# I May Have to Slit Scooby-Do's Throat . . . **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 15, 2004, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373 "2004-10-15T13:56:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/21 "2004-10-15T15:55:45Z")
Some of you guys have the wrong end of the stick. I believe **Eve** is referring to [something along the lines of this thing](http://www.gemmy.com/NewSite_04/Products/Airblowns/Licensed/Main_25059.html). Pinholes, helium, etc. wouldn’t have any effect. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/22 "2004-10-15T16:17:50Z")
Have you tried asking Daphne’s advice? ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/23 "2004-10-15T16:19:34Z")
> [@vetbridge](#): > > Have you tried asking Daphne’s advice? Too busy helping Thelma look for her glasses. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/24 "2004-10-15T16:21:47Z")
Fill Scooby with hydrogen. As neighbors come past, touch it off a tall metal pylon. Oh, the humanity! ---
**Author:** ![ScoobyTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@ScoobyTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ScoobyTX)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/25 "2004-10-15T16:39:13Z")
Seeing the title before reading the OP, I was wondering what the hell I had done to piss off **Eve**. Commiting this thread to memory before crossing paths w/ **Eve**. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/26 "2004-10-15T16:41:09Z")
1. Tie it down, fill it with helium. 2. Before going to work in the morning, inhale a bit of same. 3. Squeak “Hewwo!” to Pwincess Pwecious. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/27 "2004-10-15T17:08:18Z")
Wait…is this thing inflatable or fan blown? ---
**Author:** ![bannerrefugee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@bannerrefugee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bannerrefugee)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/28 "2004-10-15T17:15:46Z")
When I was in High school one of our neighbors had a 3 foot tall Easter bunny in their front yard. One night a friend and I snuck into their yard and hung the bunny from a tree limb. We had a real noose and taped a suicide note to the rabbit. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/29 "2004-10-15T17:18:30Z")
I can’t believe believe they’d waste their drug money on an inflatable Scooby. I swear, where are people’s priorities these days? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/30 "2004-10-15T17:49:10Z")
It hasn’t been inflated yet, but I suspect it’s one of those nylon things with a motor that keeps it inflated, and it staked down with four tent-ropes. I have the horrible feeling it will indeed look just like **Lute Skywatcher** ’s link, though it also seems to involve a pumpkin of some kind. I’m thinking “seamline pinholes” more and more . . . ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/31 "2004-10-15T18:31:49Z")
I wonder if there’s some way to disable the fan… ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/32 "2004-10-15T18:42:15Z")
> [@js\_africanus](#): > > Too busy helping Thelma look for her glasses. That’s _not_ what Velma and Daphne are up to… ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/33 "2004-10-15T18:47:35Z")
> [@Robot Arm](#): > > Rorrive rhem, ror rhey row rot rut rhey roo. Now THAT’S funny! ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/34 "2004-10-15T18:53:13Z")
We have a guy in our neighborhood who has no fewer than four…FOUR…of these hideous things on his property every. single. holiday. And he’s only got about 1/16 acre to park all this crap on, so he usually puts one on his roof. It’s painful to look at. I can only assume that he’s blind. A sighted person would never willfully inflict these monstrosities on his fellow man. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/35 "2004-10-15T18:59:09Z")
I can’t believe the negative Scooby vibe in this thread. Would you rather it be Piccachu? Or Dora the Explorer? A Jenna Jamison blow up doll? Sheesh… ---
**Author:** ![TwoTrouts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9adbd/32.png) [@TwoTrouts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoTrouts)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/36 "2004-10-15T19:06:09Z")
> [@kidchameleon](#): > > I can’t believe the negative Scooby vibe in this thread. Would you rather it be Piccachu? Or Dora the Explorer? A Jenna Jamison blow up doll? > > Sheesh… Hey! don’t go knocking Picachu now! That inscrutably cute super-monster could kick Scooby’s butt! ---
**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:** [October 15, 2004, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/37 "2004-10-15T19:16:32Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > We have a guy in our neighborhood who has no fewer than four…FOUR…of these hideous things on his property every. single. holiday. And he’s only got about 1/16 acre to park all this crap on, so he usually puts one on his roof. It’s painful to look at. I can only assume that he’s blind. A sighted person would never willfully inflict these monstrosities on his fellow man. I dunno. How much time per week do you normally spend looking at your own roof? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/38 "2004-10-15T21:04:20Z")
Now, if it was the [Giant Inflatable Rat](http://at.yorku.ca/~elliott/home/giant_rat/rat.html), I wouldn’t mind . . . ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/39 "2004-10-15T21:23:42Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I dunno. How much time per week do you normally spend looking at your own roof? About the same amount of time you spend looking at your own _yard!_ ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/40 "2004-10-15T22:07:46Z")
**Eve** , I like the big rat. How about a [a big palm tree](http://www.holiday-inflatables.com/abitems/1317.html) or [pink flamingoes](http://www.holiday-inflatables.com/abitems/1404.html)? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373.md?page=3)