# I'm not renewing my subscription. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 6, 2006, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-renewing-my-subscription/351521 "2006-04-06T02:54:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-renewing-my-subscription/351521/101 "2006-04-07T12:34:19Z")
> [@Xploder](#): > > You need to be more fustian. How, how I’ve tried! I guess I’ve goethe try even harder. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-renewing-my-subscription/351521/102 "2006-04-07T20:02:50Z")
> [@Xploder](#): > > You need to be more fustian. That’s exactly what I was thinking.😃 **Roger’s** post got me thinking, though - should there be a support group for spouses (spice?) of Dopers? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-renewing-my-subscription/351521/103 "2006-04-07T20:03:55Z")
(I’m giving your pun the attention it deserves, **roger**.) ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-renewing-my-subscription/351521/104 "2006-04-07T20:51:04Z")
> [@askeptic](#): > > Could you take Clothahump, New Iskander, Steph96 and the rest of your crew with you? Sorry you’re leaving, **Mr. Moto**. But I can’t really blame you, what with assholes like **askeptic** runing amok on the board. ---
**Author:** ![New\_Iskander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/db5fbb/32.png) [@New\_Iskander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/New_Iskander)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-renewing-my-subscription/351521/105 "2006-04-08T01:53:35Z")
[“Last Laugh, Mr. Moto”](http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/john-p-marquand/last-laugh-mr-moto.htm) > [@askeptic](#): > > Could you take Clothahump, New Iskander, Steph96 and the rest of your crew with you? OK, **askeptic** , since you asked so nicely, I’ll stay another year, just for you. The best of everything, **Mr. Moto**! ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-renewing-my-subscription/351521/106 "2006-04-08T02:00:35Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > (I’m giving your pun the attention it deserves, **roger**.) Actually, I thought he wrote “faustian”. What the heck does fustian mean? Sounds rather pompous and pretentious to me. As for all the wordplay and puns, what can one do to make-him-stop-all-these? ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-renewing-my-subscription/351521/107 "2006-04-08T03:24:55Z")
Ahem…this from _Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary_: Main Entry: fus·tian Pronunciation: 'f&s-ch&n Function: noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old French fustaine, from Medieval Latin fustaneum, perhaps from fustis tree trunk, from Latin, club 1 a : a strong cotton and linen fabric b : a class of cotton fabrics usually having a pile face and twill weave 2 : high-flown or affected writing or speech; broadly : anything high-flown or affected in style - fus·tian adjective Frankly, **roger** , regarding your feelings of being alone I think you’re just too damn smart…even for this place. Seriously. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-renewing-my-subscription/351521/108 "2006-04-08T03:38:12Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > As for all the wordplay and puns, what can one do to make-him-stop-all-these? Be more rumbustious in your objurgative remonstrations. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-renewing-my-subscription/351521/109 "2006-04-08T03:47:48Z")
That’s easy for you to say. ---
**Author:** ![don\_Jaime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b4bc9f/32.png) [@don\_Jaime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_Jaime)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-renewing-my-subscription/351521/110 "2006-04-08T04:35:54Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Do you want to tell us how you really feel? Sure! It’s a lot like this: 😃😛😃😛😃😛😃😛😃😛😃😛😃😛😃 You make me feel like DANCING! I wanna dance the night away! You make me feel like DANCING! Every night and every day! You make me feel like DANCING! I wanna dance my life away! I feel like DANCING! OOOH! DANCING! OOOH! Dance the night away! I feel like DANCING! OOOH! DANCING! OOOH! Dance the night away! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! Bad-bye, loser. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-renewing-my-subscription/351521/111 "2006-04-08T05:10:42Z")
Ooooh, looks to me like _someone_ overdosed on their Disco Dexies tonight. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-renewing-my-subscription/351521/112 "2006-04-08T05:11:53Z")
I like that song. Great job on the coding, **don Jaime**. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-renewing-my-subscription/351521/113 "2006-04-08T05:51:56Z")
The coding almost hurt as much as actually hearing the song. Almost. And the coding hurt pretty bad. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-renewing-my-subscription/351521/114 "2006-04-08T23:46:28Z")
Aw, here’s another Democrat too meek (and with not enough time on her hands to compose point-by-point arguments that take half a page) to spend much time posting in GD and the Pit anymore that will greatly miss Mr. Moto. I also happen to be pro-life and will also miss his terrific arguments in those threads. Peace be with you, friend. I always though you were a gentlemen, even when you were driving me up the wall with your quaint Republican ways. 😃 ---
**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:** [April 9, 2006, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-renewing-my-subscription/351521/115 "2006-04-09T00:32:25Z")
> [@What Exit?](#): > > Good luck **Mr. Moto**. I think having multiple points of view on the board is important, I would like to see more people willing to occasionally concede points however. > > Jim At first when I read this, I vehemently disagreed. I was in the land of vitriol. I was Fucktard-ing all over town…in a regular lather over this. But now, I find I’ve reconsidered, and I concede your point. In fact, I wholeheartedly agree. While you’re distracted, I intend to steal it from there, where it lies on the counter next to your half-empty Guinness and make it my own. I feel better already. May I be counted as one of these “moderate” folks now? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-renewing-my-subscription/351521/116 "2006-04-09T02:35:48Z")
> [@Mr Bus Guy](#): > > At first when I read this, I vehemently disagreed. I was in the land of vitriol. I was Fucktard-ing all over town…in a regular lather over this. > > But now, I find I’ve reconsidered, and I concede your point. In fact, I wholeheartedly agree. While you’re distracted, I intend to steal it from there, where it lies on the counter next to your half-empty Guinness and make it my own. > > I feel better already. May I be counted as one of these “moderate” folks now? > > 😛 Yes on all points except the Guinness. I primarily drink Bass and Pale Ales. 😉 Jim ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-renewing-my-subscription/351521/117 "2006-04-09T02:42:20Z")
> [@jali](#): > > Oh, well. > > Does each person leaving post a final thread? > > Are we newbies a lesser class of poster than those brilliant folk from the good old days? I see you feel that . Thanks for the broad brush compliment. > > Have a good RL. Yeah, I know how you feel. I’m been lurking here since 2002 (didn’t sign up until much later). I hardly ever post, and I bet most people would bet I visit the boards once a week or less, but I’m here everyday going through GQ, CS, IMHO, MPSIMS and the Pit. I’m just a person of few words. 😉 No one here knows who the hell I am, but it doesn’t matter that much, because watching the gong shows in this place is worth paying 8 bucks a year, and as cold as it seems, it’s like having a live Wikipedia at my fingertips. As for the OP, I’d take a break from GD, and then come back. I can barely stand to stumble into the place once a month, whether or not every day. ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-renewing-my-subscription/351521/118 "2006-04-09T03:08:40Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > That’s pretty much how i see it, too. (Imagine that.) So people don’t agree with my politics or my views on certain other hot topics? Meh. All those things are mostly opinions and emotions anyways. Some Dopers I agree with wholeheartedly. Some make me want to vomit into their mouth and hold their jaws shut, forcing them to swallow my bile. Most, tho, are just these guys… You are one twisted fucker 😛 ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-renewing-my-subscription/351521/119 "2006-04-09T03:35:17Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Be more rumbustious in your objurgative remonstrations. One problem with having watched (“And that, Sir, upon occasions too numerous to recall with compleat accuracy”) [the Blackadder episode](http://www.reviewers-choice.com/blackadder_the_third.htm) about Dr Johnson’s dictionary is that not only will I forever picture him as Robbie Coltrane, but reading Boswell’s _Life of Johnson_, as I happen to be at present, I become periodically anaspeptic and frasmotic. Which is particularly alarming, when one doesn’t know what they mean. **Starvers** , Johnson, who had a wonderful biographer in Boswell, surely the father of modern biography, suffered from a “morbid melancholy” all his life - what we would call depression. Boswell makes the following perceptive comments on Johnson’s number one fear, losing his mind, and on the fact that so long as that remained a fear it would never, could never, happen: “To Johnson, whose supreme enjoyment was the exercise of his reason, the disturbance or obscuration of that faculty was the evil most to be dreaded. Insanity, therefore, was the object of his most dismal apprehension; and he fancied himself seized by it, or approaching to it, at the very time when he was giving proofs of a more than ordinary soundness and vigour of judgement.” ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-renewing-my-subscription/351521/120 "2006-04-13T16:53:23Z")
I hope you reconsider, **Moto**. I disagree with you on some issues, but you seem like a reasonable guy, and you bring an interesting POV to the boards. Best wishes, whichever you choose. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-renewing-my-subscription/351521.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-renewing-my-subscription/351521.md?page=7)