# Skald the Rhymer -- could you slow down a little please? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 23, 2006, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-could-you-slow-down-a-little-please/361855 "2006-06-23T13:36:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-could-you-slow-down-a-little-please/361855/21 "2006-06-23T20:06:22Z")
[QUOTE=LunaV] Apologies and pleases? This is the PIT! Unleash some vitriol! [/QUOTE] Dang, sorry, I’m just not really a good Pitter. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2006, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-could-you-slow-down-a-little-please/361855/22 "2006-06-24T07:55:39Z")
I can’t claim that I’ve read all of **Skald** ’s recent threads, but the ones I have read have been fun, and interesting. Certainly **Skald** is involved in them, not putting out an OP with no follow-up. I’m another one who has enjoyed these threads, so - How’s about we get **Skald** to limit to no more than 29 threads started in a week? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2006, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-could-you-slow-down-a-little-please/361855/23 "2006-06-24T11:18:08Z")
This Pitting is in the negative numbers, man. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-could-you-slow-down-a-little-please/361855/24 "2006-06-25T02:17:52Z")
I’ll tell you what really chaps my ass-- _lack of rhymes._ If you’re going to go to all the trouble of pointing out how much of a rhymer you are, then don’t turn around and conspicuously\* not ever rhyme at all.\* And yet, does this **Skald** ever actually go out of the way to make a rhyme? I see no evidence of this. Oh maybe there’s been one or two posts somewhere which had rhymes in them, but I’m sorry; it’s just not enough. If you want me to think of you as a rhymer, then I expect frequent rhymes. If I went around calling myself **Terrifel the Ocelot Waxer** , and one day someone asks me, “Hey man, I’ve got this ocelot that needs waxing; can you give me a hand?” and I’m all like, “Sorry dude, I’m not really into the whole ocelot waxing scene,” then I’d expect them to think, “Wow! What a jagoff! Where does he get off calling himself an ocelot waxer when he doesn’t ever wax ocelots?” I mean, I know it’s just a message board username, but still: why mislead people like that? We’re implicitly encouraged to anticipate rhymes, and yet no rhymes are forthcoming. You’re better than that, **Skald**. Don’t cruelly dash our expectations on the jagged rocks of your blatant non-rhymingness. I guess what I’m trying to say here is: _more rhymes._ ---
**Author:** ![DiggitCamara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@DiggitCamara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiggitCamara)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-could-you-slow-down-a-little-please/361855/25 "2006-06-25T06:19:55Z")
[QUOTE=Terrifel] _lack of rhymes._ I] not ever rhyme at all.\* And yet, does this **Skald** ever actually go out of the way to make a rhyme? I see no evidence of this. (…) I guess what I’m trying to say here is: _more rhymes._ [/QUOTE] [innocent]What’s a rhyme? Or, perhaps, how do you recognize “rhyming”[/innocent] ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-could-you-slow-down-a-little-please/361855/26 "2006-06-25T06:43:49Z")
I once got pitted for not starting _enough_ threads. True story. [sub]well, not really, but that OP’s other issues were just as dumb[/sub] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-could-you-slow-down-a-little-please/361855.md?page=1)