# "guests" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 23, 2004, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927 "2004-03-23T16:58:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/41 "2004-03-23T19:43:48Z")
> [@Moody Bastard](#): > > Why has no one told this knuckle dragger that _hola_ is spelled with one “L”? > > It ain’t part of the joke, I’d guarantee it. Um, because it’s spelled with 2? It’s a slang for “holler”, not the spanish for “hello”. If anything, it’s spelled “hollah”. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/42 "2004-03-23T19:46:49Z")
> [@Moody Bastard](#): > > Why has no one told this knuckle dragger that _hola_ is spelled with one “L”? > > It ain’t part of the joke, I’d guarantee it. Because he probably meant “holler”, something a lot of hip hop folk say. Of couse he’s a fucking idiot, so I can’t really extrapolate what he intended to say. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2004, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/43 "2004-03-23T19:47:51Z")
Oh yeah, and re: the OP: if it’s a joke, it’s a fairly stupid one. If not, well, it’s even more stupid. ---
**Author:** ![OneYogini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b9e5f3/32.png) [@OneYogini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneYogini)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/44 "2004-03-23T19:49:36Z")
Moody, if you’re not being sarcastic (g-d knows I can’t read people around here for shit), HOLLA is ebonics for “holler” (is that fair to say, I hope it’s not an assumption, should I clarify that I’m not being racist, g-d sakes I have to question every word I type in this “forum”) - he wasn’t trying to say Hola. (I can’t use a smilie or roll-eyes icon…“I’ve been warned”…it IS the Pit). Okay, so I’m posting here - so I too am guilty for keeping this thread alive - - but why, if we all read the OP and think it’s ridiculous, do we bother to post and keep it going??? Here and in other forms. Why not just ignore it and let it die. Do we all really need to share our opinion of the stupidness of the OP, or have to flame someone for being stupid enough to creat the thread in the first place? Just curious. Thank g-d there’s no curious emoticon. I’d probably be told not to use that either. (Heavy sarcasm in use - - please wear protective gear or ignore. Whatever.) ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/45 "2004-03-23T19:50:06Z")
Nice simulpost there **Munch** \ You owe me a Coke. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mal\_Adroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@Mal\_Adroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mal_Adroit)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/46 "2004-03-23T19:50:41Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Um, because it’s spelled with 2? It’s a slang for “holler”, not the spanish for “hello”. If anything, it’s spelled “hollah”. Well, “hollah” woulda worked. Sure looks like _hola_ to me. ---
**Author:** ![Mal\_Adroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@Mal\_Adroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mal_Adroit)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/47 "2004-03-23T19:53:54Z")
P.S. Fine, _I’m_ the knuckle dragger. ssscrape ---
**Author:** ![Interrobang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/interrobang/32/17463_2.png) [@Interrobang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interrobang)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/48 "2004-03-23T19:57:00Z")
> [@Garfield226](#): > > However, I’d like to state that I am taking my free 30 days and then paying. I get a month to post free, before I pay. Your membership will expire 30 days before mine, and you won’t get the free month back on that end. Well, no. Unless round is funny. Per **Ed Zotti** in [the thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=245825&page=6&pp=50) that launched a thousand threads: > [@Ed Zotti](#): > > I want to subscribe now, but I also want to get the full benefit of my 30-day free trial period. What should I do? > > Subscribe now (well, on March 22). On April 21, Jerry will globally change the expiration date on all subscriptions to 4-21-05 (or corresponding date in the future if you subscribe for multiple years). In other words, if you subscribe on March 22, you’ll effectively be getting a 13-month subscription. NOTE: Jerry won’t change the expiration dates till April 21, so don’t beef if your subscription info shows an earlier date before then. So you can subscribe anytime before April 21 and still get this month free. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/49 "2004-03-23T20:02:24Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Whoosh. > > A, I’m guessing that sarcasm and tongue-in-cheek doesn’t translate well for people who’s english is a second language. He wasn’t trying to be rude or even being inadvertently rude - he was just trying to be funny. So…he was posting a JOKE THREAD…IN THE PIT. Got it. P.S. Yogini…get off the cross, for the love of the lord. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/50 "2004-03-23T20:12:18Z")
> [@jarbabyj](#): > > So…he was posting a JOKE THREAD…IN THE PIT. > > Got it. Can we call it an attempt at a humorous, preemptive social commentary on the inevitable jackholes who are going to bitch and moan about some sort of ill-perceived class distinction between Charter Members, Members and Guests and call it a day? Look, a [puppy](http://www.doors.com/door_mem/other/images/puppy-lg.jpg)! ---
**Author:** ![OneYogini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b9e5f3/32.png) [@OneYogini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneYogini)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/51 "2004-03-23T20:17:58Z")
[highjack] I’d apologize for doing this - but it is apparently a joke thread, so why not… > [@jarbabyj](#): > > P.S. Yogini…get off the cross, for the love of the lord. > [@OneYogini](#): > > (Heavy sarcasm in use - - please wear protective gear or ignore. Whatever.) I guess you chose…“whatever” **jar**. Thanks for exerting the negative energy though…keeps the Pit hampsters greased and goin’ I suppose. [end highjack] ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/52 "2004-03-23T20:25:34Z")
> [@OneYogini](#): > > [highjack] I’d apologize for doing this - but it is apparently a joke thread, so why not… > > I guess you chose…“whatever” **jar**. Thanks for exerting the negative energy though…keeps the Pit hampsters greased and goin’ I suppose. > [end highjack] Oh for the love of… Yogini, are you or are you not pouty and hurt that someone told you to fucking lay off the smilies? If so, then your post did not include heavy sarcasm, it included bratty martyrdom Almost 100% of the long standing posters on this board (including myself a thousand times over) have had their asses hand to them and been forced to examine the shit they were posting. If it upsets you so much that you have to bring the baggage to other threads, maybe you need to step away from the keyboard. Hamsters has no p J ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/53 "2004-03-23T20:30:00Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > **Aldebaran’s** Corollary to Godwins’s Law: in any thread to which **Aldebaran** posts, the probability that he will eventually refer to one or more posters as “arrogant” approaches 1. May I modify this and use it as a sig? Please? ---
**Author:** ![OneYogini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b9e5f3/32.png) [@OneYogini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneYogini)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/54 "2004-03-23T20:31:16Z")
> [@jarbabyj](#): > > Yogini, are you or are you not pouty and hurt that someone told you to fucking lay off the smilies? If so, then your post did not include heavy sarcasm, it included bratty martyrdom. > > Hamsters has no p > > J See, Jar, the reason I said at the bottom of my post that it included heavy sarcasm, was indeed because the intent of my post was sarcasm! Only. I’m not pouty or hurt. That would mean I actually care what a bunch of strangers think about me…that’s worth lol’ing! But in the future, if I feel the need for “bratty martyrdom” I’ll definitely put that at the end of the post to make my intention to do so very clear. (Though, that’s what I JUST did and still you say…oh g-d, whatever, we will never understand each other. And I think we both can live with that. Namaste.) Hamsters. No p. Got it. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/55 "2004-03-23T20:41:38Z")
> [@Casey1505](#): > > After “will.” type in whatever you are willing to do for food, with a period in between words, and leave “.forfood.org” intact. > > For example, the will.sing.to.lobsters.forfood sentiment would turn out like [this.](http://will.sing.to.lobsters.forfood.org/) (note the URL.) I like [this one](http://use.me.forfood.org/), personally. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/56 "2004-03-23T21:37:26Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Can we call it an attempt at a humorous, preemptive social commentary on the inevitable jackholes who are going to bitch and moan about some sort of ill-perceived class distinction between Charter Members, Members and Guests and call it a day? That’s what I thought it was… an attempt to preempt (Wow! I can rhyme! In the Pit, no less! :p) an elitist attitude from appearing by those who’ve already paid versus interlopers. 'Course, I’m probably wrong and any other interpretation correct. ::: shamed ::: If so, perhaps I’m one of those who should go back to being a ‘guest’. ---
**Author:** ![Aldebaran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Aldebaran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aldebaran)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/57 "2004-03-23T22:11:28Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > I was being helpful. Well I’m sorry, but I have serious doubts about that, seen the contenance of your post and the fact it comes after: > [@myself](#): > > Well… “we” obviously think that if the OP meant this to be taken as some “joke” it would be placed at the MPSIM board. Which makes your remark > [@](#): > > A, I didn’t think it was possible, but you make less and less sense every day. Are you mixing up “board” and “forum” again, or do you think no one has ever posted an attempt at humor at the SDMB? superficial since you could deduct already that with “board” I meant “forum”. You could have posted simply an explanation like you did afterwards. For which I thank you because although I was already familiar with that word and how it is used on message boards, I don’t write here in a languages I master. Hence it can happen that I replace a word I don’t recall at the given moment with one that comes to my mind as a useful replacement. Which is then clarified as I did above. Salaam. A ---
**Author:** ![Jojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecd19e/32.png) [@Jojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jojo)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/58 "2004-03-23T23:20:34Z")
Hey, I _like_ being a guest. We are the freewheelin’ anarchists of the straight dope. Wherever we lay our hats, that’s our home. Every night, we hitch our wagon to a star. We don’t play by the rules but we get things done. We are the working class, the proletariat. Charter members have sold out to The Man. They are under the knuckle of the Establishment. Come the revolution, they will be the first ones against the wall. Guests UNITE! Be proud in your guestdom. Proclaim it from the hills. ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/59 "2004-03-23T23:21:19Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > [http://will.slap.you.naked.forfood.org/](http://will.slap.you.naked.forfood.org/) > > This is kinda fun! Censorship! [http://will.fuck.forfood.org/](http://will.fuck.forfood.org/) [http://will.suck.cock.forfood.org/](http://will.suck.cock.forfood.org/) [http://will.eat.pussy.forfood.org/](http://will.eat.pussy.forfood.org/) [http://will.kick.your.cunt.forfood.org/](http://will.kick.your.cunt.forfood.org/) This one works though: [http://will.invade.Iraq.forfood.org/](http://will.invade.Iraq.forfood.org/) ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927/60 "2004-03-23T23:30:23Z")
> [@Mycroft Holmes](#): > > Oh, and I assume your location means you’re form “Balmer”. Just more proof that eating too many crabcakes messes with your brains. 😃 > > No offence meant to other Baltimore dopers. I actually think Baltimore is a really nice city, and “GO O’s!” I think **Trunk’s** the reason behind the phrase “Balti-Morons.” Not me, of course. Or any other MAD’s. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests/235927.md?page=4)