# Posers hooted off the Boards **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 7, 2002, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posers-hooted-off-the-boards/122865 "2002-08-07T23:05:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posers-hooted-off-the-boards/122865/21 "2002-08-08T16:00:20Z")
red daffodils at midnight at the bridge. blue peonys at the armory at dawn. ---
**Author:** ![Kiting\_Illini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@Kiting\_Illini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiting_Illini)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posers-hooted-off-the-boards/122865/22 "2002-08-08T16:29:31Z")
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**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posers-hooted-off-the-boards/122865/23 "2002-08-08T19:06:17Z")
[We are the Pusher Robots. We are here to protect you from the Terrible Secret of Space. PAK CHOOIE UNF!](http://www.somethingawful.com/article.php?id=285) ---
**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:** [August 8, 2002, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posers-hooted-off-the-boards/122865/24 "2002-08-08T19:49:54Z")
I JUST REALIZED THAT MY PASTA SALAD IS SPELLING OUT SOMETHING IN ROTINI\> WAIT\< I"LL TRY TO READ IT\> IT SAYS C O L I N P O W E L L MY PASTA SALAD IS SPELLING OUT COLIN POWELLS"S NAME\> WHAT SHOULD I DO? ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posers-hooted-off-the-boards/122865/25 "2002-08-08T20:01:43Z")
DISPOSE OF THE EVIDENCE! You might even consider…and I know it is a sacrifice…EATING IT? ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posers-hooted-off-the-boards/122865/26 "2002-08-08T20:25:23Z")
This is the first and only thread which has made me LOL in two days, for so many reasons (FORMERFENRIS, the Blade Runner refs, etc.) Thanks! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posers-hooted-off-the-boards/122865/27 "2002-08-08T20:37:15Z")
It’s been two months since **sail** tried to defend having his kid out of its car seat for 15 minutes at highway speeds. Nothing from him since. [link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=116749&perpage=50&highlight=seat%20belt&pagenumber=5) ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posers-hooted-off-the-boards/122865/28 "2002-08-08T21:35:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Anthracite \* > \*\*This is the first and only thread which has made me LOL in two days, for so many reasons (FORMERFENRIS, the Blade Runner refs, etc.) Thanks! 🙂 \*\* YOU"RE WELCOME! NOW STEP AWAY FROM YOUR KEYBOARD SO WE CAN USE THE SCANNER WE"VE IMPLANTED IN YOUR MONITOR TO RECORD YOUR ENGRAMS\> WE ARE SCANNING ALL DOPER"S ENGRAMS\> THE CLEARS WILL BE OFFERED POSITIONS IN OUR CABAL\> THE NON\_CLEARS WILL BE TURNED INTO XENU\_CHOW\> THANKYOU FOR YOUR CO\_OPERATION FORMERFENRIS ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posers-hooted-off-the-boards/122865/29 "2002-08-08T22:26:52Z")
**ddg** message received. thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posers-hooted-off-the-boards/122865/30 "2002-08-08T22:28:35Z")
Is there some scheme to reenact _Spy Kids II_ in the Pits that I’m not aware of? You people ought to get out to the other boards more often. dantheman, I meant **Posers** , specifically those claiming personal knowledge through life experience, that turns out to be pure bullshit. Like beefyman, claiming to be buzzing along the Autobahn in a BFV at an impossible speed, and using weapons that the Bradley doesn’t even carry. So far the posted links to threads are about people who simply fail to understand the implications of the facts and statistics presented to them. I have a favorite one of those. It absolutely BOGGLES my mind that [CnoteChris thinks banning cell phone calls in hospitals is bogus.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=125374&highlight=cell+AND+hospital) He posted several links in support of his position, of which the most favorable of them (to his position) stated that cell phones interfered with medical devices 5% of the time, a risk he called “vanishingly small”. Sparc, my sig says exactly what I want it to say. “The war on ignorance is the only one worth being a soldier in the army of, against.” I just thought the phraseology was ironically amusing, or perhaps even amusingly ironic, but I’m apparently wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Sparc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Sparc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparc)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posers-hooted-off-the-boards/122865/31 "2002-08-08T22:37:04Z")
Oh sorry, yojimboguy. I have sigs turned off. I thought it was a genuine question. HA HA HA I’m an idiot. I did not mean to insult you, truly. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posers-hooted-off-the-boards/122865/32 "2002-08-08T23:53:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sparc \* > \*\*Oh sorry, yojimboguy. > > I have sigs turned off. I thought it was a genuine question. > > HA HA HA I’m an idiot. > > I did not mean to insult you, truly. \*\* No offense taken, in fact it leads me to a hijack related to sigs. I cannot see my own sigs on my posts. When I created the sig, I switched sigs on. But since I never saw my sig in my posts, I assumed someting was broken, assumed no one else could see my sig either, and didn’t bother to pursue an explanation or fix. Even when you commented on my sig, I assumed you went to my profile and saw the sig there. Was my sig in fact visible in my OP? If so, is it normal that **I** can’t see it? ---
**Author:** ![JDeMobray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@JDeMobray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JDeMobray)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posers-hooted-off-the-boards/122865/33 "2002-08-09T00:16:12Z")
There’s also the truly unpleasant [Lindsay](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=29818&perpage=50&pagenumber=2), who vanished after this train wreck. ---
**Author:** ![JDeMobray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@JDeMobray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JDeMobray)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posers-hooted-off-the-boards/122865/34 "2002-08-09T00:19:01Z")
By the way, FORMERFENRIS is for real, so don’t pee him off. Guys like that are trained to play nice nice and then lower the boom. Even if they are asked not to play around here anymore. If FORMERFENRIS wanted to, all the moderators in the world couldn’t stop him from, well, you know what I mean. Don’t play with the man. Just some friendly advice. 😉 ---
**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:** [August 9, 2002, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posers-hooted-off-the-boards/122865/35 "2002-08-09T00:26:48Z")
How about that fellow who claimed to be a duelist, and to have participated in several duels that he could not, in honor, tell us about? He finally “resigned” from the board because we weren’t “honorable” enough, and hasn’t been heard from since, AFAIK. Can’t remember his name, so I can’t look for his posts. ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posers-hooted-off-the-boards/122865/36 "2002-08-09T00:38:46Z")
I bet there is a gaggle of them in Comments on Cecil’s Columns and Comments on Staff Reports. Half the posters there i’ve never heard of before or since, and they seem to show up for on thread and then leave (in general) ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posers-hooted-off-the-boards/122865/37 "2002-08-09T01:32:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miller \* > \*\*How about that fellow who claimed to be a duelist, and to have participated in several duels that he could not, in honor, tell us about? He finally “resigned” from the board because we weren’t “honorable” enough, and hasn’t been heard from since, AFAIK. Can’t remember his name, so I can’t look for his posts. \*\* That would be [Screwtape](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=65569). [Simpsons] “Honk if you demand satsfaction” [/Simpsons] ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posers-hooted-off-the-boards/122865/38 "2002-08-09T02:17:28Z")
Now we’re getting to the creme de la scum. I looked at some threads of Lindsay’s and the link to Screwtape, and truly they were major league fuckwads. I wonder if they are posting as some kind of wierd Andy-Kaufmann-like-performance-art thing? Screwtape reads like a 12 year old with an exceptionally large vocabulary who’s overdosed on Robert Heinlein. Lindsay is more reminiscent of Josef Mengele, right down to a fascination with neurology. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posers-hooted-off-the-boards/122865/39 "2002-08-09T02:42:31Z")
MY ANUS IS BLEEDING\> ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posers-hooted-off-the-boards/122865/40 "2002-08-09T02:47:40Z")
Of course, there is also this classic thread, [Pyrrho12’s Parade of Board Lunatics](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=78906&highlight=Parade), which contains much humor and enlightenment. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posers-hooted-off-the-boards/122865.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posers-hooted-off-the-boards/122865.md?page=3)