# 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:** 18
**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, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/341 "2005-09-02T13:41:59Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > No **Askia** , I wasn’t talking about you. You’d be \*lucky \* to get a big fat plumber to lust after you, bee-yotch. I’m not interested in your brother-in-law, **Mika**. Quit e-mailing me, too. > [@Malacandra](#): > > Even if I were a starving poverty-stricken leper, I’d have all of those just by not being you, juve. Being you must suck more than a crack whore two fixes short of par and a week behind on payments to her pimp. Wait. I see that **Malacandra** wrote a _hidden message_. “I… must… suck… a crack whore… and … her pimp.” Oh, **Malacandra**. We just put you in that woman’s abuse shelter. Don’t go back! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/342 "2005-09-02T13:46:22Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > I’m not interested in your brother-in-law, **Mika**. Quit e-mailing me, too. :mad: He’s a Sanitation Engineer, I’ll have you know…and he’s \*very \* interested in you. Care to put on that skirt you had on in the other thread? Oh, and he says he \*really \* liked last time. ---
**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, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/343 "2005-09-02T13:49:16Z")
So **Askia** is having trouble remembering whose brother-in-law is a plumber, and what my sex is. Or something. It’s difficult to tell once his rambling incoherence sets in. We must have overloaded his poor brain cell. ---
**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, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/344 "2005-09-02T13:52:51Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > :mad: He’s a Sanitation Engineer, I’ll have you know…and he’s \*very \* interested in you. I’ll put this in recent movie terms: My Hustle and Flow is Sky High but he’s a 40 Year Old Virgin. > [@](#): > > Care to put on that skirt you had on in the other thread? Oh, and he says he \*really \* liked last time. The skirt was a fraternity prank. Last time? Last time he slipped in bed with you and his wife. I thought that was very “Springer.” ---
**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, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/345 "2005-09-02T13:53:54Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > So **Askia** is having trouble remembering whose brother-in-law is a plumber, and what my sex is. Or something. It’s difficult to tell once his rambling incoherence sets in. We must have overloaded his poor brain cell. I know what your sex is. Nonexistent. No one will have you! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/346 "2005-09-02T13:57:04Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > The skirt was a fraternity prank. Last time? Last time he slipped in bed with you and his wife. I thought that was very “Springer.” Yeah, I remember you watching, off in the corner…_unable to perform_. ---
**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, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/347 "2005-09-02T13:57:26Z")
Pretty good, isn’t it? Soon we’ll bring him up to the level of “I know you are but what am I?”. ---
**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, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/348 "2005-09-02T14:00:38Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Yeah, I remember you watching, off in the corner…_unable to perform_. Look who I had to work with. Can you blame me? > [@Malacandra](#): > > Pretty good, isn’t it? Soon we’ll bring him up to the level of “I know you are but what am I?”. Not when you stoop to 15 year old “Pee-Wee Herman” references, you won’t. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/349 "2005-09-02T14:02:40Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > Look who I had to work with. Can you blame me? I knew I was setting myself up. 🙂 Anyway, from what I hear from my BIL, that’s a usual thing for you. Don’t worry though! I hear a cure is _coming quickly_. ---
**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, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/350 "2005-09-02T14:05:53Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I knew I was setting myself up. 🙂 It was like a _gift,_ **Mika.** Thank you. > [@](#): > > Anyway, from what I hear from my BIL, that’s a usual thing for you. Don’t worry though! I hear a cure is _coming quickly_. You realize your BIL’s nickname is “Spurts” for a reason, right? ---
**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, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/351 "2005-09-02T14:07:43Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > Not when you stoop to 15 year old “Pee-Wee Herman” references, you won’t. There you go again with your American insularism, taking it for granted that anyone from the land of Shakespeare, Milton, Keats, Wordsworth and Kipling has the first idea who Pee-Wee Herman might be. :rolleyes: I suppose that counts as culture in your book. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/352 "2005-09-02T14:09:06Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > It was like a _gift,_ **Mika.** Thank you. > You realize your BIL’s nickname is “Spurts” for a reason, right? Yes, sweetheart. He likes the nicknames you give him…all of them. And you’re welcome. ---
**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, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/353 "2005-09-02T14:16:57Z")
TIME OUT. I’m on the phone! ---
**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, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/354 "2005-09-02T14:28:32Z")
> [@](#): > > **Askia** > \ > [@](#): > > **Anaamika** > \ > [@](#): > > **Malacandra** > \ Well, clearly you all have misunderstood me and are merely bitter and twisted and have severe anger issues, so I’m going to bow out of this thread. And maybe even leave the SDMB. Yeah, I’m leaving…bastards. O la la, there she walks past again! ---
**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, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/355 "2005-09-02T14:30:12Z")
I’m back. ---
**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, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/356 "2005-09-02T14:30:21Z")
I’m back. Damn. Three phone calls back to back. > [@Malacandra](#): > > There you go again with your American insularism, taking it for granted that anyone from the land of Shakespeare, Milton, Keats, Wordsworth and Kipling has the first idea who Pee-Wee Herman might be. :rolleyes: I suppose that counts as culture in your book. Dead Poets Society is a movie, not a culture. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/357 "2005-09-02T14:34:45Z")
> [@Mellivora capensis](#): > > I’m back. Just like we knew you would be. The potshots, the lame threat to take your ball and go home and then the return so you can do it all again. It’s a beautiful day outside and I have a 3-day weekend coming! ---
**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, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/358 "2005-09-02T14:36:29Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > Dead Poets Society is a movie, not a culture. Dead Poe… ah, never mind. It’s sweet when you think of it. I mean, it’s not much, but compared to how **Askia** used to just sit in the corner intermittently soiling himself and cackling inanely, it’s Oscar Wilde on the best day he ever had. Still trying to get round the idea of three people wanting to phone him for any reason at all, though. Perhaps they trod on a duck. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/359 "2005-09-02T14:39:07Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > Still trying to get round the idea of three people wanting to phone him for any reason at all, though. Perhaps they trod on a duck. _pats Malacandra on the head consolingly_ There, there, I’m sure someone will call you one day. Just sit anxiously by the phone a little longer. Hey - wait! Wasn’t there a wrong number last year? ---
**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, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437/360 "2005-09-02T14:43:30Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > _pats Malacandra on the head consolingly_ There, there, I’m sure someone will call you one day. Just sit anxiously by the phone a little longer. Hey - wait! Wasn’t there a wrong number last year? Do you mind? I just washed this head. And talking of wrong numbers, there seems to be one hassling me right now, here in this thread. Don’t you have any ironing to do, or something? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-the-bbq-pit/319437.md?page=19)