# 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:** 18
**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, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/341 "2011-04-04T06:12:52Z")
well, good. i’ll loan you my spare colander anytime! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/342 "2011-04-04T07:23:15Z")
Why would she want to borrow your lower case colander when she can have an upper case one of her very own? Look, this isn’t grammar nazi stuff. You don’t even try. Either start using the shift key or prepare yourself to be pelted with airline-sized bags of mixed nuts. (They hurt like high-velocity hacky sacks.) ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/343 "2011-04-04T08:31:34Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > I seriously, no lie, just broke the only goddamn colander in this house, and against all reason, _I blame you people_. Send me your details and I shall have father ship one from our family owned colander mines in deepest, darkest Africa. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/344 "2011-04-04T09:24:18Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > Send me your details and I shall have father ship one from our family owned colander mines in deepest, darkest Africa. Sure you will **don’t ask**. And I bet you’ll charge her in AUS dollars too, just to be nice, eh? 😃 ---
**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, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/345 "2011-04-04T11:02:41Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > Send me your details and I shall have father ship one from our family owned colander mines in deepest, darkest Africa. I bet they’re blood colanders. Shameful. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/346 "2011-04-04T11:39:16Z")
> [@expectopatronum](#): > > man, that’s already becoming about as played out as “hi opal”… On this message board, you are never going to stop getting shit for that. I assume you like the attention for it or you’d stop, so spare us the “aw, quit picking on me” bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/347 "2011-04-04T12:41:41Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > Send me your details and I shall have father ship one from our family owned colander mines in deepest, darkest Africa. Why would anyone want an AIDS colander? ---
**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, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/348 "2011-04-04T13:15:29Z")
> [@the lone cashew](#): > > Why would she want to borrow your lower case colander when she can have an upper case one of her very own? Look, this isn’t grammar nazi stuff. You don’t even try. > Either start using the shift key or prepare yourself to be pelted with airline-sized bags of mixed nuts. (They hurt like high-velocity hacky sacks.) no! anything but mixed nuts. i have an allergy and i’ll fall down dead if i even look at a picture of a nut, kind of like that video from the ring. > [@mswhatsit](#): > > On this message board, you are never going to stop getting shit for that. I assume you like the attention for it or you’d stop, so spare us the “aw, quit picking on me” bullshit. and how about you spare me the “how this board works” lessons, cause i know very well how the board works. the opal reference should’ve tipped you off that i’ve been around for awhile, even if i have only recently started posting. i’m having a sense of humor about the whole thing, not saying “aw, quit picking on me”. trust me, if i have something to say, i’ll bloody well say it and not take the passive aggressive route, ok? if you feel the need to respond, please do it in a PM or start a thread, so that yet another pit thread doesn’t get derailed over this nonsense. thanks and have a lovely day. ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/349 "2011-04-04T14:48:28Z")
> [@expectopatronum](#): > > i’m having a sense of humor about the whole thing, not saying “aw, quit picking on me”. trust me, if i have something to say, i’ll bloody well say it and not take the passive aggressive route, ok? So, you’re saying you DO like the attention, then? ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/350 "2011-04-04T14:58:30Z")
**expectopatronum,** your name’s not “terri schmit,” is it? There was an article in the Sunday paper about an artist who insists on spelling her name that way. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/351 "2011-04-04T15:11:17Z")
> [@expectopatronum](#): > > and how about you spare me the “how this board works” lessons, cause i know very well how the board works. the opal reference should’ve tipped you off that i’ve been around for awhile HOLY SHIT, YOU KNOW ABOUT OPAL?? Oh my God. I am so, so sorry. I can’t believe I said anything. You are like…a Straight Dope Message Board High Elder or something. I mean, knowing about Opal…wow. Wow, man. I seriously underestimated your tenure around here. You stay proud with your lack of caps! Hell, it’ll probably start a trend. People are going to want to be cool like you now that they know you know about Opal. Opal. Wow. Seriously, no idea. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/352 "2011-04-04T15:15:45Z")
> [@lindsaybluth](#): > > I like **WordMan** , I was joking with him upthread with “I have bad news for you”. Thank you. I appreciate your forthrightness and willingness to speak your mind. I don’t feel like this thread has bridged the gap: it still feels, **lindsaybluth** , like you want to state clear opinions on discussion-worthy issues, but don’t acknowledge the affect your tone has in the discussion - or at least don’t see it as outside the bounds of “normal” - and you don’t regard this as a social setting, i.e., a place where you should worry about your tone. I don’t know what do with that. ---
**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, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/353 "2011-04-04T15:23:44Z")
**sanibelman** , nope, not me. don’t hate cause i only live two hours from sanibel and can go there anytime. 😛 actually haven’t been there since like 2007 when i was in a beach wedding, it really is nice down there. on preview: **mswhatsit** , calm down, please. i just used it as an example because a lot of people have taken it upon themselves to try to teach me how the board operates. the only point i’m trying to make is that **i know how the board works.** i hardly think it makes me some kind of doper high elder or whatever you’re blathering about. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/354 "2011-04-04T15:31:30Z")
**expectopatronum** just start signing every post: regards expectopatronum you’ll fit right in. ---
**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, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/355 "2011-04-04T15:39:40Z")
i don’t want to steal **shodan’s** thunder. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/356 "2011-04-04T15:41:59Z")
You think that’s thunder? It’s more like a fart. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/357 "2011-04-04T16:05:32Z")
> [@beartato](#): > > Well, she does seem to know her way around a shift key. C’mon, people, y’all fucked up the Susanann thread 'cause of this hijack, don’t derail other threads, mkay? ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/358 "2011-04-04T16:16:53Z")
This thread is already so far afield that I feel further hijacking actually increases the probability that we will complete 360 degrees and end up back on the original topic. By the way, I felt you all should know that I have replaced the colander, so I have once again risen from the lowly no-colander social stratum into the middle-range single-colander one. ---
**Author:** ![moi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@moi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moi)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/359 "2011-04-04T16:48:45Z")
> [@ladyfoxfyre](#): > > 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. Is it to late to give this a standing ovation? ---
**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, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/360 "2011-04-04T16:58:39Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > You think that’s thunder? > > It’s more like a fart. Heh - he farts in every post he makes. My husband will be jealous when he hears of this. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575.md?page=19)