# Gonzomax, you surprised and disappointed me. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 2, 2009, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028 "2009-03-02T17:09:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/101 "2009-03-03T15:58:43Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > “Prissy.” Gone with the Wind’s total black stereotype character. > > I don’t know nothing bout birthing no babies. Assuming you’re not just whoosing: That’s just short for Priscilla. It’s NOT the origin of, nor related to, the adjective, _prissy_, which predates the film by at least a few decades: > [@](#): > > [1895, first attested in Joel Chandler Harris, probably an alteration of precise (q.v.), or a merger of prim and sissy. Back-formed noun priss is recorded from 1923.](http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=prissy) ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/102 "2009-03-03T16:30:28Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > That is an intellectual response. That was shamefully weak and terribly childish. We have so many on this board who confuse debate and insults. Like XT who brings to debate what Don Rickles brings to comedy. It appeals to the immature. Some people here are worth debating. Some are worth the time it takes to come up with coherent arguments designed to change minds and clarify issues. Some are capable of engaging in an interesting discussion. Others are here mainly as chew toys. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/103 "2009-03-03T17:05:32Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > You just step on your own dick with every single post you make, don’t you? This is an insult to those of with dicks so long we keep tripping over them. I’ll be over here with the pocket lint waiting for a retraction. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/104 "2009-03-03T17:10:00Z")
> [@42fish](#): > > This is an insult to those of with dicks so long we keep tripping over them. I’ll be over here with the pocket lint waiting for a retraction. Hey, man, if you can’t figure out how to swagger properly it ain’t my fault. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/105 "2009-03-03T18:11:12Z")
Eh, **gonzomax** is from Michigan - remember the PBB thing, where bad stuff got mixed in with Cattlefeed? It explains quite a bit about Michiganders IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/106 "2009-03-03T18:25:26Z")
Why are Michiganers eating cattle feed? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/107 "2009-03-03T18:27:46Z")
I was kind of surprised to see the kid character and Charlie Sheen’s character on _Two And a Half Men_ refer to something as “gay” (in the sense of “lame”) last week. Granted, they were talking about a show tune, but still. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/108 "2009-03-03T18:43:18Z")
> [@Q.E.D](#): > > Why are Michiganers eating cattle feed? We drank the milk that the cows who ate the cattlefeed produced. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/109 "2009-03-03T19:19:05Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > I’m sorry. Could you point out the irony here? I’m missing it. He thinks it would be ironic if a poster with username that’s a euphemism for kitty started a thread about doggies. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/110 "2009-03-03T19:24:45Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > He thinks it would be ironic if a poster with username that’s a euphemism for kitty started a thread about doggies. :dubious: No, that was the comparison (“the only way it could be more ironic”). He apparently found something in the OP itself to be ironic. No idea what, though. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/111 "2009-03-03T19:51:35Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > No, that was the comparison (“the only way it could be more ironic”). He apparently found something in the OP itself to be ironic. No idea what, though. Va-jayjay=slang for vagina fag=slur for one who has no use for the vagina and the reason this thread started ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/112 "2009-03-03T20:07:55Z")
> [@kidchameleon](#): > > Va-jayjay=slang for vagina > fag=slur for one who has no use for the vagina and the reason this thread started Okay, let’s look at the post in question. > [@billfish657 or something](#): > > The only thing that could make the OP post more ironic is if the letters va where added to the front of the OP’s username. “The only thing that could make the OP post more ironic” indicates to me that he considers my OP ironic to start with, without adding the extra letters to my username. Adding the extra letters would make it MORE ironic. So what the hell did he find ironic in the first place? ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/113 "2009-03-03T20:26:47Z")
I was just being silly. I doubt there was an initial irony. He just wanted to call you a pussy for starting a thread about fag and fagified being offensive terms. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/114 "2009-03-04T01:09:25Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > So what the hell did he find ironic in the first place? Forget it. Has any poster in the pages of this thread far stepped up and said anything like, “Hey, now - **gonzomax** isn’t really stupid. Let’s be fair.” No. There’s some good natured back-and-forth about HOW stupid, or the cause of the stupidity, but no real refutation of the basic premise. And for good reason. In my view, your search for the “initial irony” can end on that note. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/115 "2009-03-04T01:45:01Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Forget it. Has any poster in the pages of this thread far stepped up and said anything like, “Hey, now - **gonzomax** isn’t really stupid. Let’s be fair.” Only he’s not talking about **gonzomax** , he’s talking about **billfish** and his cryptic post. **Billfish** apparently thought something about the OP was ironic; dunno what, but I agree whatever it was is a mirage of some sort. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/116 "2009-03-04T02:31:59Z")
Maybe it’s ironic that a comment by Gonzomax could actually surprise and disappoint somebody who’s seen any of his other threads? ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/117 "2009-03-04T02:39:10Z")
Well, that is certainly surprising…I’m not seeing the irony however. Now if gonzo actually broke out with a thoughtful, well reasoned and relatively well written and coherent post that would be…well, ok, it would be miraculous, to be sure. But THAT would be some irony I suppose. Good thing there is little or no chance of that happening, ehe? -XT ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/118 "2009-03-04T02:52:32Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > Well, that is certainly surprising…I’m not seeing the irony however. Now if gonzo actually broke out with a thoughtful, well reasoned and relatively well written and coherent post that would be…well, ok, it would be miraculous, to be sure. But THAT would be some irony I suppose. > > Good thing there is little or no chance of that happening, ehe? > > -XT Grow up. Little chance of that happening. ---
**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:** [March 4, 2009, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/119 "2009-03-04T03:01:35Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > Grow up. > Little chance of that happening. You know, when you defend the use of anti-gay slurs on the grounds that fifth graders do it, you’ve pretty much given up any right to tell other people to grow up. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028/120 "2009-03-04T03:07:12Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > You know, when you defend the use of anti-gay slurs on the grounds that fifth graders do it, you’ve pretty much given up any right to tell other people to grow up. 'Struth. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gonzomax-you-surprised-and-disappointed-me/488028.md?page=7)