# 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:** 16
**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, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/301 "2005-09-02T09:20:05Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#): > > 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 Ho-_lee_! You can score thirteen-year-old poontang at McCaffrey conventions? I’d b’etter s’tart b’rushing u’p o’n t’he D’ragonrider b’ooks s’traight a’way! > [@Mellivora capensis](#): > > Why do you hate America? For making South Africa look sophisticated, that’s why. ---
**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, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/302 "2005-09-02T09:22:28Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > 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] Eh, forgot the forum. Make that “d_mbf_ck”. ---
**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, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/303 "2005-09-02T09:37:30Z")
> [@](#): > > **Malacandra** > For making South Africa look sophisticated, that’s why. _:: paging through dictionary::_ So… Sop… Soph… Sophis… Ah! Oh… WT\*? ---
**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, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/304 "2005-09-02T09:39:48Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > 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] It’s a dialect, Figgy Pudding. We’ve parted ways with Mother England in a number of significant details: No leeching monarchy. Dental hygiene. Less inbreeding. ---
**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, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/305 "2005-09-02T09:40:58Z")
[QUOTE=MacTech] the name’s **MacTech** , get it right next time…QUOTE] Well, I _would_ have if it was _important._ ---
**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, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/306 "2005-09-02T09:42:55Z")
> [@Feydeau](#): > > Would you care to finance my annual pallet-load of Lactaid, twit? Sorry. I can barely keep up with payments for your day nurse’s rectally inserted suppositories. ---
**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, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/307 "2005-09-02T09:44:36Z")
> [@MsRobyn](#): > > It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out why you _really_ like them… “… and believe me, I am no rocket science guy! Tee hee hee!” ---
**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, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/308 "2005-09-02T09:52:21Z")
> [@Mehitabel](#): > > Go wash your hemp pants and leave us real Amurricans alone. No real Amurrican would go sashaying around with a namby-pamby name like Mehitabel, you literary pussy. Go change it to Mike and go eat some goddamn Freedom Fries. ---
**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, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/309 "2005-09-02T09:54:52Z")
**Mellivora capensis.** Who the hell are you kidding, **Mellivora?** You couldn’t find the “S” section of the dictionary! ---
**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, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/310 "2005-09-02T09:58:31Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > Ho-_lee_! You can score thirteen-year-old poontang at McCaffrey conventions? I’d b’etter s’tart b’rushing u’p o’n t’he D’ragonrider b’ooks s’traight a’way! No. Much like adult women your own age, thirteen-year old girls are out of your league, too. Cheer up, though. Your relationships with Handgela Pullem and Stroky Fingerette is as strong as ever. ---
**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, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/311 "2005-09-02T10:01:20Z")
I need a four letter word for an “empty receptacle.” ---
**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, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/312 "2005-09-02T10:12:49Z")
Post-count pad much, **Askia**? :dubious: ---
**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, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/313 "2005-09-02T10:15:05Z")
Sometimes. 😉 ---
**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, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/314 "2005-09-02T10:22:08Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > I need a four letter word for an “empty receptacle.” Why, is your current username one letter too long for you? > [@Askia](#): > > It’s a dialect, Figgy Pudding. We’ve parted ways with Mother England in a number of significant details: No leeching monarchy. Dental hygiene. Less inbreeding. A Presidency that has no class and isn’t fit to run a clam-chowder stall. Endemic obesity. And you’re s#itting me over that “inbreeding” claim, aren’t you? I’ve heard all about those upstate trailer parks where marrying your cousin is considered posh. ---
**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, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/315 "2005-09-02T10:24:01Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > I’ve heard all about those upstate trailer parks where marrying your cousin is considered posh. Made reservations yet? I like pie. ---
**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, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/316 "2005-09-02T10:29:12Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > Made reservations yet? Make your mind up. Either I can attract women or I can’t. Don’t expect me to defend both sides of the argument. :rolleyes: > [@Askia](#): > > I like pie. Of course you do. You’re American. See the previous quote about endemic obesity. :rolleyes: \* _Graham’s Number_ ---
**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, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/317 "2005-09-02T10:31:06Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > **Mellivora capensis.** Who the hell are you kidding, **Mellivora?** You couldn’t find the “S” section of the dictionary! I get a do-over. "You couldn’t find the “S” section of the dictionary if you were lost in “R” and looking for “T.” _Much_ better. ---
**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, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/318 "2005-09-02T10:35:16Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > Make your mind up. Either I can attract women or I can’t. Don’t expect me to defend both sides of the argument. :rolleyes: I assumed you weren’t marrying a woman. > [@](#): > > Of course you do. You’re American. See the previous quote about endemic obesity. :rolleyes: \* _Graham’s Number_ Of course you’d say that. You’re British. When you can’t think of anything innovative, quote something in print. I daresay though, don’t most Brits quote someone, y’know, _pithy?_ ---
**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, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/319 "2005-09-02T10:38:33Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > I assumed you weren’t marrying a woman. Well, yanno, when you ass-u-me… mind you, that’d be a step up for you, wouldn’t it, albeit a tad rough on the poor burro? > [@Askia](#): > > Of course you’d say that. You’re British. When you can’t think of anything innovative, quote something in print. I daresay though, don’t most Brits quote someone, y’know, _pithy?_ When I want to quote someone pithy, you’ll be the firtht on my litht, thweetcheekth. ---
**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, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/320 "2005-09-02T10:45:41Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] Well, yanno, when you ass-u-me… mind you, that’d be a step up for you, wouldn’t it, albeit a tad rough on the poor burro? [quote] What you consider “rough on the burro” most people consider, “Proof to lock **Malacandra** away for farm crimes.” > [@](#): > > When I want to quote someone pithy, you’ll be the firtht on my litht, thweetcheekth. No, no. Sweetcheeks is the name of your burro. For, sadly, obvious reasons. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437.md?page=17)