# Shodan, I know you're too dumb for this Pitting to do any good, but... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 23, 2008, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-i-know-youre-too-dumb-for-this-pitting-to-do-any-good-but/446570 "2008-04-23T18:03:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-i-know-youre-too-dumb-for-this-pitting-to-do-any-good-but/446570/81 "2008-04-25T17:10:24Z")
[QUOTE=Shodan] People! Please! This thread is supposed to be about Me! Me! Me! None of these hijacks off onto **BrainGlutton** - he has to attract his own fan club. Focus, people! Focus! Regards, Shodan [/QUOTE] My apologies. You… you… _conservative!_ ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-i-know-youre-too-dumb-for-this-pitting-to-do-any-good-but/446570/82 "2008-04-25T17:27:16Z")
[QUOTE=Sarahfeena] Here, **Shodan** , I’ll help you out. You suck. Not really. Cordially, Sarah [/QUOTE] [And of my great modesty you say nothing?](http://books.google.com/books?id=nFdOG5JxWZoC&pg=PA227&lpg=PA227&dq=punchline+'of+my+great+modesty+you+say+nothing%3F%22&source=web&ots=m_i02UFZEe&sig=FROInJvieykVtuyzKJrHkrX7Zf8&hl=en) Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-i-know-youre-too-dumb-for-this-pitting-to-do-any-good-but/446570/83 "2008-04-25T17:29:06Z")
[QUOTE=Richard Parker] Quoting Wittgenstein to **LonesomePolecat** is like trying to reason your one-year-old out of crying to get attention. [/QUOTE] You are, apparently, one of those twits who thinks an obscure quote from a famous philosopher somehow constitutes a devastating riposte. Are you really as shallow as you sound? ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-i-know-youre-too-dumb-for-this-pitting-to-do-any-good-but/446570/84 "2008-04-25T17:29:57Z")
[QUOTE=Scylla] Maeglin: Conservative - seeks to repress people and exploit resources. Liberal - seeks to repress resources and exploit people That kinda works [/QUOTE] I am kind of comfortable with that. This just reveals the ultimate bankruptcy of the conservative movement, though. We _will_ run out of resources someday. But sadly, we will never run out of people. Since I am a quoting fool today, I will conjure up another bit of wisdom for the world to demonstrate the superiority of exploiting people over resources. > [@](#): > > Ah. It must have been when I was younger. There was a time, boy, when I searched for steel, when steel meant more to me than gold or jewels… > > Yes! You know what it is, don’t you boy? Shall I tell you? It’s the least I can do. Steel isn’t strong, boy, flesh is stronger! Look around you. There, on the rocks; a beautiful girl. Come to me, my child… > > That is strength, boy! That is power! What is steel compared to the hand that wields it? Look at the strength in your body, the desire in your heart, I gave you this! Such a waste. Contemplate this on the tree of woe. Crucify him! People power. Thulsa Doom was a liberal. ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-i-know-youre-too-dumb-for-this-pitting-to-do-any-good-but/446570/85 "2008-04-25T17:37:06Z")
[QUOTE=LonesomePolecat] You are, apparently, one of those twits who thinks an obscure quote from a famous philosopher somehow constitutes a devastating riposte. Are you really as shallow as you sound? [/QUOTE] Ok, now I have officially had it with you. The riposte is not devastating because it is a quote from a famous philosopher but because it is true. Your own internal moral yardstick is so feeble that it is incapable of measuring anything save its own inadequacy. You are one of the few people I have ever encountered, on the internet or otherwise, who has actually made me embarrassed to be both white and male. I take comfort that even though there will still be people like you in my lifetime, that number is decreasing at an increasing rate. Some day, all traces of your way of thinking will bleed out of our society and be gone forever. It will not be missed. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-i-know-youre-too-dumb-for-this-pitting-to-do-any-good-but/446570/86 "2008-04-25T17:46:54Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > My apologies. > You… you… conservative! OK, _that_ stung. [QUOTE=jali] I like Shodan because of posts like this AND because he was very kind to me when I first joined the board. [/QUOTE] Thanks, but currently I am working on a sort of creepy, attention-whore, stalkerish kind of vibe. So expect a good deal more groveling, begging for attention at the cost of any sort of human dignity which is obviously motivated by a lack of self-worth and deep-seated personality flaws. Or, as we call it in the **Shodan** household, foreplay. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Grossbottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba8739/32.png) [@Grossbottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grossbottom)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-i-know-youre-too-dumb-for-this-pitting-to-do-any-good-but/446570/87 "2008-04-25T17:57:29Z")
I’m not reading that whole thread just so I can be informed, but are we at the part where I start painting yet ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-i-know-youre-too-dumb-for-this-pitting-to-do-any-good-but/446570/88 "2008-04-25T18:41:38Z")
**Scylla** , I must thank you for posting so often to this thread in your determination to prove that it’s a waste of time. Thank you for the lengths you’re willing to go to fight ignorance. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-i-know-youre-too-dumb-for-this-pitting-to-do-any-good-but/446570/89 "2008-04-25T18:42:54Z")
[QUOTE=Shodan] OK, _that_ stung.Thanks, but currently I am working on a sort of creepy, attention-whore, stalkerish kind of vibe. So expect a good deal more groveling, begging for attention at the cost of any sort of human dignity which is obviously motivated by a lack of self-worth and deep-seated personality flaws. Or, as we call it in the **Shodan** household, foreplay. [/QUOTE] Well, at least you don’t confuse foreplay with taking out the recycling. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-i-know-youre-too-dumb-for-this-pitting-to-do-any-good-but/446570/90 "2008-04-25T18:50:01Z")
Of course not - taking out the recycling happens **every** week. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-i-know-youre-too-dumb-for-this-pitting-to-do-any-good-but/446570/91 "2008-04-25T18:57:10Z")
[QUOTE=Grossbottom] I’m not reading that whole thread just so I can be informed, but are we at the part where I start painting yet [/QUOTE] I was so looking forward to that. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-i-know-youre-too-dumb-for-this-pitting-to-do-any-good-but/446570/92 "2008-04-25T19:03:50Z")
[QUOTE=Shodan] Or, as we call it in the **Shodan** household, foreplay. Regards, Shodan [/QUOTE] Ok, now \*\* that \*\* was funny. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-i-know-youre-too-dumb-for-this-pitting-to-do-any-good-but/446570/93 "2008-04-25T19:08:50Z")
I’m grateful for even the crumbs of your attention, **wring**. 😃 Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Grossbottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba8739/32.png) [@Grossbottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grossbottom)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-i-know-youre-too-dumb-for-this-pitting-to-do-any-good-but/446570/94 "2008-04-25T19:11:48Z")
[QUOTE=Omegaman] I was so looking forward to that. [/QUOTE] Good enough! [![](https://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn103/grossbottom/shodan.jpg) ](https://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn103/grossbottom/shodan.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-i-know-youre-too-dumb-for-this-pitting-to-do-any-good-but/446570/95 "2008-04-25T19:31:24Z")
Don’t quit your day job. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![ArizonaTeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-i-know-youre-too-dumb-for-this-pitting-to-do-any-good-but/446570/96 "2008-04-25T19:33:31Z")
Encouragement, **Shodan** , encouragement. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-i-know-youre-too-dumb-for-this-pitting-to-do-any-good-but/446570/97 "2008-04-25T19:37:23Z")
[QUOTE=Shodan] Of course not - taking out the recycling happens **every** week. Regards, Shodan [/QUOTE] The foreplay bit and this are really very funny. I’m blown away. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-i-know-youre-too-dumb-for-this-pitting-to-do-any-good-but/446570/98 "2008-04-25T19:39:22Z")
[QUOTE=Grossbottom] Good enough! [![](https://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn103/grossbottom/shodan.jpg) ](https://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn103/grossbottom/shodan.jpg) [/QUOTE] Bravo! What a masterpiece! It certainly was worth the wait. That Picasso fellow’s artwork looks like the scribblings of an infant with a large crayon by comparison. ---
**Author:** ![Grossbottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba8739/32.png) [@Grossbottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grossbottom)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-i-know-youre-too-dumb-for-this-pitting-to-do-any-good-but/446570/99 "2008-04-25T19:41:18Z")
too kind gentlemen, you are far too kind ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-i-know-youre-too-dumb-for-this-pitting-to-do-any-good-but/446570/100 "2008-04-25T19:44:33Z")
[QUOTE=ArizonaTeach] Encouragement, **Shodan** , encouragement. [/QUOTE] Shouldn’t he be smearing himself with chocolate or framing his effluvia or something? I don’t know art, but I know what I like. Regards, Shodan [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-i-know-youre-too-dumb-for-this-pitting-to-do-any-good-but/446570.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-i-know-youre-too-dumb-for-this-pitting-to-do-any-good-but/446570.md?page=6)