# It's called an Arnold Palmer for a reason, douche. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 19, 2007, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-called-an-arnold-palmer-for-a-reason-douche/404707 "2007-05-19T08:33:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-called-an-arnold-palmer-for-a-reason-douche/404707/161 "2007-05-21T20:47:17Z")
[QUOTE=Ponder Stibbons] Well, sure, give the punch line without the rest of the joke. [/QUOTE] “Arnold Palmer is my dog’s name.” ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-called-an-arnold-palmer-for-a-reason-douche/404707/162 "2007-05-21T21:32:48Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] “Arnold Palmer is my dog’s name.” [/QUOTE] “No, I asked for a 12 inch Arnold Palmer!” ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-called-an-arnold-palmer-for-a-reason-douche/404707/163 "2007-05-21T22:01:43Z")
“So she jumped out of the bath and ran down the street yelling, ‘Arnold Palmer! Arnold Palmer!’” ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-called-an-arnold-palmer-for-a-reason-douche/404707/164 "2007-05-21T22:07:21Z")
Arnold Palmer, Tiger Woods, and a rabbi walk into a bar… Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-called-an-arnold-palmer-for-a-reason-douche/404707/165 "2007-05-21T22:22:46Z")
[QUOTE=Stranger On A Train] Arnold Palmer, Tiger Woods, and a rabbi walk into a bar… [/QUOTE] No, no, you’re supposed to give the punchline, which in this case would be, “And the duck says, ‘Not bad, but I’ve got this Arnold Palmer stuck to my ass.’” ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-called-an-arnold-palmer-for-a-reason-douche/404707/166 "2007-05-21T23:13:11Z")
“So the nurse says ‘great… that means my pen must be up **Arnold Palmer** ’s ass.’” ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-called-an-arnold-palmer-for-a-reason-douche/404707/167 "2007-05-21T23:13:57Z")
[QUOTE=Stranger On A Train] Arnold Palmer, Tiger Woods, and a rabbi walk into a bar… [/QUOTE] … you’d think one of them would have seen it. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2007, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-called-an-arnold-palmer-for-a-reason-douche/404707/168 "2007-05-22T00:15:58Z")
[QUOTE=42fish] … you’d think one of them would have seen it. [/QUOTE] V J ducked. ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-called-an-arnold-palmer-for-a-reason-douche/404707/169 "2007-05-22T00:24:44Z")
[QUOTE=Stranger On A Train] Arnold Palmer, Tiger Woods, and a rabbi walk into a bar… Stranger [/QUOTE] An Asian, an African American, and an American Indian walk into a bar. The bartender says “Hi Tiger”. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-called-an-arnold-palmer-for-a-reason-douche/404707/170 "2007-05-22T02:02:38Z")
“You’ll get a blowjob when Arnold Palmer walks on the moon!” ---
**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:** [May 22, 2007, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-called-an-arnold-palmer-for-a-reason-douche/404707/171 "2007-05-22T15:43:07Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] Dude-fucking Let. It. Go. [/QUOTE] I think letting go would be easier if there weren’t roughly a dozen people anaylzing the situation without having been there, thus prompting **Rigamarole** to deal with all the straw. ---
**Author:** ![Brandon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f08c70/32.png) [@Brandon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brandon)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-called-an-arnold-palmer-for-a-reason-douche/404707/172 "2007-05-22T15:46:18Z")
[QUOTE=Lute Skywatcher] I think letting go would be easier if there weren’t roughly a dozen people anaylzing the situation without having been there, thus prompting **Rigamarole** to deal with all the straw. [/QUOTE] Of course, it would have been even easier to let go if he never opened it to the analyzation of said dozen people… ---
**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:** [May 22, 2007, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-called-an-arnold-palmer-for-a-reason-douche/404707/173 "2007-05-22T15:56:37Z")
True that. ---
**Author:** ![Dan\_Norder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@Dan\_Norder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dan_Norder)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-called-an-arnold-palmer-for-a-reason-douche/404707/174 "2007-05-22T17:05:39Z")
[QUOTE=Lute Skywatcher] I think letting go would be easier if there weren’t roughly a dozen people anaylzing the situation without having been there, thus prompting **Rigamarole** to deal with all the straw. [/QUOTE] Fuck that. Even if we generously assume that Rigamaroon is 100% correct to true life and personal motivations in the version he is telling, he’s still acting like a big baby. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-called-an-arnold-palmer-for-a-reason-douche/404707/175 "2007-05-22T18:34:12Z")
[QUOTE=Muffin] I’d never heard of iced tea with lemonade being called anything other than iced tea with lemonade. Now I learn that it was invented by a golfer for use as a douche. Gotta love the SDMB. [/QUOTE] Owwwiee! ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-called-an-arnold-palmer-for-a-reason-douche/404707/176 "2007-05-22T19:38:31Z")
For the first time last night, I noticed that one of the items on Starbucks’ menu board is “Iced Tea with Lemonade.” I ordered a small one just to see what all the fuss was about. Not too bad, actually. (And the barista didn’t even say, “You mean, ‘Tall?’”) I suppose it’s possible that she went home and posted on [customerssuck.com](http://customerssuck.com) about the 5"3’ inch asshole who couldn’t bring himself to say “tall,” because of his Napoleon complex, but I wouldn’t bank on it. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2007, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-called-an-arnold-palmer-for-a-reason-douche/404707/177 "2007-05-22T20:09:53Z")
[QUOTE=Dan Norder] Fuck that. Even if we generously assume that Rigamaroon is 100% correct to true life and personal motivations in the version he is telling, he’s still acting like a big baby. [/QUOTE] See, that’s exactly what I’m talking about. When one has people going on about being a baby and wetting panties, it’s a bit difficult for one to not return to defend one’s self, thereby giving the impression that one has not let go. I now see what [Liberal was getting at](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=403629&highlight=pile). ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-called-an-arnold-palmer-for-a-reason-douche/404707/178 "2007-05-22T20:45:58Z")
[QUOTE=Lute Skywatcher] See, that’s exactly what I’m talking about. When one has people going on about being a baby and wetting panties, it’s a bit difficult for one to not return to defend one’s self, thereby giving the impression that one has not let go. [/QUOTE] Heat. Kitchen. Retreat. It’s not as if this is **General Questions** or **About This Message Board** or **The Place Where I Can Whine And Everybody Says ‘Oh You Poor Baby, Let Me Rub Your Tummy’**. I mean, it’s not exactly unheard of–I suspect that if I delved far enough back in time I could even come up with a handful of examples–where an opinion stated in a **Pit** thread was met with some contention and not a slight amount of disapprobation extending into the range of questioning the plantiff’s wit, parentage, sexual proclivities, favorite color, et cetera. And when an o.p. manages to combine in such a statement references to racism, discrimination against waitstaff, the appropriate way to order a drink, and Tiger Woods, then it’s pretty much a guarantee that a conflict second only to Ragnarök will break out, including implications to one’s incontinence. It’s not as if insults involving bodily fluids were an anathema that the o.p. avoids at all cost; it was he, after all, was the one refering to his customer as being a “douche” after she clearly specified what she wanted, and then getting all wet-knickered because said customer, having been “corrected” by the o.p. (who apparently believes that it is his Og-endwoed right to regulate the way in which his customers may order), responds with a gentle joke, he spirals into a frenzy of unbridled bed-wetting over her presumed racism: “I serve black people all the time, but it kind of makes me uncomfortable when someone like this basically professes their ignorant disdain for my race and I’m still stuck serving them margaritas.” Poor, poor **Rigamarole** ; they probably make him go to the “Whites Only” restroom and sit in the front of the bus, too. In short, the o.p.'s rant is basically indefensible from any rational standpoint, and if he wasn’t so busy crapping his nappies he’d acknowledge being an irritated ass about the entire thing. What I find most perplexing about the whole deal–having worked in food service and familiar with the kind of crap you have to put up with from too many customers–is how he gets all diaper-rashed about a customer who tips reasonable and doesn’t otherwise make obnoxious demands upon him, and not about the customers that leave a $1 tip on a $50 order, or want to specify a list of substitutions and exceptions, or want to send a plate back because they didn’t realize that there would be fish in their tuna salad, and so forth. This is such a minor, pathetic complaint that it’s not even worth all of the baby powder it’s going to take to absorb all the mess, and indeed, the fact that the first dozen or so of respondants made light if it should have been an indication to the o.p. that he needs to graduate to big boy pants. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Ensign\_Edison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@Ensign\_Edison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ensign_Edison)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-called-an-arnold-palmer-for-a-reason-douche/404707/179 "2007-05-22T20:47:19Z")
But you fuck _one_ Arnold Palmer… ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-called-an-arnold-palmer-for-a-reason-douche/404707/180 "2007-05-22T21:15:46Z")
[QUOTE=Stranger On A Train] Arnold Palmer, Tiger Woods, and a rabbi walk into a bar… [/QUOTE] …and the bartender says, "what’s the rigmarole?’ American Heritage: "\*Rig·ma·role 1. Confused, rambling, or incoherent discourse; nonsense.\*" Gotta love it… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-called-an-arnold-palmer-for-a-reason-douche/404707.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-called-an-arnold-palmer-for-a-reason-douche/404707.md?page=10)