# Paid Subscriptions - What for? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 27, 2004, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paid-subscriptions-what-for/247367 "2004-05-27T16:39:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paid-subscriptions-what-for/247367/221 "2004-05-31T00:46:03Z")
l vote we turn this into a “ **Giraffe** is disgusting” thread. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paid-subscriptions-what-for/247367/222 "2004-05-31T01:12:58Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > …Now, a sandwich dipped in the Olsen twins’ urine… _Honey, I seem to have gotten myself into trouble on the internet again._ ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paid-subscriptions-what-for/247367/223 "2004-05-31T18:38:05Z")
> [@Uvula Donor](#): > > Attitude, braggadocio, selection of _Red fucking Lobster_ as an example of an expensive restaurant where he could take everyone after “buying all our memberships”… Yeah, I found the Red Lobster reference hysterical. Man oh man, if you can afford that stuff, the world truly is your oyster. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paid-subscriptions-what-for/247367/224 "2004-05-31T22:07:14Z")
Our new friend seems to have flown the coop. Was it something **I** said? ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paid-subscriptions-what-for/247367/225 "2004-05-31T23:08:50Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > Our new friend seems to have flown the coop. > > Was it something **I** said? My guess is that **PorkBoy** used the long weekend to check into a hospital and have that bug removed from his butt. In re-reading this thread (I had to work today, and things are really slow), I found… > [@porkchop47](#): > > Yes, I know my personal page doesn’t get a twentieth of the traffic this page does. Still this board is really Slow. … and in [this link,](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=256877) which **PokieChop** seems to have started to promote his own message board, he says… > [@](#): > > I highly doubt the folks from this board are going to flock to my board that has a mere 2 users. Which is more pitiful: if the 2nd user is his alleged wife, or if even his wife won’t frequent his message board? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paid-subscriptions-what-for/247367/226 "2004-05-31T23:22:43Z")
> [@lainaf](#): > > My guess is that **PorkBoy** used the long weekend to check into a hospital and have that bug removed from his butt. > > In re-reading this thread (I had to work today, and things are really slow), I found… > > … and in [this link,](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=256877) which **PokieChop** seems to have started to promote his own message board, he says… > Which is more pitiful: if the 2nd user is his alleged wife, or if even his wife won’t frequent his message board? But, HEY! It’s free! 😃 Worth _every_ penny… ---
**Author:** ![Darkhold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@Darkhold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkhold)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paid-subscriptions-what-for/247367/227 "2004-05-31T23:28:39Z")
You know what? Fuck all of you! I _LIKE_ Red Lobster. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paid-subscriptions-what-for/247367/228 "2004-05-31T23:30:43Z")
> [@Darkhold](#): > > You know what? Fuck all of you! I _LIKE_ Red Lobster. 😛 Good. You can have my share. The last time I ate there was in the fall of 1982. I had the fried shimp. I was sick for three days. I haven’t step foot in one since (Red Lobster, not shrimp). ---
**Author:** ![Darkhold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@Darkhold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkhold)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paid-subscriptions-what-for/247367/229 "2004-05-31T23:33:11Z")
Actually I wouldn’t know good food if it jumped down my throat. Small town and all that. I hope to improve my dietary selection when I move next month. Anyone know any good places to eat in Reno? ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paid-subscriptions-what-for/247367/230 "2004-05-31T23:51:15Z")
> [@Darkhold](#): > > Actually I wouldn’t know good food if it jumped down my throat. > > Small town and all that. I hope to improve my dietary selection when I move next month. Anyone know any good places to eat in Reno? You may not know good, but I bet you’ll know bad. Come over to my house sometime for my classic burnt steak with a pile of burnt onions on top, swimming in a half a bottle of A1 garlic and herb. I’ve destroyed more bowels then White Castle. ---
**Author:** ![Darkhold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@Darkhold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkhold)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paid-subscriptions-what-for/247367/231 "2004-06-01T00:37:49Z")
So **World Eater** you inviting me to dinner or you just issuing a general warning about eating at your house? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paid-subscriptions-what-for/247367/232 "2004-06-01T12:07:06Z")
> [@DesertGeezer](#): > > If someone else already wrote this I apologize. I promise I will read all the posts from yours (#102) to the end, but I had to get this in before I forgot about it. (Being a geezer, I have this short-term memory problem, you know.) What were we talking about? 😕 ---
**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:** [June 1, 2004, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paid-subscriptions-what-for/247367/233 "2004-06-01T12:47:39Z")
I dunno. Was it… um, recipes for pork roasts? ---
**Author:** ![Chairman\_Pow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Chairman\_Pow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chairman_Pow)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paid-subscriptions-what-for/247367/234 "2004-06-01T12:54:01Z")
> [@Green Bean](#): > > And he resorted to one of the lamest argumentative strategies out there–“What about the people in Africa?” That’s truly the last refuge of the rhetorically defeated. Maybe we should call any variation of “your points are invalid because there are people out there who are _really_ suffering” **Porkchop’s Ploy**? Isn’t that the same as Godfried’s law (or whatever that rant about the probability that someone 1) compares their rehetorical nemesis to Hitler and 2) someone else comments that Godfried’s law has occured. I always liked that because it effectively stated: “the longer that a conversation continues, the probability that something that hasn’t yet been talked about will be mentioned increases.” That’s brillance even 47 pork chops could love. ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paid-subscriptions-what-for/247367/235 "2004-06-01T13:14:12Z")
> [@Chairman Pow](#): > > Isn’t that the same as Godfried’s law (or whatever that rant about the probability that someone 1) compares their rehetorical nemesis to Hitler and 2) someone else comments that Godfried’s law has occured. I always liked that because it effectively stated: “the longer that a conversation continues, the probability that something that hasn’t yet been talked about will be mentioned increases.” > > That’s brillance even 47 pork chops could love. Godwin’s Law: As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one. Replace “usenet” with “message board” and you have the current usage as applied here. And [here](http://www.killfile.org/~tskirvin/faqs/godwin.html) is an FAW re: Godwin’s Law…since a lot of people think it means, “You brought up Nazis! You LOSE!!” and they are WRONG WRONG WRONG. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paid-subscriptions-what-for/247367/236 "2004-06-01T13:16:09Z")
FA **Q**. That’s FA **Q**. Unless it’s a For to Avoid Whining…which is one reason why people point other people to FAQs, so… ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paid-subscriptions-what-for/247367/237 "2004-06-01T14:42:58Z")
There is no need to worry about the people in Africa and India. They are okay because I have been eating everything on my plate ever since I was a little girl. Saving the world, one Brussels sprout at a time… ---
**Author:** ![Chairman\_Pow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Chairman\_Pow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chairman_Pow)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paid-subscriptions-what-for/247367/238 "2004-06-01T15:11:20Z")
> [@Hamadryad](#): > > FA **Q**. That’s FA **Q**. > > Unless it’s a For to Avoid Whining…which is one reason why people point other people to FAQs, so… FAW: For Ass Wipes? If so, email po’kchop the link. ---
**Author:** ![ZombiesAteMyBrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b4bc9f/32.png) [@ZombiesAteMyBrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZombiesAteMyBrain)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paid-subscriptions-what-for/247367/239 "2004-06-01T15:21:59Z")
> [@lainaf](#): > > There is no need to worry about the people in Africa and India. They are okay because I have been eating everything on my plate ever since I was a little girl. > > Saving the world, one Brussels sprout at a time… How did they benefit from you eating everything on your plate? The version of this that I got as a child had no logic either, though. When I wouldn’t finish my dinner I was made to sit at the table until I choked the food down - while being told “Think of the poor starving children in Africa who would be glad of that food”. I soon learned that the proper reply to this \*\*wasn’t \*\* “Well, why don’t you send it to them and let them eat it?” ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paid-subscriptions-what-for/247367/240 "2004-06-01T15:32:53Z")
**Porky** has fled Da Bad OId Board out in the Real World for a warmer, cuddlier place: his own Board. His Board is a wonderful place of whimsy. fantasy, & chuckles, where nobody ever contradicts him, & every day is full of Magic! Wonder! Chocolate! Pandas! Peanut Brittles! Ballons! Duckies! And Koala Bears! And nobody but him ever, ever goes there, except his wife. 😃 Well, this is getting dreary. He’s gone, & I bet he never comes back. So this thread has gotten old. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paid-subscriptions-what-for/247367.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paid-subscriptions-what-for/247367.md?page=13)