# Have You Pledged to Serve Jimmy Joe Meager Today? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 9, 2009, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-pledged-to-serve-jimmy-joe-meager-today/509394 "2009-09-09T05:34:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-pledged-to-serve-jimmy-joe-meager-today/509394/81 "2009-09-10T23:54:38Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > But that doesn’t even begin to explain why a man would choose a user name starting with “Carol” Just in case you were wondering about this question, it’s a town in Illinois: [Carol Stream, Illinois - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Stream,_Illinois) ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-pledged-to-serve-jimmy-joe-meager-today/509394/82 "2009-09-11T00:02:03Z")
> [@waterj2](#): > > Just in case you were wondering about this question, it’s a town in Illinois: [Carol Stream, Illinois - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Stream,_Illinois) There has been some speculation that she is _the_ Carol Stream, but I should think we’ll never know. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-pledged-to-serve-jimmy-joe-meager-today/509394/83 "2009-09-11T00:14:12Z")
> [@waterj2](#): > > Just in case you were wondering about this question, it’s a town in Illinois: [Carol Stream, Illinois - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Stream,_Illinois) I know that it is. But you cut out the second bit of my question. Nor does the fact of the town’s existence really answer the question as to why someone would choose a name that starts with ‘Carol’ and then get annoyed when people assume that you’re probably a woman. Let alone never revealing your gender, continually dropping lame hints, and acting like a prima donna jerk whenever anybody uses either a masculine or feminine pronoun to describe you… and doing the same thing if they use a neuter one. So “Carol” has a feminine user name that allows it to pitch a fit upon any gender assumption, and picks fights if people assume it is a guy, a girl, or try to avoid its bizarre retard-rage by referring to it with a neuter pronoun. It’s all a rather stupid troll game that was obviously set up at or before the moment that it registered to post here, and I wonder why it’s been allowed to go on so long. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-pledged-to-serve-jimmy-joe-meager-today/509394/84 "2009-09-11T00:15:55Z")
Its good that Evelyn Waugh did not live to see this sorry state of affairs. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-pledged-to-serve-jimmy-joe-meager-today/509394/85 "2009-09-11T01:11:05Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > I know that it is. But you cut out the second bit of my question. Sorry, perhaps if I had left a longer version and just bolded the part I did have an answer to, it would have been more clear that I share your befuddlement about the full question. Just clearing up one minor point that you kind of left hanging, even if it didn’t actually need clearing up, as it turns out. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-pledged-to-serve-jimmy-joe-meager-today/509394/86 "2009-09-11T01:23:42Z")
Ah, well thanks then for trying to share some information. I actually found it out during one of the previous outrage-fishing-expeditions that Carol habitually engages in. It was news to me then and still strikes me as a rather strange name for a town. But I suppose Carol has at least served a minor purpose here; some of us have had our ignorance of geography fought in a small way. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-pledged-to-serve-jimmy-joe-meager-today/509394/87 "2009-09-11T03:18:41Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Its good that Evelyn Waugh did not live to see this sorry state of affairs. Or George Sand. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-pledged-to-serve-jimmy-joe-meager-today/509394/88 "2009-09-11T03:24:33Z")
George Sand, Chopin, chopsticks, chinese food, takeout menu! telephone…sorry, my attention wanders…kung fu chicken, Carradine’s dead, _fuck!_… ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_Stream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@Carol\_Stream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_Stream)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-pledged-to-serve-jimmy-joe-meager-today/509394/89 "2009-09-11T03:51:02Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > There has been some speculation that she is _the_ Carol Stream, but I should think we’ll never know. Let me correct this right off the bat. I am not _the_ Carol Stream, nor have I ever claimed to be. It’s just a silly user name based on where I live. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-pledged-to-serve-jimmy-joe-meager-today/509394/90 "2009-09-11T10:41:49Z")
> [@Carol\_Stream](#): > > Let me correct this right off the bat. I am not _the_ Carol Stream, nor have I ever claimed to be. It’s just a silly user name based on where I live. OK, now we know. So much for idle speculation. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-pledged-to-serve-jimmy-joe-meager-today/509394/91 "2009-09-11T11:41:11Z")
I call bullshit. Sheheit is clearly a midwestern geographical sub-division. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-pledged-to-serve-jimmy-joe-meager-today/509394/92 "2009-09-11T14:34:05Z")
> [@Carol\_Stream](#): > > Let me correct this right off the bat. I am not _the_ Carol Stream, nor have I ever claimed to be. It’s just a silly user name based on where I live. That’s what Carol Stream would say, just to throw us off. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-pledged-to-serve-jimmy-joe-meager-today/509394.md?page=4)