# I pit Diamonds02 and his honk-happy friend **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 13, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-diamonds02-and-his-honk-happy-friend/606065 "2011-12-13T19:39:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-diamonds02-and-his-honk-happy-friend/606065/81 "2012-05-10T00:01:53Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > I don’t know if it has been mentioned yet, but I’m pretty sure **Diamonds02** is a “she”, not a “he”. Although I’m not 100% on it. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-diamonds02-and-his-honk-happy-friend/606065/82 "2012-05-10T00:03:00Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > **I pit Diamonds02 and his honk-happy friend** I don’t know if it has been mentioned yet, but I’m pretty sure **Diamonds02** is a “she”, not a “he”. Although I’m not 100% on it. ---
**Author:** ![living\_in\_hell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@living\_in\_hell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/living_in_hell)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-diamonds02-and-his-honk-happy-friend/606065/83 "2012-05-10T00:10:46Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I was disappointed to see the plant thread closed; that one really had legs. 🙂 It was really growing somewhere! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-diamonds02-and-his-honk-happy-friend/606065/84 "2012-05-10T00:12:18Z")
> [@living\_in\_hell](#): > > It was really growing somewhere! 🙂 Still not funny 9 minutes later. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-diamonds02-and-his-honk-happy-friend/606065/85 "2012-05-10T00:47:40Z")
As the creator of this thread I would like to make a few declarations: My issues with diamonds02 had nothing to do with boy bands and concerts, but feel free to keep arbitrarily discussing them with gusto here. Reposting bad puns time and time again is DEFINITELY ok by me. I’m a huge fan. growing somewhere! ha! I do know that diamonds02 claims to be a “she” now, and have mentioned it in this thread, although I’m beginning to have my doubts. Could anyone of the female gender honestly behave this way? To diamonds02: Perhaps you should try farting in public at a lake where people fish and charging them for it. Combine two or three of your favorite things. ---
**Author:** ![living\_in\_hell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@living\_in\_hell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/living_in_hell)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-diamonds02-and-his-honk-happy-friend/606065/86 "2012-05-10T00:52:02Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > Still not funny 9 minutes later. Something went awry with the posting. So sorry to upset. ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-diamonds02-and-his-honk-happy-friend/606065/87 "2012-05-10T01:57:15Z")
> [@digs](#): > > What could this possibly have to do with this thread? > > (Apologies if a boy band honked at you early this morning) Nuttin’, honey–just responding to a single post! 🙂 ---
**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:** [May 10, 2012, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-diamonds02-and-his-honk-happy-friend/606065/88 "2012-05-10T03:31:55Z")
> [@Chanteuse](#): > > Nuttin’, honey–just responding to a single post! 🙂 Yeah, it was _ **voguevixen** _ who broke into a spirited discussion of Autism with _“OMG, just got tix, Toe-Tally Cool !!!”_ ---
**Author:** ![living\_in\_hell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@living\_in\_hell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/living_in_hell)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-diamonds02-and-his-honk-happy-friend/606065/89 "2012-05-10T03:49:25Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > [tangent] > > Does anybody still mention [Harry Harlow’s](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Harlow#Partial_and_total_isolation_of_infant_monkeys) Mengele-ish experiments in Psych classes? I first read about them in third grade and thought they were sadistic, except I didn’t know that word yet. > > [/tangent] Oh yes. It’s all part of the attachment lesson. They also still show the crying Little Albert and the crawling baby on the visual cliff. Aww Sigy, you cocaine loving nut and your renegade offspring. Psychology is good times. ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-diamonds02-and-his-honk-happy-friend/606065/90 "2012-05-10T13:23:01Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > I do know that diamonds02 claims to be a “she” now, and have mentioned it in this thread, although I’m beginning to have my doubts. Could anyone of the female gender honestly behave this way? I’ll introduce ya to my friend Shelley sometime. She introduced her 7-year-old cousin to the term “brown eye,” and taught him the “milk milk lemonade” poem. And her partner also once stole all the candleholders and the menu holder off the table in a bar in NYC and hid them in another girl’s shopping bag and she thought it was the funniest damn thing ever. So yes. Yes they could. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2012, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-diamonds02-and-his-honk-happy-friend/606065/91 "2012-05-10T15:43:28Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > [Me and a friend want to sell gourmet plants as a side hustle - In My Humble Opinion - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=651121) “Gourmet”? ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-diamonds02-and-his-honk-happy-friend/606065/92 "2012-05-10T17:15:05Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > **I pit Diamonds02 and his honk-happy friend** > > I don’t know if it has been mentioned yet, but I’m pretty sure **Diamonds02** is a “she”, not a “he”. Although I’m not 100% on it. Many people would have made it all the way to post #2 in the thread, but you gotta roll your own way, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-diamonds02-and-his-honk-happy-friend/606065/93 "2012-05-10T18:28:00Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > “Gourmet”? You know, “free” roadside daylilies that taste exactly like ragout of duck with chantarelles. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-diamonds02-and-his-honk-happy-friend/606065/94 "2012-05-10T19:50:19Z")
> [@ugly ripe tomato](#): > > You know, “free” roadside daylilies that taste exactly like ragout of duck with chantarelles. I’d pay good money for someone to dig those up and bring them to me. Hmm…potential business idea? Seems like there’s good money just sitting there waiting for someone to go get it! ---
**Author:** ![SecretaryofEvil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@SecretaryofEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecretaryofEvil)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2012, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-diamonds02-and-his-honk-happy-friend/606065/95 "2012-05-11T23:55:11Z")
Oh my god the fish and the flower threads were too funny. I wonder what life is like for someone who is truly that clueless. ---
**Author:** ![Diamonds02](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Diamonds02](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diamonds02)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-diamonds02-and-his-honk-happy-friend/606065/96 "2012-05-15T06:05:00Z")
Um, I have a job. And have for the last three years. Before then, I was a grad student. I also worked some in undergrad. So, I’m not shy about working hard. It’s just the jobs I’m finding do not pay enough. I also like independence. I hate having people breathe down my back. Finding shit and selling it, seems like it should satisfy these needs. I would think working for myself would be hard work…but more rewarding. I don’t see anything easy about trying to find things to gather and convincing people to buy them. I just thought it would be cool if I can grab some fish at a local lake/pond/creek/river…fry em up and sell it at a family renunion, flea market, or whatever (my cousin did this with hot tamales when he had a long streak of unemployment - until someone lied and said they got food poisoning). And man, there are flowers FLOWERS everywhere. If I can find a way to gather a bunch of them (and reproduce them) and sell them I would be shitting gold. Apparently the law and uptight people don’t want me doing such. What am I to do? ---
**Author:** ![what\_do\_I\_type\_here](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a5b964/32.png) [@what\_do\_I\_type\_here](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/what_do_I_type_here)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-diamonds02-and-his-honk-happy-friend/606065/97 "2012-05-15T10:45:30Z")
Yeah people lie about getting food poisoning all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-diamonds02-and-his-honk-happy-friend/606065/98 "2012-05-15T11:20:06Z")
This guy may have some useful tips for you, Diamond: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/KaZuBziWLgk/hqdefault.jpg "Mitchell and Webb Farmer Part 1") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaZuBziWLgk) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/J-v1zV8n0cA/hqdefault.jpg "Mitchell and Webb Farmer Part 2") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-v1zV8n0cA) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/mV9YzBmtmVU/hqdefault.jpg "Mitchell and Webb Farmer Part 3") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV9YzBmtmVU) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/t6dbKDaGQ8M/hqdefault.jpg "Mitchell and Webb Farmer Part 4") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6dbKDaGQ8M) ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-diamonds02-and-his-honk-happy-friend/606065/99 "2012-05-15T15:15:03Z")
> [@Diamonds02](#): > > I just thought it would be cool if I can grab some fish at a local lake/pond/creek/river…fry em up and sell it at a family renunion, flea market, or whatever (my cousin did this with hot tamales when he had a long streak of unemployment - until someone lied and said they got food poisoning). And man, there are flowers FLOWERS everywhere. If I can find a way to gather a bunch of them (and reproduce them) and sell them I would be shitting gold. Apparently the law and uptight people don’t want me doing such. What am I to do? One problem with this idea is the law of supply and demand. If something is easily and legally available for free, anyone who wants it can go and get it themselves. They’re not going to pay much for it, because they could go get it for free instead. The restaurant or food service business is not an easy one to break into, even assuming you have all the proper licenses to do it. The idea that 90% of new restaurants fail in their first year may be a myth, but [it does seem that at least 50% of new restaurants fail](http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/restfail.htm). Owners of new restaurants tend to work very long hours- it’s not something they do part-time while working at another job. I doubt a catering or food-service business is much less work. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-diamonds02-and-his-honk-happy-friend/606065/100 "2012-05-15T15:27:44Z")
> [@Diamonds02](#): > > And man, there are flowers FLOWERS everywhere. If I can find a way to gather a bunch of them (and reproduce them) and sell them I would be shitting gold. Apparently the law and uptight people don’t want me doing such. What am I to do? What the hell kind of flowers are growing EVERYWHERE that anybody would pay a shit-ton of money for? Roadside weeds? Wildflowers? Nobody WANTS those. They’re WEEDS. They tend to be leggy, invasive, scraggly, and look like crap in a well-tended garden. People pay money to have people dig those OUT of their yards. What do you know about flowers? What do you know about breeding healthy, attractive perennials, that will look consistently good when they come back every year, that people would want to buy and plant in their own gardens? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-diamonds02-and-his-honk-happy-friend/606065.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-diamonds02-and-his-honk-happy-friend/606065.md?page=6)