# Open Spoilers. Don't read! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 22, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736 "2006-06-22T16:40:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/121 "2006-06-23T02:09:05Z")
He might just be a replicant. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/122 "2006-06-23T02:09:13Z")
He had her at “hello.” ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/123 "2006-06-23T02:12:44Z")
She loves him awful. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/124 "2006-06-23T02:25:05Z")
He gets the girl because she’s a 9’ers fan. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/125 "2006-06-23T02:30:18Z")
He now has _become_his Mother, who he murdered ten years ago. Slap happy with the knife. He gets lobotomized after crossing the evil nurse, the Indian smothers him with a pillow, then escapes. He has a second chance at life because of some flower petals, hears a bell ring, and the old guy gets his wings. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/126 "2006-06-23T02:31:49Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Rosebud is a sled. Rosebud is not ([just](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Kane#Conflict_with_William_Randolph_Hearst)) a sled. CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/127 "2006-06-23T02:33:20Z")
Orion is the cat. The universe is a marble. -foxy ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/128 "2006-06-23T02:56:29Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Rosebud is not ([just](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Kane#Conflict_with_William_Randolph_Hearst)) a sled. > > CMC fnord! I’ve never actually seen it. It’s just talked about so frequently on the Dope. :o ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/129 "2006-06-23T03:27:16Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > **Yookaroo** did have a point with this statement: > > “Or maybe I’m the only one that finds it kind of dumb to have a thread with spoiler warnings where you’re forced to read the thread (and spoilers) to figure out what is being spoiled. It’s only slightly less dumb to narrow what is being spoiled down to movies.” > > I find it silly and annoying myself that a thread about movies or TV in general will have some big huge lack box making some point that some people may never know because the spoiler wasn’t titled. > > Solution? Title the spoiler. Let us know at least the movie (or show or episode) the spoiler is about. > > For instance, in a thread about sci-fi movies, I might post this spoiler: > > Yeah! Just like when Data died in Nemesis. > > Now, someone has to actually OPEN the spoiler to even get the merest idea of what point I might be making. If I did this, tho: > > In Star Trek Nemesis, when Data dies we get a look at self sacrifice in action… > > Well, if someone doesn’t want a huge spoiler as to who sacrificed themself in Nemesis, they now know to avoid it. > Data died, you know, for your sins. :dubious: Thank you. You have a (potentially very interesting) thread that could be about just about anything…but it has an “open spoiler” warning. With such a broad subject matter, if there’s anything at all that I don’t want spoiled, I have to skip the thread since there’s no way to figure out what’s being spoiled without it being spoiled. Isn’t a better solution to use spoiler boxes in a thread like that? Isn’t that pretty much the reason for spoiler boxes? Instead, we have a thread that’s useless to anyone who wants to avoid spoilers. When the subject is so broad, spoiiler boxes seem like a pretty good solution. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/130 "2006-06-23T04:11:17Z")
> [@Rico](#): > > I know what I am, what I am is a man, and so is Lola. It’s more ambiguous than that: ‘But I know what I am and I’m glad I’m a man And so is Lola’ 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rachm\_Qoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@Rachm\_Qoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachm_Qoch)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/131 "2006-06-23T04:37:58Z")
I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to GEICO. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/132 "2006-06-23T04:40:12Z")
> [@Yookeroo](#): > > Instead, we have a thread that’s useless to anyone who wants to avoid spoilers. _Au contraire_. It says in very broad letters that “Here There Be Spoylers”. Therefore, if one wishes to avoid spoilers, one should avoid this thread. Really, if the temptation to click and read this thread with the warning in the title is so great then you have nothing to complain about if something gets spoiled. You know there are spoilers. It’s just one thread. Your life will not end by skipping this thread. What a silly complaint. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/133 "2006-06-23T04:44:10Z")
BTW, **Yook** , that rebuke isn’t directed at you specifically, just the idea. I find it a bit silly. ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/134 "2006-06-23T04:50:53Z")
An icepick under the bed The one who limps It was his socked foot in the wooden-snipper. ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/135 "2006-06-23T04:53:41Z")
> [@Scarlett67](#): > > He breaks his glasses. Oh men, Is that out of a Hitchcock show? ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/136 "2006-06-23T04:59:54Z")
And, btw, it was the one-armed man. ---
**Author:** ![Jotun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@Jotun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jotun)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/137 "2006-06-23T05:10:27Z")
Dr.Claw will get Gadget next time…next time. The Dish ran away with the Spoon. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/138 "2006-06-23T05:23:38Z")
The horse is full of Greeks. There is no sanity clause. Pazuzu is inside the French doctor broad. Donny gets killed by the jet engine. BOB is in Laura Palmer’s daddy. Bobby’s alive. It was all a dream. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/139 "2006-06-23T07:23:13Z")
Herbie wins the race. ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/140 "2006-06-23T12:05:27Z")
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