# Not a pit! Didn't know where else to go! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 5, 2005, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-pit-didnt-know-where-else-to-go/293112 "2005-03-05T19:01:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2005, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-pit-didnt-know-where-else-to-go/293112/41 "2005-03-06T19:19:44Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > **Case Sensitive** , I don’t know what your personal problem with me is, but please knock it off. I apologized, I said I wouldn’t flirt in the future, now please quit with the insults–okay? You sooo missed the oportunity to make this the best Pit reply ever. All it needed was a _SMOOCH_ at the end. Hey **Case Sensitive** , how _you_ doin’? What’s a big boy and/or girl like you doing in a pit thread like this? ---
**Author:** ![Tenar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@Tenar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenar)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2005, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-pit-didnt-know-where-else-to-go/293112/42 "2005-03-06T19:24:34Z")
Don’t be scared off, \*\*gommsn \*\* – things have been a mite cranky around here of late. Hi there, by the way. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2005, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-pit-didnt-know-where-else-to-go/293112/43 "2005-03-06T19:40:57Z")
[hoping Gommsn decides to pay and stay] What’s the nick for, can I ask? It’s coming across as “Gom MSN”, with tiny MSN butterflies in the background somehow, which probably wasn’t what you had in mind. ---
**Author:** ![gommsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bcef8e/32.png) [@gommsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gommsn)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2005, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-pit-didnt-know-where-else-to-go/293112/44 "2005-03-06T21:33:00Z")
> [@Duck Duck Goose](#): > > [hoping Gommsn decides to pay and stay] > What’s the nick for, can I ask? It’s coming across as “Gom MSN”, with tiny MSN butterflies in the background somehow, which probably wasn’t what you had in mind. GOMMSN. **G** rumpy **O** ld **M** an @ **MSN** Just something I use elsewhere on the net. When I join permanently I’ll likely change it. I needed something quick when I decided to jump in the pool. Sort of a spur of the moment thing. Gotta admit though, I’m kinda glad I did. Thanx for asking. This can’t be the Pit, you guys are too nice! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2005, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-pit-didnt-know-where-else-to-go/293112/45 "2005-03-06T21:36:18Z")
> [@gommsn](#): > > Thanx for asking. This can’t be the Pit, you guys are too nice! 😉 Don’t push it, asshole. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2005, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-pit-didnt-know-where-else-to-go/293112/46 "2005-03-06T21:48:36Z")
Stifle it, **Colibri** , we don’t have his money–_yet_. ---
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2005, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-pit-didnt-know-where-else-to-go/293112/47 "2005-03-06T21:58:53Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > every thread I open seems to contain gratuitous tee-hee come-ons, almost always by the same culprit {and yes, **Kythereia** , I _am_ talking about you} I submit that there are at least a couple of other major offenders with regard to flirting. Seems a bit harsh to say it’s almost always **Kythereia**. And **Kythereia** , you hadn’t said earlier that you “wouldn’t flirt in the future,” you said “flirting in moderation, then?” A small discrepancy, perhaps, but a discrepancy nonetheless. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2005, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-pit-didnt-know-where-else-to-go/293112/48 "2005-03-06T22:01:48Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Stifle it, **Colibri** , we don’t have his money–_yet_. I thought it would make a fellow Grumpy Old Man feel more at home. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![High\_Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8797f3/32.png) [@High\_Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/High_Cheese)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2005, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-pit-didnt-know-where-else-to-go/293112/49 "2005-03-06T22:12:49Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > I’ll be honest and say that for me your means of making yourself individual on the board is liable to induce vomiting. Keep it out of the Pit - at least in MPSIMS I know which threads to avoid, but when I click on what seems to be an innocent misplaced thread by a new poster and find yet another of your girly-scrawl-written-in-pink-ink-with-smilies-dotting-the-i’s posts littering the place, it’s time for a quiet corner and a bucket. You are way off here; and out of line. You have grossly misinterpreted the mechanics of flirting. They dot their "I"s with bubbly hearts, not smilies. ---
**Author:** ![gommsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bcef8e/32.png) [@gommsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gommsn)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2005, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-pit-didnt-know-where-else-to-go/293112/50 "2005-03-06T22:24:50Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I thought it would make a fellow Grumpy Old Man feel more at home. 🙂 A kindred spirit? Yahoo!!! Where do I sign? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-pit-didnt-know-where-else-to-go/293112/51 "2005-03-07T00:59:24Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Stifle it, **Colibri** , we don’t have his money–_yet_. Just wait until he _is_ paid up: first thing I’m gonna do is pit him for being so damn courteous in the Pit - that kind of gratuitous politeness makes my blood boil. Apologising for hijacking my hijack of his thread - da noive! ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-pit-didnt-know-where-else-to-go/293112/52 "2005-03-07T16:03:30Z")
Good point, **Nightwatch**. I hereby officially swear off all flirting from now on the boards. Girl scout’s honour! (I actually was one, too…) **Case Sensitive** , an olive branch from me to you–truce? No more inducing of vomiting or 'i’s dotted with bubbly hearts, I promise. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-pit-didnt-know-where-else-to-go/293112/53 "2005-03-07T16:11:26Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > **Case Sensitive** , an olive branch from me to you–truce? No more inducing of vomiting or 'i’s dotted with bubbly hearts, I promise. **Case Sensitive** , can she please still do the squid thing? Mariah would be broken-hearted if she couldn’t…you ever seen a squid give puppy dog eyes? Not easy to bear, let me tell you… ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-pit-didnt-know-where-else-to-go/293112/54 "2005-03-07T21:28:33Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Good point, **Nightwatch**. I hereby officially swear off all flirting from now on the boards. Girl scout’s honour! (I actually was one, too…) > > **Case Sensitive** , an olive branch from me to you–truce? No more inducing of vomiting or 'i’s dotted with bubbly hearts, I promise. Pax, **Kythereia.** Sorry if I came on a bit strong earlier: I don’t mind a _bit_ of flirting here and there - just not _everywhere_? ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-pit-didnt-know-where-else-to-go/293112/55 "2005-03-08T18:07:54Z")
Pace! Just a tiny bit of flirting, now and then in a very few threads, I promise. _shakes hands_ ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-pit-didnt-know-where-else-to-go/293112/56 "2005-03-08T18:28:08Z")
But what about the squids? Won’t somebody think of the squids?! It’s okay, Mariah…Mommy still loves you… ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-pit-didnt-know-where-else-to-go/293112/57 "2005-03-08T18:33:19Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Pace! Just a tiny bit of flirting, now and then in a very few threads, I promise. _shakes hands_ Brava! Flirting is okay sometimes, but not in every single thread. I’m sure you have interesting things to say which could contribute to the conversation, but if the only thing I ever see from you is the flirting then I’ll probably skip right over them. In all things, moderation. Except maybe chocolate. And coffee. Coffee is good in excess, too. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-pit-didnt-know-where-else-to-go/293112/58 "2005-03-08T18:53:10Z")
> [@](#): > > In all things, moderation. Yeeesh! They were making up, already. Don’t you think we’re sufficiently overworked that we have to come in and Moderate even peace gestures and reconciliations? “In all things, moderation, indeed.” We just can’t do enough to please some people. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-pit-didnt-know-where-else-to-go/293112/59 "2005-03-08T19:26:26Z")
> [@Maus Magill](#): > > In all things, moderation. > > Except maybe chocolate. And coffee. Coffee is good in excess, too. Chocolate _and_ coffee, baby. Ever had a mocha truffle cake? _is incredibly hungry now_ ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-pit-didnt-know-where-else-to-go/293112/60 "2005-03-08T19:29:56Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Yeeesh! They were making up, already. Don’t you think we’re sufficiently overworked that we have to come in and Moderate even peace gestures and reconciliations? “In all things, moderation, indeed.” We just can’t do enough to please some people. Which was why I declared “Brava!” at the top of the post. I was applauding both **Kythereia**'s and **Case Sensitive** ’s resolution. Mostly, **Kythereia** ’s decision to not give up flirting all together, but to do it in moderation. I suppose one could have read it as a mild attack. For that, I offer my apologies. That was not my intent. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-pit-didnt-know-where-else-to-go/293112.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-pit-didnt-know-where-else-to-go/293112.md?page=4)