# Pitting Dopers for not protesting (or even mentioning) the "election" in Iran...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-dopers-for-not-protesting-or-even-mentioning-the-election-in-iran/230206>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [February 20, 2004, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-dopers-for-not-protesting-or-even-mentioning-the-election-in-iran/230206 "2004-02-20T15:06:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-dopers-for-not-protesting-or-even-mentioning-the-election-in-iran/230206/41 "2004-02-27T19:37:25Z")

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> [@blowero](#):
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> Wow, a sincere apology. That takes some gonads. I salute you.

Me too.

Plenty of people on these message boards have a brain explosion every now and again, and it takes guts to admit when it’s happened to you. Happily, the Doper community is generally pretty forgiving, 'cause we all suspect it could hapen to us one day.

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**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-dopers-for-not-protesting-or-even-mentioning-the-election-in-iran/230206/42 "2004-02-27T21:05:21Z")

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**GoHeels** , apology accepted. No hard feelings.

**Logic** , thanks for the compliment.

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