# Nothing Special lives up to his username. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 5, 2006, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-special-lives-up-to-his-username/382898 "2006-12-05T02:37:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-special-lives-up-to-his-username/382898/81 "2006-12-05T20:28:46Z")
I think everyone is being pretty hard on **Nothing Special**. At first I disagreed with his position, but I think I’ve seen the light. Last night I was really bothered by something, some glimmer of truth in his/her arguments, so bothered that I couldn’t sleep. I got up and tried some soul-searching, I could feel the issue just below my consiousness like a piece of sand in an oyster that can’t be expelled. I decided to meditated for an hour and suddenly the full realization hit me, like I was shot… like I was shot with a diamond… a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God… the genius of that! ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-special-lives-up-to-his-username/382898/82 "2006-12-05T20:33:11Z")
[QUOTE=RaftPeople] I think everyone is being pretty hard on **Nothing Special**. At first I disagreed with his position, but I think I’ve seen the light. Last night I was really bothered by something, some glimmer of truth in his/her arguments, so bothered that I couldn’t sleep. I got up and tried some soul-searching, I could feel the issue just below my consiousness like a piece of sand in an oyster that can’t be expelled. I decided to meditated for an hour and suddenly the full realization hit me, like I was shot… like I was shot with a diamond… a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God… the genius of that! [/QUOTE] Did he send you a private copy of his magnum opus? ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-special-lives-up-to-his-username/382898/83 "2006-12-05T20:39:34Z")
[QUOTE=Crotalus] Did he send you a private copy of his magnum opus? [/QUOTE] Just the opus, no magnum. ---
**Author:** ![Nothing\_Special](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9f8e36/32.png) [@Nothing\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nothing_Special)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-special-lives-up-to-his-username/382898/84 "2006-12-05T21:02:28Z")
[QUOTE=RaftPeople] I think everyone is being pretty hard on **Nothing Special**. At first I disagreed with his position, but I think I’ve seen the light. Last night I was really bothered by something, some glimmer of truth in his/her arguments, so bothered that I couldn’t sleep. I got up and tried some soul-searching, I could feel the issue just below my consiousness like a piece of sand in an oyster that can’t be expelled. I decided to meditated for an hour and suddenly the full realization hit me, like I was shot… like I was shot with a diamond… a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God… the genius of that! [/QUOTE] You’re mixing up your metaphors all over the place. First you mention “light,” then the process involved in the creation of a pearl, then a diamond (being shot out of a gun, no less). Yours is sloppy, sloppy, sloppy writing. You need to work harder! Keep working harder! You’ll get there! ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-special-lives-up-to-his-username/382898/85 "2006-12-05T21:12:04Z")
[QUOTE=Nothing Special] You’re mixing up your metaphors all over the place. First you mention “light,” then the process involved in the creation of a pearl, then a diamond (being shot out of a gun, no less). Yours is sloppy, sloppy, sloppy writing. You need to work harder! Keep working harder! You’ll get there! [/QUOTE] Wrong again. He didn’t mix metaphors, he used three in succession, all properly. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-special-lives-up-to-his-username/382898/86 "2006-12-05T21:15:07Z")
And two were similes. ---
**Author:** ![Nothing\_Special](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9f8e36/32.png) [@Nothing\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nothing_Special)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-special-lives-up-to-his-username/382898/87 "2006-12-05T21:38:00Z")
[QUOTE=Ravenman] Is that your formal diagnosis, Dr. Frist? [/QUOTE] Who the hell is Dr. Frist? ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-special-lives-up-to-his-username/382898/88 "2006-12-05T21:43:55Z")
[He’s a doctor and US Senator.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Frist)He’s in the news from time to time. ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-special-lives-up-to-his-username/382898/89 "2006-12-05T21:43:59Z")
Senator Bill Frist, video doctor! (he concluded Terry Schiavo was fine after seeing her on TV) ---
**Author:** ![Nothing\_Special](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9f8e36/32.png) [@Nothing\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nothing_Special)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-special-lives-up-to-his-username/382898/90 "2006-12-05T21:53:07Z")
[QUOTE=Crotalus] Did he send you a private copy of his magnum opus? [/QUOTE] What’s that? ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-special-lives-up-to-his-username/382898/91 "2006-12-05T21:56:48Z")
[QUOTE=Nothing Special] What’s that? [/QUOTE] One of the herd’s annoying little inside jokes. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-special-lives-up-to-his-username/382898/92 "2006-12-05T22:15:29Z")
[QUOTE=Garfield226] Quit feeding the fucking troll, you dumbasses. [/QUOTE] Hey, _you’re_ the one who opened a pit thread about him. Not such a smart move, if your aim is to get people to not pay attention to him. ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-special-lives-up-to-his-username/382898/93 "2006-12-05T22:34:27Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] Hey, _you’re_ the one who opened a pit thread about him. Not such a smart move, if your aim is to get people to not pay attention to him. [/QUOTE] I already addressed that, in post #41. > [@](#): > > My hope wasn’t to argue with him here (or in GD). My hope was to let other people know, “Hey, this guy is yanking your chain, please stop obliging him and maybe he’ll go away.” > > No discussion really needed, in this thread or the GD one. If people stopped responding, he’d stop trolling (or the resultant flameout of “Why isn’t anyone paying attention to meeeeeeeeeeee” would be much more fun to watch). ---
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-special-lives-up-to-his-username/382898/94 "2006-12-05T22:35:18Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] Let me guess: **drmark2000** , right? [/QUOTE] You know, I had exactly the same thought. I’m still waiting for the damn opus. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-special-lives-up-to-his-username/382898/95 "2006-12-05T22:45:13Z")
[Here](http://www.heedme.com/~omar/gfx/opus.gif) you go. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-special-lives-up-to-his-username/382898/96 "2006-12-05T23:20:03Z")
[QUOTE=Garfield226] I already addressed that, in post #41. [/QUOTE] Ah, sorry, I’d missed that post. Still, not a very great idea on your behalf. The people responding to our little trollish friend here have read the same posts you have, and have either decided that he is not, in fact, a troll (in which case they’ll ignore your instructions to ignore him as inapplicable) or they think he is a troll, but want to poke him anyway to see what happens (in which case they’ll ignore your insructions as no fun.) Pitting him does nothing to realize your goal. All it does is introduce him to more Dopers who will either follow your instructions to ignore him (small gain, as they were already “ignoring” him because they’d never heard of him) or who will react in one of the two ways I described above. The net effect of these sorts of threads is always going to be to generate more interest and attention to the putative troll. If you really want people to ignore him, the only thing you can do is to ignore him yourself. Any other action only makes the problem worse. ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-special-lives-up-to-his-username/382898/97 "2006-12-05T23:21:47Z")
[QUOTE=RaftPeople] …like I was shot… like I was shot with a diamond… a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God… the genius of that! [/QUOTE] Note: This was shamelessly stolen from a low-budget family film some of you may know that employed some small time actors and director, but I didn’t want to clutter up my post by giving credit where credit should be given. So now I did. ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-special-lives-up-to-his-username/382898/98 "2006-12-05T23:26:15Z")
[QUOTE=Nothing Special] Wow! This is little social circle, isn’t it? You have this one banned poster who was the “little friend” of another poster! You’ve really got something going on, here! My goodness! [/QUOTE] Are they having a sale on exclamation marks? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-special-lives-up-to-his-username/382898/99 "2006-12-05T23:52:01Z")
[Quote=rayh] Are they having a sale on exclamation marks? [/Quote] Hey, at least he’s not using them in bunches!!! ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-special-lives-up-to-his-username/382898/100 "2006-12-05T23:52:38Z")
[QUOTE=RaftPeople] Note: This was shamelessly stolen from a low-budget family film some of you may know that employed some small time actors and director, but I didn’t want to clutter up my post by giving credit where credit should be given. So now I did. [/QUOTE] Yeah, and it was some funny shit to boot. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-special-lives-up-to-his-username/382898.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-special-lives-up-to-his-username/382898.md?page=6)