# Quasimodem, take us back to the Great Debates! (Post your suggested topic) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 3, 2003, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasimodem-take-us-back-to-the-great-debates-post-your-suggested-topic/199264 "2003-09-03T03:11:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasimodem-take-us-back-to-the-great-debates-post-your-suggested-topic/199264/1 "2003-09-03T03:11:57Z")
**Quasimodem** , we’re counting on you, man. You led us through the depths of the Social Security system (and we’re still trying to wake up from that subject. 😃 ) We eagerly await our next adventure. My suggestions for your next GD thread: Chick thread: Choker necklaces: fashion must, or pain in the neck? Sports thread: Will Agassi win the U.S. Open or die of old age? I’m clearly going to need some serious help here!! And donuts. We must have donuts! ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasimodem-take-us-back-to-the-great-debates-post-your-suggested-topic/199264/2 "2003-09-03T07:48:16Z")
Need some more time reading over there, before posting again, **Blonde**! 😃 Once I get it “down” I’ll launch another topic, but during the last one, I just kept hammering home the same point over and over, and that’s not debating, that’s just motonous repetition. Those folks were just being kind in not telling me that within the thread. But then, what did I expect? They’re Dopers and Dopers are, for the most part, very kind people. I’ll venture back in, but let me do a little homework first, okay? 😉 Q ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasimodem-take-us-back-to-the-great-debates-post-your-suggested-topic/199264/3 "2003-09-03T07:49:46Z")
**monotonous**! ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasimodem-take-us-back-to-the-great-debates-post-your-suggested-topic/199264/4 "2003-09-03T11:56:35Z")
How about **Should we recycle belly button lint?** ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasimodem-take-us-back-to-the-great-debates-post-your-suggested-topic/199264/5 "2003-09-03T14:17:51Z")
I say we pick a new leader and let **Quasimodem** get some training in, Rocky style! ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasimodem-take-us-back-to-the-great-debates-post-your-suggested-topic/199264/6 "2003-09-03T14:25:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GMRyujin \* > \*\*I say we pick a new leader and let **Quasimodem** get some training in, Rocky style! \*\* OK, how about…hmm… **No ClueBoy?** ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasimodem-take-us-back-to-the-great-debates-post-your-suggested-topic/199264/7 "2003-09-03T15:48:23Z")
Quasi is no leader. Fearless or otherwise. 😃 He’s a _“Fools Rush In”_-kinda guy, okay? 😉 Q ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasimodem-take-us-back-to-the-great-debates-post-your-suggested-topic/199264/8 "2003-09-03T20:16:37Z")
> [@](#): > > from _dantheman_ > How about Should we recycle belly button lint? A very good question, but probably not political enough. How about: **Can we trust a U.S. President if they don’t like broccoli?** BTW, **Quasi** , I feel your pain. Made a rare venture into a GD thread a week or so ago myself, and some newbie started biting at my heels… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasimodem-take-us-back-to-the-great-debates-post-your-suggested-topic/199264/9 "2003-09-03T20:49:25Z")
Just remember, **Quasi** , if someone says something you don’t like, accuse them of making strawmen and then call their whole post an “ad hominem attack”. This means you win, in GD-talk. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasimodem-take-us-back-to-the-great-debates-post-your-suggested-topic/199264/10 "2003-09-03T21:18:04Z")
Okay, how about **this** one: “Resolved: Viggo Mortensen is better-looking as **Aragorn** than he is as himself.” I realize this is way subjective and probably better suited for a female to post, but it’s a suggestion. 😉 **yujin** If I’m posting from the south, wouldn’t that be an _"ad hominy_ attack"? 😉 Q ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasimodem-take-us-back-to-the-great-debates-post-your-suggested-topic/199264/11 "2003-09-03T21:34:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Quasimodem \* > \*\*Okay, how about **this** one: “Resolved: Viggo Mortensen is better-looking as **Aragorn** than he is as himself.” > > I realize this is way subjective and probably better suited for a female to post, but it’s a suggestion. 😉 > > **yujin** If I’m posting from the south, wouldn’t that be an _"ad hominy_ attack"? 😉 > > Q \*\* Well, he is. He has some kind of horse movie coming out and I spent the entire trailer going “Who is that? He looks and sounds so familiar” until they said his name. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasimodem-take-us-back-to-the-great-debates-post-your-suggested-topic/199264/12 "2003-09-03T22:03:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Quasimodem \* > \*\* > If I’m posting from the south, wouldn’t that be an _"ad hominy_ attack"? > \*\* BWAHAHA. Forgtet GD, I think I’m going to have to drag your German ass to the Pit for making such awful puns. It’s about time for the big **Quasi** pittin’, I reckon. We’ll do it Southern style. A real hospitable hoedown of a Pit thread. The first trainwreck ever to come with fried chicken. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasimodem-take-us-back-to-the-great-debates-post-your-suggested-topic/199264/13 "2003-09-03T23:49:09Z")
See, now - the Pit was the next forum I was thinking we should invade! I don’t post there much (and generally after a couple of glasses of wine - I re-read my posts with much regret the following morning, let me tell you!) A Roast, I say! (We’ll have to curse heavily, of course - or risk the thread being moved back home to this forum.) ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasimodem-take-us-back-to-the-great-debates-post-your-suggested-topic/199264/14 "2003-09-04T01:30:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TheLoadedDog \* > **Forgtet GD, I think I’m going to have to drag your German ass to the Pit for making such awful puns.** A roast in the pit, huh? Well, what the hell: It can’t be any worse than the hell I caught the last time I tried to pit somebody in there. (Or **can** it??) 😃 Q ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasimodem-take-us-back-to-the-great-debates-post-your-suggested-topic/199264/15 "2003-09-04T01:36:12Z")
Just let me check with a moderator first whether the Pit can only have roasts or not. If Southern fry-ups are acceptable, then I’ll go for it. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasimodem-take-us-back-to-the-great-debates-post-your-suggested-topic/199264/16 "2003-09-04T02:07:58Z")
Are there any threads in the Pit or GD on the abortion doctor murderer who was executed today? I could really sink my teeth into that one…but I’d probably get the hell beat out of me in the process. Never mind. It just seems logical that The Pit would allow Roasts. Right? Get back to us on that, **TheLoadedDog!** I’ll just be wandering over to the Pit to observe the terrain now. Somehow I’m thinking they won’t be serving donuts… ---
**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasimodem-take-us-back-to-the-great-debates-post-your-suggested-topic/199264/17 "2003-09-04T02:29:27Z")
How about : Does the world REALLY need VH! and there 100 greatest programs?" I mean pop cultural icons! Talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel… Hell, that one would probly end up in the Pit anyway… mmmm donuts… HEY! Blondie you can share! remember I am a Utahn… we only have sugar for a vice here 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasimodem-take-us-back-to-the-great-debates-post-your-suggested-topic/199264/18 "2003-09-04T02:33:47Z")
I dunno about the world but I definately need a preview… VH1 and THEIR 100 greatest programs… any other errors are strictly coincidence ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasimodem-take-us-back-to-the-great-debates-post-your-suggested-topic/199264/19 "2003-09-04T02:56:38Z")
How about “Should Those Who Post Current News Events Three Seconds After The News Hits The Internet Be Ridiculed For Having No Life, Or Congratulated For Being So On Top Of It?” Eh, nevermind, that one hits too close to home. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasimodem-take-us-back-to-the-great-debates-post-your-suggested-topic/199264/20 "2003-09-04T02:56:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Blonde \* > \*\*See, now - the Pit was the next forum I was thinking we should invade! I don’t post there much (and generally after a couple of glasses of wine - I re-read my posts with much regret the following morning, let me tell you!) > \*\* I can not imagine regretting any post in the Pit; no one there seems to actually read what the others write. 'I can’t imagine being embarassed about doing anything at that bar; ashamed, maybe … ’ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasimodem-take-us-back-to-the-great-debates-post-your-suggested-topic/199264.md?page=2)