# I pit Skald the Rhymer! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 3, 2016, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-skald-the-rhymer/761654 "2016-08-03T17:47:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-skald-the-rhymer/761654/1 "2016-08-03T17:47:05Z")
…because everyone should be pitted at least once before they go. 🙂 Hope all goes well in your Dope-free days, S. ---
**Author:** ![Randolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Randolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randolph)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-skald-the-rhymer/761654/2 "2016-08-03T17:50:30Z")
I pit him for when his hypothetical thread titles fooled me into thinking they were based on a real-life situation. Uh, that’s about all I got. (I mean, they were his actual thread titles, but the threads themselves were… oh forget it.) ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-skald-the-rhymer/761654/3 "2016-08-03T17:58:07Z")
What an asshole that guy was, right? Oh wait…shit, he is still here for a few days?.. I mean what a great guy, amirite or what? :D:D ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-skald-the-rhymer/761654/4 "2016-08-03T18:26:56Z")
**Sklad the Rhymer** ’s posts never, ever rhymed! I mean, c’mon. ---
**Author:** ![Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90ced4/32.png) [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waltzes_with_Cacti)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-skald-the-rhymer/761654/5 "2016-08-03T18:28:42Z")
Skald is leaving? How come? I like that guy. It’s only temporary, right? He’ll be back, right? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-skald-the-rhymer/761654/6 "2016-08-03T18:31:18Z")
> [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](#): > > Skald is leaving? How come? I like that guy. It’s only temporary, right? He’ll be back, right? 😕 [Goodbye thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=19527615#post19527615) ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-skald-the-rhymer/761654/7 "2016-08-03T18:31:31Z")
> [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](#): > > Skald is leaving? How come? I like that guy. It’s only temporary, right? He’ll be back, right? 😕 [Thread: Probably not.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=800162) ETA: Goddammit, RC, do you have to beat EVERYONE ALL THE TIME? You’re as bad as [del]Tom Waits[/del] [del]me[/del] **Skald!** ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-skald-the-rhymer/761654/8 "2016-08-03T18:52:08Z")
That **Skald** , he’s got spunk. I _HATE_ spunk! ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-skald-the-rhymer/761654/9 "2016-08-03T19:23:50Z")
I have it on good authority that **Skald the Rhymer** made my dog sad by calling her “bad” on two separate occasions. ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-skald-the-rhymer/761654/10 "2016-08-03T19:35:55Z")
The flying monkeys pooped on my head. Nuts to that guy. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-skald-the-rhymer/761654/11 "2016-08-03T19:54:23Z")
Every time I think of something to add here I can’t finish it. I’m just gonna pit the fucking universe instead. I know he’ll be back, I know he’ll turn this thing on it’s head, I just don’t know how to say it right. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-skald-the-rhymer/761654/12 "2016-08-03T20:16:55Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Every time I think of something to add here I can’t finish it. I’m just gonna pit the fucking universe instead. I know he’ll be back, I know he’ll turn this thing on it’s head, I just don’t know how to say it right. I think you just did. ---
**Author:** ![Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90ced4/32.png) [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waltzes_with_Cacti)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-skald-the-rhymer/761654/13 "2016-08-03T20:24:58Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > [Goodbye thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=19527615#post19527615) > [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > [Thread: Probably not.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=800162) > > ETA: Goddammit, RC, do you have to beat EVERYONE ALL THE TIME? You’re as bad as [del]Tom Waits[/del] [del]me[/del] **Skald!** **Running coach** and **Amateur Barbarian** , thank you both. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-skald-the-rhymer/761654/14 "2016-08-03T20:35:54Z")
“I won’t embrarrass myself by trying to spell” Too late … ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-skald-the-rhymer/761654/15 "2016-08-03T20:54:45Z")
I’ll pit him because he never provided a cite for Athena having deposed Zeus from the throne of Olympus. Even if it were just neo-mythic fan-fic…I’d enjoy reading it! A nice chap, and he makes us think. Some of his moral puzzles are over-contrived, but, so long as you didn’t fight the hypothetical, some of them are deuced hard to answer. He’s a master of “damned if you do and damned if you don’t” conundrums. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-skald-the-rhymer/761654/16 "2016-08-03T21:31:02Z")
Thanks, Obama ! ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-skald-the-rhymer/761654/17 "2016-08-03T21:36:24Z")
Once I spelled his name wrong and he put 500,000,000 mosquitos in my house. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-skald-the-rhymer/761654/18 "2016-08-03T22:35:00Z")
He never did bring back the last seven seasons of _Firefly_ that he promised! ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-skald-the-rhymer/761654/19 "2016-08-03T22:54:50Z")
I pit Skald’s eyes for quitting on him. Stupid eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-skald-the-rhymer/761654/20 "2016-08-03T23:15:27Z")
A heartfelt salute to a valued and popular poster. Obviously, this has no place in the Pit. Off to MPSIMS! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-skald-the-rhymer/761654.md?page=2)