# Marylnshephards, want to congratulate you on great trolling. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 14, 2015, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marylnshephards-want-to-congratulate-you-on-great-trolling/731226 "2015-09-14T18:04:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Stoneburg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Stoneburg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoneburg)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marylnshephards-want-to-congratulate-you-on-great-trolling/731226/41 "2015-09-14T23:34:45Z")
Omfg… are you guys really reading the same story at a different forum now and comparing notes. You guys are fucking awesome. That’s some crazy dedication right there, I can barely muster up the energy to watch porn, and you’re going all detective on a “troll suspect”. God bless you. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marylnshephards-want-to-congratulate-you-on-great-trolling/731226/42 "2015-09-14T23:40:44Z")
You mustered up enough energy to post 12 times in the thread in question. You must have been following it pretty closely. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marylnshephards-want-to-congratulate-you-on-great-trolling/731226/43 "2015-09-14T23:45:31Z")
> [@Stoneburg](#): > > Actually that pushed me towards “not a troll”. She has 400+ posts and a normal looking profile pic. > [@Stoneburg](#): > > Omfg… are you guys really reading the same story at a different forum now and comparing notes. _Looks at username_ _Looks at username_ WTF happened there? ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marylnshephards-want-to-congratulate-you-on-great-trolling/731226/44 "2015-09-14T23:52:50Z")
> [@Stoneburg](#): > > Not saying that the poster is NOT a cigar chomping whatever, I just don’t think the scenario in the thread is unlikely. In fact I think it is pretty mundane. It’s too mundane, so that’s why all the back and forth on the text messages, otherwise there would be no continued drama. Likewise, once she meets the guy then it becomes anticlimactic. Sex happens once (or twice or three times) more in the universe. Who cares? I remember getting all worked up about a troll who was pretending to be a former vet or something and others were saying how they didn’t care, they were just enjoying the story. I feel that way on this one. I have no idea if it’s a 40-year-old guy or what, but the story is kind of winding down. I’m not a writer, so it’s hard to see where the plot can go from here without jumping the shark, if it hasn’t with the anal. I guess they could meet and then there would be another week or so of material there, but then what? I guess this is my problem, I lack the imagination to be a good troll. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marylnshephards-want-to-congratulate-you-on-great-trolling/731226/45 "2015-09-14T23:56:36Z")
> [@Stoneburg](#): > > Actually that pushed me towards “not a troll”. She has 400+ posts and a normal looking profile pic. Oh yes. She’s got a normal look pic, well that has to be legit because a troll would never use a fake picture. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marylnshephards-want-to-congratulate-you-on-great-trolling/731226/46 "2015-09-15T00:01:10Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > I guess this is my problem, I lack the imagination to be a good troll. Apparently, so did Marlyn. Thread in question closed, my faith in myself and humanity further eroded. Same old, same old. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marylnshephards-want-to-congratulate-you-on-great-trolling/731226/47 "2015-09-15T00:17:48Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > Again, I don’t think many people found that weird. What is weird (and unbelievable) are her later questions about it. The weird part to me is going to a new messageboard and making it your first post there. That’s what gets me skeptical. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marylnshephards-want-to-congratulate-you-on-great-trolling/731226/48 "2015-09-15T00:18:00Z")
Well, I guess someone will have to continue the story here to satisfy our prurient tendencies. Who’s it going to be? **TokyoBayer** has already tapped out due to lack of imagination. **Morgenstern** is too jaded. **Stoneburg** wants the truth, not a story. **Martian Bigfoot** , I think it’s up to you. You can write updates while waiting for an appointment with your therapist. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marylnshephards-want-to-congratulate-you-on-great-trolling/731226/49 "2015-09-15T00:24:05Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > **Martian Bigfoot** , I think it’s up to you. You can write updates while waiting for an appointment with your therapist. Oh, dear God… Wait, isn’t there a rule about how this isn’t the Penthouse forum, and we should take our erotic fiction elsewhere? I think I’ll just settle for: Cobalt gets run over by a bus, and Marlyn meets, falls in love with and marries the lady at the place where she buys her running shoes. ThE enD, or however the kids spell it these days. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marylnshephards-want-to-congratulate-you-on-great-trolling/731226/50 "2015-09-15T00:45:46Z")
**umkay** was a good and pathetic troll, and the denial went on for days or weeks until someone finally found this troll had been posting similar outlandish stories on other forums and was finally banned. Her/its sycophants were CRUSHED when they had to accept the truth. I wasn’t fooled then, and this one I saw coming a lightyear away (and it was a lame troll). ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marylnshephards-want-to-congratulate-you-on-great-trolling/731226/51 "2015-09-15T01:01:57Z")
Marlyn still isn’t showing up as banned, though, for whatever that is or isn’t worth. Still “guest”. Maybe the mods are just teasing us. Not that I’m expecting or particularly hoping for further contributions. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marylnshephards-want-to-congratulate-you-on-great-trolling/731226/52 "2015-09-15T01:07:33Z")
> [@Stoneburg](#): > > She has 400+ posts and a normal looking profile pic. That head…isn’t attached to anything. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marylnshephards-want-to-congratulate-you-on-great-trolling/731226/53 "2015-09-15T01:42:06Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > Marlyn still isn’t showing up as banned, though, for whatever that is or isn’t worth. Still “guest”. Maybe the mods are just teasing us. > > Not that I’m expecting or particularly hoping for further contributions. Well, it’s not quite beyond the “shadow of doubt” right now. Someone new blasted in here with a piece of erotica, and hooked many to read and participate. Whether or not it’s true or a troll would take a bit more evidence. But in light of past experience; total troll. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marylnshephards-want-to-congratulate-you-on-great-trolling/731226/54 "2015-09-15T03:56:14Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Someone new blasted in here with a piece of erotica, and hooked many to read and participate. I’m not going to go back and take tally, but it seems that many, if not most, weren’t taking him/her seriously. It was a pretty impressive count of views and participants, though. ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marylnshephards-want-to-congratulate-you-on-great-trolling/731226/55 "2015-09-15T04:32:15Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Cheap yuks, definitely. Fat and sweaty, all signs point to yes. Cigar chompin’? Maybe, but store-brand cheese puffs—or whatever mommy keeps stocked—is a far safer bet. > > But _cabbie_? If you think these trolls have actual jobs, you’re out of your gourd. I’m guessing “Mary’s” only income is a disability check for ADHD, Chronic Persistent Basement Syndrome, Adult Onset Employment-Responsibility Anxiety, or the like. You speak the truth, no doubt, but fat, sweaty, cigar-chompin’ cabbie is my go-to image of a troll ever since a friend of mine encountered one in NYC. He happened to see Elizabeth Taylor arrive at a hotel in a limousine and sweep in for some occasion while a group of adoring gays raved rather swishily about her (not that there’s anything wrong with that–well, there is, but not because they were gay). “She’s so beautiful!” “She’s _too_ beautiful!” “She’s _tragically_ beautiful!”, etc. “She’s a fat pig,” a gravelly voice interrupted. The fan club stopped cold with a collective gasp and turned as one to a fat, sweaty, cigar chompin’ cabbie on the sidewalk beside his cab. “Did you see her waddle in? Must be feeding time at the trough,” which of course inspired the most strident, lispy protestations from her admirers as the cabbie continued to bait them. So when I see “teenkitty15” or “MaryInshepards”, I imagine, rather fondly I admit, that fat, sweaty, cigar chompin’ cabbie typing ungrammatically with dirty, pudgy fingers and chuckling throatily between coughing fits, even if he’s more likely a basement-dwelling social misfit. I’m hopelessly romantic like that. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marylnshephards-want-to-congratulate-you-on-great-trolling/731226/56 "2015-09-15T05:33:16Z")
There will always be credulous men on the internet wanting to hear about a woman’s love life. They need to remember internet rule 16. One of the funniest parts of the Ashley Madison leak is [how much of a sausage fest it was.](http://www.businessinsider.com/ashley-madison-almost-no-women-2015-8) ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marylnshephards-want-to-congratulate-you-on-great-trolling/731226/57 "2015-09-15T08:47:47Z")
There’s trolling, and then there’s TROLLING. Mary is just trolling and folks are playing along with him. There’s no nasty deception or deliberate antagonizing. It’s just someone’s over-the-top sock putting on an amusing false persona. A sock-hop rather than a smelly old boot. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marylnshephards-want-to-congratulate-you-on-great-trolling/731226/58 "2015-09-15T09:11:32Z")
I think Mary and [Chevelle](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=768624) should tag-team. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marylnshephards-want-to-congratulate-you-on-great-trolling/731226/59 "2015-09-15T11:00:34Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > I’m not a writer, so it’s hard to see where the plot can go from here without jumping the shark, if it hasn’t with the anal. I guess they could meet and then there would be another week or so of material there, but then what? Maybe a complete mood shift could do the trick. Like, say, it turns out that Cobalt is actually Doc Brown. Or someone discovers a portal to Narnia. N@\*nia. No, wait, now we’re back to erotica. ---
**Author:** ![Stoneburg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Stoneburg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoneburg)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marylnshephards-want-to-congratulate-you-on-great-trolling/731226/60 "2015-09-15T11:58:58Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > You mustered up enough energy to post 12 times in the thread in question. You must have been following it pretty closely. Clicking threads on THIS forum is what is taking up all my energy and preventing me from watching porn. If I were to start clicking another one right now… just the thought is exhausting. But it was not an insult (so fuck you, you cum guzzling cock gobbler, burn in hell!), I think this whole situation is funny. I’m not judging (unlike you, you fucking judgmental hypocritical asshole). Ps. We’re allowed to talk like this in the Pit, right? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marylnshephards-want-to-congratulate-you-on-great-trolling/731226.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marylnshephards-want-to-congratulate-you-on-great-trolling/731226.md?page=4)