# 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:** 27
**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 11, 2015, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/521 "2015-03-11T22:30:08Z")
IS Mad Men some sort of TV show? I don’t watch TV. Except online. I watch TV online. While my femur heals. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/522 "2015-03-11T22:31:25Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > IS Mad Men some sort of TV show? I don’t watch TV. Except online. I watch TV online. While my femur heals. Are you some sort of _unprofessional uncultured person_? 😛 ---
**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 11, 2015, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/523 "2015-03-11T22:32:32Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Are you some sort of _unprofessional uncultured person_? 😛 I could write a fairly long post about it. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/524 "2015-03-11T22:34:39Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > I could write a fairly long post about it. > > 😉 :):p:D ---
**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 11, 2015, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/525 "2015-03-11T23:03:37Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > IS Mad Men some sort of TV show? Now you’re just trolling. ---
**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 11, 2015, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/526 "2015-03-11T23:05:45Z")
“What does trolling mean?” Haha, it’s where you type out something that you know is not true, just to fuck with people. For example. “All you need to know about Mad Men is that it’s a TV show, and the Harry Crane character hangs himself after stealing money from the agency he works for.” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/527 "2015-03-11T23:12:45Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > And the person who referred to posters as “catty bitches” was _you_, dumb-fuck. And that is wrong and correct, why? If a group of nasty, cranky gossips exists, why not call them catty bitches? Why is this sexist? While some women may be catty bitches, not all of them are, and not all catty bitches are women, or as some poster suggested, homosexuals. They’re catty bitches. The lot of you have behaved towards Opal (and none of you is as useful as Opal was) like a bunch of catty bitches. ---
**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 11, 2015, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/528 "2015-03-11T23:17:10Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > Now you’re just trolling. I do love me some fishing. One time, I was trolling for some walleye, and my brother was behind me cleaning the trout he had just caught, and his knife slipped, and he stabbed-ed me in the back! I yelled: “Hey! Man. Why you gots to be pullin a knife on me? I ain’ts be gottin no weapon!” . ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/529 "2015-03-11T23:21:03Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > I do love me some fishing. > > One time, I was trolling for some walleye, and my brother was behind me cleaning the trout he had just caught, and his knife slipped, and he stabbed-ed me in the back! > > I yelled: “Hey! Man. Why you gots to be pullin a knife on me? I ain’ts be gottin no weapon!” > . I don’t get the accent. What is that? ---
**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 11, 2015, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/530 "2015-03-11T23:21:27Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > One time, I was trolling for some walleye, That made me chuckle. Good one. Sometimes ya got to spice up your jigging, maybe use a chatterbait, like once I seen a Rat-L-Trap used as a spoon one time. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/531 "2015-03-11T23:24:36Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > And that is wrong and correct, why? If a group of nasty, cranky gossips exists, why not call them catty bitches? Why is this sexist? While some women may be catty bitches, not all of them are, and not all catty bitches are women, or as some poster suggested, homosexuals. They’re catty bitches. The lot of you have behaved towards Opal (and none of you is as useful as Opal was) like a bunch of catty bitches. Don’t use gendered insults and then complain that others are misogynistic. You dick. ---
**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 11, 2015, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/532 "2015-03-11T23:29:17Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > I don’t get the accent. What is that? A line from [Hollywood Shuffle](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093200/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_23) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/533 "2015-03-11T23:39:13Z")
> [@Steophan](#): > > Don’t use gendered insults and then complain that others are misogynistic. You dick. Bitch. ---
**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 11, 2015, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/534 "2015-03-11T23:41:02Z")
**HO CAKES!** Hoes gotta eat, too… . ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/535 "2015-03-11T23:55:15Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > And that is wrong and correct, why? I honestly have no idea why that is “wrong and correct”, “counselor”. Your total hard-on for Opal, however, has been entered into evidence as Exhibit A, so no point in you continuing to bring it up. ---
**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 12, 2015, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/536 "2015-03-12T00:00:36Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Doubt you’ll get much of a response from **Monty** , or anybody else old enough in board years to have known **Opal** IRL. I’m going to call that a failed prediction. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/537 "2015-03-12T00:01:57Z")
Before you enter Exhibit A into evidence, you must actually have an Exhibit A “marked for identification” show it to opposing counsel, present it to the witness, lay the foundation, authenticate it and then remember to ask the judge to admit it as evidence. If you are going to pretend to be a lawyer, as if that had any relevance or materiality, you should know those things. Otherwise, Morgenstern won’t hire you then next time he gets arrested at the playground. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/538 "2015-03-12T00:04:25Z")
Glad we got that cleared up. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/539 "2015-03-12T00:09:33Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > Bitch. Hypocrite. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/540 "2015-03-12T00:12:56Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > Before you enter Exhibit A into evidence, you must actually have an Exhibit A “marked for identification” show it to opposing counsel, present it to the witness, lay the foundation, authenticate it and then remember to ask the judge to admit it as evidence. If you are going to pretend to be a lawyer, as if that had any relevance or materiality, you should know those things. Otherwise, Morgenstern won’t hire you then next time he gets arrested at the playground. I can’t count the times you’ve been called an asshole, a dick, a dumb-fuck and otherwise told to STFU in this thread. I’m pretty sure you’ve been keeping track, could you give me the current count please? Is it over 50 yet? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034.md?page=26) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034.md?page=28)