# Left Behind Members Return Home Please **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [December 31, 1999, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297 "1999-12-31T21:05:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/101 "2000-01-19T00:09:00Z")
Let’s see. Navigator and Pariah are around here somewhere. MikeM goes by MKM here. ## I know there’s a bunch of others, but we’ve allowed them to take the “LB” stamp off their foreheads. Or was it their hands? Anyway, its gotten to be hard to tell them from normal people. Mostly. Dr. Fidelius, Charlatan Associate Curator Anomalous Paleontology, Miskatonic University “You cannot reason a man out of a position he did not reach through reason.” ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/102 "2000-01-19T00:11:00Z")
> [@](#): > > And don’t get me started on those new smilies with the googly eyes and the spaces between their teeth… Oh, you code for that one with :alfalfa: ---
**Author:** ![meara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@meara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meara)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/103 "2000-01-19T00:15:00Z")
> [@](#): > > I know there’s a bunch of others, but we’ve allowed them to take the “LB” stamp off their foreheads. Or was it their hands? Anyway, its gotten to be hard to tell them from normal people. Mostly. Ack! The Mark of the Beast! (No wonder it was Satan behind all this!) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Pariah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/41988e/32.png) [@Pariah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pariah)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/104 "2000-01-19T00:22:00Z")
_Let the wild rumpus start!_ ## That’s all. Nothing else. _Insanity destroys logic, but not wit._ Nathaniel Emmons _If we are out of our mind, it is for the Lord; if we are in our right mind, it is for you._ 2Cor.5:13 ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/105 "2000-01-19T00:30:00Z")
We are now… no longer the Knights Who Say ‘Ni’. Shh! We are now the Knights Who Say ‘Ecky- ecky- ecky- ecky- pikang- zoop- boing- goodem- zoo- owli- zhiv’. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/106 "2000-01-19T00:34:00Z")
Gaudere wrote: > [@](#): > > Only those pure in heart can get the carats to work without disappearing. Tsk tsk tsk. Gaudere, Gaudere, Gaudere. They’re not _carets_. This: ^ … is a caret. These: \< \> … are ANGLE BRACKETS. I noticed manhattan made the same gaffe, too. _sigh_. Kids. ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/107 "2000-01-19T00:40:00Z")
I thought they were carets that had fallen from the True Path. That’s my story, and I’m stickin’ to it. * * * Livin’ on Tums, vitamin E and Rogaine ---
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/108 "2000-01-19T01:19:00Z")
> [@](#): > > These: \< \> … are ANGLE BRACKETS. Pardon me, but _I_ am a professional web designer, and the proper term is “pointy thingies”. ---
**Author:** ![bigred1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9de0a6/32.png) [@bigred1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bigred1)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/109 "2000-01-19T01:34:00Z")
Imma here too!! I wasn’t around for the wars… I came in after for the peace talks 🙂 Trying to behave myself though… so that Nav and Mike and them don’t get the wrong idea about me 😃 Beth ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/110 "2000-01-19T01:57:00Z")
> [@](#): > > _I_ am a professional web designer, and the proper term is “pointy thingies”. Good thing we’ve got _someone_ here who can fill us in on the proper term of art. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/111 "2000-01-19T01:59:00Z")
> [@](#): > > A pox on you, Satan! A pox! * * * “Satan, eat my shorts!” -Bart Simpson ---
**Author:** ![David\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@David\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_B)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/112 "2000-01-19T02:14:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Gaudere: > I will cheerfully toss off mildly sexually suggestive comments to anyone within range. What?! And here I thought I was special… :o PITA (by the way, that wouldn’t stand for anything, would it?) said: > [@](#): > > You mean I can’t “bump” here? **NO!** You think we’re nasty to the trolls who post death threats? Ha! That’s nuthin’ compared to what we do to bump-ers! DrF said: > [@](#): > > we’ve allowed them to take the “LB” stamp off their foreheads Had to make room for the “666” mark somehow! ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/113 "2000-01-19T03:49:00Z")
what’s a “Pounder”? I thought they were “Left Behinders”? * * * and the stars o’erhead were dancing heel to toe ---
**Author:** ![Navigator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4af34b/32.png) [@Navigator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Navigator)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/114 "2000-01-19T03:56:00Z")
Left Behind = LB Someone who posts on LB with abandon = LBer LB also means pound in the english measurement system ergo: Pounder 😃 * * * † Jon † Phillipians 4:13 ---
**Author:** ![meara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@meara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meara)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/115 "2000-01-19T04:13:00Z")
Not ‘pulpit pounder’? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Pariah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/41988e/32.png) [@Pariah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pariah)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/116 "2000-01-19T04:52:00Z")
The Good Dr. said: > [@](#): > > We are now… no longer the Knights Who Say ‘Ni’. > Shh! We are now the Knights Who Say ‘Ecky- ecky- ecky- ecky- pikang- zoop- boing- goodem- zoo- owli- zhiv’. To whit, Pariah replied: > [@](#): > > A _duck._ (INSERT EPIC BATTLE MUSIC IN THREE SECOND FADEOUT HERE) * * * _Insanity destroys logic, but not wit._ Nathaniel Emmons _If we are out of our mind, it is for the Lord; if we are in our right mind, it is for you._ 2Cor.5:13 ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/117 "2000-01-19T05:17:00Z")
**meara** asks > [@](#): > > Not ‘pulpit pounder’? Of course not. This is the Straight Dope Message Board. Around here, we know that the pulpit is the thing you stand on. The thing you pound on when in the throes of ecumenical passion is the lectern. This fighting ignorance thing sure keeps you busy. [http://www.elnet.com/~sburch/sjbgrin.gif](http://www.elnet.com/~sburch/sjbgrin.gif) ## **\

Tris\** “This institution will be based upon the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.” – **Thomas Jefferson** (on the University of Virginia) ---

**Author:** ![meara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@meara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meara)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/118 "2000-01-19T05:24:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Of course not. This is the Straight Dope Message Board. Around here, we know that the pulpit is the thing you stand on. The thing you pound on when in the throes of ecumenical passion is the lectern Aww… you caught me. I’m not the genuine article… only a quarter pounder. ---
**Author:** ![PITA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ec8ea/32.png) [@PITA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PITA)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/119 "2000-01-19T11:23:00Z")
Good morning! “Pounders???” wow. Someone has ENTIRELY too much free time. David B: I PROMISE I’ll behave. Yes, PITA stands for something. Any takers? It’s really not that esoteric, just an affectionate kickname from my husband. Polycarp :alfalfa: I thought they were carrots (not carets) or is it carat??? Someone please get the official word on this? I’m still stressed about the bump thing. Well, off to be a productive member of society. PITA ---
**Author:** ![David\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@David\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_B)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/120 "2000-01-19T13:09:00Z")
You call your husband a “pain in the ass”?! Hmmm, maybe that wasn’t a typo when you said “kickname” instead of “nickname.” 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297.md?page=7)