# 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:** 7
**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, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/121 "2000-01-19T13:45:00Z")
Meara said: > [@](#): > > Aww… you caught me. I’m not the genuine article… only a quarter pounder. Methinks she was telling us a Whopper. :smiley of assumed innocence: ---
**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, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/122 "2000-01-19T21:47:00Z")
PITA wrote: > [@](#): > > I thought they were carrots (not carets) or is it carat??? carrot = orange vegetable that Bugs Bunny chomps on. caret = insertion character ^ or, in Microsoft Windows, that blinking vertical bar in an edit control that tells you where the next character you type is going to go. carat = 3.08647 grains (about 1/5 of a gram), used in weighing diamonds. karat = a unit of purity when speaking of gold. 24 karat gold is pure gold, 12 karat gold is 50% gold by weight and 50% other stuff, 18 karat gold would be 75% gold by weight, etc… Now aren’t you glad you asked? ---
**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, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/123 "2000-01-19T21:50:00Z")
My friend bought his wife a three-carrot ring. It was very pretty, with the green enamel foliage coming off one side and the three little orange enamel points off the other. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/124 "2000-01-19T21:52:00Z")
PITA said: > [@](#): > > Yes, PITA stands for something. Any takers? ## People for the Ichtyical Treatment of Animals? (All animals should be treated as well as fish!) JMCJ This could be YOUR sig line! For just five cents a post, JMCJ Enterprises will place YOUR sig line at the bottom of each message! ---
**Author:** ![PITA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ec8ea/32.png) [@PITA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PITA)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/125 "2000-01-20T05:06:00Z")
And we have a winner… David, o’k, so can you type any better at 5am??? Yes, that is my hubby’s knickname FROM him not FOR him. ---
**Author:** ![Lauralee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lauralee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lauralee)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/126 "2000-01-20T16:56:00Z")
Bigred said > [@](#): > > Imma here too!! I am too!! Don’t forget me!! I’m a Pounder on Dope!! _snicker at will_ ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/127 "2000-01-20T20:30:00Z")
I agree that all people should be treated as well as fish. We should round all of them up in giant nets and eat them! Soilent Green for the people… * * * Yer pal, Satan ---
**Author:** ![Kelly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@Kelly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kelly)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/128 "2000-01-20T20:39:00Z")
Soylent Green **is PEOPLE** * * * How high is up? ---
**Author:** ![onesheep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e495f1/32.png) [@onesheep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/onesheep)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/129 "2000-01-20T20:47:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Polycarp: > **My friend bought his wife a three-carrot ring. It was very pretty, with the green enamel foliage coming off one side and the three little orange enamel points off the other. 🙂** I hope they used baby carrots or that would make a very heavy ring. Another LBer has hit your boards. ---
**Author:** ![Lauralee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lauralee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lauralee)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/130 "2000-01-20T21:26:00Z")
Hi ya onesheep! how’s you?? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/131 "2000-01-20T21:44:00Z")
Does anyone, other than me, find it ironic that when new LB’ers come to the SDMB, this thread functions like a welcoming committee? I don’t know 'bout the rest of y’all, but I find it highly appropiate. * * * “That it is unwise to be heedless ourselves while we are giving advice to others, I will show in a few lines.” - Phaedrus, translator of Aesop’s Fables ---
**Author:** ![Navigator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4af34b/32.png) [@Navigator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Navigator)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/132 "2000-01-20T21:47:00Z")
:::Hands Uncle Beer … well a Beer::: Tell us how you really feel. 🙂 * * * † Jon † Phillipians 4:13 ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/133 "2000-01-20T21:49:00Z")
## Kinda makes you feel like cooking up some fatted calf, don 't it? **\

Tris\** If I have not seen so far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. –\*\* Anonymous \*\* ---

**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/134 "2000-01-20T21:54:00Z")
Works for me, **Tris**. If I can clear the snow off my deck, I’ll fire up the barbecue grill. Steaks tonight! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Spiritus\_Mundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Spiritus\_Mundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiritus_Mundi)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/135 "2000-01-20T22:11:00Z")
PITA: > [@](#): > > Yes, that is my hubby’s knickname FROM him not FOR him. Satan had a thread discussing this very topic over in MPSIMS. [DO NOT GO HERE!](http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/001966.html) * * * - The best lack all conviction The worst are full of passionate intensity. \* ---
**Author:** ![PITA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ec8ea/32.png) [@PITA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PITA)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/136 "2000-01-20T22:25:00Z")
Hey now, Spiritus Mundi, that nickname was FIGURATIVE, not LITERAL. Geez, now I feel dirty!!! Come on now! (and I mean that figuratively too) Fellow LBers- great to see you! I haven’t looked in on the LBMB in a while. Are any of you still posting over there? I’m annoyed (I’ll spare you the details) and reluctant to go back. It’s a shame. I met a lot of wonderful people and enjoyed the fellowship. Oh well. Steak??? Who said steak? ---
**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 20, 2000, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/137 "2000-01-20T22:52:00Z")
Oh, that was me. I was saying we ought to drive a steak through that vampire’s heart before sundown. ---
**Author:** ![onesheep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e495f1/32.png) [@onesheep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/onesheep)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/138 "2000-01-20T23:01:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by tracer: > **Oh, that was me. I was saying we ought to drive a steak through that vampire’s heart before sundown.** Exactly how would you go about doing that? Seems you’d end up with a bunch of ground meat. I’ll bring the corn on the cob. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/139 "2000-01-21T01:10:00Z")
“Knickname?” What, you give pet names to his trousers? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/140 "2000-01-21T01:57:00Z")
Thanks, Spiritus; at least now I understand certain inside references that had come up on various threads! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297.md?page=8)