# Okay, I admit it I miss... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 29, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-it-i-miss/534249 "2010-03-29T20:45:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-it-i-miss/534249/1 "2010-03-29T20:45:13Z")
Argent Towers (aka Tours D’argent). I wonder how he got on in the UK. I think he has pretty strange notions about certain things but this place is worse for not having him here. ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-it-i-miss/534249/2 "2010-03-29T21:09:43Z")
He was coming to the UK? I always liked having him around, even if he sometimes seemed to be contentious for the sake of it (not trolling per se, just trying to be that little bit more inappropriate than necessary). ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-it-i-miss/534249/3 "2010-03-29T21:27:45Z")
Yeah he posted before about visiting the UK with his father I think. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-it-i-miss/534249/4 "2010-03-29T22:54:42Z")
Huh? ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-it-i-miss/534249/5 "2010-03-29T23:12:16Z")
I miss the guy a lot. He always has something interesting to say, and he’s got a real depth of knowledge about some very particular things. He’s usually pretty pleasant, and he’d fight a good fight when it was fightin’ time, so the entertainment value was high. It’s unfortunate that he wound up leaving the board over a book recommendation. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-it-i-miss/534249/6 "2010-03-29T23:24:15Z")
Sometimes he was entertaining, sometimes he was tiresome; but hey, isn’t that the kind of personality that makes a community and community? There are lots of folks here I disagree with, but if what I wanted was all “people who agree 100% with norinew 100% of the time”, I’d just sit around talking to myself. . . ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-it-i-miss/534249/7 "2010-03-29T23:25:51Z")
I was wondering last night where he’d gone. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-it-i-miss/534249/8 "2010-03-29T23:59:02Z")
I sent an e-mail to the address in his profile. Don’t know if he will respond. Why don’t you send one too? Time has passed. Things change. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-it-i-miss/534249/9 "2010-03-30T01:13:38Z")
I didn’t think he needed to leave over that brouhaha, either. He said something silly, he recognized it was silly, that was the end of it for me. Maybe he’s just having a cooling off period. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-it-i-miss/534249/10 "2010-03-30T03:07:35Z")
> [@ghardester](#): > > I sent an e-mail to the address in his profile. Don’t know if he will respond. Why don’t you send one too? Time has passed. Things change. Have done done. I’ll mention if I hear anything. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-it-i-miss/534249/11 "2010-03-30T03:20:39Z")
Maybe he changed his username again. Anonymously. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-it-i-miss/534249/12 "2010-03-30T03:23:05Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > It’s unfortunate that he wound up leaving the board over a book recommendation. linky-link for those of us who missed this? ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-it-i-miss/534249/13 "2010-03-30T03:39:51Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > linky-link for those of us who missed this? It was a book recommendation to a younger person that pushes the edge a lot in the sexual but only literary sense. I didn’t think it was that big a big deal although I would haven’t done the same because I am a parent. We have all done stupid things that are regrettable. If everyone that made a mistake like like that was burned at the stake, we we would just be a world full of ashes. I wish he would come back as well. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-it-i-miss/534249/14 "2010-03-30T03:50:47Z")
**Argent Towers** was [thread=552422]pitted [/thread] for recommending _Hogg_ to Curtis LeMay. There was also an interval name change, so he’s called **Tours d’Argent** in his posts, - the collateral damage started to involve **Agent Foxtrot** , so AT became Td’A. Unfortunately, the thread sounds more entertaining than it is - it’s mostly a wreck, and the upshot seems to be the loss of a solid Doper. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Cymbeline](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_cymbeline/32/9244_2.png) [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-it-i-miss/534249/15 "2010-03-30T05:30:45Z")
I miss him too. He was an interesting, intelligent, and prolific poster. **Argent** if you are out there, please come back! ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-it-i-miss/534249/16 "2010-03-30T06:57:02Z")
WTF? That pointless pitting made him leave? I’ll miss the guy and hope he posts again. He has a lot of idiosyncrasies which apparently rubbed people the wrong way, but he was always interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-it-i-miss/534249/17 "2010-03-30T08:42:04Z")
What’s even sadder is that I doubt Curtis is even a child, and even if he is he comes across as way too closed minded to ever read a book like _Hogg_ so it’s not like any real crime was committed. I’d like to join the chorus - come back **Argent Towers**! We miss you! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-it-i-miss/534249/18 "2010-03-30T14:18:00Z")
I would have left, too, if I had been treated the way he was in that thread. I don’t blame him at all. ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-it-i-miss/534249/19 "2010-03-30T18:44:30Z")
Geez what a trainwreck. Don’t let that keep you away from here **Towers**. Get back in here! ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-it-i-miss/534249/20 "2010-03-30T21:14:28Z")
That thread is not the reason he left, according to him, in that [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12136852&postcount=449): > [@](#): > > My major reason for leaving is completely unrelated to this pitting. I just wanted to make that clear lest anyone think I was “driven off” by the mob. The “mob,” by and large, had its reasons for doing what they did and I can’t really hold it against them. After I did the gentleman-like thing and apologized, nearly everyone ceased attacking me and the very few who continued are not enough of a concern to me to make me leave. > > Will I be back in the future? Possibly [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-it-i-miss/534249.md?page=2)