# I would like to argue with you. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 4, 2006, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-like-to-argue-with-you/351190 "2006-04-04T02:46:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-like-to-argue-with-you/351190/81 "2006-04-05T18:05:20Z")
see? you can’t even express yourself properly. and how do you know some of us won’t agree with you if you don’t present your view? Your view may be very close to mine, but now we’ll never know will we, ya stingy mutt. ---
**Author:** ![newcrasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b3f665/32.png) [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-like-to-argue-with-you/351190/82 "2006-04-05T18:05:45Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Crap. “…what **it** is.” I thought we were finally going to get to the bottom of what “_is_” is… Thanks fer nothing. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-like-to-argue-with-you/351190/83 "2006-04-05T18:32:38Z")
You all eat stupid food for breakfast. So there! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-like-to-argue-with-you/351190/84 "2006-04-05T19:39:31Z")
> [@newcrasher](#): > > I thought we were finally going to get to the bottom of what “_is_” is… ::bedraggled, bearded man in the surf:: “It’s…” ---
**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 5, 2006, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-like-to-argue-with-you/351190/85 "2006-04-05T19:50:17Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > see? you can’t even express yourself properly. Says the person for whom capitalization is apparently a needless extravagance. 😃 > [@](#): > > and how do you know some of us won’t agree with you if you don’t present your view? The voices tell me you’re all against me. And I always listen to the voices. They’re so, um, _authoritative_… ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-like-to-argue-with-you/351190/86 "2006-04-05T20:05:37Z")
[Bingo!](http://www.shortpacked.com/d/20060405.html) ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-like-to-argue-with-you/351190/87 "2006-04-05T20:07:59Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Says the person for whom capitalization is apparently a needless extravagance. 😃 i’m an e.e.cummings fan. sue me. > [@El\_Kabong](#): > > The voices tell me you’re all against me. And I always listen to the voices. They’re so, um, _authoritative_… if they told you to jump off a bridge, would you? ---
**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:** [April 5, 2006, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-like-to-argue-with-you/351190/88 "2006-04-05T20:18:50Z")
> [@jali](#): > > Don’t tell me what to do! You’re foolin’ yourself. We’re livin’ in a dictatorship. A self perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes – ---
**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 5, 2006, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-like-to-argue-with-you/351190/89 "2006-04-05T23:07:02Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > if they told you to jump off a bridge, would you? I’ll let you know when the time comes. So far they haven’t. Gotta admit, their suggestion that I punch that cop didn’t seem to work out very well… ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-like-to-argue-with-you/351190/90 "2006-04-05T23:57:31Z")
So tell me, are all your mamas ashamed they raised such dumbasses! HAH! Take That! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-like-to-argue-with-you/351190/91 "2006-04-06T00:07:53Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > So tell me, are all your mamas ashamed they raised such dumbasses! HAH! Take That! 😛 no, just yours right back atcha! ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-like-to-argue-with-you/351190/92 "2006-04-06T14:30:22Z")
> [@jali](#): > > Mommy Dearest. **NOO WIIRE HAANGERS!!** ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-like-to-argue-with-you/351190/93 "2006-04-06T18:07:45Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Everything everyone has said to this point is incorrect. Only my viewpoint is the correct one, and I have no intention of telling you what is is, since you’ll only try to pick holes in it. Can’t get very far in life without saying “is.” ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-like-to-argue-with-you/351190/94 "2006-04-06T18:15:01Z")
> [@Snickers](#): > > Can’t get very far in life without saying “is.” Sure you could. You could talk completely in the past tense, like some bizarre film noir narrator ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-like-to-argue-with-you/351190/95 "2006-04-06T18:26:46Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > Sure you could. You could talk completely in the past tense, like some bizarre film noir narrator “Sure you did. You talked completely in the past tense, like some bizarre film noir narrator.” Works for me! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-like-to-argue-with-you/351190/96 "2006-04-06T18:29:53Z")
> [@Elendil's Heir](#): > > “Sure you did. You talked completely in the past tense, like some bizarre film noir narrator.” > > Works for me! I meant, “Worked for me!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-like-to-argue-with-you/351190.md?page=4)