# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069/41 "2012-08-02T13:17:24Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Or at least stop posting when drunk. Thank you. > > Threads in evidence: > > [A](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=660525) > [B](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=639666) > [C](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=654417) > > And I know for every one I found there were probably 3-5 where the mods eventually fixed the titles… Dammit, couldn’t you have just **told** us what the thread titles were, instead of making us click links, which would be bad enough if the original thread titles were still there, but is even more confusing if they’ve been corrected. Sorry, but one of my pet peeves on the SDMB is “I’m going to make you click a link to find out something simple that I could have just told you,” especially in an OP. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069/42 "2012-08-02T13:18:26Z")
When we colonize the moon, we’ll have Crater Schools. I think it’s a wise man who looks ahead to this eventuality. Or, wait, was he talking about _Character_ Schools? Like where you go to learn to play Tigger at Disney World? Now I’m confused. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069/43 "2012-08-02T13:29:15Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Or, wait, was he talking about _Character_ Schools? Like where you go to learn to play Tigger at Disney World? So _that’s_ what they mean when they say “character counts” in politicians: they’re saying we should be electing the Goofiest one. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069/44 "2012-08-02T15:01:32Z")
I remain convinced that **ralph124c** is a third-generation sentient AI (the first two being the ralph100 and ralph110 series). He’s trying to learn about the world and to simulate human conversation, but he doesn’t have all the bugs worked out yet. The misspellings are to make him seem folksy, like someone deliberately droppin’ his Gs. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069/45 "2012-08-02T15:21:46Z")
Once he blamed his mistypings on his keyboard. I offered to buy him a new one but he never responded (which is typical of him; he hardly ever responds to the replies he gets to the threads he starts). ---
**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 2, 2012, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069/46 "2012-08-02T16:30:38Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > \ > > Or, wait, was he talking about _Character_ Schools? Like where you go to learn to play Tigger at Disney World? \ How _awesome_ would that be? ---
**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, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069/47 "2012-08-02T16:40:21Z")
> [@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. I like mine better. I encourage fellow Dopers to adopt R. Wiggums voice when reading his posts. It’ll save a few sanity points and make the posts just a bit more understandable. I suppose it would be over the line to refer to him as Wiggums outside the Pit, but exceptions should be made. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069/48 "2012-08-02T18:22:49Z")
I’m just happy that after like ten years, he finally bought a keyboard with a working 9 key. For the longest time, you could always spot a **ralph124c** post by the mis-matched parentheses: 9something like this). That and the fact that the posts were usually dumb and incoherent. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069/49 "2012-08-02T19:17:42Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > How _awesome_ would that be? You might enjoy [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=625877&highlight=tigger) on that very subject, then. (Not to worry; it is, I believe, ralph-free.) ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069/50 "2012-08-02T19:56:19Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Once in awhile Ralph comes up with some good ones. Yeah, sort of like: **Would WWII have turned out differently if the Germans were able to fit Tiger tanks into U-boats?** :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069/51 "2012-08-02T20:05:49Z")
> [@BottledBlondJeanie](#): > > Damn you for not replacing “titles” in yours with “titties.” Woulda made today 100% better. Titties always do. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069/52 "2012-08-02T20:15:43Z")
Balls, I was going to mention Ralph Wiggum. Now I have to resort to mentioning I’m inebriated. ---
**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 2, 2012, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069/53 "2012-08-02T20:48:16Z")
> [@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. I’m going to try this and see if it works. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069/54 "2012-08-02T20:53:08Z")
Maybe he’s simply trying to speak to you in a language that’s similar but not exactly to english? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ralph124c-could-you-please-spellcheck-your-titles-already/630069.md?page=2)