# Oh, cmon Rico! (about a TMI thread closing) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 20, 2008, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cmon-rico-about-a-tmi-thread-closing/473623 "2008-11-20T07:12:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cmon-rico-about-a-tmi-thread-closing/473623/1 "2008-11-20T07:12:48Z")
First of all, linky: [What utterly impossible sexual fantasies do you have? (Way TMI) - In My Humble Opinion - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=493821) May I first add that I’m not really irked, and that I can totally see where he’s coming from. I just think that compared with some of the disgusting stuff in this thread shared in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=493463&page=3), **Lumpy’s** thread was pretty tame. He even put a spoiler box. Also, I for one thought it was truly hilarious. I lol’d. Seriously though, what exactly was the problem? Too sexual? Just going from the most recent TMI thread alone, tales of zits, poop, yeast infections, masturbation, and bloody cunnilingus are allowed, but a guy who wants to fuck some elves with his magical red dingaling is over the line? I honestly don’t get it. Not that I’m complaining about the other thread. As you know, I am quite familar with TMI :o ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cmon-rico-about-a-tmi-thread-closing/473623/2 "2008-11-20T07:38:57Z")
It had less to do with the TMI part of it, and more with the “Dear Penthouse Forum” feel. I’m not a prude. I’m not usually squeamish. However, the TMI part required brain bleach and skull steel wool to attempt to get it out of my head. But it’s still there. For the record, I asked another moderator to second-guess me. He agreed. I haven’t named the other Mod. Now I get all the Mod-Pitting points for it… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cmon-rico-about-a-tmi-thread-closing/473623/3 "2008-11-20T08:11:41Z")
Holy pan fried semen, Auto! Look at the thread I just started in ATMB (I hadn’t gotten to The Pit yet; I’m pretty anal (oh, no…TMI!) about the way I go through each section!) I like your wording a lot better, though! > **[How was one more TMI/disgusting than the other?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=493831)** > > Why was this thread closed… …while this thread http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=493463&page=3 Posts #68 and #108 …contained way TMI and is exponentially (to me) more disgusting, especially the posts I referenced. Those... ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cmon-rico-about-a-tmi-thread-closing/473623/4 "2008-11-20T08:34:46Z")
This raises the obvious question: Does pan-fried semen actually have to be blessed by a love guru before it’s officially holy? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cmon-rico-about-a-tmi-thread-closing/473623/5 "2008-11-20T13:38:15Z")
If I wasn’t at work at the time I would have done the same thing, for the same reason. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cmon-rico-about-a-tmi-thread-closing/473623/6 "2008-11-20T14:35:12Z")
It’s a result of the compact between the Mods’ union and the elves, fairies, dryads and assorted semi-humans’ union. ---
**Author:** ![DudleyGarrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cmon-rico-about-a-tmi-thread-closing/473623/7 "2008-11-20T14:37:14Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > It’s a result of the compact between the Mods’ union and the elves, fairies, dryads and assorted semi-humans’ union. God, another Auto Industry post… ok, we get it, GIVE THEM THE BAILOUT PACKAGE!!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cmon-rico-about-a-tmi-thread-closing/473623/8 "2008-11-20T14:56:47Z")
If I’ve ever complained about a mod’s decision before, I have no memory of it. I tend to stay out of such threads and let mod decisions stand. But not this time. This one really seems off the wall. It seemed like a perfectly reasonable thread. ---
**Author:** ![FarmerChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@FarmerChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FarmerChick)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cmon-rico-about-a-tmi-thread-closing/473623/9 "2008-11-20T15:59:18Z")
My vote is for Rico. If you want to post fantasy porn, I’m sure they’re a tons of sites. That wasn’t TMI, That was NotSuitibleForSanePeople. IMHO of course. ---
**Author:** ![CaerieD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cmon-rico-about-a-tmi-thread-closing/473623/10 "2008-11-20T16:08:38Z")
I…really can’t comment on whether or not I think the thread should have been closed. I just keep picturing a man with a dog penis. :eek::eek::eek: ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cmon-rico-about-a-tmi-thread-closing/473623/11 "2008-11-20T16:09:39Z")
It was indeed and … odd … idea, but really it had tons of artistic potential I thought. Once I got past the mental image of a satyr with clean-shaven legs popping a monstrous hot pink woody and working his way through the AD&D Monster Manual, that is. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cmon-rico-about-a-tmi-thread-closing/473623/12 "2008-11-20T16:11:48Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > assorted semi-humans’ union It’s demi-human, or ‘bestially abled’, please. ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cmon-rico-about-a-tmi-thread-closing/473623/13 "2008-11-20T16:13:53Z")
> [@FarmerChick](#): > > My vote is for Rico. If you want to post fantasy porn, I’m sure they’re a tons of sites. That wasn’t TMI, That was NotSuitibleForSanePeople. IMHO of course. If we want to ask “general questions” we could go to Yahoo Answers, if we want to talk about movies and tv shows, IMDB has message boards, and so on. I don’t think that rationale cuts it here since we can go elsewhere for the same questions, but could we go elsewhere for the same responses from the same community? I have no interest in the thread itself, in fact… I opened the link and shut it without reading much more than half the first post, but I don’t see why it should be censored either. If the board’s population doesn’t want it, it will sink into its watery death. ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cmon-rico-about-a-tmi-thread-closing/473623/14 "2008-11-20T16:15:02Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > If I wasn’t at work at the time I would have done the same thing, for the same reason. Been fantasizing about having an animal penis? :eek: I usually don’t do that at work, either. ---
**Author:** ![Punintentional](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9de0a6/32.png) [@Punintentional](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punintentional)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cmon-rico-about-a-tmi-thread-closing/473623/15 "2008-11-20T16:23:18Z")
> [@FarmerChick](#): > > My vote is for Rico. If you want to post fantasy porn, I’m sure they’re a tons of sites. That wasn’t TMI, That was NotSuitibleForSanePeople. IMHO of course. I agree, only post here about topics that the smartest people on the planet can answer. Hi Opal LOL. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cmon-rico-about-a-tmi-thread-closing/473623/16 "2008-11-20T16:31:54Z")
> [@Santo\_Rugger](#): > > Been fantasizing about having an animal penis? :eek: I usually don’t do that at work, either. Yeah, one too many reprimands from HR broke me of that habit, too. ---
**Author:** ![Acid\_Lamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cmon-rico-about-a-tmi-thread-closing/473623/17 "2008-11-20T17:38:41Z")
I’m with Rico on this one. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cmon-rico-about-a-tmi-thread-closing/473623/18 "2008-11-20T17:45:07Z")
> [@Santo\_Rugger](#): > > Been fantasizing about having an animal penis? :eek: I usually don’t do that at work, either. Count me in on not doing that at work myself. I fantasize about \*halving \*an animal penis, usually with a machete, while I’m at work. Take that elephant dong! ---
**Author:** ![Acid\_Lamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cmon-rico-about-a-tmi-thread-closing/473623/19 "2008-11-20T17:46:25Z")
> [@Cluricaun](#): > > Count me in on not doing that at work myself. I fantasize about \*halving \*an animal penis, usually with a machete, while I’m at work. Take that elephant dong! Dude, I’m going to take you up on that beer sometime. ---
**Author:** ![SpecialAgentJem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@SpecialAgentJem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpecialAgentJem)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cmon-rico-about-a-tmi-thread-closing/473623/20 "2008-11-20T18:25:03Z")
I’ve seen worse threads that have been left open. If the thread was really as bad for it to be closed the lack of responses would have caused it to die anyway. It appears the mods have been closing crazy recently! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cmon-rico-about-a-tmi-thread-closing/473623.md?page=2)