# Read the OP, people! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 8, 2019, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-the-op-people/827422 "2019-01-08T19:47:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-the-op-people/827422/61 "2019-01-10T07:14:10Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > Is it anything like the ones about your Daddy? Cos we’ve heard those. Just as bad, I promise. ---
**Author:** ![bonzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@bonzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bonzer)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-the-op-people/827422/62 "2019-01-10T08:25:50Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > The problem I have with that thread is that half the examples listed by the OP are from books. The famous people who show up in the Harry Flashman books are no more the “real” versions of those people, then the famous people who show up in an episode of Dr. Who. But for some reason, the OP is okay with the former examples, but not with the latter. It’s pretty arbitrary, and I can’t really blame subsequent posters for not catching the distinction the OP is trying to make. I’d argue that Flashman’s a somewhat more complicated example than this. There are certainly lots of historical figures - Queen Victoria, Palmerston, Custer, etc. - who directly appear as characters in the series and whom you can reject on the above grounds. But there are also lots of historical figures who we know that Flashman met, but who are only mentioned much more indirectly. So we know that he made a pass at [Angela Burdett-Coutts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Burdett-Coutts,_1st_Baroness_Burdett-Coutts), witnessed the execution of Maximillian of Mexico and took part in Pickett’s Charge. But none of these people are really characters in the plots of the novels. These are incidents from other parts of his life that Flashman mentions in passing. Such passing mentions do seem in keeping with the spirit of the OP in that thread. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2019, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-the-op-people/827422/63 "2019-01-10T18:45:23Z")
Ok, that’s enough content for this thread. Beckdawrek, tell us a story! ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-the-op-people/827422/64 "2019-01-10T19:36:02Z")
“Smoking OPs” was a fun album, I had it in high school. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-the-op-people/827422/65 "2019-01-10T20:32:00Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Shit happens. Depends on your diet, really. Modifying the standard Atkins program to include primarily watermelon can reduce fecal production by 98.779%. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-the-op-people/827422/66 "2019-01-10T20:48:55Z")
I’ve been thinking lately (uh-oh), if you grew your own watermelons and while they’re still small baby melons if you put rubber bands and segmented them off, would they grow into a string of small melons instead of one large melon? See how convenient that would be? When you’re ready to eat the melon you just cut off one section and the rest stays intact. Think of the money you would save. Should I market this idea or just grow my own? Obviously, I don’t need an answer fast.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-the-op-people/827422/67 "2019-01-10T20:55:48Z")
Speaking of money and markets, is investing in cryptocurrency worth the uncertainty? ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-the-op-people/827422/68 "2019-01-10T20:58:43Z")
Tris Speaker, 783 Pete Rose, 746 Stan Musial, 725 Ty Cobb, 724 Craig Biggio, 668 George Brett, 665 Napoleon Lajoie, 657 Carl Yastrzemski, 646 Honus Wagner, 640 Albert Pujols, 639 ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-the-op-people/827422/69 "2019-01-10T21:08:58Z")
Let me go on record by pointing out that Remo Williams and Chiun have met every US President from Nixon to whoever, though they are never actually named. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-the-op-people/827422/70 "2019-01-10T21:23:13Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Tris Speaker, 783 > Pete Rose, 746 > Stan Musial, 725 > Ty Cobb, 724 > Craig Biggio, 668 > George Brett, 665 > Napoleon Lajoie, 657 > Carl Yastrzemski, 646 > Honus Wagner, 640 > Albert Pujols, 639 Now, are those stats for the real-life players or for the actors who’ve portrayed them? ---
**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:** [January 10, 2019, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-the-op-people/827422/71 "2019-01-10T23:55:18Z")
> [@ZonexandScout](#): > > Let me go on record by pointing out that Remo Williams and Chiun have met every US President from Nixon to whoever, though they are never actually named. Ah, but most of those were from the sequel to \*Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins. \* (I’m two area codes away from my LaserDisc collection… anyone remember the name of parts 2 or 3?) ---
**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:** [January 11, 2019, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-the-op-people/827422/72 "2019-01-11T05:22:54Z")
Yeah, fuck that inspection protocol for marsupials. Glad the foding USDA is on the shit-can. > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I read between the lines. I KNOW what he really means. You think you do, but you don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2019, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-the-op-people/827422/73 "2019-01-11T05:49:54Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Yeah, fuck that inspection protocol for marsupials. Glad the foding USDA is on the shit-can. > > You think you do, but you don’t. Are you sure?🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2019, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-the-op-people/827422/74 "2019-01-11T13:01:50Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > The problem I have with that thread is that half the examples listed by the OP are from books. The famous people who show up in the Harry Flashman books are no more the “real” versions of those people, then the famous people who show up in an episode of Dr. Who. But for some reason, the OP is okay with the former examples, but not with the latter. It’s pretty arbitrary, and I can’t really blame subsequent posters for not catching the distinction the OP is trying to make. > [@Miller](#): > > Oh, and apparently it also doesn’t count if it’s a famous person playing themselves as a cameo, for some reason. So, apparently what he wants is movies and TV shows where they use found footage/images of a real famous person and incorporate it into the work, or any written work of fiction that mentions a real famous person in even the most tangential fashion - the OP includes a Sherlock Holmes story that broadly hints that Holmes met the Queen without actually mentioning her by name or describing the meeting directly. > > :rolleyes: Yeah, I only opened the other thread and read the OP _after_ reading the OP here. So I was making more than the usual effort to make sure I’d read the OP correctly, but I still wasn’t sure I understood what he was after. The linked thread is a pretty weak example for the point the OP here is making. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2019, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-the-op-people/827422/75 "2019-01-12T04:19:56Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Are you sure?🙂 Pretty sure. But I still like you. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2019, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-the-op-people/827422/76 "2019-01-12T06:03:06Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Pretty sure. But I still like you. 😉 I feel like you’re gonna throw something at me now. Do I need to duck?🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2019, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-the-op-people/827422/77 "2019-01-12T06:05:13Z")
Get a room, you two. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2019, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-the-op-people/827422/78 "2019-01-12T15:32:24Z")
I don’t post in Pit threads. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2019, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-the-op-people/827422/79 "2019-01-12T18:11:57Z")
Do you piss in pot threads? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2019, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-the-op-people/827422/80 "2019-01-12T18:56:48Z")
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