# "penis ensues" and overlords **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 9, 2005, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-ensues-and-overlords/283862 "2005-01-09T07:18:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-ensues-and-overlords/283862/41 "2005-02-16T21:17:51Z")
> [@Eats\_Crayons](#): > > /got nuthin’ Oh, and also… _I want to know how people feel about the Tow Truck industry either good or bad and why_ heh heh heh… ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-ensues-and-overlords/283862/42 "2005-02-16T21:34:11Z")
> [@jackelope](#): > > More than once I’ve come really close to saying “I burning your dog!” _out loud_ in some situation that seems to require it. It was suggested I do this in the card room, just to see who would laugh. Would be interesting to know if I’m playing with any Dopers. Gah. Playing POKER with any Dopers. Leaving that sentence open is just asking for trouble. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-ensues-and-overlords/283862/43 "2005-02-17T02:02:05Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > As long as we’re revisiting some of the old ones, let us recall “insluted”, one of the more memorable and celebrated typos. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-ensues-and-overlords/283862/44 "2005-02-17T03:10:59Z")
And won’t somebody think of the poor monkey butlers? ---
**Author:** ![Mystery\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@Mystery\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mystery_Dog)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-ensues-and-overlords/283862/45 "2005-02-17T16:33:10Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > Oh, and also… > > _I want to know how people feel about the Tow Truck industry either good or bad and why_ > > heh heh heh… I must’ve missed this one. Explain? ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-ensues-and-overlords/283862/46 "2005-02-17T17:14:26Z")
> [@Sample\_The\_Dog](#): > > I thought cow-orker was a Dogbertism from Scott Adams’s newsletter. > [@chorpler](#): > > It definitely was. Adams helped popularise it in 1997, but it was appears to have originated in 1989, and was already enshrined in 1996. [Cites can be found in this thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=302568&highlight=cow-orker) ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-ensues-and-overlords/283862/47 "2005-02-17T17:44:17Z")
**MysteryDog** : > [@](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > Originally Posted by **AHunter3** > > > > Oh, and also… > > > > I want to know how people feel about the Tow Truck industry either good or bad and why > > > > heh heh heh… > > I must’ve missed this one. Explain? More ancient history. This guy showed up on the board, offering no explanation or backstory, and repetitively created new posts asking us all what we thought of the tow truck industry. At some point I think he said he operated a towing service (in Canada?). And for his _sig line_, he had “I want to know how people feel about the Tow Truck industry either good or bad and why”, so even when he wasn’t asking about it, he was asking about it. So after awhile, whenever some newbie poster showed up with a really obsessive-compulsive focus on something or other, one of the regs would post in reply “I want to know how people feel about the Tow Truck industry either good or bad and why”. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-ensues-and-overlords/283862/48 "2005-02-17T18:59:39Z")
So, how do people feel about the Tug-Ahoy industry, good or bad, and why? _ducking and running_ ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-ensues-and-overlords/283862/49 "2005-02-18T02:36:27Z")
Previous remembrances of the Tow Truck thingie courtesy of [**StoryTyler**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=109758&postcount=19), [**TubaDiva**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=329894&postcount=37), [**Kyla**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=838925&postcount=58), and a whole [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=18810) on the subject courtesy of **OpalCat** Oh, and how about “ass, ass, ass, as much as I want” ? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-ensues-and-overlords/283862/50 "2005-02-18T03:03:02Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > Resurrecting an old one that has died out during the Bush43 era: > > On AOL we had a member who would make assertions as to the commonness of some custom or usage by beginning his statement: “Manny peoples [say/do/think]…” > > This resulted in the creation of a person named Manny Peoples, who would obligingly provide fake cites for people (in lighthearted, non-serious threads, of course). This reminds me of a fictitious person created by a stand-up comic who is a good friend of mine. He (the fictitious guy, not my friend) happens to be the leading scorer in the NBA. His name is **Melvin Totals**. He averages about 105 points a game. He also leads the league in rebounding, assists, FT shooting, fouls, steals, and everything else. Curiously enough, even though he is such a high scorer he is always listed at the very bottom of the box scores. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Asbestos_Mango)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-ensues-and-overlords/283862/51 "2005-02-19T01:30:42Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > And while I’m already in this thread, I will call your (y’all’s? yinz’s?) attention to an attempt to herd together _all_ the Doper in jokes in the thread that is less than a week old: > [Glossary of SDMB Terms](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=301499). Your’n’s. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-ensues-and-overlords/283862/52 "2005-02-20T06:37:31Z")
Sure. Like I’m going to accept the word of a southern Nevadan about usage in Pennsylvania! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-ensues-and-overlords/283862/53 "2005-02-20T07:33:01Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Sure. Like I’m going to accept the word of a southern Nevadan about usage in Pennsylvania! 😉 Hey, who else is a southern Nevadan? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-ensues-and-overlords/283862.md?page=2)