# Original. ORIGINAL!!!!! (Mean, petty, and uncalled for) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 16, 2003, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-original-mean-petty-and-uncalled-for/219271 "2003-12-16T06:25:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Early\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Early\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Early_Out)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-original-mean-petty-and-uncalled-for/219271/21 "2003-12-16T13:51:07Z")
According to [these Python-chroniclers](http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/raymond.htm), it’s “wobbler,” and it’s “spelt.” Pistols at twenty paces, I say! ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-original-mean-petty-and-uncalled-for/219271/22 "2003-12-16T14:02:25Z")
Pistils at 20 paces? You’re going to have a long-distance flower orgy? ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-original-mean-petty-and-uncalled-for/219271/23 "2003-12-16T14:29:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by EddyTeddyFreddy \* > \*\*Nonsense! Spelt is a hardy variety of wheat of inferior quality. \*\* I thought spelt was a separate grain entirely; the five grains are listed in _Shulchan Aruch_ as wheat, barley, rye, oats, and spelt. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-original-mean-petty-and-uncalled-for/219271/24 "2003-12-16T15:42:37Z")
doesn’t that mean from Oregon? ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-original-mean-petty-and-uncalled-for/219271/25 "2003-12-16T15:50:17Z")
I thought it was the result of good sex. ---
**Author:** ![carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrot)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-original-mean-petty-and-uncalled-for/219271/26 "2003-12-16T15:54:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Early Out \* > **According to [these Python-chroniclers](http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/raymond.htm), it’s “wobbler,” and it’s "spelt."** Ha! I spit upon your so-called Python-chroniclers! Ptui! [The Monty Python FAQ](http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/python/Sources/monty.python.faq.html) is the authoritative source, and not just because it agrees with me! > [@](#): > > \*\*Pistols at twenty paces, I say! \*\* Right! _slaps **Early Out** with a rubber chicken in a glove_ ---
**Author:** ![Pabitel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Pabitel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pabitel)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-original-mean-petty-and-uncalled-for/219271/27 "2003-12-16T16:10:39Z")
No, no, no. First of all I thought it was one of several sub structures inside a cell. And first of all it is definately Throat-Warbler-Mangrove! ---
**Author:** ![sugaree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@sugaree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sugaree)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-original-mean-petty-and-uncalled-for/219271/28 "2003-12-16T17:00:20Z")
[marge simpson]Eight spices? Some of these must be duplicates. Orig-i-o-nal? What the hell?[/marge simpson] ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-original-mean-petty-and-uncalled-for/219271/29 "2003-12-16T17:13:40Z")
> [@](#): > > I thought spelt was a separate grain entirely; the five grains are listed in Shulchan Aruch as wheat, barley, rye, oats, and spelt. Well, **Scuba\_Ben** , all I can say is, take it up with the editors of _Encarta_. [Dictionary.com](http://Dictionary.com) doesn’t even have a grain meaning for it. But – AHA!!! – [here](http://www.factmonster.com/ipd/A0664786.html) is confirmation that I’m right! ::: saunters off smugly with nose in air; steps in fresh pile of horse manure and slinks away ::: ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-original-mean-petty-and-uncalled-for/219271/30 "2003-12-16T17:17:20Z")
> [@](#): > > First of all I thought it was one of several sub structures inside a cell. Now, see, that’s where you went wrong, **Degrance** – there’s no way you can fit a submarine into jail. I don’t care how many sailors the shore patrol picked up! ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-original-mean-petty-and-uncalled-for/219271/31 "2003-12-16T17:59:07Z")
Hey, check your keyboard, Mike. The O is right next to the I. It’s easy to hit them both if you suffer from fat fingers. Cuit th3e guiyu somwe slacjk, IJ? ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-original-mean-petty-and-uncalled-for/219271/32 "2003-12-16T18:15:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Desmostylus \* > \*\*This would be a joke thread in the Pit, wouldn’t it? > > \*\* It started out as a rant. Now it’s turned into a joke thread, through no fault of the OP. So I’m locking it. Lynn ---
**Author:** ![Pabitel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Pabitel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pabitel)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-original-mean-petty-and-uncalled-for/219271/33 "2003-12-16T18:16:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by EddyTeddyFreddy \* > \*\*Now, see, that’s where you went wrong, **Degrance** – there’s no way you can fit a submarine into jail. I don’t care how many sailors the shore patrol picked up! \*\* You’ve never seen the county lock-up in Wayne County (Detroit) Michigan have you? That thing would hold an entire battle group. (Not like I know from, you know, personal experience or anything.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-original-mean-petty-and-uncalled-for/219271.md?page=1)