# Make up a rumour about the above user

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-rumour-about-the-above-user/760615
**Category:** Thread Games
**Created:** [July 22, 2016, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-rumour-about-the-above-user/760615 "2016-07-22T18:50:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 51

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### Author: ![boson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boson/32/11407_2.png) [@boson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boson)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2018, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-rumour-about-the-above-user/760615/1002 "2018-06-20T05:47:13Z")

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Blue Blistering Barnacle had for years been collecting century old railroad ties, rails and old rail cars. He hopes to recreate The Underground Railroad.

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### Author: ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2018, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-rumour-about-the-above-user/760615/1003 "2018-06-20T19:27:54Z")

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Boson tried to get a finder’s fee for introducing BBB to a salesman at The Boring Company. They just laughed and brandished what was almost certainly not a flamethrower.

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### Author: ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2018, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-rumour-about-the-above-user/760615/1004 "2018-06-20T19:30:46Z")

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TruCelt recently uncovered a conspiracy to replace all of the world’s billiard balls with wax paper, and lives in constant dread of cuestick-carrying thugs putting him/her in a side pocket somewhere.

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### Author: ![boson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boson/32/11407_2.png) [@boson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boson)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2018, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-rumour-about-the-above-user/760615/1005 "2018-06-21T05:26:06Z")

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Prof. Pepperwinkle makes a living posing for “Before” pictures.

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### Author: ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2018, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-rumour-about-the-above-user/760615/1006 "2018-06-21T13:24:50Z")

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**boson** rocks his soul in the boson of Abraham.

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### Author: ![boson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boson/32/11407_2.png) [@boson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boson)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2018, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-rumour-about-the-above-user/760615/1007 "2018-06-23T05:50:43Z")

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Annie-Xmas is signing up for the U.S. Space Force because she’s often been told she is a space cadet.

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### Author: ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2018, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-rumour-about-the-above-user/760615/1008 "2018-06-23T22:27:12Z")

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**boson** has always been all that he could be.

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### Author: ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2018, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-rumour-about-the-above-user/760615/1009 "2018-06-24T05:03:32Z")

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**BBB** has translated all of the Tintin comics into Urdu, Basque, Gaelic, Swahili, Xhosa and Sindarin, and recites them at length to unwilling, frightened children.

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### Author: ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2018, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-rumour-about-the-above-user/760615/1010 "2018-06-24T23:48:35Z")

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\*\* Elendil’s Heir\*\* had a bit part playing a waiter in episodes of “Seinfeld”, “The Sopranos”, and “Star Wars”.

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### Author: ![Crazy\_Canuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazy_canuck/32/5282_2.png) [@Crazy\_Canuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazy_Canuck)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2018, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-rumour-about-the-above-user/760615/1011 "2018-06-26T23:38:18Z")

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**Blue Blistering Barnacle** sounds like why you should call your doctor if your erection lasts longer than four hours.

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### Author: ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2018, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-rumour-about-the-above-user/760615/1012 "2018-06-27T00:04:05Z")

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Crazy Canuck can receive letters that are addressed to him in name only–no street number, city or postal code required.

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### Author: ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2018, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-rumour-about-the-above-user/760615/1013 "2018-06-27T01:47:13Z")

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**cornflakes** is in fact mostly made of wheat and peanut sweepings.

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### Author: ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2018, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-rumour-about-the-above-user/760615/1014 "2018-06-27T04:23:00Z")

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(It’s true!)

Research labs have tested and proven that no rumors are able to stick to Nonsuch. The actual mechanism of irrumorability is not yet understood.

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### Author: ![boson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boson/32/11407_2.png) [@boson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boson)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2018, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-rumour-about-the-above-user/760615/1015 "2018-06-28T04:35:16Z")

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Cornflakes was once asked what he thought the meaning of life was. His response verbatim: Like, you know…like, it’s like get yours, ya know? And maybe like be nice.

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### Author: ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2018, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-rumour-about-the-above-user/760615/1016 "2018-06-28T05:09:01Z")

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boson put up the bear crossing sign on I-20 near Delphi as a joke, but the Louisiana Highway Department was wooshed and now maintains it.

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### Author: ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2018, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-rumour-about-the-above-user/760615/1017 "2018-06-28T13:15:33Z")

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**cornflakes** collects corn flakes, looking for two that are just alike. So far, no luck.

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### Author: ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2018, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-rumour-about-the-above-user/760615/1018 "2018-06-28T23:46:20Z")

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\*\* Annie-Xmas\*\* has five pseudonyms and holds three slots in the FBI’s ‘Ten Most Wanted’ list.

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### Author: ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2018, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-rumour-about-the-above-user/760615/1019 "2018-06-29T14:34:33Z")

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The other seven slots of the FBI’s ‘Ten Most Wanted’ list are taken up by relatives of **Blue Blistering Barnacle** : Azure Annoying Anthouse, Cobalt Coughing Cathouse, Denim Dryheaving Doghouse, Electricblue Exacting Egghouse, Federalblue Farting Fairhouse, Glaucousblue Galvanizing Ganghouse, Havanablue Heaving Henhouse, and Indigo Itching Igloo.

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### Author: ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2018, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-rumour-about-the-above-user/760615/1020 "2018-06-30T01:01:41Z")

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**Annie-Xmas** is being sued by the Hallmark people and may have to change her moniker due to its similarity to the title of their 346th holiday movie: “Any Christmas.”

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### Author: ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2018, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-rumour-about-the-above-user/760615/1021 "2018-06-30T02:15:55Z")

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They say **Burpo** ’s mother was quite a bitch.

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