# 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:** 301
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6004 "2018-01-12T03:51:56Z")
[Turd is back](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=846770). Likes to look at traffic maps. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6005 "2018-01-12T04:06:00Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > [Turd is back](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=846770). Likes to look at traffic maps. Likes to look at traffic maps _and laugh at the people stuck on the freeways_. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6006 "2018-01-12T04:16:41Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > [Turd is back](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=846770). Likes to look at traffic maps. More precisely, as I read it, likes to sit in his recliner and gloat about the poor sods stuck in traffic backups. He’s probably a major rubbernecker at traffic accidents. Seems to get a lot of joy out of other people’s misfortunes: “Ha ha! It’s not me!” Scum like this deserve to get the Nelson Muntz treatment when they’re in trouble: “Ha ha! It’s you!” ---
**Author:** ![DkTrdGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5fc32e/32.png) [@DkTrdGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DkTrdGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6007 "2018-01-12T04:32:08Z")
The thread now says I don’t have access. Is it a result of a site malfunction? _confused_ ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6008 "2018-01-12T04:34:43Z")
> [@DkTrdGuy](#): > > The thread now says I don’t have access. Is it a result of a site malfunction? > > _confused_ You got cornfielded, son. ---
**Author:** ![DkTrdGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5fc32e/32.png) [@DkTrdGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DkTrdGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6009 "2018-01-12T04:35:51Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > You got cornfielded, son. Um, cornfielded? Explain. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2018, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6010 "2018-01-12T04:36:06Z")
> [@DkTrdGuy](#): > > The thread now says I don’t have access. Is it a result of a site malfunction? > > _confused_ Keep trying. You’ll get through eventually. It just takes awhile. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2018, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6011 "2018-01-12T05:27:54Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Keep trying. You’ll get through eventually. It just takes awhile. 😃 you asshole 😃 ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6012 "2018-01-12T06:05:25Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > 😃 you asshole 😃 You can’t really blame him. I hear he’s from an asshole country… ---
**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:** [January 12, 2018, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6013 "2018-01-12T11:16:30Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > You got cornfielded, son. > [@DkTrdGuy](#): > > Um, cornfielded? Explain. It’s A _Good_ Life… ---
**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:** [January 12, 2018, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6014 "2018-01-12T11:33:58Z")
> [@DkTrdGuy](#): > > Um, cornfielded? Explain. Amber waves of grain. Only corn. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6015 "2018-01-12T12:17:10Z")
> [@DkTrdGuy](#): > > The thread now says I don’t have access. Is it a result of a site malfunction? > > _confused_ > [@DkTrdGuy](#): > > Um, cornfielded? Explain. Not to ruin everyone else’s fun but in the interest of fighting ignorance: Your thread has been removed by the moderators. I hadn’t seen it (and am not a mod) so I can’t say why specifically, but it’s usually because the thread in some way violates (or is about to violate) the board rules or moderator instructions. When threads are vanished away thusly, or when spammers and trolls are banned and their individual posts removed, this is colloquially known as being “cornfielded”. As noted above, this is a reference to the old Twilight Zone episode “It’s a Good Life” where a young boy with omniscient powers sends the bodies of those who have in some way upset him out to the cornfield. If you genuinely don’t know why your thread was removed, send a PM to the moderator for that forum. I recommend asking politely - not that I would ever compare our hardworking moderators to five-year-old boys but they do retain the power to cornfield individuals too. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2018, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6016 "2018-01-12T13:21:08Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > As noted above, this is a reference to the old Twilight Zone episode “It’s a Good Life” where a young boy with omniscient powers sends the bodies of those who have in some way upset him out to the cornfield. As an aside, it makes me sad when book references are described as coming from the TV/movie adaptation. I remember especially one news segment far worse than this instance where they discussed the warnings from _Fahrenheit 451_ _as a movie_ and never mentioned that there is a book that it was based on. (I remember seeing the Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror episode parodying this for the first time and being impressed that they were basing a skit on [an obscure SF short story](http://ciscohouston.com/docs/docs/greats/its_a_good_life.html)–and feeling sincerely let down when I found out that it was actually based on a Twilight Zone episode that had been based on the story.) ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6017 "2018-01-12T13:37:12Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Keep trying. You’ll get through eventually. It just takes awhile. You win the internets today **John**. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6018 "2018-01-12T14:21:15Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > As an aside, it makes me sad when book references are described as coming from the TV/movie adaptation. I remember especially one news segment far worse than this instance where they discussed the warnings from _Fahrenheit 451_ _as a movie_ and never mentioned that there is a book that it was based on. Fair point. All credit due to Jerome Bixby, who wrote the original 1953 short story. (Incidentally, I’ve just discovered there was a sequel to the Twilight Zone episode, called “[It’s Still A Good Life](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Still_a_Good_Life)”, also starring Bill Mumy and his real-life daughter.) ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6019 "2018-01-12T14:27:00Z")
See, I didn’t even know it was a Twilight Zone reference. Or that Fahrenheit 451 was a movie. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2018, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6020 "2018-01-12T14:39:23Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Or that Fahrenheit 451 was a movie. [By François Truffaut](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451_(film)), aka “That French Guy from CE3K.” ---
**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:** [January 12, 2018, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6021 "2018-01-12T15:10:03Z")
Huh. Sorry about the font problem. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6022 "2018-01-12T15:14:11Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Keep trying. You’ll get through eventually. It just takes awhile. Isn’t that nice of the Moderators? He asked them about cornfields, and they sent him there for a visit. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2018, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/6023 "2018-01-12T15:14:33Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Huh. Sorry about the font problem. Fixed. I would have taken care of it sooner but I was busy disposing of a three-headed gopher. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=300) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=302)