# Inside jokes don't make you look clever. You look like you got a shiny asshole. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 8, 2005, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inside-jokes-dont-make-you-look-clever-you-look-like-you-got-a-shiny-asshole/307450 "2005-06-08T14:07:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inside-jokes-dont-make-you-look-clever-you-look-like-you-got-a-shiny-asshole/307450/121 "2005-06-09T17:38:29Z")
Too shiny! My eyes! The goggles, they do na’ thing! ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inside-jokes-dont-make-you-look-clever-you-look-like-you-got-a-shiny-asshole/307450/122 "2005-06-09T18:51:52Z")
> [@Knowed Out](#): > > AND I INVENTED A SDMB CLICHE! > > Mods, you must change my username to **Shiny Asshole**! I wouldn’t get too smug. You can bet your Brasso that right now there are people with dull, dreary, tarnished assholes who are feeling put upon by those with shiny assholes. Were they born without burnished bums, or was too much spicey food what took the shine off their shit hole?? That’s for the courts to decide, but if I were you, I’d think twice before setting myself up as the leader of the Shiny Assholes. Shiny assholes might just be a flash in the pants fad, tomorrow you might have to viewed with a rose colored rectum to pass yourself off in society. The stained sphincters are many in number, but so far have been passing everything by without much resistance. They are poised to sound off when people go touting their iridescent anuses to the world, and the fallout of that shit storm will be of epic proportions. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inside-jokes-dont-make-you-look-clever-you-look-like-you-got-a-shiny-asshole/307450/123 "2005-06-09T19:18:48Z")
> [@cosmosdan](#): > > Duh! hello… first you start this lame thread and then you copy my shiny asshole song > > Why …you might be the shiniest asshole ever …applause …applause… > > but please…try to pay attention It’s public domain now, cos. It’s now a hymn in the church of **Knowed Out**. It’s no longer a lame thread if it stretches to three pages. My baby will be up there with 3) Hi Opal, Gotcha Ya, and 1920’s Style Death Ray. Spread the love… _This little asshole of mine…I’m gonna let it shine…_ ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inside-jokes-dont-make-you-look-clever-you-look-like-you-got-a-shiny-asshole/307450/124 "2005-06-09T19:30:03Z")
The issue isn’t the inside jokes. The issue is the fact that you personally insulted someone in a forum where that isn’t acceptable behavior. Stop being a baby. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inside-jokes-dont-make-you-look-clever-you-look-like-you-got-a-shiny-asshole/307450/125 "2005-06-09T19:30:28Z")
> [@Duke of Rat](#): > > I wouldn’t get too smug. You can bet your Brasso that right now there are people with dull, dreary, tarnished assholes who are feeling put upon by those with shiny assholes. Sounds like a job for Sylvester McMonkey McBean. ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inside-jokes-dont-make-you-look-clever-you-look-like-you-got-a-shiny-asshole/307450/126 "2005-06-09T19:31:11Z")
> [@Knowed Out](#): > > It’s no longer a lame thread The OP is still really fucking lame, just cause we had fun at your expense does not redeem the original OP. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inside-jokes-dont-make-you-look-clever-you-look-like-you-got-a-shiny-asshole/307450/127 "2005-06-09T19:31:51Z")
> [@Knowed Out](#): > > It’s public domain now, cos. It’s now a hymn in the church of **Knowed Out**. > > It’s no longer a lame thread if it stretches to three pages. My baby will be up there with 3) Hi Opal, Gotcha Ya, and 1920’s Style Death Ray. Spread the love… I can’t believe instead of apologizing or even acknowledging you were wrong you think you’ve done something cool. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inside-jokes-dont-make-you-look-clever-you-look-like-you-got-a-shiny-asshole/307450/128 "2005-06-09T19:33:02Z")
:smack: Let’s try that again: > [@Duke of Rat](#): > > I wouldn’t get too smug. You can bet your Brasso that right now there are people with dull, dreary, tarnished assholes who are feeling put upon by those with shiny assholes. Sounds like a job for Sylvester McMonkey McBean. ---
**Author:** ![Hoodoo\_Ulove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/58956e/32.png) [@Hoodoo\_Ulove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoodoo_Ulove)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inside-jokes-dont-make-you-look-clever-you-look-like-you-got-a-shiny-asshole/307450/129 "2005-06-09T19:38:10Z")
> [@lisacurl](#): > > The issue isn’t the inside jokes. The issue is the fact that you personally insulted someone in a forum where that isn’t acceptable behavior. Stop being a baby. Give him a break. He admits he’s an asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inside-jokes-dont-make-you-look-clever-you-look-like-you-got-a-shiny-asshole/307450/130 "2005-06-09T19:47:29Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Sounds like a job for Sylvester McMonkey McBean. _“I’ve been buffin’ your bunghole for the last hundred days, When I don’t get my bath I take it out on the slaves, So gleem up your orifice for that ball on the hill, I’ll polish them assholes and swallow them pills. Space Load, mother mother…”_ –Sylvester McMonkey McBean ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inside-jokes-dont-make-you-look-clever-you-look-like-you-got-a-shiny-asshole/307450/131 "2005-06-09T20:01:32Z")
[To the tune of John Lennon’s “Instant Karma”] _Our assholes all shine on Like the moon and the stars and the sun…_ ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inside-jokes-dont-make-you-look-clever-you-look-like-you-got-a-shiny-asshole/307450/132 "2005-06-09T20:20:25Z")
I’ve just got to note that I really, really did LOL at this: > [@](#): > > So many assholes, so little shine. And just a note to the OP- when you’re in a hole, don’t dig. I’m just sayin’. ---
**Author:** ![EvilHamsterOnCrack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@EvilHamsterOnCrack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilHamsterOnCrack)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inside-jokes-dont-make-you-look-clever-you-look-like-you-got-a-shiny-asshole/307450/133 "2005-06-09T20:23:21Z")
You’re right. Inside jokes ARE STUPID. Noone should ever make inside jokes. Ever. So this one time, a family act goes to see a talent agent… ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inside-jokes-dont-make-you-look-clever-you-look-like-you-got-a-shiny-asshole/307450/134 "2005-06-09T20:27:14Z")
[To the tune of Brother Cane’s “And Fools Shine On”] _Asssholes Shiiine On_ ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inside-jokes-dont-make-you-look-clever-you-look-like-you-got-a-shiny-asshole/307450/135 "2005-06-09T20:39:48Z")
…inside jokes? Like the one that ends with, “Shit, if you help me find my car keys, we can DRIVE outta here!” And, as to the OP, you didn’t invent the new joke. The new joke came about becuase people were making fun of you. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inside-jokes-dont-make-you-look-clever-you-look-like-you-got-a-shiny-asshole/307450/136 "2005-06-09T20:43:17Z")
> [@Duke of Rat](#): > > _"I’ve been buffin’ your bunghole for the last hundred days, \ "_ > > –Sylvester McMonkey McBean “I do not think Sylvester McMonkey McBean is who you think he is.” OOPS! I made an INSIDE REFERENCE. Please don’t anybody tell **Knowed Out**. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inside-jokes-dont-make-you-look-clever-you-look-like-you-got-a-shiny-asshole/307450/137 "2005-06-09T20:49:06Z")
> [@BoBettie](#): > > And just a note to the OP- when you’re in a hole, don’t dig. I’m just sayin’. No when you’re in a-hole, it’s time to start buffing. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inside-jokes-dont-make-you-look-clever-you-look-like-you-got-a-shiny-asshole/307450/138 "2005-06-09T20:51:37Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > “I do not think Sylvester McMonkey McBean is who you think he is.” > > OOPS! I made an INSIDE REFERENCE. Please don’t anybody tell **Knowed Out**. I Googled him, and found a few references. I didn’t really think he was in Monster Magnet, just that those lyrics needed to be attributed to somebody. Don’t worry, I’m too much of a dullard to be in on many inside jokes, I can only hazard a guess as to my anal luster. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inside-jokes-dont-make-you-look-clever-you-look-like-you-got-a-shiny-asshole/307450/139 "2005-06-09T21:14:06Z")
> [@EvilHamsterOnCrack](#): > > You’re right. Inside jokes ARE STUPID. Noone should ever make inside jokes. Ever. > > So this one time, a family act goes to see a talent agent… Nice one Gilbert. Did you know that rats can’t throw up? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inside-jokes-dont-make-you-look-clever-you-look-like-you-got-a-shiny-asshole/307450/140 "2005-06-09T21:35:33Z")
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