# Nitpick this thread
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 6, 2007, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732 "2007-10-06T04:45:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2007, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/1 "2007-10-06T04:45:04Z")
No, really. It is early on Saturday morning as I am watching the BoSox about to beat the Angels. I can handle it. You can nitpick the OP all you want to. You may decide to nitpick a later post. Go ahead, I can take it.
If this has been done before, I couldn’t find it on search, but I didn’t look very hard.
SSG Schwartz
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### Author:  [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2007, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/2 "2007-10-06T05:01:21Z")
I thought nothing could be more boring than baseball.
Now I know better.
A nonspecific thread about baseball has proven me wrong.
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### Author:  [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2007, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/3 "2007-10-06T05:21:28Z")
[QUOTE=NurseCarmen]
I thought nothing could be more boring than baseball.
Now I know better.
A nonspecific thread about baseball has proven me wrong.
[/QUOTE]
Just a minor nitpick, but this thread is not about baseball. It is about whatever the nitpick is about.
Get it 😃
SSG Schwartz
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### Author:  [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2007, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/4 "2007-10-06T06:42:54Z")
That was a great homer to end the game.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2007, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/5 "2007-10-06T06:50:40Z")
BoSox? I believe the name of the team is actually the Boston Red Sox.
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### Author:  [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2007, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/6 "2007-10-06T11:06:43Z")
Actually **SSG Schwartz** , you’re wrong. Germany and Japan were part of the Axis, and not the Allies, in WWII.
Nitpick: you didn’t stipulate that we couldn’t lie.
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### Author:  [@SomeUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SomeUserName)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2007, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/7 "2007-10-06T11:14:37Z")
[QUOTE=SSG Schwartz]
I couldn’t find it on search, but I didn’t look very hard.
[/QUOTE]
Nitpick: You should have looked harder.
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### Author:  [@Shryn\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shryn_King)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2007, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/8 "2007-10-06T12:04:42Z")
[QUOTE=SSG Schwartz]
Just a minor nitpick, but this thread is not about baseball. It is about whatever the nitpick is about.
Get it 😃
SSG Schwartz
[/QUOTE]
That’s pretty tacky for you to make the first nitpick!
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### Author:  [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2007, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/9 "2007-10-06T15:32:08Z")
The bravado is a bit much. How do you know you can really take it?
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### Author:  [@emmaliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emmaliminal)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2007, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/10 "2007-10-06T15:35:16Z")
[QUOTE=Kuboydal]
How do you know you can really take it?
[/QUOTE]
Not to nitpick or anything, but you’ve misplaced your modifier – that should be “you really can take it.”
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### Author:  [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2007, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/11 "2007-10-06T15:42:15Z")
Not to disagree pointlessly or anything, but maybe you shouldn’t assume that I was not in fact attemtping to distinguish betwixt the ‘real’ world and some other variant.
Misplacing a modifier is as horrible as losing a lagomorph.
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### Author:  [@emmaliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emmaliminal)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2007, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/12 "2007-10-06T16:02:20Z")
[QUOTE=Kuboydal]
Misplacing a modifier is as horrible as losing a lagomorph.
[/QUOTE]
I’m sorry, I just have to disagree with you there. Misplacing a modifier is considerably less horrible than losing a lagomorph. I still miss mine. ☹
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### Author:  [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2007, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/13 "2007-10-06T16:03:45Z")
I figured this thread would be more specific and to the point.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2007, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/14 "2007-10-06T16:42:30Z")
Technically, your lagomorph has not been lost. Mr Floppy’s current location is known and can be verified if you wish to go out into the backyard with a shovel.
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### Author:  [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2007, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/15 "2007-10-06T16:55:55Z")
[QUOTE=Kuboydal]
The bravado is a bit much. How do you know you can really take it?
[/QUOTE]
He’s in the military, of course he can take it.
Now then where did I put that soup-in-a-basket meal
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### Author:  [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2007, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/16 "2007-10-06T17:23:26Z")
You better get the shovel.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2007, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/17 "2007-10-06T17:34:15Z")
[QUOTE=Kuboydal]
You better get the shovel.
[/QUOTE]
Nitpick: It should be “you _had_ better get the shovel” in written English. [And a cite even.](http://www.bartleby.com/64/C001/029.html)
(So who’s going to nitpick “cite” or the sentence fragment?)
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### Author:  [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2007, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/18 "2007-10-06T17:45:59Z")
[QUOTE=SSG Schwartz]
If this has been done before, I couldn’t find it on search…
[/QUOTE]
Nitpick: The “then” part of your statement does not logically follow the “if” part. Your assertion is, IF this has been done, THEN I could not find it. In fact, even if this has not been done, you still could not find it. All possible states of the IF condition give the same THEN condition. Your IF clause is therefore redundant. 🆒
My favorite nitpick in real life goes like this:
Unsuspecting Pal: “I’m going to the bar tonight, if you want to join me.”
Me: “If I don’t want to join you, are you still going?”
UP: “Dick.”
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### Author:  [@meek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meek)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2007, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/19 "2007-10-06T18:10:46Z")
This thread title isn’t in title format.
It should be, “Nitpick **T** his **T** hread.”
Then it just goes downhill from there. 🙂
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### Author:  [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2007, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/20 "2007-10-06T19:31:58Z")
[QUOTE=bbs2k]
Actually **SSG Schwartz** , you’re wrong. Germany and Japan were part of the Axis, and not the Allies, in WWII.
Nitpick: you didn’t stipulate that we couldn’t lie.
[/QUOTE]
Not to nitpick or anything, but I didn’t say you could stray from the truth either.
SSG Schwartz
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