# For Sue in El Paso

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-sue-in-el-paso/4730>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 9, 1999, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-sue-in-el-paso/4730 "1999-11-09T17:40:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 1999, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-sue-in-el-paso/4730/21 "1999-11-13T00:42:00Z")

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::lifting glass of champagne:: Topaz!

-Melin

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**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 1999, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-sue-in-el-paso/4730/22 "1999-11-13T00:50:00Z")

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**Nickrz** , please close this thread before agate a popped vein. Ore else at least delete the offending posts.

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**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 1999, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-sue-in-el-paso/4730/23 "1999-11-13T01:06:00Z")

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That’s pretty ironic coming from you. Coppering your bets by asking that the thread be closed? I don’t think nickel do that.

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**Author:** ![Cactus\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@Cactus\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cactus_Rose)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 1999, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-sue-in-el-paso/4730/24 "1999-11-13T01:46:00Z")

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Lead me just say:

U people zinc U are so smart. You make every tin a joke.

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- A rose by any other name would still have thorns -

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**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 1999, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-sue-in-el-paso/4730/25 "1999-11-13T04:14:00Z")

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Steel, if we boron down, we’ll see if the bad feelings argon or not.

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**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 1999, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-sue-in-el-paso/4730/26 "1999-11-13T04:15:00Z")

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PS - Someone had to add _something_ noble.

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**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 1999, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-sue-in-el-paso/4730/27 "1999-11-13T04:36:00Z")

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> [@](#):
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> laughing my butt off.

Shouldn’t that be ‘Laughing my Butte off’?

## Shale we take it for granite that we can get boulder with these puns?

‘They couldn’t hit an Elephant from this dist…!’

Last words of General John Sedgwick

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**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 1999, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-sue-in-el-paso/4730/28 "1999-11-13T08:30:00Z")

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Oh great… The rocky road of puns…

Can someone pyrite this thread to Cuba?

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Yer pal,  
Satan

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**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 1999, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-sue-in-el-paso/4730/29 "1999-11-13T10:02:00Z")

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You could probably talc me out of it… but don’t let the moderators gypsum authors by taking their powers for granite and closing down this thread. Nickrz and Ed probably wouldn’t, but dolomite.

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**Author:** ![Nickrz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@Nickrz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nickrz)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 1999, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-sue-in-el-paso/4730/30 "1999-11-14T14:41:00Z")

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I’m glad everyone got their rocks off. 🙂

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