# Rant

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant/144959>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [December 26, 2002, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant/144959 "2002-12-26T12:48:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 5

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**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant/144959/81 "2002-12-27T06:11:47Z")

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Vision Fading.

Must. Reach. Lever.

No Strength left.

Assume heroic pose!

Worst. Rant. Ever!

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant/144959/82 "2002-12-27T06:21:28Z")

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Beneath the Planet of the Apes reference noted.

Assertion that Star Wars was better.

Flames random doper that has yet to post here.

Finds other niggling point in OP to refute with blithering illogic.

Threatens to leave SDMB.

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**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant/144959/83 "2002-12-27T08:41:13Z")

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Post about LOTR again, this time using it to liken other posters to Nazis.

[Appeal to dubious authority.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=152046#post2755586)

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**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant/144959/84 "2002-12-27T14:12:57Z")

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Outrage at use of racially-charged word “n\*ggling”

Homerish “Mmmmmm- catfood  
pie  
milk spurting from nose  
blithering illogic.”

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**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant/144959/85 "2002-12-27T14:29:06Z")

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Appeal to family authority who served at the Nuremburg War Crimes Trials, showing that I am more qualified than other poster to liken people to Nazis.

Reference to _Treasure of the Sierra Madre_, which nobody recognizes because it’s not the common misquoted version.

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**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant/144959/86 "2002-12-27T15:04:46Z")

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Reappears to demand why nazi mods have not banned posters for referring to other posters as nazis.

Statement of believe in the innocence of banned poster.

Refers to many private emails, instant messages, billboards, and radio commercials in support of stance on mods.

Froths at mouth briefly in re SDMB cabal.

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant/144959/87 "2002-12-27T15:33:48Z")

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Entire post in Esparanto with glaring syntax errors.

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**Author:** ![Robb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Robb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robb)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant/144959/88 "2002-12-27T15:55:31Z")

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10 …  
9 …  
8 …

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**Author:** ![Bubba\_Ray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Bubba\_Ray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bubba_Ray)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant/144959/89 "2002-12-27T16:00:23Z")

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Senseless pop culture reference that no one finds funny anymore.

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**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant/144959/90 "2002-12-27T16:09:42Z")

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One liner designed to stroke poster’s vanity and ease tension.

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**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant/144959/91 "2002-12-27T16:50:09Z")

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Suggestion that poster three pages ago do the research to disprove a point no one is arguing.

Regards,  
Shodan

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**Author:** ![Beagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Beagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beagle)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant/144959/92 "2002-12-27T16:54:58Z")

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Random tangent virtually unrelated to OP.

Questioning validity of earlier cites. Statement noting the obvious bias.

Stroke ego of earlier poster, who is so funny.

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**Author:** ![SC\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@SC\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SC_Wolf)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant/144959/93 "2002-12-27T17:06:21Z")

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Statment of understanding now why the OP threatened to leave and never come back. Anger. Solemn vow NOT to leave, because that would be an admissin that the Cabal has won.

Call for solidarity among those who agree with the OP’s views. Numerous references to the position of the OP as “The Cause”.

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**Author:** ![SC\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@SC\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SC_Wolf)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant/144959/94 "2002-12-27T17:08:29Z")

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Added as an afterthought: Rant about all the LotR spoliers in this thread or linked to from this thread. General bitching about not having been able to see it yet.

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**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant/144959/95 "2002-12-27T18:03:27Z")

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Expression of disgust at the pointlessness of it all.

Statement of desire that the thread die a quick death.

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**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant/144959/96 "2002-12-27T18:36:17Z")

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\<expletive deleted\> you sailor! You don’t know what the \<expletive deleted\> you’re talking about. You and everyone else are just little \<expletive deleted\> suckers who will burn in the \<expletive deleted\> of \<expletive deleted\>. How the \<expletive deleted\> are we supposed to a \<expletive deleted\> pit rant when little \<expletive deleted\> like you come by and \<expletive deleted\> your \<expletive deleted\> in your \<expletive deleted\> whilst not \<expletive deleted\> understanding my \<expletive deleted\> you \<expletive deleted\>\<expletive deleted\>\<expletive deleted\> and your \<expletive deleted\> mother and her \<expletive deleted\> puppy dog \<expletive deleted\>\<expletive deleted\> I’ll come round your \<expletive deleted\> and stick a \<expletive deleted\> up your \<expletive deleted\>ing \<expletive deleted\> using a flaming \<expletive deleted\>. That’ll show you you \<expletive deleted\>ing \<expletive deleted\>.

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**Author:** ![istara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant/144959/97 "2002-12-27T18:54:38Z")

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Deckchair.

Rubbing hands in glee at impending meltdown, though not actually participating.

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**Author:** ![SC\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@SC\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SC_Wolf)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant/144959/98 "2002-12-27T18:56:16Z")

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Inquiry as why Tapioca is quoting from the leaked script to the next Kevin Smith film.

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**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant/144959/99 "2002-12-27T19:03:14Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Bubba Ray \*  
> \*\*Senseless pop culture reference that no one finds funny anymore. \*\*

Assertion that all OP’s base are belong to us.

_Indication of hurried flight from scene intended to evade objects being hurled at poster by offended onlookers._

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**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant/144959/100 "2002-12-27T20:17:47Z")

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Expresses remorse for leaving a comma out of the final sentence of last post. Admits that said post was made at 4 am after a sixteen hour drinking binge in the company of three underage crack whores. Realises that this would be illegal and complains about the inability to edit own posts.

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