# I say, Doorhinge, old chap... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 7, 2016, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420 "2016-04-07T11:29:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/21 "2016-04-07T22:21:50Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > My good fellow really how could you take me so? Mister Doorhinge is an upstanding chap with only the most forgivable minor tendency to lose his way. How could you miss my sentiment so badly? Hahahahaha! So you’re saying that he’s worse that Hitler? Now you’re just digging yourself in deeper matey. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/22 "2016-04-07T22:34:28Z")
At least he doesn’t use “Bwahahaha”. Apparently that’s uncivil. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/23 "2016-04-07T22:58:15Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Hahahahaha! So you’re saying that he’s worse that Hitler? Now you’re just digging yourself in deeper matey. Harumph! I most certainly was not. And besides which, Hitler wasn’t such a bad chap. Had some odd ideas and we lost a few of our boys to him in that scrap a while back, but fair play to him and you can’t deny he knew a thing or two about strong government. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/24 "2016-04-07T23:49:25Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > He’s very strange. His debating style is to keep repeating whatever it is he’s saying. > [@erysichthon](#): > > Don’t forget that he also employs the brilliant tactic of prefacing his replies with “Hahahaha.” Absolutely devastating! If subjected to the test devised by Mr. Turing it would certainly prove to be ineffective in demonstrating itself not to be a poorly programmed automaton. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/25 "2016-04-08T00:00:53Z")
That’s an interesting question. I know people have designed Turing robots to be like teenage American girls or Eastern European gamers. Has anyone ever tried a Turing robot that just posts facile nonsense in political threads? ---
**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 8, 2016, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/26 "2016-04-08T00:25:22Z")
NM ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/27 "2016-04-08T00:39:43Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > That’s an interesting question. I know people have designed Turing robots to be like teenage American girls or Eastern European gamers. Has anyone ever tried a Turing robot that just posts facile nonsense in political threads? A preliminary need assessment indicated that, due to the number of readily-available volunteers, developing such a device would not meet the required cost-benefit ratio. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2016, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/28 "2016-04-08T01:26:46Z")
Bots can be programmed as Nigerian princes looking for shard bank accounts, so why not? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/29 "2016-04-08T01:38:27Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > That’s an interesting question. I know people have designed Turing robots to be like teenage American girls or Eastern European gamers. Has anyone ever tried a Turing robot that just posts facile nonsense in political threads? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Bots can be programmed as Nigerian princes looking for shard bank accounts, so why not? Teenage girls, Eastern European gamers, Nigerian princes, or for that matter a developmentally delayed opossum would much harder to program than **doorhinge**. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/30 "2016-04-08T02:22:35Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Teenage girls, Eastern European gamers, Nigerian princes, or for that matter a developmentally delayed opossum would much harder to program than **doorhinge**. A Moderator participates in this. It is damned confusing. I never heard of the fellow, I presumed this was admonishing some fellow named “Doorhinge” and a Moderator who interceded. I am batting a damned sticky wicket, chaps. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/31 "2016-04-08T02:25:34Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > A Moderator participates in this. > It is damned confusing. A poster participates in this. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/32 "2016-04-08T02:32:00Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > A poster participates in this. I stand corrected. As I say to my beloved Wife (and Moderators), “It is my fault, and I am sorry.” I do believe that this sort of thing is not English, and simply not done by gentlemen. ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/33 "2016-04-08T03:45:57Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Teenage girls, Eastern European gamers, Nigerian princes, or for that matter a developmentally delayed opossum would much harder to program than **doorhinge**. YOU GUYS. You’re forgetting about his talent for devising unique, witty sobriquets for politicians and other public figures. My all-time favorite is “Port Authority Wildstein.” Brilliant! A robot could never have come up with that. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/34 "2016-04-08T03:50:13Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I do believe that this sort of thing is not English, and simply not done by gentlemen. \*A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally. \* -Oscar Wilde ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/35 "2016-04-08T07:05:39Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Spiffing OP, old boy. However, I’m afraid our DIY-monikered chum may not be playing with an entirely straight bat, what what. 'e’s a right tosser, guv, 'e is. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/36 "2016-04-08T07:07:56Z")
> [@erysichthon](#): > > YOU GUYS. You’re forgetting about his talent for devising unique, witty sobriquets for politicians and other public figures. > [@Corey Lewandowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corey-lewandowski/750650/82): > > Gruppenfuher Click was caught on camera calling for muscled storm troopers to defend the fortress of solitude she built on public campus grounds. Click has already plead guilty to the charges against her. Click is guilty. The university then chose to kick Glick’s anti-free speech ass out of, and off, their campus. He really is quite strange. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/37 "2016-04-08T07:54:50Z")
Now ladies and gentleman; please! I did not start this thread to see you all blackguard poor Mister **Doorhinge** so. That was not my purpose at all. Dear oh dear what have I started. I never for a moment thought that by opening a thread here merely to give that good man a tiny hint - from one gentleman to another - of how he might be able to improve himself a little, he would find himself set upon from all sides by you _insufferable_ cads. How am I ever going to look Mister **Doorhinge** in the eye again? Will he be able to forgive me? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/38 "2016-04-08T10:58:32Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > I did my part, extending an olive branch to the Only Poster Whose Name Rhymes With Orange by suggesting he change his name to **D’Orange** (pronounced \de.ʁɑ̃.ʒe\ ?). Is THAT what he was going for? My fault, I guess, for thinking it’s supposed to be pronounced _d’erple_. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/39 "2016-04-08T11:05:07Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > That’s an interesting question. I know people have designed Turing robots to be like teenage American girls or Eastern European gamers. Has anyone ever tried a Turing robot that just posts facile nonsense in political threads? Good Heavens, man, is there a shortage of those? I can’t imagine any other reason for attempting to automate the process… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/40 "2016-04-08T12:17:10Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > Now ladies and gentleman; please! > > I did not start this thread to see you all blackguard poor Mister **Doorhinge** so. That was not my purpose at all. Dear oh dear what have I started. I never for a moment thought that by opening a thread here merely to give that good man a tiny hint - from one gentleman to another - of how he might be able to improve himself a little, he would find himself set upon from all sides by you _insufferable_ cads. > > How am I ever going to look Mister **Doorhinge** in the eye again? Will he be able to forgive me? Come now, Princhester old chum, I do concur most heartily with your urbane and decorous noting of possible improvements to Mr. Doorhinge’s conduct to fit more into the witty and intelligent mode of discussion herein to which we have all become accustomed, especially here in the rather vulgarly named area called The Pit. However, I most most respectfully note that Mr. Doorhinge has shown a most tenacious and to date quite firm ability to conduct himself in ways no gentlemen (or woman) would consider doing in proper company. I think something a bit stronger, such as a firmly spoken “tut-tut”, or perhaps even an audible sniff, drastic as those may be, should certainly be considered if Mr. Doorhinge should remain obstinate. With Great Respect, I am, Yr Obt. Svt. The Stainless Steel Rat Now, translating the above into Brookyese: Yo, Prinnie, 'dis Doorhinge asshole, he’s as stubborn as a boulder and about as smart. He needs, ya know, to gets some sense stuffed in his head, even if ya need to get it there via the as…rectum (ya know what I mean?). Be cool, bro Da SSR [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420.md?page=3)