# It's time to officially Pit Joe Paterno and the Penn State football program. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 7, 2011, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167 "2011-11-07T14:23:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 222
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/4423 "2012-09-27T15:42:07Z")
Back in the 50’s, before the liberals made black people accept greater civil liberty, we did not have pedophilia. I know the full scope of the problem now because of the show _To Catch a Predator_, which doesn’t rely on liberal data. I have to go now to ride around the neighborhood in my white van. Then I’m going over to Kohl’s because I heard they had young boys pants on sale for 50% less than usual. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/4424 "2012-09-27T16:12:49Z")
Speak of ugly, dishonest, cowardly assholes and look who shows up, our old friend **Hector the Librarian**! Looks like thoughts of young boys lined up, white vans, Kohl’s, pants on sale and memories of \*To Catch a Predator \*have got you panting aplenty yourself. Can’t say I’m surprised, given the sallacious and perverted way you’ve interpreted otherwise perfectly innocuous things in this thread. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/4425 "2012-09-27T16:37:21Z")
I just checked in to give my random “holy shit this is still going on?” post. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Gay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@Enola\_Gay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Gay)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/4426 "2012-09-27T16:47:33Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > :: observes the ugly, dishonest, hysterical, unthinking, cowardly and vicious underbelly of human nature and moves on, disgusted :: Waitaminute! I thought you said you were moving on (again), but now you’ve posted 4 more times since storming out of the thread in a huff!?! I’m beginning to suspect SA’s posts may not be 100% truthful. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/4427 "2012-09-27T16:51:40Z")
Hello, I must be going. I cannot stay, I came to say I must be going. I’m glad I came but just the same I must be going. For my sake you must stay, for if you go away, you’ll spoil this party I am throwing. I’ll stay a week or two, I’ll stay the summer through, but I am telling you, I must be going –Marx Brothers ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/4428 "2012-09-27T17:02:12Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > What a Dumas! 😃 No, what a Dumont. (And a Groucho, of course.) ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/4429 "2012-09-27T17:03:24Z")
> [@Enola\_Gay](#): > > Waitaminute! I thought you said you were moving on (again), but now you’ve posted 4 more times since storming out of the thread in a huff!?! > > I’m beginning to suspect SA’s posts may not be 100% truthful. Moving on does not necessarily mean moving out. 🙂 And then again a person might change their mind, or find they have more time available than they thought, or find some fresh new lie or idiocy they feel compelled to challenge. There are all sorts of motivations to re-enter a thread after leaving that have nothing to do with dishonesty. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/4430 "2012-09-27T17:08:08Z")
[QUOTE=Starving Artist] :: observes the ugly, dishonest, hysterical, unthinking, cowardly and vicious underbelly of human nature and moves on, disgusted :: [/quote] Well, that covers a lot of ground. Say, you cover a lot of ground yourself. You’d better beat it; I hear they’re gonna tear you down and put up an office building where you’re standing. You can leave in a taxi. If you can’t get a taxi, you can leave in a huff. If that’s too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff. As long as we’re turning this into a Marx Brothers routine… ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/4431 "2012-09-27T17:08:57Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > No, what a Dumont. (And a Groucho, of course.) Oooh…you’re so _erudite_! (And/or a Margaret, of course.) Still, I think “Dumas” gets the message across. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/4432 "2012-09-27T17:27:01Z")
Argle Bargle. Tapioca flyswatters eating mincemeat pies! 🙂 Not posting. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/4433 "2012-09-27T17:33:07Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > No, you’re fucking it all up! You comment anyway, then reiterate that you have to run. You don’t say you can’t let it go without commenting, and then go without commenting. What a Dumas! 😃 It’s not that we don’t appreciate the attempt, but you’re much funnier when you’re posting seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/4434 "2012-09-27T17:41:43Z")
Well, apart from the Dumas thing, that post was merely a correction. And the Dumas thing was sufficiently amusing to me, and, as you might imagine, that’s what counts. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/4435 "2012-09-27T17:48:03Z")
I’m pretty sure Sandusky said to himself “this time I’m going to stop raping children.” Less times than SA has said he’s quitting this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/4436 "2012-09-27T17:55:30Z")
Well, you see that’s the thing about **SA**. When he’s on a public message board, where he’s a member paid in full, he’s gonna post pretty much when and if he wants. Sometimes he intends to leave and he changes his mind. Other times he intends to leave and somebody posts fresh bullshit he doesn’t want to let lie. Other times still he just decides it’s a more engaging way to spend his time to continue to do battle with the nitwits. It can be a lot of things. But one thing you can count on – it will be what it is. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/4437 "2012-09-27T18:12:37Z")
That’s not exactly true. You can also count on it being tedious and tortured. About three quarters of the time you can expect it to be unintentionally hilarious. Everyone posts here at his or her own pleasure, stupid. Only the rare moron feels compelled to announce when they are leaving and what they are going to do. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/4438 "2012-09-27T18:18:14Z")
Hey Starving Artist, can you run us through the paper towel tube test one more time? ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/4439 "2012-09-27T18:42:01Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Well, you see that’s the thing about **SA**. When he’s on a public message board, where he’s a member paid in full, he’s gonna post pretty much when and if he wants. Sometimes he intends to leave and he changes his mind. Other times he intends to leave and somebody posts fresh bullshit he doesn’t want to let lie. Other times still he just decides it’s a more engaging way to spend his time to continue to do battle with the nitwits. It can be a lot of things. But one thing you can count on – it will be what it is. **RedFury** has a magnificent response. But **RedFury** very busy solving world problems. He’ll be back afterwards in the third person again. Because he is just [**fuckin’ awesome**](http://www.esquire.com/features/third-person-1108). ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/4440 "2012-09-27T18:47:06Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > I’m popping in for a drive-by quip that adds nothing to the intellectual rigor of the discussion. This post probably exceeded the intellectual rigor of 98% of this discussion. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/4441 "2012-09-27T18:57:26Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > Back in the 50’s, before the liberals made black people accept greater civil liberty, we did not have pedophilia. I know the full scope of the problem now because of the show _To Catch a Predator_, which doesn’t rely on liberal data. > > I have to go now to ride around the neighborhood in my white van. Then I’m going over to Kohl’s because I heard they had young boys pants on sale for 50% less than usual. I very carefully didn’t applaud at this, but it was a close thing. Kudos to me! ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/4442 "2012-09-27T20:02:15Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > … Other times he intends to leave and somebody posts fresh bullshit he doesn’t want to let lie… So now you have an obsession with playing in bullshit to go with the paper towel tube obsession? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167.md?page=221) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167.md?page=223)