# Pitting Second Stone and Stranger On A Train **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 8, 2010, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-second-stone-and-stranger-on-a-train/556541 "2010-10-08T22:37:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![adhay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-second-stone-and-stranger-on-a-train/556541/21 "2010-10-08T23:18:26Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > > [@adhay](#): > > > > They know why I’m pitting them. Stay out of it, please. > > Fuck off asshole, this is a public message board. It’s why I’m here. > [@](#): > > ETA: If you wanted to discuss this without interference you should have PM’d them. I’ll be glad when the banhammer falls. I see you as a local prosecutor. Assistant D\*? ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-second-stone-and-stranger-on-a-train/556541/22 "2010-10-08T23:19:26Z")
LOL. Does anybody know what he’s talking about? ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-second-stone-and-stranger-on-a-train/556541/23 "2010-10-08T23:20:09Z")
adhay, you’re one sick puppy dude. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-second-stone-and-stranger-on-a-train/556541/24 "2010-10-08T23:22:42Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > LOL. > > Does anybody know what he’s talking about? I’m not sure _he_ even knows what he’s talking about. Though he _did_ tell us to “pull up a chair and listen”, so maybe some decade he’ll let us in on the big secret of what his own stupid thread is about. Here’s hoping he does so before 111 posts pass. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-second-stone-and-stranger-on-a-train/556541/25 "2010-10-08T23:23:17Z")
Oh, I love this shit. " Stay out of it" he says, on a public message forum. Really? It’s called PM or email, dumbass, if you really want an answer from the people addressed. No, this is just stirring up shit. And some pretty incomprehensible, funny shit at that. Lucky for us, it’s in the Pit and we can say what we’re really thinking. For the most part. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-second-stone-and-stranger-on-a-train/556541/26 "2010-10-08T23:23:24Z")
> [@begbert2](#): > > And **descamisado** , why not? It’s a trap! ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-second-stone-and-stranger-on-a-train/556541/27 "2010-10-08T23:24:23Z")
> [@descamisado](#): > > > [@begbert2](#): > > > > And **descamisado** , why not? If he wants to prostrate himself for my amusement, must I refrain from pointing and laughing > > It’s a trap! [/Admiral Ackbar] ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-second-stone-and-stranger-on-a-train/556541/28 "2010-10-08T23:24:58Z")
> [@adhay](#): > > > [@PlainJain](#): > > > > Explain why they are being pitted. > > They know. > > If none show up, I’ll put this OP anywhere else. > > Suggestions? Up your nose with a rubber hose? ---
**Author:** ![adhay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-second-stone-and-stranger-on-a-train/556541/29 "2010-10-08T23:26:11Z")
> [@begbert2](#): > > > [@adhay](#): > > > > They know. > > > > If none show up, I’ll put this OP anywhere else. > > > > Suggestions? > > I suggest that you go out and buy a 4x6" lined paper notepad, and write the OP there. And then bury the pad at the bottom of your sock drawer. And then you should possibly set fire to the sock drawer - though honestly that part’s not _strictly_ necessary. > > And **descamisado** , why not? If he wants to prostrate himself for my amusement, must I refrain from pointing and laughing? > > And of course if he ever got around to actually _saying anything coherent_, he has as much a right to do so as anyone else. Though at this point I’m not holding my breath. Just hand me the G_D_ soap, please. I silently await your response(s). ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-second-stone-and-stranger-on-a-train/556541/30 "2010-10-08T23:27:53Z")
I endorse this pitting. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-second-stone-and-stranger-on-a-train/556541/31 "2010-10-08T23:48:43Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Don’t reply to this thread. It just encourages him. > ETA: D’oh! I suggested that these results would follow from the assumption that the earlier discussion of deviance may remedy and, at the same time, eliminate an abstract underlying order. To characterize a linguistic level L, the appearance of parasitic gaps in domains relatively inaccessible to ordinary extraction suffices to account for the requirement that branching is not tolerated within the dominance scope of a complex symbol. For any transformation which is sufficiently diversified in application to be of any interest, the natural general principle that will subsume this case is, apparently, determined by a corpus of utterance tokens upon which conformity has been defined by the paired utterance test. This suggests that an important property of these three types of EC is rather different from the system of base rules exclusive of the lexicon. Nevertheless, the systematic use of complex symbols raises serious doubts about irrelevant intervening contexts in selectional rules. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-second-stone-and-stranger-on-a-train/556541/32 "2010-10-09T00:10:17Z")
Perhaps this is another one of his “dancing pigs” things? ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-second-stone-and-stranger-on-a-train/556541/33 "2010-10-09T00:14:21Z")
**adhay** , I would be willing to stand in as your temporary target until the real targets show up. Or, if you want, I could be a proxy for one or both of the pit-ees. Fire away d\*! ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-second-stone-and-stranger-on-a-train/556541/34 "2010-10-09T00:14:24Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Just ban this fuckwit already, willya? He’s going to keep posting his indecipherable bullshit until you do. Call it an act of mercy, like when Old Yeller got rabies. That’s amazing. I have known about the _Old Yeller_ meme since I was a kid, but never read the book or saw the movie. I was even aware that Travis tearfully shoots his own dog in the end, but I never realized the dog was rabid, I just assumed it was old. I have seen enough frothing at the mouth posts by **adhay** to know that he/she has message board rabies. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-second-stone-and-stranger-on-a-train/556541/35 "2010-10-09T00:19:59Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > > [@adhay](#): > > > > They know why I’m pitting them. Stay out of it, please. > > Fuck off asshole, this is a public message board. > > ETA: If you wanted to discuss this without interference you should have PM’d them. I’ll be glad when the banhammer falls. I wish I could play a musical instrument or sing. BANHAMMER would totally be my band name. \*\* Adhay\*\*, have you gone off your meds, by chance? ---
**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:** [October 9, 2010, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-second-stone-and-stranger-on-a-train/556541/36 "2010-10-09T00:24:04Z")
Alright, **adhay**. We allow a lot of crap in the Pit, but we expect the threads to have at least some content. If you are going to Pit someone, you are going to need to explain why, in clear language. No more impenetrable abbreviations, no more of this, “He knows why I’m doing this,” bullshit. If I can’t understand the OP of your next Pit Thread, not only will I lock it down, but I will begin issuing formal warnings. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-second-stone-and-stranger-on-a-train/556541.md?page=1)