# Respond pithily to a thread WITHOUT naming that thread. **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 19, 2008, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-pithily-to-a-thread-without-naming-that-thread/473393 "2008-11-19T01:30:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Freejooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba8739/32.png) [@Freejooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freejooky)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-pithily-to-a-thread-without-naming-that-thread/473393/1 "2008-11-19T01:30:58Z")
Sometimes you just want to be blunt, even rude in response to a thread, but you don’t want to stir up shit and incur ill will. So this thread is a game if you will, in which we’ll post our pithy responses to OP’s without naming or otherwise referencing that OP. If you do, you know this is going to the pit like _that_, so don’t do it! I’ll go first… - I remember when they just called it playing doctor. :rolleyes: - Because you’re a pussy. - You need a plastic surgeon and years of therapy. Your turn! ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-pithily-to-a-thread-without-naming-that-thread/473393/2 "2008-11-19T22:32:23Z")
I don’t get it. What’s the point if we don’t know what thread it is? ---
**Author:** ![Nicolas\_Bourbaki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecc23a/32.png) [@Nicolas\_Bourbaki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nicolas_Bourbaki)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-pithily-to-a-thread-without-naming-that-thread/473393/3 "2008-11-20T07:24:41Z")
-Yes, dumbass, I _know_ that Ben Franklin and Voltaire both have clever quotes on the subject of personal liberties. In fact, I’d posit that _every single goddamn person_ reading, posting to, or viewing this thread knows that too. How about **you** , mutherfocker? Do you have any insightful, thought-provoking, or even vaguely relevant comments of your own to add? 'Cuz no one’s making you copypaste Quote-a-Day calenders into what could be an interesting discussion; you have the, you know, the freedom, to not post if you have nothing to say that doesn’t already belong to someone else. That was actually strangely cathartic. ---
**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-pithily-to-a-thread-without-naming-that-thread/473393/4 "2008-11-20T08:27:25Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > I don’t get it. What’s the point if we don’t know what thread it is? No, no… make it pithier! ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-pithily-to-a-thread-without-naming-that-thread/473393/5 "2008-11-21T19:17:30Z")
Look, the guy is nuts. He’s not going to respond to your requests for “cites” or “testable evidence.” Do you seriously think he will? How could he? He’s making sense to himself and all you’re doing is banging your head against a wall. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-pithily-to-a-thread-without-naming-that-thread/473393/6 "2008-11-21T19:31:42Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > I don’t get it. What’s the point if we don’t know what thread it is? Look, no point in getting pithed off.