# Shodan gives us all his regards. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 10, 2012, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825 "2012-07-10T19:58:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/41 "2012-07-10T21:26:14Z")
(i) billfish678 ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/42 "2012-07-10T21:26:49Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > …the sign off is mildly annoying and I do, _seriously_, want his answer as to why he does it. You answered your own question. He does it _because it’s mildly annoying_. He believes a bunch of insane RW conspiracy theory nonsense, so he’s pissed all the time. You’d be pissed too if you thought that Obama was willingly destroying the country or stealing guns or whatever. So he throws in a snarky bit of nonsense at the end of his posts because he wants to tweak some noses. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/43 "2012-07-10T21:29:24Z")
I blame it on Bush. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/44 "2012-07-10T21:31:28Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Watch out. You might be the next **Big T**. Whatever that even means. It’s a reference to one of our beloved dopers that constantly takes the line of “Why are you fighting? Can’t we all just get along?” Everybody should just accept everything, or at least take it to messages. He’s the same guy that said that mean messages in the pit will shave months off of another posters life. Don’t be that guy. That said, and _getting back to my OP_, I seriously want to know why **Shodan** does this. It’s a simple question, and probably been asked before, but fuck it: Why? Why does he do it? Why? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/45 "2012-07-10T21:33:27Z")
Yes, if only we could crack open his skull and peer inside… Figuratively, of course! ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/46 "2012-07-10T21:33:59Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > You answered your own question. He does it _because it’s mildly annoying_. He believes a bunch of insane RW conspiracy theory nonsense, so he’s pissed all the time. You’d be pissed too if you thought that Obama was willingly destroying the country or stealing guns or whatever. So he throws in a snarky bit of nonsense at the end of his posts because he wants to tweak some noses. AFAIK, he’s been signing that exact way for years now…long before Obama was in the White House. -XT ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/47 "2012-07-10T21:39:04Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > It’s a reference to one of our beloved dopers that constantly takes the line of “Why are you fighting? Can’t we all just get along?” Everybody should just accept everything, or at least take it to messages. He’s the same guy that said that mean messages in the pit will shave months off of another posters life. > > Don’t be that guy. > That said, and _getting back to my OP_, I seriously want to know why **Shodan** does this. It’s a simple question, and probably been asked before, but fuck it: Why? Why does he do it? > > Why? Oh, please, back to the nobility of my thread. I honestly pitted Shodan because I wanted to ask him a simple question. I thought of saying, “Shodan, I’m honestly curious; why the sign off?” but decided that wouldn’t give me the op to use my clever line about eating kittens. And then, here comes Nzinga, well known for her delicate nature, unable to handle any pit roughness. Damn Nzinga for being Big T on me. Damn all of you for being Big Ts on me! Damn Big T for not even posting to this thread but being mentioned by me several times in my attempt to block any criticism of my wack ass posts. Big T! ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/48 "2012-07-10T21:39:53Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > He does it _because it’s mildly annoying_. Well, if that’s what it is, then let’s call a spade a spade. The motherfucker is trolling. I have no other word for posting something on a message board for the sole purpose of mildly annoying people. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/49 "2012-07-10T21:42:04Z")
> [@XT](#): > > AFAIK, he’s been signing that exact way for years now…long before Obama was in the White House. > > -XT Well, he was an angry asshole before Obama was in charge. He was pissed at liberals during the Bush administration. Conservatism has been undercut with nonsense beliefs about surrendering autonomy to the UN, or whatever for a long time now. And this board is left-leaning, so he’d have plenty of cause to lash out here. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/50 "2012-07-10T21:43:37Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > back to the nobility of my thread. What thread? And why is it noble? You never mentioned any thread. Much less a “noble” one, your Highness ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/51 "2012-07-10T21:43:56Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Yes, if only we could crack open his skull and peer inside… > > Figuratively, of course! I hear you used to be funny. Is that true? Are you funnier than **Big T**? How about Aunt T? Ice-T? ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/52 "2012-07-10T21:44:01Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > Who else uses a signature every time? \*\*Mean Mr. Mustard \*\*comes to mind, (mmm) but it’s not as…um…it’s not like **Shodan** ’s. > > Actually the first couple times I saw **Mustard** ’s, I didn’t get what was going on. I thought maybe he was pondering what he had just wrote, or perhaps considering what to have for lunch. > > Fuck off, > > Sicks Ate A million years ago we used to have [QUOTE=Satan] Yer pal, Satan [/quote] ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/53 "2012-07-10T21:45:07Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > Perhaps if we had icons, **Shodan** wouldn’t feel the urge to use a tag at the end of every post. Heh. Neither “regards” nor the notion of icons bothers me, but now I’m curious if there are people who petition for icons and rail against signatures. They both just add personalization to a message and, if anything, the signatures do it in less cutesy fashion. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/54 "2012-07-10T21:47:02Z")
I don’t mind the regards thing. Way I figure it, if I’m in a thread with some douche bag who posts “regards”, then I’m looking pretty good by comparison. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/55 "2012-07-10T21:47:50Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > What thread? And why is it noble? You never mentioned any thread. Much less a “noble” one, your Highness You called me “your Highness”. Way to disarm me. I like it. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/56 "2012-07-10T21:51:18Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > That said, and _getting back to my OP_, I seriously want to know why **Shodan** does this. It’s a simple question, and probably been asked before, but fuck it: Why? Why does he do it? > > Why? I too have always been curious why a person with such an obvious loathing for what seems like most of the members of this board would express his ‘regards’ anyway. As others have said, it seems to be simply because he knows it _does_ annoy people; bonus if most of those people happen to be among the many posters he dislikes. Which of course is wrong and bad. Certainly you’d never catch **ME** expressing insincere sentiments toward my fellow posters. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/57 "2012-07-10T21:51:27Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > Way to disarm me. I like it. I do have that effect on women. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/58 "2012-07-10T22:07:30Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > Well, he was an angry asshole before Obama was in charge. He was pissed at liberals during the Bush administration. > > Conservatism has been undercut with nonsense beliefs about surrendering autonomy to the UN, or whatever for a long time now. And this board is left-leaning, so he’d have plenty of cause to lash out here. We’re not just left-leaning, we’re spinning around in ever smaller counter-clockwise circles. In the northern hemisphere, at least. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/59 "2012-07-10T22:12:10Z")
Hey, while we’re all here, who was that other guy who used to sign off with some Latin phrase or whatever? Does anyone remember who I’m talking about? I don’t think he’s around anymore. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/60 "2012-07-10T22:16:28Z")
Oh yeh! Wasn’t he like 13 years old or something? He’s probably 18 now, and trying to get laid by trying out different pickup lines in Latin. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825.md?page=4)