# Omnibus Trolls R Us Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 23, 2016, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489 "2016-05-23T21:38:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 278
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5544 "2017-12-17T01:47:03Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Hell, if we’re good enough for **samclem** and **Colibri** to play with us, there’s no reason you can’t join us, too. Pull up a seat and stay a while. > [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > There aren’t really any rules governing this sort of thing. I’m still trying to figure out what’s most prudent. > I understand and appreciate your point. But I’m putting money down that **samclem** and **Colibri** have thicker skin than me, not to mention years of experience with the dynamics involved. \ Hell, I’m 73 this year and my skin is getting thinner as we speak. **Colibri** is a hummingbird. How delicate a creature is that? Experience? Hah! Overrated. Many a young shining star is out there. You just have to believe in yourself. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5545 "2017-12-17T01:49:37Z")
On a lighter note, I am somewhat creeped by this new **[Rutherford B](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20668684&postcount=139)**. He may be harmless, but [maybe not](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20664487&postcount=35). ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5546 "2017-12-17T01:52:06Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > On a lighter note, I am somewhat creeped by this new **[Rutherford B](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20668684&postcount=139)**. He may be harmless, but [maybe not](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20664487&postcount=35). Christmas stocking. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5547 "2017-12-17T02:03:26Z")
I’ve seen a very odd electronic billboard here (NE Florida) saying something like “Hayes was wrong.” It rarely is visible long enough for me to read the entire screed. Who cares what Rutherford B. Hayes thinks in 2017? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5548 "2017-12-17T02:06:57Z")
> [@Emiliana](#): > > Christmas stocking. Hey, I collect rocks. A stocking with some nice anthracite in it would be awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5549 "2017-12-17T02:09:04Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > That hotsprings story was legit, I found out about it here, of course, maybe a couple of years ago, when some other idiot jumped over a safety barrier and fell into the spring while his sister recorded it. There is also [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20056459) more recent thread. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5550 "2017-12-17T02:49:32Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > **Colibri** is a hummingbird. How delicate a creature is that? Gram for gram, hummingbirds are the most ferocious creatures on the planet. My tutelary deity is [Huitzilopochtli](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Kodeks_tudela_21.jpg), the Southern Hummingbird. The Aztecs picked the hummingbird to be their god of war, blood, and human sacrifice. (That’s a spammer in the upper right.) ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5551 "2017-12-17T02:55:27Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Gram for gram, hummingbirds are the most ferocious creatures on the planet. My tutelary deity is [Huitzilopochtli](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Kodeks_tudela_21.jpg), the Southern Hummingbird. The Aztecs picked the hummingbird to be their god of war, blood, and human sacrifice. (That’s a spammer in the upper right.) Just curious, how did that work out from the Aztecs? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5552 "2017-12-17T06:21:21Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Just curious, how did that work out from the Aztecs? Extremely well, actually, until they had to deal with steel swords and gunpowder. The Aztecs conquered most of central Mexico in less than a century with their rapacious ideology. ---
**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:** [December 17, 2017, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5553 "2017-12-17T11:32:24Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > [This guy](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20667132&postcount=14) could be a weird “one and done” or may stick around for more lies. > [@wolfpup](#): > > Well, lessee here. This appears to be a man who knows no fear, who knows how to live life to the fullest, a man whose heroic exploits make him irresistibly attractive to women. A man who fears not the mocking of the unworthy rabble, for he knows that all he writes is true. I would also venture to guess that it’s a man with the same posting IP as **Shagnasty**. …a man who leaves the house in the morning coincidentally wearing an ensemble similar enough to Harrison Ford’s costume that he can step right into a stuntman’s role. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5554 "2017-12-17T11:50:16Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Extremely well, actually, until they had to deal with steel swords and gunpowder. The Aztecs conquered most of central Mexico in less than a century with their rapacious ideology. And disease. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5555 "2017-12-17T12:59:31Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > And disease. So, you’re saying it was guns, germs and steel? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5556 "2017-12-17T13:48:20Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > I’ve always had a soft spot for **Drunky**. That’s his fontanelle. Careful. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5557 "2017-12-17T14:05:51Z")
Speaking of our newest moderator … Her custom title has been “Knocking it up a notch. BAM!” since she joined. I suggest she might want to update that: “Knocking heads up a notch. BAM!” Or maybe " … CLONK!" And yes, those are quite sparkly: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20670298#post20670298](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20670298#post20670298) ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5558 "2017-12-17T14:47:56Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Speaking of our newest moderator … > > Her custom title has been “Knocking it up a notch. BAM!” since she joined. > > I suggest she might want to update that: “Knocking heads up a notch. BAM!” Or maybe " … CLONK!" > > And yes, those are quite sparkly: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20670298#post20670298](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20670298#post20670298) It’s too bad they got to her. She was really a nice person. I could never see her posts without thinking of olives marching towards a Martini. I hope they treat her better than France treated Marie Antoinette. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5559 "2017-12-17T15:07:27Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > So, you’re saying it was guns, germs and steel? You are a true Diamond in the rough. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5560 "2017-12-17T15:14:39Z")
From the new Twilight Zone Forum. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20671131#post20671131](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20671131#post20671131) ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5561 "2017-12-17T15:19:48Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > From the new Twilight Zone Forum. > > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20671131#post20671131](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20671131#post20671131) Ah, **Stan Schmenge** is at it again, you say. I’ve noticed he’ll vanish for months, then come back with some silliness like the above. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5562 "2017-12-17T15:40:07Z")
Well, that thread never reached it’s full potential. The government shut it down as it was getting way too close to classified information. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5563 "2017-12-17T16:22:11Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > You are a true Diamond in the rough. As we all know, the best diamonds are at Jared’s. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=277) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=279)