# Is it me or .... ? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 30, 2013, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or/667552 "2013-08-30T00:51:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2013, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or/667552/101 "2013-08-30T20:21:07Z")
Well, I’d be in good company! Seriously, that critique was spot-on _and_ funny, Sport! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2013, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or/667552/102 "2013-08-30T20:28:55Z")
It is unlikely that a person of such taste and distinction would not have read it, but in the off chance…Twain’s essay on James Fenimore Cooper is a masterpiece, and the link reverently offered. [http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/projects/rissetto/offense.html](http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/projects/rissetto/offense.html) Enjoy, if you haven’t, enjoy again, if you have. ---
**Author:** ![Crumbled\_Bumble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac91a4/32.png) [@Crumbled\_Bumble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crumbled_Bumble)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2013, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or/667552/103 "2013-08-30T20:32:08Z")
> [@want2befree](#): > > What I find funny about Penny is that she comes in and accuses of verbosity, while at the same time posturing with her vocabulary and coming off as an intellectual herself. It seems that someone who would be genuinely asking this question would consider themselves on a lower level, someone who just uses normal everyday words and simple answers (like myself. :)) She’s not an intellectual. She comes across as a self-entitled twat. ---
**Author:** ![sylmar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@sylmar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sylmar)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2013, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or/667552/104 "2013-08-30T20:48:12Z")
> [@Astroboy14](#): > > Pseudo-intellectualism is all the intellectualism some of us got. ☹ Oh ho. Mr. Humblebragger, eh? Some of us in the olden days considered ourselves blessed if we were even allowed in the same room with the pseudo-intellectuals… Who stole my stone wheel again? ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2013, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or/667552/105 "2013-08-30T21:04:06Z")
> [@sylmar](#): > > Some of us in the olden days considered ourselves blessed if we were even allowed in the same room with the pseudo-intellectuals We \*dreamed \*of having a room… ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2013, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or/667552/106 "2013-08-30T21:07:31Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > It is unlikely that a person of such taste and distinction would not have read it, but in the off chance…Twain’s essay on James Fenimore Cooper is a masterpiece, and the link reverently offered. > > [Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses](http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/projects/rissetto/offense.html) > > Enjoy, if you haven’t, enjoy again, if you have. Every time I get ready to settle down and re-read it, somebody steps on a twig! ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2013, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or/667552/107 "2013-08-30T22:08:12Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > Not to mention “menntion.” > > (kayT: Sorry, I couldn’t resist. Be not pissed.) As **Cat Whisperer** pointed out, I was close, though. You know, Gaudere’s law gets everyone in the end. ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2013, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or/667552/108 "2013-08-30T23:00:52Z")
> [@Penny](#): > > I’m not being passive aggressive at all. I’m curious and asking questions. Is that not part of the purpose of a discussion board? No, yes, maybe. Clear enough? ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2013, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or/667552/109 "2013-08-30T23:54:25Z")
> [@Penny](#): > > If I grunt and point to my mouth and belly or say “I’m hungry” do you not understand a want for food? The grunting and pointing would suggest to me you’re about to engage in projectile vomiting. Which, in a sense, you already have. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or/667552/110 "2013-08-31T03:04:27Z")
> [@Truman\_Burbank](#): > > Also, I think **Silver Fire** wins the thread… Thank you, sir. Three pages, really? Maybe the OP is on to something here. Certainly, “Hey, go fuck yourself,” shouldn’t take this long to convey. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or/667552/111 "2013-08-31T05:03:08Z")
Not to be torturing me! I admit it! I am a verbose and pretentious person! I post here using big words and obscure Firesign Theatre quotes collected over a misspent life because I _can_ and the kind and smart people here understand me and make the connections. Or because I can’t see their funny looks and rolled eyes. Whichever. But I can talk like _myself_ here, which I cannot IRL because my friends are ignoramuses and I often speak haltingly, which wrecks the buildup or even the punchline and can really be a bother when I’m on the phone, but which doesn’t come across in writing.\* (racking sobs) I [del]stand[/del] sit here a broken man, **Penny**. You have forced me to out myself and reveal my innermost secrets.\*\* Are you satisfied? Does it make you happy to stab people in the heart with your sharp tongue and lightning wit? Jesus Christ demands that I forgive you, but how can I forgive a hurt like you delivered? And look at that! You have now made me reject God and I am doomed to an eternity in Hell. You have destroyed me. - - And I can edit. ETA: You can’t beat being able to edit. \*\* - Okay, it’s no secret that my friends are ignoramuses. All you have to do is talk to them. ---
**Author:** ![sylmar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@sylmar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sylmar)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or/667552/112 "2013-08-31T11:38:43Z")
> [@Silver\_Fire](#): > > Thank you, sir. > > Three pages, really? Maybe the OP is on to something here. Certainly, “Hey, go fuck yourself,” shouldn’t take this long to convey. Well, there are quite a few dopers ( Anyone have a count?). I could see a continuous wall of the pruned to non-verbosity (As requested by the Op) “F U” sentiment stretching three pages… ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or/667552/113 "2013-08-31T11:59:45Z")
Darmok and Jilad at Tinagra. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or/667552/114 "2013-08-31T12:05:13Z")
From Twain to Picard… love it 😃 ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or/667552/115 "2013-08-31T12:21:34Z")
> [@saje](#): > > From Twain to Picard… love it 😃 They should’ve made an episode with both of them! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or/667552/116 "2013-08-31T15:41:59Z")
> [@Silver\_Fire](#): > > Certainly, “Hey, go fuck yourself,” shouldn’t take this long to convey. Well, on this board we have to be indirect. ---
**Author:** ![sylmar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@sylmar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sylmar)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or/667552/117 "2013-08-31T16:01:52Z")
… ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or/667552/118 "2013-08-31T16:02:20Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Well, on this board we have to be indirect. “Go pleasure yourself”, then? ---
**Author:** ![SirGalahad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71c47a/32.png) [@SirGalahad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirGalahad)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or/667552/119 "2013-08-31T16:31:09Z")
> [@Penny](#): > > Is it just me or are you folks needlessly verbose? I have to say, as a newb I’m finding it such a turn off to have to slog through so much faux intellectual posturing to get to the point. Is this how this place rolls? > > (Please be gentle. I’m new 🙂 ) Penny, Penny, Penny … yes, there are some verbose souls here, and some less so. Also, you’ll find a lot of oversensitive blowhards who can’t stand any criticism whatsoever. I find that to be infinitely more tiresome than the random grandiloquence. Since there’s no chance you’ll actually turn them down for the prom, (or stick their head in the toilet, if you were a guy), they can gang-threaten you with impunity from the internet version of the “nerd table”. Wouldn’t you have more fun participating in a thread where something is actually being discussed instead of setting your self up for as a target for verbal water balloons? I like your moxie. It’s a devious sardonic kind of moxie. ---
**Author:** ![Mathematics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@Mathematics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mathematics)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or/667552/120 "2013-08-31T17:30:11Z")
> [@SirGalahad](#): > > Since there’s no chance you’ll actually turn them down for the prom, (or stick their head in the toilet, if you were a guy), they can gang-threaten you with impunity from the internet version of the “nerd table”. Wouldn’t you have more fun participating in a thread where something is actually being discussed instead of setting your self up for as a target for verbal water balloons? Yeah Penny, SirGalahad and I are way too cool for the nerds at the SDMB. Join us behind MPSIMS after school. We’ll be giving a few of these smart-talkin’ dweebs an atomic wedgie! _kickflips backwards and skates away_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or/667552.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or/667552.md?page=7)