# lindsaybluth, please provide a cite **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 30, 2011, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575 "2011-03-30T23:12:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/181 "2011-04-01T20:57:32Z")
> [@lorene](#): > > I can’t tell if you’re impressed or disappointed. To begin with, I was merely surprised. I’m becoming more impressed by the hour, though. Four pages? I could only wish some of my threads were this successful. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/182 "2011-04-01T21:08:56Z")
That was such a kindly, wise, caring post, attempting gently to point our young lady away from the perils of her own narcissism… And my first thought was "he’d have better luck digging a hole in the ocean with a collender. I mean kollander… Fuck it. Seive. Sive. Ceive. Double fuckit… ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/183 "2011-04-01T21:09:25Z")
> [@expectopatronum](#): > > ☹ > > i see the similarities, but the analogy doesn’t quite work for me because amy is at least somewhat likeable. 😉 I’m trying to squint just right and see if I can make sense of your post. 🙂 (Actually, for fast readers like me and many Dopers, it IS hard to read your posts, because I read a couple of lines at a time, and I miss the visual cues of capitalization when they’re not there.) > [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I bet you think you’re all fancy with your hoity-toity shift key. I have Ctrl and Alt keys, too! Fancy schmancy keyboards. > [@beartato](#): > > I defended her a bit in the original thread, because I felt **lorene** was kind of gunning for her unnecessarily. Of course, **lindsay** turned right around and misquoted **lorene** , so, you know, I kind of regretted that one. > > I think **lindsay** ’s been getting kind of shit on for her “child of money” schtick, and by God I hope it has some effect on her, instead of leading her to wallow in her ‘no one likes me because I’m sooooo riiiiich’ thing. Because those of us who grew up upper middle class - and despite what she may think, there were many of us, and it’s really not that big a deal - all did what she’s doing; it’s just that most of us were prepubescent at the time. I remember making fun of a classmate’s family car in middle school - my mother’s reaction was cold fury. I had not worked a day in my life, money doesn’t equal class and I was being classless and uncouth, and so on and so on. The greater point, she said, was that being classy was more important than being wealthy, and classy people did NOT gloat about their money, especially the money that they hadn’t worked for. And bragging only makes you look like an idiot when the guy standing next to you has twice what you do. Somehow I feel **lindsay** ’s parents never had this sort of conversation with her.\ That’s something that has occurred to me - the kids of well-off people actually have very little, even though they think they have a lot. None of it really belongs to them, and they certainly haven’t earned any of it. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/184 "2011-04-01T21:46:16Z")
Oh, ya’ll fancy, huh? Well, I hope you folks know that lindsay has requested that ‘ask the rich’ thread closed. You all proud of yourselves? That thread was funny as hell, and now it’s closed. (this thread is funnier, though. I wish lindsay would come back to this thread. She seems pretty capable of holding her own.) ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/185 "2011-04-01T21:55:14Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > I wish lindsay would come back to this thread. She seems pretty capable of holding her own. Didn’t she have people to hold it for her? ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/186 "2011-04-01T21:58:00Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > Oh, ya’ll fancy, huh? Well, I hope you folks know that lindsay has requested that ‘ask the rich’ thread closed. You all proud of yourselves? That thread was funny as hell, and now it’s closed. > > (this thread is funnier, though. I wish lindsay would come back to this thread. She seems pretty capable of holding her own.) That sucks! I miss all the fun threads. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/187 "2011-04-01T21:59:03Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Didn’t she have people to hold it for her? Aw Snap! ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/188 "2011-04-01T22:12:17Z")
> [@beartato](#): > > And geez louise, **you with the face** , enough with the colander bragging! _We_ had to use old pantyhose… I can still taste the nylon. That’s okay, we can still be friends. Even best friends. That’ll work out great for me because then I can tell a bunch of people on the internet about how close we became despite the vast differences in our upbringing. Which will be a really cool story! ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/189 "2011-04-01T22:29:28Z")
> [@beartato](#): > > But this behaviour obviously caries over into your real life That’s okay. She’s gonna be a [Hermey]DENTIST![/Hermey] ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/190 "2011-04-01T22:40:19Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > She seems pretty capable of holding her own. > [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Didn’t she have people to hold it for her? I thought she was a chick. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/191 "2011-04-01T22:41:44Z")
> [@Omegaman](#): > > That sucks! I miss all the fun threads. It really did have some gems. LizOnya earned a Delurk of the year award, groo posted an Oscar winning monologue, and the chuckles in that thread was gold. Just gold. ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/192 "2011-04-01T22:41:49Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > To begin with, I was merely surprised. > > I’m becoming more impressed by the hour, though. Four pages? I could only wish some of my threads were this successful. Four pages? Phfah! I’m rich enough to set my settings to eighty posts per page, bitch. I’ll believe she’s rich when I see her Rebecca Black-style “Tiday” video. “Tiday, Tiday, everyone knows I’m tiday, Tidayin’, tidayin’ cat puke wipin’ tidayin’” ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/193 "2011-04-01T22:49:09Z")
I’ll say it: I like **lindsaybluth**. She says strange things, sometimes, but we all say strange things sometimes, which is why we’re here. There are no Dopers who are perfectly socially adjusted. Yes, I’m looking at _you_. > [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Didn’t she have people to hold it for her? You won the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Campion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Campion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Campion)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/194 "2011-04-02T00:02:34Z")
**beartato** , you speak the truth. > [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](#): > > Re: the apology. **lorene** graciously accepted the apology, who knew it had to pass muster with the peanut gallery, too? Well, yeah. **lorene** is entitled to be gracious about it if she wants, but the rest of us can point out that as apologies go, that wasn’t one. It’s the equivalent of saying, sorry I mixed you up with another poster, but you’re a bitch anyway, so no harm no foul. It’s apparent that **lindsaybluth** feels like she wasn’t in the wrong, hence the non-apology. We’re entitled to note that. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/195 "2011-04-02T01:12:45Z")
> [@Omegaman](#): > > That sucks! I miss all the fun threads. I don’t need email notifications that someone has posted to a thread, I need email notifications that a thread got interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/196 "2011-04-02T02:18:16Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Colander colander colander colander colander colander colander colander colander colander colander colander colander. > > What a neat word. Not if you get colander cancer and have to wear an ostomy bag. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/197 "2011-04-02T02:55:51Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > Maybe she should’ve called it " Ask the Girl Whose Parents Are Self-Made "rather than “Ask the Child Of Money” Be honest: would \*you \*participate in a thread about somebody else’s parents annoying habits? ---
**Author:** ![beartato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@beartato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beartato)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/198 "2011-04-02T17:27:15Z")
> [@you\_with\_the\_face](#): > > That’s okay, we can still be friends. Even best friends. That’ll work out great for me because then I can tell a bunch of people on the internet about how close we became despite the vast differences in our upbringing. Which will be a really cool story! Oh shit. Will you tell everyone stories about how the first time I came over to your house (and by your house, of course, I mean the house your parents own, stocked to the brim with brand name kitchen implements, probably) and stared, in awe, at your colanders? YOUR TWO COLANDERS? And how your mom shot me dirty looks and then privately discouraged you from hanging out with me again? And your friends were all like, man, I ain’t saying she’s a colander digger. But she ain’t messing with no colander-less n\*\*\*\*\*, yo!! > [@](#): > > That was such a kindly, wise, caring post, attempting gently to point our young lady away from the perils of her own narcissism… > And my first thought was "he’d have better luck digging a hole in the ocean with a collender. I mean kollander… > Fuck it. Seive. Sive. Ceive. > Double fuckit… Thanks man. I don’t often worry about pointing this out, but just to put it out there: I’m a chick. And the word colander will never look right to me now. Also, I just wanted to get across to **lindsay** that I think all of us hit a point in our mid-twenties or so where we think “Shit, I was such a tool when I was younger!” And the more we think about it, we get to thoughts like: “And no one bothered to tell me what a fool I was making of myself, bragging about my palatial mansion with a rec room? The house my parents worked to buy that I just happened to live in? And how I was going to pull in 400 grand a year when a friend of the family handed over his business to me? God, I’m so embarrassed”. I just would think it would suck to still be making those kind of dumb statements during that time in your life where you probably should be feeling like an ass clown about the dumb statements you already made in your teenage years. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/199 "2011-04-02T17:41:09Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > Oh, ya’ll fancy, huh? Well, I hope you folks know that lindsay has requested that ‘ask the rich’ thread closed. You all proud of yourselves? That thread was funny as hell, and now it’s closed. I don’t blame her for asking it to be closed. MPB was being a dick by dragging this thread to that one. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/200 "2011-04-02T18:34:17Z")
After years of hard work, graft, and saving, I went out today and purchased my second colander. You may all now call me Smeg Two Colander Head. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575.md?page=11)