# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2015, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/81 "2015-03-03T16:34:13Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Which was my point. Now, let’s let **Opal** rest, I think the question **RTF** posted has been answered. Has it? I’ve read the linked thread from 1999, but here’s a huge gulf between previous animosity on this board (and/or other boards with some connection with this one), and claims of having been repeatedly backstabbed IRL. So that doesn’t strike me as an answer, unless it’s clear that that’s what **Monty** meant. Doesn’t matter to me either way - I’m ready to let this drop regardless. But if someone’s shared how **Opal** backstabbed **Monty** IRL, or what actions by **Opal** that **Monty** interpreted that way, or whatever, please point me to it. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2015, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/82 "2015-03-03T16:44:07Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > You know what’s really funny. You have no idea who made that post. [QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] Huh? It’s Opal. Nobody else would have a link to teemings in their sign. [/QUOTE] > [@Morgenstern](#): > > Which was my point. Your point in telling RNATB that he didn’t know who made the post was that it was Opal? You have an oblique way of making your points. You are either a liar or you really suck at argument. Could be both. And no one has come close to answering the OP, so you seem to suck at reading, too. ---
**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 3, 2015, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/83 "2015-03-03T16:52:31Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Which was my point. Now, let’s let **Opal** rest, Do you think that somehow discussing this will cause her zombie corpse to rise from the grave? Why the dramatics? A) She’s dead–pretty much by definition, she can’t be bothered by this. B) She wouldn’t have been bothered by this when she was alive. She loved this sort of drama/attention. C) Buckeyes 4-evar! ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2015, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/84 "2015-03-03T16:53:30Z")
I’ll be the first to admit I’m a terrible person, but I fuckin’ love this thread so far. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2015, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/85 "2015-03-03T17:00:08Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > Yep, that was me. You think so? I’m kind of reluctant to bother a mod or admin with something this minor. Do 99ers get a tee shirt or something? A Charter Membership? [Moderating] Mostly, they get not banned for having two accounts. Don’t worry, I’ll pass the word up the food chain and have the two accounts merged. I take it you’d prefer to stick with **Ranger Jeff**? [/Moderating] ---
**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 3, 2015, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/86 "2015-03-03T17:05:06Z")
thread just got real ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2015, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/87 "2015-03-03T17:06:27Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > I’ll be the first to admit I’m a terrible person, but I fuckin’ love this thread so far. Is there room in that handbasket? Scoot over. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2015, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/88 "2015-03-03T17:23:48Z")
I remember when **Ranger Jeff** remained behind in the abandoned village of AOL SDMB, along with some others. Long after the keyword stopped working and there was no official way to get there, the saved link (starting with aol:// ) would still go there. It was as if AOL had forgotten it was condemned propery and forgot to send the bulldozers. In fact, a person could still go back and read posts going back to 1996 for well into this century. I used to go back over there and lurk, reading the sprinkling of new posts by the folks who elected not to follow the official board into (what was then) ubb-land. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2015, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/89 "2015-03-03T17:29:18Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > 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. Wait, wait – I got it!!! It took some time and some deductive reasoning but Opal was an innocent bystander simply waiting with a knife to cut the pie Always Brings Pie brought. While Monty was distracted by an interesting conversation, his back was stabbed by Runs With Scissors who quickly ran out of sight. The multiple wounds were the give-away. Now where did that pesky Col. Mustard get to? ---
**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:** [March 3, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/90 "2015-03-03T17:32:21Z")
[Stripped of his rank due to cruelty.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php) ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2015, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/91 "2015-03-03T17:33:59Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > Your point in telling RNATB that he didn’t know who made the post was that it was Opal? You have an oblique way of making your points. You are either a liar or you really suck at argument. Could be both. > > And no one has come close to answering the OP, so you seem to suck at reading, too. Close. It seems you have trouble putting 2 and 2 together and getting 4. That comment _wasn’t_ directed to RNATB. If you had looked upstream a little before running your mouth you would have seen that. The reference to FFF was enough for mostly everyone, wasn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2015, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/92 "2015-03-03T17:50:59Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > Your point in telling RNATB that he didn’t know who made the post was that it was Opal? It wasn’t me he was telling, it was **FXMastermind**. I don’t understand what **Morgenstern** was getting at, though, unless it was that **FXM** _personally_ didn’t know whose post it was (because he hasn’t been around long enough?) 😕 ETA: ninja’d. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2015, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/93 "2015-03-03T18:03:56Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > [Stripped of his rank due to cruelty.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php) Don’t you mean war profiteering? ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2015, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/94 "2015-03-03T18:09:35Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > It wasn’t me he was telling, it was **FXMastermind**. I don’t understand what **Morgenstern** was getting at, though, unless it was that **FXM** _personally_ didn’t know whose post it was (because he hasn’t been around long enough?) 😕 > > ETA: ninja’d. I just found it ironic that a person commented on another person doing dastardly deeds with sharp items, thereafter a third party asks for the reason behind the comment. Then here comes yet another post (I believe from someone unaware of the link it provided) that cleared up the underlying agenda, adding an off-medication rant by a person of interest in the thread. I know, it’s cryptic. I think most can follow. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2015, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/95 "2015-03-03T18:20:45Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Decided to take **Morgenstern** ’s advice. The proper thing to do would be to apologize for making the statement in the first place without backing it up. Just dropping it and then leaving it without any other justification or apology is not honorable. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2015, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/96 "2015-03-03T18:32:03Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > It wasn’t me he was telling, it was **FXMastermind**. I don’t understand what **Morgenstern** was getting at, though, unless it was that **FXM** _personally_ didn’t know whose post it was (because he hasn’t been around long enough?) 😕 > > ETA: ninja’d. Got it, my mistake. Doesn’t change the fact that Mr. Cryptic’s point was a bit dull. ---
**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 3, 2015, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/97 "2015-03-03T18:37:35Z")
Morgenstern and Montycrantz live in their own private world of disembodied ladyparts for them to suckle on where women are not to be believed about rape by _Bill Cosby_, the rapiest man ever in the greater Los Angeles basin. Apparently Opal handed their asses to them a few times and they are bitter about it two decades better. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2015, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/98 "2015-03-03T18:39:07Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > Morgenstern and Montycrantz live in their own private world of disembodied ladyparts for them to suckle on where women are not to be believed about rape by _Bill Cosby_, the rapiest man ever in the greater Los Angeles basin. Apparently Opal handed their asses to them a few times and they are bitter about it two decades better. Are you high or something? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2015, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/99 "2015-03-03T18:39:26Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > If she earned his enmity then he has every right to point that fact out in a conversation about her. . But it wasn’t a conversation about her. It was a hijack or threadshitting. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2015, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/100 "2015-03-03T18:41:52Z")
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