# Marley23, get in here! **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 22, 2009, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley23-get-in-here/522224 "2009-12-22T19:03:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2009, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley23-get-in-here/522224/41 "2009-12-23T00:06:12Z")
> [@ivan\_astikov](#): > > No it isn’t. I got the acknowledgement that Marley could have handled things differently and that his “Your argument is garbage” comment wasn’t quite his best work, regardless of whether he was wearing his mod hat, or not. Well, huzzah for you. We’re all 23.7% more impressed with your brilliance now. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2009, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley23-get-in-here/522224/42 "2009-12-23T01:49:01Z")
> [@ivan\_astikov](#): > > No it isn’t. I got the acknowledgement that Marley could have handled things differently and that his “Your argument is garbage” comment wasn’t quite his best work, regardless of whether he was wearing his mod hat, or not. Talk about a Pyrrhic victory. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2009, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley23-get-in-here/522224/43 "2009-12-23T02:00:02Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Some things are just too stupid to merit a reasoned response. There is little qualitative difference between that OP and the Troofers, the Moon Hoaxers, or the Birthers. Ivan’s a truther. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2009, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley23-get-in-here/522224/44 "2009-12-23T02:53:21Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Well, huzzah for you. We’re all 23.7% more impressed with your brilliance now. Well, I’m over 75% more impressed, but given the value of the orginal factor, I suspect that we are about equally impressed. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2009, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley23-get-in-here/522224/45 "2009-12-23T07:53:32Z")
> [@ivan\_astikov](#): > > Well why wouldn’t it? Are you trying to suggest I cannot take a hint? Or am averse to reason in some way? Not you. We do have a pretty big peanut gallery around here. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2009, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley23-get-in-here/522224/46 "2009-12-23T13:46:19Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > Ivan’s a truther. Tell me how many waking hours of the day one should spend pondering that sort of stuff on average, and I’ll tell you if that is me. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2009, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley23-get-in-here/522224/47 "2009-12-23T15:31:43Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > You keep using those words. I do not think it means what you think it means. > [@ivan\_astikov](#): > > Hand to hand, but not in a shaking hands kind of way, I thought. Literally yes, but figuratively no. I have to call BS though, because here in your OP: > [@ivan\_astikov](#): > > Let’s discuss it _mano y mano_, instead of man to mod. you implicitly imply a substitution of “man to mod” for “mano y mano” ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2009, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley23-get-in-here/522224/48 "2009-12-23T15:38:27Z")
> [@Sparky812](#): > > Literally yes, but figuratively no. > I have to call BS though, because here in your OP: > > you implicitly imply a substitution of “man to mod” for “mano y mano” Call it what you want, but I’m fairly sure your pedantry is impressing no one. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2009, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley23-get-in-here/522224/49 "2009-12-23T15:39:02Z")
I have edited the thread title from > [@](#): > > Marley23, get in here, you pompous prick! to > [@](#): > > Marley23, get in here The original title is not acceptable in ATMB. There’s no warning, because the original post was (I assume) in the Pit; but I do NOT want folks reading the thread titles in ATMB to think this is acceptable here. It ain’t. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2009, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley23-get-in-here/522224/50 "2009-12-23T17:54:15Z")
> [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](#): > > It ain’t. How sloppy. This is the Dope. You can post something more intelligent than that! I’ve half a mind to open a thread to complain. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2009, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley23-get-in-here/522224/51 "2009-12-23T19:18:58Z")
> [@ivan\_astikov](#): > > Tell me how many waking hours of the day one should spend pondering that sort of stuff on average, and I’ll tell you if that is me. None at all. I’m a “round earther” but I spend no time at all pondering the sphericity of the earth. If you hold a belief you hold a belief, it doesn’t matter how much time you spend on it. If I’m attributing a position to you that you don’t hold, I’ll retract and apologize, But I seem to recall that you hold to some version of the “Let it happen on purpose” 9/11 conspiracy theories. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley23-get-in-here/522224/52 "2009-12-24T00:30:25Z")
We’re now off into irrelevancies and personal sniping, so that’s enough. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley23-get-in-here/522224.md?page=2)