# Six Degrees of the BBQ Pit **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 31, 2005, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437 "2005-08-31T15:34:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/281 "2005-09-01T22:49:29Z")
My wife’s name is Katrina and she’s from New Orleans. What are the odds? ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/282 "2005-09-01T23:02:59Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > My wife’s name is Katrina and she’s from New Orleans. What are the odds? I bet she’s fucked New Orleans too. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/283 "2005-09-01T23:04:39Z")
Oh, _bravo._ I didn’t expect that. ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/284 "2005-09-01T23:18:53Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > Oh, _bravo._ I didn’t expect that. If you were any kind of man, it wouldn’t have been necessary. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/285 "2005-09-01T23:23:43Z")
> [@rayh](#): > > If you were any kind of man, it wouldn’t have been necessary. You’re pretty glib for a dude who was the inspiration for “40 Year Old Virgin.” ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/286 "2005-09-01T23:33:36Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > You’re pretty glib for a dude who was the inspiration for “40 Year Old Virgin.” Your cinematic allusions do not impress me. So you’ve seen a film? Wow. Did mummy take you? ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/287 "2005-09-01T23:50:57Z")
_Mummy?_ I shudder to think how dried-up and quiet your MOMMY must be. I’m sure you prefer it that way, though. Women should just shut up, right? God forbid a woman open her mouth and venture an opinion, unless she’s the bloody Queen! I drove across the Triboro bridge this morning at dawn, and the weather was so nice and clear that the view of Manhattan was spectacular. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/288 "2005-09-01T23:55:39Z")
> [@Mehitabel](#): > > I drove across the Triboro bridge this morning at dawn, and the weather was so nice and clear that the view of Manhattan was spectacular. Holy crap. I can’t even believe you went to this point, considering 9/11 and the Two Towers still haven’t been replaced! You sumbitch. ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/289 "2005-09-01T23:56:41Z")
> [@Mehitabel](#): > > _Mummy?_ I shudder to think how dried-up and quiet your MOMMY must be. I’m sure you prefer it that way, though. Women should just shut up, right? God forbid a woman open her mouth and venture an opinion, unless she’s the bloody Queen! > > I drove across the Triboro bridge this morning at dawn, and the weather was so nice and clear that the view of Manhattan was spectacular. Bridge? That’s right bring up Chappaquiddick again. You right-wing fanatics are all the same. For og’s sake leave the guy alone, it was 36 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/290 "2005-09-02T00:40:43Z")
manual transmission cars are really fun to drive 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/291 "2005-09-02T00:43:17Z")
I thought someone named **McTech** would go for an automatic car that does everything for you. Pudding is delicious. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/292 "2005-09-02T00:53:01Z")
for someone who can’t get my username right, you’re sure coming across as a sanctimonius, holier than thou frellnik, **McTech** is probably some poor sod who has to work at mickey-d’s fixing their fryolators, why not have pity for that poor soul stuck in a dead-end job… the name’s **MacTech** , get it right next time… billy-boy-gates is Satan incarnate and is best freinds with georgie-bush and dick (call me Darth) cheney… ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/293 "2005-09-02T00:55:34Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > manual transmission cars are really fun to drive 🙂 It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out why you _really_ like them… Robin ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/294 "2005-09-02T01:12:49Z")
From ‘Have You Driven a Ford Lately?’, _Married with Children_, 1988: STEVE, grasping the stick of a newly restored 1965 Mustang: I dunno, there’s something about a stick shift… AL: Yeah, I dunno what it is. MWC is always relevant. Oh yeah, like you never watched it, Mr. New Yorker reader with your tea and your Upper West Side self-righteousness. Go wash your hemp pants and leave us real Amurricans alone. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/295 "2005-09-02T01:32:40Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > I’m reading the _Dragonriders of Pern_ ominibus by Anne McCaffery. Don’t bother: -Interchangeable ride their friendly dragons. -Fungus falls and hurts people. -Interchangeable characters whine about their lives. -Scary unwashed guys in their forties show up in the Anne McCaffrey room at conventions, hoping to get a chance to dance with McCaffrey’s thirteen-year-old girl fans. I’m not sure whether you’re the scary forty-year-old or the teeny-bopper, but in either case, I’ve just spoiled her entire _oeuvre_ for you. I wish you all peace and joy in your lives. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Mellivora\_capensis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mellivora\_capensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mellivora_capensis)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/296 "2005-09-02T07:16:58Z")
> [@](#): > > I wish you all peace and joy in your lives. Oh shut up. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/297 "2005-09-02T08:09:30Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > Speak AMERICAN. Bad enough we had to bail you people out of WWII, I don’t need you sharing your wanking terminology. Only after you’d made good and sure our country was bankrupt first, as you were still ass-wobblingly afraid we’d come and demand our colony back. Also, you’re forgetting that Hitler declared war on you. Left to your own devices, you’d have sat around chewing gum until everywhere from Portugal to Vladivostok was speaking either German or Russian. Anyway, if you’re such he-men, how come you couldn’t go into Iraq by yourself, what with having more firepower than the rest of the world put together? No, you had to come snivelling to the depised Euros begging Daddy to hold your hand while you went and picked on the little kid next door to the one who’d hit you. Bail out? You couldn’t bail out a rowing boat with a plastic bucket, sweetums. There’s no such language as AMERICAN. Being too ignorant to use the grammar and vocabulary of the parent country does not make you the author of a new lexicon, dumbfuck. :rolleyes: \* 10[sup]18[/sup] ---
**Author:** ![Feydeau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Feydeau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feydeau)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/298 "2005-09-02T08:26:29Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > Pudding is delicious. Fine, yes, just rub it in my face that I’m lactose-intolerant. Would you care to finance my annual pallet-load of Lactaid, twit? ---
**Author:** ![Feydeau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Feydeau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feydeau)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/299 "2005-09-02T08:27:34Z")
I meant to put this in the last post – I hope I’m doing this correctly. ---
**Author:** ![Mellivora\_capensis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mellivora\_capensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mellivora_capensis)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/300 "2005-09-02T08:49:00Z")
> [@](#): > > **Malacandra** > There’s no such language as AMERICAN. Why do you hate America? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437.md?page=16)