# Is childish name-calling all you can do, you idiot? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 13, 2004, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-childish-name-calling-all-you-can-do-you-idiot/264218 "2004-09-13T04:44:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![SentientMeat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SentientMeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SentientMeat)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2004, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-childish-name-calling-all-you-can-do-you-idiot/264218/41 "2004-09-14T12:16:42Z")
> [@](#): > > You waste your time and money going to glee clubs when there are starving children all over the frickin’ Third World? Yep, I’ll vote for higher taxes, pay them, and that’ll have to do. If they can’t even be bothered wiping the flies out of their eyes, fuck 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Greathouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greathouse/32/2992_2.png) [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2004, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-childish-name-calling-all-you-can-do-you-idiot/264218/42 "2004-09-14T12:50:06Z")
> [@SentientMeat](#): > > Yep, I’ll vote for higher taxes, pay them, and that’ll have to do. If they can’t even be bothered wiping the flies out of their eyes, fuck 'em. I really feel bad for laughing at this. ---
**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2004, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-childish-name-calling-all-you-can-do-you-idiot/264218/43 "2004-09-14T13:21:09Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > At the risk of parroting some previous poster, it seems that you folks are cooking Muad’Dib’s goose–you’re robin him blind, I tell ya. But I think we’re on the thrush-hold of showing him our true feelings on the subject. I think we’ve exposed the true nature of the OP, leaving it naked as a jay bird. Of course, he’s the one who wanted to grouse about the topic. I wonder if he quails (Quayles?) at what we’ve done to his thread? Take a gander at the nonsense we’ve posted. (Of course, most of us just posted on a lark.) I wonder who will take the next tern at this? > Well, buoys and gulls, I’m outta here, for now. Did you used to write for \* Tales from the Crypt? \* ---
**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:** [September 14, 2004, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-childish-name-calling-all-you-can-do-you-idiot/264218/44 "2004-09-14T13:46:21Z")
> [@Muad'Dib](#): > > I am only dissapointed in that I thought it would be hijacked for creative name calling, but bird puns are owl right. I’m disappointed that we’ve seen mention of tits, but (until now) no boobies! ---
**Author:** ![PussyCow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/22d042/32.png) [@PussyCow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PussyCow)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2004, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-childish-name-calling-all-you-can-do-you-idiot/264218/45 "2004-09-14T14:00:03Z")
Will you gulls knock it off?! You sound like a bunch of dodos. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2004, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-childish-name-calling-all-you-can-do-you-idiot/264218/46 "2004-09-14T19:14:55Z")
I may be a pussy for admitting this, but I’ve been feline meowy bad about how this thread has gone. I’d say more but the cats-gut my tongue, besides, tabby honest, it’d be too litter too late. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Asbestos_Mango)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2004, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-childish-name-calling-all-you-can-do-you-idiot/264218/47 "2004-09-16T08:39:06Z")
Well, I tried to tern this thread back to its original topic, but I seem to have laid an egg. What I’m heron from you people is a desire to duck the whole issue. Ibis you don’t really care about **Maud’Dib’s** original point, but since he doesn’t seem to mind, I’ll sparrow myself any further aggravation and leave you guys to emus yourselves. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2004, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-childish-name-calling-all-you-can-do-you-idiot/264218/48 "2004-09-18T19:01:03Z")
You are all a bunch of boobies and titmouses (titmice?). ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2004, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-childish-name-calling-all-you-can-do-you-idiot/264218/49 "2004-09-18T19:29:41Z")
> [@Ponder Stibbons](#): > > I’m disappointed that we’ve seen mention of tits, but (until now) no boobies! Or woodcocks either, just to give equal time! (Has anybody noticed that ornithologists are pervs? :eek: ) ---
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2004, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-childish-name-calling-all-you-can-do-you-idiot/264218/50 "2004-09-18T19:30:50Z")
Careful - people are repeating birds moa often than they’re coming up with new ones. You loons are just posting in order to hawk all the attention. Now I’m craneky and I’m calling you out: come up with new ideas. Or risk being ostrichcized from this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2004, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-childish-name-calling-all-you-can-do-you-idiot/264218/51 "2004-09-18T19:41:57Z")
> [@Nightwatch Trailer](#): > > Careful - people are repeating birds moa often than they’re coming up with new ones. You loons are just posting in order to hawk all the attention. Now I’m craneky and I’m calling you out: come up with new ideas. > > Or risk being ostrichcized from this thread. Ocelot o’ kaka, in my opinion – if I were you, I’d cassowary eye about myself for those offended by all this grousing. It seems like just trying to snipe at the offerings of others. ---
**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:** [September 18, 2004, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-childish-name-calling-all-you-can-do-you-idiot/264218/52 "2004-09-18T21:38:29Z")
> [@Nightwatch Trailer](#): > > Careful - people are repeating birds moa often than they’re coming up with new ones. You loons are just posting in order to hawk all the attention. Now I’m craneky and I’m calling you out: come up with new ideas. > > Or risk being ostrichcized from this thread. Actually, I’m with **Polly** in rejecting your accusation. I plan to emu-late him. ---
**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:** [September 18, 2004, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-childish-name-calling-all-you-can-do-you-idiot/264218/53 "2004-09-18T21:39:15Z")
:: Scrabbling her way over mounds of dead ducks toward the original topic :: Creative invective can be quite entertaining. Used judiciously, it adds a zing to one’s posts. Overdone, or trite, it’s just boring and off-putting. And then there’s the real grossouts: > [@Jackmanii](#): > > I just wanted to throw this up Is this another vote for a puke smiley? :: 😛 :: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-childish-name-calling-all-you-can-do-you-idiot/264218.md?page=2)