# 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:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![djf750](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@djf750](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/djf750)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2003, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816/121 "2003-05-20T22:37:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Giraffe \* > \*\*I think you’re an irritating little dweeb and _that’s_ too seriously? You’re probably right, but damn. That’s sad. > > And I do take myself seriously. Posting to a message board is serious business. Certainly not for the weak of heart, or knobby of knees. \*\* knobby of knees? if one has knobby knees they shouldn’t post on message boards? please explain. ---
**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2003, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816/122 "2003-05-20T22:43:14Z")
**djf750** : This is not the way to win friends and influence people. Trust me, you aren’t coming out of this thread smelling of roses. If you want to, why don’t you start using capitals again, and no one here will think you’ve lost this battle that you seem to be fighting. Believe me, no one will think you’re any less of a man for it. ---
**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 20, 2003, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816/123 "2003-05-20T22:45:57Z")
“What is this thing you call…love?” ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2003, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816/124 "2003-05-20T22:52:06Z")
I find it strange that an innocuous post from **Miller** to another poster would somehow cause poster **djf750** to forever change his capitalizing ways. However, I find it strangest of all that a 52 year old man would use the title of a Japanese compilation Rave CD from DJ Hell as his [user name](http://www.jpc-music.com/1874138.htm). ---
**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 20, 2003, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816/125 "2003-05-20T22:54:25Z")
[Kirk] **Giraffe** , I come from a place… not like this one. A place where… middle-aged men do not whine like petulant teenagers… a place where… _capitalization_… is common… and accepted. My ship… my _star_ship… is up there… right now. I can take you away from all this. You… don’t… have… to live like this.[/Kirk] ---
**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 20, 2003, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816/126 "2003-05-20T22:57:11Z")
And you wonder why I stalk you. ---
**Author:** ![djf750](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@djf750](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/djf750)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2003, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816/127 "2003-05-20T23:01:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by samarm \* > \*\ ***djf750** : Trust me, you aren’t coming out of this thread smelling of roses. > \*\* you seem like a nice guy, samarm. i really mean that. /capitals on/ Now, did you take that less seriously because I did not capitalize? Could you read it ok? I agree that capitalization looks better. If you look at my posts up until this one, I was capitalizing. But when busybodies like you and miller start pontificating about good writing IT DRIVES ME UP THE WALL. It is not your business to correct people here about the way they write unless it is completely unintelligible. And as an proud American and a proud Veteran, I will fight to the DEATH my right as a free human on the planet EARTH to type without using capitals on the STRAIGHT DOPE MESSAGE BOARD! If that makes me wrong, by God I don’t want to be right! (huh?) /capitals OFF/ now what was that shit about friends and influence? ---
**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2003, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816/128 "2003-05-20T23:02:09Z")
**Miller** knows all about your stalking. It’s not that easy keeping a low profile when you’ve got a neck that’s 6 feet long, is it? ---
**Author:** ![djf750](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@djf750](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/djf750)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2003, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816/129 "2003-05-20T23:05:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dooku \* > \*\*I find it strange that an innocuous post from **Miller** to another poster would somehow cause poster **djf750** to forever change his capitalizing ways. > > However, I find it strangest of all that a 52 year old man would use the title of a Japanese compilation Rave CD from DJ Hell as his [user name](http://www.jpc-music.com/1874138.htm). \*\* anybody have any X? JUST KIDDING MODS!!! (all capitals) ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2003, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816/130 "2003-05-20T23:06:48Z")
Yeah, American soldiers FOUGHT AND DIED for our right to type without capitals! **Miller** , for fuck’s sake, you’re spitting on the graves of those brave men and women. You insensitive asshole. And with Memorial Day right around the corner! Have you no shame? At long last, sir, have you no shame? ---
**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 20, 2003, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816/131 "2003-05-20T23:06:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by samarm \* > \*\ ***Miller** knows all about your stalking. It’s not that easy keeping a low profile when you’ve got a neck that’s 6 feet long, is it? \*\* But… but… I’m always so careful to look away and whistle innocently when he looks in my direction! ---
**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 20, 2003, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816/132 "2003-05-20T23:29:22Z")
> [@](#): > > And as an proud American and a proud Veteran, I will fight to the DEATH my right as a free human on the planet EARTH to type without using capitals on the STRAIGHT DOPE MESSAGE BOARD! Thank you, Walter Sobchak. ---
**Author:** ![djf750](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@djf750](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/djf750)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2003, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816/133 "2003-05-20T23:46:20Z")
Ah fuck it. You guys wore me down. If nobody else posts here, I’ll keep using capital letters. ---
**Author:** ![g8rguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@g8rguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/g8rguy)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2003, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816/134 "2003-05-20T23:53:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by djf750 \* > **i deleted three full paragraphs of VERY WELL WRITTEN, but unnecessary words. why didn’t you just write the last paragraph where you actually made your point very well? why did you make me read all that? (although i did enjoy it, i admit)** Simply speaking, because I thought it might perhaps be helpful to have a full explanation of my perspective. One strives, after all, for correctness and precision. > [@](#): > > \*\*now, i meant every word i just wrote about your writing style. do you take me seriously? or am i just a fool who refuses to capitalize? \*\* First of all, thank you for the compliment! However, to be quite honest, I view you as someone who is serious about a foolish refusal to capitalize and is thus insistent on making himself less clear than he would otherwise be. I find that to be irritating, only a small step up from things like “u r wrong,” which is an abomination unto God (there’s a Gaudere’s Law pun waiting to be made there, I think). And since I’m so so close to hitting 1000 and the last thing I want to do is to accidentally waste it on a thread about capitalization, that’s my last word on the subject. 🙂 On preview, I see that the good guys won. Congratulations upon your return to the proper capitalization society! ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816/135 "2003-05-21T00:07:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by djf750 \* > \*\*anybody have any X? > > JUST KIDDING MODS!!! (all capitals) \*\* I just figured it all out. **djf750** is Scott, the Dad that did X with his kids in that HBO documentary [Small Town Ecstasy](http://www.etonline.com/television/a10189.htm). ---
**Author:** ![djf750](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@djf750](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/djf750)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816/136 "2003-05-21T00:11:33Z")
Ok, even though I made it clear that if anybody posted after me, since g8rguy is such a damn GOOD writer, I will keep capitalizing. And this doesn’t mean that I am admitting I was wrong. It is a message board for goodness sake. Even HIS name has message board AOL IM written all over it. Things are sometimes done differently online. But please, no more. I’m begging you. I’ll be good, sister. I promise. Please don’t send me to Father O’Flaherty again. ---
**Author:** ![djf750](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@djf750](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/djf750)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816/137 "2003-05-21T00:16:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dooku \* > \*\*I just figured it all out. **djf750** is Scott, the Dad that did X with his kids in that HBO documentary [Small Town Ecstasy](http://www.etonline.com/television/a10189.htm). \*\* That is not me!! But that guy IS pretty cool. Rave on , Scotty. ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816/138 "2003-05-21T00:21:58Z")
Hijack: **djf750** will you check yer damn email, already? ---
**Author:** ![djf750](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@djf750](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/djf750)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816/139 "2003-05-21T00:38:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LolaCocaCola \* > \*\*Hijack: > > **djf750** will you check yer damn email, already? \*\* yeah, she agreed with me in the email. she was just afraid that the mob would turn on her. oops Capitalize you dolt! ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816/140 "2003-05-21T00:49:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by djf750 \* > \*\*yeah, she agreed with me in the email. she was just afraid that the mob would turn on her. oops > > Capitalize you dolt! \*\* He lies, and he lies badly. Email was about a totally irrelevant issue since I have not even read this thread. PS - you have more mail, beeeyotch. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-thing-about-the-matrix/175816.md?page=8)