# Here I am, minty green. Something you want to say? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 9, 2002, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-i-am-minty-green-something-you-want-to-say/141400 "2002-12-09T01:04:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-i-am-minty-green-something-you-want-to-say/141400/141 "2002-12-10T04:15:30Z")
All that and not a singe post from out experts **Anal Scurby** and **Fecalnugget**! 🙂 You see what happens when the thread is not titled properly? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-i-am-minty-green-something-you-want-to-say/141400/142 "2002-12-10T04:19:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Diane \* > \*\*Although it would fit in this thread nicely, I think my corn on the knob joke is just a little too grody to post. > \*\* Aw, c’mon, you already gave us the punchline. How much grodier could the rest of it be? ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-i-am-minty-green-something-you-want-to-say/141400/143 "2002-12-10T04:46:46Z")
Whoops. You’re right, I did. Now that I think about it, the punchline is the only part I remember - thankfully! BTW, is it “bone smuggler” or “bones muggler”? ---
**Author:** ![Witch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Witch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Witch)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-i-am-minty-green-something-you-want-to-say/141400/144 "2002-12-10T04:53:31Z")
Wayne Campbell of Wayne and Garth fame often refers to objects of his derision as “Sphincter Boy.” I’ve been know to use it myself on occaision. I’d better _never_ leave this cave. ---
**Author:** ![Asylum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@Asylum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asylum)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-i-am-minty-green-something-you-want-to-say/141400/145 "2002-12-10T05:00:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Diane \* > \*\*Whoops. You’re right, I did. Now that I think about it, the punchline is the only part I remember - thankfully! > > BTW, is it “bone smuggler” or “bones muggler”? \*\* “Bone smuggler”. If it was “Bones Muggler” we would have a bigotry against people who can’t do magic, and quite frankly after viewing this thread I’ve realized that I haven’t kept up with the latest homophobic slurs so I can’t afford any new biases right now, thank you very much. I blame the lack of light in this cave that’s kept me from doing the required reading. ---
**Author:** ![RexDart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@RexDart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RexDart)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-i-am-minty-green-something-you-want-to-say/141400/146 "2002-12-10T05:02:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Witch \* > \*\*Wayne Campbell of Wayne and Garth fame often refers to objects of his derision as “Sphincter Boy.” I’ve been know to use it myself on occaision. > > I’d better _never_ leave this cave. \*\* I don’t think Sphincter Boy is a slur. Now Sphinctal Invader, or Sphincter Shucker, of Sphincter Diver, or Sphincter Jockey, or Sphincter Drill, or Sphincter Corker, or Sphincter Piston, or Sphincter Hydraulic Fissure Control Engineer…now that’s a different story. ---
**Author:** ![grendel72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/91b2a8/32.png) [@grendel72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grendel72)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-i-am-minty-green-something-you-want-to-say/141400/147 "2002-12-10T05:03:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Asylum \* > **"Bone smuggler". If it was “Bones Muggler” we would have a bigotry against people who can’t do magic** No, no, no… that would be prejudiced against the skeletons of 1920s potheads. ---
**Author:** ![apotheosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@apotheosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apotheosis)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-i-am-minty-green-something-you-want-to-say/141400/148 "2002-12-10T05:03:51Z")
No comment from **Mr. A. Nemo** in quite some time, now. Guess the flood of derisive responses wrecked 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-i-am-minty-green-something-you-want-to-say/141400/149 "2002-12-10T05:04:34Z")
“turdburglar” and “fartknocker” are _Beavis and Butthead_ insults. I just thought they were used because they sounded vulgar. Either way, I think it’s a reach. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-i-am-minty-green-something-you-want-to-say/141400/150 "2002-12-10T05:07:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by apotheosis \* > \*\*No comment from **Mr. A. Nemo** in quite some time, now. > > Guess the flood of derisive responses wrecked 'em. \*\* Rectum? It damn near…ah, that’s too easy. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-i-am-minty-green-something-you-want-to-say/141400/151 "2002-12-10T05:20:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eternal \* > \*\*For the record, turdburglar is not necessarily anti-gay, in just the same way that calling **A Nemo** a queer is not necessarily an insult to homosexuals. > > It perhaps could be used in an anti-gay context, but that clearly wasn’t the context I was using. > > Also, I’d like to add: bonesmuggler. tee hee. \*\* So like, when a group of Soviet citizens discovered the remains of the Romanovs in the seventies, and one man took the skull of the Tsar under his bed, would it be wrong to call him a bonesmuggler? Because he WAS!!! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.A.Nemo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@Mr.A.Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.A.Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-i-am-minty-green-something-you-want-to-say/141400/152 "2002-12-10T06:34:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by apotheosis \* > \*\*No comment from **Mr. A. Nemo** in quite some time, now. > > Guess the flood of derisive responses wrecked 'em. \*\* Whats the point? The term in question is used with as much hatred and venom directed toward male homosexuals as the term _fag_. All I see here is a bunch of rationalizing and arguing of semantics. However, since so many find humor in this, the more power to you. ---
**Author:** ![apotheosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@apotheosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apotheosis)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-i-am-minty-green-something-you-want-to-say/141400/153 "2002-12-10T06:38:47Z")
When someone observes that the sun is going down, do you also point out that ‘going down’ is slang for fellatio - which is just as much the sole purview of homosexuals as anal sex (i.e. not in the fucking slightest) - and get all huffy? How the fuck does someone so easily offended make it through the average day? ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-i-am-minty-green-something-you-want-to-say/141400/154 "2002-12-10T07:03:29Z")
Sounds like a real dipshit to me! .:eek: did you hear what he said, I’m gonna tell… ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-i-am-minty-green-something-you-want-to-say/141400/155 "2002-12-10T07:17:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. A. Nemo \* > \*\*Whats the point? The term in question is used with as much hatred and venom directed toward male homosexuals as the term _fag_. All I see here is a bunch of rationalizing and arguing of semantics. > > However, since so many find humor in this, the more power to you. \*\* I’m offended by your use of the word “bunch.” Granted, it’s not a commonly recognized slur toward my ethnicity/religion/gender/sexual orientation as of yet, but I’m workin’ on it… ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-i-am-minty-green-something-you-want-to-say/141400/156 "2002-12-10T07:22:04Z")
Isn’t bunch in reference to a “bunch” of grapes? You know a FRUIT…(bad word) ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-i-am-minty-green-something-you-want-to-say/141400/157 "2002-12-10T07:49:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. A. Nemo \* > \*\*Whats the point? The term in question is used with as much hatred and venom directed toward male homosexuals as the term _fag_. \*\* We’ve been over this, haven’t we? Yes, I suppose the word could used that way. But it is an assumption on your part that it _always_ is used that way. Ya know, when my 8 yr old nephew uses the word to playfully insult his friends, it’s because he thinks the word ‘turd’ is funny as hell. _It is not because he is filled with hatred and venom at homosexual men_. I’m pretty sure he does not fully understand what ‘homosexual’ means, if he understands it all. ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-i-am-minty-green-something-you-want-to-say/141400/158 "2002-12-10T07:57:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Maeglin \* > \*\*Because we don’t take homophobic kids’ and wacky white supremacists’ word for it? \*\* What the fuck, Maeglin? You don’t believe it’s an anti-gay slur if the person who used it is homophobic? Think about what you are saying. That’s like saying “nigger” isn’t a racial slur if a white racist uses it. Why am I even bothering to argue with you idiots?:rolleyes: ---
**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:** [December 10, 2002, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-i-am-minty-green-something-you-want-to-say/141400/159 "2002-12-10T08:21:23Z")
No, **blowero** , what he saying is just because homophobes claim that turdburglar is a slur doesn’t necessarily mean that it is. And, for people keeping score, the idiots in this thread are: **Eternal particlewill spooje RexDart SPOOFE Fenris beagledave istara -spoke RobertTB Bricker The Ace of Swords The Wrong Girl World Eater Diane gobear Tiburon Dewey Cheatem Undhow Ukelele Ike Johnatahn Chance vanilla UncleBill iampunha Eve dalovindj Duck Duck Goose Philovance wring Witch Maeglin Munch Banger SuaSponte superbee White Lightning Rhum Runner bdgr minty green Doghouse Reilly mouthbreather Jackmanii Truth Seeker lieu Tapioca Dextrin Happy Lendervedder Esprix pravnik Dangerosa dinahmoe apotheosis Asylum elucidator JeffB Ogre Jurhael imthjckaz Kyomara GIGObuster grendel72 Guinastasia t-keela Miller** Smart people in this thread: **blowero A. Nemo** You two must be very lonely. ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-i-am-minty-green-something-you-want-to-say/141400/160 "2002-12-10T08:27:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UncleBill \* > Dear Mr. **blowero** , > > In this language we call “English”, there actually can be many different meanings for the same spelling and pronunciation of a word. You’ll notice this in a certain big book we like to call a “dictionary” when they use a numbering system to differentiate between what is called “definitions”. You have intimated you are a homosexual male. Uh, Earth to UncleBill. I am not gay, and I never said I was, and that shouldn’t have a goddamn thing to do with it. Here’s another word in this language we call “English”: Asshole. And it describes you perfectly. > [@](#): > > Now, not everyone reads the dictionary, and as pointed out earlier, “turd burglar” is, sadly, not listed in the dictionary, even if you read the whole thing. Now, knowing that there is more than one definition of the word “turd burglar”, and none of them are meant to reflect positively on the person called this word, can you get that bug out of your ass? We are now aware. It wouldn’t have bugged me at all if the person who used it had just admitted he didn’t realize it was an anti-gay slur and apologized. But instead we got several responses from immature people who not only insist that they are right when they are obviously dead-wrong, but also are amused by posting every _other_ derogatory term for gays that they can think of. Grow the fuck up, people! And despite your assumption that I _must_ be gay if that kind of idiocy offends me, UncleBill, the truth is, it offended me because it was _offensive_…period. That’s all I’m going to say on the matter. I have better things to do than waste time arguing with a few morons who won’t admit there might be something they actually didn’t know. I leave you to your schoolyard antics. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-i-am-minty-green-something-you-want-to-say/141400.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-i-am-minty-green-something-you-want-to-say/141400.md?page=9)