# Scylla **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 11, 2001, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scylla/92734 "2001-11-11T05:08:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2001, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scylla/92734/61 "2001-11-11T17:32:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fenris \* > \*\*The only other assumption is that **elucidator** ’s someone trying to undermine **Stoid** ’s points by the sock-puppet act (didn’t work. Like I said: **Stoid** _wouldn’t_ ). But I don’t give him that much credit. It’d be interesting to see if he thinks he’s actually helping her arguments with his toadying. > \*\* While I appreciate the fact that you don’t believe I would stoop to that level, I \*\* wish \*\* he were my sock puppet, that would mean that I am capable of being wildly amusing and far more articulate that I actually am. It would also mean that I would have gotten off my chest alot of things that I feel but refrain from saying. Alas, he is a human completely separate from myself, although we are obviously often of like mind. I am eternally grateful for his championship. I don’t know what I did to earn it but I’m damn glad I did. It gets awfully chilly out in my neck of the woods at times. Plus he’s just cute as hell. \*\* Pump Action Gerbil \*\* is terribly jealous. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2001, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scylla/92734/62 "2001-11-11T17:47:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CrankyAsAnOldMan \* > I’m sure I speak for many other Dopers when I say I would sooner gnaw off my left arm than get into a pissing match with Collounsbury. I don’t think I’d want to be on the “blue” side in a debate over the color of the sky if he was in the other camp. Bah. These kinds of statements are unfounded. Besides, not even a newbie has begun one, although I thought I might get one a little while back. I feel deprived. Is there anyone else with a similar history – oh wait Sua. Never mind. > [@](#): > > Besides, who can the wherewithall a pit thread about him? I’d rather spend the energy on getting him to (a) father my children or (b) finish my dissertation. > > Could you at least come to me defense? My advisor really needs someone to argue with. She sent me an email yesterday telling me that the research questions in my dissertation could not have been the same ones my committee approved when I submitted my proposal “unless they were all drunk at the time.” Thanks for the support, bitch. Look up stats on drinking problems in the profession and send it back to her, with cites. Ask her to construct a probability tree based on those criteria. She will hate you of course, but no more stupid put-downs. Besides, you don’t want me defending your thesis, as alienating the committee is usually a poor way to win them over. On the other hand, in academics… ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2001, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scylla/92734/63 "2001-11-11T17:58:52Z")
Geez, **Collonsbury** , I’ll give it a try… The guy is a pedantic, intellectual snob, kind of guy who reads a cereal box and is perplexed that it lacks footnotes. His dick wears glasses. He owns a theasaurus, but has never opened it. When he calls tech support, he tells _them_ whats wrong. He… Sorry, lad. Heart’s just not in it. It would be like beating up on Mr. Peepers. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2001, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scylla/92734/64 "2001-11-11T18:03:24Z")
elucidator, I shall take your words to heart and pick up my basket filled with jellies and freshly-baked bread and merrily skip along. I can continue to hope, however, to be noticed by someone so as handsome, as erudite, as perceptive as you. Oh, another thing. You misspelled Einstein, Wittgenstein, AND Frankenstein in your profile. Making you a combination of…well, of three nobodies. ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2001, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scylla/92734/65 "2001-11-11T18:04:48Z")
this is the kind of a good old fashioned flame war thread that i truly dig. flame on, flamers! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2001, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scylla/92734/66 "2001-11-11T18:23:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by PunditLisa \* > elucidator, I shall take your words to heart and pick up my basket filled with jellies and freshly-baked bread and merrily skip along. I can continue to hope, however, to be noticed by someone so as handsome, as erudite, as perceptive as you. And, one can only hope, rather younger. Or do I detect a note of sarcasm? Naaah! Excuse me for a moment while I go preen. > [@](#): > > Oh, another thing. You misspelled Einstein, Wittgenstein, AND Frankenstein in your profile. Making you a combination of…well, of three nobodies. People actually read those things? Well, I’ll be dipped! But it doesn’t quite hit the mark, does it, dear? I think you are reaching for a cruelty that just isn’t in your nature. But it’s a lovely day here in Lake Wobegon, I’m moved to kindness… Oooh! Ouch! Cut to the quick! [bugs] Agony, agony, **agoneee!!!** [/bugs] “A hit, a very palpable hit…” “'Tis not as deep as a well, nor as wide as a church door, but 'tis enough, it will suffice…” There! How’s that? ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2001, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scylla/92734/67 "2001-11-11T18:27:07Z")
elucidator, you also have the nerve in the ‘Shrub grows on ya’ post to dis Collunsbury. Feeling a little bold, no? ---
**Author:** ![dalovindj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/65b543/32.png) [@dalovindj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalovindj)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2001, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scylla/92734/68 "2001-11-11T18:28:59Z")
It’s a nice flame war. But it’s nothing compared to the [hell](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=90137) I shall unleash upon **Scylla** ’s world when the time is right. All in due time, **Scylla** , all in good time . . . By the way, thanks for admitting to engaging in congress with at least one animal. It helps me with the phrasing of a couple early draft paragraphs that . . .well, I’ve already said too much. . . ::_steps back into shadows_:: DaLovin Dj ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2001, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scylla/92734/69 "2001-11-11T18:37:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by capacitor \* > \*\*elucidator, you also have the nerve in the ‘Shrub grows on ya’ post to dis Collunsbury. Feeling a little bold, no? \*\* [swoon] Boris fears no one, nothing, ever. [/swoon] ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2001, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scylla/92734/70 "2001-11-11T18:50:51Z")
I’ve never met a man I was afraid of. However, I have met men I _should_ have been afraid of. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2001, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scylla/92734/71 "2001-11-11T18:57:25Z")
What a flat thread. Penguins are more interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2001, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scylla/92734/72 "2001-11-11T19:57:15Z")
\ Hey Scylla, tag me in! The ref ain’t lookin’! ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2001, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scylla/92734/73 "2001-11-11T21:22:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sam Stone \* > \*\*\ > > Hey Scylla, tag me in! The ref ain’t lookin’! \*\* Don’t waste your time. I’m pleased to be their Bullwinkle. If you remember the cartoon, you’ll recall Boris and Natasha were evil, stupid, **and** incompetant. The rant is pretty typical of Elucidator, generalized dishonest and unoriginal, while Stoid continues to fire off emails to play the martyr and gain sympathy and say the lies that she wouldn’t be able to get away with in a public forum. The role suits them. I’ll continue to do what I’ve been doing because I really don’t think enough of either of them to be bothered by their hate. In fact, having earned it is about as concrete and affirmation I could recieve. Nevertheless, I’ll try to do what I’ve been doing so far, and to treat their individual posts and threads based on the merits and the arguments contained therein. When I agree I usually make a point of saying so, and when I disagree I don’t feel compelled to let them off the hook simply because they throw a hissy fit when confronted with their own stupidity. The most telling thing I can say about either of them is that in all the time and threads I’ve had discussions, I have not once ever seen either of them concede a point or acknowledge an error. They are bulletproof, impregnable and impervious to reason. The only regrets I have are letting them drag me into getting personal, but that’s my own fault. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2001, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scylla/92734/74 "2001-11-11T21:58:23Z")
> [@](#): > > But it doesn’t quite hit the mark, does it, dear? I think you are reaching for a cruelty that just isn’t in your nature. Well, at least you noticed me. I can die happy now. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2001, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scylla/92734/75 "2001-11-11T22:15:27Z")
I agree Scylla really sucks. When he’s making us wait for the next installment of Ewe’s sluts. Darn you straight to heck you. . you. . monster.😉 ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2001, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scylla/92734/76 "2001-11-11T22:31:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Turbo Dog \* > \*\* > I’ve seen a lot of porn with dogs, but never with penguins. I’m guessing they just aren’t that active or vocal. Dogs at least hang their tongue out and look like they are enjoying it. Also, I think it’s a Freudian thing. I have a sister who looks like a penguin. Short, cute, fuzzy, waddles in a drunken stupor, has webbed feet and likes fish. Ick. \*\* But this one sucker-punched me into hysterics. ::hoots, wipes eyes, guffaws some more:: Sorry. Carry on. Veb ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2001, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scylla/92734/77 "2001-11-11T22:44:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by PunditLisa \* > > Well, at least you noticed me. I can die happy now. “Look! Over there! Isn’t that **PunditLisa**?” “It **is**! Omygawd! She’s even better looking in real life! How does she stay in such shape?” “A diet of Haagen-Dasz and chocolate, never gains an ounce. I read she can crack walnuts with her buns!” “Think it’s true, what they say in _People_?” “You mean about George Clooney? How she used him and cast him aside, like an old shoe? Well, who wouldn’t be distracted, what with Mel Gison and Tom Cruise fighting a duel over her!” “I’ve heard she has her own cult…” Don’t wait. Be happy _now_! ---
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2001, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scylla/92734/78 "2001-11-11T23:08:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\*Stoid and Scylla are originals: they seem like well rounded people having a variety of opinions, beliefs, etc. \*\* Fenris, do you read the same message board I read? About two-thirds of Stoid’s posts are saying nothing more than “amen” to the latest liberal dreck or [Salon.com](http://Salon.com) link somebody’s posted. “Variety of opinion” shouldn’t be mentioned within a light year of Boris or Natasha. ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2001, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scylla/92734/79 "2001-11-11T23:38:11Z")
…just wanted to tell **Scylla** I’ve bookmarked the post that contains this little paragraph: > [@](#): > > Nevertheless, I’ll try to do what I’ve been doing so far, and to treat their individual posts and threads based on the merits and the arguments contained therein. Why? Oh… no reason… \<_…walks off whistling a slow tune…_\> ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scylla/92734/80 "2001-11-12T00:00:00Z")
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