“Upon”. Are you dazzled? C’mon, it’s a four-letter word, we’re not talking Fermat’s Last Theorem here. :rolleyes:
Oh, and when you ended a sentence with “upon”, you ended it with a… well, have a guess. But it’s not that frown-worthy, when the alternative sentence construction would be clunky.
I have noticed the phenomenon the OP is talking about. I suspect it’s not as widespread as he thinks, but we can’t really know unless we find a thread to disagree about (the virgin/slut one?). But sometimes people are compelled to share knowledge which really distracts from answering the question.
For instance if you’re discussing if 0.999…=1 dragging in infitessimals, incomplete fields, nonstandard notation and so forth trying to find a way in which it is true is fun, and instructive, but just misleading unless you start by saying “In the notation used by everyone at this time, it is. The reason is […]. However, there’s some other situations you might find interesting [link] [link]”
Let’s just resolve this the manly way.
Get out the measuring tape and digital cameras, because we won’t believe you without photographic evidence. Askeptic, you go first. If we’re gonna have a dick-measuring contest, lets make it good and proper and see some pictures of dick.
The obvious rejoinder to this bit of nonsense is usually attributed, in various phrasings, to Winston Churchill (though it may be apocryphal):
I think the point here, rather deftly first drawn my Demostylus, is that you need another o on the end of your to.
The moral of the story is that you should never leave the house without counting your os
But if your gynaecologist can count more than one, then you might need to be concerned
Just ones that county posts in. 
Or your b’s apparently… or does Demostylus belong to you personally? Did you miss the part where I said that I should have said “as well”?
Malacandra: Thanks, I just won $5.
Gluteus:
I am glad to learn that somebody has learned, by lurking, to minimize my idiocy.
Touche.
No it isn’t. ADHD is treatable. Ritalin, methylphenidate, dexedrin, concerta, etc no more cure ADHD than a shot of insulin cures diabetes.
Re Nitpicking
Yes. Keep looking, I have many more nits needing to be picked. I really enjoy pickers of nits, who pick them in a FRIENDLY way. 
(in case my attempt at humor was just stupid, let me say that you are absolutely right, and I do not mind that you pointed out my mistake) Is there a smiley for sincerity?
There’s a New Super-Hero championing the cause of Ignorance and Idiocy? And he wears Combat Fatigues & drives a Pick-up truck*? Why wasn’t he on the Republican Primary Ballot…?
(…and I don’t want to hear that he was too busy searching for secret Cobra bases in Iraq.)
*sold separately, batteries not included. Actual penis length may vary.
I’d always thought that alleged quote was: “This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put.”
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Apparently when it comes to stupidity you are not all that quiet. What is a secret Cobra Base? Why would anyone be searching for them? Did you intend to leave out the article in your first sentence? (you probably will not get that last question, just go ask a friendly English 1A teacher what it means)
How does the song go? So long. Fare well. Fuck Off.
Holy fuck, is this the campus commons?
See? The real reason for this whole Pit thread is because askeptic got a hard-on but IzzyR and Ilsa_Lund made it go all limp with their unsexy statistical dick-measuring contest.
Don’t go away mad… just go away. That’s how the song goes.
Cobra is the evil organization opposing the heroic team GI Joe. If I remember the editorial ramblings of Garth Ennis correctly, the UK had Action Man instead.
Wow, all I can say is, you sure nailed it when you picked a screen name.
The term is ‘username’.
At least mine’s spelled correctly.
Man, glut, you get all the crazed admirers.
Are you sure? I am just curious how do you spell askeptic? Sometimes you may not be as clever as you think you are, but hey, I am rarely as clever as I think I am. Despite your bluster and attempted insults and despite my failed attempt at banter, I will gladly buy the first beer if ever we meet.
I have formulated a theory about this thread: The SDMB software is glitching and barfing up random info instead of askeptic’s posts.
Or perhaps not, since those posts aren’t aggressively incoherent. Hmmm, does anyone else think that askeptic is an AI?
Perhaps he’s a reincarnation of Justhink. Version 3.0
There is simply no other hypothesis that explains the odd nature of this thread.