# OMG, was this ever appropriate...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-was-this-ever-appropriate/165147>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [March 30, 2003, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-was-this-ever-appropriate/165147 "2003-03-30T03:05:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 12\
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**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-was-this-ever-appropriate/165147/41 "2003-03-30T22:21:39Z")

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> \*Originally posted by iampunha \*  
> \*\ ***GusNSpot** , it must be a terrible burden upon you to be The Voice of Reason in pit threads. Prithee tell, good sir, whatever would you do if you were ever shown to be wrong? \*\*

You Sir are obviously a speed reading skimmer because I am proven wrong 100% of the time.

:::sheesh ::: If there is no wrong, that means there is no right either… right? … No? … Well Damn !!!

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> \*Originally posted by leander \*  
> \*\ ***GunsNSpot** , perhaps _you_ should reread the OP.(bolding mine)
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> And for the love of GunsNGrammar, get thee to a Little Red Schoolhouse…(who is this Miss Read I keep hearing about, and is she in any way related to Miss Understanding??) \*\*

Gee… wrong again… see and no apology from iampunha either. See, I’m still batting 100% wrong in all my posts. 😃

I usually do use a spell checker but even so… I am so sorry that I offend you by posting without having your skill and command of the language. I am so impressed with your vocabulary, sentence structure and all around correctness, I don’t think there are over 20 people that should be allowed to post to the SDMB since you are obviously the exact personification of who should be here and you should be the one to pass out the passes. Will you be administrating the test to join SDMB yourself?

:::::such power and righteousness is enough to but me in “Shock and Awe”.

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**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-was-this-ever-appropriate/165147/42 "2003-03-30T22:24:24Z")

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Bawahahahahah… it figures… 😃

::::::: mumble mumble ::::::::

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**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-was-this-ever-appropriate/165147/43 "2003-03-30T22:28:43Z")

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What are you, **pun** , some kind of bozo?

[sub]please let him get it, please let him get it, please let him get it. . .[/sub]

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**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-was-this-ever-appropriate/165147/44 "2003-03-30T22:36:12Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Monty \*  
> \*\*Well, vunder: You and Gus can both go pound sound. After all, I’m retired Navy and the Navy’s colour combination is Blue and Gold (\<==i.e, yellow). Last I checked, the Navy’s not a coward. \*\*

Monty say, “Gold = yellow”… WTF???  
Monty piles, Gus pounds…??? Hummm I think I won that one.

Monty applies human attributes to the Navy. iampunha and leander, where are you? Oh, I see … never mind, I should have know better…

Bawahahahaha

Monty, how could anyone on the SDMB ever forget you were in the Navy?  
You lump me in with vun and then jump up on your military pedestal as though that is some sort of grand shinning light. You forgot that I have a military pedestal also. So what. ::::: sheesh ::::::

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**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-was-this-ever-appropriate/165147/45 "2003-03-30T22:56:01Z")

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**GusNSpot** , WTF?🙂

**kaylasdad** , I swear every week someone unintentionally reminds me how old I am … Google was no help, either. Is it a bastardization of “what are you, some kind of wiseguy?” Because Google returned 10 hits for “some kind of bozo” and none of them, that I could see, proferred an origin of the phrase.

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**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-was-this-ever-appropriate/165147/46 "2003-03-30T23:32:53Z")

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Drat. I thought this

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> _Originally posted by iampunha_  
> **I promise you my opinion is not a hologram**

was an oblique reference to the Firesign Theatre record _We’re All Bozos on this Bus_.

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**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-was-this-ever-appropriate/165147/47 "2003-03-31T00:05:40Z")

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Were I **RTFirefly** or **Geobabe** , it probably would have been. I’ve never been exposed much to that particular program other than a tape or two, maybe, during a roadtrip to a dopefest (NYCFest2K2, IIRC, where at least RT and Geobabe brought along tapes).

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**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-was-this-ever-appropriate/165147/48 "2003-03-31T00:10:50Z")

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Were I **RTFirefly** or **Geobabe** , it probably would have been. I’ve never been exposed much to that particular program other than a tape or two, maybe, during a roadtrip to a dopefest (NYCFest2K2, IIRC, where at least RT and Geobabe brought along tapes).

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**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-was-this-ever-appropriate/165147/49 "2003-03-31T00:39:07Z")

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Okay, I only hit submit once, I swear.

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**Author:** ![j\_kat\_251](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71c47a/32.png) [@j\_kat\_251](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j_kat_251)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-was-this-ever-appropriate/165147/50 "2003-03-31T01:21:52Z")

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> I was a front line soldier in the KISS Army!!!

Oh my God spooje, you were in league with Satan? Sweeeeeet. But something tells me that guy would be a bitch to work for.

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**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-was-this-ever-appropriate/165147/51 "2003-03-31T06:37:07Z")

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> \*Originally posted by j\_kat\_251 \*  
> \*\*Oh my God spooje, you were in league with Satan? Sweeeeeet. But something tells me that guy would be a bitch to work for. \*\*

Nah, he’s not so bad. But he has \* got \* to get central air in the office.

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**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-was-this-ever-appropriate/165147/52 "2003-03-31T22:50:11Z")

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[Confederate Brigadier General Jeb Stuart](http://www.angelfire.com/ga3/southernrebels/gen8.html) wore a yellow sash with his dress uniform. He was wounded at the Battle of Yellow Tavern, and died the next day. I wouldn’t call him a coward.

However. I do get a larf out of that slogan: “Say No To War”. Yeah, it really worked in the War on Drugs! :smack: That’s it! “Say No To the War On Drugs”!

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