# Merry Fucking Christmas to you, too **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 26, 2000, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-christmas-to-you-too/47222 "2000-12-26T08:59:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Morrison\_s\_Lament](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Morrison\_s\_Lament](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morrison_s_Lament)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2000, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-christmas-to-you-too/47222/21 "2000-12-27T10:55:20Z")
I used to work in a movie theater too, and observed first hand what it can do to people! We didn’t have trays or pretzels, but we had VERY little space for anything inside the kiosk in the lobby. That means going to get more candy from the basement after EVERY BRAKE!!! Luckily, I managed to get myself a job as the doorman, which was pretty sweet. I stood around for most of the day, tearing ticket stubbs and occasionally sweeping the floors or replenishing the soda machines. At the end of the day I just swept the floors once over, shut off the lights and went home. I was making about 10 bucks an hour, not great but not bad for that easy a job. Now the poor bastards in the kiosk on the other hand, they had about 8 bucks an hour and a much harder job! I feel for ya dude… — G. Raven ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2000, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-christmas-to-you-too/47222/22 "2000-12-27T11:05:23Z")
> [@](#): > > I was making about 10 bucks an hour, not great but not bad for that easy a job. Now the poor bastards in the kiosk on the other hand, they had about 8 bucks an hour and a much harder job! Holy hell, I’d commit mass murder for 8 bucks an hour. I’d rape a llama and felch a Clinton for 8 bucks an hour. I’d listen to a Britney Spears CD for 8 bucks an hour. Okay, scratch that last one. Here’s what my job entails: 1. Serve food to the customers… popcorn, drinks, hotdogs, pretzels, coffee (burn myself far too often), and candy. 2. Clean up behind concessions (it gets messy back there). 3. Work Floor (cleaning theaters) when I’m needed. 4. Run bathroom checks (make sure the bathrooms are clean). 5. Lug stock around the theater. 6. Work door (take tickets). 7. Janitorial work… like cleaning all the gunk that gets caught up in the drains, replacing the butter in the butter dispensers, wiping windows, etc. 8. Anything else the managers want me to do. All for minimum wage. Yeah, $5.75 an hour. And it’s a wonder theaters can stay in business. Ah, well, _it’s almost over_!!! ---
**Author:** ![Morrison\_s\_Lament](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Morrison\_s\_Lament](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morrison_s_Lament)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2000, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-christmas-to-you-too/47222/23 "2000-12-27T11:14:50Z")
Awww man Spoofe… That SUCKS! My movie theater was in Iceland, yours is probably in USA, we have different price structures and all, but it was still damned good money for that kind of work. Now go to school boy! 😉 — G. Raven ---
**Author:** ![G.Nome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c89c15/32.png) [@G.Nome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.Nome)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-christmas-to-you-too/47222/24 "2000-12-29T06:18:59Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by SPOOFE Bo Diddly \* \*\* > [@](#): > > I’m just surprised that you remembered all those insignificant facts about lil’ ol’ me - I think I mentioned the wrestling-site thing no more than twice. It’s nice having my own personal stalker 😃 \*\* Well, I did a little research after you called me a “before model” for a lobotomy advertisement, a fucking retard and someone with a head wound for a brain who you could only understand because you hit yourself on the head with a mallet a dozen times. I needed some information. But, ultimately, I failed to get enough. Mucko kept fucking it up again and again. Never hire anyone called Mucko. ---
**Author:** ![Profane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@Profane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profane)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-christmas-to-you-too/47222/25 "2000-12-29T06:50:57Z")
If we hurt your feelings so bad why do you keep coming back? ---
**Author:** ![G.Nome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c89c15/32.png) [@G.Nome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.Nome)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-christmas-to-you-too/47222/26 "2000-12-29T06:54:40Z")
You are using the delusionary “We” again LunaSea. There is no “We”. There never was and there never will be. ---
**Author:** ![Profane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@Profane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profane)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-christmas-to-you-too/47222/27 "2000-12-29T07:07:57Z")
If the words posted to this message board are _still_ bothering you months later why do you keep coming back? ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-christmas-to-you-too/47222/28 "2000-12-29T07:09:36Z")
😕 😕 😕 This is bizarre. Are you skipping your medication or something, G. Nome? What gives? Could you fill in a few of the blanks? ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-christmas-to-you-too/47222/29 "2000-12-29T07:58:24Z")
**G. Nome:** > [@](#): > > Well, I did a little research after you called me a “before model” for a lobotomy advertisement, a fucking retard and someone with a head wound for a brain who you could only understand because you hit yourself on the head with a mallet a dozen times. I needed some information. But, ultimately, I failed to get enough. Mucko kept fucking it up again and again. Never hire anyone called Mucko. **yosemitebabe:** > [@](#): > > This is bizarre. Are you skipping your medication or something, G. Nome? What gives? Could you fill in a few of the blanks? :rolleyes: Why is it that when most Dopers post deadpan non sequiturs they’re being witty (or are seen as _trying_ to be witty), but when certain posters do the same they’re met with blank looks, snide remarks, and condescension? Let it go, y’all. **G. Nome’s** just funnin’ with ya. At the very least, she’s coherent. ---
**Author:** ![G.Nome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c89c15/32.png) [@G.Nome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.Nome)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-christmas-to-you-too/47222/30 "2000-12-29T08:10:35Z")
Thank you very much Gadarene. The only thing I would accept criticism for here is my questionable reference to the latest U.S. mass killing. I would like to start a thread sometime about the correct attitudes to take to tragedies in far-off places. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-christmas-to-you-too/47222/31 "2000-12-29T08:24:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by G. Nome \* > \*\*You post a lot, Spoofe Bo Diddly, but you forgot to explain how you jumped from being a college student to working in a movie theatre. Or maybe I missed that bit. Could you go over that again? > > I just finished reading The Twilight of American Culture. In it the author mentioned how, in some parts of Chicago, literacy levels are so low that a lot of children, when asked where the Atlantic Ocean is, fail to give the right answer. Literacy levels are falling the world over. > > I would put money on you being able to locate both the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans and a few other oceans, possibly some seas and lakes. So what happened? \*\* What is your damage, you pathetic simulacrum of a carbon based life form? You hijack a thread for no reason to make fun of someone and fail miserably at the attempt. You are not amusing. You, are an insipid dolt with pretentions to sentience. Now, go back to the small yellow school bus where you belong and let the smart kids alone before they damage what remains of your ‘intellect.’ ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-christmas-to-you-too/47222/32 "2000-12-29T08:29:34Z")
Hate to play devil’s advocate again, but–well, what the hell. That’s where I’m headed next fall, anyway. **Hastur** , when I read that post, I saw it as an honest question that was somewhat indelicately phrased. I didn’t jump to the conclusion that it was oozing with sarcasm and mockery because there was no real reason for me to do so. What within that post makes you view it as pathetic and insipid rather than sincere? Is it only the name of the poster herself? ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-christmas-to-you-too/47222/33 "2000-12-29T08:36:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gadarene \* > What within that post makes you view it as pathetic and insipid rather than sincere? Is it only the name of the poster herself? \*\* 1. The post had nothing to do with the OP. It was attacking Spoofe in a petty fashion and was casting aspersions without merit or any cite. 2. Then the follow up which was further from the OP which was still following the same line casting aspersions about this boy’s schooling. What point did it serve to bring it up than to be petty, distract from the OP, and cause problems? I think I called it quite accurately, and as this is in the Pit, responded accordingly. Do you disagree? ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-christmas-to-you-too/47222/34 "2000-12-29T08:51:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hastur \* > What point did it serve to bring it up than to be petty, distract from the OP, and cause problems? I think I called it quite accurately, and as this is in the Pit, responded accordingly. Do you disagree? I do. You saw it as casting aspersions and attacking; I saw it as making a genuine inquiry about how **SPOOFE** ended up in a movie theatre, since it was **G. Nome’s** impression that he was a full-time college student. Not particularly relevant, perhaps, but random tangents don’t usually merit such bile from lookers-on. _shrug_ We disagree about our interpretations. I’m fairly certain that **G. Nome** will support my perspective, but we all know _she_ can’t be trusted. ---
**Author:** ![Byzantine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@Byzantine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Byzantine)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-christmas-to-you-too/47222/35 "2000-12-29T08:51:26Z")
SPOOFE Bo Diddly – I wasn’t even there and you RUINED my Christmas by not having a tray! You BASTARD! I’m so hurt that I think I need to file a massive 100K lawsuit over how much this has hurt my life, my family, my viewing experience! I don’t know how in the wide, wide world of sports you can face me! And to post this in the Pit like it’s some random, meaningless trivia! I’m so flabbergasted that I might just fart my way to the supreme court! Kricket – I’m not sure but wouldn’t any Judge worth their salt call that a mercy killing? I know I would! (Not a real judge, nor do I look like a judge, I look like a hippy chick so I guess it doesn’t count!) G. Nome – someone’s got a crush! A great big old CRUSH! Look at the two birds sitting in a tree, sucking face until I just have to pee! ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-christmas-to-you-too/47222/36 "2000-12-29T09:23:39Z")
> [@](#): > > SPOOFE Bo Diddly – I wasn’t even there and you RUINED my Christmas by not having a tray! Well, that’s 'cuz I was trying to ruin _your_ Christmas, not this random bloke who appeared out of the blue. But you can still lick my bag, m’dear 😃 And re: G.Nome… Ol’ Nomer and I have clashed in the past, an amusing and long-dead issue, as far as I’m concerned. All the stuff that Nomey brought up actually happened… and might I say, many a thanks for bringing up such pleasant memories, old bean! I had completely forgotten about the “head wound for a brain” bit! I’m gonna have to use that one again sometime… (not against you, though… that’d be too repetitive, don’tcha think?) ---
**Author:** ![Byzantine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@Byzantine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Byzantine)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-christmas-to-you-too/47222/37 "2000-12-29T09:43:00Z")
SPOOFE Bo Diddly – I’d lick your bag but I know I’d find it empty… sad how you have no balls. Really, really, sad… you ball less wonder! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-christmas-to-you-too/47222/38 "2000-12-29T09:47:56Z")
Well, I traded ‘em in for a new pair of shoes. The damn things weren’t doin’ me any good, dangling 'tween my legs like they were… ---
**Author:** ![Byzantine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@Byzantine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Byzantine)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-christmas-to-you-too/47222/39 "2000-12-29T09:55:48Z")
Well, at least with a new pair of shoes you might be able to walk on me… are they good shoes? I want you to have a nice solid pair… Now, I’m willing to give you that but they better be GOOD shoes! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-christmas-to-you-too/47222/40 "2000-12-29T11:05:16Z")
Well, they’re really more “boots” as opposed to “shoes”. More comfy, too. But more likely to hurt if I walked on you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-christmas-to-you-too/47222.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-fucking-christmas-to-you-too/47222.md?page=3)