# I pit Stranger on a Train **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 17, 2017, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stranger-on-a-train/784671 "2017-04-17T21:57:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stranger-on-a-train/784671/21 "2017-04-18T00:09:34Z")
Man, I was prepared to come in here and tell someone they must have a screw loose or something. OP, I for one am glad to see your screw appears good and tight. Stranger is a treasure here at the SDMB and I hope he never quits posting. ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stranger-on-a-train/784671/22 "2017-04-18T00:11:58Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > I hear he has a nice caboose. > mmm I KNEW it! :mad: And are we sure Stranger is a he? ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stranger-on-a-train/784671/23 "2017-04-18T01:27:47Z")
I agree. Stranger is an MVP. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stranger-on-a-train/784671/24 "2017-04-18T02:01:09Z")
> [@Kropotkin](#): > > And are we sure Stranger is a he? **Stranger** is actually a fourteen year old girl. She’s a high school freshman just outside of Kansas City, Missouri. ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stranger-on-a-train/784671/25 "2017-04-18T02:15:37Z")
He also has the best theme song on the dope [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Yg1lyEN7SL4/hqdefault.jpg "Lovage - Strangers On A Train") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg1lyEN7SL4) ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stranger-on-a-train/784671/26 "2017-04-18T02:16:35Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > **Stranger** is actually a fourteen year old girl. She’s a high school freshman just outside of Kansas City, Missouri. So, she registered on the Dope the day she was born? ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stranger-on-a-train/784671/27 "2017-04-18T02:20:12Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > So, she registered on the Dope the day she was born? A precocious fourteen year old. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stranger-on-a-train/784671/28 "2017-04-18T02:27:21Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Yeah, I was thinking, ‘‘OP, this is not going to go well for you…’’ I rarely get involved in Dope fights, but I was ready to come in here and scream at the OP. Then I saw the actual post and just had to nod in agreement. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stranger-on-a-train/784671/29 "2017-04-18T02:43:38Z")
He almost left once because of all the stupidity, but he came back. He’s one of the most intelligent and interesting posters here. Don’t drive him away again. He knows his shit. Sent from my adequate mobile device using Tapatalk. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stranger-on-a-train/784671/30 "2017-04-18T02:48:08Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > His posts are even better if you imagine them being read by Alfred Hitchcock. “Good evening, ladish and gentahmen, …” > [@Aspenglow](#): > > His posts are pretty good. I usually read them. 😉 > [@silenus](#): > > **Stranger** ’s an alright chap. > [@silenus](#): > > So you’re saying he was “mornal?” This is the level of “slightly greater than mediocraty” that I’ve always aspired to. > [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > **Stranger** is actually a fourteen year old girl. She’s a high school freshman just outside of Kansas City, Missouri. You forgot the bit about the adamantium-clad skeleton and extensible claws, but yes. I am a product of the Weapon X program, unleashed upon the world on an Internet message board. John Oliver and I spend our spare time together plotting on how to take down world leaders just using our mutant powers, but we can’t really be bothered. Stranger ---
**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:** [April 18, 2017, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stranger-on-a-train/784671/31 "2017-04-18T03:03:31Z")
I pit **Stranger On A Train** for not learning a thing from all his time here. I mean, he was here when **DonPeyote** started using valid demographic terms like “muzzy” and “towelhead”. But did he come up with his own ethnic group to insult? Noooo… He’s had a perfect role model in **Bricker**. So I expected him to start nit-picking anything “immoral but technically legal according to the following statutes…” And along with **adaher** , he could’ve learned to parrot “waaah, this board’s so libtard that we True Conservatives get called on our crap but Bernie gets a pass…” And he’s watched **Drunky Smurf** make an effort to automatically demean anyone he doesn’t agree with; but nope, **Stranger** don’t got time for that. He’s been ringside for **SaturnComet** ’s inability to ignore a JFK conspiracy (or JFK jr., it appears). But does he choose his own half-formed theory and run it into the ground? Or post a Wall O’ Semi-Science Text like **ManTrapHitler** ’s been doing? So sorry, dopers, that’d be too much work, I guess. And he can’t even be bothered to come up with an annoying catchphrase like \*Let’s go see the Quarrymen and throw stuff at them!.. \* _Retards, Strangedan_ If this place doesn’t drive someone batshit, they are NOT paying attention. Or, like **StrangerDanger** , they’re just too lazy to commit to doing the long, arduous work of becoming a total whack-job. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stranger-on-a-train/784671/32 "2017-04-18T03:05:14Z")
Who? Oh, him. [I hate that guy](https://youtu.be/E3Hfgvjdb0Y). ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stranger-on-a-train/784671/33 "2017-04-18T03:18:05Z")
Sorry, he’s a **Stranger** to me. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stranger-on-a-train/784671/34 "2017-04-18T03:22:00Z")
> [@Enter\_the\_Flagon](#): > > Let’s not derail the thread. 🙂 > > When I see **Stranger** ’s name in the Last Post column, I click that thread. Knowledgeable MF’r, he. > > And when he took some time off after the POTUS election, I cried like an allergic lamb caught in a bear trap in an underground cave. > > In a volcano. On Mercury. [Blackadder] So very briefly then. [/Blackadder] ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stranger-on-a-train/784671/35 "2017-04-18T03:38:01Z")
He scares me. If we ever met he’d probably think I’m a dithering idiot. 😃 This is a great anti-pit. I’m glad you’re here, **Stranger** , I always learn from your posts. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stranger-on-a-train/784671/36 "2017-04-18T03:44:33Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > So you’re saying he was “mornal?” No. That he net him on a plame. ---
**Author:** ![SaneBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SaneBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaneBill)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stranger-on-a-train/784671/37 "2017-04-18T12:00:53Z")
> [@1iLeft](#): > > I net him once. In a plane. He was normal. Sure, but s/he’s stranger on a train. ---
**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:** [April 18, 2017, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stranger-on-a-train/784671/38 "2017-04-18T13:06:02Z")
_Strangers on a train/ their blows mere glances… Wond’ring how they trained/ [that mule named Francis](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10703308&postcount=4)_ … ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stranger-on-a-train/784671/39 "2017-04-18T13:21:03Z")
Yes yes fine fine … but is his’her belly button an innie or an outie? … until we know that we can’t make these judgements … He’she bought his’her train ticket … he’she knew the dangers … I say let him’her ride and time all the damn lightning bolts he’she can … ---
**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:** [April 18, 2017, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stranger-on-a-train/784671/40 "2017-04-18T13:39:43Z")
_Stranger on a train… You’re that weirdo on the bus, But you’re stranger on a train…_ [/sinatra impersonator] I could do this all day! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stranger-on-a-train/784671.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stranger-on-a-train/784671.md?page=3)