# SamClem, please reconsider

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/samclem-please-reconsider/372307>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [September 11, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/samclem-please-reconsider/372307 "2006-09-11T16:55:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/samclem-please-reconsider/372307/1 "2006-09-11T16:55:41Z")

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You closed [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=387582) saying it would serve no useful purpose.

I disagree. Please reopen it for another couple of weeks and let us vote for our favorite dragon-breath threads, then close it.

Then let’s create a new area: The Pit: Blasts from the Pasts. Put all the threads that get votes in there, close them, and let people enjoy classic vitriol. I’ll certainly vote for [the Reaming of Telemarketers](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=51270) by **Cervaise** and **Euthanasiast’s** [Ode to a Drunken Ex-wife](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=306209&page=1&pp=50). And let’s do the voting annually in case something new comes up.

C’mon. Threads that contain masterpieces in the English language such as these DESERVE to be immortalized:

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> Just another round of drink guzzling and balls-deep, cunt-flap-bashing Olympics with some guy who was resourceful enough to comment in the bar on how enchanting your blue eyes were. We both know they are brown, but why hold that against the guy when your root-weary vagina would do?

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> And then you have the temerity, the utter shameless slackwitted arrogance, to compare your vocation to that of an educational professional and an officer of the law. People in these positions provide a valuable social service in a difficult work environment, and every responsible, intelligent person whose intellectual and emotional age has progressed past the stage of earning a driver’s license understands this. You, on the other hand, have apparently spent many years failing to get your head all the way inside the car before you slam the door on it.

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**Author:** ![FrantzJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7c8e57/32.png) [@FrantzJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrantzJ)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2006, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/samclem-please-reconsider/372307/2 "2006-09-11T16:58:52Z")

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Wow, someone thinks that one of my threads was actually worthwhile. Maybe I should actually join up! 😃

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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2006, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/samclem-please-reconsider/372307/3 "2006-09-11T17:09:08Z")

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[QUOTE=FrantzJ]  
Wow, someone thinks that one of my threads was actually worthwhile.  
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Take that with a grain of salt, it’s **clothahump** 😉

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**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2006, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/samclem-please-reconsider/372307/4 "2006-09-12T04:41:48Z")

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[QUOTE=Squink]  
Take that with a grain of salt, it’s **clothahump** 😉  
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Please note that I am arguing for a classic Pit thread folder. We gotta start somewhere, so a vote thread works for me.

Oh, and **Squink**? Bite me.

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**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2006, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/samclem-please-reconsider/372307/5 "2006-09-12T12:15:12Z")

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[QUOTE=Clothahump]  
You closed [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=387582) saying it would serve no useful purpose… I’ll certainly vote for [the Reaming of Telemarketers](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=51270) by **Cervaise** and **Euthanasiast’s** [Ode to a Drunken Ex-wife](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=306209&page=1&pp=50).  
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**Clothahump** , you know better than to start a new thread and do exactly the same thing in a new thread for which the original was closed. I’m closing this too - if you’re serious about discussing it, take it to email.