# Rand Rover, you want to associate with us? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 30, 2009, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734 "2009-07-30T01:09:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2009, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/201 "2009-08-01T18:37:16Z")
> [@digs](#): > > And I was afraid I was being too quick to judge the guy as having serious problems. Doesn’t Rand Rover have to be taken seriously before he rates having serious problems? ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2009, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/202 "2009-08-01T18:42:34Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > I said exactly what I meant to say, that you have a near-psychopathic disregard for the lives of others. I didn’t dispute that. I am saying that, at the same time you accuse me of using rhetorical flourishes, you are doing the exact same thing. And you don’t seem to realize it. Which proves, of course, that you are completely insane. ---
**Author:** ![fruitbat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fruitbat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fruitbat)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2009, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/203 "2009-08-01T19:51:44Z")
Rand Rover had one of my favorite thread titles of the year (his ultralong Pit thread) and his baiting of everyone here cracks me up. Dude, if I was anywhere near Chicago I would happily come. The shame is that it is clear that eventually he will be banned and a little bit more fun will leach out of this place. Obviously I don’t share his viewpoint, because honestly, who does? That being said he is at least fun to read. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2009, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/204 "2009-08-01T20:05:45Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > GOOD NEWS! It’s a suppository. Rand Rover is a suppository? That explains a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2009, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/205 "2009-08-01T20:37:11Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > So I’ll take that as an admission that you _don’t_ have a clean bill of mental health. How many of us are actually certified sane? I see no reason to think that his beliefs prima facie make him crazy; they merely make him an unpleasant person. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2009, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/206 "2009-08-01T21:48:15Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > How many of us are actually certified sane? I see no reason to think that his beliefs prima facie make him crazy; they merely make him an unpleasant person. Thanks for the support, Frank (hey, I’ll take what I can get around here). ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2009, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/207 "2009-08-01T23:55:43Z")
Thanks for the new sig line: – **Gaffa:** I said exactly what I meant to say, that you have a near-psychopathic disregard for the lives of others. **Rand Rover:** I didn’t dispute that. ---
**Author:** ![Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimmy_Gibbler)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2009, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/208 "2009-08-02T00:44:43Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Thanks for the support, Frank (hey, I’ll take what I can get around here). Confidential to **Rand Rover** – _They call you heartless: but you have a heart, and I love you for being ashamed to show it._ F.N. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2009, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/209 "2009-08-02T02:02:41Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > Thanks for the new sig line: > > – > > **Gaffa:** I said exactly what I meant to say, that you have a near-psychopathic disregard for the lives of others. > **Rand Rover:** I didn’t dispute that. :rolleyes: Ba-zing. Boy, you got me. I mean, you really got me there. I don’t suppose everyone but you knows that “that” refers to what you said (i.e., the topic of the sentence to which I was replying) and cannot reasonably be read to refer to anything else. Man, hoisted by my own petard. I salute you, sir. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2009, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/210 "2009-08-02T02:09:31Z")
This is the first time I have come across a person being un-invited to his own party. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2009, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/211 "2009-08-02T04:21:26Z")
“Well, then someone suggested we settle our differences with a tequila contest, and that’s the last I remember until the Emergency Room, officer…” ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2009, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/212 "2009-08-02T04:30:49Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > **Rand Rover** So where are you and what DO you do for a living? He doesn’t really exist as a human being. He is a made-up online persona, troll, if you will. In reality, he’s a poisoned, little, man that is desperate for attention. He’s seemed to have found fertile ground,in which to plant himself, here, where board drama has long ago replaced fighting ignorance as the main attraction. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/213 "2009-08-03T05:44:15Z")
I think **RandRover** is becoming dangerously close to channelling Hunter S Thompson. Which would be a good thing, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/214 "2009-08-03T05:45:31Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > I think **RandRover** is becoming dangerously close to channelling Hunter S Thompson. > > Which would be a good thing, of course. Sorry, not even close. Not even a little bit. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/215 "2009-08-03T05:49:57Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > I think **RandRover** is becoming dangerously close to channelling Hunter S Thompson. > > Which would be a good thing, of course. Bite your tongue. Like, a lot. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/216 "2009-08-03T06:05:07Z")
A conservative, Nixon-hating version? Seriously, I think a lot of the stuff he posts is so tounge-in-cheek that it’s hard to differentiate the difference, which, in my mind, was a key element in HST’s writings, hence the reference. I’m re-reading “The Proud Highway” for laughs right now. Sorry if my lame interpretation doesn’t jibe with you all’s. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/217 "2009-08-03T06:23:35Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > A conservative, Nixon-hating version? > > Seriously, I think a lot of the stuff he posts is so tounge-in-cheek that it’s hard to differentiate the difference, which, in my mind, was a key element in HST’s writings, hence the reference. > > I’m re-reading “The Proud Highway” for laughs right now. > > Sorry if my lame interpretation doesn’t jibe with you all’s. Ahem, I think they are making notice about of how HST died, not a good thing to expect from another doper. ---
**Author:** ![muttrox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a8b319/32.png) [@muttrox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muttrox)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/218 "2009-08-04T14:54:11Z")
> [@Una\_Persson](#): > > Maybe Rand Rover will turn out to be someone with the combined personality of Sir Alec Guinness, J. Krishnamurti, and Nathan Lane. You all could sit there for hours, sipping his Dom Pérignon, listening to his anecdotes gathered from working for National Geographic on 7 continents, and hearing him do Sinatra rat pack karaoke so fine he ends up with a recording contract by the end of the night. He doesn’t always drink beer. But when he does, he prefers Dos Equis. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/219 "2009-08-04T14:58:57Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Ahem, I think they are making notice about of how HST died, not a good thing to expect from another doper. Oh, I hadn’t even thought of that. That’s not what I meant at all. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/220 "2009-08-04T18:04:45Z")
> [@muttrox](#): > > He doesn’t always drink beer. But when he does, he prefers Dos Equis. “Stay thirsty, my friend,” was his response to the dying man’s plea for water. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734.md?page=12)