Cool! My first convert! You want to be pope?
Only if I can wear all the Pope Bling. And get to have hot lesbian sex.
Miller, you rock.
Urine a lot of trouble for that pun, my friend…
I am a geek and proud of it.
I also love the dope, the Straight Dope that is.
If you have such a problem with this place, leave.
I bet Valteron lives in his parents basement and loves Star Trek.
Tant pis.
Oh, well done. Yes, you got us but good. We are still reeling from the effects of your pithy, deft handling of this. We stand speechless and awestruck at your wit and cleverness. But it’s after your curfew now–best be off.
pssst–perhaps those posters got “abusive” because you acted like a jerk? Could you have had a part in this sideshow? Food for thought-now go to your room.
I guess we have said all we are going to say about this, so here is a way to close this thread off:
“Heh, heh, heh! I guess most of you recognized that I was really doing the mean Captain Kirk from episode 512 of Star Trek when I wrote all that nasty stuff. Of course that is not how I think about me and my fellow straight dopers. We are all noble fonts of knowledge and a light unto the nations. Let others go out there and start companies, produce works of art, raise families, cure diseases and all those useless pastimes. WE have better things to do with our time like discuss how many exclamation points a person should put at the end of a sentence.”
Thanks to all who posted, it has been a fun ride.
Unfortunately, if you are being sincere, you have just admitted to trolling, a bannable offense.
If you were attempting to be ironic or sarcastic, you have simply displayed that your skiils in those areas need a LOT of work.
Ottawa is way nicer than DC, by the way, even taking into account idiot residents.
<puzzled squinched forehead>
With all due respect (and you may interpret however your baby heart desires), why on earth do I care what adjectives you ascribe by my geekishness? I earned the “geek” title, thanks, with hard work, perserverance, and years of learning at my betters’ elbows.
I value my abilities, my skills, and my patience in teaching geeks and nerds with less experience. And you call that “pathetic”?
Go away, Valteron, if “cybernerds” bother you. Some of us take pride in being geeks.
I want to say just a few things:
A) Can no one here, in five pages of posts (which I just skimmed, so forgive me if I am wrong) admit that maybe, just maybe, this place takes itself just a weeee bit too seriously?
B) I find it unfortunate that anyone would infer a person should consider suicide, regardless of how annoying they may be on a message board. We are all human after all, with real lives and consequences for our actions in the real world. Let’s not devalue each other’s humanity, ever though we dislike some people’s online persona.
- I a paid $14.95 to drink **John Corrado’s ** urine.
The term is, “Self-liberation by mod.”
Have you familiarity with the OP’s fetish?
Infer or imply?
The references to suicide have been prompted by the repeated posts (and threads) submitted by Valteron, himself, advocating suicide as a legitimate means of leaving this life.
As to how “serious” posters take this board, there may be a few who do take it too seriously. However, as has been pointed out in several posts that you seemed to have missed in your skimming, the umbrage taken was not due to an attack on the board, but the attack on the posters.
There are a number of regulars who take themselves too seriously, but I’ve never got the impression that elitism was the norm. Or maybe I’m just too elite to notice.
The OP has gone out of his way to bring up the subject repeatedly. Frankly, he’s one of the members taking himself too seriously. Suicidal and a recovering alcoholic and drowning in the self-loathing he’s desperately trying to provoke in others, perhaps on the theory that if others hate him, too, his hatred of himself won’t seem quite so pointlessly self-inflicted and masturbatory?
I speculate wildly, of course.
Then you shall be the First Lesbian Pope of the Church of Millerism!
Huzzah!
I find your ideas intriguing, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. Are there pictures?
Give me time, my Popemobile hasn’t even been built.
Is the OP done yet?
And you say you don’t give a shit?
Only a true elitist denies his elitism.