# Let's go to the quarry and throw stuff down there! **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 11, 2014, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-down-there/678497 "2014-01-11T05:43:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-down-there/678497/1 "2014-01-11T05:43:15Z")
What in God’s Green Earth is the story behind this meme? It seems to be board-specific and based on _The Office_ somehow, but I don’t have a clue what it actually means. ---
**Author:** ![Molotok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Molotok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Molotok)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-down-there/678497/2 "2014-01-11T05:47:08Z")
You might find[this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=635786) enlightening… ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-down-there/678497/3 "2014-01-11T05:47:43Z")
I asked the same question when I restarted here. Short version: a poster decided that phrase would be the new internet “rolling on the floor laughing” and started using it to encourage others here to use it. It didn’t take. At all. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-down-there/678497/4 "2014-01-11T05:50:50Z")
I’ve never used it myself, but I have to admit it makes me giggle only because **Chessic Sense** ’s post made me laugh, so yeah, I guess you had to be there. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-down-there/678497/5 "2014-01-11T06:30:23Z")
> [@Molotok](#): > > You might find[this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=635786) enlightening… This [pit thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=637351) is also of note. There have been other threads. eg [Mods, can't you tell Snowboarder Bo to shut up? - About This Message Board - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=638454) eg ["Throwing stuff down the quarry"?? - About This Message Board - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=702582) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-down-there/678497/6 "2014-01-11T06:45:48Z")
He’s still trying after over a year of doing it and getting no favorable response. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-down-there/678497/7 "2014-01-11T06:50:46Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > I asked the same question when I restarted here. Short version: a poster decided that phrase would be the new internet “rolling on the floor laughing” and started using it to encourage others here to use it. It didn’t take. At all. Of course it didn’t take, and that’s about the only useful lesson to come out of the whole thing. A single person can rarely, if ever, determine how language usage will evolve, even from within a relatively small discourse community such as this one. The tides that shape language are much larger than the conceits of one individual. Of course, it was even that much less likely to happen since he announced his explicit purpose from the start, and then executed his plan with clumsy overkill. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-down-there/678497/8 "2014-01-11T14:32:11Z")
Thanks for the clarifications. All this time I thought the phrase was “Lets go the the quarry and throw up there”, and I was all like, “Who the hell would want to do THAT?” ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-down-there/678497/9 "2014-01-11T18:07:29Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > He’s still trying after over a year of doing it and getting no favorable response. TWO years. You’d think like most right-minded Dopers, he’d clue in to how annoying his oft-repeated phrase is, and how much goodwill it burns. Regards, Munch ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-down-there/678497/10 "2014-01-11T18:17:38Z")
It’s a form of trolling that is permitted. For some reason. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-down-there/678497/11 "2014-01-11T18:41:06Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > He’s still trying after over a year of doing it and getting no favorable response. This is incorrect. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-down-there/678497/12 "2014-01-11T19:04:48Z")
I don’t think it is actually trolling since it is a kind of purposeful language experiment. I don’t think it makes any\* sense\* either, but it doesn’t get under my skin like some other posters I guess. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-down-there/678497/13 "2014-01-11T19:20:24Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > TWO years. You’d think like most right-minded Dopers, he’d clue in to how annoying his oft-repeated phrase is, and how much goodwill it burns. This is true. I wince before reading his posts, and sometimes even avoid them because he has lost so much respect in my eyes. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-down-there/678497/14 "2014-01-11T21:24:15Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > What in God’s Green Earth is the story behind this meme? Well, on this board at least, it’s not really a meme. A meme, according to the ever-reliable Merriam-Webster, is “an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture.” Here on the Dope, the quarry thing is confined to essentially one person. He _wants_ it to become a meme here, but has gained basically no traction in his unstinting effort to promote its use. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-down-there/678497/15 "2014-01-11T22:49:16Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > This is true. I wince before reading his posts, and sometimes even avoid them because he has lost so much respect in my eyes. **MODERATOR NOTE:** Let’s be careful here to comment on the post and not throw stones at the poster. If you have a problem with the poster, that needs to be in the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-down-there/678497/16 "2014-01-12T00:06:16Z")
Creed says it to Jim in the episode where Jim buys his parents’ house (without telling Pam first). Apparently Creed lives nearby and throwing stuff in the quarry is how he spends his free time. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-down-there/678497/17 "2014-01-12T00:34:20Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > Short version: a poster decided that phrase would be the new internet “rolling on the floor laughing” and started using it to encourage others here to use it. It didn’t take. At all. Hmm. Gotta give him fair credit, though, for trying to embiggen the language with a perfectly cromulent idiom. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-down-there/678497/18 "2014-01-12T00:38:19Z")
The meme might have gotten more traction if the originator’s user name was **Creed**. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-down-there/678497/19 "2014-01-12T01:25:32Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > **MODERATOR NOTE:** > > Let’s be careful here to comment on the post and not throw stones at the poster. If you have a problem with the poster, that needs to be in the Pit. (How can I argue with this and not dig myself in deeper? And she even left it open for a stone throwing/quarry joke! Nope, discretion is the better part of valor…) …Okay. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-down-there/678497/20 "2014-01-12T01:26:45Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > **MODERATOR NOTE:** If you have a problem with the poster, that needs to be in the Pit. Maybe for April Fools you can rename The Pit to The Quarry. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-to-the-quarry-and-throw-stuff-down-there/678497.md?page=2)