# JonBenet Ramesy, Laci Peterson and Dennis Strongquil **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 11, 2003, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonbenet-ramesy-laci-peterson-and-dennis-strongquil/174480 "2003-05-11T12:03:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonbenet-ramesy-laci-peterson-and-dennis-strongquil/174480/21 "2003-05-12T02:34:08Z")
Let me see if I understand-he’s saying that he thinks it’s sick that they keep putting these stories all over the tabloid, and sensationalizing it. Naturally. But they’ll continue to do it, because it sells. Pandering to the lowest common denominator and all that. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonbenet-ramesy-laci-peterson-and-dennis-strongquil/174480/22 "2003-05-12T02:37:11Z")
So people quit asking: [Dennis Strongquill](http://winnipeg.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=mb_strongquill20030509) ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonbenet-ramesy-laci-peterson-and-dennis-strongquil/174480/23 "2003-05-12T03:17:12Z")
Do you purposely try not to make any sense? ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonbenet-ramesy-laci-peterson-and-dennis-strongquil/174480/24 "2003-05-12T08:16:36Z")
Hebes: JonBenet Ramsey has that porcelain look because she has a pound of make-up on and the picture was probably shot with a filter of some sort and airbrushed. Someone who either takes portraits for a living or another photographer would be more able than I, to describe what was used to get those effects. ---
**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:** [May 12, 2003, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonbenet-ramesy-laci-peterson-and-dennis-strongquil/174480/25 "2003-05-12T10:40:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hebesphenomegacorona \* > \*\*How much I’m sick of seeing JonBenet Ramsey/Laci Peterson/(to a lesser extent)Dennis Stronquil’s face everywhere. \*\* Hm. I live about 30 minutes from where the Ramseys lived. For the first year, we got crap about her every day but it seems to have tapered off to near nothing and I haven’t heard anything about them (excluding a quick blip around New Year’s Day saying that this was the whatever-th anniversery of her death) in 9/10 months. And I listen to Peter Boyles, well known idiot talk show host who’s the one who made Jon Benet a national case and I still haven’t heard anything about her. Can I suggest that you might get a wider range of news if you stop reading Weekly World News and The Enquirer? Also, to everyone else, I think the OP’s trying to say that he’s mad that he’s less famous than some dead people and that even if he died, he’d _still_ be less famous than them. Or that he likes pie. One of the two anyway. Fenris ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonbenet-ramesy-laci-peterson-and-dennis-strongquil/174480/26 "2003-05-12T13:13:39Z")
> [@](#): > > Can I suggest that you might get a wider range of news if you stop reading Weekly World News . . . . And just what the hell is wrong with the WWN??? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![hebesphenomegacorona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@hebesphenomegacorona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hebesphenomegacorona)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonbenet-ramesy-laci-peterson-and-dennis-strongquil/174480/27 "2003-05-12T21:30:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fenris \* > \*\*Hm. I live about 30 minutes from where the Ramseys lived. For the first year, we got crap about her every day but it seems to have tapered off to near nothing and I haven’t heard anything about them (excluding a quick blip around New Year’s Day saying that this was the whatever-th anniversery of her death) in 9/10 months. And I listen to Peter Boyles, well known idiot talk show host who’s the one who made Jon Benet a national case and I still haven’t heard anything about her. > > Can I suggest that you might get a wider range of news if you stop reading Weekly World News and The Enquirer? > > Also, to everyone else, I think the OP’s trying to say that he’s mad that he’s less famous than some dead people and that even if he died, he’d _still_ be less famous than them. Or that he likes pie. One of the two anyway. > > Fenris \*\* No, I just think it’s stupid. And I don’t read either stupid newspaper. ---
**Author:** ![hebesphenomegacorona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@hebesphenomegacorona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hebesphenomegacorona)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonbenet-ramesy-laci-peterson-and-dennis-strongquil/174480/28 "2003-05-12T21:35:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Aslan2 \* > \*\*Do you purposely try not to make any sense? \*\* No. ---
**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:** [May 12, 2003, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonbenet-ramesy-laci-peterson-and-dennis-strongquil/174480/29 "2003-05-12T21:50:37Z")
And yet you do it so well. If only you could market this skill, how rich you would be! ---
**Author:** ![hebesphenomegacorona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@hebesphenomegacorona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hebesphenomegacorona)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonbenet-ramesy-laci-peterson-and-dennis-strongquil/174480/30 "2003-05-12T21:58:58Z")
YAY! ---
**Author:** ![hebesphenomegacorona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@hebesphenomegacorona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hebesphenomegacorona)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonbenet-ramesy-laci-peterson-and-dennis-strongquil/174480/31 "2003-05-12T21:59:24Z")
YAY! AND THEN I WOULD HAVE A LOT OF MONEY! ---
**Author:** ![hebesphenomegacorona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@hebesphenomegacorona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hebesphenomegacorona)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonbenet-ramesy-laci-peterson-and-dennis-strongquil/174480/32 "2003-05-12T21:59:24Z")
YAY! AND THEN I WOULD HAVE A LOT OF MONEY! ---
**Author:** ![Yumanite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b487fb/32.png) [@Yumanite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumanite)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonbenet-ramesy-laci-peterson-and-dennis-strongquil/174480/33 "2003-05-12T22:46:45Z")
If you aren’t deliberately trying to be confusing, maybe you could try **not posting while stoned**. I think caffeine is the drug of choice for the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![hebesphenomegacorona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@hebesphenomegacorona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hebesphenomegacorona)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonbenet-ramesy-laci-peterson-and-dennis-strongquil/174480/34 "2003-05-12T23:52:15Z")
Sorry about the triple post. I’m not stoned. ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonbenet-ramesy-laci-peterson-and-dennis-strongquil/174480/35 "2003-05-13T01:40:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hebesphenomegacorona \* > \*\*No. \*\* I think by “No.” you mean “Yes.” and by “Yes.” you mean “Yes, and I am a specially trained monkey that can type and has a broadband connection to the internet SKIJJEOEOEOJIOJIEIJO.”, correct? ---
**Author:** ![stockton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@stockton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stockton)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonbenet-ramesy-laci-peterson-and-dennis-strongquil/174480/36 "2003-05-13T04:05:06Z")
**Fenris** , tell me more about that pie. Mmmmm, pie. 'lo, **Aslan2**. I don’t think this monkey’s been trained. Seems too random. Possibly drunk. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonbenet-ramesy-laci-peterson-and-dennis-strongquil/174480/37 "2003-05-13T04:29:20Z")
> [@](#): > > And my hypothesis is correct that I’m only funny to stoned people and myself, evidently. From reading your posts here, I’m assuming this is one category. ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonbenet-ramesy-laci-peterson-and-dennis-strongquil/174480/38 "2003-05-13T07:46:36Z")
I’m not amused, but i am bewildered by him and his apparent obsession. ---
**Author:** ![hebesphenomegacorona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@hebesphenomegacorona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hebesphenomegacorona)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonbenet-ramesy-laci-peterson-and-dennis-strongquil/174480/39 "2003-05-16T01:12:07Z")
What obsession? ---
**Author:** ![the\_Lady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@the\_Lady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_Lady)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonbenet-ramesy-laci-peterson-and-dennis-strongquil/174480/40 "2003-05-16T02:31:43Z")
Where are you that there is an abundance of Dennis Strongquill? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonbenet-ramesy-laci-peterson-and-dennis-strongquil/174480.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonbenet-ramesy-laci-peterson-and-dennis-strongquil/174480.md?page=3)