# It's Not Easy Being Green

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-easy-being-green/588532>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 10, 2011, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-easy-being-green/588532 "2011-07-10T18:46:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-easy-being-green/588532/41 "2011-07-14T01:50:50Z")

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You’re the one who started flinging ad hominems. I attacked what I reasonably assumed to be your position.

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**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:** [July 14, 2011, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-easy-being-green/588532/42 "2011-07-14T02:27:18Z")

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> [@SenorBeef](#):
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> You’re the one who started flinging ad hominems. I attacked what I reasonably assumed to be your position.

Your essential error, here, was in assuming that **elucidator** actually posted something relevant to the topic at hand. It’s an easy mistake to make, if you’re not familiar with him. This case was kind of tricky, because what he posted seems so clearly a direct response to the story in the OP, but anyone experienced with reading his contributions here can tell you that it’s likely just a coincidence, much in the same mold as a Shakespearean manuscript typed up by an infinite number of monkeys. I’m fairly certain **elucidator** has never actually read an OP in his entire time on these boards.

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**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-easy-being-green/588532/43 "2011-07-14T02:33:15Z")

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My lips get tired, you know what that’s like!

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