# Mehitabel, I am married. Start stalking someone else. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 6, 2004, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mehitabel-i-am-married-start-stalking-someone-else/273371 "2004-11-06T18:39:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mehitabel-i-am-married-start-stalking-someone-else/273371/181 "2004-11-20T02:26:30Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > To get back to the question of the OP’s location, > > Everytime I see his user name I cannot help but think of Princess Leia’s home planet. > Sorry, carry on. I thought it was just me. ---
**Author:** ![ZombiesAteMyBrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b4bc9f/32.png) [@ZombiesAteMyBrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZombiesAteMyBrain)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mehitabel-i-am-married-start-stalking-someone-else/273371/182 "2004-11-20T02:34:57Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Are you sure she didn’t just mean she wouldn’t use it again in that one post? That wasn’t the way I read it. ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mehitabel-i-am-married-start-stalking-someone-else/273371/183 "2004-11-20T06:58:22Z")
> [@Kat](#): > > I thought it was just me. Me three. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mehitabel-i-am-married-start-stalking-someone-else/273371/184 "2004-11-20T14:02:46Z")
:rolleyes: How about this: I’ll only use it in Pit threads that this idiot insists on starting about me and apparently bumping instead of letting it die as he said he wanted it to. And nobody told me what happened with **Debbie** either. I’m holding up my end of the deal and I can’t see. Are we still be to graced with his presence? ---
**Author:** ![ZombiesAteMyBrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b4bc9f/32.png) [@ZombiesAteMyBrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZombiesAteMyBrain)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mehitabel-i-am-married-start-stalking-someone-else/273371/185 "2004-11-20T15:37:20Z")
> [@Mehitabel](#): > > :rolleyes: > > How about this: I’ll only use it in Pit threads that this idiot insists on starting about me and apparently bumping instead of letting it die as he said he wanted it to. > > And nobody told me what happened with **Debbie** either. I’m holding up my end of the deal and I can’t see. Are we still be to graced with his presence? Your ‘good intentions’ didn’t last long then?? > [@](#): > > That person might be ‘justified’ in some ways, but she’s also wrong. I never intended to be that person but this thread has made me understand that I just might be turning that way. I don’t want that. > > So, while I didn’t break through to the mind that invited me into this thread, I hope I’ve come out a better poster. Let me know, nicely, in other threads if I start screwing up–I’m only an alley cat, remember. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mehitabel-i-am-married-start-stalking-someone-else/273371/186 "2004-11-20T16:22:39Z")
Huh? Being a good poster means you can’t be snarky _in a Pit thread that was started about you?_ Come ON. And can’t anybody answer my question? ---
**Author:** ![ZombiesAteMyBrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b4bc9f/32.png) [@ZombiesAteMyBrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZombiesAteMyBrain)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mehitabel-i-am-married-start-stalking-someone-else/273371/187 "2004-11-20T16:27:38Z")
Took me a while to look it up, but a moderator actually ruled on this changing of someone’s user name - see quote below from the thread about someone changing ‘liberal’s’ user name. Aldebaran has said that he doesn’t want to be called this name - and it is clearly stated below that “It isn’t acceptable to drag insulting nicknames for other posters all over the boards.” … It is insulting to call Aldebaran by a girl’s name, and serves no purpose other than to "re-ignite old battles " IMHO. > [@](#): > > It’s really very simple. You’re not being singled out, in spirit or in logic, so pouting won’t help. We wouldn’t allow anyone to jump into random threads using “screen names” that are actually insults harkening back to long-standing grudges, e.g. “Cat De-clawer”, “Fat Basher” “Circumcision Butcher”, “PC PrimaDonna”, etc. It isn’t acceptable to drag insulting nicknames for other posters all over the boards. It’s distinctly rude, not to mention annoying, to other posters who actually don’t want to watch you re-ignite old battles over and over and over again. > If you don’t like my decision, feel free to make your case to the admins. ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mehitabel-i-am-married-start-stalking-someone-else/273371/188 "2004-11-20T20:49:13Z")
> [@Mehitabel](#): > > And nobody told me what happened with **Debbie** either. I’m holding up my end of the deal and I can’t see. Are we still be to graced with his presence? OH come on, you know **Aldebaran** ’s style. A thousand cries of oppression, haughty words of dismissal and a stoic resolve to leave this childish place behind. He was back in 3 days going on about his abortive attempt at “SDMB-suicide”. The drama never ends. In short he’s thriving on the attention. I’m as shocked as you are. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mehitabel-i-am-married-start-stalking-someone-else/273371/189 "2004-11-20T21:20:44Z")
Oy! Thanks for the info. This thread has ended up the way I hoped it wouldn’t but thought it might. Well, I won’t pay Debbie any more attention if that’s what he wants. If the pitted have any say, mods, please close this if you would. The fat lady of mysterious nationality has sung. Over and out. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2004, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mehitabel-i-am-married-start-stalking-someone-else/273371/190 "2004-11-21T02:49:21Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Actually, I would like an official ruling. > > His first post, in which he said he was leaving forever, was at 11-11-2004 06:44 AM. It was followed by another two minutes later. Shouldn’t that be the Official Time? > > And if we start another pool on how long before he leaves again, dibs on five months. > > Regards, > Shodan It’s kinda dicey. At 7:18 Am (6:18 Central) he alludes to his departure. In two subsequent posts he becomes more affirmative, prompting Grey’s response. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2004, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mehitabel-i-am-married-start-stalking-someone-else/273371/191 "2004-11-21T02:54:21Z")
> [@trandallt](#): > > It’s kinda dicey. At 7:18 Am (6:18 Central) he alludes to his departure. In two subsequent posts he becomes more affirmative, prompting Grey’s response. Hit submit too soon. Too continue. I went with his “last” post in the thread, but upon reflection it seems that your claim is stronger. I bow to your superior wisdom. As God is my witness, I shall not be hungry again! Or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2004, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mehitabel-i-am-married-start-stalking-someone-else/273371/192 "2004-11-21T03:05:01Z")
> [@Mehitabel](#): > > Oy! > > Thanks for the info. This thread has ended up the way I hoped it wouldn’t but thought it might. Well, I won’t pay Debbie any more attention if that’s what he wants. > > If the pitted have any say, mods, please close this if you would. The fat lady of mysterious nationality has sung. > > Over and out. What a nasty, petty-minded adolescent you are revealing yourself to be, **Mehitabel**. Any sympathy I had for you has been vaporized by your behavior in this thread. You said you’d stop using an insulting version of **Aldebaran’s** username – yeh, right. You said you would refrain from further snarking about where is from – yeh, right. You’ve done a nice job of proving that **Aldebaran’s** complaints about you have some merit, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2004, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mehitabel-i-am-married-start-stalking-someone-else/273371/193 "2004-11-21T03:10:36Z")
Oh my stars and garters! 😃 I always thought you had a great sense of humor, **EddyTeddyFreddy**! This is the Pit. I can make fun of somebody in a Pit thread that that somebody started about me, can’t I? I’m far from adolescence, too. Calm down. I’m just having a little fun with **Debbie** in this thread alone. This is the Pit, and I hardly ever get to play in it! ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2004, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mehitabel-i-am-married-start-stalking-someone-else/273371/194 "2004-11-21T03:13:10Z")
I do have an excellent sense of humor. You’re not being funny. You’re being childish. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2004, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mehitabel-i-am-married-start-stalking-someone-else/273371/195 "2004-11-21T03:15:28Z")
Awww. The only reason I came back to this thread was to sample some ETF wit. Sorry you feel that way! Please go cuddle one of your pets, your blood pressure seems a little high. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ZombiesAteMyBrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b4bc9f/32.png) [@ZombiesAteMyBrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZombiesAteMyBrain)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2004, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mehitabel-i-am-married-start-stalking-someone-else/273371/196 "2004-11-21T03:21:55Z")
> [@Mehitabel](#): > > Oh my stars and garters! 😃 > > I always thought you had a great sense of humor, **EddyTeddyFreddy**! This is the Pit. I can make fun of somebody in a Pit thread that that somebody started about me, can’t I? > > I’m far from adolescence, too. Calm down. I’m just having a little fun with **Debbie** in this thread alone. This is the Pit, and I hardly ever get to play in it! There is a world of difference between what you’re doing and anything involving **fun**. I agree with ETF’s assessment of your posts on this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2004, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mehitabel-i-am-married-start-stalking-someone-else/273371/197 "2004-11-21T03:41:34Z")
You know, \*\*Mehitabel, EddyTeddyFredy \*\* seems like just about the coolest Doper around, and I would hate to be on her bad side, but I have to cast a vote for you in this melee. \*\* Aldeberan \*\* pitted _you_, and he should take his lumps or exit the arena as he promised. Your challenge to him, to refrain from categorizing people by their countries of origin, which was reasonable in my estimation, was ignored. Until he responds to that he has no standing, nor do his supporters. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2004, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mehitabel-i-am-married-start-stalking-someone-else/273371/198 "2004-11-21T03:56:31Z")
Ah, but there’s a difference between standing your ground on the country-of-origin-aspersions point – where **Mehitabel** is making a worthwhile argument – and behaving childishly – “Neener neener, Debbie is a poopyhead!” – which is what **Mehitabel** is doing. I can respect the first but find the second contemptible. Especially given the self-deprecating humor in **Aldebaran’s** last post in this thread. I don’t give a rat’s ass how old chronologically **Mehitabel** may be; her behavior on this user name issue is infantile. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2004, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mehitabel-i-am-married-start-stalking-someone-else/273371/199 "2004-11-21T04:09:29Z")
So her offense is she called him a _name_? After what he said about her? I’m sorry but I just don’t get it. Who has committed the greater offense here? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2004, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mehitabel-i-am-married-start-stalking-someone-else/273371/200 "2004-11-21T04:22:35Z")
Go back and read my last post. Consider the distinction I make between the argument on the merits and the level of maturity being displayed. I don’t mind invective, in fact it’s often entertaiing, but for Og’s sake, can’t it at least be creative, rather than the kind of thing a five-year-old thinks is the height of wit? I believe **Aldebaran** was overreacting in his accusations against **Mehitabel** , but her responses in this thread, including her latest snarky reference to “The fat lady of mysterious nationality”, would appear to make a case for his point, wouldn’t it? Then too, to deliberately twist a username into a derogatory form is, as has already been pointed out, jerkish behavior and at the very least frowned upon by The Powers That Be. I recall previous Dopers being warned by the mods not to do it. At the very least, it makes the name-twister look like a petulant baby. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mehitabel-i-am-married-start-stalking-someone-else/273371.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mehitabel-i-am-married-start-stalking-someone-else/273371.md?page=11)