# Shodan... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 13, 2004, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan/259704 "2004-08-13T16:31:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan/259704/41 "2004-08-13T21:47:30Z")
Is **Shodan** the one who thinks The Band sang off-key? Or was that **duffer** or **Brutus** or **Starving Artist**? I tend to mix all those guys up. If it’s him, then I pit him, too! ---
**Author:** ![leander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan/259704/42 "2004-08-13T22:01:00Z")
> [@Starving Artist](#): > > Me neither, althought frankly, I’ve always pictured him as a large, strong, more or less strong and silent type in offline life, with martial arts skills and the ability to kick the asses of most people he meets, but who chooses to outsmart them instead. > > Funny how perceptions vary, isn’t it? 😉 I’m sure _Pinky_ sees _The Brain_ in the same illustrious light… ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan/259704/43 "2004-08-13T22:12:03Z")
No, no, no, you’re thinking of **Shodan, the Flying Monster** , big ass pterodactyl kinda critter, ate giant grubs. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan/259704/44 "2004-08-13T22:50:01Z")
If we were able to “see” another person’s motives, maybe we would find that **Shodan** is just projecting when he finds that **DtC** doesn’t give “a shit about the integrity of our democracy” and that he will care about accuracy only if Kerry loses. But I _can’t_ know **Shodan’s** motives anymore than he can know **DtC’s**. Maybe his is just a poor judge of character. Maybe he wants his candidate to win no matter what. Maybe he thinks things will go smoothly no matter who wins. Maybe his mother was frightened by a Kennedy. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan/259704/45 "2004-08-13T23:08:14Z")
> [@Ukulele Ike](#): > > Is **Shodan** the one who thinks The Band sang off-key? Or was that **duffer** or **Brutus** or **Starving Artist**? I tend to mix all those guys up. > > If it’s him, then I pit him, too! You really must try to develop a little discernment. We’re not all the same just because we share a political ideology, you know. As for, I didn’t make the comment about The Band. Short of a hit or two thirty some odd years ago, I haven’t given them a moment’s thought. Steely Dan and smooth jazz (and believe it or not, a lot of hip-hop) are more my speed. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan/259704/46 "2004-08-13T23:13:31Z")
**elicudator** , I’m getting sick and tired of this! You’re actually making me laugh out loud, and when it happens late at night it disturbs the whole household. Knock it off and just act like all the other humorless liberals around here, will ya? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan/259704/47 "2004-08-14T03:39:11Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > \*\*Shodan \*\*is one of the most shamelessly dishonest contributors to this board. Thankfully though I live in a nearly Shodan-free world: I only see stuff he posts when somebody quotes him. This is nothing more than a transparent assertion of having a poster on your ‘ignore’ list, **lissener**. You will _not_ attempt anything of the sort again. TVeblen Pit mod ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan/259704/48 "2004-08-14T03:47:04Z")
> [@TVeblen](#): > > This is nothing more than a transparent assertion of having a poster on your ‘ignore’ list, **lissener**. You will _not_ attempt anything of the sort again. > > TVeblen > Pit mod Did someone post after Starving Artist? It seems so, but I can’t tell, having the mods on ignore… I am kidding. TVeblen is a nice person with a sense of humor 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan/259704/49 "2004-08-14T03:51:52Z")
> [@Starving Artist](#): > > You really must try to develop a little discernment. We’re not all the same just because we share a political ideology, you know. Yeah, I know…and I DO try to tell you apart, I do, I do. But as your posts fly by on my screen they just get so _blurry_. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan/259704/50 "2004-08-14T03:58:50Z")
> [@Ukulele Ike](#): > > Yeah, I know…and I DO try to tell you apart, I do, I do. But as your posts fly by on my screen they just get so _blurry_. No problem, I’m glad to be included among such an august group. (But you really should try to slow us down instead of letting us whiz by. We have lots of good things to say and we’re rarely wrong.) I keed, I keed…you know I keed. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan/259704/51 "2004-08-14T03:59:15Z")
_Send in…the clones There must be…clones…_ ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan/259704/52 "2004-08-14T04:03:27Z")
> [@TVeblen](#): > > This is nothing more than a transparent assertion of having a poster on your ‘ignore’ list, **lissener**. You will _not_ attempt anything of the sort again. > > TVeblen > Pit mod This is the most bizarre rule of all the bizarre rules on this board. Might spawn a flame war? What the fuck ever. Better initiate a BBQ pit then, just in case. At least it gives TV an excuse to indulge his lissener allergy. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan/259704/53 "2004-08-14T04:03:30Z")
I should also point out that our numbers are growing by the, uh, month! Why when I first came on here nine months ago, there were only about three of us. Now just 9 months later, our numbers have swelled to seven or eight. Indeed, we are a force to be reckoned with! ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan/259704/54 "2004-08-14T04:05:18Z")
> [@Starving Artist](#): > > Now just 9 months later, our numbers have swelled to seven or eight. Indeed, we are a force to be reckoned with! Yeah, the Snore Force. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan/259704/55 "2004-08-14T04:10:28Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > Yeah, the Snore Force. Well, _you’re_ not much fun! :wally ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan/259704/56 "2004-08-14T04:11:50Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > At least it gives TV an excuse to indulge his lissener allergy. :: Ahem :: Our esteemed **TVeblen** is of the female persuasion. One hot babe, in fact. Picture Xenia, Warrior Princess, with a black-leather-bound, spiked keyboard. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan/259704/57 "2004-08-14T04:12:03Z")
May the Force Be with Somebody Else ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan/259704/58 "2004-08-14T04:13:05Z")
Sorry about the “putz,” I was trying out smilies and hit enter prematurely. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan/259704/59 "2004-08-14T04:24:01Z")
much like your dates, eh? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan/259704/60 "2004-08-14T04:28:01Z")
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