# Hurricane Ditka, Shodan, Octopus, and BigT... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 16, 2019, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522 "2019-11-16T02:00:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/101 "2019-11-17T19:08:21Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I was just musing yesterday on how internet bullies are a superstitious cowardly lot. Then a wayward pelican flew through my window and gave me an idea. You just made my morning 😃 ---
**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:** [November 17, 2019, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/102 "2019-11-17T19:28:07Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Good point, one which raises the question of whether it got reported. > > Oh, wait. It did, just now. I did it a day ago, but it seems that The Pelican signal is broken… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/103 "2019-11-17T19:33:27Z")
Okay. One of you smarmy twats need to explain the Pelican thing. ---
**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:** [November 17, 2019, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/104 "2019-11-17T19:36:15Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Okay. One of you smarmy twats need to explain the Pelican thing. It is a riff on Batman’s origin. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/105 "2019-11-17T19:42:49Z")
:smack: ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/106 "2019-11-17T20:39:04Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Okay. One of you smarmy twats need to explain the Pelican thing. > [@GIGObuster](#): > > It is a riff on Batman’s origin. That much is clear, but why a Pelican specifically? A hummingbird might at least carry some resonance to the thread. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/107 "2019-11-17T20:43:04Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > I don’t go around slamming people for hardships in their lives, as if casual cruelty was some kind of wild “gotcha”. I’m comfortable judging that you’re an asshole. Fuck off. Oh please. You instigate drama for entertainment. Nasty thing. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/108 "2019-11-17T20:54:50Z")
You motherfucker, you could have at least given us a heads up before saying that ! It’s a miracle I wasn’t harmed in the catastrophic explosion of my irony-meter. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/109 "2019-11-17T21:07:08Z")
> [@Teddie](#): > > Good God! > > Is this the depths we come to?! > > You guys are the most intelligent people on the internet I read. FFS… What’s with the “we” and “guys?” Last I checked, Scumpup was one person. Is everyone on this board responsible for anything any other poster might say? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/110 "2019-11-17T21:28:38Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Tonight I shall open a vein whilst in my bath and my last thought will be a sorrowful reflection on how I could have been a person s/he/it liked… Are you going to ask for money again? ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/111 "2019-11-17T21:37:01Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > You motherfucker, you could have at least given us a heads up before saying that ! It’s a miracle I wasn’t harmed in the catastrophic explosion of my irony-meter. Stop buying the cheap Chinese knock off then. But, my apologies, perhaps a kind mod could spoiler box my post. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/112 "2019-11-17T23:41:26Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Are you going to ask for money again? That offer remains on the table. Those here who would find the place more pleasant with my permanent absence need only pony up the cash. Maybe take up a collection so they don’t have to dip into their children’s college fund. I mean, hell, many pay to belong to this place in its current state. Surely they should be willing to spend more to make it a better place. If not, then I shall continue to post here for as long as it amuses me and on whatever topics amuse me and my detractors have only their own cheapness to blame. See, they want to _compel_ my silence when they could quite easily just buy it. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/113 "2019-11-17T23:57:44Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > See, they want to _compel_ my silence when they could quite easily just buy it. Having established what you are, we’re down to haggling over the price. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2019, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/114 "2019-11-18T00:40:02Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > That much is clear, but why a Pelican specifically? A hummingbird might at least carry some resonance to the thread. That’s the sidekick. Quick! To the Birdmobile, Hummingbird! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/115 "2019-11-18T02:25:36Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > That offer remains on the table. Which is just sad. You’re out there on the street corner trying to sell yourself and nobody thinks you’re worth paying for. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/116 "2019-11-18T03:04:10Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Which is just sad. You’re out there on the street corner trying to sell yourself and nobody thinks you’re worth paying for. Give him a break, his mom is taking all the customers. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/117 "2019-11-18T03:07:13Z")
Oh goodness, mom jokes.:rolleyes: Such misogynies! ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/118 "2019-11-18T03:19:21Z")
Silence. Imbecile. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2019, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/119 "2019-11-18T03:43:32Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Oh please. You instigate drama for entertainment. Nasty thing. Then what’s your excuse? > [@Colibri](#): > > Some of the rules, such as trolling and insults, are relaxed in the Pit. I thought death threats were always verboten, no matter what. People have gotten warned for posting things like DIAF, or FOAD, or hell, saying, “I’m going to mop the floor with you”, referring to a discussion that was going on in GD, but this is kosher? Make up your goddamned minds already. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/120 "2019-11-18T03:52:52Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Then what’s your excuse? That saddens me coming from you. You are my favorite hive poster and your words wound. ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522.md?page=7)