# Minotaurus; follow the trail of breadcrumbs... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 3, 2006, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minotaurus-follow-the-trail-of-breadcrumbs/363095 "2006-07-03T21:25:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minotaurus-follow-the-trail-of-breadcrumbs/363095/81 "2006-07-04T09:42:34Z")
[QUOTE=Oakminster] Oh, and according to my battered copy of the Dungeon Master’s Guide and Monster Manual, when you’ve finished beating the guest of honor, we’ll need to douse the corpse with oil and burn him up…unless your rapier wit is actually a Sword of Wounding… [/QUOTE] Minotaurs don’t regenerate! Oh… ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minotaurus-follow-the-trail-of-breadcrumbs/363095/82 "2006-07-04T11:20:41Z")
**Buckler of Swashing** that was absolutely beautiful! **Minotaurus** ,I’m a woman who is a damned good programmer and a former fencer. I can also construct a logical argument using correct grammar in at least three different languages. While I won’t speak for **Revenant Threshold** , I don’t fear you. I’ve been taking on louts like you since second grade, and I have a winning record. I’m sure there are places on the web more suited to your sexist, troglodytic views. I suggest you take them there. This is not a place where they would be considered original or welcome. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minotaurus-follow-the-trail-of-breadcrumbs/363095/83 "2006-07-04T11:25:37Z")
[QUOTE=MrDibble] Shipworms? [/QUOTE] Well, **Happy Clam** in good form is a real pleasure _to read, oh!_ 😛 ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minotaurus-follow-the-trail-of-breadcrumbs/363095/84 "2006-07-04T11:48:45Z")
[QUOTE=Polycarp] Well, **Happy Clam** in good form is a real pleasure _to read, oh!_ 😛 [/QUOTE] Ouch! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tom\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_P)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minotaurus-follow-the-trail-of-breadcrumbs/363095/85 "2006-07-04T12:05:29Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] 😕 How could a **Scandinavian conservative** possibly believe that?! [/QUOTE] As a Scandinavian conservative[sup]TM[/sup], I would like to distance myself from the bullheaded cretin, and apologize on behalf of us all. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minotaurus-follow-the-trail-of-breadcrumbs/363095/86 "2006-07-04T12:30:16Z")
[QUOTE=Oakminster] _I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together._ [/QUOTE] Damnit, **Oakminster**! You got up in the middle of the night just to steal my post! OK for you, pal. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minotaurus-follow-the-trail-of-breadcrumbs/363095/87 "2006-07-04T12:42:53Z")
[QUOTE=Minotaurus] so you are a howler, a nitpicker and a clueless debater who’s mind is open for most to see i see your tracks Revenant :smack: [/QUOTE] Minataurus, you appear to be a lying muckraker. You are in desperate need of running your posts through a Word Processor to at make them semi-literate. \* I stopped reading your posts as they were either too stupid to deal with or too trollish. I am very happy we may now call you what you are. TROLL! **Revenant Threshold** , thank you for starting this thread. Happy Clam, that was a great, funny and biting post. Jim - Yes, this is coming from someone with a grammar, spelling and punctuation problem. ---
**Author:** ![Minotaurus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Minotaurus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minotaurus)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minotaurus-follow-the-trail-of-breadcrumbs/363095/88 "2006-07-04T12:48:51Z")
[QUOTE=Siege] **Buckler of Swashing** that was absolutely beautiful! **Minotaurus** ,I’m a woman who is a damned good programmer and a former fencer. I can also construct a logical argument using correct grammar in at least three different languages. While I won’t speak for **Revenant Threshold** , I don’t fear you. I’ve been taking on louts like you since second grade, and I have a winning record. I’m sure there are places on the web more suited to your sexist, troglodytic views. I suggest you take them there. This is not a place where they would be considered original or welcome. [/QUOTE] sure you are, but it wount change the fact that most men are both better programmers and fencers than most women the fact that you as a woman may be very good programmer (and good at building fences) arent any proof that most women are very good at those things ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minotaurus-follow-the-trail-of-breadcrumbs/363095/89 "2006-07-04T12:58:26Z")
[QUOTE=Minotaurus] sure you are, but it wount change the fact that most men are both better programmers and fencers than most women the fact that you as a woman may be very good programmer (and good at building fences) arent any proof that most women are very good at those things [/QUOTE] So how long have you been a programmer, I mention to you before on this very subject, that you are a know nothing idiot. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minotaurus-follow-the-trail-of-breadcrumbs/363095/90 "2006-07-04T13:00:16Z")
[QUOTE=Minotaurus] (and good at building fences) [/QUOTE] We are amused. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minotaurus-follow-the-trail-of-breadcrumbs/363095/91 "2006-07-04T13:01:46Z")
[QUOTE=Minotaurus] sure you are, but it wount change the fact that most men are both better programmers and fencers than most women the fact that you as a woman may be very good programmer (and good at building fences) arent any proof that most women are very good at those things [/QUOTE] Oh come fucking on. Nobody that can afford internet access could possibly be dumb enough to miss the point of the fencing comment. Could they? ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minotaurus-follow-the-trail-of-breadcrumbs/363095/92 "2006-07-04T13:03:14Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] Damnit, **Oakminster**! You got up in the middle of the night just to steal my post! OK for you, pal. [/QUOTE] Lady Insomnia is my muse. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Clam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3bc359/32.png) [@Happy\_Clam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Clam)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minotaurus-follow-the-trail-of-breadcrumbs/363095/93 "2006-07-04T13:22:37Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] I just meant that I had never really noticed you before and was surprised to note how witty you were. Sheesh, can’t even give a compliment around here. [/QUOTE] In which case, I apologise, and thank you for the compliment. 🙂 (Y’see, this is the trouble with message board posts lacking a tone of voice.) We now return you to your regularly scheduled pile-on. I think that I am going to take advantage of the newly-changed rules for the first time and say what everyone is thinking and others have, in fact, already said: **Minotaurus** ’s poorly constructed topics, poorly chosen subjects, and nonsensical and inflammatory replies (most egregiously in this thread) clearly show him to be [a certain type of mythological creature.](http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/races/trolls.html;jsessionid=98ECF6B34E0846652DEA41ADA0EEF08F.app06) Alas, these hideous (and foul-smelling) creatures are notoriously difficult to harm; fortunately for us, we possess two weapons that can defeat this unclean beast. The first is to immediatly cease paying attention to it, whereupon the animale, deprived of the flow of life-giving attention upon which it relies for sustenance, will wither and die. The second is to petition our great and mystical overlords to smite the vile Cretan, casting him from the sunlit uplands of the soul (represented by the hallowed SDMB, of course) and back into that cruel and piteous wasteland, populated by howling shades and scourged with painful winds of ignorace: by this I mean, of course, the rest of the internet. Or, in other words, just ban the stupid fucker already. I must, however, beg my fellow posters not utilise flame-based weaponry against this particular troll! Whereas the mythical beast of legend would be hurt _only_ by incendiary devices, such as sticks set ablaze and thrust into its flesh (or flame posts directed at it, if you will), this hideous freak of trollkind will in fact gain succour from such a waft of publicity. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minotaurus-follow-the-trail-of-breadcrumbs/363095/94 "2006-07-04T13:34:20Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] Oh, wait – that was his mom. :smack: [Here’s her favorite son.](http://www.christopperpuppets.co.uk/images/triffid.jpg) [/QUOTE] Awwww, who’s a cute little triffid? Yes you are! By this time I think Minotaurus has made my point for me (Troll, troll troll, troll troll troll). So, unless he’s got a stunningly witty and truthful post up his sleeve that’ll clear all this up, consider me out. ---
**Author:** ![Minotaurus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Minotaurus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minotaurus)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minotaurus-follow-the-trail-of-breadcrumbs/363095/95 "2006-07-04T13:49:38Z")
[QUOTE=Revenant Threshold] Awwww, who’s a cute little triffid? Yes you are! By this time I think Minotaurus has made my point for me (Troll, troll troll, troll troll troll). So, unless he’s got a stunningly witty and truthful post up his sleeve that’ll clear all this up, consider me out. [/QUOTE] and who started this thread? ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minotaurus-follow-the-trail-of-breadcrumbs/363095/96 "2006-07-04T13:54:59Z")
[QUOTE=Minotaurus] and who started this thread? [/QUOTE] and your point would be? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minotaurus-follow-the-trail-of-breadcrumbs/363095/97 "2006-07-04T13:56:05Z")
[QUOTE=rayh] and your point would be? [/QUOTE] oh no, it’s spreading ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minotaurus-follow-the-trail-of-breadcrumbs/363095/98 "2006-07-04T14:52:57Z")
[QUOTE=Minotaurus] and who started this thread? [/QUOTE] fitting he also finishes it ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minotaurus-follow-the-trail-of-breadcrumbs/363095/99 "2006-07-04T15:42:19Z")
[QUOTE=Polycarp] Well, **Happy Clam** in good form is a real pleasure _to read, oh!_ 😛 [/QUOTE] **Polycarp** , you are a Very Bad Man. You will certainly be PUNished for that. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minotaurus-follow-the-trail-of-breadcrumbs/363095/100 "2006-07-04T15:51:34Z")
[QUOTE=Colibri] **Polycarp** , you are a Very Bad Man. You will certainly be PUNished for that. 😃 [/QUOTE] Oh, _clam_ up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minotaurus-follow-the-trail-of-breadcrumbs/363095.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minotaurus-follow-the-trail-of-breadcrumbs/363095.md?page=6)