# I Pit SmartAleq **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 15, 2021, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-smartaleq/944308 "2021-06-15T06:05:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-smartaleq/944308/41 "2021-06-15T08:50:20Z")
So as long as the SDMB exists, in other words. Remind me again; why is it that you want to post here? ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-smartaleq/944308/42 "2021-06-15T08:52:14Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > So as long as the SDMB exists, in other words. Aah, I see the problem, you don’t have a functioning imagination. Like, say, _imagining_ a SDMB that just continued on _without Ed_. Can’t really help you, there. > [@Smapti](#): > > Remind me again; why is it that you want to post here? For the sparkling company. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-smartaleq/944308/43 "2021-06-15T08:53:35Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > For the sparkling company. As I said, I’m sure you could find people on 4Chan far more amenable to one such as yourself. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-smartaleq/944308/44 "2021-06-15T08:55:45Z")
There’s that failure of imagination, again… [![](https://new-cdn.mamamia.com.au/mamamia-pwa.appspot.com/cms_images/variations/596x397.3333333333333-789086803473.jpg) ](https://new-cdn.mamamia.com.au/mamamia-pwa.appspot.com/cms_images/variations/596x397.3333333333333-789086803473.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-smartaleq/944308/45 "2021-06-15T09:01:32Z")
Because this place wouldn’t exist for much longer if you had your way. Kindly fuck off to /b and don’t come back, 'kay? ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-smartaleq/944308/46 "2021-06-15T09:08:48Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Because this place wouldn’t exist for much longer if you had your way. Man, he _really_ did a number on you didn’t he? There, there, it’s OK, there are other boards like this one, you won’t be left alone in you basement with your crushing sense of inadequacy if this all goes pear-shaped… ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-smartaleq/944308/47 "2021-06-15T09:09:25Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > There, there, it’s OK, there are other boards like this one, you won’t be left alone in you basement with your crushing sense of inadequacy if this all goes pear-shaped… Projecting much? ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-smartaleq/944308/48 "2021-06-15T09:26:00Z")
I’m not the one quivering in fear at alienating Ed, so no, I think not. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-smartaleq/944308/49 "2021-06-15T09:38:52Z")
In that case, I wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-smartaleq/944308/50 "2021-06-15T09:43:38Z")
[![](https://pics.me.me/thumb_stop-dont-0-come-back-willy-wonka-the-chocolate-53711299.png) ](https://pics.me.me/thumb_stop-dont-0-come-back-willy-wonka-the-chocolate-53711299.png) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-smartaleq/944308/51 "2021-06-15T10:48:11Z")
I quite agree. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-smartaleq/944308/52 "2021-06-15T11:38:29Z")
I just read that post in the thread and I have no idea how **SmartAleq** avoided a warning from ECG. Holy smokes, was that post inappropriate for ATMB! Here’s hoping **SmartAleq** fucks off to Reddit and **MrDibble** fucks off to GiraffeBoards, or whatever board he was talking about. I think this place is pretty special, well moderated compared to basically anywhere else, and I’m hoping it stick around. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-smartaleq/944308/53 "2021-06-15T11:50:19Z")
What’s up with **Mrdibble** ’s fixation on old shriveled penises? ---
**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:** [June 15, 2021, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-smartaleq/944308/54 "2021-06-15T11:55:18Z")
I can identify with Ed/Not Cecil’s predicament. He was considered the iconoclast of his day and advocated actually fighting ignorance instead of using knowledge to do better at _Trivial Pursuit_. Now his role has been made obsolete and he’s struggling to remain relevant. Maybe **SmartAleq** is right, but framing the point with personal grudges and caustic gloating was an ugly and prickish way to present it. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-smartaleq/944308/55 "2021-06-15T12:01:09Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > I can identify with Ed/Not Cecil’s predicament. He was considered the iconoclast of his day and advocated actually fighting ignorance instead of using knowledge to do better at _Trivial Pursuit_ . Now his role has been made obsolete and he’s struggling to remain relevant. His role is indeed obsolete but for different reasons at different levels. At a tool level, it was obsolete through search engines excepting those rare questions it’s difficult to find information on through a search. As a goal, it is obsolete because ignorance won. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-smartaleq/944308/56 "2021-06-15T12:16:44Z")
Man you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allen Poe. While @SmartAlec has some valid points it was inappropriate to attack the OP in the uncivil personal manner that he did in ATMB forum. Not seeing how he did not earn official warnings. Banning? No, but he should at least be warned against such behavior officially or this place could fall into chaos. The mods should moderate, even on this one. This is not about bashing hero worshipping, its about the board rules of behavior that have been clearly violated. BTW, I’d still like a coffee cup and some form of paid membership as before. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-smartaleq/944308/57 "2021-06-15T12:39:06Z")
My dislike for being asked to suck one, unexpectedly, every few years or so. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-smartaleq/944308/58 "2021-06-15T12:42:11Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > As an old-school feminist, I was personally extremely pissed that Ed felt he needed to protect me from a four-letter word that I am perfectly capable of dealing with without getting the vapors. Cunt! Cunt! Cunt! And go watch the fucking [Cornetto Trilogy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Flavours_Cornetto_trilogy), you cunt, if you can’t accept that the whole world doesn’t adhere to your pathetic, condescending idea that females are too delicate to withstand the word CUNT. \* Well said! That kind of thinking is a throwback to the time when females were viewed as the “frailer sex”. In the old movies, we’d faint when something shocking happened, and the big strong man would have to sweep us up in his arms and whisk us away. Well, news flash, all you have to do is look around nature to see that it’s the females that are the ass kickers. It is the female lions that do the hunting, the female Black Widow that can turn out your lights, and the female mantis that consumes her mate while he is still ejaculating. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-smartaleq/944308/59 "2021-06-15T12:43:30Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > he should at least be warned against such behavior officially or this place could fall into chaos. The mods should moderate, even on this one. This is not about bashing hero worshipping, its about the board rules of behavior that have been clearly violated. Gotta love the priorities around here - deny genocide in ATMB all you like, but don’t dare point out Ed has outlived his usefulness… SA was mod-noted, which is all the moderating his post - which I admit was out of place in ATMB - warranted. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-smartaleq/944308/60 "2021-06-15T12:58:58Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Gotta love the priorities around here - deny genocide in ATMB all you like, but don’t dare point out Ed has outlived his usefulness… That’s the real reason this place is dying, not the fact that Dribble was mean to poor old Mr Ed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-smartaleq/944308.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-smartaleq/944308.md?page=4)