# 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:** 17
**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, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/321 "2011-04-03T23:56:08Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > Is it pronounced “co-LANDER” or “COL-ander”? Because I’ve been saying it the first way ever since I got this thing. I pronounce it like calendar, except with more of an “o” sound on the first syllable. Is that…not right? ::suddenly sweating with insecurity as I’m reminded of the working class heritage I strive on a daily basis to hide:: ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/322 "2011-04-03T23:56:31Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > Is it pronounced “co-LANDER” or “COL-ander”? Oh my, neither! One musn’t forget the nasal plotic in the middle. Don’t tell me you were uaware? Oh this is dreadful. ---
**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, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/323 "2011-04-03T23:58:58Z")
> [@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. That’s marvelous. I’d be singing her praises too! As I mentioned earlier, my nephew is an infectious disease/pediatric med doc and have traveled extensively in Africa. He loves it there. But the things he’s seen- children dying of ear infections, bladder infections so bad urine was leaking out belly buttons, and on and on. Such poverty and such want. ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/324 "2011-04-03T23:59:27Z")
Maybe Lindsay was basing her view of Africa on this [map](http://nextround.net/upcoming/thumbs/2010/11/11/World-Map-By-Stereotypes-full.jpg)? ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/325 "2011-04-04T00:00:26Z")
> [@Cub\_Mistress](#): > > [colander](http://www.thefreedictionary.com/colanders) LAWDY NO!!! I’s been sayin’ wrong ALL DIS TIME!!! The embarrassment is enough to make me revert back into slave dialect!!! :throws the stupid bowl with the holes in it across the wall: ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/326 "2011-04-04T00:01:19Z")
Oh snap. Vows not to smack-talk ywtf again.\* \*I’ll pay my servants to do it for me. ---
**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 4, 2011, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/327 "2011-04-04T00:11:15Z")
For the record, the little girl that **monstro** mentioned did not have rabies. She’d been bitten by a dog and therefore potentially exposed to the rabies the virus. But she didn’t have the actual disease. I feel the need to say this because it’s an important distinction. Rabies is almost always fatal and it’s incurable. So if I were that talented to actually save the life of someone who had rabies, yall would not be just finding about it on a messageboard, in a thread about colanders, outruled breastfeeding, and Mauritius. I would have been on Oprah talking about it months ago. Or NPR, like **Hippy**. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/328 "2011-04-04T00:19:13Z")
> [@you\_with\_the\_face](#): > > For the record, the little girl that **monstro** mentioned did not have rabies. She’d been bitten by a dog and therefore potentially exposed to the rabies the virus. But she didn’t have the actual disease. > > I feel the need to say this because it’s an important distinction. Rabies is almost always fatal and it’s incurable. So if I were that talented to actually save the life of someone who had rabies, yall would not be just finding about it on a messageboard, in a thread about colanders, outruled breastfeeding, and Mauritius. I would have been on Oprah talking about it months ago. Or NPR, like **Hippy**. Why you gotta be so modest and stuff? The dog had rabies, did it not? The girl had a high likelihood of developing rabies. Ergo, you saved her life. But that’s not even the point, fool. The point is that you weren’t there as a mere spectator, but you actually stepped out of your bubble and acted on your empathy. Many people wouldn’t have done that. They would have hid behind their professional exteriors, drawn the curtains so that the family could grieve in private, and then gone home without giving the matter another thought. But we don’t need another hero, Miss Tina Turner, so I won’t call you one. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/329 "2011-04-04T00:29:43Z")
Look at ya’ll falling all over yourselves to deny the actually frikkin’ interesting things that you do. That’s cool. Maybe the young lady(ish) in question can learn both class and modesty from the people who have come here to make fun of her for having neither! ---
**Author:** ![Paranoid\_Randroid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paranoid_randroid/32/18_2.png) [@Paranoid\_Randroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paranoid_Randroid)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/330 "2011-04-04T00:46:48Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > Why you gotta be so modest and stuff? The dog had rabies, did it not? Or the dog could have been a time traveler, sent to protect the world from FutureHitler – whose life your meddling sister inadvertently saved. Nice going, **you with the face**. Aiee, this thread’s gone on too long, I’m starting to get punchy. ---
**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 4, 2011, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/331 "2011-04-04T00:57:25Z")
> [@Paranoid\_Randroid](#): > > Or the dog could have been a time traveler, sent to protect the world from FutureHitler – whose life your meddling sister inadvertently saved. Nice going, **you with the face**. Hey, someone has to prevent Back to the Future-styled paradoxes from occuring. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/332 "2011-04-04T01:21:25Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > 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). Jesus Christ! And that woman who did that was a NURSE! (Not your friend, the woman who brought in the dead bat.) :eek: ---
**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 4, 2011, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/333 "2011-04-04T01:22:04Z")
> [@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. > > 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. I thought electric kettles were ubiquitous household items, too, but apparently they aren’t either. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/334 "2011-04-04T02:21:42Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > Yes, I’m bragging about my sis. I love her so much that I don’t care how bad that makes me look. Kindness, compassion, and generosity above and beyond is worth bragging about. Someone’s job, not so much. And fwiw, I’m also pretty damn proud of your sister. That was a really awesome thing to do. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/335 "2011-04-04T03:18:39Z")
> [@CrazyCatLady](#): > > Kindness, compassion, and generosity above and beyond is worth bragging about. Someone’s job, not so much. > > And fwiw, I’m also pretty damn proud of your sister. That was a really awesome thing to do. I couldn’t tell if that initial comment was sarcastic or not. If it was, I’m with you. People brag (on SDMB and elsewhere) if they got a date or met a celebrity. ---
**Author:** ![expectopatronum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/expectopatronum/32/173_2.png) [@expectopatronum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/expectopatronum)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/336 "2011-04-04T05:07:00Z")
in all seriousness i think her age is a factor. i know i personally have grown more distant from the friends i have that are in their early 20’s because i have no patience for the drama and the nonsense that still goes on at that age. i still love them and enjoy their company, but i tend more towards people closer to my age. this is not to imply all people in their early 20’s are jerks, or drama queens, or whatever. i know i could be an absolute shit at that age at times, as most people can be at one point or the other. i think it’s a tough age because you’re not all that far away from the drama of high school and college, but you’re now trying to establish yourself as an adult. i don’t mean to imply lindsay is a drama queen, because that’s not really my point. i also don’t mean to sound condescending- i’m 29, so i’m still fairly young myself. however, i can say that i am absolutely not the same person i was at age 23. people change a lot throughout their 20’s, because they’re forming into the adult they’re going to me. legally, you’re an adult, but mentally, that can take awhile. i think lindsay is pretty immature in a lot of ways, convinced she has the world figured out, and for some reason has a vicious streak a mile long. i don’t see any redeeming qualities in her from the way she presents herself, but that could certainly change, and hopefully for her it will when she grows up a bit. ---
**Author:** ![beartato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@beartato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beartato)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/337 "2011-04-04T05:35:44Z")
> [@expectopatronum](#): > > … i [sic] don’t see any redeeming qualities in her from the way she presents herself… Well, she does seem to know her way around a shift key. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/338 "2011-04-04T05:56:49Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > 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: I don’t pronounce “colander.” I have people who do that for me. ---
**Author:** ![expectopatronum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/expectopatronum/32/173_2.png) [@expectopatronum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/expectopatronum)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/339 "2011-04-04T06:01:39Z")
> [@beartato](#): > > Well, she does seem to know her way around a shift key. man, that’s already becoming about as played out as “hi opal”… ---
**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 4, 2011, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/340 "2011-04-04T06:04:41Z")
> [@expectopatronum](#): > > man, that’s already becoming about as played out as “hi opal”… Nah, I’m still good with it. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575.md?page=18)