Opal I call evreyone chap. It’s not disrespectful 
Scottie I’m done whith yuo. :wally
Yuor not the reasin I came here. I liek The Staight Dope and learn a lot from it. I don’t lose sleep beacose someone on the internet thinks I’m a badguy.
For the rest of this post I’m ignoreing you and only discussing figere skating.
The end.
Oh and anyone making fun of how I look grow up. I don’t see yuor pic anywere and girls at my messige boared liek me so nyah nyah! 
Good call, kellibelli. Something’s rotten in Denmark, and it’s not Coldfire’s drawers.
If I didn’t know better, I would think this was heatherlee, but he uses capital letters properly, so…
Robbie,
I want to assume that a smart 17-year-old kid like yourself is a nice guy so I am going to make a suggestion to you a second time in hopes you might listen. In a previous post I suggested you work on your spelling, but you said you are a fine speller, but don’t know how to type. Fine, I will accept that, but there is no reason you can’t run your stuff through a spellchecker before you post it. All you have to do is type your message in a Word document and let it spellcheck it for you and then cut and paste the text into a Straight Dope post window. I am 46 and it is what I do.
You seem to think that you shouldn’t be judged by your spelling because you consider yourself an intelligent guy, a prodigy in fact, but let me put this in terms that maybe will make sense to you. Suppose you wanted to compete at a skating event and you were told that no matter how good your skating was, it was required you do a double axle or nobody will pay attention to the rest of your routine. Whether you liked the requirement or not you would accept that you had to do it if you wanted to compete. Here on the board it is much the same way. Even if you are the smartest person who has ever existed, if you don’t have good spelling in your post, people will assume you have an IQ of 50 and will ridicule whatever you say.
I hope you take this to heart Robbie, because I hate to see you think people have opinions of you that they don’t just because you don’t go to the trouble to correct the spelling in your posts.
kelli opines,
Well, I was going to disagree with you. Then I noticed that Robin’s got the keyword “troll” stuck in the meta tags on his homepage (along with “rape”, “snuff”, “violence”, and “necrophilia”, but I suppose those are irrelevant.) This in itself isn’t persuasive enough for me to be convinced, but it is…suggestive.
And, Robin, if you are a serious poster, listen to Wanderer. A certain critical mass of spelling mistakes will make people write you off. That’s just the way it is. If you wanna get respect, you gotta play by the rules.
reednig Robbinns potses givses my a haedaachje
If I used spellcjeck evrytime I postid it wuold take me forever to wright one post! I don’t have that much time. Beacose of school I get limitid time online and I liek lots of sites so I kinda have to hurry. You guys are pretty shallow if you judge me by spelling. My goal isn’t to be admired on this boared I only come here for fun. I’n not asking for anyones respect here…it’s just a messige boared!!! Tahts great if yuo have hours to blow using spellcheck so peopel dont make fun of yuo but I’ve been teased all my lief so i’m use to it. No big deal. My friends don’t have heart atacks over my spelling errors so why do all of you? Oh and for about the 100000th time I didnt make my websight a friend of mine did whith pics I gave him. I don’t have softwear for making websights and dont know HTML anyway.
Yuo now in another thread soemeone is trashing JFK JR are yuo gonna gang up on him to? I dont get it how there’s a bully mentality here and most of yuo are way older then me. I have fun on my computer but lots of you seem to live on your’s. Oh and UFC isnt fake.
If htis is what being a fucking prodigy is all about…I’m glad I’m just plain-ol me!
At least I can spell without using spellcheck “for hours at a time” woirthowt spilleng licke thes.
Oy, I tell you…they really MUST raise the standards on “Prodigies”.
-Sam
You are absolutely right Robbie. It is nothing but a message board. So why waste your time if you don’t want anyone to consider the content of your messages? Your friends may not care about your spelling, so why don’t you and your poor spelling friends start a message board where you will be appreciated. I wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt but you know it all already so until you get older and realize you don’t know a damn thing talking to you is pointless.
Oh, and you might want to start weightlifting because carrying that chip on your shoulder is probably going to ruin your back.
Ohe, gvie teh boy a chaanec. Im shore he is an ecxellant psoter. He"s jsut lazzy.
If nothing esle, redaing his posts is a gud waye to lern paetience.
In this situation, I always pause, step back, and ask myself, “What would Brian Boitano do?” Especially if he were here right now. He’d probably kick an ass or two, THAT’S what Brian Boitano’d do.
E-mail me if you want to know about the time he was in the Alps fighting Grizzly Bears, or the time he travelled through time to the year 3010.
–Tim