Jimpatro, what are you ON?

The BBQ Pit
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Is this a whoosh? Please tell my I’m being whooshed. (Locked thread so I am responding here.)

Dude: chill. I was commenting on the the OP misspelling “Straitjacket”. In fact, EVERYONE in the thread spelled it “Straightjacket”. I’m surprised, frankly, that no one had up to this point referenced a “gayjacket”.

So, now, we have some options:

A)You realized it was a joke, but wasn’t funny. You didn’t say so. Thanks for the communication, buddy. I, however, think it was hilarious given the repeated misspelling, Gaudere’s light be upon me, of “straitjacket”.

B)You didn’t realize it was a joke. Really, dude, either A) or B) mean you have wayyyy too little sense of humour. I don’t hate any race or orientation, but even I make, you know, puns.

C)Your post is indeed a whoosh, in which case it differs from mine in not being funny at all.

D)You don’t really care about gay people or the mentally challenged, and paid $5 to knee-jerk us around.

In case you were serious, where the fuck do you get off on assuming I’m…geesh I can’t even utter these words it’s so preposterous…that I’m a conservative supporting restricting gay rights based on a pun? I guess the dour-minded gays singularly lack a humor gland.

The “PC crowd” comment you riff on too was another part of my deadpan delivery in the setting up of my joke, which I again must mention, beats whatever sense of humor you display intentionally or not in spades.

So in short, bugger off, putz. I’m too tired to defend a belief I never held in the first place.

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I’m gonna guess B.

I didn’t realize that it was a joke either… but then, I was skimming, and hadn’t noticed that straitjacket was mispelled.

Picture me going “the hell’s a ‘gayjacket’?” :confused:

On a slightly differing topic, are straitjackets even legal anywhere in the US now? I seem to recall that when I worked in mental health a decade or so ago, we had a few straitjackets on the ward but were not legally allowed to use them.

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Of course, none of our patients were bears, either…

We had a couple of Jesuses (Jesusi?), but no bears.

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No, no. A jesusi is a holy hot tub. The plural of Jesus is Jesi.

Man, sometimes I’m sorely disappointed with peoples’ latin skills aournd here. :wink:

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What a great joke I entirely missed. :smack:

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So is it straightjacket or straitjacket? I remember both spellings accepted at school…

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Well, dictionary.com and m-w.com both list straightjacket as a variant of straitjacket. So I guess both are acceptable.

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Cool. :cool: Many thanks!

wanders out again

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I woulda spelt it ‘StraightJacket’ but then I put on my CV that I replenished a shopping ‘isle’

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I’d have just assumed you were involved in restocking 14th century Venice, current Hong Kong, or providing stock certificates for Manhattan.

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Hmmm! I guess I also missed the alternative spelling. But I’m disappointed because I JUST realized a few days ago the connection between “Straitjacket”, “Straits of Magellan” et al., being in dire straits, I mean, I knew they all had to be descended from the same word, but I just realized that the common theme is being restricted.

So, a straitjacket is a jacket in which your movement is restricted, same as being in an aquatic strait, or a strait that is dire. Now that the other spelling is acceptable I won’t be able to flaunt my knowledge anymore :slight_smile:

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It can be both according to the discussion page on this Wikipedia entry.

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I didn’t find your joke funny at all.

Mind you, that’s just because it was lame, not because it was offensive.

And I fit into just about every possible category of people who could be offended by it. I’ve had problems with mental illness, I’m gay, and I’m even a “bear.” The only thing offensive about what you said was the aggressively bad pun.

Overall, sounds like jimpatro’s just a humorless ass.

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Is there a correlation between high post count and not having a…oh nevermind.