# Fox cancels Lou Dobbs! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 6, 2021, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-cancels-lou-dobbs/932291 "2021-02-06T00:21:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-cancels-lou-dobbs/932291/141 "2021-02-12T02:34:12Z")
> [@Lance\_Turbo](#): > > I love it and a I laugh a little every time I see it. And he just couldn’t stop laughing every time someone closed a post with “Regards”. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2021, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-cancels-lou-dobbs/932291/142 "2021-02-12T03:14:26Z")
> [@digs](#): > > > [@Lance\_Turbo](#): > > > > I love it and a I laugh a little every time I see it. > > And he just couldn’t stop laughing every time someone closed a post with “Regards”… Watch me make him die of laughter: The Marianas Trench has only been visited once, for 20 minutes, in 1960 Penis ensues Og smash! All your base are belong to us Hi, Opal I burning your dog I for one welcome our new [whatever] overlords Won’t someone please think of the hamsters! When come back bring pie! It was Rio, by Duran Duran ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-cancels-lou-dobbs/932291/143 "2021-02-12T03:19:57Z")
What, no love for ‘Gotcha Ya’? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-cancels-lou-dobbs/932291/144 "2021-02-12T03:20:47Z")
But I don’t want to zap any of _those_ memes with… some kind of… ray… ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-cancels-lou-dobbs/932291/145 "2021-02-12T04:57:46Z")
I gotta say that in @Colibri’s concentrated form those in-jokes add up to a large pile of “WTF were we thinking???!?!!11?1”. Ref that current thread, I’m sure glad they’re all in the dustbin of our board’s cultural history. Yecch! and good riddance. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-cancels-lou-dobbs/932291/146 "2021-02-12T06:49:28Z")
Discourse isn’t powered by hamsters too? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-cancels-lou-dobbs/932291/147 "2021-02-12T07:37:37Z")
The main guy is named codinghorror, so I tend to think Lovecraftian. So maybe if they’re eldritch hamsters? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-cancels-lou-dobbs/932291/148 "2021-02-12T07:50:38Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > The main guy is named codinghorror, so I tend to think Lovecraftian. > > So maybe if they’re eldritch hamsters?   Discourse is powered by Marmite? > [@The Marmite Horror](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-marmite-horror/512627): > > If it appears that I write these words in haste, I beg your forgiveness - but my time is brief, for I cannot know how long my sanity will endure. For I have tasted of That Which Must Not Be Named - that which its acolytes, in foul ceremonies of ancient Pagan faiths, call “Marmite” - and I fear my mind cannot long endure the memory of that hideous flavour. My G-d, my G-d, my G-d - No. G-d help me, no! I will finish this, my last and greatest duty in this life. For the sake of my soul, that it mi… ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-cancels-lou-dobbs/932291/149 "2021-02-12T09:35:10Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Watch me make him die of laughter: > [@digs](#): > > But I don’t want to zap any of _those_ memes with… some kind of… ray… Ah, they’re 1920s-style death memes. > [@Colibri](#): > > Hi, Opal Well, now I’m just sad again. ☹ ---
**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:** [February 12, 2021, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-cancels-lou-dobbs/932291/150 "2021-02-12T14:20:58Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Discourse isn’t powered by hamsters too? Discourse is powered by much larger and more powerful capybaras. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-cancels-lou-dobbs/932291/151 "2021-02-12T15:19:26Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > > [@digs](#): > > > > But I don’t want to zap any of _those_ memes with… some kind of… ray… > > Ah, they’re 1920s-style death memes. Ahh, thank you! I really didn’t want to have to answer my own straight line. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-cancels-lou-dobbs/932291/152 "2021-02-12T19:24:59Z")
Something something Unca Cec. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-cancels-lou-dobbs/932291/153 "2021-02-12T19:30:02Z")
> [@susan](#): > > Something something Unca Cec And then a reference to the squid and the goat, and to mods’ jackboots. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2021, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-cancels-lou-dobbs/932291/154 "2021-02-12T20:34:21Z")
Oh, and “_I_ am the fucking hall monitor!” How could I forget that one. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-cancels-lou-dobbs/932291/155 "2021-02-17T19:31:34Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I for one welcome our new [whatever] overlords _That’s_ no longer _de rigeuer_? Why the hell aren’t I notified about these things? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-cancels-lou-dobbs/932291/156 "2021-02-17T19:33:19Z")
I guess today’s _bon mot_ is tomorrow’s _flaming mot…_ ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-cancels-lou-dobbs/932291/157 "2021-02-17T21:54:19Z")
\< golf clap \> ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-cancels-lou-dobbs/932291/158 "2021-02-17T22:01:00Z")
Just wondering (and a quick google shows nothing), but any rumors on him taking a new job at some other ‘conservative’ station? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-cancels-lou-dobbs/932291/159 "2021-02-17T22:37:01Z")
I hear a syndicated radio slot just opened up. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-cancels-lou-dobbs/932291/160 "2021-02-18T00:31:41Z")
Rumor is he is still being held under contract. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-cancels-lou-dobbs/932291.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-cancels-lou-dobbs/932291.md?page=9)