# Please Don't Respond - Just Let This Thread Sink Like a STONE **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 12, 2003, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-respond-just-let-this-thread-sink-like-a-stone/168250 "2003-04-12T13:44:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lucwarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@lucwarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lucwarm)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-respond-just-let-this-thread-sink-like-a-stone/168250/1 "2003-04-12T13:44:47Z")
I’m so freaking tired of partisans. The war ain’t a freaking baseball game folks. ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-respond-just-let-this-thread-sink-like-a-stone/168250/2 "2003-04-12T13:51:36Z")
What is a partisan? ---
**Author:** ![milroyj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@milroyj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milroyj)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-respond-just-let-this-thread-sink-like-a-stone/168250/3 "2003-04-12T13:52:41Z")
Go Cubs! ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-respond-just-let-this-thread-sink-like-a-stone/168250/4 "2003-04-12T13:58:50Z")
“And with the fall of that statue, we have now entered the seventh inning stretch…” ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-respond-just-let-this-thread-sink-like-a-stone/168250/5 "2003-04-12T14:06:56Z")
_Take me out to the war zone take me with the Marines Buy me some tanks and some heavy ack-ack I don’t care if they ever shoot back And it’s BOOM, BOOM BOOM in the kill box If we don’t win it’s a bore. Cause’s it’s one, two, three bombs you’re out of the whole bloody war!_ ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-respond-just-let-this-thread-sink-like-a-stone/168250/6 "2003-04-12T14:08:43Z")
So, how about them partisans? ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-respond-just-let-this-thread-sink-like-a-stone/168250/7 "2003-04-12T14:14:49Z")
And aren’t we all grateful that thanks to the efficiency and military might of the Greatest Army On Earth, those dire predictions of “MLB 2003 canceled due to war” have not come true. - snerk \* ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-respond-just-let-this-thread-sink-like-a-stone/168250/8 "2003-04-12T14:56:23Z")
“Don’t go anywhere yet, folks. This war is far from over!” ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-respond-just-let-this-thread-sink-like-a-stone/168250/9 "2003-04-12T14:59:39Z")
I know that if there’ll be a Meat Loaf love song with war commentary during the instrumental break, I’ll definitely shoot myself. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-respond-just-let-this-thread-sink-like-a-stone/168250/10 "2003-04-12T15:03:48Z")
Bombs, here! I got bombs! Who wants bombs! Getcher bombs here! Oh, thanks. That’ll be $20. Pass that on down, wouldja? Bombs! I got bombs, here! ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-respond-just-let-this-thread-sink-like-a-stone/168250/11 "2003-04-12T16:19:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lno \* > \*\*Bombs, here! I got bombs! Who wants bombs! Getcher bombs here! > > Oh, thanks. That’ll be $20. Pass that on down, wouldja? > > Bombs! I got bombs, here! \*\* I’ll take two cluster bombs, with lots of mustard gas, please. ---
**Author:** ![TelcontarStorm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@TelcontarStorm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TelcontarStorm)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-respond-just-let-this-thread-sink-like-a-stone/168250/12 "2003-04-12T16:34:43Z")
OK I won’t respond. I won’t even read the OP. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-respond-just-let-this-thread-sink-like-a-stone/168250/13 "2003-04-12T16:38:04Z")
HHEEEEEEEYYYY Iraqi Iraqi Iraqi Iraqi He can’t bomb He can’t bomb He can’t bomb FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRE Iraqi We need a fighter, not a belly biter We need a sniper, not a booty wiper. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-respond-just-let-this-thread-sink-like-a-stone/168250/14 "2003-04-12T16:50:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lucwarm \* > \*\*I’m so freaking tired of partisans. The war ain’t a freaking baseball game folks. \*\* IT AIN’T??? I guess that would explain ESPN’s sub-par war coverage, then. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-respond-just-let-this-thread-sink-like-a-stone/168250/15 "2003-04-12T16:54:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lno \* > Bombs, here! I got bombs! Who wants bombs! Getcher bombs here! > > Oh, thanks. That’ll be $20. Pass that on down, wouldja? > > Bombs! I got bombs, here! Don’t want any bombs, but I could sure use some lemon bars. I heard someone was gonna make 'em, but I haven’t spotted any so far… ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-respond-just-let-this-thread-sink-like-a-stone/168250/16 "2003-04-12T18:11:11Z")
Sniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiffffffffffff! Ah… I love the smell of napalm in the morning! Oopsa! Wrong war. Astros this year, baby! Gimme my 'Stros! Cold beer here! Ice cold Shiner Bock! ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-respond-just-let-this-thread-sink-like-a-stone/168250/17 "2003-04-12T18:16:28Z")
Sniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiffffffffffff! Ah… I love the smell of napalm in the morning! Oopsa! Wrong war. Astros this year, baby! Gimme my 'Stros! Cold beer here! Ice cold Shiner Bock! ---
**Author:** ![Shaolinrabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Shaolinrabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shaolinrabbit)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-respond-just-let-this-thread-sink-like-a-stone/168250/18 "2003-04-12T18:21:33Z")
Has it sunk yet? _Flees the wrath of fellow dopers_ Saddam taunting Pentagon: Cannit it Cannit it Cannit it ---
**Author:** ![Ferrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-respond-just-let-this-thread-sink-like-a-stone/168250/19 "2003-04-12T18:33:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Aslan2 \* > \*\*What is a partisan? \*\* It’s a special unit that can be built after the discovery of Guerilla Warfare. They’re similar to Alpine Troops in that they treat all terrain as a road, so they always move 3 spaces. There attack and defense isn’t as good, but they ignore Zones of Control, so they’re good explorers and infiltrators. … Oh, wait, you mean in real life? Open a frickin’ dictionary. Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-respond-just-let-this-thread-sink-like-a-stone/168250/20 "2003-04-12T19:10:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Aslan2 \* > \*\*What is a partisan? \*\* I don’t know. Third Base!! Somebody had to… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-respond-just-let-this-thread-sink-like-a-stone/168250.md?page=2)