# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/161 "2000-01-21T16:47:00Z")
With such rational, conciliatory, win-win ideas, I see where you got the name of Satan! šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Lauralee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lauralee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lauralee)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/162 "2000-01-21T16:54:00Z")
Satan with the Nobel Peace Prizeā€¦ what an idea. ---
**Author:** ![Navigator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4af34b/32.png) [@Navigator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Navigator)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/163 "2000-01-21T17:12:00Z")
Satan took the words right out of my mouth. (not reallyā€¦ but what a bumper sticker!) * * * ā€  Jon ā€  Phillipians 4:13 ---
**Author:** ![MKM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/edb3f5/32.png) [@MKM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MKM)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/164 "2000-01-21T17:28:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Navigator: > \*\*Satan took the words right out of my mouth. > > (not reallyā€¦ but what a bumper sticker!) > \*\* Or how about theseā€¦ I talked to Satan today. or Satan is my friend. * * * ā€œWe love Him because He first loved us.ā€ 1 John 4:19 ā€  ---
**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, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/165 "2000-01-21T17:33:00Z")
I agree - we must notify Stockholm at once. All hail Satan, bringer of peace! šŸ˜‰ Poly - so Eve = Flora McFlimsey? Iā€™m always the last to know. Who else has gone under multiple names that I should know about (Gaudere/andros/Clark K aside, of course [http://www.elnet.com/~sburch/sjbgrin.gif](http://www.elnet.com/~sburch/sjbgrin.gif) ). meara - I donā€™t think Iā€™d qualify for any sort of cultural elite, but _Brothers Karamazov_ is one of my all-time faves. Not that I donā€™t go through more than my share of mysteries, SF, and fantasy. Dump on _Ulysses_ if you must, but donā€™t knock my Dostoevsky - themā€™s fightinā€™ words! šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![bigred1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9de0a6/32.png) [@bigred1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bigred1)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/166 "2000-01-21T17:43:00Z")
Satan as a prize winner of any kind might cause a problem. Most of the speaches I hear thank God for the success. What would Satan do? (WWSD) Beth ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2000, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/167 "2000-01-22T06:03:00Z")
Youā€™re aware that Krispy Original has had more identities than Sybil? (but I think only one at a time) As a jape, Sterling North has in the past posted under several ā€œvacatedā€ screen names. (Which is why I ā€œblamedā€ him in my mock-conspiracy theory item in the Phaedrus thread in the Pit). A number of members of _Homo jerquenus_ have decided to play ā€œguess which persona I am today.ā€ (And a couple of regulars have done this with much better humorous effect.) Zette played Santa at Christmas, and I think Bug Vomit (that was the alternym for one regular woman poster, but Iā€™m not positive it was Zette). Two alternyms that somebody used to good effect were GOD (who posted like the real Big Guy might) and Deceased Equine (who complained of being beaten when a thread went on and on and on and on andā€¦). Anything Iā€™m missing? ---
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2000, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/168 "2000-01-22T06:09:00Z")
I thought Bug Vomit was Mike King. I also thought Deceased Equine was a shill for the admins when they got tired of a thread, but perhaps I am wrong. Daniel P. Bostaph is now Bosa Dā€™ Something-or-Other. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2000, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/169 "2000-01-22T06:10:00Z")
If you look at the other end of the spectrum, there was the mononymic multitude of LoVeRoCK. But the less said about that, the better. * * * ā€œThat it is unwise to be heedless ourselves while we are giving advice to others, I will show in a few lines.ā€ - Phaedrus, translator of Aesopā€™s Fables ---
**Author:** ![Pariah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/41988e/32.png) [@Pariah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pariah)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2000, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/170 "2000-01-22T06:26:00Z")
Satan sed: > [@](#): > > The end result, even if it is **mindane** and pointless, I take it this is a state of being equivocated with Pam Dawber? (Sound of glass breaking.) Orson Scott Cardā€”oyes. ā€˜Treasonā€™, oyes. ā€˜Enderā€™ ad infinitum en perpetua. Stanislaw Lem, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Alan Dean Foster, The Piers-Meister, Bunch and Coleā€¦ Stephen ā€˜Bump Inna Nightā€™ King. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Jules Verne. Edgar Allen ā€˜Ainā€™t No Thangā€™ Poeā€¦ And Tintin books. Man, my teenage library **rocked**! * * * _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:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2000, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/171 "2000-01-22T06:32:00Z")
Hereā€™s a few other alternyms off the top of my head. These all occured in series, rather than parallel and were announced by the posters themselves. orangecakes, nĆ©e vanillanice Arnold Winklried, nĆ©e Jacques Raymond Kilocher Yue Han, nĆ©e Ai\ Yue- Ha Ayesha, nĆ©e Lioness Saxface, nĆ©e Melanie * * * ā€œThat it is unwise to be heedless ourselves while we are giving advice to others, I will show in a few lines.ā€ - Phaedrus, translator of Aesopā€™s Fables ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2000, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/172 "2000-01-22T06:35:00Z")
Thank God I didnā€™t show up until after the lā€™Affair Loverocque!! Authors: Robert A. Heinlein, Spider Robinson, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (separately or collaboratively), Marion Zimmer Bradley, Lois McMaster Bujold, Katherine Kurtz, John Varley, Vernor Vinge, John Barnesā€¦ Do you see a pattern here? ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2000, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/173 "2000-01-22T06:37:00Z")
And of course Snark lost his -berries. šŸ™‚ ---
**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 21, 2000, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/174 "2000-01-21T19:17:00Z")
[Moderator Hat: ON] Well, I was about to agree with Satan, but then I saw that you guys got even **more** mundane and pointless! But, what the heck, Iā€™ll leave it. It did start sort of as a debate, or, well, at least related to one. But I swear, if anybody starts BUMPing threads or bringing in food and root beer, there will be hell to pay! :mad: * * * David B, SDMB Great Debates Moderator [Moderator Hat: OFF, but easily at hand should food show upā€¦] ---
**Author:** ![bigred1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9de0a6/32.png) [@bigred1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bigred1)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/175 "2000-01-21T19:28:00Z")
runs in and asks Davidā€¦ Is hell expensive? runs back out quick!! Beth ---
**Author:** ![PITA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ec8ea/32.png) [@PITA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PITA)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/176 "2000-01-21T22:25:00Z")
I think Satan would be the one to pick up that tab. Oā€™k, I know Iā€™m overtiredā€¦ I just worked 36 hours straight and then sat in the DMV for 2 hours to renew my long expired drivers license (yes, I fell asleep in the DMV- didnā€™t think it possible)ā€¦ but ā€¦ WHAT? And be assured, I think Iā€™ve overcome my urge to bump. ā€œHave you hugged Satan today?ā€ ---
**Author:** ![PITA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ec8ea/32.png) [@PITA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PITA)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/177 "2000-01-21T22:29:00Z")
Oops I ā€œPhaedrussedā€ā€¦ was that correct usage??? (I have the feeling it isnā€™t) I meant to say: WHAT are you guys talking about??? Are we back on our summer reading lists or did I completely fall off the boat? Maybe I should just sleep it off. ---
**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 21, 2000, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/178 "2000-01-21T22:40:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Oops I ā€œPhaedrussedā€ā€¦ was that correct usage??? As far as I know, there is no correct usage for Phaedrus. At least, none that heā€™s discovered yet. * * * JMCJ _Curmudgeon Of The Day_ Winner, 1/19/00 As Selected by RTFirefly ---
**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 22, 2000, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/179 "2000-01-22T00:59:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by PITA: > Oā€™k, so I canā€™t spell. Sue me. Relax, Pita; although you spelled ā€œOKā€ incorrectly, at least you donā€™t spell ā€œcoolā€ as ā€œkewl.ā€ ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2000, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297/180 "2000-01-22T01:03:00Z")
> [@](#): > > As far as I know, there is no correct usage for Phaedrus. > > At least, none that heā€™s discovered yet. I dunno, John. He served pretty well as, ā€œWhipping-Boy, 3rd Class,ā€ for a while. * * * ā€œThat it is unwise to be heedless ourselves while we are giving advice to others, I will show in a few lines.ā€ - Phaedrus, translator of Aesopā€™s Fables [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-members-return-home-please/17297.md?page=10)