# My Answer To Second Stone's Reply To My Alleged Pit.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-answer-to-second-stones-reply-to-my-alleged-pit/556715>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 10, 2010, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-answer-to-second-stones-reply-to-my-alleged-pit/556715 "2010-10-10T19:55:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-answer-to-second-stones-reply-to-my-alleged-pit/556715/161 "2010-10-20T15:18:14Z")

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> [@Munch](#):
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> It took you 2 and a half hours to come up with that comeback? Did the jerk store not leave a message for you?

Go easy on him. His wife’s in a coma.

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**Author:** ![adhay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-answer-to-second-stones-reply-to-my-alleged-pit/556715/162 "2010-10-21T19:21:46Z")

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Who is not my wife?

Coma free?

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**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-answer-to-second-stones-reply-to-my-alleged-pit/556715/163 "2010-10-21T19:25:35Z")

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Alfredo tennis racket ultimatum.

Bolo tabernacle?

Fern!

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**Author:** ![adhay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-answer-to-second-stones-reply-to-my-alleged-pit/556715/164 "2010-10-21T19:36:52Z")

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> [@Munch](#):
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> By the way - some honest thanks for coming back and explaining what the hell was going on. I’m still curious as to what the deal is with the series of 4 threads that lead back to…well…nothing really. Simply a case of not really focusing on the topic, or was there an underlying theme we missed?

Your gratitude is welcome. I write it all off to being strunk and disorganized. We are on the same page?

I made my point here

> [@adhay](#):
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> I’m willing to close the thread if you are. Let me sum it up. … I must add, **TSS** , I’m a bigger asshole than you are, Sir.

:golf clap:

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-answer-to-second-stones-reply-to-my-alleged-pit/556715/165 "2010-10-21T19:46:11Z")

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> [@Dante](#):
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> Go easy on him.

That’s what SHE said!

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**Author:** ![adhay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-answer-to-second-stones-reply-to-my-alleged-pit/556715/166 "2010-10-21T19:56:15Z")

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> [@Ludovic](#):
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> That’s what SHE said!

And I say it again. I will consider **TSS** fully Pitted if he requests this thread be closed.

Please, you asshole. Pro Bono.😛

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**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-answer-to-second-stones-reply-to-my-alleged-pit/556715/167 "2010-10-21T20:17:03Z")

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It must be just _painful_ watching you in any social situation.

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**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-answer-to-second-stones-reply-to-my-alleged-pit/556715/168 "2010-10-21T20:17:49Z")

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> [@adhay](#):
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> Who is not my wife?

I would like to claim that honor.

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**Author:** ![adhay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-answer-to-second-stones-reply-to-my-alleged-pit/556715/169 "2010-10-21T20:22:09Z")

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> [@Muffin](#):
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> Don’t mind adhay – he’s a synaptic gap.

That’s THE synaptic gap to you, Sir.

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**Author:** ![adhay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-answer-to-second-stones-reply-to-my-alleged-pit/556715/170 "2010-10-21T20:23:25Z")

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> [@The\_Weird\_One](#):
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> I would like to claim that honor.

Let me tell you where it is.

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**Author:** ![adhay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-answer-to-second-stones-reply-to-my-alleged-pit/556715/171 "2010-10-21T20:25:22Z")

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> [@Dante](#):
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> It must be just _painful_ watching you in any social situation.

I feel _your_ pain.

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**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-answer-to-second-stones-reply-to-my-alleged-pit/556715/172 "2010-10-21T20:25:33Z")

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_nm, stupid post._

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**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-answer-to-second-stones-reply-to-my-alleged-pit/556715/173 "2010-10-21T20:34:23Z")

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> [@The\_Weird\_One](#):
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> _nm, stupid post._

A better description of this thread has never been floated.

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**Author:** ![adhay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-answer-to-second-stones-reply-to-my-alleged-pit/556715/174 "2010-10-21T20:37:27Z")

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> [@The\_Weird\_One](#):
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> _nm, stupid post._

line forms at the rear …

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**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-answer-to-second-stones-reply-to-my-alleged-pit/556715/175 "2010-10-21T20:42:45Z")

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> [@adhay](#):
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> Your gratitude is welcome. I write it all off to being strunk and disorganized. We are on the same page?

This explains a lot. The Bible for English usage was **Strunk and White’s** \*\* _The Elements of Style_. \*\* It appears that the OP misheard his English prof and purchased **Strunk and Disorganized** instead.

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**Author:** ![adhay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-answer-to-second-stones-reply-to-my-alleged-pit/556715/176 "2010-10-21T20:48:43Z")

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> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#):
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> This explains a lot. The Bible for English usage was **Strunk and White’s** \*\* _The Elements of Style_. \*\* It appears that the OP misheard his English prof and purchased **Strunk and Disorganized** instead.

Pedantic nonsense, imho. Strunk, in my particular lexicon, is the diminutive of stoned and drunk (aka UTI).

I rest my case.

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**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-answer-to-second-stones-reply-to-my-alleged-pit/556715/177 "2010-10-21T20:52:45Z")

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… and are we \*still \*strunk, by any chance?

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**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-answer-to-second-stones-reply-to-my-alleged-pit/556715/178 "2010-10-21T21:22:45Z")

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> [@adhay](#):
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> Pedantic nonsense, imho. Strunk, in my particular lexicon, is the diminutive of stoned and drunk (aka UTI).
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> I rest my case.

Stoned and drunk is also known as urinary tract infection? I think I’d cut down if I were you.

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**Author:** ![adhay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-answer-to-second-stones-reply-to-my-alleged-pit/556715/179 "2010-10-21T21:44:19Z")

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so far, so good

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**Author:** ![adhay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-answer-to-second-stones-reply-to-my-alleged-pit/556715/180 "2010-10-21T23:58:03Z")

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> [@adhay](#):
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> so far, so good

so far, so bad?

Or not?

It sounds like not and rings like brass knuckles.

Assholes!

Yes?

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