# Okay, that's the last straw **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 29, 2005, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594 "2005-12-29T17:31:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/21 "2005-12-29T19:00:17Z")
I’ve got two pieces of chocolate cheesecake left. Want one? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/22 "2005-12-29T19:00:36Z")
Cheer up. The rain will stop. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/23 "2005-12-29T19:08:22Z")
Look, I don’t care what age you are or what the other’s say. You’re still smokin’ hot to me. They don’t know you like we know you. ---
**Author:** ![Cranky\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Cranky\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cranky_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/24 "2005-12-29T19:13:57Z")
**Twickster** I am SOOOO with you! Your entire post (except for the mini-butterfinger and broken tooth) could have been mine! I say we begin a reign of destruction the likes of which the world has never seen! Huge fireballs raining on the earth! Fingernails screeching across blackboards worldwide! The sound of glass shattering, metal screaming, humans wailing, cats and dogs howling… ok. How about a nice, snuggly, purring kitten? Feeling any better? Me neither. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/25 "2005-12-29T19:28:16Z")
> [@marque elf](#): > > I once stuck my head in the oven and turned it on a la Ms. Plath. I forgot it was an electric range and almost burned myself. I was feeling suicidal but I was damned sure not going to feel suicidal and in be in pain also. Kind of like Albert’s mother in **Bye Bye Birdie**? \*\*starts humming _What’s the Matter with Kids Today?_ **Cranky** – you’re on. I’ll bring the scythe, you bring the Uzi. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/26 "2005-12-29T19:31:42Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Who the FUCK took all the straws!?!?! Ah, shit, whooshed by **NoClueBoy**. Did I mention I’m having a bad day here? ---
**Author:** ![marque\_elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@marque\_elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marque_elf)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/27 "2005-12-29T20:41:40Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Ah, shit, whooshed by **NoClueBoy**. Did I mention I’m having a bad day here? Q: Havie a bad day? A: No, thanks. I’m already having one. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/28 "2005-12-29T20:56:34Z")
You poor baby… How about a back rub? SNAP…! OWWW! That’s gonna leave a mark! ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/29 "2005-12-29T20:58:10Z")
You’re highly esteemed here so that should lift your spirits at least a little. And 51 is a good age for losing weight, so please take the necessary steps and start feeling better about yourself as the pounds slip away. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/30 "2005-12-29T20:58:58Z")
> [@astro](#): > > OWWW! That’s gonna leave a mark! You people are viscious. I’m talkin’ wounded shark here. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/31 "2005-12-29T22:20:30Z")
The Great White has a bite force of 800 pounds and razor sharp teeth. I measured it myself, I did! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/32 "2005-12-30T01:16:54Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > The Great White has a bite force of 800 pounds and razor sharp teeth. I measured it myself, I did! Nice – crack about my weight _and_ my teeth. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/33 "2005-12-30T01:32:38Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Nice – crack about my weight _and_ my teeth. Don’t encourage him. He’ll just take more notes watching “Animal Planet” and proclaim it to be his own research. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/34 "2005-12-30T03:11:14Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Grumble grumble grumble – > > I’m not having a good week. People have been pointing out my imperfections (all things I’ve actually done or failed to do, so it’s not that I’m being attacked without cause, not that that helps any), I’m tired and cranky and overworked and underpaid and my birthday is coming up and I’m going to be 51, which isn’t a nice round number I can freak out about, like last year, it just means I’m middle-aged, plus I’ve been eating crap so I’m fat and middle-aged, and, oh, BTW, I’ll probably never get laid again, so I’m fat and middle-aged and unattractive. > > And I was just eating a mini Butterfinger (sugar will make me feel better, right? – see above for “eating crap”) and I broke a filling on it. And it’s two weeks till I can get an appt. with the dentist so I’m going to spend the next two weeks compulsively prodding the rough spot on the inside of that tooth with my tongue. > > Plus it’s raining. > > Grumble grumble grumble. Although nobody has been pointing out my imperfections, I am tubby and 52. Also I had a filling recently drop out and I regularly prod the space with my tongue. My dentist has offered me an appointment 4 weeks ahead (though if anything starts to hurt, I can get an emergency call). I live in England, so of course it’s raining. Spooky, huh? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/35 "2005-12-30T03:14:26Z")
> [@glee](#): > > Although nobody has been pointing out my imperfections, I am tubby and 52. Also I had a filling recently drop out and I regularly prod the space with my tongue. My dentist has offered me an appointment 4 weeks ahead (though if anything starts to hurt, I can get an emergency call). > I live in England, so of course it’s raining. > > Spooky, huh? Whoa. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/36 "2005-12-30T03:32:05Z")
As bad as being middle aged, over weight, flabby, under-sexed, physically unattractive and having bad teeth might be, there is something worse. After a while you learn to live with it. Even worse, you become comfortable with it. After a while you hope that it all ends in oblivion because oblivion sounds so uncomplicated. Let it rain. Let you teeth fall out. Buy trousers a size or two larger. Wear full-cut underwear. Enjoy the process of deterioration. Aging is not for wimps! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/37 "2005-12-30T04:20:50Z")
> [@Spavined Gelding](#): > > Aging is not for wimps! Iowa? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/38 "2005-12-30T05:37:28Z")
Iowa has a bite force of a short tonne. I been there, I measured it! **Twicks** has a nice rack. (see second sentance above.) ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/39 "2005-12-30T05:59:20Z")
Twicks, if it makes you feel better, I’ll save some Hershey cake for you. 12.4 ounces of Hershey chocolate and another 8 ounces of Hershey’s syrup. And no nuts. 🙂 [sub]Of course, if you really have nothing to do Saturday, you could come over and eat some yourself, along with some nice fried chicken.[/sub] Robin ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594/40 "2005-12-30T09:26:51Z")
Saw a book on my customer’s kitchen counter yesterday, flipped the cover open, and remarked that it was a _good_ one! 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-thats-the-last-straw/337594.md?page=3)