# I always knew DeDay would come... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 18, 2001, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-knew-deday-would-come/88154 "2001-10-18T04:16:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-knew-deday-would-come/88154/1 "2001-10-18T04:16:34Z")
when **Señor Rue** would finally hit the big One-oh-oh-oh. Okay, I am a bit slow lately and about 35 posts too late, but better Nate than lever, yes? I can’t believe he isn’t already at 1000, it seems that his is the face which has launched a thousand threads. But here we are. Rue, come in, grab a cup of Joe, get a seat. All of your Pals and Special Friends should be here soon. ::rips cover off of coffee table book:: Uncle Rue, THIS IS YOUR LIFE. It began inauspicuously, with a botched OP entitled [You it really kill you to be ready to talk to me when you call?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=68633). Don’t actually go to this link for other than nostalgic purposes, you will be disappointed, Rue doesn’t hit his stride until much later, around page 189. His [sophomore effort](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=68943) which while truly sophomoric, points to the Rue whom we will all soon know and love. In other words it starts in one direction, feints in another, then kind of chases its tail in a circle until it lies down in exhaustion. His follow up thread ends abruptly when[this guy walks into a bar…](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=71115) Yet he was undaunted. His next pathetic attempt for attention was the [Movie Chain Game](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=75143). **SPOOFE** botched the game and then the castle burnt down and sank into the swamp. But our hero was undeterred. This is why he is the stuff of legends, or at least of legerdomain. He started several more thread which I am way to lazy to link to (go find them yerselves). And about then is when I first encountered Rue, in the somewhat arcane and mystifying [Dr. Rue DeDay is DEAD!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=77417). The critics raved. It had everything: plot devices, murder, mystery, intrigue, humor. He soon followed this with the now immortal [Uncle Rue:story guy](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=81611). Fame and prizes soon followed and he quickly add his own special groupies, er, Special Friends. He even invited us male folk to be his pals, adopting a sort of Kevin Costneresque appeal. You know, the good Kevin Costner, like in Bull Durham, not the evil Kevin Costner like in that movie where he plays an escaped murderer. Although that might also be appropriate. So whaddya say, can I get some of you other Friends of Rue to testify? ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-knew-deday-would-come/88154/2 "2001-10-18T04:20:54Z")
Well, I count myself a **FOR** … I like **Rue**! He’s an amusing poster, a bud, has a deep interest in my sex life, and I’m pretty sure if I was on fire he’d pee on me to put me out! [sup]You would, wouldn’t you Rue? C’mon! You know you would![/sup]😃 Happy 1000 **Rue**!! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-knew-deday-would-come/88154/3 "2001-10-18T11:15:47Z")
I count myself as one of **Rue** ’s Special Friends. I’d like to count myself as his _Lust Buddy_, but there’s the matter of his marriage and mine in the way, drat it all. I started a [Fan Club](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=83522) that sorta fizzled because no one would volunteer to bring donuts to the meetings. But he has a special nickname for me and he answered an e-mail I sent to him and, well, what’s not to love?? **Rue** , c’mon over here and let me smooch ya good! ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-knew-deday-would-come/88154/4 "2001-10-18T11:18:47Z")
I’m touched. _Touched By **ShibbOleth** _. Coming to a TV near you as a mid-season replacement. Roma Downey, Jr. gets her ass kicked out of Heaven when she eats Della Reese’s last Dove bar. She winds up a street-wise cop on the gritty side of Chicago, tracking down low-life child molesters. She gets shot in the first episode and there is much rejoicing. Romie gets replaced by Terry Farrell, who shows way more leg. She doesn’t get touched by Shibb, but he keeps trying. What a trooper. With Estelle Getty as the Commissioner. And don’t worry **Astroboy** (the published author[!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=93583)), I’d pee on you. Like an incontinent rat. What are friends for? I’m giddy with the attention. Now I’m just waiting for a parade of scantily clad Dopettes. And there’s **Snickers** now! (I "Preview Reply"ed, and there she is.) I’m giddy with the attention. Now I’m just waiting for a million dollars. (Let’s see what _that_does for me.) -Rue. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-knew-deday-would-come/88154/5 "2001-10-18T12:12:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rue DeDay \* > \*\*I’m giddy with the attention. Now I’m just waiting for a parade of scantily clad Dopettes. And there’s **Snickers** now! (I "Preview Reply"ed, and there she is.) > \*\* Not to burst your bubble or anything, dear, sweet **Rue** , but it’s way too chilly this morning for me to be scantily clad. Now, if you want to meet me by the hot tub after work, well, that’s a whole different kettle of worms, so to speak… And if I had a million dollars, I’d let you look at it - may be even touch it… The million, that is… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-knew-deday-would-come/88154/6 "2001-10-18T15:28:10Z")
'Nother Special Friend checking in here. I like **Rue** too, guys! I came along to his wit & wisdom a bit later than some of you. Now, thanks to the Teemings Extras, I can hunker down with a tall cuppa Diet Coke and catch up on all the fun stuff I missed. Wow, and to think it all began when I got his name in the ol’ White Elephant thingy. Hee hee! We love ya, **Rue**! ---
**Author:** ![toshirodragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e68b1a/32.png) [@toshirodragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toshirodragon)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-knew-deday-would-come/88154/7 "2001-10-18T15:48:16Z")
Well DAMN… I thought Rue was a female type person… there goes my plans for the weekend… guess I’ll have to return the wet suit and free the chicken… ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-knew-deday-would-come/88154/8 "2001-10-18T16:18:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rue DeDay \* > **And there’s Snickers now!** We get candy bars for hanging out here? Cool. Yay Rue! ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-knew-deday-would-come/88154/9 "2001-10-18T16:27:23Z")
How can you not like a guy who calls you a hot tomato? ::tossing confetti:: Love ya, Rue! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-knew-deday-would-come/88154/10 "2001-10-18T16:39:44Z")
Something else about **Rue** that gets me all warm and squishy inside - he’s a stay at home dad. Just the thought of him tending to his kids, doing chores, wearing his June Cleveresque apron and pearls… \ Hi, Honey, I’m home!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-knew-deday-would-come/88154/11 "2001-10-18T17:16:09Z")
Ah, yes, Mr. **DeDay** …He and I have become intertwined like two things that wrap around each other. He has quickly become my most trusted aid in the management of the [Second](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=80906) [Elephant](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=89976) [Preserve](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=93346). From his humble beginnings as an _Assistant Stand-in Elephant Wrangler Gopher, Third Class_, he spun off side ventures and took the title of **[Head Underpants Gnome](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=85188)**. He’s one of those hyphen-ids, like a something _slash_ something, he’s a “Wrangler-Gnome.” Through him, I, myself, received the title of “Underpants Gnome” [sub]I’m so proud![/sub] His stories have entertained and amused and while he lives but a few [sub]relative[/sub] miles from my home, he remains [elusive](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=93104) and shadowy, like a man with a shov…uh, [digging implement](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=90308). **B’wana Bob** will keep a sentry on the look-out for you, can’t be too careful. Be well and take care my friend, my pal. I am better for having virtually met you (by that I mean having met you in this virtual realm, versus almost meeting you, but then not quite, like when you just turn the corner after someone steps into an elevator and you don’t see them or something.) 'course, it’s going to put a wrinkle in that whole **Fenris- Scylla** thing, because _now_ it’s going to be (for me, anyway) **Rue, Scylla, Fenris** …maybe ScyRueRis or something? ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-knew-deday-would-come/88154/12 "2001-10-18T17:38:13Z")
My pal **Rue**! Congrats, big guy. I’m assuming here that you _are_ big, or at least don’t mind being called big, or won’t read this, or something. What was I talking about? Oh, yeah. I remember. Who could forget the Cocktail Party, the story festival, the whole underpants thing (nobody, mostly because **thinksnow** already reminded everybody. But you know what I mean.)…the list is endless. Well, not really. After, the Web itself has only been around for just over a decade, so it couldn’t really be endless. Anyhoo, it’s been great to have you around here, **Rue**. Continue inspiring us with your gift of gab, your creativity, your ability to lure hot DoperBabes to your threads for us mere mortals to clumsily flirt at… You know. The important stuff. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-knew-deday-would-come/88154/13 "2001-10-18T18:46:51Z")
[echoy voice from behind the curtain] I first met **Rue** in a thread about [small aluminum boats.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=78225) At least **I** was talking about boats, I don’t know what \*\*Rue \*\*was talking about. We hit it off immediately, but **Rue** kept picking it up and putting it back on. I knew right then and there that there was something interesting, almost compelling, and slightly seedy, about my new pal. We had a gay old time dressing, (and undressing), **Francesca** for a while, which is odd, 'cause **Rue** and I are both guys and **Francesca** is a girl, and there was definitely no **Rue** on **Bumbazine** action, or vice versa. Unfortunately, my presence in that thread was eventually too much for it, and it died a sudden painful death. After that I took to following **Rue** about, from thread to thread, taking on the personna of ‘humerous sidekick’[sup]TM[/sup] to **Rue** ’s ‘square jawed hero’[sup]TM[/sup]. He [got all the girls](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=79060), well some of them anyway, and I got…something. But it’s all cleared up now, that salve worked wonders. By now we were fast friends, well, not the way some of my friends are ‘fast’, we’re both guys, like I said, and we’re ‘manly men’[sup]TM[/sup], secure in our masculinity. Why, we even [swapped recipes.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=75617) But there was something missing. You guessed it, [action figures!!!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=87975) After that we were unstoppable! Well, **Rue** was anyway. Even **I** don’t have the power to kill his threads anymore. And now look at him. A [much admired](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=89093) public figure. Wanted by women everywhere, or here and there anyway. He should run for Congress, or, if he could stand the loss in status, President. Well, you’re a made man now **Rue** and you don’t have to [apologize to anybody.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=93049) I’m proud to know ya, ya ‘big lug’[sup]TM[/sup]. ::much thrashing about as **Bumbazine** tries to part curtains, gets tangled up, rips the curtain from it’s moorings and ends up falling into the orchestra pit in a struggling pile of fabric:: ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-knew-deday-would-come/88154/14 "2001-10-19T02:12:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rue DeDay \* > \*\*I’m touched. _Touched By **ShibbOleth** _. Coming to a TV near you as a mid-season replacement. > > -Rue. \*\* I’m really not supposed to do that anymore. The touching, I mean. Not since “the incident”. At least that’s what my Parole Officer says. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-knew-deday-would-come/88154/15 "2001-10-19T10:38:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ShibbOleth \* > \*\*I’m really not supposed to do that anymore. The touching, I mean. Not since “the incident”. At least that’s what my Parole Officer says. \*\* Thanks for brightening an otherwise crummy morning - this absolutely cracked me up, **Shibb**! ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-knew-deday-would-come/88154/16 "2001-10-19T11:25:01Z")
I’m not sure what concerns me more, **scout** wanting to be plural (unless that’s the Royal “we”, then maybe she just wants to be a princess), **toshirodragon** thinking that I’m a girl (I thought you were a girl too, so there! Actually I didn’t.) or **think** , a know kilt wearer, wanting to get all intertwined. **Snickers** having a “crummy morning” is off-putting too. I want my Special Friends to be happy. Baby, you just sit in my lap and tell me all about it. I might even blow in your ear a little. Among other things. (I’d _do_ other things. I wouldn’t just blow on you in random places. Unless that’s what you like. I’m easy.) Now I’ve got to start meeting you people in real life. That would be so cool. -Rue. ---
**Author:** ![toshirodragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e68b1a/32.png) [@toshirodragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toshirodragon)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-knew-deday-would-come/88154/17 "2001-10-19T12:01:58Z")
Hi Rue… ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I am a female… just to clear up any confusion you had. I suspect my confusion will continue… ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-knew-deday-would-come/88154/18 "2001-10-19T12:13:26Z")
**toshi** , (or **toshiro** , if you prefer, **toshirodragon** is so formal) when I said “Actually I didn’t.” I meant “Sorry, I haven’t really wondered about your gender. The issue hasn’t come up where I’ve started fanatsizing about the wonderfulnes that is you.” But that’s not what I said. The way it reads, it sounds like I thought you were a boy. But now we all know (and by “we all” I mean “me”) you’re a girl. -Rue. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-knew-deday-would-come/88154/19 "2001-10-19T13:29:07Z")
**Rue** you got me man! I was looking at your reply to me above, and I noticed that the exclaimation point was colored _RED_! “How the hell did he do that?” I asked myself. “Did I miss sumptin’? Can we now choose our own colors for text?” I sat here and scratched myself like a baboon for about 5 minutes before I figured it out!😃 [sup]Hint: if it’s a different color, click it![/sup] ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-knew-deday-would-come/88154/20 "2001-10-19T15:06:11Z")
> [@](#): > > Now I’ve got to start meeting you people in real life. That would be so cool. I’m just a glide down 75! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-knew-deday-would-come/88154.md?page=2)