# Michael Ellis, please remove the stick from your ass. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 18, 2003, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-ellis-please-remove-the-stick-from-your-ass/182698 "2003-06-18T14:06:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-ellis-please-remove-the-stick-from-your-ass/182698/1 "2003-06-18T14:06:40Z")
In [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=191016), you seem how feel the need to shit on **Parkerz** thread because you saw her use a abbreviation. Do such things make you feel better about yourself? Do they validate you? They had absoulutely no fucking relevance to the OP in slightest. You choose to pick out the sole mistake in the OP(well, it was actually in the title), and insult her for it. Your comments: > [@](#): > > What the hell are “ppl”? Oh, it’s a dumbass abbreviation of “people”, I see. Did the strain of typing an extra three letters prove too much for you? > [@](#): > > I hate stupid abbreviations and ‘ppl’ is one of the worst. And your hate somehow made it necessary to post about it? I demand that we begin a specific society dedicated to Michael Ellis and other grammar/spelling nazis. It will be called the Mighty Marching Mistakes society. Our duty? To hunt down all mistakes made by grammar/spelling nazis, be it grammatical, spelling or factual in nature, and rub it in their faces, making sure to bring it up as long as that thread is being posted to. What do all you spelling/grammar nazis get out of this? A feeling of superiority, of power? Can you give any reasons why doing this is valid? ITz nawt LIEK we spek liek thiz, dESZpite wat U might sai. In the entirety of the thread, Parkerz made two spelling mistakes, one of them she even aweknowledges as incorrect. And yet she is called an idiot. Michael Ellis, fuck off until you stop posting such inane bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-ellis-please-remove-the-stick-from-your-ass/182698/2 "2003-06-18T16:24:32Z")
“ppl” _is_ obnoxious. And **Michael Ellis** is “aweknowledgerific” for pointing that out. U rock! ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-ellis-please-remove-the-stick-from-your-ass/182698/3 "2003-06-18T17:59:16Z")
TRIL\* (\*This Rant Is Lame) ---
**Author:** ![BadBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@BadBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BadBaby)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-ellis-please-remove-the-stick-from-your-ass/182698/4 "2003-06-18T18:07:42Z")
Oh piffle, he wasn’t so harsh as to warrant a pitting. “ppl” and similar abbreviations are annoying at least and impede understanding at worst. And switch to decaf. Really. ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-ellis-please-remove-the-stick-from-your-ass/182698/5 "2003-06-18T18:28:07Z")
I think the post by **Michael Ellis** shows that he’s the one much more in need of decaf. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-ellis-please-remove-the-stick-from-your-ass/182698/6 "2003-06-18T18:28:13Z")
Ppl, ppl! Let’s just all calm dwn. ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-ellis-please-remove-the-stick-from-your-ass/182698/7 "2003-06-18T18:43:26Z")
OMG, LOL, u pit him??!?! Y?! 4 “ppl = annoying”?!? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-ellis-please-remove-the-stick-from-your-ass/182698/8 "2003-06-18T18:46:39Z")
In honor of the Society for Michael Ellis’s Grammar Maintenance Association (SMEGMA), here you go: > [@](#): > > In this, you **seem how** feel the need to shit on Parkerz thread because you saw her use **a abbreviation.** Do such things make you feel better about yourself? Do they validate you? They had **absoulutely** no fucking relevance to the OP in slightest. You **choose** to pick out the sole mistake in the **OP(well,** it was actually in the title), and insult her for it. My, I feel empowered. Humiliation and public censure to the grammatically- and punctuationally-challenged! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-ellis-please-remove-the-stick-from-your-ass/182698/9 "2003-06-18T19:05:16Z")
Meh. It was a stupid OP. Stupid OPs get stupid responses. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-ellis-please-remove-the-stick-from-your-ass/182698/10 "2003-06-18T19:45:39Z")
**Aslan2** , please be careful to preview your OPs before submitting them. **DDG** stressed this in your first attempt to Pit me. You may wish to go back and review her excellent advice. I’m not going to rag on you, but poorly written work complaining about a grammar nazi pegs everybody’s Frink-o-Matic irony meter. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-ellis-please-remove-the-stick-from-your-ass/182698/11 "2003-06-18T20:03:04Z")
Preview like a motherfucker. Oedipus ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-ellis-please-remove-the-stick-from-your-ass/182698/12 "2003-06-18T21:28:08Z")
“Frink-o-Matic irony meter.” I purposely didn’t bother to correct any spelling mistakes. I was waiting for someone to claim some sort of superiority at my mistakes, which is what usually happens with rants of ths sort. I didn’t have to wait that long. You notice that most of the mistakes didn’t really interfere with the point I was trying to get across, just like the mistake Parkerz made. ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-ellis-please-remove-the-stick-from-your-ass/182698/13 "2003-06-18T21:41:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tars Tarkas \* > \*_TRIL_ > (\*This Rant Is Lame) \*\* Fuck off. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-ellis-please-remove-the-stick-from-your-ass/182698/14 "2003-06-18T21:47:52Z")
Miller, Miller, Miller… do you just hover around the forum, waiting for someone to be pitted, just so you can trot out your “stupid OP” line? I swear I’ve seen you say the same thing or a variant thereof a few times. Or is it just me? Ya vulture. 😉 (I’m just busting on you, really.) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-ellis-please-remove-the-stick-from-your-ass/182698/15 "2003-06-18T21:52:39Z")
Don’t fuck with **Miller**. The dude is cool. 😉 * * * Some Asshole stole my sig! ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-ellis-please-remove-the-stick-from-your-ass/182698/16 "2003-06-18T21:57:08Z")
\ Miller: “Crikey, a stupid OP! With one of those around, we’re sure to see it’s mate, the stupid reply! Now watch carefully as I…” \ ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-ellis-please-remove-the-stick-from-your-ass/182698/17 "2003-06-18T22:07:06Z")
“… jam my thumb up its butthole?” 😃 Michael Ellis is cool, and “ppl” IS annoying. So there. ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-ellis-please-remove-the-stick-from-your-ass/182698/18 "2003-06-18T22:07:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Aslan2 \* > \*\*Fuck off. \*\* YRIL\* (_Your Response Is Lame_\*) (\*\*Very Lame) ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-ellis-please-remove-the-stick-from-your-ass/182698/19 "2003-06-18T22:18:30Z")
Screw you guys, I’m going home. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-ellis-please-remove-the-stick-from-your-ass/182698/20 "2003-06-18T22:29:03Z")
IMO, **Dijon Warlock** slammed him harder for his “ppl” comment in the original thread better than any new Pit thread possibly could have. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-ellis-please-remove-the-stick-from-your-ass/182698.md?page=2)