# Shodan's Angels **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 21, 2007, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodans-angels/396817 "2007-03-21T04:07:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodans-angels/396817/121 "2007-03-22T19:45:47Z")
[QUOTE=Alessan] And that is why non-Americans should never, \*ever \*use baseball analogies. [/QUOTE] Indeed. It’s just not _cricket_. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodans-angels/396817/122 "2007-03-23T10:36:53Z")
I’ve been working on a something major to a deadline and though I’ve been ducking into the boards for the odd bit of light relief, I haven’t been looking at this thread for fear I’d get into a debate I wouldn’t be able to resist spending time on. [QUOTE=Alan Smithee] I’m serious when I ask the following question, and I’d appreciate an answer to it: Has **Princhester** always been an obnoxious, arrogant cumstain and I just never paid enough attention to notice, or did he just pull a Pseudotriton? [/QUOTE] I vary, but I have from time to time been pretty prickly. I’ve been at least, probably more, prickly towards copyright leaches. I’ve been considerably more prickly towards believers in the paranormal. There is probably an element of which ox is being gored as to how I’m perceived. [QUOTE=Jodi] In any event, the implication that you might not have recognized the quote is the piddliest of piddly shit and **hardly worth getting your panties in a knot over**. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Princhester] One of the annoying things about thread closings is that one’s hijacks get shut down. **Barely worth bringing this up really** , but [from here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8375519&postcount=116): [/QUOTE] [emphasis added] I appear to be in furious agreement with some of the people about the value of this thread, while fending off others who insist telling me how upset I was no matter how many times I say I wasn’t. [QUOTE=look!ninjas] \*\*Then why didn’t you say something like that \*\* instead of saying “There’s no such thing as angels!” I think that’s what’s tripping the rest of us up. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Guinastasia] Do you have no concept of irony, or sarcasm, or is everything completely **and totally literal for you**? [/quote] and [QUOTE=Guinastasia] It’s not our job to try and **decipher every cryptic comment you make**. [/quote] Can’t please everyone, clearly. [QUOTE=Guinastasia] If the vast majority are misinterpreting what you’ve said, I don’t believe the problem is on _our_ end. [/QUOTE] Noted. Duly chastised. Always fun when you pit someone and end up pitted. It’s been great :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Abe\_Babe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Abe\_Babe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe_Babe)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodans-angels/396817/123 "2007-03-23T15:11:10Z")
Alas, parting is such sweet sorrow. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodans-angels/396817/124 "2007-03-23T19:59:59Z")
Actually, having thought this for about a dozen times when I opened the Pit menu, 'tis worth saying: Given **Shodan** ’s family, doesn’t _“Shodan’s Angels”_ sound like the series name for a feelgood program on PAX/i TV, in which an American couple adopts some kids of Asian ancestry, who end up doing good for people in highly improbable but hilarious ways, a la a cross of some 50s/60s sitcom meets “Spy Kids”? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodans-angels/396817/125 "2007-03-24T13:12:23Z")
[QUOTE=Princhester] I’ve been working on a something major to a deadline and though I’ve been ducking into the boards for the odd bit of light relief, I haven’t been looking at this thread for fear I’d get into a debate I wouldn’t be able to resist spending time on. [/quote] Try harder to resist for no other reason than it’s got be exhausting to keep peddling in the sand. In case you’re too busy to notice, you haven’t gained any ground. In fact, Shodan has lapped you. Twice. And worse, I believe he’s _smiling_ when he does it. > [@](#): > > I vary, but I have from time to time been pretty prickly. I’ve been at least, probably more, prickly towards copyright leaches. I’ve been considerably more prickly towards believers in the paranormal. No wonder you’re so prickly. There you are, alive in the flesh, and _still_ not able to convince anyone to abandon their 2000 year old corpse in favor of you. That’s gotta hurt. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodans-angels/396817/126 "2007-03-24T23:45:56Z")
[QUOTE=PunditLisa] No wonder you’re so prickly. There you are, alive in the flesh, and **still** not able to convince anyone to abandon their 2000 year old corpse in favor of you. That’s gotta hurt. [/QUOTE] _cleans sinuses from the inside with red wine, which also has gotta hurt._ ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodans-angels/396817/127 "2007-03-25T00:53:13Z")
[QUOTE=PunditLisa] No wonder you’re so prickly. There you are, alive in the flesh, and _still_ not able to convince anyone to abandon their 2000 year old corpse in favor of you. That’s gotta hurt. [/QUOTE] I’d make up some shit, attribute it to you, then engage in some self-congratulatory yukking at my own cleverness too, only I grew out of that in, oh, about… No. Actually, I never _was_ that pathetic. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodans-angels/396817/128 "2007-03-25T01:37:55Z")
Does this mean the parody’s back on?!? Yessssssssss! ---
**Author:** ![Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c4cdca/32.png) [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodans-angels/396817/129 "2007-03-25T02:22:28Z")
[QUOTE=Princhester] No. Actually, I never _was_ that pathetic. [/QUOTE] Oh, the irony. Very poor riposte. Lame. Not even slightly funny. Maybe 1. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodans-angels/396817/130 "2007-03-25T03:00:10Z")
How does an assertion that another’s riposte is “very poor” rate on your scale of ripostes? 10 perhaps? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodans-angels/396817.md?page=6)