# Pitting Tamerlane with his load of crap. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 28, 2003, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-tamerlane-with-his-load-of-crap/221416 "2003-12-28T15:52:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-tamerlane-with-his-load-of-crap/221416/21 "2003-12-28T23:57:04Z")
Probably because you always ask beforehand, **Shodan** šŸ˜ƒ [sub]Iā€™d say itā€™s not too late, but then my rubric for determining that, here, is basically ā€œis this thread locked?ā€[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-tamerlane-with-his-load-of-crap/221416/22 "2003-12-29T03:32:28Z")
**Tamerlane,** if I may hijack for a moment, how the hell did you end up with a Catholic babysitter named Tova? [back to confused crossfire of weird and backhanded insults and nose-blowing in various postersā€™ general direction] ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-tamerlane-with-his-load-of-crap/221416/23 "2003-12-29T04:06:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eva Luna \* > **Tamerlane,** if I may hijack for a moment, how the hell did you end up with a Catholic babysitter named Tova? Not a clue. Iā€™m not even sure of her ethnicity and I think I got the Catholic thing many years later from my parents when we were laughing about that incident ( theyā€™re athiests themselves and raised me as such - my mother a refugee from Southern Baptist upbringing, my father from Eastern Orthodox ). Maybe one Jewish parent? I remember her boyfriend was Latino ( Iā€™m thinking his name was Santos ), not that that necessarily means much of anything. But this was back inā€¦1973, '74? I think thatā€™s right because I remember going to the movies with the two of them to see **The Three Musketeers** with Michael York and Oliver Reed. Or maybe it was 1975 and the sequel. - Tamerlane ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-tamerlane-with-his-load-of-crap/221416/24 "2003-12-29T13:59:33Z")
Well, someoneā€™s got to attack the putative subject of this Pitting, so Iā€™ll volunteer: **Tamerlane** , the spelling is not ā€œathiestā€, itā€™s ā€œatheistā€. ā€œAth_ **ei** _stā€. _ **ATHEIST, DAMMIT!!!** _ Historical crap, why canā€™t you get it right??? Geez, a person as smart as you areā€¦ šŸ˜ƒ > [@](#): > > **by Shodan:** > Is it too late to make a completely gratuitous scatological reference? 'Cause I never get to do that. How about: ā€œ **Tamerlane** is historically crappyā€? Aw, shit, I guess thatā€™s fā€™ing lame. šŸ˜› ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-tamerlane-with-his-load-of-crap/221416/25 "2003-12-29T14:59:21Z")
Dammit, everyone gets pitted but me. And I make fun of people in political threads and everything. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-tamerlane-with-his-load-of-crap/221416/26 "2003-12-29T15:16:42Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by EddyTeddyFreddy \* > **Tamerlane** , the spelling is not ā€œathiestā€, itā€™s ā€œatheistā€. "Ath_ **ei** \*st". _ **ATHEIST, DAMMIT!!!** _ Youā€™re quite right. I bow my head in shame :D. - Tamerlane ---
**Author:** ![Aldebaran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Aldebaran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aldebaran)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-tamerlane-with-his-load-of-crap/221416/27 "2003-12-29T15:26:11Z")
Victory! I passed Dyslex onto you. HA! This is only the first stepā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-tamerlane-with-his-load-of-crap/221416/28 "2003-12-29T16:52:36Z")
OHO! **Aldebaran** ā€“ so _youā€™re_ the soucre of my dsylexic typing? Yourā€™e to blaem for all teh errosr I msut constnatly go back and proofraed for? Thnaks a lot! šŸ˜› ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-tamerlane-with-his-load-of-crap/221416/29 "2003-12-29T17:00:00Z")
[hijack] > [@](#): > > **by Tamerlane the athiest atheist I know:** šŸ˜‰ > I remember going to the movies with the two of them to see **The Three Musketeers** with Michael York and Oliver Reed. Were you as surprised as I was to see what a gifted comic actress Raquel Welch was in that movie? Too bad her, ah, other assets usually typecast her into dumb sexpot roles. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-tamerlane-with-his-load-of-crap/221416/30 "2003-12-29T23:54:41Z")
**Tamerlane** is a credit to these boards, and a valuable asset in every discussion to which he contributes. In fact, Iā€™d suggest that we should have him bronzed, except that it would eliminate his ability to type. Plus it would hurt. So forget that bit. No, the point is, anybody who fails to recognize how thoroughly well-read and well-informed and, yet, unfailingly polite **Tamerlane** has demonstrated himself to be, time and again, is, without question, a grade-A example of aā€¦ Well, letā€™s go to the source: > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Alan Owes Bess \* > Both you and I realise that **Tamerlane** is just as much a wanker as I am._\* I find myself in full agreement with precisely half of this statement. Take a wild guess. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-tamerlane-with-his-load-of-crap/221416.md?page=1)