# I pit pseudotriton ruber ruber **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 11, 2006, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-pseudotriton-ruber-ruber/364046 "2006-07-11T16:27:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-pseudotriton-ruber-ruber/364046/21 "2006-07-11T17:39:39Z")
> [@seenidog](#): > > okay I got wooshed, is there anyway to escape with a shred of dignity, or do I just have to gut it out? **seenidog** see my post #9 above. Spin it like the White House, baby! ---
**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:** [July 11, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-pseudotriton-ruber-ruber/364046/22 "2006-07-11T17:40:29Z")
Nah, you’re boned. Best thing to now is to lay low for a day or two. Heh. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-pseudotriton-ruber-ruber/364046/23 "2006-07-11T17:41:59Z")
> [@seenidog](#): > > okay I got wooshed, is there anyway to escape with a shred of dignity, or do I just have to gut it out? How would it be if I apologized for having a warped sense of humor, and starting trouble where no trouble had previously existed, and taking pleasure in getting innocent people, grappling with serious anger-management issues, all worked up needlessly, just for the amusement of some similarly twisted minds? Would that help? If so, I offer my apologies. Please accept. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-pseudotriton-ruber-ruber/364046/24 "2006-07-11T17:47:47Z")
Weehee! It’s like when that remote switcher looked up at the barrelling [Runaway Train](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089941/) and saw a poor soul on board. Heh, don’t sweat it, **seenidog** , your earlier comments in that thread more than allowed you a gettin’ outta jail free card. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-pseudotriton-ruber-ruber/364046/25 "2006-07-11T17:56:08Z")
> [@seenidog](#): > > okay I got wooshed, is there anyway to escape with a shred of dignity, or do I just have to gut it out? You’re fucked. But you can always try this: Launch into some wildy off-topic thing, and hope this thread turns into something useful. Barring that, make one final apology, stop posting, and hope and pray that the thread falls off of page one by Thursday. ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-pseudotriton-ruber-ruber/364046/26 "2006-07-11T17:59:23Z")
I was stunned when I saw \*\*Pseudo’s \*\* name in the Pit! Sorry, **seenidog** , you’re not going to live this down anytime soon! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-pseudotriton-ruber-ruber/364046/27 "2006-07-11T18:01:48Z")
> [@seenidog](#): > > okay I got wooshed, is there anyway to escape with a shred of dignity, or do I just have to gut it out? Quick! Toss out an opinion on circumcision or de-clawing cats. Then hide. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Leviosaurus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Leviosaurus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leviosaurus)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-pseudotriton-ruber-ruber/364046/28 "2006-07-11T18:08:07Z")
> [@pseudotriton ruber ruber](#): > > How would it be if I apologized for having a warped sense of humor, and starting trouble where no trouble had previously existed, and taking pleasure in getting innocent people, grappling with serious anger-management issues, all worked up needlessly, just for the amusement of some similarly twisted minds? Would that help? If so, I offer my apologies. Please accept. Classy response, **pseudotriton**! (Yes, I mean that seriously 🙂 ) **seenidog** , Personally I think you’ve done more than enough Mea Culpa. You can ask for this thread to be locked. ---
**Author:** ![seenidog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@seenidog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seenidog)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-pseudotriton-ruber-ruber/364046/29 "2006-07-11T18:21:43Z")
pseudo may post as he pleases, after all this is the pit. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-pseudotriton-ruber-ruber/364046/30 "2006-07-11T18:23:36Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Quick! Toss out an opinion on circumcision or de-clawing cats. Then hide. 😃 I hear both go better if the patient is fat. really really fat. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-pseudotriton-ruber-ruber/364046/31 "2006-07-11T18:36:16Z")
> [@wring](#): > > I hear both go better if the patient is fat. really really fat. Yeah, SUV sized kind of fat. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-pseudotriton-ruber-ruber/364046/32 "2006-07-11T18:39:43Z")
I think that you should insist that you were right to pit **P. r. ruber**. Then insist that you are being misunderstood and unfairly picked on. This could go on for five or six pages if you do it right. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-pseudotriton-ruber-ruber/364046/33 "2006-07-11T18:42:57Z")
> [@seenidog](#): > > okay I got wooshed, is there anyway to escape with a shred of dignity, or do I just have to gut it out? Hey, this thread and your polite apology made me like you, so it’s not all bad. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-pseudotriton-ruber-ruber/364046/34 "2006-07-11T18:42:58Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > Well, **PRR** is unquestionably the board’s funniest amphibian, a class of vertebrate not generally noted for being amusing (Michigan J. Frog to one side). What about the Budweiser Frogs? And Newt Gingrich? The toad in _O Brother Where Art Thou_ was kind of amusing, too. ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-pseudotriton-ruber-ruber/364046/35 "2006-07-11T19:00:24Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Quick! Toss out an opinion on circumcision or de-clawing cats. Then hide. You know, Bush refused to declaw his (extremely fat) cat Ernie & so gave him to a friend before moving into the White House. Not like Clinton, who kept his filthy smelly dog. (Everyone knows cats make better pets - they’re smarter!) I’m told if you take a black light into the Oval Office you can see where Buddy ‘left his mark’, as it were. So Bush is definitely classier than Clinton. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-pseudotriton-ruber-ruber/364046/36 "2006-07-11T19:50:47Z")
> [@Cluricaun](#): > > Yeah, SUV sized kind of fat. Yeah, but is it art? ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-pseudotriton-ruber-ruber/364046/37 "2006-07-11T20:06:46Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Yeah, but is it art? why bring [him](http://images.easyart.com/i/prints/rw/lg/2/3/Celebrity-Image-Art-Garfunkel-231192.jpg) into it? ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-pseudotriton-ruber-ruber/364046/38 "2006-07-11T20:09:28Z")
> [@seenidog](#): > > okay I got wooshed, is there anyway to escape with a shred of dignity, or do I just have to gut it out? Enjoy it. Its a really funny whoosh. And everyone involved is being quite charming. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-pseudotriton-ruber-ruber/364046/39 "2006-07-11T20:09:47Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Quick! Toss out an opinion on circumcision or de-clawing cats. In my opinion, de-clawing the cat does little to insure the cleanliness of your child’s penis. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-pseudotriton-ruber-ruber/364046/40 "2006-07-11T20:11:08Z")
> [@seenidog](#): > > okay I got wooshed, is there anyway to escape with a shred of dignity, or do I just have to gut it out? You could always divert the subject to a discussion of iambic pentameter. I hear that’s prr’s Achilles’ Heel. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-pseudotriton-ruber-ruber/364046.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-pseudotriton-ruber-ruber/364046.md?page=3)