# 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:** 29
**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 10, 2011, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/561 "2011-04-10T20:56:20Z")
it just goes to show what you take for granted. before, i thought of a colander as something that everyone just had. just there, like the air. but now? i realize just how lucky i am. it could be gone in an instant, and then how would i make spaghetti? ---
**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 10, 2011, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/562 "2011-04-10T21:32:18Z")
> [@expectopatronum](#): > > it just goes to show what you take for granted. before, i thought of a colander as something that everyone just had. just there, like the air. but now? i realize just how lucky i am. it could be gone in an instant, and then how would i make spaghetti? Pfui. You’re acting like having a colander is about luck and not about hard work and being born into the right family. ---
**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 10, 2011, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/563 "2011-04-10T22:15:30Z")
you are of course right. mea culpa! ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2011, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/564 "2011-04-10T22:33:30Z")
When my mother used to make sphaghetti and it was time to pour off the water, she would call all the kids down and have us cup our hands over the sink. It was our job to catch the noodles and let the scalding hot water go through our fingers. And if you cried about the third-degree burns, well, you just didn’t do that. You just ate your spaghetti with those burnt fingers and liked it! We didn’t need no colanders back then. I blame the breakdown of society on all these damn people born with silver-colanders in their hands. This Great Recession? Colanders, people! We bought so many of them, not even considering if we REALLY needed them. McColanders, that’s what I call these monstrosities that I see in people’s kitchens. Cheap, dollar-store things that melt in the dishwasher–and yet you gotta have at least one to keep up with the Jones’s. It makes me sick. That’s why I’ve decided to go back to the old way of straining pasta–with my fingers. It’s kind of hard doing it one-handed, but at least I’m trying to make a difference. The rest of you…ya’ll don’t even care. ---
**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 10, 2011, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/565 "2011-04-10T22:54:01Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > When my mother used to make sphaghetti and it was time to pour off the water, she would call all the kids down and have us cup our hands over the sink. It was our job to catch the noodles and let the scalding hot water go through our fingers. And if you cried about the third-degree burns, well, you just didn’t do that. You just ate your spaghetti with those burnt fingers and liked it! > > We didn’t need no colanders back then. I blame the breakdown of society on all these damn people born with silver-colanders in their hands. This Great Recession? Colanders, people! We bought so many of them, not even considering if we REALLY needed them. McColanders, that’s what I call these monstrosities that I see in people’s kitchens. Cheap, dollar-store things that melt in the dishwasher–and yet you gotta have at least one to keep up with the Jones’s. It makes me sick. > > That’s why I’ve decided to go back to the old way of straining pasta–with my fingers. It’s kind of hard doing it one-handed, but at least I’m trying to make a difference. The rest of you…ya’ll don’t even care. Elitist. ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2011, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/566 "2011-04-10T23:17:00Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > We didn’t need no colanders back then. I blame the breakdown of society on all these damn people born with silver-colanders in their hands. This Great Recession? Colanders, people! We bought so many of them, not even considering if we REALLY needed them. McColanders, that’s what I call these monstrosities that I see in people’s kitchens. Cheap, dollar-store things that melt in the dishwasher–and yet you gotta have at least one to keep up with the Jones’s. It makes me sick. > . Ever since Liberals enacted anti-child-hand-scalding legislation, I tell ya, it just hasn’t been the same. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2011, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/567 "2011-04-11T00:52:47Z")
Hell. Now I _know_ why I sometimes feel outta place on this board. Colander?!? Colander_s_?!? I just chuck the spaghetti in the sink, let the drain earn its keep, pour the sauce on top and eat standing up. Dinner parties mean that the laundry tub and the bathroom handbasin come into play. Makes conversation a challenge; but at least it stops my internal dialogue of _why don’t you just_ _shut up…oh fer ferk’s sake shut up…fer cryin’ out loud SHUT the fuck UP!_ No doubt someone will punch holes in my logic, but being colanderless is good for my mental health. ---
**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 11, 2011, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/568 "2011-04-11T01:01:51Z")
> [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](#): > > … No doubt someone will punch holes in my logic … Wait, you can make colanders out of … logic . . . off to the colander store! CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2011, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/569 "2011-04-11T01:18:17Z")
> [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](#): > > No doubt someone will punch holes in my logic, but being colanderless is good for my mental health. What do you call kinky pasta? Fetishini ---
**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 11, 2011, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/570 "2011-04-11T01:19:23Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > What do you call kinky pasta? Fetishini I consider that a crime against right-thinking colander owners everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2011, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/571 "2011-04-11T01:21:00Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Wait, you can make colanders out of … logic . . . off to the colander store! > > CMC fnord! ..not fuzzy logic though, **CMC**.. it’ll hairy up the pasta. ---
**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 11, 2011, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/572 "2011-04-11T01:34:43Z")
just doing my part to get this to page 13. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2011, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/573 "2011-04-11T01:47:16Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > What do you call kinky pasta? Fetishini That’s a good joke, **Autolycus**. I can tagliatele ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheField](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@LilyoftheField](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheField)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2011, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/574 "2011-04-11T01:55:15Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > McColanders, that’s what I call these monstrosities that I see in people’s kitchens. Cheap, dollar-store things that melt in the dishwasher–and yet you gotta have at least one to keep up with the Jones’s. It makes me sick. If you put them on the top rack of the dishwasher, they don’t melt! Sure, I know it’s bragging to admit that I have a dishwasher - but that’s what allows me to have a colander! Yes, a cheap ass plastic colander, but a colander nonetheless! Of course I dream of someday having a stainless steel or enamel or (dare I hope?) an ivory colander some day - but for now I must do with plastic. And by the way - I have always pronounced it as ‘cull-an-der’ Yes, ‘cull’ as in killing newborn puppies - that is of course the only correct way to pronounce it. I know this is correct because that’s how I do it. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2011, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/575 "2011-04-11T01:55:28Z")
> [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](#): > > I can tagliatele Are you threatening to cut me? Because, just to let you know, my colander is pretty good against that. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2011, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/576 "2011-04-11T06:21:48Z")
Farfalle my intention, **Autolycus**! It was just for a little gigli. I have more cencioni than to take on the colander set… ---
**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 11, 2011, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/577 "2011-04-11T15:20:17Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I hang my individual lettuce leaves on a washing line. > [@Maeglin](#): > > Apparently now that **RNATB** is married, he has to hang his lettuce all by himself. > [@jsgoddess](#): > > It’s a tragedy when a couple’s lettuce hanging drives don’t match. I thought that fastball I left hanging over the plate was going to be wasted, and I’m very pleased to see I was wrong. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![beartato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@beartato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beartato)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2011, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/578 "2011-04-11T15:27:56Z")
> [@Indygrrl](#): > > I just had to pipe up just to say that this thread delivers on a few levels. I have lollerskated the whole way through all 12 pages. And into my heart. So long, lolicopter, I’ll be lacing up my lollerskates from now on. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2011, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/579 "2011-04-11T16:08:41Z")
You people are making a mockery of my outrage. :mad: Also, I have 3 colanders. ---
**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 11, 2011, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/580 "2011-04-11T16:58:53Z")
> [@lorene](#): > > You people are making a mockery of my outrage. :mad: > > Also, I have 3 colanders. mock mock mock [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575.md?page=28) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575.md?page=30)