# I want to Pit someone, but can't think of who. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 19, 2006, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-pit-someone-but-cant-think-of-who/340708 "2006-01-19T20:35:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-pit-someone-but-cant-think-of-who/340708/21 "2006-01-20T13:05:32Z")
I don’t think you’ll pit me. I think you’re _scared_ to! Scaredy cat! Scaredy Cat! Neener Neener Neeeeener! ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-pit-someone-but-cant-think-of-who/340708/22 "2006-01-20T13:34:54Z")
> [@cards](#): > > So what you’re saying is, you won’t through some one under the bus? > [@](#): > > That should be throw. Also, that should be ‘someone’, and ‘throw’, not _some one_, and _through_ you stupid dummy. The rest of you morons should have caught that too. Shame! There, now pit ME. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-pit-someone-but-cant-think-of-who/340708/23 "2006-01-20T13:36:29Z")
That was supposed to be previewed first, however the correction for _someone_ still stands, dammit. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-pit-someone-but-cant-think-of-who/340708/24 "2006-01-20T14:19:01Z")
> [@gooftroopag](#): > > No way, **Goblin Shark Proboscis** , \*\*Mr Bus Guy \*\* should PIT me! > > 1. I don’t drink beer or coffee. > > 2. I’m from Texas. > > 3. I’m a woman engineer. > > 4. I’m an Aggie. > > 5. I’m almost always 15 minutes late to work. > > 6. I’m a card carrying member of the [Traffic Cone Preservation Society](http://www.trafficcone.com/). > > … the list goes on and on. Pit you? I love you! Well, except for the Aggie part, but you’re living in Austin, so we can gloss it over … ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-pit-someone-but-cant-think-of-who/340708/25 "2006-01-20T14:33:03Z")
Why did the Aggie write TGIF on the back of all his shoes? Toes Go In First The Aggie football team was driving to Stillwater for a game with OSU. On crossing the Red River, they saw a sign that said “Clean restrooms. Here to border.” They turned around and went back home to College Station. When asked why they forfieted the game, the coach said, “Fuck 'em. Let 'em clean their own potties.” ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-pit-someone-but-cant-think-of-who/340708/26 "2006-01-20T14:33:17Z")
> [@gooftroopag](#): > > No way, **Goblin Shark Proboscis** , \*\*Mr Bus Guy \*\* should PIT me! > > 1. I’m a woman engineer. Reason enough NOT to pit you. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-pit-someone-but-cant-think-of-who/340708/27 "2006-01-20T16:04:38Z")
So I found [someone to Pit](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=355007) . Not a fellow Doper, just a citizen that deserved a good thrashing. The search continues. Though really, all your attempts to provoke me are appreciated, but not doing the trick. ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-pit-someone-but-cant-think-of-who/340708/28 "2006-01-20T16:17:41Z")
> [@What Exit?](#): > > Bananaface will be coming after you shortly, why would you go after such a nice poster? Poor Man has a deformity and you would pit him? You and “nannernose” have a nice little clique, don’t you? And where is it written that his affliction gives him license to behave like a total asshat? Butt out, why don’t you? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![gooftroopag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gooftroopag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gooftroopag)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-pit-someone-but-cant-think-of-who/340708/29 "2006-01-20T16:24:01Z")
> [@Mr Bus Guy](#): > > Reason enough NOT to pit you. You forget, I live in Texas. Women are supposed to stay home and have children here. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-pit-someone-but-cant-think-of-who/340708/30 "2006-01-20T16:29:15Z")
> [@gooftroopag](#): > > You forget, I live in Texas. Women are supposed to stay home and have children here. 🙂 I’m from Illinois where we let our wimmen folk vote and have jobs. Plus, there’s something about a woman in a hardhat. Grrr. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-pit-someone-but-cant-think-of-who/340708/31 "2006-01-20T16:33:16Z")
**Bus guy** --I hear ya, but what is worse? Not having the bile to start a Pit thread or posting repeatedely in one and being ignored. What? Oh, I’m just over here in a corner, licking my “you’re not worthy of notice” wound. Don’t mind me." I tried to start a thread there, once–I am no longer angry enough (see? therapy works!). So, I’m lame. C’n I hang out with you guys? (please?) 😉 ---
**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:** [January 20, 2006, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-pit-someone-but-cant-think-of-who/340708/32 "2006-01-20T16:36:40Z")
> [@gooftroopag](#): > > 1. I’m a woman engineer. So you’re to blame for all the design problems!!! So tell us genius… what is the purpose behind the Roseann Barr line of models? ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-pit-someone-but-cant-think-of-who/340708/33 "2006-01-20T16:39:16Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > I was mean to you in the Pit once. Does that count? Yes. My life’s purpose has been finally vindicated. 😃 > [@indecisive1](#): > > It’s against board rules to pit someone for being really sweet and fun. Sorry. Oh, yeah? Oh,\* yeah\*? You just wait! I’ll pit you for… uh… being really, really nice! Yeah! That’s it! :mad: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-pit-someone-but-cant-think-of-who/340708/34 "2006-01-20T17:18:49Z")
Go ahead, pit me. My references include: 1. I’m a warmonger, currently on the front lines, and I have no problem at all machine-gunning down a field full of small, cute, furry li’l kittens. 2. I rarely bathe, and will continue not to do so for at least a fortnight. I will make it a point to save up a month ‘o’ stink for the next Dopefest I make. 3. I have taken up cigar smoking and nose picking as new hobbies. Note, it takes near a Jedi Master to accomplish both at the same time, so to train myself to such standards, I regularly smoke cigars through my nostrils (helps open 'em up for a “thumb dig”). 4. I am a rabid Devil Worshipper (I hear they beat St Louis 5 - 3 the other night!). 5. I tend to yawn rather obnoxiously during briefings, and loudly inquire as to when the next “coffe break will be, boss!” 6. I support the 2nd Amendment of the US Constitution, enumerating the person’s right to bear arms. However, I do _not_ support the right to arm bears. They look all cute and cuddly, but they have no need for a handgun. So there you have it–at 9:45PM (local). Tripler No, really, I _am_ a Devil Worshipper. I hear Gionta’s getting close to Verbeek’s record! ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-pit-someone-but-cant-think-of-who/340708/35 "2006-01-20T17:56:09Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > Go ahead, pit me. My references include: > > I _am_ a Devil Worshipper. I hear Gionta’s getting close to Verbeek’s record! You may come the closest, if only for this. Mr Bus Guy Bleeding Rangers **Blue** ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-pit-someone-but-cant-think-of-who/340708/36 "2006-01-20T17:59:04Z")
> [@Mr Bus Guy](#): > > So I found [someone to Pit](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=355007) . > > Not a fellow Doper, just a citizen that deserved a good thrashing. > > The search continues. Though really, all your attempts to provoke me are appreciated, but not doing the trick. That’s 'cause yer skeeeeered, Bus Boy. Skeert I say! ---
**Author:** ![gooftroopag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gooftroopag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gooftroopag)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-pit-someone-but-cant-think-of-who/340708/37 "2006-01-20T19:37:24Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > So you’re to blame for all the design problems!!! > > So tell us genius… what is the purpose behind the Roseann Barr line of models? Of course. In fact, my boss told me that I may need to leave the country soon, because Exxon Mobil has decided I’m their scapegoat because they selected someone else’s crummy design for a project instead of ours. If only I hadn’t been an entry level engineer and had contact with Exxon Mobil at the time… Of course, he could be joking but you can never be too sure. Thank God for attack cats, they’re my first line of defense! “Roseann Barr line of models”? ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-pit-someone-but-cant-think-of-who/340708/38 "2006-01-20T20:39:38Z")
And now for some Jefferson Airplane therapy … _Don’t you want somebody to pit, Don’t you need somebody to pit, Wouldn’t you love somebody to pit, You better find somebody to pit …_ ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-pit-someone-but-cant-think-of-who/340708/39 "2006-01-20T21:10:38Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Awwww, I’ve never pitted! Can I have one chance? Just one thread? Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeease? You know, I’ve been Pitted. It wasn’t that big of a deal. And, it was at a time where I wasn’t visiting the Pit, so it had got to three pages before I noticed it, and several people had already defended me. ---
**Author:** ![indecisive1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/41988e/32.png) [@indecisive1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indecisive1)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-pit-someone-but-cant-think-of-who/340708/40 "2006-01-20T21:14:11Z")
> [@Ponder Stibbons](#): > > And now for some Jefferson Airplane therapy … > > _Don’t you want somebody to pit, > Don’t you need somebody to pit, > Wouldn’t you love somebody to pit, > You better find somebody to pit …_ Holy Dinosaur Band! You is old, I tells ya, ooooooold! 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-pit-someone-but-cant-think-of-who/340708.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-pit-someone-but-cant-think-of-who/340708.md?page=3)