# I AM NOT THE "GRAPIST"!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 1, 2004, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-not-the-grapist/277463 "2004-12-01T07:04:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-not-the-grapist/277463/141 "2004-12-02T15:49:44Z")
Luke, I am your father! ---
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-not-the-grapist/277463/142 "2004-12-02T16:22:54Z")
> [@Spongemom](#): > > . This post has been blasted by a 1920s-style Death Ray. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-not-the-grapist/277463/143 "2004-12-02T16:38:14Z")
> [@chaoticdonkey](#): > > This post has been chaoticed and donkied by **chaoticdonkey**! That’s fantastic. ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-not-the-grapist/277463/144 "2004-12-02T16:50:43Z")
> [@](#): > > _NB: This has been **adapted** from a post by WhyNott for humorous purposes_ > It really, really is the OP typed “grape grape.” Start reading at the bottom right corner and go left, but with your head on grape grape, so it’s the top left going right. Never mind, that was probably more confusing. It’s the OP grape grape. Trust me. > > “dLabE dLabE” if you turn your monitor or your head grape grape (but not both, 'cause then you’d be net rightside up), reads, more or less, “grapE grapE.” This post has been graped by the grapist! ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-not-the-grapist/277463/145 "2004-12-02T17:33:47Z")
I aint gonna work on Maggie’s farm no more. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-not-the-grapist/277463/146 "2004-12-02T17:48:09Z")
Dammit, Jim, I’m a doctor, not a grapist. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-not-the-grapist/277463/147 "2004-12-02T18:01:20Z")
> [@Ruby (::wolf whistle::)](#): > > I am woman ::pinch::, hear me roar! ::fondle:: This post has been groped by the Gropist! ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-not-the-grapist/277463/148 "2004-12-02T18:04:00Z")
I was not Bridey Murphy. ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-not-the-grapist/277463/149 "2004-12-02T18:12:30Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > Please tell me you have an algorithm to do that. PLEASE. It wouldn’t be too hard to write a little utility for that purpose. It’s just a simple string reversal and character substitution. > [@chaoticdonkey](#): > > Yeah, I got the name… but I’m on a laptop… why didn’t I just turn it upside down? :smack: Good point, although what I wonder is how anyone with a regular monitor would go about turning it upside down. Those things are heavy - and fragile! :eek: > [@Nightwatch Trailer](#): > > This post has been blasted by a 1920s-style Death Ray. Good one. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-not-the-grapist/277463/150 "2004-12-02T18:25:11Z")
> [@umop ap!sdn](#): > > Good point, although what I wonder is how anyone with a regular monitor would go about turning it upside down. Those things are heavy - and fragile! :eek: Print screen, paint, paste, select all, rotate? ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-not-the-grapist/277463/151 "2004-12-02T21:06:26Z")
> [@Spongemom](#): > > I have been posting on several message boards for a long time now, and my posts are ALWAYS purple. The only exceptions are those boards with a colored background which doesn’t allow certain colors to be read when posted. Other than that, it’s pretty much an ingrained habit to colorize my posts before clicking Submit. > > I don’t remember your names, but for those who called me a “grapist”, please try to remember that I wasn’t here when you had that person on board, and I don’t even know who it is! From what I understand, this “grapist” would quote other people’s posts and turn _those_ purple, and I’m not doing that! I’m simply following one of my own traditions. On other boards, if I were to post in any color other than purple, people [COLOR=White]would think I was sick or something! It’s my _thing_, a signature of sorts. Can’t a girl like purple??? > > Let me ask you this: Would you rather see me posting in yellow? > > 😃 This post has be zebbed by the **Zebra** ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-not-the-grapist/277463/152 "2004-12-02T21:12:32Z")
I’ll take “The Grapist” for 100, Trebek ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-not-the-grapist/277463/153 "2004-12-02T21:16:16Z")
I am not Sybil. I am not Sybil. I am not Sybil. I am not Sybil. I am not Sybil. I am not Sybil. I am not Sybil. I am not Sybil. I am not Sybil. I am not Sybil. I am not Sybil. I am not Sybil. I am not Sybil. I am not Sybil. I am not Sybil. I am not Sybil. ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-not-the-grapist/277463/154 "2004-12-02T21:19:03Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > !rehtaf ruoy ma I ,ekuL This post has been reflected by a mirror! ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-not-the-grapist/277463/155 "2004-12-02T21:21:46Z")
> [@Spongemom](#): > > I have been posting on several message boards for a long time now, and my posts are ALWAYS purple. The only exceptions are those boards with a colored background which doesn’t allow certain colors to be read when posted. Other than that, it’s pretty much an ingrained habit to colorize my posts before clicking Submit. > > I don’t remember your names, but for those who called me a “grapist”, please try to remember that I wasn’t here when you had that person on board, and I don’t even know who it is! From what I understand, this “grapist” would quote other people’s posts and turn _those_ purple, and I’m not doing that! I’m simply following one of my own traditions. On other boards, if I were to post in any color other than purple, people would think I was sick or something! It’s my _thing_, a signature of sorts. Can’t a girl like purple??? > > Let me ask you this: Would you rather see me posting in yellow? > > Or perhaps, > white? 😃 This post has been griped by the gripe-ist. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-not-the-grapist/277463/156 "2004-12-02T21:22:36Z")
> [@laina\_f](#): > > I am not John Dean Tyler. I should hope that you are also not **Jack Dean Tyler**. Back to the OP, I also generally ignore posts in odd colors or fonts, and **Spongemom** , if yours were not the OP I would have ignored it. It’s good and fine that you post in purple on other boards, but if you wish to be taken seriously by the majority of posters on this board, I hope you’ll choose not to exercise that particular habit here. ---
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-not-the-grapist/277463/157 "2004-12-02T22:36:52Z")
> [@fetus](#): > > I should hope that you are also not **Jack Dean Tyler**. > > Back to the OP, I also generally ignore posts in odd colors or fonts, and **Spongemom** , if yours were not the OP I would have ignored it. It’s good and fine that you post in purple on other boards, but if you wish to be taken seriously by the majority of posters on this board, I hope you’ll choose not to exercise that particular habit here. Silliness aside, I agree. I hate having to read non-black fonts on a message board…it’s just too distracting. A goofy thread like this is fun every once in a while, but if you post to a serious thread in a pink or buttercup font, it’s not going to go over very well. And don’t get me started on changing font size. Good grief…I think we should make, say, size 4 the largest possible and lock off the bigger fonts. (Waiting for this post to be “Size Sevened” by some smart aleck…) ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-not-the-grapist/277463/158 "2004-12-02T22:46:23Z")
> [@Nightwatch Trailer](#): > > Silliness aside, I agree. I hate having to read non-black fonts on a message board…it’s just too distracting. A goofy thread like this is fun every once in a while, but if you post to a serious thread in a pink or buttercup font, it’s not going to go over very well. > > And don’t get me started on changing font size. Good grief…I think we should make, say, size 4 the largest possible and lock off the bigger fonts. > > (Waiting for this post to be “Size Sevened” by some smart aleck…) This post has been Size Sevened by the Size Sevener! Please keep in mind that I didn’t _want_ to do this. It was required of me. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-not-the-grapist/277463/159 "2004-12-02T22:50:58Z")
> [@Ilsa\_Lund](#): > > Please keep in mind that I didn’t _want_ to do this. It was required of me. I’m only surprised that it took ten minutes for someone to do that. Thirty seconds would have been my bet. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-not-the-grapist/277463/160 "2004-12-02T23:58:41Z")
**Spongemom** : This is a very special place. Many of our customs are in place because we find that they are conducive to the substantive discussion and debate that distinguish this board. Among those customs are using correct spelling and grammar, and posting in the default font and color. You are free to post in purple, of course, but as you’ve found, your posts will likely be met with jokes or ignored. Your OP suggests that you are irked by this. Well, I’m not sure what you expect. You have been gently told that people find your purple postings annoying, yet you insist that you must “break up the monotony.” I don’t think the rest of us find it monotonous. It is rude to enter someone’s house and force your own customs on them. Please consider posting in black. Nobody here cares that purple is your “trademark.” We only care what you have to say. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-not-the-grapist/277463.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-not-the-grapist/277463.md?page=9)