# Public Warning **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 5, 2000, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-warning/3624 "2000-01-05T22:55:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2000, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-warning/3624/21 "2000-01-06T00:38:00Z")
Nah. He’s made the fatal mistake . . . he’s crossed the line from entertaining to boring. Think I’ll go home and wait for the Ninja assasin to arrive. If you see him, though, remind him that true safety lies in always wearing his tin-foil hat. * * * Jodi _Fiat Justitia_ ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2000, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-warning/3624/22 "2000-01-06T00:40:00Z")
You mean… like he’s switched personalities? Hmmmmm… * * * “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy [The Kat House](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/home.htm) [Join the FSH Webring](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/fshwebring.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Krispy\_Original](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ec9cab/32.png) [@Krispy\_Original](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krispy_Original)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2000, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-warning/3624/23 "2000-01-06T01:24:00Z")
There’s a man who leads a life of danger. On every messageboard he posts he stays a stranger. With every post he makes, Another chance he takes. Odds are he won’t live to see tomorrow. Secret Agent Man Secret Agent Man They’ve given you a handle. And Zottis taken 'way your name. (Look out!) Beware of pretty handles you may find. A pretty handle may hide an evil mind. Ooh, careful what you post: Cause you don’t get the jokes. Odds are you won’t live to see tomorrow. Secret Agent Man Secret Agent Man They’ve given you a handle. And Zottis taken 'way your name. (Look out!) You’re sunnin’ on the Left Behind one day, Then bleedin’ in a Straight Dope alley next day. Oh, don’t let the wrong word slip. While kissin’ persuasive lips. Odds are you won’t live to see tomorrow. Secret Agent Man Secret Agent Man They’ve given you a number. And Zottis taken 'way your name. (Look out!) ---
**Author:** ![Kvallulf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@Kvallulf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kvallulf)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2000, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-warning/3624/24 "2000-01-06T01:34:00Z")
Ah Ha!!! So we meet again Mr. Waller!!! Yes, it is I, your Arch-Rival. You must have thought I was dead after my secret moon base exploded after you foiled my plot to control the world through the evil that is known as “Everquest”. Ha ha the joke is on you! I have more and more people wasting their time on this than ever. Soon society will crumble as people decide that making it to ninth level is more important than their jobs or even eating a decent meal. //insert evil diabolical laugh// ---
**Author:** ![Studi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Studi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Studi)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2000, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-warning/3624/25 "2000-01-06T01:41:00Z")
The question remains, has anyone ever seen FORMERAGENT and The Finder together? * * * “What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?” --W.C. Fields ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2000, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-warning/3624/26 "2000-01-06T01:42:00Z")
ROFLMAO, **Krispy**! Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2000, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-warning/3624/27 "2000-01-06T02:13:00Z")
Sheesh, I stay off line for a few hours and all heck breaks loose. I am sorely disappointed that Formeragent has been taken away from us, because he provided me with the easiest material I have ever had. Back to my random witty rejoinders in MPSIMS. Ihave had my fun in Great Debates (although in this case it was more like Tepid Weirdness.) As for “The Finder”, keep up the posting, and maybe you too can be the butt of jokes that make me look like the wittiest tosser of bon mots this side of Frasier Crane. * * * Well, shut my mouth. It’s also illegal to put squirrels down your pants for the purposes of gambling. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2000, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-warning/3624/28 "2000-01-06T02:15:00Z")
Kvallulf posts: > [@](#): > > Ah Ha!!! So we meet again Mr. Waller!!! > Yes, it is I, your Arch-Rival. You must have thought I was dead after my secret moon base exploded after you foiled my plot to control the world through the evil that is known as **“Everquest”**. Ha ha the joke is on you! I have more and more people wasting their time on this than ever. Soon society will crumble as people decide that making it to ninth level is more important than their jobs or even eating a decent meal. (bolding added) Change that to Everclear, and I think you’re onto something… * * * Sue from El Paso Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2000, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-warning/3624/29 "2000-01-06T04:01:00Z")
**Krispy** : gotta say that was one of the flat-out funniest things I’ve read here. Your visualization and riff was much better than mine. I kept picturing the curtain pulling back on the messy, disorganized con artist booming away as the Great Omnipotent Oz. (“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! uh…uh…”) Does this mean we’re all going to get audited, our phones bugged and our sewer rates will go up? Still humming, Veb ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2000, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-warning/3624/30 "2000-01-06T04:14:00Z")
Krispy, you rat, now you have me free associating. The “secret agent man” theme got me off on Patrick McGoohan (sp?) and his paranoid TV series where he was a renegade agent. He was confined to a surreal internment town where threatening amorphous blobs (finders??) burped out of the ether and squished/ingested traitors. Oh, this is a pleasant (though still funny) image to sleep upon… Veb ---
**Author:** ![Krispy\_Original](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ec9cab/32.png) [@Krispy\_Original](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krispy_Original)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2000, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-warning/3624/31 "2000-01-06T04:33:00Z")
I thought that show was a documentary… ---
**Author:** ![WallyM7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2000, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-warning/3624/32 "2000-01-06T04:53:00Z")
Dat be “The Prisoner.” Methinks. * * * Stop telling God what to do. ---
**Author:** ![AuraSeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@AuraSeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuraSeer)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2000, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-warning/3624/33 "2000-01-06T06:26:00Z")
**Kvalluf** wrote: > [@](#): > > You must have thought I was dead after my secret moon base exploded after you foiled my plot to control the world through the evil that is known as “Everquest”. EverQuest is not evil. It is a good and pleasant game, created by fun-loving programmers purely as a way to bring happiness and leisure to people around the world. (This is a completely objective review. My saying this is not related to the fact that my company wrote the game. Nope, nothing to do with that at all…) * * * Laugh hard; it’s a long way to the bank. ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2000, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-warning/3624/34 "2000-01-06T14:31:00Z")
What a weird fucking crybaby. Hey Finder - find THIS! :::assists him in sticking his head further up his ass::: * * * \>^,^\< KITTEN Fluff yer hair Beula, I’s feelin frisky - M.S. ---
**Author:** ![dlv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f9b8f/32.png) [@dlv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dlv)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2000, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-warning/3624/35 "2000-01-07T06:36:00Z")
The y2k bug made **tracer** write: > [@](#): > > Yeah yeah, sure sure, FORMERAGENT/MarkSerlin/Phaedrus/ **dlv** /Contestant #3. Whatever you I’ll interpret this as a compliment. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Krispy\_Original](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ec9cab/32.png) [@Krispy\_Original](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krispy_Original)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2000, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-warning/3624/36 "2000-01-07T06:43:00Z")
That reminds me… Hey Tracer… **FUCK YOU**! * * * Krispy Original – voted SDMB’s 19th most popular poster (1999) ---
**Author:** ![PrivyQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/85e7bf/32.png) [@PrivyQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PrivyQueen)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2000, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-warning/3624/37 "2000-01-06T19:05:00Z")
Uh, hey Adam Yax - we have too many ‘sects’ in Montana as it is. Please don’t. Please! * * * LIfe is a tragedy to those who feel…and a comedy to those that think [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-warning/3624.md?page=1)