# Shodan: Saviour of the Pit!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 24, 2009, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-saviour-of-the-pit/487292 "2009-02-24T23:16:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-saviour-of-the-pit/487292/61 "2009-02-26T22:55:19Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > …I’m not sure what that’s supposed to be **SteveG1** but the first thing that popped into my head is that it’s a pair of hands holding a wheel of casu marzu… It’s the dreaded /facepalm. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-saviour-of-the-pit/487292/62 "2009-02-26T23:07:19Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > It’s the dreaded /facepalm. More than that, it’s geek god Patrick Stewart doing the facepalm. I see it on Fark all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-saviour-of-the-pit/487292/63 "2009-02-26T23:17:52Z")
Ahhh, I see. He’s got kind of an Incan skull thing going on there, eh? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-saviour-of-the-pit/487292/64 "2009-02-27T01:42:27Z")
I see a Lewinsky style 1990’s knob job. But I’m not a healthy person. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-saviour-of-the-pit/487292/65 "2009-02-27T02:35:52Z")
…l… ---
**Author:** ![Bambro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df705f/32.png) [@Bambro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambro)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-saviour-of-the-pit/487292/66 "2009-02-27T02:52:49Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > It’s the dreaded /facepalm. never mind ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-saviour-of-the-pit/487292/67 "2009-02-27T04:13:36Z")
You know, it’s not like there aren’t many posters whose _every_ utterance on the board isn’t a slap in the face to various other subsets of the membership, or occasionally all of them at once. For my convenience, **Shodan** should be singled out by the authorities whenever one of her/his posts proves to be factual and cogent and pertinent to the thread in which it was posted, because otherwise it’s more efficient just to assume it’s more of the same, but that’s too much to expect of a simple message board and I know it. That said: oh, please. I could as easily be as rude (and mean anything by it) by _not_ offering a “regards” or “best wishes” or “at your service, always” in any message, or by substituting some other \*prima facie \*-ly innocuous phrase which I could interpret (for my good friends) however I wished, and what’s the difference? Those who feel constrained to say the polite words and perform the courteous acts are, regardless of their state of mind, behaving properly, and I would not choose their freedom to misbehave, or my right to express myself, over common civility in a time of crisis. But I do assert my right to interpret others’ posts, and there’s not enough controversy here for a warm-weather snowball fight. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-saviour-of-the-pit/487292.md?page=3)