# Pitting Amateur Barbarian

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 8, 2015, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554 "2015-07-08T08:05:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/212 "2015-07-19T20:14:37Z")

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> [@Guinastasia](#):
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> [Here you go](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=683395). That was my first encounter with the guy, back when he was still posting under his original name. (Which, BTW, is how most of us know who he actually is – he used the name of his publishing company)
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> It’s like performance art.

My favorite part of that thread is when **AB** talked about the _sooper-sekrit stuff_ he’s privy to:

> [@Nutella - most deceptive product on the shelf?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nutella-most-deceptive-product-on-the-shelf/651285/142):
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> I’d like to answer. I actually have an answer. But not one I’m prepared to dump into the bitstream here. It’s part of something larger that will become public in the very near future.

I’m guessing that when he was a kid, his favorite singsong taunt was “I know something you don’t know!”

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