# I pit What the .... ?!?! for being an intellectually dishonest piece of etc. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 16, 2008, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-what-the-for-being-an-intellectually-dishonest-piece-of-etc/477369 "2008-12-16T06:11:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-what-the-for-being-an-intellectually-dishonest-piece-of-etc/477369/81 "2011-10-02T21:28:37Z")
We have always been at war with **What the … !!!** ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-what-the-for-being-an-intellectually-dishonest-piece-of-etc/477369/82 "2011-10-02T21:31:21Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Asshole’s at it again.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=626209) And you are still putting no effort into pitting him. Why even bother, if you cannot raise enough ire to write a few words in his general direction, why do you expect anybody else to give a damn? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-what-the-for-being-an-intellectually-dishonest-piece-of-etc/477369/83 "2011-10-02T22:08:59Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > And you are still putting no effort into pitting him. Why even bother, if you cannot raise enough ire to write a few words in his general direction, why do you expect anybody else to give a damn? He’s a serial thread bumper of his own threads. ---
**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:** [October 2, 2011, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-what-the-for-being-an-intellectually-dishonest-piece-of-etc/477369/84 "2011-10-02T22:11:24Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > He was being a big ol’ meany head and was smited. Smote? Smitten? Smunt. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-what-the-for-being-an-intellectually-dishonest-piece-of-etc/477369/85 "2011-10-03T00:53:31Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > And you are still putting no effort into pitting him. Why even bother, if you cannot raise enough ire to write a few words in his general direction, why do you expect anybody else to give a damn? Because, in this case, pretty much the same criticisms I directed against **What’s** earlier threads apply to this one, no restatements necessary. The specimen is not evolving. Only reason to give a damn is that it’s still posting. ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-what-the-for-being-an-intellectually-dishonest-piece-of-etc/477369/86 "2011-10-03T00:57:31Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Smunt. Well that’s not helpful at all - that just looks so dirty I think we’d get in trouble if we typed that outside the Pit! I have to say, for a three-year-old twice-reanimated zombie, this is a pretty weak-ass pitting. At least \*quote \*something so we can get some recreational outrage going on in here. Like I have the time or the fucks to actually venture into political threads to figure out what you’re POed about. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-what-the-for-being-an-intellectually-dishonest-piece-of-etc/477369/87 "2011-10-03T01:26:40Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Because, in this case, pretty much the same criticisms I directed against **What’s** earlier threads apply to this one, no restatements necessary. … That would be a better argument had you said anything substantial in the earlier posts. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-what-the-for-being-an-intellectually-dishonest-piece-of-etc/477369/88 "2011-10-03T10:15:30Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Smunt. That sounds dirty. ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-what-the-for-being-an-intellectually-dishonest-piece-of-etc/477369/89 "2011-10-04T21:13:28Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > That would be a better argument had you said anything substantial in the earlier posts. What he said. ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-what-the-for-being-an-intellectually-dishonest-piece-of-etc/477369/90 "2011-10-05T00:11:20Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > This made me laugh pretty good. Thanks!! ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-what-the-for-being-an-intellectually-dishonest-piece-of-etc/477369/91 "2011-10-05T00:13:47Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Why does the word “stalker” come to mind? How about “asshole stalker”? Nah, that’s not fair…he’s not a stalker. He pretty much lives on the SDMB where he finds validation. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-what-the-for-being-an-intellectually-dishonest-piece-of-etc/477369/92 "2011-10-05T01:48:58Z")
Bacon is still delicious. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-what-the-for-being-an-intellectually-dishonest-piece-of-etc/477369/93 "2011-10-05T03:22:54Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Smunt. One knell or two? ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-what-the-for-being-an-intellectually-dishonest-piece-of-etc/477369/94 "2011-10-05T03:47:18Z")
> [@What\_the](#): > > How about “asshole stalker”? Nah, that’s not fair…he’s not a stalker. He pretty much lives on the SDMB where he finds validation. Still abusing the hell out of those ellipses, I see. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-what-the-for-being-an-intellectually-dishonest-piece-of-etc/477369/95 "2011-10-06T20:00:56Z")
The better question, why does he want to stalk the asshole? ---
**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-what-the-for-being-an-intellectually-dishonest-piece-of-etc/477369/96 "2011-10-07T21:06:30Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Smunt. I’m pretty sure that’s one of the things you aren’t supposed to call other posters, **Miller**! ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-what-the-for-being-an-intellectually-dishonest-piece-of-etc/477369/97 "2011-10-08T13:07:13Z")
> [@Mosier](#): > > Still abusing the hell out of those ellipses, I see. Uh… what’s an ellipse? ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-what-the-for-being-an-intellectually-dishonest-piece-of-etc/477369/98 "2011-10-08T13:10:15Z")
> [@What\_the](#): > > Uh… what’s an ellipse? > [@](#): > > In geometry, an ellipse (from Greek ἔλλειψις elleipsis, a “falling short”) is a plane curve that results from the intersection of a cone by a plane in a way that produces a closed curve. Circles are special cases of ellipses, obtained when the cutting plane is orthogonal to the cone’s axis. An ellipse is also the locus of all points of the plane whose distances to two fixed points add to the same constant. > > Ellipses are closed curves and are the bounded case of the conic sections, the curves that result from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane that does not pass through its apex; the other two (open and unbounded) cases are parabolas and hyperbolas. Ellipses also arise as images of a circle under parallel projection and the bounded cases of perspective projection, which are simply intersections of the projective cone with the plane of projection. It is also the simplest Lissajous figure, formed when the horizontal and vertical motions are sinusoids with the same frequency. > **[Ellipse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipse)** > > In mathematics, an ellipse is a plane curve surrounding two focal points, such that for all points on the curve, the sum of the two distances to the focal points is a constant. It generalizes a circle, which is the special type of ellipse in which the two focal points are the same. The elongation of an ellipse is measured by its eccentricity > > > > e > > > {\\displaystyle e} > > , a number ranging from > > > > e > = > 0 > > > {\\displa... ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-what-the-for-being-an-intellectually-dishonest-piece-of-etc/477369/99 "2011-10-08T13:44:45Z")
> [@What\_the](#): > > Uh… what’s an ellipse? One of the four iconic sections into which SDMB discourse can be divided: 1. Circular reasoning 2. Speaking elliptically 3, Teaching by parabolic example. 3. Hyperbole ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-what-the-for-being-an-intellectually-dishonest-piece-of-etc/477369/100 "2011-10-08T13:53:21Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > One of the four iconic sections into which SDMB discourse can be divided: > > 1. Circular reasoning > 2. Speaking elliptically > 3, Teaching by parabolic example. > 3. Hyperbole You forgot to include questioning the virtue of another poster’s mother and making confusing references to Hitler (it can be a subset of 4, but I really think it deserves its own section). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-what-the-for-being-an-intellectually-dishonest-piece-of-etc/477369.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-what-the-for-being-an-intellectually-dishonest-piece-of-etc/477369.md?page=6)