# SD cited in newspaper column! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 27, 2001, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-cited-in-newspaper-column/63529 "2001-04-27T12:47:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LateComer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@LateComer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LateComer)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-cited-in-newspaper-column/63529/1 "2001-04-27T12:47:01Z")
From [Gene Collier’s column in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette](http://www.post-gazette.com/columnists/20010422gene.asp), kind of a satire on the Spy Plane in China thing. > [@](#): > > But the best interpretation for colitas, found by some **alert lunatic-detectors at [StraightDope.com](http://StraightDope.com)**, went something like this. > > "Like, there was this hotel? In California? The Hotel California? And, like, three blocks away? There was this fireworks factory? And it, like, blew up? And, like, there was this one worker named Wurn Snell? And he was from this town in Greece named Colitas? And he got blown up, so dude, that’s the lyric: Warm smell of Colitas, rising up through the air. > > Dude, do you love the Net or what? Did you hear that? We’re “Alert Lunatic Detectors,” or at least Cecil is! Oh yeah. Go Pens! ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-cited-in-newspaper-column/63529/2 "2001-04-27T13:15:30Z")
Excuse me, “Lunatic Detectors”?? I’m sitting here in my underwear reading this board when I could be surfing porn and I’m a “Detector”? I, **Astroboy** am offended! I demand to be labeled a simple “lunatic”, and I demand it NOW! ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-cited-in-newspaper-column/63529/3 "2001-04-27T15:29:54Z")
Here’s Cecil’s column [http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5\_001.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_001.html) and a couple of threads in the Comments on Cecil’s Column’s forum on the topic. For some _true lunacy_ check the biblical interpretation in the first link. Whoa! [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=57033](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=57033) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=48569](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=48569) ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-cited-in-newspaper-column/63529/4 "2001-04-27T15:34:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LateComer \* > > Oh yeah. Go Pens! OH I SEE. You just used this clever guise as a way to spew your Pittsburgh propoganda at us. I SAY GOOD DAY SHERIFF. Go Leafs! jarbaby ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-cited-in-newspaper-column/63529/5 "2001-04-27T15:45:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UncleBeer \* > \*\*For some _true lunacy_ check the biblical interpretation in the first link. Whoa! > \*\* :eek: Holy crap, **UncleBeer**! That one’s just _scary_! ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-cited-in-newspaper-column/63529/6 "2001-04-27T16:03:33Z")
Yes, yes…interesting. Well… Go _Tribe!_[sub]or Buckeyes! or Skins! or BlueJackets! (pick your season)[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![LateComer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@LateComer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LateComer)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-cited-in-newspaper-column/63529/7 "2001-04-27T20:26:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by LateComer \* > > > > Oh yeah. Go Pens! > > OH I SEE. You just used this clever guise as a way to spew your Pittsburgh propoganda at us. > > I SAY GOOD DAY SHERIFF. > > Go Leafs! > > jarbaby \*\* Not at all. It was just like, you know, a signature. I got caught up in the moment. There’s a little place in the Pit and another in IMHO where I can spread propoganda. Sorry if I offended your ironically delicate hockey sensibilities. [off subject], but: Actually, at this point, I will also say “Go Leafs!” Once the Pens mop up Buffalo, I would much rather they play Toronto. 2 reasons. One: They can beat Toronto. Two: If they don’t, I don’t hate Toronto, and thus can live with it. I also give my etermal thanks to the Leafs for knocking out Ottawa, thus sparing the Penguins 7 games against those Devils the New Jersey Devils. [/off subject] Thanks UncleBeer. I was actually going to post the link to the SD article, but it seems to have slipped my mind. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-cited-in-newspaper-column/63529/8 "2001-04-27T21:22:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LateComer \* > There’s a little place in the Pit and another in IMHO where I can spread propoganda. Sorry if I offended your ironically delicate hockey sensibilities. easy there Late…I’m just gettin’ yer goat. 😃 C’mere and give me a big hug you goofy Pittsburgh fan. jarbaby