# Giraffe \*was\* on vacation! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 5, 2005, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-was-on-vacation/315771 "2005-08-05T20:04:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-was-on-vacation/315771/21 "2005-08-05T21:01:13Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Well, that’s THAT cleared up. Now, has anyone seen Bosda lately??! \ ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-was-on-vacation/315771/22 "2005-08-05T21:02:49Z")
I _knew_ it! p.s. Sorry if I asked for super secret privileged information in that other thread. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-was-on-vacation/315771/23 "2005-08-05T21:02:49Z")
**Giraffe** is, of course, not a shit sandwich. He’s a urine-soaked sandwich. I would enjoy it a bit if your first post-vacation Mod action were to move your own post from the Pit to MSPIMS. And I’d love to hear about the trip. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-was-on-vacation/315771/24 "2005-08-05T21:04:37Z")
> [@Lord Ashtar](#): > > :smack: We’ve all been so worried about **Giraffe** that we completely forgot about **Bosda**! I mean, my God man, where IS he? Another shaved Monkey’s Ass heard from. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-was-on-vacation/315771/25 "2005-08-05T21:17:02Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > I was in Zambia and Zimbabwe for a bit under four weeks. I have the same question as **Sunspace** , as a friend at work will be leaving for an extended trip to Zimbabwe in a few days, and the tensions are, you understand, a bit of a concern. How is it there, really? Especially for a Westerner. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2005, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-was-on-vacation/315771/26 "2005-08-05T21:29:07Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > I have the same question as **Sunspace** , as a friend at work will be leaving for an extended trip to Zimbabwe in a few days, and the tensions are, you understand, a bit of a concern. How is it there, really? Especially for a Westerner. My guess is that it’s completely fine. We ourselves detected no tension, and we canoed with two British surgeons currently working in another part of Zimbabwe for a year who hadn’t had any problems. We also met a couple of white farmers in Zambia who had been displaced from Zimbabwe and from their stories they didn’t seem to feel that they had been in serious danger of harm. Primarily, they were frustrated at having their property and possessions taken. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-was-on-vacation/315771/27 "2005-08-05T21:31:20Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > Another shaved Monkey’s Ass heard from. :dubious: Oh, lighten up. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2005, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-was-on-vacation/315771/28 "2005-08-06T00:37:26Z")
> [@](#): > > Specifically, I was in Zambia and Zimbabwe for a bit under four weeks. Did you go to Vic Falls? Did you bungee jump off the bridge? Did you see the sign that says, in exactly these words, “Wellcome to Zimbabwe?” Did you go boating on Lake Kariba? Are the steam locomotives still running between Bulawayo and the Falls? Did you go to Hwange? Did monkeys steal stuff out of your car? Did you go to Mana Pools? Did you see any rhinos? Lions? Hungry hungry hippos? Hyenas? Did you almost hit baboons on the road about eleventy million times? Didja? Huh? Am I asking too many annoying questions? ---
**Author:** ![RyJae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@RyJae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RyJae)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-was-on-vacation/315771/29 "2005-08-06T00:52:40Z")
Oh a minor whine pit post is movable a mod went on vacation party thread is okay. Now if his post was like " I went on vacation and got beat down by a fucking giraffe, I pit giraffes the long necked bastards of the savanna the fucking giraffe even had the gall to perform analingus on my unconscious ass" That would be pit material , this shit you spewed isn’t even STMB material. But then again I don’t give two shits as I am coasting on freebie hamster time. 🙂 ---
**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:** [August 6, 2005, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-was-on-vacation/315771/30 "2005-08-06T00:56:16Z")
> [@LostGoals](#): > > Oh a minor whine pit post is movable a mod went on vacation party thread is okay. Well, yeah. What part of capricious Nazi moderator do you not understand? We move and close threads solely at our fickle whims, delighting in the confusion and anguish of the membership. Guests we simply ignore, like the fleas on the backs of our mistreated pets. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-was-on-vacation/315771/31 "2005-08-06T00:57:36Z")
How were the acacia leaves? ---
**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:** [August 6, 2005, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-was-on-vacation/315771/32 "2005-08-06T01:04:44Z")
When you bent down to drink from the waterholes, did you ever fall in? ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-was-on-vacation/315771/33 "2005-08-06T01:07:08Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > Well, yeah. What part of capricious Nazi moderator do you not understand? We move and close threads solely at our fickle whims, delighting in the confusion and anguish of the membership. > > Guests we simply ignore, like the fleas on the backs of our mistreated pets. Given that we missed you here in the Pit while you were gone, word is that you are going to be asked to turn in the Jack-boots. Just saying, is all. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-was-on-vacation/315771/34 "2005-08-06T01:13:21Z")
> [@sunfish](#): > > Visiting the relatives, eh? \*\*OH \*\* - you sumbitch, you beat me to it! I had the best line _ever_! _stomps foot in inarticulate rage_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RyJae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@RyJae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RyJae)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-was-on-vacation/315771/35 "2005-08-06T01:15:51Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > Well, yeah. What part of capricious Nazi moderator do you not understand? We move and close threads solely at our fickle whims, delighting in the confusion and anguish of the membership. > > Guests we simply ignore, like the fleas on the backs of our mistreated pets. Great business model, if it where me I would treat those who spent money like shit (for 11 months until time to renew of course), and those yet to spend money like gold, to get there money. As for the membership here to create confusion for them, simply state Bush was the best president ever, then lock the thread and about 90% of the members would run head first into a brick wall in the rush to try to post a pit thread on you. Well I didn’t understand the capricious word thought you where going all taret card reader on my ass, but then I looked it up and you fought my ignorance like a good moderator. I don’t dislike you Giraffe, now can you be a kind giraffe and use that tongue to wipe my ass? On to your vacation though, sounds like it would of been a blast. And the memories will last forever. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2005, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-was-on-vacation/315771/36 "2005-08-06T01:17:22Z")
Reincarnation is a bitch, isn’t it **Lost**? ---
**Author:** ![RyJae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@RyJae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RyJae)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-was-on-vacation/315771/37 "2005-08-06T01:21:16Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Reincarnation is a bitch, isn’t it **Lost**? I see where you got your name… I have No Clue Boy what you are talking about. But then again I am nor have I ever claimed to have the smarts needed to comprehend a lot of things ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-was-on-vacation/315771/38 "2005-08-06T01:28:55Z")
> [@LostGoals](#): > > I see where you got your name… I have No Clue Boy what you are talking about. But then again I am nor have I ever claimed to have the smarts needed to comprehend a lot of things ☹ I think that the suggestion is that your issues are a bit on the specific side for one who has been here such a short time. Just my take, interpret as you will. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-was-on-vacation/315771/39 "2005-08-06T01:38:50Z")
And here I was going to start a pool as to when\*\* Lost\*\* was going to get banned… Oh, well. Welcome back, Giraffe. What did you bring us? ---
**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:** [August 6, 2005, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-was-on-vacation/315771/40 "2005-08-06T01:43:11Z")
Hey, nothing like a sock-clad troll to liven up a welcome home Mod thread, eh? Pity it was such a pathetic one, though. Atrocious writing skills, barely coherent exposition of what might have been thoughts – yeesh, **Giraffe** , don’t you rate anything better? At least a bit more creative? I bet the other mods are sniggering behind your back. What’s next – **Veb** putting shaving cream in your jackboots? Oh, and **silenus** – whatever he brought back, I hope it isn’t acacia pie. Considering how he’d have gone about harvesting the ingredients and all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-was-on-vacation/315771.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-was-on-vacation/315771.md?page=3)