# If You Do It Three Times, Is It a Tradition? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 8, 2003, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284 "2003-09-08T13:03:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/121 "2003-09-12T17:10:25Z")
With all this nakie happening someone’s destined to lose an eye! I wouldn’t worry too much about **Ex** because I don’t think **Kallessa** would condone hunting **Swampbears!** Besides… as grumpy as he pretends to be I think **Ex** is probably a teddy bear himself in RL 🙂 I played this one game with my MIL where you have to make up the definition for a word and then all the made up definitions are read along with the real one. Everyone votes for which they think is the real one and then points are awarded if you guess right or if people pick your fake. Every time MIL’s was read she’d smile and I’d know that wasn’t the right one. Even after we told her she did that she just couldn’t stop smiling! **FCM’s** post about not being a good liar brought that little memory back! Oh and you say the tone of the thread is declining like it’s a bad thing 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/122 "2003-09-12T17:36:15Z")
I didn’t make a judgement call about the declining tone - merely stated an observation. I’ve been known to decline myself, from time to time, theoretically. I’m certainly not going to confess anything juicy here, tho. I’ll leave it all up to your warped, twisted imaginations… ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/123 "2003-09-12T17:55:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FairyChatMom \* > \*\*I’m certainly not going to confess anything juicy here, tho. I’ll leave it all up to your warped, twisted imaginations… \*\* My Gods, but you’re brave! I’d rather confess that take my chances with the imaginations of those who post here regularly! I confess to sleeping naked with a teddy bear. The teddy bear is fully clothed in fuzzy fur. And a bow tie. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/124 "2003-09-12T18:11:27Z")
Actually, **Kallessa** , my life is so bland and boring, the only way I’ll get any kind of reputation is to rely on rumor and conjecture. How sad is that? ---
**Author:** ![deb2world](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/125 "2003-09-12T18:32:50Z")
**tanookie** you too could be good at hearts if you had sat around waiting for planes to return from playing games. I can remember playing hearts for 6 hrs or more every day for weeks. So I suggest you hussle down to you recruiter and sign up. 🙂 I heard that **FCM** had a somewhat interesting, oops sorry I gotta go. deb (starter of rumors) 2world ---
**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:** [September 12, 2003, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/126 "2003-09-12T18:46:35Z")
Hmmm… starting rumors. Well, you all **know** that **FCM** and **FCD** _appear to_ be living an open relationship, right? I **mean** _after all_ they _live_ in separate places. And what’s this with **FCD** living on a boat, **of all things!** Makes ya kinda wander, is there a _first mate_ there too? And I **know** _for a fact_ that **FCM** entertains **complete, mind you, complete** _strangers_ that she meets on **INTERNET MESSAGE BOARDS!** The _scandal_ of it **all!** An interesting mix of rumor and innuendo, don’t ya think? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/127 "2003-09-12T19:07:28Z")
I would just like to state for the record that **Angel Pants** is in absolutely no danger from me. Nor is anyone else for that matter. I’m a big wuss. Furthermore, this: > [@](#): > > I think Ex is probably a teddy bear himself in RL combined with this: > [@](#): > > I confess to sleeping naked with a teddy bear. is giving me ideas. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/128 "2003-09-12T19:56:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FairyChatMom \* > \*\*I’ve been known to decline myself, from time to time, theoretically. \*\* I’m just trying to understand here. Did you mean to say you say **no** in theory, but not in practice? Or did you intend to say _ **r** ecline_ rather than decline? But then, how would you recline yourself in thoery? "_I hypothesize that I am reclining."_? I’m confused. I had a girlfriend in high school who used to decline _theatrically_, but she wouldn’t have known a thoery if it bit her on the…well, she declined that too. **Angel Pants**? Who’s **Angel Pants**? Did I miss a memo ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/129 "2003-09-12T21:02:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Exgineer \* > I would just like to state for the record that **Angel Pants** is in absolutely no danger from me. Nor is anyone else for that matter. I’m a big wuss. > > Furthermore, this: > > ## \*\*quote: > > I think Ex is probably a teddy bear himself in RL\*\* > combined with this: > > ## \*\*quote: > > I confess to sleeping naked with a teddy bear.\*\* > > is giving me ideas. Bingo! Give the boy a prize, he is clear on the concept! ---
**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/130 "2003-09-12T21:27:18Z")
I’m very perturbed. Now Donna Reed and Barbara Billingsley are in a grudge match in the naked Twister game in my head. Usually much more attractive people participate. -Lil ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/131 "2003-09-12T22:35:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bumbazine \* > \*\ ***Angel Pants**? Who’s **Angel Pants**? Did I miss a memo \*\* **swampbear** is **Angel Pants**. I don’t remember where or how he got that name, altho I think **Ex** is responsible. Right now, I’ve got declining energy levels, but then it is Friday and I’ve had a long week… **swampy** - you think you’re my first? You think I never did with other men what I did with you? It is to laugh! HAHA!! **percypercy** , if I have nightmares tonight about oily, nekkid, aging female stars of 60s sitcoms, I will track you down and give you such a pinch!! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/132 "2003-09-12T22:36:56Z")
Oh yeah, and **swampy** , I’ve done it more than three times, so that’s getting into traditional territory (to bring this thread back to the title…) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/133 "2003-09-12T22:49:17Z")
Now I’ve got oily, naked, aging female stars of 60’s sitcoms playing Twister in my head being watched by **FairyChatMom** and **swampbear** doing various nasty (and highly unlikely) things! Ewwwww! Yuck! Yuck! Yuck! I’m closing my eyes and thinking “Paul Newman in Hud. Paul Newman in Hud. Paul Newman in Hud naked in mud.” Ahhhhh, much better. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/134 "2003-09-12T23:04:33Z")
Nasty?? We went out to dinner. We even used napkins. He paid. Sheesh, **Kallessa** , you are such a potty, um, mind… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/135 "2003-09-12T23:48:04Z")
Maybe so, but I’ve got Paul Newman naked in mud in my mind and you’re going to be dreaming about oily sit-com moms. A dirty mind is a terrible thing to waste. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/136 "2003-09-13T00:23:05Z")
Sheesh. Once again, I have to come in here and set the record straight. You people either have short memories or you are deliberately trying to irritate me. **Angel Pants** is **swampbear**. I posted something (in an earlier **Rue** {MMP}\* thread) about my girlfriend, in which I referred to her as “angel pants,” and **swampbear** lamented that he had no one to call him “angel pants,” and wished someone would. So, now I call him **Angel Pants**. This is what we Yankees call “general silliness” and an “inside joke.” I had to help out a friend.\*\* Besides, he’s kinda cute, and I say that under threat of a beatdown from **Homebrew**. I don’t know what to say, **Kallessa**. I really don’t know what to say. Read the second footnote. \*See that, **Rue**? I was taught to not embed parenthses. See, first you’re supposed to use square brackets, then the wavy things, then back to the parens, if you are such a lame writer that you need four levels of parenthetical elucidation to make your prose clear. I went straight to the wavy things, because vB uses square brackets instead of these things: \<\>, and I didn’t want to trigger somerthing accidentally. \*\*Lori is reading this over my shoulder, and she wants me to make it very clear that she is, in my mind, the _original_ Angel Pants. She is. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/137 "2003-09-13T00:32:50Z")
Why in the world \ would we \ deliberately \ try to irritate \ you, **Ex**?? \\\\\ ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/138 "2003-09-13T00:41:47Z")
At least it’s just you and not an Unstoppable Force of Nature. Where that hurricane at, sister? ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/139 "2003-09-13T02:11:08Z")
**Exgineer** , no one can be any nearer to your heart than the **Original Angel Pants** \*, we all know that, and I’m just joshin’ with ya, darlin, and we should all know that as well. 😉 When it comes times (and let that time be soon, please Gods), to trade in my fuzzy, little teddy bear for a real, live, breathing snugglebunny, he will have been single until he met me and was swept off his feet by my grace and wit. \*aka Lori, that lucky girl ---
**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/140 "2003-09-13T02:54:28Z")
I just felt the need for others to share my pain. Of course now I’ve got \*\* Kallessa’s \*\* vision in my head, but it’s more of an Olympic event. Y’all are the judges. Oh I just didn’t want to go there. Acck, make it stop! ewww. -Lil [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284.md?page=6)