# OK, Polycarp, I really can't let this go by... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 22, 2008, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-polycarp-i-really-cant-let-this-go-by/450255 "2008-05-22T15:42:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-polycarp-i-really-cant-let-this-go-by/450255/81 "2008-05-23T20:47:15Z")
[QUOTE=wring] Sure, and in the same spirit, I can continue to interpret your postings as I have. [/QUOTE] Sure thing. Feel free, as I have no doubt you would do so anyway. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-polycarp-i-really-cant-let-this-go-by/450255/82 "2008-05-23T20:51:34Z")
No, _you_ hang up first! _YOU_! ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-polycarp-i-really-cant-let-this-go-by/450255/83 "2008-05-23T21:09:49Z")
I _paid_ for this microphone, sir! ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-polycarp-i-really-cant-let-this-go-by/450255/84 "2008-05-23T21:32:15Z")
Is it too late for me to apologize for getting **Firefly** cancelled? Because I’m really really sorry I did that. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-polycarp-i-really-cant-let-this-go-by/450255/85 "2008-05-23T22:01:36Z")
Has anyone else bothered to re-read her posts? She’s right, she didn’t say “murderer” again, after the correction and appropriate _mea fuckup_. She did make reference to the statute of limititations for the crime, but that’s nowhere near the same. I expect that was misunderstood in the heat of the moment. Odddly, after re-reading her posts, I am not at all happy with these drapes… ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-polycarp-i-really-cant-let-this-go-by/450255/86 "2008-05-23T23:13:59Z")
[QUOTE=Giraffe] I’m sure it wasn’t, as I didn’t really address that in my first post. And I should have clarified that I didn’t intend my response to your post as criticism of it or you, merely that I didn’t think the benefit of the doubt you were giving us was warranted in this case. [/QUOTE] That is in fact a prehensile tongue. ---
**Author:** ![misshannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3e96dc/32.png) [@misshannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misshannah)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-polycarp-i-really-cant-let-this-go-by/450255/87 "2008-05-23T23:25:50Z")
[QUOTE=El Cid Viscoso] One time in Canada I pooped my pants so I did what any normal 10-year-old would do: lie and blame it on his friend. I told a fuming parental unit my buddy’d had to borrow some underpants when he visited. Man, she was merciless to him from then on. Some anger was justified – we had no plumbing, so it was pretty much the same batch of washwater for all our clothes. Of course I would be the one to end up fetching from the spring but it was sure better than her wrath. Luckily she’d discovered the fudgy **gruns** ahead of time. Oh this isn’t a confessional? [/QUOTE] I’m sorry to be so soooo so OT, but you, **El Cid Viscoso** are the only person ever outside my immediate family that I’ve ever heard refer to underwears as **gruns**. Weird. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-polycarp-i-really-cant-let-this-go-by/450255/88 "2008-05-23T23:34:00Z")
[QUOTE=misshannah] I’m sorry to be so soooo so OT, but you, **El Cid Viscoso** are the only person ever outside my immediate family that I’ve ever heard refer to underwears as **gruns**. Weird. [/QUOTE] Picked that from a girlfriend in Grand Rapids. When we ground it in Grand Haven she got grits in her gruns. She was groovy. Then she went to Denver. And I was like “yo, you can keep the satellite dish” and I got out with all my shit. I hope you’re not related. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2008, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-polycarp-i-really-cant-let-this-go-by/450255/89 "2008-05-24T02:48:30Z")
> [@](#): > > **What Exit?** : Sarahfeena did not ask for a mod to now take action, she clearly requested clarification as to why Giraffe did not. I am going to go with the assumption he did not even see it until much later, but that is just a guess. I don’t know why this was buried in comments to me. I didn’t address this issue. Are you confused _again_? As for me – Ignorant? Often, but never intentionally. (Are you not also ignorant?) Smug? Frequently. Cold? Rarely. I can’t think of the last time that I felt coldness toward someone. > [@](#): > > You are not the nice person you pretend to be. You’ve found me out! ---
**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:** [May 24, 2008, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-polycarp-i-really-cant-let-this-go-by/450255/90 "2008-05-24T17:53:36Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] Odddly, after re-reading her posts, I am not at all happy with these drapes… [/QUOTE] Sorry about that. ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2008, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-polycarp-i-really-cant-let-this-go-by/450255/91 "2008-05-24T19:16:14Z")
Mildest. Pit. Post. Ever. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2008, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-polycarp-i-really-cant-let-this-go-by/450255/92 "2008-05-24T23:26:31Z")
I just want to say something, I’ve been running across it lot lately and I am guilty of it quite frequently. There is a big generational and probably geographical disconnect here. I’m sure some one smarter than me has pointed it out before. Maybe we should all fill out our user profiles as accurately as possible. I didn’t want to start a new thread so if the mods want to admonish me for the hijack it’s fine with me. I swear I am going to think and look before I post. It causes too many hurt feelings. Yeah, yeah I know it’s the pit but this were it seems most of the problem occurs because of the laxness of the rules. It’s family time now. Peace be with you guys. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-polycarp-i-really-cant-let-this-go-by/450255.md?page=4)