# Mods, can't you tell Snowboarder Bo to shut up? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 14, 2012, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-you-tell-snowboarder-bo-to-shut-up/609483 "2012-01-14T05:02:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-you-tell-snowboarder-bo-to-shut-up/609483/281 "2012-01-17T13:48:32Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Cool catchphrase! Wasn’t it a little long? Did it seem too rehearsed? I thought it sounded a little too rehearsed. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-you-tell-snowboarder-bo-to-shut-up/609483/282 "2012-01-17T14:00:38Z")
Mods, can’t you telll Runner Pat to stop posting “Reported” in response to any post that has a link in it, no matter how long the poster has been around? ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-you-tell-snowboarder-bo-to-shut-up/609483/283 "2012-01-17T14:17:48Z")
My 2 1/2 year old grandson occasionally does things that annoy me. I ask him to stop doing it, and he looks at me and says “no.” I guess he’ll out grow it when he grows up. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-you-tell-snowboarder-bo-to-shut-up/609483/284 "2012-01-17T14:24:42Z")
> [@Suil\_Dubh](#): > > YPAM Sorry, but that’s a new one on me and Acronym Finder doesn’t list it. Best I can find is “Your Pocket Adding Machine” and I can’t make the connection. Next best is “Your Place And Mine” which also escapes meaning. Is that the point of LGDTTQATSIT? ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-you-tell-snowboarder-bo-to-shut-up/609483/285 "2012-01-17T14:35:41Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Sorry, but that’s a new one on me and Acronym Finder doesn’t list it. Best I can find is “Your Pocket Adding Machine” and I can’t make the connection. Next best is “Your Place And Mine” which also escapes meaning. > > Is that the point of LGDTTQATSIT? IPWMPAMLAM!!! Parse _that_! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-you-tell-snowboarder-bo-to-shut-up/609483/286 "2012-01-17T14:48:37Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > IPWMPAMLAM!!! > > Parse _that_! Less help. I Play With My Putz All Morning Long At Meetings? ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-you-tell-snowboarder-bo-to-shut-up/609483/287 "2012-01-17T14:59:55Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Less help. I Play With My Putz All Morning Long At Meetings? Wow, very close! IPWMPAMLAM _I’m playing with my pocket adding machine like a motherfucker!_ Maybe I should start using that every time I want to say “I agree.” ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-you-tell-snowboarder-bo-to-shut-up/609483/288 "2012-01-17T15:05:37Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Can we just do away with the fiction that anyone “requested” that I stop using “Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there”? > > Requests are susceptible to refusal, and it’s obvious that this was not a request, it was a demand. > > Demanding someone stop doing something that is innocuous is jerkish; refusing a jerkish demand isn’t. There aren’t enough rolleyes in the world to respond to the sophistry of this post. Yes, in the Pit thread, I demanded that you stop. “Knock it off,” were my exact words. Can we do away with the fiction that I’m the only one who’s voiced an opinion? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-you-tell-snowboarder-bo-to-shut-up/609483/289 "2012-01-17T15:05:46Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > Wow, very close! > > IPWMPAMLAM > > _I’m playing with my pocket adding machine like a motherfucker!_ > > Maybe I should start using that every time I want to say “I agree.” Better sense, and I can accept that as a plugin for LOL. Seriously. ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-you-tell-snowboarder-bo-to-shut-up/609483/290 "2012-01-17T15:05:55Z")
> [@Suil\_Dubh](#): > > YPAM You Pathetic Ass Monkey. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-you-tell-snowboarder-bo-to-shut-up/609483/291 "2012-01-17T15:10:51Z")
> [@brittekland](#): > > You Pathetic Ass Monkey. Bingo! Door prize! Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-you-tell-snowboarder-bo-to-shut-up/609483/292 "2012-01-17T15:13:03Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Bingo! Door prize! Thanks. Damn, I think I’m on a roll. Give me another one. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-you-tell-snowboarder-bo-to-shut-up/609483/293 "2012-01-17T15:14:39Z")
> [@brittekland](#): > > Damn, I think I’m on a roll. Give me another one. Too easy for a wizard, but have fun with DILLIGAS (really old and weak, but a personal favorite). ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-you-tell-snowboarder-bo-to-shut-up/609483/294 "2012-01-17T15:16:32Z")
> [@the lone cashew](#): > > Though we all reserve the right to ignore any other poster, does Bo or any other poster really need reminding of this? Bo is fully aware that people who might find his posting style annoying might also opt to not read his posts anymore. But he’s a big boy and a grown up and can decide that for himself regarding how he posts. It really shouldn’t be anyone’s place to shake a finger at him, or any other poster who’s posting style they do not happen to prefer. If you don’t prefer someone’s posting style, whether it be for a phrase they use or whatever your own personal reason might be, just put them on ignore, or scroll - and be done with it. Why is that so difficult? If there was ever a problem (if you deem it a problem) that could solve itself this is it. It is truly bizarre that so many people are on such a high horse as to be asking that someone stop using a phrase such as this, insisting how annoying this is, as though their own opinion was the only one that matters, and that this poster please stop what they are doing - when they have the power to take matters into their own hands and avoid this overbearing approach, an approach more obnoxious than any phrase, however annoying. You overbearing people are worse than this phrase, and all the other bad phrases put together. Get off your high horses, see the bigger picture, and use your scroll button and ignore feature judiciously. Personally, I don’t like any of the memes or phrases. Guess what? Who gives a darn? It’s easy enough to handle on my own and not be telling someone else how to post to my liking, or what to do in general. After all, who am I to do that? Who is anyone? Some people have made the mistake of seeing Shunt’s work as a load of rubbish about railway timetables, but clever people like me, who talk loudly in restaurants, see this as a deliberate ambiguity, a plea for understanding in a mechanized world. The points are frozen, the beast is dead. What is the difference? What indeed is the point? The point is frozen, the beast is late out of Paddington. The point is taken. If La Fontaine’s elk would spurn Tom Jones the engine must be our head, the dining car our oesophagus, the guard’s van our left lung, the cattle truck our shins, the first-class compartment the piece of skin at the nape of the neck and the level crossing an electric elk called Simon. The clarity is devastating. But where is the ambiguity? It’s over there in a box. Shunt is saying the 8.15 from Gillingham when in reality he means the 8.13 from Gillingham. The train is the same only the time is altered. Ecce homo, ergo elk. La Fontaine knew his sister and knew her bloody well. The point is taken, the beast is moulting, the fluff gets up your nose. The illusion is complete; it is reality, the reality is illusion and the ambiguity is the only truth. But is the truth, as Hitchcock observes, in the box? No there isn’t room, the ambiguity has put on weight. The point is taken, the elk is dead, the beast stops at Swindon, Chabrol stops at nothing, I’m having treatment and La Fontaine can get knotted. ---
**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-you-tell-snowboarder-bo-to-shut-up/609483/295 "2012-01-17T16:37:43Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Too easy for a wizard, but have fun with DILLIGAS (really old and weak, but a personal favorite). Does It Look Like I Give A Shit I’ve got a patch on my motorcycle vest that says DILLIGAF. (substitute fuck for shit) Do I win a prize? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-you-tell-snowboarder-bo-to-shut-up/609483/296 "2012-01-17T16:52:13Z")
> [@JBDivmstr](#): > > Does It Look Like I Give A Shit > I’ve got a patch on my motorcycle vest that says DILLIGAF. (substitute fuck for shit) > > Do I win a prize? Same one as **brittekland** , and the version I had in mind (not the only one for sure) replaces “Does It” with “Do I” but it’s all in fun anyway. Try FAFFH for the Gold Doughnut. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-you-tell-snowboarder-bo-to-shut-up/609483/297 "2012-01-17T17:02:36Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Same one as **brittekland** , and the version I had in mind (not the only one for sure) replaces “Does It” with “Do I” but it’s all in fun anyway. > > Try FAFFH for the Gold Doughnut. You’re a doctor whose brilliant research in brain transplantation is unsurpassed, whose will probably live beyond eternity? No, wait, scratch ‘probably’. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-you-tell-snowboarder-bo-to-shut-up/609483/298 "2012-01-17T17:07:33Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > You’re a doctor whose brilliant research in brain transplantation is unsurpassed, whose will probably live beyond eternity? > > No, wait, scratch ‘probably’. I can see how you might be thinking of Steve’s character in [The Man with Two Brains](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085894/), but this one is way more pedestrian and silly. ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-you-tell-snowboarder-bo-to-shut-up/609483/299 "2012-01-17T17:17:08Z")
> [@brittekland](#): > > You Pathetic Ass Monkey. LOL Seriously, I didn’t just YPAM, I LOL’d ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-you-tell-snowboarder-bo-to-shut-up/609483/300 "2012-01-17T17:19:08Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > **Gary** , it’s clear that you have not read this thread ([post #29](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14667964&postcount=29)), nor the Pit thread ([links in post#1](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14634632&postcount=1) plus various posts with explanations), nor [the thread in MPSIMS where someone asked what the phrase meant (thread title: “Let’s go down to the quarry and throw stuff in there!”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=635786)) , nor the original thread about autocorrect humor ([post#30](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14568298&postcount=30)). If you had, you would not have typed what I just quoted, since all of those threads explain where the phrase came from and what it means. > > I apologize for thinking you would read a thread before posting in it. Obviously, that was an error on my part. I hope the links above are helpful. Actually (unfortunately) I had read all of that and considered it before writing what I wrote. You clearly don’t understand what the words “in context” mean. Imagine Al Franken had a conversation with Rush Limbaugh where he decided to say “Yo, fathead” every time he really meant “Look that up on Wikipedia.” Using “Yo, fathead” to mean what Franken meant would _not_ be using it in context. > [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > It most definitely is not trolling. And I’m not being intentionally obnoxious. Ann: You, know, **Bob** , it really is annoying when you fart in elevators like that. Bob: It makes me giggle, **Ann**. Let’s see if I can squeeze out another one. Yeah, that’s being intentionally obnoxious. > [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I’m not just tossing it out there to toss it out there. It has a specific meaning and I only use it then. No. It does _not_ have a specific meaning, unless you’re talking about real quarries. You are trying to give it a meaning, which is something completely different. > [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > And yeah, I get that a small number of people find it incredibly annoying, although I don’t at all understand how they reached the level of ire they seem to be expressing. Perhaps when **Frank** was annoyed enough to start a Pit thread about how annoying it was, and you used the phrase repeatedly in responding to the thread, people got the impression you were doing it just to be a jerk. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-you-tell-snowboarder-bo-to-shut-up/609483.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-you-tell-snowboarder-bo-to-shut-up/609483.md?page=16)