# 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:** 9
**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 11, 2012, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/161 "2012-07-11T06:20:34Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > No man, didn’t you read **robot arm’s** post? The freeze ray is just going to make that rough ice even frozener. You need to melt that shit with heat. Special Olympics kids on zamboni wheelchairs playing shuffleboard on ice with flame throwers. Let’s not get ridiculous. > [@Enuma\_Elish](#): > > If you believe in the Trinity, wouldn’t the plural of Jesus be: God. I don’t think God works like Voltron; as much as I wish He did if He exists. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/162 "2012-07-11T06:21:47Z")
> [@Enuma\_Elish](#): > > If you believe in the Trinity, wouldn’t the plural of Jesus be: God. The trinity is special needs kids, zambonis, and flame throwers. ---
**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 11, 2012, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/163 "2012-07-11T06:26:00Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > The trinity is special needs kids, zambonis, and flame throwers. I think that’s actually known as the Triad of Awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Enuma\_Elish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5e9695/32.png) [@Enuma\_Elish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enuma_Elish)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/164 "2012-07-11T06:32:17Z")
I thought I was tipsy. What the fuck does developmentaly disabled children, hockey ice machines, and WW2 weapons have to do with . . . the price of tea in China? ---
**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 11, 2012, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/165 "2012-07-11T06:43:51Z")
> [@Enuma\_Elish](#): > > I thought I was tipsy. What the fuck does developmentaly disabled children, hockey ice machines, and WW2 weapons have to do with . . . the price of tea in China? Well, flamethrowers are in high demand in the Chinese black market, however, concealing them across the boarder has been an increasing problem that the Chinese military is constantly on to. Then the Olympics came to town, and what better way to smuggle flamethrowers into China than on the official zambonis? And no one – no one – suspects kids on wheelchairs to be couriers in the Chinese weapon underground. More yuan ends up being spent on incendiary contraband weaponry, less on tea, and the tilt in the economy drives the price of tea down by a small, but notable degree. Or it’s all because of [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15258654&postcount=74) post. ---
**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 11, 2012, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/166 "2012-07-11T06:49:26Z")
Actually, I think that’s the premise for one of the _Rush Hour_ movies. _ **Rush Hour: China Tea** _ ---
**Author:** ![Enuma\_Elish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5e9695/32.png) [@Enuma\_Elish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enuma_Elish)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/167 "2012-07-11T06:51:37Z")
OK, Your post was funny until the last sentence. I guess I just don’t think 'Special Olympics" references are witty, or intelligent, or anything but lame. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/168 "2012-07-11T06:52:49Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > see post #27. You miss my point. You’ve claimed several times that you pitted Shodan because you really wanted to know why he signs off the way he does. But no where in your OP do you ask him. So, the pitting didn’t turn out to be the pile on you were hoping for so you backpedaled your pitting and tried to morph it into “Hey, I just really want an explanation”. That about right? ---
**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 11, 2012, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/169 "2012-07-11T06:53:55Z")
> [@Enuma\_Elish](#): > > OK, Your post was funny until the last sentence. I guess I just don’t think 'Special Olympics" references are witty, or intelligent, or anything but lame. These are the jokes. I was just rollin’ with it. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/170 "2012-07-11T07:00:36Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > That about right? Not really, no. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/171 "2012-07-11T07:04:41Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > Not really, no. Okay. Funny, though, how the posts you’ve made support exactly what I said. But other than that, I’m sure you’re right. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/172 "2012-07-11T07:06:21Z")
**Magellan** , see post #138. I sent the guy a PM a good long while ago. Why are you always a page behind everybody else? ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/173 "2012-07-11T07:15:52Z")
I’ll make it simple for you, **magellon**. Here’s the relevant part of my earlier post: > [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > I did send a PM to Shodan asking him why he does that, but he hasn’t responded as of yet. However, even if he does respond I am not going to post it here because, well, I’m just not going to post a private message. . Now do you got that or did we have to start a pledge drive to get you a Zamboni? ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/174 "2012-07-11T07:18:50Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > **Magellan** , see post #138. I sent the guy a PM a good long while ago. Why are you always a page behind everybody else? I’m the truth. And the truth always has to linger. How else how am I going to “catch up with you”? 😉 I stand by my assessment: your claim that you pitted **Shodan** in part to discover the “why” is a fabrication created in backpedal mode. If you were interested, and that was one of the reasons for your OP, (both of which you’ve claimed) don’t you think it might have been a good idea to actually, you know, ask him in the OP? ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/175 "2012-07-11T07:24:26Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > I’ll make it simple for you, **magellon**. Here’s the relevant part of my earlier post: > > . Now do you got that or did we have to start a pledge drive to get you a Zamboni? Well, since you decided to pick up a bigger shovel… You claimed on page 1 that one of the reasons you pitted him was to discover the “why”. Yet it was 100% absent from the OP. So that’s simply bullshit. Now you seem to think that a rational defense is that you PMd him—over two pages later! No, I don’t think so. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/176 "2012-07-11T07:25:36Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > I’m the truth. Sure you are, buddy. Sure you are. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/177 "2012-07-11T07:28:21Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > Sure you are, buddy. Sure you are. Glad I was able to straighten that out for you. At least you put the shovel down, though. That’s a good sign. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/178 "2012-07-11T07:41:08Z")
Damnit, **Magellan** , I do not have the money to buy you a zamboni. I could maybe make you a flamethrower out of a super-soaker and some gasoline but renting out a skating rink in Coastal Georgia is going to cost a pretty coin. I pitted **Shodan** and PM’ed him. I didn’t post the PM because, well, _I’m not going to post any PMs_! And PMs are none of your fucking business. I don’t know what the hell you want from me here ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/179 "2012-07-11T07:51:27Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > Damnit, **Magellan** , I do not have the money to buy you a zamboni. I could maybe make you a flamethrower out of a super-soaker and some gasoline but renting out a skating rink in Coastal Georgia is going to cost a pretty coin. No, no, I have it on good authority that curling on arena ice is a poor substitute for the real thing. Much better to find a dedicated curling facility. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/180 "2012-07-11T08:43:47Z")
> [@fachverwirrt](#): > > I have only two things to say. > > 1. I am generally indifferent to sign-offs, but > > love > yams!! > > is awesome. > > 1. The plural of “ellipsis” is “ellipses” (dammit). I was always a fan of :eek: Inkblot [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825.md?page=10)