# I am claiming victory in this thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 5, 2012, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-claiming-victory-in-this-thread/611844 "2012-02-05T08:44:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![J\_Cubed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@J\_Cubed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/J_Cubed)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-claiming-victory-in-this-thread/611844/1 "2012-02-05T08:44:26Z")
[This thread here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=640869) That’s right, I win it. Things were getting pretty hot and heavy in there last night, but it is clearly I who finally broke **Granny Rainbow**. You’re all welcome. Please inscribe my trophy [thusly](http://xkcd.com/386/). Although, I am curious about what she was going to respond with. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2012, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-claiming-victory-in-this-thread/611844/2 "2012-02-05T09:01:49Z")
Has ignorance been conquered? Did you do it? No to both. ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-claiming-victory-in-this-thread/611844/3 "2012-02-05T09:37:30Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > Has ignorance been conquered? Did you do it? No to both. In fairness, the answer to the first is “no”, but to the extent that anything was done in that thread, **J Cubed** was the one who did it. (As an inveterate doer of things both inexplicable and ultimately inconsequential, I feel obligated to look out for my own.) ---
**Author:** ![Stelios](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Stelios](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stelios)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-claiming-victory-in-this-thread/611844/4 "2012-02-05T11:10:54Z")
_Mooom_, he broke our Granny Rainbow! ---
**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:** [February 5, 2012, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-claiming-victory-in-this-thread/611844/5 "2012-02-05T12:28:58Z")
Moving Thread from IMHO to MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-claiming-victory-in-this-thread/611844/6 "2012-02-05T14:00:51Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > Moving Thread from IMHO to MPSIMS. Can’t you just move it to the recycling bin? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-claiming-victory-in-this-thread/611844/7 "2012-02-05T17:13:46Z")
I hope you’re happy **J Cubed**. This is why we can’t have nice things. Now we’re going to have to send **Granny Rainbow** to a nice farm somewhere, so that someonecan glep to help to give them a elap esatrreacteed an help omg. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-claiming-victory-in-this-thread/611844/8 "2012-02-05T18:12:55Z")
Did the cat walk over your keyboard, **Euphonious**? 😃 I’ll give you the win, **J Cubed**. Good job. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-claiming-victory-in-this-thread/611844/9 "2012-02-05T23:01:05Z")
I did wonder if Granny was having a stroke right at the keyboard… Read her last post! it was like she overloaded a circuit! ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-claiming-victory-in-this-thread/611844/10 "2012-02-06T08:10:25Z")
Holy shit. I’ve been here a long time, and have seen a lot of drive by nut jobs and meltdowns, but damn those final few posts were just absolutely disconcerting. I’m thinking Ambien Sleep-Posting or something, but honesty, quoting her own quotes and responding to them in a way that made it genuinely seem like she was being consumed by Cthulu. If it was a self-medicated escapade into madness, I think we all got a peek of what’s actually stirring inside that head of hers. ::shudder:: I’m sleeping with the lights on tonight. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-claiming-victory-in-this-thread/611844/11 "2012-02-06T10:32:32Z")
I rather hope that in her last post she was trying to type: “ **My god! It’s full of stars!** ” ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-claiming-victory-in-this-thread/611844/12 "2012-02-06T18:57:48Z")
Or maybe, “Slowly, without any fuss, the stars went out, one by one.” ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-claiming-victory-in-this-thread/611844/13 "2012-02-06T21:06:40Z")
Whoa, that’s a Granny Rainbow…All the way! Granny Rainbow…OMG! Whoa, it’s so intense… ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-claiming-victory-in-this-thread/611844/14 "2012-02-06T21:31:34Z")
I had this vague feeling as if her addled mind might be trying to tell us something. I was bored, so I took a shot at reverse _Dan Browning_ this into some semblance of dialogue… > [@10 Commandments](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-commandments/611736/101): > > There is not ever, and no ever, and not any excuse excuse ever for…my my turtntthelp…omg someonecan glep to help to give them a elap esatrreacteed an OMG than yr yougyHe sig as londid as loingedas he longas hedemosedamnnell\ > > \*Last edited by Granny Rainbow; 02-04-2012 at 03:50 AM. Reason: omz…sorry saleesrreipled trealedpllleadtrailled\omg…omg\* [paraphrasing with help from Lewis Carol, Google and maybe a little help from [Bishop David “Slap Dat Witch” Oyedepo](http://saharareporters.com/news-page/nigerias-wealthiest-pastor-oyedepo-faces-citizens-outrage-assaulting-female-church-goer)] There is never, not ever, and did I say never any excuse for… [Okay] my turn to help, here: Oh my god, someone can hope to help and give them a slap and OMG! then you’re [through?]! Sin as long he did [then he’s a demon damned to hell?]. Oh my zorg! Sorry, sleep-deprived. Thread derailed. Oh my God… [SIZE=“4”]OH MY GOOOOOD!!![/SIZE] [/translating gibberish into English gibberish] So, yuh. If my Robert Langdon-like sleuthing skills in solving riddles and connecting symbolism are correct, then this reads like a Dan Brown novel. Fascinating… ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-claiming-victory-in-this-thread/611844/15 "2012-02-06T21:44:13Z")
You beat an old lady. Yeah, wave that flag with pride man. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-claiming-victory-in-this-thread/611844/16 "2012-02-06T22:30:35Z")
I don’t think he beat her so much as broke her. Now we see the true dangers of circular logic! ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-claiming-victory-in-this-thread/611844/17 "2012-02-07T00:18:43Z")
> [@Yeticus\_Rex](#): > > Whoa, that’s a Granny Rainbow…All the way! Granny Rainbow…OMG! Whoa, it’s so intense… - Send it up… watch it rise, see it fall… Granny Rainbow\* ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-claiming-victory-in-this-thread/611844/18 "2012-02-07T00:36:36Z")
Am I the only person who is vaguely worried about Granny Rainbow after her meltdown, or whatever that was, on that thread? It was pretty farking spectacular. And amusing. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-claiming-victory-in-this-thread/611844/19 "2012-02-07T01:08:45Z")
I’m not too worried about her; I just assume that she came down from whatever she was on. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-claiming-victory-in-this-thread/611844/20 "2012-02-07T01:44:54Z")
This is like that episode of The Prisoner where The Protagonist Who Might Be John Drake But We Said He Isn’t But What If? broke the computer. (by asking it “WHY?” – Boy, they had a real grasp of what computers would be like, didn’t they?) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-claiming-victory-in-this-thread/611844.md?page=2)