# funny thing about the matrix **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 17, 2003, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816 "2003-05-17T02:02:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![djf750](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@djf750](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/djf750)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816/181 "2003-05-22T22:37:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dryga\_Yes \* > \*\*this post just might win the internet. seriously, you’re in a message board full of little {{{{{e-hugs}}}}}, people with usernames like “anal scurvy” or “moronosaurus rex”, catchphrases like OG SMASH and Hi Opal!, and above all those ridicolous little smiley images… > > ( :smack: ) > > …and you complain that a lack of capitalization makes you hard to take seriously. I mean, _damn_. \*\* God grant me the serenity to… Dryga, that is like…kinda… . exactly the point I was making there. We use smilies and funny names and misspell (sp?) and have 10,000 word paragraphs etc. but damn, if you don’t use capitalization…never mind. oh and i hate to break this to you…never mind, I’ll let you find the word you misspelled(sp?). It really looks ridiculous. Wait, were you defending me or attacking me? ---
**Author:** ![djf750](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@djf750](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/djf750)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816/182 "2003-05-22T22:38:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lezlers \* > \*\*Yeah, let me know when you’re coming so I can make it a point to be visiting friends in the South Bay that weekend. :rolleyes: \*\* Ouch! That one left a mark. ---
**Author:** ![djf750](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@djf750](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/djf750)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816/183 "2003-05-22T22:40:38Z")
I swear to god, I won’t post again here if nobody else does. (hehe I didn’t capitalize God so it doesn’t count) ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816/184 "2003-05-22T23:12:32Z")
What I really can’t figure out is why **djf750** keeps bumping a thread that makes him look like such an idiot. Each new post brings three responses from him, often spaced over 20-30 minutes, with no purpose other than to keep this thread at the top of the forum. I honestly can’t remember a thread where the primary participant came across worse than this one, and yet he capers and cavorts around it with such _pride_. Well, every school has a kid who eats glue and shits in the sandbox, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Flying\_Monk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/48db29/32.png) [@Flying\_Monk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flying_Monk)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816/185 "2003-05-22T23:29:44Z")
I think I should point out (because I haven’t noticed anyone else do it) that “perogative” is not a word. ---
**Author:** ![djf750](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@djf750](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/djf750)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816/186 "2003-05-23T00:31:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Giraffe \* > \*\*What I really can’t figure out is why **djf750** keeps bumping a thread that makes him look like such an idiot. Each new post brings three responses from him, often spaced over 20-30 minutes, with no purpose other than to keep this thread at the top of the forum. I honestly can’t remember a thread where the primary participant came across worse than this one, and yet he capers and cavorts around it with such _pride_. > > Well, every school has a kid who eats glue and shits in the sandbox, I guess. \*\* Well, once again Eisenhower does NOT read a post, but just wanders over to his computer and starts typing. Oh sorry Dude, Eisenhower has to do with WW2, you know, the war you think I was in. Actually I served in the Spanish/Korean American War, the one after the Vietnam Gulf War. Now…when you posted this , it shot this thread back up to the top and then I have to respond sending it back up to the top again. So if you stop, I will stop and this thread will die. Dog, you sure seem to know a lot about glue. Now get back to your MTV. ---
**Author:** ![djf750](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@djf750](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/djf750)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816/187 "2003-05-23T01:10:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Flying\_Monk \* > \*\*I think I should point out (because I haven’t noticed anyone else do it) that “perogative” is not a word. \*\* I suppose next you are going to tell me that RENUMERATION is spelled REMUNERATION. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816/188 "2003-05-23T01:22:30Z")
**lezlers** : Did we get in a fight? It’s so hard to keep track. I keep meaning to make a list, but that’s disturbingly Nixonian. Regardless. If you’re offering free booze, I apologize for everything I said, retract all my arguments, and agree with you 100%, whatever it was you were saying. I’m cheap that way. (Actually, if it was driving-related, it probably wasn’t me. I’m a confirmed pedestrian. Still, thanks for nice comments.) ---
**Author:** ![lezlers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@lezlers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lezlers)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816/189 "2003-05-23T01:38:48Z")
No kidding. Your location rung a bell with me and I could’ve sworn it was because of that one thread. The one about driving below the speed limit on a one lane road and then speeding up when it opened so the person couldn’t pass you. Ah well. Must’ve been someone else. I still think you’re swell and the stoner B.A. comments clinched it, especially since as of Saturday I will be the same. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lezlers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@lezlers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lezlers)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816/190 "2003-05-23T01:40:25Z")
Ah yes, and I pride myself on my ability to score free booze, one of the perks of living in this dinky little town. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816/191 "2003-05-23T01:51:19Z")
There’s a poster _named_ Bearflag. Maybe that’s who it was. And hey, congratulations on graduating! ---
**Author:** ![lezlers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@lezlers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lezlers)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816/192 "2003-05-23T01:59:37Z")
Ohhhh. Well that explains it then. Thanks! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![djf750](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@djf750](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/djf750)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816/193 "2003-05-23T02:15:57Z")
Yeah, see Miller. She is putty in your hands. Now don’t blow it. And you have ME to thank. ---
**Author:** ![Dryga\_Yes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@Dryga\_Yes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dryga_Yes)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816/194 "2003-05-23T05:32:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by djf750 \* > \*\*Wait, were you defending me or attacking me? \*\* I was defending you (and failing, apparently.) I was agreeing with your point. I think it’s the last line that came out wrong. when I said that > [@](#): > > you complain that a lack of capitalization makes you hard to take seriously. I didn’t mean that _you_ had made that complaint. horribly chosen pronoun there, I guess. I _meant_ that the people throwing a hissy fit over your improper grammar had made that argument. ah well. sorry for my incoherent post, people! by the way, this misunderstanding would never have happened, had I only used proper capitalization. ---
**Author:** ![djf750](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@djf750](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/djf750)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816/195 "2003-05-23T14:26:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dryga\_Yes \* > \*\*I was defending you (and failing, apparently.) I was agreeing with your point. > > \*\* Sorry I jumped on you so quickly. I just assumed that anyone who posted here was obliged to tell me what an obstinate childish asshole I was. (actually you are the second person who has backed me, greendragon was the first) I can see them all now, reading this: “look, now he has another asshole who agrees with him. Pretty soon there will be anarchy on this board with no grammatical structure at all.” They won’t even notice that both of us (and green dragon) ARE capitalizing and using periods and commas and blah blah blah. Then they will overlook all kinds of bad grammar and spelling and jump on the next poor fool who doesn’t realize that if you don’t capitalize ON A MESSAGE BOARD ON THE WWW ON THE INTERNET OR THE INTERWEB AS WE NOW KNOW IT FROM THIS THREAD it makes you lower then an Al queda loving, child molesting, homophobic, racist, anti sematic, overweight person hating, immature (oh no ) “goat felching” “asshat”. All I am saying is … damn I forgot. Oh yeah, Miller, Samarm, if you criticize for no capitalization, then criticize for ALL the other BAD writing and mistakes people make because they won’t take the time to preview their posts. Or better yet, don’t criticize anyone at all. It’s a message board. People can write any way they want to because it is a message board. 😃 😃 message board:D 😃 Message Board:D message:D Board:D [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816.md?page=9)