# 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:** 16
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/301 "2011-04-03T18:28:41Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > I seriously, no lie, just broke the only goddamn colander in this house, and against all reason, _I blame you people_. was it insured? ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/302 "2011-04-03T19:01:47Z")
> [@Taber](#): > > was it insured? I almost posted the exact thing. Lol ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/303 "2011-04-03T19:06:07Z")
I’m a single woman living on her own and I’ve got two colanders. I didn’t have to tell anyone before I bought them. I had no idea what this all meant for my social standing! Is “colander” this week’s “shift key”? ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/304 "2011-04-03T19:07:44Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#): > > I’ve heard that Africans breastfeed their children IN PUBLIC, so you can see where her repugnance of both is rooted. This explains it all! ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/305 "2011-04-03T19:39:36Z")
> [@lindsaybluth](#): > > Wait wait wait now…I was saying that a lot of women fear traveling to Africa. I did not say I was one of them. Yes, you did. "Unless you’re into the peace-corps granola-crunching type, I wouldn’t say “Africa”. Obviously, YMMV. **When I hear “Africa”, I hear “Nigeria, Zimbabwe, AIDS”.** I do not instantly think of South Africa or Egypt, which are two countries I look forward to visiting. " ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/306 "2011-04-03T20:00:28Z")
> [@pohjonen](#): > > "Unless you’re into the peace-corps granola-crunching type, I wouldn’t say “Africa”. Obviously, YMMV. **When I hear “Africa”, I hear “Nigeria, Zimbabwe, AIDS”.** I do not instantly think of South Africa or Egypt, which are two countries I look forward to visiting. " Um. Ew. I don’t want to go to Africa, land of AIDS, pestilence, and disaster! I want to go to Africa, land of sexy Liz Taylor-esque eyeliner and cute orphaned baby elephants. ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/307 "2011-04-03T20:08:03Z")
Hey - I didn’t say that, LindsayBluth did. Hopefully, you knew that, Freudian Slit. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/308 "2011-04-03T20:10:54Z")
Oh, I know. Sorry, I just quoted it as you since you were requoting **Lindsay** ’s quote–I was too lazy to go back and find the original actual quote… ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/309 "2011-04-03T20:22:43Z")
> [@pohjonen](#): > > Hey - I didn’t say that, LindsayBluth did. Hopefully, you knew that, Freudian Slit. > [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Oh, I know. Sorry, I just quoted it as you since you were requoting **Lindsay** ’s quote–I was too lazy to go back and find the original actual quote… No problemo. I was lazy first. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/310 "2011-04-03T20:29:31Z")
> [@lindsaybluth](#): > > ETA: **lorene** , did you ever figure out what irony is? I think maybe it’s the girl who’s never had to provide anything for herself discovering during her (paid for) experience in college that “libertarianism” and pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps really is the right way for everyone to live. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/311 "2011-04-03T20:43:59Z")
> [@lindsaybluth](#): > > ETA: **lorene** , did you ever figure out what irony is? Nice - insulting the person who questions why she’s so mean. > [@](#): > > Originally Posted by **lindsaybluth** I’m sorry, do you have more than 1 friend working in an AIDS clinic? If so, kudos, but I’d imagine most people don’t even know someone who has ever worked in one. I keep hearing Nellie Olsen’s voice with this. ---
**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 3, 2011, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/312 "2011-04-03T22:13:54Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > I seriously, no lie, just broke the only goddamn colander in this house, and against all reason, _I blame you people_. Ooh, can I have it? My Bowl project is still in the prototype stage. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/313 "2011-04-03T23:24:28Z")
Dammit. I’m always late to the throw-down. When **lindsay** was all “Do you know anyone who’s been to Africa?” to **you with the face** , I was like Tootie from the _Facts of Life_. “Oooooooooooh! She’s in trou-ble!” Not only has **you with the face** been all up and THROUGH Africa, but she once saved a little girl’s life there. The girl had contracted rabies and her family could not afford to give her the life-saving vaccinations that we all take for granted here. At the hospital, the family was mourning and wailing all around the little girl, who was still quite active and alive, because they knew she was as good as dead and that there was nothing they could do. And she _would_ have died if **you with the face** hadn’t felt so awful and did what none of the other jaded health workers would do: pay for the vaccinations out of her own pocket. Yes, I’m bragging about my sis. I love her so much that I don’t care how bad that makes me look. Someone needs to know what she did, dammit. Someone needs to know how “interesting” she is. (Oh yeah, she was also the lead CDC investigator in this [Too-Crazy-To-Be-True-But-It-Unfortunately-Is Story](http://www.theweeklyvice.com/2008/10/up-to-100-kids-to-get-rabies-shots.html). But that’s small potatoes compared to what she did in Africa.) Saving lives of people who don’t share your culture or your language…that’s the kind of stuff that people like to hear about. **lindsay** , you may be too young to be able to make a mark like that in this world, but there’s time for you yet. I would try to hang out with more **even svens** , **China Guys** , and **you with the face’s** , and drop the “girls” you know who recoil in horror about Things They Know Not. Find people who are really interesting, who are REALLY worth talking about. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/314 "2011-04-03T23:30:54Z")
When I bought my luxury-class stainless steel collander from Krogers a few years ago, the adolescent cashier\* who rang me up asked me what it was for. “Straining spaghetti,” I said, beaming with pride. On that day, I knew I had finally arrived. \*yeah, she seriously didn’t know what it was. I thought collanders were a ubiquitous household item, but apparently they aren’t. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/315 "2011-04-03T23:37:45Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > Dammit. I’m always late to the throw-down. When **lindsay** was all “Do you know anyone who’s been to Africa?” to **you with the face** , I was like Tootie from the _Facts of Life_. “Oooooooooooh! She’s in trou-ble!” > > Not only has **you with the face** been all up and THROUGH Africa, but she once saved a little girl’s life there. The girl had contracted rabies and her family could not afford to give her the life-saving vaccinations that we all take for granted here. At the hospital, the family was mourning and wailing all around the little girl, who was still quite active and alive, because they knew she was as good as dead and that there was nothing they could do. And she _would_ have died if **you with the face** hadn’t felt so awful and did what none of the other jaded health workers would do: pay for the vaccinations out of her own pocket. Yes, I’m bragging about my sis. I love her so much that I don’t care how bad that makes me look. Someone needs to know what she did, dammit. Someone needs to know how “interesting” she is. > > (Oh yeah, she was also the lead CDC investigator in this [Too-Crazy-To-Be-True-But-It-Unfortunately-Is Story](http://www.theweeklyvice.com/2008/10/up-to-100-kids-to-get-rabies-shots.html). But that’s small potatoes compared to what she did in Africa.) > > Saving lives of people who don’t share your culture or your language…that’s the kind of stuff that people like to hear about. **lindsay** , you may be too young to be able to make a mark like that in this world, but there’s time for you yet. I would try to hang out with more **even svens** , **China Guys** , and **you with the face’s** , and drop the “girls” you know who recoil in horror about Things They Know Not. Find people who are really interesting, who are REALLY worth talking about. Now _that_ is freaking interesting and awesome. ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/316 "2011-04-03T23:38:45Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > When I bought my luxury-class stainless steel collander from Krogers a few years ago, the adolescent cashier\* who rang me up asked me what it was for. What a prole! ---
**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 3, 2011, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/317 "2011-04-03T23:42:25Z")
**monstro** , why you outing me on the interwebs like that?!!! I love you too, but damn girl! And colander is spelled with just one “l”. Now everyone is gonna think of our family as being nouveau rich because you can’t spell things right. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/318 "2011-04-03T23:44:44Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > When I bought my luxury-class stainless steel collander from Krogers a few years ago, the adolescent cashier\* who rang me up asked me what it was for. “Straining spaghetti,” I said, beaming with pride Hang on just a second. Is that what a fecking Colander is? A bowl for straining spaghetti and rice and stuff? Because we have a couple of those things downstairs right now, I just thought they were called strainers or something. Bloody Colanders! I read this whole thread and never realised just how priviliged I really was. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/319 "2011-04-03T23:49:30Z")
> [@you\_with\_the\_face](#): > > And colander is spelled with just one “l”. Now everyone is gonna think of our family as being nouveau rich because you can’t spell things right. Is it pronounced “co-LANDER” or “COL-ander”? Because I’ve been saying it the first way ever since I got this thing. :crossing fingers, hoping I’m not embarrassing the family out in public: ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/320 "2011-04-03T23:54:48Z")
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