# It's not funny. ItShut up. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 5, 2003, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824 "2003-01-05T21:54:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/41 "2003-01-06T02:02:12Z")
You can use the ignore feature to remove those who post the jokes you seem to hate. You do realize though that soon, the only posts you would see will be your own. I myself love the witty drive bys. YMMV of course. ---
**Author:** ![xcheopis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bc8723/32.png) [@xcheopis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xcheopis)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/42 "2003-01-06T02:04:13Z")
By and large, the people here _are_ nice. Tony the Tiger would have 'em for breakfast. As **FairyChatMom** said, many of us hold every day conversations that are riddled with one liners, few of which cause a derailment of thought. If witty and amusing remarks in a conversaion bother you, then I’m sorry for you and those who must interact with you. No, really. You’d have to be a stupifyingly dull person to object to the occasional bon mot, particularly in forums which allow them. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/43 "2003-01-06T02:04:40Z")
Well said, **Fenris** , and I’d like to offer **appletreat** a side dish of “or hit the road, kiddo”. ---
**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/44 "2003-01-06T02:11:34Z")
jarbabyj wrote (with just a touch of humor): > [@](#): > > You know the world is getting lazier and lazier when we’re complaining about having to ‘scroll past’ something. Miller came back speedily with: > [@](#): > > Easy for you to say, jarbaby. We don’t ALL have mousewheels, you know! DAMN SISSIES!!! Back in my day we had to scroll down with a big rusty metal crank on the side of the moniter. You kids today got it easy. ::mutter, mutter - stalks off in disgust:: ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/45 "2003-01-06T02:23:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Libertarian \* > \*\*Appletreats > > Here have a pickle. 🙂 \*\* Thats’s not funny. Is that supposed to be some kind of sexual harrassment or something? You people are just sick. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/46 "2003-01-06T02:25:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SandyHook \* > \*\*DAMN SISSIES!!! Back in my day we had to scroll down with a big rusty metal crank on the side of the moniter. You kids today got it easy. \*\* :rolleyes: You had _monitors_? With picture tubes and all? We woulda \*killed for monitors, even the crappy orange-and-black monochrome ones. All we had were styluses that etched characters in sand, like an etch-a-sketch. AND we had to make our own sand by banging rocks together! Ya spoiled wimp. Fenris ---
**Author:** ![Haywood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Haywood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haywood)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/47 "2003-01-06T02:35:06Z")
Appletreats, most of the new people to the SDMB (including me) try to meld in and participate in the boards. The side comments, drive bys and humorous asides make the SDMB what it is, entertaining. If you want a popcorn fart dry message board you should try and find a Sgt. Joe Friday message board if one exists. :wally ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/48 "2003-01-06T02:35:51Z")
Can I just throw in the other standard point usually made when (on cue about once a month or so) some whinging newbie wanker brings this topic up? These boards were inspired by Cecil Adams. You may have noticed that it could be argued that just possibly one could string together a hint of a suggestion that his style of answering questions is not striaghtforward, strictly-on-topic, humourless and dull. Indeed, when someone suggested that Cece had toned down his columns, his response was: > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cecil Adams \* > \*\*Lost my edge, eh? You pathetic losers can kiss my ass. \*\* Who are you exactly to suggest that imitiations (however pale) of the Perfect Master’s style are inappropriate? ---
**Author:** ![Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fred)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/49 "2003-01-06T02:38:20Z")
I’ve been pitted. Sort of. I guess a response is in order. Here I go: My comment was not **supposed** to be funny. ItShut up. But I bet you saw that one coming. ---
**Author:** ![SmileyDeath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SmileyDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmileyDeath)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/50 "2003-01-06T02:42:54Z")
Bah. ItShut up all you wiseasses 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/51 "2003-01-06T02:47:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fenris \* > \*\*:rolleyes: > > You had _monitors_? With picture tubes and all? We woulda _killed_ for monitors, even the crappy orange-and-black monochrome ones. All we had were styluses that etched characters in sand, like an etch-a-sketch. > > AND we had to make our own sand by banging rocks together! > > Ya spoiled wimp. > > Fenris \*\* You got access to the internet then, have you eh? Smug bastard. _I_ have to deduce what threads will have been started, figure out from first principles what replies will have been posted and by whom and when, and then shout in the responses. And I’m in Australia. Hoarse? You wouldn’t _believe_… ---
**Author:** ![Juniper200](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@Juniper200](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Juniper200)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/52 "2003-01-06T02:48:21Z")
You had _rocks_? I would have died had I been handed such a luxury! We had to painstakingly contract scurvy and then clench our jaws until our teeth crumbled into dust! We’d write in that, but that was only if we had a stick handy, and even then we had to use Linear A! ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/53 "2003-01-06T02:56:05Z")
You had _teef_??? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/54 "2003-01-06T03:01:16Z")
Ya know, when more than a 1/3 of a poster’s posts are complaining about a place, it kinda makes you wonder why they stay. Run along now dear. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/55 "2003-01-06T03:01:20Z")
…I think **wring** won. ---
**Author:** ![Juniper200](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@Juniper200](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Juniper200)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/56 "2003-01-06T03:02:51Z")
Seriously, Fenris! I mean, she doesn’t even have backslashes! Now _that’s_ hard-up! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/57 "2003-01-06T03:04:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Juniper200 \* > \*\*Seriously, Fenris! I mean, she doesn’t even have backslashes! Now _that’s_ hard-up! 😃 \*\* :smack: /////// pftbtbtbtbtbttb. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/58 "2003-01-06T03:04:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by alice\_in\_wonderland \* > \*\*Ya know, when more than a 1/3 of a poster’s posts are complaining about a place, it kinda makes you wonder why they stay. > > Run along now dear. \*\* You’re right. OK, I’m going. ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/59 "2003-01-06T03:06:57Z")
So is “ItShut up” the new **OG SMASH!** or **Fucko off!** yet? ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/60 "2003-01-06T03:11:56Z")
Well it was, **ElwoodCuse**. But only someone totally unhip would make that joke _now_. It’s soooo 30 seconds ago. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824.md?page=4)