# Robert Blake goes free **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 16, 2005, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-blake-goes-free/294887 "2005-03-16T23:19:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-blake-goes-free/294887/101 "2005-03-18T10:46:50Z")
Believe me the get go time didn’t even need alcohol! Never was a man more keen to bury his birth certificate! He got over it and married a Kiwi of Pommie stock but God Save the those who looked at the birth certificate :D. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-blake-goes-free/294887/102 "2005-03-18T10:47:43Z")
> [@Starving Artist](#): > > Uh, **duffer**? You realize you’re suggesting a ticket similar to Hillary/Condi '08, don’t you? > > (I did like your last suggestion though… **SA/Rice** in '08.) 😃 As long as one of you run with Rice, I’ll take the guaranteed common sense of **Starving Artist** over whatever shitstorm would occur with Hillary in charge. Did I forget to mention that I love strong women with the power to spank me? (Other than Lynndie England?) ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-blake-goes-free/294887/103 "2005-03-18T10:57:56Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > As long as one of you run with Rice, I’ll take the guaranteed common sense of **Starving Artist** over whatever shitstorm would occur with Hillary in charge. Thanks, **duffer**! Remind me to buy a beer or three one of these days. > [@duffer](#): > > Did I forget to mention that I love strong women with the power to spank me? (Other than Lynndie England?) Yeah, I know what you mean. Lynndie probably isn’t that strong, huh? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-blake-goes-free/294887/104 "2005-03-18T11:03:19Z")
Do you know something about Condi’s private pics? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-blake-goes-free/294887/105 "2005-03-18T11:25:01Z")
> [@Starving Artist](#): > > How’s about you start an **rjung** only Bush-bashing thread that exists solely as a depository for your Bush/conservative/Diebold, etc. comments? I think **Reeder** was the impetus of the idea of having limited threads based on rabid Bush-hatred. It seems to have worked well, and **Reeder** has followed the rule. Of course, I disagree with pretty much everything\*\* Reeder\*\* says in his political histrionics. 😉 But at least I can respect him as a poster and a person I’d likely get along with in RL. Even if he doesn’t drink anymore. ( :dubious: to myself, assuming this is true. I never read a post confirming it.) It seems that even **Reeder** has the common sense to avoid Bush-bashing in threads that have nothing to do with Bush. As much as he doesn’t like him.( Wow, understatement of the year). 😉 Sometimes ignoring a rabid (yes, you’re rabid in the sense of the word as it’s used here) poster is the best bet. \ ***Reeder** , you know I love you. And you also know I’ll at some point bring you to the Dark Side[sup]TM[/sup]. It’s just a matter of time. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-blake-goes-free/294887/106 "2005-03-18T11:33:38Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > Sometimes ignoring a rabid (yes, you’re rabid in the sense of the word as it’s used here) poster is the best bet. Fuck me running. There was supposed to be a reference to **rjung** in there somewhere. I think this disqualifies whatever I was trying to say. Damn. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-blake-goes-free/294887/107 "2005-03-18T13:05:16Z")
> [@](#): > > It will be very interesting to see what this does for his career (i.e. will he be back and bigger than he’s been since Baretta or will he be a total untouchable). For his career, I picture him in the next installment of The Surreal Life. As for his love life, surely he’s garnered enough publicity in the last two weeks to pique **Brigitte Nielsen’s** interest. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-blake-goes-free/294887/108 "2005-03-18T13:17:33Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#): > > As for his love life, surely he’s garnered enough publicity in the last two weeks to pique **Brigitte Nielsen’s** interest. OK, seriously, who do I have to kill? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-blake-goes-free/294887/109 "2005-03-18T14:07:04Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > OK, seriously, who do I have to kill? 😃 Who do you have to kill to pique Brigitte Nielsen’s interest? If you think piquing Brigitte Nielsen’s interest is a good thing, I’d suggest killing yourself, as thoughts like that signal a key maladaptation to the healthy well-being of the species as a whole (and boy is it ever a hole, as we used to say in high school). If you reject that option (which I hope, praying to the patron saint of disclaimers, you recognize as a joke, because silly things have become way too serious lately), I’d have to offer up anybody who is important (so it’ll make the papers) but unpopular (in the major TV markets, New York and L.A.) person, so she can bask in the publicity of your notoriety without incurring the opprobrium of the two coasts. Oh my God! I’ve just told you to become the next presidential assassin! Don’t do it, Duffer! Please. I really, really mean it. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-blake-goes-free/294887/110 "2005-03-18T17:03:59Z")
My two favorite jokes on the Blake trial are both courtesy of Tina Fey’s Weekend Update: > [@](#): > > Actor Robert Blake was arrested Thursday night for the murder of his wife, Bonnie Lee Bakely, who was shot 11 months ago outside of a Los Angeles restaurant. Blake started his career as Mickey in ‘The Little Rascals’ and now will end it in prison as Spanky. > [@](#): > > Attorneys for actor Robert Blake stated that keeping him behind bars unfairly prevents him for preparing for his trial as the actor suffers from severe dyslexia and cannot read court documents without assistance. As evidence of his dyslexia attorneys pointed out that this is the same man who first killed his wife and then went to the restaurant to get his gun. ---
**Author:** ![Good\_Egg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@Good\_Egg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Good_Egg)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-blake-goes-free/294887/111 "2005-03-18T17:39:20Z")
When someone asked him if he knew who could’ve killed his wife he said Shut up! Is this a normal Blake response? I found it odd, wouldn’t one just say I don’t know? ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-blake-goes-free/294887/112 "2005-03-18T19:45:33Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > Fuck me running. There was supposed to be a reference to **rjung** in there somewhere. I think this disqualifies whatever I was trying to say. Damn. :smack: Eh, it’s okay, it’s Friday, you can have a do-over. 🙂 Really, if you’re going to accuse me of being a one-Bush pony, you should at least read some of my messages in other forums, such as Cafe Society (just throw out the word “Pixar” in the title and I’m there). And given that this thread started in IMHO, dare I ask how an _opinion_ that “Robert Blake is small fry by comparison” is inappropriate? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-blake-goes-free/294887/113 "2005-03-18T20:16:43Z")
> [@Good Egg](#): > > When someone asked him if he knew who could’ve killed his wife he said Shut up! Is this a normal Blake response? I found it odd, wouldn’t one just say I don’t know? If you’ve seen clips from the interview with Barbara Walters, it’s obvious that the guy has some issues. ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-blake-goes-free/294887/114 "2005-03-18T20:23:31Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > **Starving Artist** / **Nocturne** **'08**. Whom couldn’t vote that ticket? 😃 It’s not so much a Condi/Hillary ticket as it is a Condi/pale-skinned-Che-Guevara-with-boobs ticket. Not that most of my political beliefs line up with ol’ Che’s, but I’m closer to him on the Looney Left scale than to Hillary. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-blake-goes-free/294887/115 "2005-03-18T20:31:57Z")
What about the moustache? ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-blake-goes-free/294887/116 "2005-03-18T23:06:58Z")
> [@Starving Artist](#): > > What about the moustache? Shit, I forgot about that. No moustache. I realize that might be a disappointment. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-blake-goes-free/294887/117 "2005-03-18T23:17:23Z")
Yeah, it is! I likes muh runnin’ mates _hairy_! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-blake-goes-free/294887/118 "2005-03-19T00:22:05Z")
> [@rjung](#): > > Really, if you’re going to accuse me of being a one-Bush pony, you should at least read some of my messages in other forums, such as Cafe Society (just throw out the word “Pixar” in the title and I’m there). Yes, I know you post elsewhere about non-Bush related topics and I read many of them. I was just giving you the needle. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-blake-goes-free/294887/119 "2005-03-19T00:33:48Z")
For that matter, so was I in the Richard Simmons thread. (You gotta admit though, it led to some pretty pretty amusing posts.) 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-blake-goes-free/294887.md?page=5)