# ralph124c, could you please spellcheck your titles already? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 1, 2012, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069 "2012-08-01T16:29:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069/21 "2012-08-01T18:39:36Z")
He’s talking about Crahter Scools. Pay attention. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069/22 "2012-08-01T18:41:25Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > The fuck are you even talking about now? Since that particular sentence structure does not compute I must assume you are also a moron worth ignoring. I mean shit there is a whole word missing. How stupid is that? ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069/23 "2012-08-01T18:47:24Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Since that particular sentence structure does not compute I must assume you are also a moron worth ignoring. I mean shit there is a whole word missing. How stupid is that? Oh shut up, you whiny little bitch. I don’t give a good goddamn how interesting the discussions are that spawn out of **ralph** ’s threads. Interesting discussions also spawn from OPs that are written thoughtfully and intelligently. I make no comment on the quality of the ensuing post- **ralph** discussion, only on how fucking stupid **ralph** is. He’s pretty fucking stupid. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069/24 "2012-08-01T18:48:14Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > He’s talking about Crahter Scools. Pay attention. I LOLed 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069/25 "2012-08-01T18:50:54Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > Oh shut up, you whiny little bitch. > . Oh you are just pissed you fucked up pretty darn quick. Did I ever claim Ralph to be a genius? No. But you can’t read for content or even make sure all the words are in your sentences for that matter. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069/26 "2012-08-01T18:53:23Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Did I ever claim Ralph to be a genius? No. But you can’t read for content or even make sure all the words are in your sentences for that matter. My god, you’re actually serious about that. You think I made an error. Ha. Wow. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069/27 "2012-08-01T18:53:56Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > I mean shit there is a whole word missing. How stupid is that? I accidentally the entire chatrer school system! ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069/28 "2012-08-01T18:56:48Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > I accidentally the entire **chatrer** school system! Hey now. We can’t have spellings evolving and shit. At least not this fast. 🙂 Plus that is a sexual predator felony in at least 35 states so I’d keep that on the down low. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069/29 "2012-08-01T19:01:23Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > I accidentally the entire chatrer school system! Hey, me too! What a coincidence! ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069/30 "2012-08-01T19:25:17Z")
I just checked my history, it was “chrater.” Personally, I think it would be fun to attend school in a chrater. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069/31 "2012-08-02T02:19:42Z")
A google search for chrater shows Ralph’s thread as the first hit. Heh. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069/32 "2012-08-02T02:26:35Z")
When I saw his recent thread title, I thought to myself that if **ralphie** ever spelled a whole title correctly, I’d have a heart attack and die of shock right then and there. Why do you want me to die? ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069/33 "2012-08-02T03:08:09Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > What’s even worse is that, in a large proportion of the (literally thousands) of threads that he starts, he never returns to thank people for their input, or to contribute to the conversation in any meaningful way. Being a bit of a Geek, I thought-----he’s started _thousands_ of threads? Wait I’m a mod in GQ. Yeah, I"ve suffered, moved them, admonished him, but _started thousands_?. No way. So, I went and looked. Forgive me. I just didn’t wish to spend the next hours tweaking the search function to determine you’re correct. And, you’re incredibly correct. From his join date(2002), the next year he started 1000 threads. HOLY SHIT. He has 14,500 posts as of tonight. He probably has started about 6-7000 threads. This has caused me to drink [del]more[/del] heavily. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069/34 "2012-08-02T03:18:48Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > He has 14,500 posts as of tonight. He has started about 7000 threads. This is called the “wise-man ratio”. 😃 One would think he’d have gotten better at the whole “composing thread titles”-thing; considering the fact that composing and posting such titles is about the only thing he _does_ with any regularity here at the Dope. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069/35 "2012-08-02T04:09:00Z")
I think **ralph** is a riot, but I drive a Fiat and drink. (not at the same time) ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069/36 "2012-08-02T04:23:40Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > He has 14,500 posts as of tonight. He probably has started about 6-7000 threads. This has caused me to drink [del]more[/del] heavily. He may have slowed down a bit. He started 750 threads between October 4, 2010 and today, or about 1.1 per day. Since he’s been a member for 10 years and 4 months, if had maintained that rate since he joined that gives about 4,147 threads. If his rate was higher when he first joined he might have 6,000-7,000. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069/37 "2012-08-02T05:35:05Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > He’s talking about Crahter Scools. Pay attention. That made me snort out loud. That’s some damn fine funny. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069/38 "2012-08-02T09:20:50Z")
It must have been asked before (or stated explicitly), but is “ **ralph124c** ” a reference to Ralph Wiggum? His posts make much more sense if you read them with that voice. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069/39 "2012-08-02T12:08:29Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > It must have been asked before (or stated explicitly), but is “ **ralph124c** ” a reference to Ralph Wiggum? His posts make much more sense if you read them with that voice. Unless I’m mistaken (quite possible) it’s a reference to Hugo Gernsbeck’s seminal SF story **Ralph124C41+** [“one to foresee for one, plus”]. ---
**Author:** ![Suil\_Dubh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85f322/32.png) [@Suil\_Dubh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suil_Dubh)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069/40 "2012-08-02T12:17:33Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > Unless I’m mistaken (quite possible) it’s a reference to Hugo Gernsbeck’s seminal SF story **Ralph124C41+** [“one to foresee for one, plus”]. The real explanation is probably simpler. Like his first name is “Rudolph”, so he tried to register using that… …but didn’t quite manage to spell it correctly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069.md?page=3)