funny-bring-pie/239035/98 "2004-04-13T00:09:14Z")
I caught a ray once while surf casting. Those suckers put up a fight, I’ll tell you whut. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2004, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/folks-really-think-non-sequitur-replies-are-clever-or-funny-bring-pie/239035/99 "2004-04-13T00:56:17Z")
I was cast once while ray surfing. Those fighters really suck, I tell you whut. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2004, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/folks-really-think-non-sequitur-replies-are-clever-or-funny-bring-pie/239035/100 "2004-04-13T01:03:48Z")
I once fought a surfer named Ray who was wearing a cast. That really sucked I’ll tell you whut! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/folks-really-think-non-sequitur-replies-are-clever-or-funny-bring-pie/239035.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/folks-really-think-non-sequitur-replies-are-clever-or-funny-bring-pie/239035.md?page=6)