# Not to offend, but to reccommend.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-to-offend-but-to-reccommend/150172>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 22, 2003, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-to-offend-but-to-reccommend/150172 "2003-01-22T06:14:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![uDou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@uDou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uDou)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-to-offend-but-to-reccommend/150172/1 "2003-01-22T06:14:40Z")

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:smack: Missed the codes below. So how do you turn what’s invisible (Belief) into what’s tangible?

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**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-to-offend-but-to-reccommend/150172/2 "2003-01-22T06:39:45Z")

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Codes? Whatchutalkinaboutwillis?

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**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-to-offend-but-to-reccommend/150172/3 "2003-01-22T06:55:50Z")

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Uhhhh…I’m going to go ahead and be offended.

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**Author:** ![uDou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@uDou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uDou)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-to-offend-but-to-reccommend/150172/4 "2003-01-22T07:07:07Z")

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A simple slap on the hand like, “You can’t do that,” would have been sufficient for me, but to offend my interest for being here, (aint) kosher. Especially when some of the jargon going on in other parts of this board read like “Crap” to me.

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**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-to-offend-but-to-reccommend/150172/5 "2003-01-22T07:35:59Z")

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I’m not sure what this thread was supposed to be about–was the original post perhaps a post that was supposed to go in another thread? At any rate, this forum (In My Humble Opinion, or “IMHO” for short) is for

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> “What’s your favorite …?” For frank exchanges of views on less-than-cosmic topics. This is also the place for polling.

You can find descriptions of each of our other forums on our [main index page](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/index.php?s=).