# Revenge of the Power-Crazed Mods Part LXI **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 26, 2001, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revenge-of-the-power-crazed-mods-part-lxi/89707 "2001-10-26T03:29:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mars\_Horizon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mars_horizon/32/2804_2.png) [@Mars\_Horizon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mars_Horizon)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revenge-of-the-power-crazed-mods-part-lxi/89707/21 "2001-10-26T17:57:01Z")
**Trion** , was she made of wood? 'Cause I have these large scales and… [sub]nevermind[/sub] **ultress** , my wife says the same thing all the time! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revenge-of-the-power-crazed-mods-part-lxi/89707/22 "2001-10-26T19:18:37Z")
Well, if women rule… and they’re made of wood… then Lynn’s a judge! ---
**Author:** ![Kaotic\_Newtral](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@Kaotic\_Newtral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaotic_Newtral)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revenge-of-the-power-crazed-mods-part-lxi/89707/23 "2001-10-26T19:20:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Trion \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Mars Horizon \* > > \*\* > > Tuba IS evil _evil_ **evil** _ **EVIL** _. > > > > \*\* > > She turned me into a newt. \*\* You got better! ---
**Author:** ![Demise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/34f0e0/32.png) [@Demise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demise)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revenge-of-the-power-crazed-mods-part-lxi/89707/24 "2001-10-26T19:49:08Z")
Is there some kind of law stating that these things must always degenerate into Monty Python quotes? ---
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revenge-of-the-power-crazed-mods-part-lxi/89707/25 "2001-10-26T20:58:26Z")
Yay! Fenris liked my title! I just swooned for the first time. Can I be in the clique now? Please pretty please with sugar and a cherry on top? I also like what you posted in IzzyR’s thread. Thank you for succinctly summing up my argument. I thought I was being completely whooshed over or something. Seriously, though, it frightens me that some people think what you typed is true. Fenris, will you marry me? I’ll even read sci-fi for you, baby! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revenge-of-the-power-crazed-mods-part-lxi/89707/26 "2001-10-26T21:32:48Z")
Well-liked _here_, perhaps, but over at _Keenspace_… 😉 **Fenris** , you rock. Esprix ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revenge-of-the-power-crazed-mods-part-lxi/89707/27 "2001-10-26T21:49:11Z")
There is no key to the clique bathroom. The door is opened by a combination of biometrics, passwords (“hi, Opal” was last weeks), trivia questions, and you multiply your total score on the trivia questions against your post count. (I’m not part of the clique, I just hang out in front of the bathroom to get the gossip). ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revenge-of-the-power-crazed-mods-part-lxi/89707/28 "2001-10-26T22:07:51Z")
**Daowajanm k.os, Arden, Michael, Slip, Esprix** : Thanks! **SPOOFE** : C’mon. _Everyone_ knows you’re one of the Clique’s ringleaders. It’s time to drop the charade, man! **Twist** : Maybe. It took me weeks to remove the industrial strenght wedgie I got from revealing the minutes of the last one. **Vanilla** : Nope. I even provided a cite. I’m always an outsider ☹ Besides, **yojimbo** linked to the minutes of the last one, and as you can see, I’m not part of them. **Lib** : For the life of me, I can’t tell if you’re serious or not. If you’re serious, the minute **Tuba** lets me know that she was offended, I’ll humbly apologize and grovel for her forgiveness…but I doubt that she will be. On the other hand, If you’re kidding, give yourself a pat on the back for wooshing me harder than I’ve been wooshed in a _long_ time 🙂 **N4S** : 😕 I thought you _were_ in the clique! Marriage? It’s such a big step…but if you’re willing to read SF, then…😃 Fenris ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revenge-of-the-power-crazed-mods-part-lxi/89707/29 "2001-10-26T22:45:33Z")
> [@](#): > > SPOOFE: C’mon. Everyone knows you’re one of the Clique’s ringleaders. It’s time to drop the charade, man! Well, Fenny, apparently I was involved in the Clique at the time that John Corrado posted those minutes… after reading that, it’s all coming back to me. Apparently, I was drunk off my ass at the time of that last meeting, and I just forgot. Jeez, my subcommittee on Sci-Fi questions is lagging, big time. I’d better go get CarnivorousPlant to help formulate the next big “Star Wars vs. Star Trek” type thread… I still haven’t gotten my key to the Elite Clique bathroom, or my access card to the Clique Orgy Room… ---
**Author:** ![Demise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/34f0e0/32.png) [@Demise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demise)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revenge-of-the-power-crazed-mods-part-lxi/89707/30 "2001-10-26T23:36:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SPOOFE \* > \*\*I still haven’t gotten my key to the Elite Clique bathroom, or my access card to the Clique Orgy Room… \*\* That’s because I’ve been stealing your mail and… Oops. Was that my outside voice? ---
**Author:** ![edwino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@edwino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwino)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revenge-of-the-power-crazed-mods-part-lxi/89707/31 "2001-10-28T15:07:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Demise \* > \*\*Is there some kind of law stating that these things must always degenerate into Monty Python quotes? \*\* Let’s christen it **Walrustitty’s Law.** _The probability of a thread degenerating into Monty Python quotes is directly proportional to thread length plus Silliness Quotient._ Silliness Quotient is a number roughly related to the number of times witches, moose, swallows, shubberies, herrings, ducks, newts, rabbits, after-dinner mints, organ donation, tape recorders, parrots, hovercrafts, eels, arguments, brontosauruses, travel agents, architects, Nazis, vicars, dirty vicars, tobacconists, chemists, antelopes, Mount Kilaminjaro, Attila the Hun, the RAF, the Messiah, sex education, rugby, Long John Silver, anyone by the name of Brian, anyone by the name of Olaf, gumbies, loonies, twits, pepperpots, coal mines, blancmange, lumberjacks, Watney’s Red Barrel, woody or tinny words, Jean-Paul Sartre, Proust, penguins, Scotsmen, or spam appear in the thread. This list is by no means inclusive. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revenge-of-the-power-crazed-mods-part-lxi/89707/32 "2001-10-29T00:21:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by edwino \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Demise \* > > Is there some kind of law stating that these things must always degenerate into Monty Python quotes? \*\* > > Let’s christen it **Walrustitty’s Law.** > > _The probability of a thread degenerating into Monty Python quotes is directly proportional to thread length plus Silliness Quotient._ I propose the following corollary: All **Fenris** threads are believed to start with such a high Silliness Quotient that it is impossible to prevent the Monty Python references except by having the thread prematurely closed. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revenge-of-the-power-crazed-mods-part-lxi/89707/33 "2001-10-29T00:39:10Z")
Quoting Monty Python online is obviously safer than in [real](http://bbspot.com/News/2001/02/lumberjack.html) life. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revenge-of-the-power-crazed-mods-part-lxi/89707.md?page=1)