That’s a fine metaphor I will shamelessly steal from you in the future ;).
The Dude continues …
Now wants to know whether some brand of mouthwash causes the plague, or cures it, or whether the plague causes mouthwash, or something …
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=824402
And he’s banned. He outed himself by admitting he went to Rutgers.
thank you, mods, for handling this tiresome game of whack-a-troll
That thread was a thing of beauty. 
Thank you for sharing the cache.
I can almost see ckalli taking notes.
- [del]Do[/del] Don’t mention Rutgers.
People take notes because they want to learn lessons. Some people don’t ever seem to learn their lessons.
I’m telling ya, in a few thousand more iterations he’ll be running the boards. Evolution in action! Evolution in action! 
From the number of socks we’ve seen he certainly seems to be growing extra legs.
Like my Gran used to say - “Kid, never gargle a plague rat.”
Okay, anybody think TheWhitePorsche went to Rutgers?
Oh, thank goodness. I was worried he’d been drowned in a tragic water hydrant accident, what without a proper winter coat for protection.
Survey says: too soon to tell. He’s being an arrogant jerk, so he’s got that for him.
Or like that famous Shakespeare quote: A plaque on both your houses!
SaturnComet was just banned yesterday and TheWhitePorsche joined on 4/12. I suppose it’s possible it’s the same person, but you’d think the mods would detect the other sock and ban them both.
cue The Smiths
edwardcoast reveals himself as a hitherto low-key, low-grade fuckwit who has not been sufficiently noticed and celebrated up til now.
Over here he asks for advice about a throw rug that “omits no odors”. Aside from the mild unintended humor this would hardly be worth mentioning, but he caught my attention when he took great offense to being semi-humorously corrected and broke board rules by announcing that he was putting the other poster on ignore for this appalling treachery. This prompted me to take a closer look.
It appears that this fuckwit is a marginal illiterate. In the OP the first paragraph begins and ends with the same sentence, which is kind of poetic if redundant. In the third paragraph we are informed that he wants this throw rug to cover his chair and his desk, which is his prerogative I suppose, though most of us would opt to put it on the floor. I note in particular that a significant portion of the posts he hammers out are badly written thread starts seeking free advice about things he is ignorant about, which seems to be almost everything, including how many “grahms” something weighs.
All I’m trying to say here is that if one is as ignorant and incapable of coherent writing as edwardcoast, it’s probably best to not also be an arrogant asshole; otherwise, one risks being seriously annoying.
You’re looking for the Minor Pits and Pans Thread.
Is Kadmos1 a troll or a kook? Another “I want all ur copyrightz” thread.
Only one post so far, but already off to a promising start.