# 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:** 9
**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:** [July 31, 2009, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/161 "2009-07-31T16:22:09Z")
Ah, Rube, the extreme emotional swings (and that vomity smell on threads you post to in the morning) all makes sense now. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/162 "2009-07-31T16:30:57Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Ah, Rube, the extreme emotional swings (and that vomity smell on threads you post to in the morning) all makes sense now. All past the vomiting stage now, except when I read what you post, babe. 😉 As for the emotional swings, well, you’re the emotional one in this thread. Take a Midol and lay down, willya? ---
**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:** [July 31, 2009, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/163 "2009-07-31T16:36:48Z")
Lay down, huh? When will you Doper women stop making these sexual advances toward me? Yeesh and sheesh!! ---
**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:** [July 31, 2009, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/164 "2009-07-31T16:39:39Z")
Also, we’ve found the cause for you being butthurt all the time (and I don’t mean the pregnancy hemorrhoids)–daddy doesn’t wanna spooge on junior, huh? ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/165 "2009-07-31T16:39:42Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Lay down, huh? When will you Doper women stop making these sexual advances toward me? Yeesh and sheesh!! We find your adolescent surliness and immunity to logic irresistible! Women are silly that way. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/166 "2009-07-31T17:30:32Z")
> [@Rubystreak](#): > > You do realize that you’re picturing a pregnant woman having sex with a 15 year old boy. If you think that’s hot, well, OK. Who am I to judge? **Rand** is a dude? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/167 "2009-07-31T18:51:04Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > **Rand** is a dude? :eek: No. “Dude” indicates a particular level of affable, easygoing friendliness that **Rand Rover** lacks. See “The Big Lebowski” for an explanation: Take Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski and, except for the gender, invert every aspect of his personality and you have **Rand Rover**. Basically Rand Rover is Walter Sobchak without any of Walter’s redeeming qualities. Nope. **Rand Rover** is male, for suitably large values of “male”, but I won’t claim him as a “man”. The standards are quite a bit higher for the latter. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2009, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/168 "2009-07-31T19:06:11Z")
Shut up, Donny. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/169 "2009-07-31T19:07:10Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > “Dude” indicates a particular level of affable, easygoing friendliness that **Rand Rover** lacks. See “The Big Lebowski” for an explanation: Take Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski and, except for the gender, invert every aspect of his personality and you have **Rand Rover**. Basically Rand Rover is Walter Sobchak without any of Walter’s redeeming qualities. Actually, I think if you inverted every part of The Dude Lebowski’s personality, you end up with The Big Lebowski. Which seems a pretty apt fit for **Rand Rover**. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2009, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/170 "2009-07-31T19:14:58Z")
Well, the hippies did lose, can’t fault me there. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/171 "2009-07-31T19:22:48Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Actually, I think if you inverted every part of The Dude Lebowski’s personality, you end up with The Big Lebowski. > > Which seems a pretty apt fit for **Rand Rover**. Ah, but the “Big” Jeff Lebowski had redeeming qualities. Hard to imagine **Rand Rover** sponsoring a troop of _Little Rand Rover Achievers_. Although, if he did and and the result is what we see posted as **Rand Rover** , that would explain the general childishness of his posts. ---
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/172 "2009-07-31T19:23:08Z")
Not that I’m even close to Chicago, but even if I were, why would I want to hang out with RR? We haven’t had a lot of fights here in the big scheme of things, but I don’t see eye to eye with him. I can’t imagine actaully wanting to spend a day around him and I’m sure her probably feels the same way about me. Being in each others faces is not going to change anyone’s opinions. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/173 "2009-07-31T19:30:15Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > Ah, but the “Big” Jeff Lebowski had redeeming qualities. Hard to imagine **Rand Rover** sponsoring a troop of _Little Rand Rover Achievers_. Not really. He “sponsored” them using someone else’s money, which he then stole. He was pretty much a shitheel through and through. Walter had far more redeeming qualities: loyalty, bravery, a good bowler. Really, his only drawback was his temper. The Big Lebowski was pretty much worthless as a human being. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2009, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/174 "2009-07-31T19:40:00Z")
Gaffa: clearly Donny. Miller: clearly Bunny (and here’s a twenty). ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/175 "2009-07-31T19:43:34Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Gaffa: clearly Donny. > > Miller: clearly Bunny (and here’s a twenty). You’re just jealous that nobody thinks you’re Karl Hungus. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/176 "2009-07-31T19:47:30Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Not really. He “sponsored” them using someone else’s money, which he then stole. He was pretty much a shitheel through and through. Walter had far more redeeming qualities: loyalty, bravery, a good bowler. Really, his only drawback was his temper. The Big Lebowski was pretty much worthless as a human being. Ah, you’re right. My mistake. “…pretty much a shitheel through and through” is an excellent description of **Rand Rover**. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/177 "2009-07-31T19:58:13Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Shut up, Donny. U fail at qouting ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/178 "2009-07-31T22:16:19Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > U fail at qouting Huh. Well, at least your quoting worked. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2009, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/179 "2009-08-01T04:14:15Z")
So, I finally check back with “That Rand Rover Dope Thread” to see if anyone’s offended by my original post (stating that a number of us Dopers could use therapy!). Oh, good, no rational posters’ feelings hurt, just a post from RR **(keep in mind this is in response to a post where I point out that he insults people that are trying to help him)** _(Warning, the irony gets a little thick):_ > [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Here digs, take a couple of these: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: and I’ll ask your mom to call you in the morning (if she can somehow manage to extricate my dick from her ass). – And I was afraid I was being too quick to judge the guy as having serious problems. Ah, well. ps: doesn’t bother me, but please don’t show this to my saintly silver-coiffed mother. ---
**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, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/180 "2009-08-01T04:15:36Z")
> [@digs](#): > > ps: doesn’t bother me, but please don’t show this to my saintly silver-coiffed mother. Guess what buddy–the carpet matches the drapes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734.md?page=10)