# I Pit oldoaktree **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 18, 2021, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-oldoaktree/944587 "2021-06-18T23:28:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2021, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-oldoaktree/944587/61 "2021-06-20T05:12:44Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > We need a dryer. Okay, it took me a minute. ---
**Author:** ![oldoaktree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ccd318/32.png) [@oldoaktree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldoaktree)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2021, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-oldoaktree/944587/62 "2021-06-20T05:14:33Z")
Anyone want to explain the difference between My China Conquers US thread and the Alex P Keaton thread? My initial impressions: My Thread was an evil conservative plot concocted for the sole reason to fuck with liberals. The Alex P Keaton thread is just a fun hypothetical thread, which just happens to fuck with conservatives ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2021, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-oldoaktree/944587/63 "2021-06-20T05:43:21Z")
@oldoaktree is yet another poster that I won’t even bother to put on ignore because I don’t expect it to be around long enough to be worth the trouble. I don’t intend to engage with it outside of the pit, but I figure I can help it on its way by reading just enough to report. ---
**Author:** ![oldoaktree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ccd318/32.png) [@oldoaktree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldoaktree)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2021, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-oldoaktree/944587/64 "2021-06-20T06:08:04Z")
Well we are in the Pit, so engage. What post outside of the Pit are you intending to report? The MPSIMS thread was started because the Mods shut down my original Pit thread and told me to open a new one there. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2021, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-oldoaktree/944587/65 "2021-06-20T06:23:59Z")
I have a tremendous suggestion for you, @oldoaktree - and for the entire board. For 21 years you were content to lurk and read what others contributed. This was obviously satisfactory, as, if you are correct, this lasted 21 years. Now you have finally signed up, and you appear to find the actual posting part hard and there are mysterious rules that you must follow. My suggestion is this: go back to the relative simplicity of lurking once again. I am sure you will be happier. ---
**Author:** ![oldoaktree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ccd318/32.png) [@oldoaktree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldoaktree)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2021, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-oldoaktree/944587/66 "2021-06-20T06:25:54Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > For 21 years you were content to lurk Oh for Pete’s sake, Kenobi has been here 21 years, not me. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2021, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-oldoaktree/944587/67 "2021-06-20T06:29:47Z")
My apologies, I can’t be bothered to read all that you post. My suggestion still stands, regardless of the specific amount of time you spent lurking. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2021, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-oldoaktree/944587/68 "2021-06-20T06:31:44Z")
I wonder if he means old Ben Kenobi? The guy that lives in the Jundland Wastes in the Western Dune Sea? ---
**Author:** ![oldoaktree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ccd318/32.png) [@oldoaktree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldoaktree)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2021, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-oldoaktree/944587/69 "2021-06-20T06:51:19Z")
Well thanks for acknowledging you don’t know what you’re talking about and haven’t bothered to actually read my posts . Forgive me if i don’t take your suggestion. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2021, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-oldoaktree/944587/70 "2021-06-20T06:55:39Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > I wonder if he means old Ben Kenobi? The guy that lives in the Jundland Wastes in the Western Dune Sea? I beg your pardon, sir, but do you know what he’s talking about? ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2021, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-oldoaktree/944587/71 "2021-06-20T06:57:00Z")
I don’t think even he knows that… ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2021, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-oldoaktree/944587/72 "2021-06-20T06:59:27Z")
You’d better play back the whole thing. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2021, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-oldoaktree/944587/73 "2021-06-20T16:14:09Z")
> [@oldoaktree](#): > > When they aren’t posting politically charged hypothetical questions I dunno about you all, but I now have deep doubts that he is Tony Orlando. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2021, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-oldoaktree/944587/74 "2021-06-20T16:38:36Z")
And he sure as hell isn’t Dawn. ---
**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:** [June 21, 2021, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-oldoaktree/944587/75 "2021-06-21T02:20:44Z")
LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME, LOOKAT MEEEEEEE! OK then. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2021, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-oldoaktree/944587/76 "2021-06-21T02:38:03Z")
> [@oldoaktree](#): > > Nope. I disagree with you, probably on a number of topics. That does not make me a Sea Lion But are you Anti-Semantic? ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2021, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-oldoaktree/944587/77 "2021-06-21T13:33:18Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > @oldoaktree is yet another poster that I won’t even bother to put on ignore because I don’t expect it to be around long enough to be worth the trouble. I don’t intend to engage with it outside of the pit, but I figure I can help it on its way by reading just enough to report. This is where I’m at too. ---
**Author:** ![Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/do_not_taunt/32/2968_2.png) [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Do_Not_Taunt)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2021, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-oldoaktree/944587/78 "2021-06-21T17:34:11Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Anyway, I’d expect someone with that name to be at least in their 40s (unless the name was only coincidentally related to the song, which is stuck in my head now, dammit ) > > [https://youtu.be/FjqBhZj\_37U](https://youtu.be/FjqBhZj_37U) There’s also this song, which I was introduced to when my toddler son received a “Rockin’ Rider Pony” from his grandparents. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/d5UE9-yrzS0/hqdefault.jpg "Ryan's Rockin' Rider Pony") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5UE9-yrzS0) Maybe oldoaktree’s also a toddler? ETA: that’s a random kid I found doing a google search, not my kid 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2021, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-oldoaktree/944587/79 "2021-06-21T19:25:35Z")
> [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](#): > > There’s also this song, which I was introduced to when my toddler son received a “Rockin’ Rider Pony” from his grandparents. My oldest daughter used to have a pony like that when she was a toddler, she got it on her 1st birthday. She was terrified of it at first, like “THAT MONSTER IS GOING TO EAT ME!!!” before it became her favorite toy. Not the exact same one though because I don’t recognize the song in that video. But close. Now I picture OOT posting from a tablet while rocking on a talking pony. ---
**Author:** ![Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/do_not_taunt/32/2968_2.png) [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Do_Not_Taunt)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2021, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-oldoaktree/944587/80 "2021-06-21T19:38:12Z")
My little guy was never all that into it, and my wife found the song infuriating for some reason. I think it ended up going to goodwill. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-oldoaktree/944587.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-oldoaktree/944587.md?page=5)