# Mild Pitting of Beck
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [October 12, 2024, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691 "2024-10-12T05:25:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 68
### Author:  [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2026, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1341 "2026-07-01T15:31:43Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#):
>
> I’ve found my hair shirt. And am now flagellatin’(get over it, it ain’t funzees, per se).
Have you no spiked garter? That’s when the real fun begins
---
### Author:  [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2026, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1342 "2026-07-01T20:15:09Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
>
> a official language police
Pull over, sonny. I’m writing you a ticket.
---
### Author:  [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2026, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1343 "2026-07-01T20:17:49Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#):
>
> I’m writing you a ticket.
But ossifer, I was doing less than 55mph.
That’s another ticket!
Fewer?
---
### Author:  [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2026, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1344 "2026-07-02T00:29:24Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#):
>
> Pull over, sonny.
“Uh, that’s ‘Sonny’? You know, with a capital ‘S’ because it’s being used as a form of metonymy?”
---
### Author:  [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2026, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1345 "2026-07-02T00:54:10Z")
I think of metonymy as when you refer to something/some people by one of its/their characteristics, usually the place of origin: “Houston wants us to increase our sales volume” or “The White House says the GASF is the best attended fair in the history of the universe.” Obviously, the city of Houston doesn’t literally want anything, and the White House is just a building that can’t speak, but that’s metonymy for you.
So I’m not sure how “sonny” (or “Sonny”) is metonymy, but happy to learn!
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#):
>
> I was doing less than 55mph.
That’s another ticket alright! Or is it all right? And what if you were going more than 55? Would that be a ticket, or would it be ticket-worthy if you were going over 55?
Maybe @wolfpup can prescriptivize us out of this mess.
---
### Author:  [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2026, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1346 "2026-07-02T01:40:44Z")
> a figure of speech in which a concept is referred to by the name of something associated with that thing or concept. (Wikipedia)
Sonny is more of a sobriquet, but since it’s only used for males, it seemed to meet the criterion. It doesn’t meet the part-for-whole form of metonymy (“Man, them’s some sweet wheels!”)
---
### Author:  [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2026, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1347 "2026-07-02T02:01:32Z")
> [@susan](#):
>
> part-for-whole form of metonymy (“Man, them’s some sweet wheels!”)
FWIW, that’s not metonymy, it’s the related concept of synecdoche, where there’s a literal connection of part-for-whole or whole-for-part being used to reference the object. Metonymy relies on a non-literal associated concept, as in the examples that @CairoCarol gave.
---
### Author:  [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2026, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1348 "2026-07-02T02:34:16Z")
True. Thanks.
---
### Author:  [@Krav\_Manga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krav_Manga)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2026, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1349 "2026-07-02T03:02:02Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#):
>
> If we see him again, that is.
You know this, the world knows this.
---
### Author:  [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2026, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1350 "2026-07-02T03:05:47Z")
_“A rationalization is better than sex. Have you ever gone more than one week without one good juicy rationalization?”_
–Jeff Goldblum, _The Big Chill_
---
### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2026, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1351 "2026-07-02T05:19:00Z")
Rationalizion for not getting any, sounds like.
---
### Author:  [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2026, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1352 "2026-07-02T06:52:00Z")
At 67, I’ve can look back over the decades and confirm that I had sex a few times that I had to rationalize.
Retrospectively, it was rarely if ever a good idea.
---
### Author:  [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2026, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1353 "2026-07-02T09:45:45Z")
> [@wolfpup](#):
>
> "Tho’”? What word is this that thou hast scribed? Is it to be found in any dictionary? No, it is not.
“Tho” is just leftovers after you take the “ugh!” out of the “though”.
---
### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2026, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1354 "2026-07-02T16:45:24Z")
_“Are you sure it isn’t time for a colorful metaphor, Captain?”_ Spock in Star Trek, The Voyage Home.
(how’s that for a dumbass quote? Never the less, I love it)
---
### Author:  [@Mk\_VII](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mk_VII)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2026, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1355 "2026-07-02T18:11:16Z")
For a ‘mild pitting’ this has sure got legs.
---
### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2026, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1356 "2026-07-02T18:37:54Z")
The Pitting of Beck is mild. It’s another person in this thread who got the severe Pitting.
---
### Author:  [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2026, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1357 "2026-07-02T20:41:41Z")
> [@Mk\_VII](#):
>
> For a ‘mild pitting’ this has sure got legs.
Fun for all, Beck included, one hopes.
---
### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2026, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1358 "2026-07-02T21:13:22Z")
Winner winner, chicken dinner!! 😂
---
### Author:  [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2026, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1359 "2026-07-04T09:04:16Z")
Hey @Beckdawrek, from the thread you started that got locked by the mods, how should we interpret this bit?
> [@My answer. Once and only once and hopefully last word on it](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-answer-once-and-only-once-and-hopefully-last-word-on-it/1031393/1):
>
> If it turns out you cannot tolerate me like I am, I guess I have no recourse, except to leave this community that I love so so much.
is your exit imminent, or is this more “woe is me, look at me” bullshit?
@chela, you might want to set an alarm for three weeks from now to bitch about the unfairness this vicious attack.
---
### Author:  [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2026, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1360 "2026-07-04T11:41:56Z")
🙄
[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691.md?page=67)
[Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691.md?page=69)