# Left Hand of Dorkness is the most dangerous poster on this board **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 20, 2005, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-hand-of-dorkness-is-the-most-dangerous-poster-on-this-board/336517 "2005-12-20T21:06:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-hand-of-dorkness-is-the-most-dangerous-poster-on-this-board/336517/21 "2005-12-20T23:40:25Z")
I thought that was crows. Daniel is my hero. I want to be just like him when (if) I grow up. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-hand-of-dorkness-is-the-most-dangerous-poster-on-this-board/336517/22 "2005-12-20T23:42:23Z")
Left Hand is the most dangerous poster on this board? Yawn. I suppose your next thread is gonna be: Pope catholic, bears shit in woods. Tell us something we DON’T know. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-hand-of-dorkness-is-the-most-dangerous-poster-on-this-board/336517/23 "2005-12-20T23:52:25Z")
> [@jrfranchi](#): > > Ravens don’t travel in Murder? If not a murder than maybe a flight of Ravens. > > Jim I think ravens are smart and devious enough to pull just about anything including murder just like Dorkness over here. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-hand-of-dorkness-is-the-most-dangerous-poster-on-this-board/336517/24 "2005-12-21T01:02:17Z")
All this may be true, but all his posts are founded in purest Bumcombe! 😉 (Congrats, **Bricker** , for doing something really worth doing, and Daniel, you deserve it.) ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Parker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@Richard\_Parker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Parker)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-hand-of-dorkness-is-the-most-dangerous-poster-on-this-board/336517/25 "2005-12-21T01:09:05Z")
A worthy anti-pitting from someone most qualified to give it (in a good way). ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-hand-of-dorkness-is-the-most-dangerous-poster-on-this-board/336517/26 "2005-12-21T01:16:23Z")
**Polycarp** : Please define Bumcombe. Google has failed me. ---
**Author:** ![Mbossa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Mbossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mbossa)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-hand-of-dorkness-is-the-most-dangerous-poster-on-this-board/336517/27 "2005-12-21T01:43:11Z")
Yep, crows travel in a murder. I recall reading somewhere (in other words, no cite) that a group of ravens is called an ‘unkindness’. Someone else can use that in a clever joke. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-hand-of-dorkness-is-the-most-dangerous-poster-on-this-board/336517/28 "2005-12-21T01:46:59Z")
> [@jrfranchi](#): > > **Polycarp** : Please define Bumcombe. Google has failed me. **Polycarp** misspells a funny :). Asheville is situated in Buncombe County. The first time someone told me that the word “bunk” (as in, “That’s just bunk, and you know it”) was derived from my county’s name, I thought they were teasing me, the same way my sixth-grade teacher was when he told us the word “gullible” was derived from the book “Gullible’s Travels.” But sure enough, [Felix Walker](http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=b&p=21), a congressman from my district over 150 years ago, prefaced a speech full of bullshit by saying, “I shall not be speaking to the House, but to Buncombe.” A word for nonsense was born. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_Stimulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Digital\_Stimulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_Stimulus)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-hand-of-dorkness-is-the-most-dangerous-poster-on-this-board/336517/29 "2005-12-21T03:52:24Z")
\*Oooh…\*so that’s where we get the term “bunkum”? Nifty bit o’ etymology, that. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-hand-of-dorkness-is-the-most-dangerous-poster-on-this-board/336517/30 "2005-12-21T04:37:47Z")
**Left Hand of Dorkness**? Dangerous? Tsssh. Let me know when he’s crushed a few empires or blown up a few planets. I mean, _really_. :rolleyes: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-hand-of-dorkness-is-the-most-dangerous-poster-on-this-board/336517/31 "2005-12-21T05:01:59Z")
**LHoD** , the praise is well-deserved! Does this mean we have to be nice to **Bricker**? ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-hand-of-dorkness-is-the-most-dangerous-poster-on-this-board/336517/32 "2005-12-21T05:12:43Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > Left Hand is the most dangerous poster on this board? > > Yawn. I suppose your next thread is gonna be: Pope catholic, bears shit in woods. > > Tell us something we DON’T know. Bears are catholic and the Pope shits in the woods. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-hand-of-dorkness-is-the-most-dangerous-poster-on-this-board/336517/33 "2005-12-21T05:24:04Z")
Our Daniel in the Lion’s Den (SDMB)? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-hand-of-dorkness-is-the-most-dangerous-poster-on-this-board/336517/34 "2005-12-21T06:55:03Z")
I prefer to imagine the OP as read by a man who has just set down his third cup of eggnog. (And I sincerely agree with the sentiment expressed.) ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-hand-of-dorkness-is-the-most-dangerous-poster-on-this-board/336517/35 "2005-12-21T12:31:40Z")
For those of us who don’t pay much attention to usernames, could someone provide links to notable LHoD appearances? ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-hand-of-dorkness-is-the-most-dangerous-poster-on-this-board/336517/36 "2005-12-21T13:08:51Z")
> [@Shalmanese](#): > > For those of us who don’t pay much attention to usernames, could someone provide links to notable LHoD appearances? Sure. Post 28. That’s a fine example of his typical dangerous, analytical full of BS self. Notice how he skewered the questoin posted by the confused **jfranchi** even thought the question was clearly directed towards **Polycarp**. \* Bastard\* is right. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-hand-of-dorkness-is-the-most-dangerous-poster-on-this-board/336517/37 "2005-12-21T13:10:03Z")
Let’s all just pretend I can spell as long as we’re at it. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-hand-of-dorkness-is-the-most-dangerous-poster-on-this-board/336517/38 "2005-12-21T13:34:58Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#): > > **Polycarp** misspells a funny :). Asheville is situated in Buncombe County. The first time someone told me that the word “bunk” (as in, “That’s just bunk, and you know it”) was derived from my county’s name, I thought they were teasing me, the same way my sixth-grade teacher was when he told us the word “gullible” was derived from the book “Gullible’s Travels.” But sure enough, [Felix Walker](http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=b&p=21), a congressman from my district over 150 years ago, prefaced a speech full of bullshit by saying, “I shall not be speaking to the House, but to Buncombe.” A word for nonsense was born. > > Daniel Thanks for the clarification and the etymology. This is a well deserved pitting, I mean Mpsimmings. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-hand-of-dorkness-is-the-most-dangerous-poster-on-this-board/336517/39 "2005-12-21T13:35:59Z")
> [@Shalmanese](#): > > For those of us who don’t pay much attention to usernames, could someone provide links to notable LHoD appearances? My previously mentioned [“Christmas war” thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=350229) Note the civil debate between Daniel and FinnAgain. No flames. No insults. Pathetic, I tell you. ---
**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:** [December 21, 2005, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-hand-of-dorkness-is-the-most-dangerous-poster-on-this-board/336517/40 "2005-12-21T13:43:49Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > Our Daniel in the Lion’s Den (SDMB)? > > 😃 Thank god he’s not our Daniel in the Wolves’ Den. _There’s_ a comment that dates me on this board. Anyways, as usual, what Bricker says, I agree with. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-hand-of-dorkness-is-the-most-dangerous-poster-on-this-board/336517.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-hand-of-dorkness-is-the-most-dangerous-poster-on-this-board/336517.md?page=3)