# Hey Monty, what's the deal about Opal stabbing people in the back IRL? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 2, 2015, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034 "2015-03-02T19:14:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/1 "2015-03-02T19:14:39Z")
In the “Jokes that just need to die, already” thread, Monty said this about **Opalcat** : > [@Jokes that just need to DIE ALREADY](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-just-need-to-die-already/713664/115): > > Those of us who, IRL, she stabbed in the back repeatedly have exactly zero problems remembering her for something other than her stupid joke. OK, this is the first I’ve heard of this. Having dropped this tidbit into a thread, are you willing to explain? I’m not here to defend Opal’s honor (which is more than she ever did ;)), but you can’t just make an accusation like that without anything to back it up. So spill, already. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/2 "2015-03-02T19:17:11Z")
She turned me into a newt! ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/3 "2015-03-02T19:18:49Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > She turned me into a newt! Considering the subject of the thread that led up to this Pitting, I really had no choice, did I? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/4 "2015-03-02T19:26:17Z")
Doubt you’ll get much of a response from **Monty** , or anybody else old enough in board years to have known **Opal** IRL. This is more the type of thing that gets discussed at those boards dedicated to trash talking about the goings on at this board. I never met her, and didn’t interact with her enough here to have much of an opinion about her at all. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/5 "2015-03-02T19:32:05Z")
We used to talk via E-mail, and I sent her a teddy bear once, to cheer her up. It worked for a while. I miss her. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/6 "2015-03-02T19:32:25Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Doubt you’ll get much of a response from **Monty** , or anybody else old enough in board years to have known **Opal** IRL. So you get to throw you an accusation, but no need to back it up with evidence, facts, or even an explanation. Fuck that shit. Either back it up or retract. OK even better tell long personal stories about how the knife went in, how much it hurt, how long you bled … you know, important shit like that. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/7 "2015-03-02T19:39:33Z")
From what I gather **Monty** had a back and **opal** had a knife and she used said knife to stab his back. ---
**Author:** ![Sinaptics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Sinaptics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinaptics)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/8 "2015-03-02T19:57:29Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > From what I gather **Monty** had a back and **opal** had a knife and she used said knife to stab his back. Assuming facts not in evidence; he never stated that it was with a knife. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/9 "2015-03-02T19:57:51Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > From what I gather **Monty** had a back and **opal** had a knife and she used said knife to stab his back. It is my understanding that said stabbing was not a singular act, but was in fact repeated multiple times. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/10 "2015-03-02T20:00:54Z")
It could also have been a pair of scissors held in Opal’s uwitting hands that Monty repeatedly ran backwards into as part of a plot to frame Opal. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/11 "2015-03-02T20:08:05Z")
I am not one to not speak ill of the dead, but the fact is, Opal is passed on, so I think if you are going to bring up stuff like that, the onus should be on you to explain yourself. Or not. It’s not really any skin off my back. It’s just that she’s definitely no longer stabbing anyone in the back. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/12 "2015-03-02T20:12:01Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > It is my understanding that said stabbing was not a singular act, but was in fact repeated multiple times. Stab! Stab! Hi, Opal! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/13 "2015-03-02T20:12:39Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Stab! > Stab! > Hi, Opal! That is the first time I have seen that joke used in a clever way in a long time. Credit where credit’s due. Kudos. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/14 "2015-03-02T20:12:45Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > It is my understanding that said stabbing was not a singular act, but was in fact repeated multiple times. Yeah, that particularly piqued my interest, because it got me wondering how he got suckered into being stabbed in the back a second or third time by the same person. Kinda like Charlie Brown, Lucy, and the football. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/15 "2015-03-02T20:13:46Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Stab! > Stab! > Hi, Opal! Well played. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/16 "2015-03-02T20:18:24Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > It is my understanding that said stabbing was not a singular act, but was in fact repeated multiple times. I am so not going there. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/17 "2015-03-02T20:24:20Z")
Geez, you try to give some people acupuncture and they complain that it feels like knives… ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/18 "2015-03-02T20:28:41Z")
I am sad to discover somebody died. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/19 "2015-03-02T20:34:45Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Stab! > Stab! > Hi, Opal! I hate, hate, hate that “joke”. In fact it was I who initially posted that it should die in that thread. But above usage, well that’s pretty swell. Well done sir, well done! ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/20 "2015-03-02T20:49:30Z")
Being that the other party isn’t here to respond or defend herself, I’m thinking this is best swept under the rug and left there. I doubt Monty will respond to this, and I don’t blame him. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034.md?page=2)