# 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:** 23
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/441 "2011-04-05T23:26:47Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Now I’m confused - is **you with the face** **montro’s** twin or a rabid dog? Does this mean **monstro** is also a dog (rabid or not)? I’m a cat. We’re fraternal twins, not identical. ---
**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 5, 2011, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/442 "2011-04-05T23:36:16Z")
Ah, it’s all clear now. ---
**Author:** ![Barrett\_Bonden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5e9695/32.png) [@Barrett\_Bonden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barrett_Bonden)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/443 "2011-04-05T23:37:35Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > Et tu, **lindsay**? At risk of sounding serious, thanks. That was beautiful. If you didn’t have a colander, I would give you one of mine. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/444 "2011-04-06T00:05:25Z")
[QUOTE=Zeriel] You’re the first person in this thread I have actually envied (and I pretty much have literally everything I could want EXCEPT a vocation/calling: easy work that pays a lot, wife kid new car vacations blah) [/QUOTE] Well, I envy you for your kid! That’s one thing I haven’t gotten around to doing yet. > [@Barrett\_Bonden](#): > > At risk of sounding serious, thanks. That was beautiful. > > If you didn’t have a colander, I would give you one of mine. Aw, shucks. I might not have said anything on a different day, but I’m five weeks away from graduation after two incredibly brutal years and it’s a hard enough job without the drive-by insults. ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/445 "2011-04-06T00:19:55Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > I promise I had the opportunity to major in English, and it bored the shit out of me because I was so damn good at it. This was a wonderful post overall, but I want to point out that when Lindsey says “too stupid to major in English” she means it like “too trashy to get into Hooters”. It’s not enough to slam her target: she’s got to take a second to jab a passer-by as well. Furthermore, English did not bore the shit out of you _because_ you were so good at it, it bored the shit out of you _despite the fact that_ you were so damn good at it. Plenty of us who stayed English majors were also pretty talented, you know. You are sorta-kinda-I-assume-accidentally suggesting that the people who stayed English majors were just too stupid to get it and move on. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/446 "2011-04-06T00:34:18Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > Have you ever walked into a room full of multi-millionaires and felt like the luckiest person there? Have you ever had a billionaire shake your hand and tell you that he envies you? And your only thought was, ‘‘I don’t blame you.’’ She doesn’t always drink beer, but when she does, she prefers Dos Equis. ---
**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 6, 2011, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/447 "2011-04-06T01:15:04Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > You may touch my hem, but lay off the colanders, bitches! And don’t even think about my Taz coffee cup. > > 🙂 > > \*\*expectopatronum \*\* - bah! They’re plastic. Pedestrian! but they’re different colors! ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/448 "2011-04-06T01:38:56Z")
My wife just informed me that we actually own THREE colanders! Plus a wire mesh strainer! You may now refer to me as “Sir Lord Smeggington Three-Colander Headworth, Esquire.” ---
**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 6, 2011, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/449 "2011-04-06T01:59:47Z")
pics or it didn’t happen! ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/450 "2011-04-06T02:00:40Z")
Alas, I have but one colander. ☹ But, it _is_ a cool orange enamel one like [this](http://s6.thisnext.com/media/largest_dimension/8BB15F2C.jpg), so I’m not a total loser! ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/451 "2011-04-06T02:12:01Z")
Silly Earthlings. WE invented the colander, but we called it a helmet. It didn’t have holes. It was for Gort. Of course you changed it and screwed up your civilization. One of our many contributions to your backwater of a planet. We also invented clueless young rich girls just to piss you off. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/452 "2011-04-06T02:14:16Z")
> [@Sarahfeena](#): > > Alas, I have but one colander. ☹ > > But, it _is_ a cool orange enamel one like [this](http://s6.thisnext.com/media/largest_dimension/8BB15F2C.jpg), so I’m not a total loser! That looks like it’s from the 70s. That style is played out, man. ---
**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 6, 2011, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/453 "2011-04-06T03:45:32Z")
it’s cool in a retro kind of a way! ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/454 "2011-04-06T04:08:12Z")
This colander thing, do; [chinoises, China caps](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinoise), and mesh strainers count too? CMC fnord! Lets see, 3 silicone (collapsible, in three sizes), 2 stainless steel, 1 aluminum, 1 plastic, 1 plastic centrifuge colander (AKA a salad spinner, but it’s spun more non-salad things than salads (the original Ronco one too!), 5 mesh strainers (in three sizes), 1 large fine mesh strainer, 1 medium mesh basket, 2 large mesh baskets with extendable handles, 1 China cap with stand and the wooden thingy. Do I win anything (other than a very cluttered kitchen)? ---
**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 6, 2011, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/455 "2011-04-06T04:22:02Z")
if you have to ask, you can’t be in the club… 😉 i’ve read the word colander so many times now it’s lost all meaning. ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/456 "2011-04-06T05:47:51Z")
Jiminy jillikers! And, CMC, itemizing your colanders publicly is _very_ nouveau riche. You may as well keep the price tags on them too, to impress your dinner guests. Personally, I just make the help cup their hands over the sink while I pour the water out of the pot. Once you’ve tasted authentically hand-strained, you’ll never go back. I swear all other pasta tastes metallic to me now. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/457 "2011-04-06T06:09:12Z")
Please stop complaining about those of us who forget to use caps. There are several reasons for this: 1. Some people don’t have fancypants keyboards. Those cap keys are expensive!!! (points at self) 2. Some people were raised in the lap of luxery and have computer programs with autocorrect. They were raised knowing that the cyberslaves would auto correct. 3. Some people are Gor Kijara (read online slaves) and have been trained out of using uppercase to refer to themselves so their keyboard skills change. 4. Hi Opal. Just because I wanted to impress everyone, I used a rock and a used nail to pound holes in one of my cat’s bowls. My _cat_ now has a colendar!!! Beat that bitches!!! As soon as I get paid, I’m going to take the roll of black and white film to the drugstore, and then you will ALL be impressed!!! ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/458 "2011-04-06T06:42:19Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > 1. Hi Opal …I’m afraid I’m going to have to ask you to leave the thread. Your membership card, please. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/459 "2011-04-06T11:02:02Z")
> [@MandaJo](#): > > Furthermore, English did not bore the shit out of you _because_ you were so good at it, it bored the shit out of you _despite the fact that_ you were so damn good at it. Plenty of us who stayed English majors were also pretty talented, you know. You are sorta-kinda-I-assume-accidentally suggesting that the people who stayed English majors were just too stupid to get it and move on. I deserved to be called out on that one. I’m sorry. I love English lit, and wasn’t intentionally slamming people who made that choice. I found the English program at my university to be rather lackluster and I’m kind of a ‘‘path of most resistance’’ sort of person so I went with Spanish literature, which had all the fun of English lit but for me, twice the challenge. I am really comparing a mediocre English program with an excellent Spanish program, though, so it’s hardly fair. I doubt **lindsay** has much more respsect for Spanish majors than English majors anyway. ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/460 "2011-04-06T11:07:06Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > I deserved to be called out on that one. I’m sorry. I love English lit, and wasn’t intentionally slamming people who made that choice. I found the English program at my university to be rather lackluster and I’m kind of a ‘‘path of most resistance’’ sort of person so I went with Spanish literature, which had all the fun of English lit but for me, twice the challenge. I am really comparing a mediocre English program with an excellent Spanish program, though, so it’s hardly fair. I doubt **lindsay** has much more respsect for Spanish majors than English majors anyway. No problem. I am just a little sensitive about the value of the liberal arts. And of course lindsay has no respect for Spanish. It’s the language of poor people, after all! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575.md?page=22) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575.md?page=24)