# Now, why would someone DO this to me? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 4, 2005, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-why-would-someone-do-this-to-me/282930 "2005-01-04T01:20:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![butter\_pie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@butter\_pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butter_pie)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-why-would-someone-do-this-to-me/282930/61 "2005-01-04T13:20:03Z")
Well, if it’s good enough for William Shatner, then… it’s… good… enough… for me! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-why-would-someone-do-this-to-me/282930/62 "2005-01-04T13:42:19Z")
Nice to see you back around here **Jin**. ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-why-would-someone-do-this-to-me/282930/63 "2005-01-04T13:53:28Z")
Those of you thinking of getting _Vamp: The Rise and Fall of Theda Bara_: do so. It’s wonderful. I’m about 50 pages from the end, and I’ve enjoyed every page of it. **Eve** is a great writer, and her subject is a most interesting person. P.S. Damn you, **World Eater**. I was going to welcome **jinwicked** back first. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-why-would-someone-do-this-to-me/282930/64 "2005-01-04T14:03:08Z")
I’d like to formally apologize for my website, Eve. It was never meant as any harm whatsoever; but as an MPSIMS moderator, I need to keep careful track of who the posters are so that when bouts of weirdness occur- which _always_ happen in MPSIMS- I can keep track of who’s whom. I have a single Tripod page devoted to every poster, with interesting tidbits such as IP address, birth sign, and favorite jazz singer. As for the “don’t believe his lies”, well, that was just a typo. I didn’t catch on to the whole “when come back, bring pie” catchphrase until we were a few months into it, and I think in some thread you promising to deliver pie as a response to said catchphrase, and I stayed home from work to wait by the mailbox for two days running, all in the hopes of a delicious pie which would be accompanied by a note highlighting brilliant forgotton stars of Hollywood in the Hoover era. Said pie- and especially said note- never did show up, and so I appended my data page on you to include “Do not believe his pies.” Obvious, since P and L are right next to each other on the keyboard, I made a simple typing error, and I apologize for any grief which it caused you. Yours, John Corrado 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-why-would-someone-do-this-to-me/282930/65 "2005-01-04T14:15:28Z")
Dear Dopers: Do not believe **John Corrado** ’s lies–P and L are not right next to each other on the keyboard. They are diagonally juxaposed to each other. I wonder how anyone could lead such a dull, uninteresting little life to waste time and effort on such shit. And **Eve** , your photos look more like the woman you are than mine do, and I’ve always been a female. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-why-would-someone-do-this-to-me/282930/66 "2005-01-04T14:24:00Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > And, uh, **Derleth** is a dirty nerd who revels in his dirty nerdness! And he runs obsolete software and OSes under emulation! And he drinks too much coffee and spends too much time in Emacs! When come back, use vi. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-why-would-someone-do-this-to-me/282930/67 "2005-01-04T14:33:36Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > Don’t _make_ me send down the cold air masses. Damn, the CofE has special services for everything. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-why-would-someone-do-this-to-me/282930/68 "2005-01-04T14:38:00Z")
I thought it was Teddy. Teddy, don’t believe his lies. That’s how I remember it anyway. Leonard ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-why-would-someone-do-this-to-me/282930/69 "2005-01-04T14:51:49Z")
The link in the OP just leads to an apology now. What did the original text say? Adam ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-why-would-someone-do-this-to-me/282930/70 "2005-01-04T14:52:54Z")
> [@stegon66](#): > > Wow, Eve, those are some impressive credentials - I didn’t know you were a film historian/author. Very cool. The book on Theda Bara looks particularly interesting - I’ll try to get a copy. > > BTW, don’t you post on the Home Theater Forum as well? Wow, Talk about weird… I don’t believe you’re talking about the SDMB’s Eve. It seems you are referring to Famed Moparts member **DartGirl**. I had to check HTF after I saw this and ran into several posts by DartGirl-who I knew as a member of [Moparts.org](http://Moparts.org). Unless that is our Eve too and I’m just a bit confused. Sam ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-why-would-someone-do-this-to-me/282930/71 "2005-01-04T15:00:36Z")
Well, _whoever_ posted and then took down that web site: a very nice apology, which is completely accepted. But I _really_ wish you’d read up on transgender issues; I’m not a man, and I have never lied about my past. But again, apology accepted. As for my books, I don’t want to get in trouble here by linking to them, as it’s _de trop_ on the SDMB to promote your own products. ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-why-would-someone-do-this-to-me/282930/72 "2005-01-04T15:14:04Z")
SDMB Eve =/= Dartgirl, right, Eve? Because if so, we’ve been under each other’s noses for years! 🙂 Sam ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-why-would-someone-do-this-to-me/282930/73 "2005-01-04T15:18:38Z")
Shit, now I’m confused. **Eve** works in Manhattan right? ---
**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:** [January 4, 2005, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-why-would-someone-do-this-to-me/282930/74 "2005-01-04T15:20:33Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > Don’t _make_ me send down the cold air masses. Dude, you’re gay AND you’re Canadian! One is bad enough, but both? :wally [sub]seriously, I don’t hate Canadians. Some of my best friends are Canadians.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-why-would-someone-do-this-to-me/282930/75 "2005-01-04T15:20:43Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Well, _whoever_ posted and then took down that web site: a very nice apology, which is completely accepted. That’s what’s got me befuddled. The person appears to be surprisingly contrite for having gone to all that trouble in the first place. Strange. ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-why-would-someone-do-this-to-me/282930/76 "2005-01-04T15:28:09Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > …but since I’m “out” on the SDMB . . . again… Not entirely. I have no idea what you are out about—apart from being a ranconteur and girl about town. That, and you have an inexplicable distaste for lawn decorations. ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-why-would-someone-do-this-to-me/282930/77 "2005-01-04T15:37:20Z")
While it may be gauche for her to do so, I am perfectly free to link you to her website: [EveGolden.com](http://www.evegolden.com). ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-why-would-someone-do-this-to-me/282930/78 "2005-01-04T15:45:00Z")
I’ve answered my question. ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-why-would-someone-do-this-to-me/282930/79 "2005-01-04T16:11:17Z")
> [@World Eater](#): > > I’ve answered my question. Me too. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-why-would-someone-do-this-to-me/282930/80 "2005-01-04T16:23:37Z")
It might be based on [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5526367&postcount=2) recent post by Eve. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-why-would-someone-do-this-to-me/282930.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-why-would-someone-do-this-to-me/282930.md?page=5)