# Parody threads are getting out of hand **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 3, 2002, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parody-threads-are-getting-out-of-hand/140312 "2002-12-03T23:58:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parody-threads-are-getting-out-of-hand/140312/1 "2002-12-03T23:58:58Z")
(Note : This is not an official pronouncement; just my own personal gripe.) Parody, when well done, is a beautiful thing. Lately however, it has been anything but beautiful. I’m too fornicating lazy to provide links but I’m sure you’ve seen them. Instead of being a well honed instrument of sarcasm, it’s become the lazy man’s way of belittling another’s opinion or post. For my money, if you have the words to argue your point, use them. Don’t make me try to figure out if you’re serious or not. To me, the whole “parody thread” thing is just getting as old and tiresome. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parody-threads-are-getting-out-of-hand/140312/2 "2002-12-04T00:01:20Z")
Boy, are _you_ ever setting yourself up for a parody thread. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Truth\_Seeker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5fc32e/32.png) [@Truth\_Seeker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truth_Seeker)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parody-threads-are-getting-out-of-hand/140312/3 "2002-12-04T00:05:20Z")
No, wait, I get it! This is a parody thread, right? ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parody-threads-are-getting-out-of-hand/140312/4 "2002-12-04T00:26:22Z")
this is the worst parody of [This](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=147680) thread i have ever seen! Worse than the one that resulted in all men being banned from the SDMB! ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parody-threads-are-getting-out-of-hand/140312/5 "2002-12-04T00:32:11Z")
I’d trim that sig down to 4 lines if I were you… :: d & r :: ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parody-threads-are-getting-out-of-hand/140312/6 "2002-12-04T03:32:27Z")
Come on, who has the balls to make a parody of this thread? Anyone? Anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parody-threads-are-getting-out-of-hand/140312/7 "2002-12-04T03:38:40Z")
Okay, I’ll be th’ serious, yet possibly apple-polishing, one around here. I agree with you, **Eutychus**. We all know how the true practitioners of the art of SDMB parody can do it, and have us applauding in our seats. Or splorting coke all over th’ keyboard. 🙂 But, there have been too many bastardisations. The bad ones are pathetic. They aren’t funny, just pathetic. Don’t know how such can be stemmed, tho’. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parody-threads-are-getting-out-of-hand/140312/8 "2002-12-04T03:54:41Z")
[hijack] **Ice Wolf** –why are you saying th’ instead of the? I noticed this in another one of your posts, today. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parody-threads-are-getting-out-of-hand/140312/9 "2002-12-04T04:25:14Z")
I do that sometimes too. It’s a colloquial spelling. A lot of Americans, and perhaps Kiwis as well, don’t pronounce the “e” in “the.” 'Sides which, it looks cool. And mad props to **Ice Wolf** for spelling “tho” with an apostrophe, th’ way God and E.B. White intended. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parody-threads-are-getting-out-of-hand/140312/10 "2002-12-04T04:49:19Z")
[hijack response] Thanks, **Miller**. When I’m relaxed, I tend to type as I speak – lazily. 🙂 And **Miller** is correct – Kiwis do tend to lose "e"s and such in speaking. Hey, at least I use capital letters an’ paragraphs, right? (Barely, maybe …) Now, back to your normal programming. [/hijack response] ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_The\_Diver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Buck\_The\_Diver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_The_Diver)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parody-threads-are-getting-out-of-hand/140312/11 "2002-12-04T05:08:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eutychus \* > \*\*To me, the whole “parody thread” thing is just getting old and tiresome. \*\* A-fuckin’-men. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parody-threads-are-getting-out-of-hand/140312/12 "2002-12-04T05:26:47Z")
I think they are old but I feel they are irksome and not tiresome. ---
**Author:** ![mikan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@mikan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikan)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parody-threads-are-getting-out-of-hand/140312/13 "2002-12-04T05:39:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Buck The Diver \* > \*\*A-fuckin’-men. \*\* Abso-fornicatin’-lutely. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parody-threads-are-getting-out-of-hand/140312/14 "2002-12-04T09:02:18Z")
I wasn’t serious. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parody-threads-are-getting-out-of-hand/140312/15 "2002-12-04T10:24:54Z")
Me, too. I’m sick of them. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parody-threads-are-getting-out-of-hand/140312/16 "2002-12-04T14:50:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ice Wolf \* > \*\*Or splorting coke all over th’ keyboard. \*\* {snort} ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parody-threads-are-getting-out-of-hand/140312/17 "2002-12-04T14:50:55Z")
Jes’ curious, **Ice Wolf**. Thanx’ for answerin’.