# Not to beat a dead horse but a curious question about Umkay. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 27, 2012, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-to-beat-a-dead-horse-but-a-curious-question-about-umkay/626514 "2012-06-27T23:27:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-to-beat-a-dead-horse-but-a-curious-question-about-umkay/626514/21 "2012-06-28T16:16:12Z")
> [@Sister\_Vigilante](#): > > I really don’t care what Jesus thinks or even if he existed. It was better than saying “for fuck’s sake” which is what I really wanted to say. > > I’ll stop reading the zillions of threads about her now, before someone tells me that’s the brilliant solution. There are 3 and it does seem transparent. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-to-beat-a-dead-horse-but-a-curious-question-about-umkay/626514/22 "2012-06-28T16:41:58Z")
> [@tapu](#): > > A troll who was exposed could use another, dummy, account they had set up earlier to start these threads about themselves. Just musing… > > On Edit: I’m not intending to imply anything about Shakes with this! I’m speaking hypothetically. Or to respond to those threads 😉 OMG Tubediva is Umkay!\* \*Please note that I do not actually belive Tubediva is Umkay, nor should you but if she WAS it would be funny ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-to-beat-a-dead-horse-but-a-curious-question-about-umkay/626514/23 "2012-06-28T16:47:56Z")
Call her “Tubediva” one more time and she gonna keel you. ---
**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:** [June 28, 2012, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-to-beat-a-dead-horse-but-a-curious-question-about-umkay/626514/24 "2012-06-28T16:50:43Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > Let’s say Umkay never made the sock puppet Notokay, but we somehow found out her whole story was total bullshit. Dumb question, but has it been established that Umkay and Notokay were the same person? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-to-beat-a-dead-horse-but-a-curious-question-about-umkay/626514/25 "2012-06-28T16:53:07Z")
> [@XT](#): > > After it’s dead, check it’s teeth to see if it’s a good gift then lead it to water and open it’s mouth (it’s dead already, after all), forcing it to take a gulp. All that’s left at that point is to simply switch to another one when you are about half way across the stream… You forgot the part where you paint it a different color. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-to-beat-a-dead-horse-but-a-curious-question-about-umkay/626514/26 "2012-06-28T18:54:57Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Dumb question, but has it been established that Umkay and Notokay were the same person? My reading of the announcement banning **umkay** is that the only official basis was because **umkay** misrepresented herself as a quadriplegic, and the announcement did not take an official position as to whether **umkay** and **notokay** were the same person. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-to-beat-a-dead-horse-but-a-curious-question-about-umkay/626514/27 "2012-06-28T19:05:58Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > There was a guy who claimed that he lost his parents in 9/11, just simply to score points in some argument. He was quickly exposed, and then banned. What was really funny is that he did so in a Pit thread he started to rant about a woman who cracked under torture, claiming she betrayed her country, and how people who do so are scum. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-to-beat-a-dead-horse-but-a-curious-question-about-umkay/626514/28 "2012-06-28T19:17:28Z")
> [@Moonlitherial](#): > > Or to respond to those threads 😉 > OMG Tubediva is Umkay!\* > > \*Please note that I do not actually belive Tubediva is Umkay, nor should you but if she WAS it would be funny No, but I am Spartacus. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-to-beat-a-dead-horse-but-a-curious-question-about-umkay/626514/29 "2012-06-28T19:18:18Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Dumb question, but has it been established that Umkay and Notokay were the same person? They’re both banned, what’s the difference? ---
**Author:** ![Vita\_Beata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@Vita\_Beata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vita_Beata)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-to-beat-a-dead-horse-but-a-curious-question-about-umkay/626514/30 "2012-06-28T19:19:52Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Someone should start an “Ask the masochistic equine necrophiliac” thread. I really like the humor on this board. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-to-beat-a-dead-horse-but-a-curious-question-about-umkay/626514/31 "2012-06-28T19:29:56Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > No, but I am Spartacus. It’s not fair that mods and admins get socks but we don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-to-beat-a-dead-horse-but-a-curious-question-about-umkay/626514/32 "2012-06-28T19:31:21Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > No, but I am Spartacus. No, I’M Spartacus! oh come on, you knew someone was gonna do it… ---
**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:** [June 28, 2012, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-to-beat-a-dead-horse-but-a-curious-question-about-umkay/626514/33 "2012-06-28T19:34:32Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > > > Dumb question, but has it been established that Umkay and Notokay were the same person? > > They’re both banned, what’s the difference? There’s really no difference. I was just wondering because the OP of this thread claimed this as fact. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-to-beat-a-dead-horse-but-a-curious-question-about-umkay/626514/34 "2012-06-28T19:35:35Z")
> [@ugly ripe tomato](#): > > No, I’M Spartacus! > > oh come on, you knew someone was gonna do it… What? Now we have people sharing socks? This is really getting out of hand. ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-to-beat-a-dead-horse-but-a-curious-question-about-umkay/626514/35 "2012-06-28T19:40:37Z")
It’s fine, I always wash them before I give them back. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-to-beat-a-dead-horse-but-a-curious-question-about-umkay/626514/36 "2012-06-28T19:49:18Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > It’s not fair that mods and admins get socks but we don’t. Complaints go to Cecil Adams, c/o The Chicago Reader. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-to-beat-a-dead-horse-but-a-curious-question-about-umkay/626514/37 "2012-06-28T21:05:49Z")
> [@tapu](#): > > How much do you really know about “words”? :dubious: Hey, _entomology_ is my middle name! 😃 😉 **Suil Dubh** - no clue about that one but if it gets your eyebrows wiggling, I’m in. (and what does Your username mean? Go dark or something like that?) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-to-beat-a-dead-horse-but-a-curious-question-about-umkay/626514/38 "2012-06-29T03:19:17Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > No, but I am Spartacus. Starz is apparently taking the series in a new direction in its fourth season. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-to-beat-a-dead-horse-but-a-curious-question-about-umkay/626514.md?page=1)