# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 3) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 4, 2023, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588 "2023-07-04T21:42:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 97
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2023, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1921 "2023-11-04T17:02:09Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Evidently some people think “you misspelled” is too tired to use. Equally evidently, that is still a distinctly minority viewpoint since that cliché is used at least daily around here by a long list of somebodies. Myself sometimes included. And I still think it’s funny. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2023, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1922 "2023-11-04T17:03:11Z")
It’s really not that funny and never was. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2023, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1923 "2023-11-04T17:03:42Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Just say “You should have said” instead of “You misspelled.” This doesn’t have the same tone. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2023, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1924 "2023-11-04T17:14:01Z")
You are funny! Let’s all go down to the quarry and do something. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2023, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1925 "2023-11-04T17:26:07Z")
an’ shit! ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2023, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1926 "2023-11-04T17:36:52Z")
I burning your doggedness. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2023, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1927 "2023-11-04T18:07:32Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > > > Just say “You should have said” instead of “You misspelled.” > > This doesn’t have the same tone. 'Zactly. To me the “you misspelled” trope means “I’m introducing some clever wordplay here; this isn’t a serious suggestion of what you should have said. I agree with what you said; you played it like a good straight man and now I’ll deliver my zinger.” “You should have said …” reads as boring and flat as can be, and is almost a criticism, rather than a back-handed compliment. The more clever, zany, or both that follows “misspelled”, the better the humor. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2023, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1928 "2023-11-04T19:15:50Z")
So why are the responses after “you misspelled” never very clever or zany? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2023, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1929 "2023-11-04T19:22:01Z")
Because most of us aren’t quite that clever? ---
**Author:** ![Dandan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@Dandan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandan)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2023, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1930 "2023-11-04T19:33:33Z")
Or zany. Dan ---
**Author:** ![Clawdio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d07c76/32.png) [@Clawdio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clawdio)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2023, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1931 "2023-11-04T20:21:38Z")
I think it’s “Rio” by Duran Duran. ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2023, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1932 "2023-11-04T20:26:38Z")
[NARRATOR: It isn’t.] ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2023, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1933 "2023-11-04T21:09:03Z")
It’s pretty much the same humor behind this classic Bloom country strip. [![](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/529f398ee4b0ee6848fe2724/1665003880282-C773LDX6MM0M1A4FB5X2/June+23%2C+1982.jpeg?format=1500w&content-type=image%2Fjpeg) ](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/529f398ee4b0ee6848fe2724/1665003880282-C773LDX6MM0M1A4FB5X2/June+23%2C+1982.jpeg?format=1500w&content-type=image%2Fjpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2023, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1934 "2023-11-05T04:39:30Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > We don’t often encounter “Hi Opal” or “1920s-style death ray” or “once for 20 minutes” these days. Those got too tired and have been retired by common usage, not by executive fiat. If you were really clever, you’d have put “Hi Opal” third. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2023, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1935 "2023-11-05T04:46:27Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > If you were really clever, you’d have put “Hi Opal” third. He did, he just misspelled “Hi Opal” and “once for 20 minutes”. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2023, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1936 "2023-11-05T12:00:36Z")
Touché and counter-touché. 😁 Now that’s the sort of witty wordplay and repartee that is sometimes missing from our new and more serious SDMB. As lamented over here: > [@Your thoughts on the evolution of SDMB in time](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thoughts-on-the-evolution-of-sdmb-in-time/991935): > > Hi there, if you’d do a synthesis on how the SDMB has changed/evolutioned over the past 20 or 10 years … what would be your thoughts? Here are my gut-anwers: we got collectively old! - I still recall 20 or so years ago, there was a lot more “love/dating” advise seeked … now its mostly old-person-stuff (retirement, medical problems,…) there is a lot less traffic going on (I suppose social media wicked away part of it towards FB/TW/…) related to the traffic: there is less “widths” in posters …… ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2023, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1937 "2023-11-05T12:28:53Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > A certain amount of tired cliché in-jokes are a welcome rhetorical seasoning that provides a sense of community and continuity. It’s part of our house style as a literary publisher. And, yes, eventually each and every one gets too old and too tired then falls by the wayside. Heh. The first Pit thread I ever started, I got griped at for using the term “cow-orker” apparently past its best-by date (in someone’s opinion). ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2023, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1938 "2023-11-05T12:47:23Z")
In other words, they had a cow over your word choices? Maybe we need to start using “cow-poster” or “cow-Doper” for folks like that. 😁 🤪 ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2023, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1939 "2023-11-05T18:01:10Z")
Still haven’t sold me. NOTHING MISSPELLED. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2023, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1940 "2023-11-05T18:07:36Z")
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