# Is Giraffe on vacation? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 23, 2005, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-giraffe-on-vacation/313794 "2005-07-23T14:01:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2005, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-giraffe-on-vacation/313794/1 "2005-07-23T14:01:34Z")
I only ask because it seems like he was kicking ass and taking names here in the Pit for a while, but at present it seems to be overrun with encounter sessions. What gives? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2005, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-giraffe-on-vacation/313794/2 "2005-07-23T14:13:00Z")
I’m guessing it’s just another cycle for the Pit. Week before last, the Pit looked like it did when I first came here. Trainwrecks, backfired rants, personal gripes with other posters… Beautiful. But looking back thru older threads, I noticed that the Pit of Old really didn’t look too different from today. Some lame shit, some discussion of events or policies in a heated debate format, and some really wicked rants and flames. So give it a week or two. ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2005, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-giraffe-on-vacation/313794/3 "2005-07-23T14:16:08Z")
Here’s hoping. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2005, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-giraffe-on-vacation/313794/4 "2005-07-23T14:17:44Z")
I don’t know about **Giraffe** but **Veb** has been having computer problems. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2005, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-giraffe-on-vacation/313794/5 "2005-07-23T14:19:21Z")
Tell her to slap that bitch’s ass. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2005, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-giraffe-on-vacation/313794/6 "2005-07-23T16:55:16Z")
Giraffe got a sore throat yelling at you kids. He’ll be back. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2005, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-giraffe-on-vacation/313794/7 "2005-07-23T17:00:33Z")
Yeah, he should have closed this thread hours ago. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2005, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-giraffe-on-vacation/313794/8 "2005-07-23T17:03:46Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > Yeah, he should have closed this thread hours ago. He was on his way in, but some of you were on his lawn. He’s busy kicking you off of it. ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2005, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-giraffe-on-vacation/313794/9 "2005-07-23T17:24:48Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > Yeah, he should have closed this thread hours ago. [quote=The Rules] If you gotta flame, do it here. **This is the place for all complaints and other discussion regarding administration of the SDMB** \*\* Now, I could see this getting moved to some other forum if I were wanting to have a little discussion about how this made me feel, maybe get some cyber hugs or something, but that is not the case. It is strange, because I have had a complete sea change surrounding my take on the Pit. There is more than one post of mine where I was snarking at folks for “being mean in the Pit, for no other reason than they are in the Pit”. Hell, I even started a thread to that effect at one point. Boy was I wrong. I think that I have completely overloaded on the saccharine and sunshine brought to us by some posters, as I have really come to value straightforward nastiness. To be honest, and I won’t do this because I know that it would amount to trolling, I sometimes have to fight the urge to pop in to Pit threads and simply vomit huge gouts of verbal bile just so that they become appropriate for the forum. ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2005, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-giraffe-on-vacation/313794/10 "2005-07-23T17:26:22Z")
Fucking coding. I mean, preview is for whips! Yeah! ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2005, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-giraffe-on-vacation/313794/11 "2005-07-23T18:21:59Z")
> [@Binarydrone](#): > > Fucking coding. I mean, preview is for whips! Yeah! Whips? Oh, {{{{{ **Binarydrone** }}}}}, are you having a bad spelling day? _runs_ ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2005, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-giraffe-on-vacation/313794/12 "2005-07-23T18:39:44Z")
A **Giraffe** with a sore throat? Now that’s serious … ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2005, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-giraffe-on-vacation/313794/13 "2005-07-24T01:14:22Z")
Have you ever been kicked off a lawn by a **Giraffe**? That’s gotta hurt… ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2005, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-giraffe-on-vacation/313794/14 "2005-07-24T01:19:30Z")
Kicked off nothin’. With all the time he spent going on about that prehensile tongue of his, you’d probably get licked off. Yeah, that didn’t sound dirty at all. ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2005, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-giraffe-on-vacation/313794/15 "2005-07-24T04:06:11Z")
> [@Portia](#): > > Whips? Oh, {{{{{ **Binarydrone** }}}}}, are you having a bad spelling day? > > _runs_ Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarg! whimps! Clearly I didn’t preview that post and, god help me, I ain’t previewing this one either. ---
**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:** [July 24, 2005, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-giraffe-on-vacation/313794/16 "2005-07-24T04:38:35Z")
> [@Binarydrone](#): > > Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarg! whimps! Clearly I didn’t preview that post and, god help me, I ain’t previewing this one either. Which no doubt explains the extraneous “h” in “wimps”. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2005, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-giraffe-on-vacation/313794/17 "2005-07-24T05:11:17Z")
I miss **Giraffe**. He fixed the coding in one of my posts and so I luff him now. > [@Binarydrone](#): > > I think that I have completely overloaded on the saccharine and sunshine brought to us by some posters, as I have really come to value straightforward nastiness. I’ll have you know that’s primo sunshine, buster. You try squeezing a stinking boatload of damned daffodils and nasty-ass lemons. Stripping the yellow out of too many rainbows to count has given me carpal tunnel in _both_ wrists, and everything tastes like lemons now. I’ll bet you didn’t even know that daffodil pollen stains like a mother, did you? I look like I’m in the last stages of jaundice! Oh, and saccharine? _Nobody’s_ used saccharine since they cracked down on it in the fifties. You don’t think the Teletubbies were born like that do you? 100% pink unicorn spit is the _only_ way to sweeten in Pollyannaland. And those pink bastards bite! Hmph. I think I’ve got a call to the underwear gnomes I need to make. Ungrateful wretch. ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2005, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-giraffe-on-vacation/313794/18 "2005-07-24T06:29:29Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Which no doubt explains the extraneous “h” in “wimps”. 😛 What I meant to say is that priview is for pussies. Speaking of which, typing with a lap full of cat is a pain in the ass. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2005, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-giraffe-on-vacation/313794/19 "2005-07-24T08:44:38Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Which no doubt explains the extraneous “h” in “wimps”. 😛 Gaudere will always getcha ya. ---
**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:** [July 24, 2005, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-giraffe-on-vacation/313794/20 "2005-07-24T13:04:26Z")
> [@Binarydrone](#): > > What I meant to say is that priview is for pussies. Speaking of which, typing with a lap full of cat is a pain in the ass. Yeh? Try typing with a lapful of [cat full of lap](http://community.webshots.com/photo/109844880/109848187MrxMjF). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-giraffe-on-vacation/313794.md?page=2)