# I needed the Pit, and it... it just wasn't there **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 18, 2003, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-needed-the-pit-and-it-it-just-wasnt-there/208203 "2003-10-18T15:19:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-needed-the-pit-and-it-it-just-wasnt-there/208203/1 "2003-10-18T15:19:14Z")
I **finally** get the chance to call someone out on the mat for a good, solid, pit-slapping… and it’s on the wrong message board. No pit to be found. I had to call them out in the regular forum. It just wasn’t the same ☹ ---
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-needed-the-pit-and-it-it-just-wasnt-there/208203/2 "2003-10-18T15:53:59Z")
Maybe I should provide a link to the pseudo-pitting, so someone can critique my performance. Her pit-worthy comment can be found [here](http://www.dogo.org/message_boards/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=622&whichpage=1&ARCHIVE=) the second post by DDA one up from the bottom of the page. My reply can be seen [here](http://www.dogo.org/message_boards/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=685) If you’re further interested, the posts she’s attempting to call me out on are [here](http://www.dogo.org/message_boards/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=665&whichpage=1&ARCHIVE=) (bottom of the page) and [here](http://www.dogo.org/message_boards/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=665&whichpage=2&ARCHIVE=) top of the next page. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-needed-the-pit-and-it-it-just-wasnt-there/208203/3 "2003-10-18T15:57:19Z")
A word of advice: Don’t post a link on that other board back to here. The administration detests board wars. That is all. ---
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-needed-the-pit-and-it-it-just-wasnt-there/208203/4 "2003-10-18T16:04:14Z")
Oh, dear god no. I certainly hope no one posts over there, either. ---
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-needed-the-pit-and-it-it-just-wasnt-there/208203/5 "2003-10-18T16:05:52Z")
Besides, a board war, or showing her up isn’t the point–I just wanted her to be careful about using rhetoric in the guise of training advice. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-needed-the-pit-and-it-it-just-wasnt-there/208203/6 "2003-10-18T16:07:36Z")
Good enough. And from what I can tell, you did good over there. You want I should piss you off, so you can have a proper Pit experience? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-needed-the-pit-and-it-it-just-wasnt-there/208203/7 "2003-10-18T16:21:58Z")
🙂 Unless it’s about dogs or animal husbandry in general, I’d probably get stomped ☹ ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-needed-the-pit-and-it-it-just-wasnt-there/208203/8 "2003-10-18T17:01:10Z")
Looks airtight to me. 🙂 You were polite as well, which is a bonus. There’s another board that I frequent as much as this one. I wish there was a pit there; ignorance and intolerance (I’ll leave it at that) is breeding. I doubt it will come to pass, as even the discussion of politics (in the Miscellaneous forum, at that) is banned ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-needed-the-pit-and-it-it-just-wasnt-there/208203/9 "2003-10-19T13:12:17Z")
To the Pit. Don’t post _this_ link over there, please - but of course you realise that.