# Nice try, Fotheringay-Phipps. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 20, 2009, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-try-fotheringay-phipps/497086 "2009-05-20T16:20:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-try-fotheringay-phipps/497086/41 "2009-05-21T02:24:20Z")
> [@Duke](#): > > Is it just me, or does this look more like “Do not feed the cat”? I’m giving a hungry cat half my height anything it once as long as it doesn’t eat _me_. > [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I thought it was a man with elephantitis of the nuts throwing a canteloupe at a broken saw-horse. > > Or maybe it’s just me. It’s just you. Where do you even see nuts on the stick figure? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-try-fotheringay-phipps/497086/42 "2009-05-21T14:50:38Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > \*\*Covered\_In\_Bees!, \*\*personally I was partial to every time I got to call Fotheringay a fucking retard. “Fucktard” is more efficient. ---
**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-try-fotheringay-phipps/497086/43 "2009-05-21T15:05:59Z")
I guess it’s possible that this type of thing passes as wit for certain types (who might also be _very_ bored at work). As above, everyone has their style. Anyway, here’s some more verse (in honor of Onomatopoeia). It’s easy ignoring their shouts, (This gaggle of hotheaded louts). They have all that passes, For brains in their asses, And even _there_ I have my doubts. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-try-fotheringay-phipps/497086/44 "2009-05-21T15:28:57Z")
Doesn’t scan well. The first and second lines’ emphasis is on their second syllable, while the last is on its fourth, with second and third rushed. Try: Although even there I have doubts. ---
**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-try-fotheringay-phipps/497086/45 "2009-05-21T15:35:27Z")
A failure to scan is no crime, When writing in such a short time, If careful detection, Finds lack of perfection, At least I can get it to rhyme. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-try-fotheringay-phipps/497086/46 "2009-05-21T15:52:37Z")
You’re right, that is the least. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-try-fotheringay-phipps/497086/47 "2009-05-21T16:07:42Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > \*\*Covered\_In\_Bees!, \*\*personally I was partial to every time I got to call Fotheringay a fucking retard. > [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > “Fucktard” is more efficient. These two quotes say just about all that needs to be said about the quality of the attack going on here. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-try-fotheringay-phipps/497086/48 "2009-05-21T16:09:11Z")
They give a torture apologist who lies about his past arguments all the respect he deserves. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-try-fotheringay-phipps/497086/49 "2009-05-21T17:08:50Z")
> [@DSYoungEsq](#): > > These two quotes say just about all that needs to be said about the quality of the attack going on here. :rolleyes: Well, I reserve the effort to produce quality attacks for times when I take the target seriously. Since I’ve sized up F-P as a pretentious git, I’ve no need to bring my A-game. ---
**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-try-fotheringay-phipps/497086/50 "2009-05-21T17:19:42Z")
Or, translated into the third grade style that so typifies this thread & Bryan’s contributions: “oh yeah, well I wasn’t really trying …” ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-try-fotheringay-phipps/497086/51 "2009-05-21T17:25:57Z")
I recognize the efforts to salvage some pride, F-P, but lest you assume I’m making some kind of exception in your case, I’d like to point out that I almost _never_ “try” in the sense you describe. I’ve never opened a Pit thread about another user, and the “A-game” I mention is reserved for situations far more significant than this. Git. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-try-fotheringay-phipps/497086/52 "2009-05-21T17:26:29Z")
I hope you weren’t actually trying when you wrote those tedious limericks. ---
**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-try-fotheringay-phipps/497086/53 "2009-05-21T17:27:41Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > lest you assume I’m making some kind of exception in your case, I’d like to point out that I almost _never_ “try” in the sense you describe. IOW, you don’t actually have an A-game. Same as the third graders. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-try-fotheringay-phipps/497086/54 "2009-05-21T17:30:41Z")
Oh, I’m rather proud of that time I savaged a person in the Pit while invoking an image of Galileo and a spiked pendulum. I’m sure I’ll come up with something similar for you as soon as it suits me to do so. ---
**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-try-fotheringay-phipps/497086/55 "2009-05-21T17:36:35Z")
Yes, I’m sure you will. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-try-fotheringay-phipps/497086/56 "2009-05-21T17:44:52Z")
Yes, I’m sure I will. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-try-fotheringay-phipps/497086/57 "2009-05-21T18:28:36Z")
> [@DSYoungEsq](#): > > First of all, the two aren’t linked, I’ve not even said the same thing in the two threads. Not that I’d expect you to figure that out. 😉 > > Second of all, I didn’t respond to your laundry list of things said in the other post because it wasn’t responsive to what I had said, though it was at least an attempt to make clear what you were unhappy about. But that’s ok, because the general tenor of your posts makes it quite clear who does the cogent thinking, and who just gets exasperated and upset because others don’t want to agree. 1.) Two accusations that pitters aren’t being explicit enough in why F-P is retarded and/or a troll \*are not \*linked? :rolleyes: 2.) It wasn’t a laundry list, it was a summary of the discussion that immediately preceded the pitting, showing exactly how F-P constantly changes his position and arguments so that he’s not wrong, coupled with a refusal to accept that any authority is more valid than his own unsupported and unsupportable opinions. 3.) You’re an F-P alt account, a troll, or just as much of a moron as he is. Regardless of which of these is the case, welcome to ignoreland–I’m sure you and F-P will be very happy together there. Unless you dislike R.E.M., because, quite appropriately, “Ignoreland” is what gets piped in through the ignoreland speakers. On an infinite loop. ---
**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-try-fotheringay-phipps/497086/58 "2009-05-21T18:49:30Z")
Oops, they’re onto me! I’ve very cleverly created an alt account with a 10 year history on these boards. Comes in handy on rare occasions. In fact, most of the posters to this thread are actually alt accounts of mine, with the purpose of showing just what kind of idiots are opposed to me. So far so good … ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-try-fotheringay-phipps/497086/59 "2009-05-21T19:58:45Z")
Sarcasm is a skill. Work on it. ---
**Author:** ![Birdmonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71e660/32.png) [@Birdmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birdmonster)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-try-fotheringay-phipps/497086/60 "2009-05-21T20:19:16Z")
> [@Fotheringay-Phipps](#): > > Yes, I’m sure you will. > [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Yes, I’m sure I will. This was zenlike in it’s hilarity. Thanks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-try-fotheringay-phipps/497086.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-try-fotheringay-phipps/497086.md?page=4)