# I wish to complain! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 4, 2000, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-to-complain/35643 "2000-10-04T17:09:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2000, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-to-complain/35643/21 "2000-10-04T21:09:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UncleBeer \* > **It appears a more apt titling of your topic, rather than “I Wish to Complain,” …** Am I the only one who caught the MP reference in the title? Or used it to develop the assumption that it might be a joke? ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2000, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-to-complain/35643/22 "2000-10-04T21:23:31Z")
…Quite a disappointment actually. I was really hoping that it was an actual, real live complaint so I could hijack it w/ directions to the Complaint Dept. :rolleyes curses!, foiled again… When oh when will I get to be the first to make a MP allusion to a thread?! ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2000, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-to-complain/35643/23 "2000-10-04T21:43:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Enderw23 \* > \*\*Rysdad, perhaps you’d like to rethink your wording a bit. Calling me a prick, I can understand. Fucking cunt, what the hey! But chickenshit? I don’t get it. What was I afraid of? \*\* Not _fearful_ chickenshit, rather penny-ante, trite, worthless chickenshit. Just do better next time, m’kay? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2000, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-to-complain/35643/24 "2000-10-04T21:44:23Z")
When you start living here. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2000, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-to-complain/35643/25 "2000-10-04T22:58:18Z")
MP? Huh? Military Police? ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2000, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-to-complain/35643/26 "2000-10-04T23:27:30Z")
You want to complain? Look at the shoes. Three weeks old and already the heels have worn right through! You want to complain? Look at this overcoat. Only a month old and the hems all worn out! You want to complain? I’m stuck here in this office and it’s a fine summer day outside! **Somebody** had to do it, and I’m glad it was me! _(And yes, I read about three lines of that drivel before scooting down to the “post reply” to beat everyone else to the Python’s punch!)_ ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-to-complain/35643/27 "2000-10-05T02:41:35Z")
_sticks head in and then wanders out into the hall_ Hey, anyone want s’mores? ---
**Author:** ![Scribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Scribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribe)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-to-complain/35643/28 "2000-10-05T02:56:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by neutron star \* > \*\*MP? Huh? > > Military Police? > > \*\* Monty Python. A direct quote of The Dead Parrot Sketch in the subject line would have been “I wish to register a complaint…” IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-to-complain/35643/29 "2000-10-05T02:59:13Z")
Thanks, scribe. I’ve seem a couple of Monty Python movies. Must have missed the one with that sketch. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-to-complain/35643/30 "2000-10-05T03:13:49Z")
> [@](#): > > It was a joke. Ha Ha. Guess not so funny. Moving on… The thing about jokes, see, is that they’re FUNNY. Anyway, the Pit ain’t the place for jokes or games, as I’ve said before. I swear, I’m gonna tattoo this statement BACKWARDS on the forehead of every Pit poster, just so that y’all will be reminded of it. Lynn Queen of the Pit [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-to-complain/35643.md?page=1)