# Grow up, leander. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 19, 2008, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451 "2008-11-19T15:00:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/81 "2008-11-20T17:40:16Z")
You all are ugly! UGLY! And you use Google. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/82 "2008-11-20T18:10:20Z")
> [@Q.E.D](#): > > Me either! > **[Google Search](https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHMG_enPR291&aq=0&oq=me+either&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=me+either+or+me+neither)** ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/83 "2008-11-20T19:55:14Z")
> [@Q.E.D](#): > > You’re going to have to do better than that if you want to support **leander** ’s assertion that I produce “…wrong answers over and over and over again, because \* just must be the first one to answer.” I mean, really. [Como talle vu?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=350543) I mean, really. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2008, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/84 "2008-11-20T20:00:05Z")
Good for you! You found another one. This time from nearly _three_ years ago. Yeah, that’s quite a pattern you’ve stumbled upon. Bad me, bad! ---
**Author:** ![WF\_Tomba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/85 "2008-11-20T20:02:14Z")
> [@Scissorjack](#): > > [Como talle vu?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=350543) I mean, really. I doubt Googling would have produced that answer. That’s an off-the-top-of-his-head answer if I’ve ever seen one. ---
**Author:** ![leander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/86 "2008-11-21T09:58:14Z")
I’ve been a bit busy this week, but I will post over the weekend with a few Google boy instances. ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/87 "2008-11-21T13:51:52Z")
Over the weekend? Too bad. Everybody knows that it’s the Friday posts that really set up the thread’s emotional arc. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2008, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/88 "2008-11-21T14:46:56Z")
> [@leander](#): > > I’ve been a bit busy this week, but I will post over the weekend with a few Google boy instances. I’m all a-twitter. ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/89 "2008-11-21T14:49:28Z")
I’m half a-twitter, and half a-flutter. I like to hedge my bets. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/90 "2008-11-21T14:57:11Z")
Never mind. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2008, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/91 "2008-11-21T14:59:44Z")
> [@leander](#): > > This is the crux of Google boy. He produces wrong answers over and over and over again, because he just must be the first one to answer. It’s sad and pathetic and antithetical to the purpose of this board. And yet he does it all the time without even a warning. > > Then you would be totally wrong. As most people here know (including the mods), Google boy knows very little about very little – but he tries to impress the newbies with his Google skills and often does fool a bunch of people. As a GQ moderator who has read many of **Q.E.D.'s** answers, and who has some degree expertise in science and other fields, this is just plain nonsense. You’re a moron. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/92 "2008-11-21T15:26:22Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > You’re a moron. Even I agree with this, and I don’t know shit. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/93 "2008-11-21T15:38:41Z")
I didn’t know **Q.E.D.** had a reputation. Now, so far as I’m concerned, his reputation is “That guy that **Leander** is being a dick about.” Why would anyone get so worked up about this kind of stuff, even if it’s true? ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/94 "2008-11-21T15:39:37Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > As a GQ moderator who has read many of **Q.E.D.'s** answers, and who has some degree expertise in science and other fields, this is just plain nonsense. Yup. Q.E.D. does use google a lot, and occasionally makes funny mistakes, but he also knows a surprising amount of shit off the top of his head. ---
**Author:** ![FarmerChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@FarmerChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FarmerChick)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/95 "2008-11-21T15:42:44Z")
> [@Scissorjack](#): > > [Here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=381619), in a GQ thread on what a “damascene conversion” was: I’ll admit to googling to confirm the Bible verses I quoted, but that’s not the same as not having a clue about the correct answer but posting the first result off a search engine anyway. I was [converted](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=493990) last night. ---
**Author:** ![Dreamy\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@Dreamy\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dreamy_B)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/96 "2008-11-21T19:54:55Z")
Yup, what **leander** did was some immature shit. You really can’t deny that. However, the point he’s making isn’t a bad one. I mean **Q.E.D** is clearly one smart cookie with his latin username and all but it would be nice if he let the rest of us (slightly less) smart folks play every once in a while too. ha ha, smells vaguely of milk… now that’s funny. ---
**Author:** ![leander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/97 "2008-11-21T20:25:39Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > As a GQ moderator who has read many of **Q.E.D.'s** answers, and who has some degree expertise in science and other fields, this is just plain nonsense. You’re a moron. As a GQ mod with “some degree expertise” (sic) you should really try doing your job better. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/98 "2008-11-21T21:00:01Z")
Ooo, burn. **leander** really googled up a great insult there! ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/99 "2008-11-22T00:02:28Z")
> [@Fish](#): > > Ooo, burn. **leander** really googled up a great insult there! Google has a killer spell checker, too. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/100 "2008-11-22T00:42:27Z")
**leander** ’s new theme song: > [@](#): > > Guy to friend: Dude, I’m working on a new house song right now. It’s going to kick ass. It’s called “Google It”. It goes “Googleit, Googleit, Googleit…” > > –Madison Square Park > **[Overheard In New York](https://overheardinnewyork.com/)** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451.md?page=6)