# So ... But ... **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 16, 2013, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-but/663656 "2013-07-16T11:49:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-but/663656/241 "2013-08-15T18:08:00Z")
So of course we set up a machine gun and just mowed them down, wave after wave. ---
**Author:** ![Tread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Tread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tread)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2013, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-but/663656/242 "2013-12-26T03:06:32Z")
But I thought that was wrong, and asked to see a Preist ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2013, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-but/663656/243 "2013-12-26T03:09:28Z")
“So this is Christmas and what have you done?” the Priest (who turned out to be a John Lennon fan) asked me. ---
**Author:** ![randompattern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@randompattern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randompattern)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2013, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-but/663656/244 "2013-12-26T03:18:05Z")
But I haven’t done anything ,I told him ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2013, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-but/663656/245 "2013-12-26T04:53:22Z")
So he revealed himself to be an undercover cop and arrested me. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2013, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-but/663656/246 "2013-12-26T05:12:40Z")
But I still yearned for freedom, so I knocked him out and ran away. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2013, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-but/663656/247 "2013-12-26T15:57:39Z")
But they arrested the reindeer and put them in the pound. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2013, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-but/663656/248 "2013-12-26T17:35:34Z")
So I called up my brother and asked him for a loan for bail money. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2013, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-but/663656/249 "2013-12-26T17:38:53Z")
But he had once more, incredibly, failed to win the lottery, and was flat broke. ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2013, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-but/663656/250 "2013-12-26T18:13:36Z")
So, since it looked like I was going to be in jail for a few days, I decided to make friends with some of the other fellas. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2013, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-but/663656/251 "2013-12-26T18:55:04Z")
But everybody told me that Round Bob said I had an evil eye, and wouldn’t sit by me. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2013, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-but/663656/252 "2013-12-26T19:47:13Z")
So, being the friendly sort by nature (remind me to tell you someday about that time back in Minsk - or was it Smolensk? maybe even Moscow, come to think of it - when I was backpacking across Russia and the former Soviet republics, back in 1997 or so, maybe a little later than that, because my sister hadn’t had her sixth child by then, yeah, now that I think of it, it must’ve been 1999, anyway, and I met this guy who was so hostile and uncommunicative - I mean, he just wouldn’t say a _word_, not a one, zip, zero, nada, zilch, no matter how friendly I was, or told him funny stories or offered to make us both hot cocoa and even let him have five mini-marshmallows instead of the usual four, and he _still_ wouldn’t give me the time of day, so I killed him, but that’s another story), I decided I would make a concerted effort to win him over. ---
**Author:** ![Tread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Tread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tread)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2013, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-but/663656/253 "2013-12-27T07:33:17Z")
But I didn’t like his smell ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2013, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-but/663656/254 "2013-12-28T03:58:25Z")
So, with a friendly smile, I offered him my deodorant stick. ---
**Author:** ![randompattern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@randompattern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randompattern)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2013, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-but/663656/255 "2013-12-28T04:04:22Z")
But, it gave him a terrible rash. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2013, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-but/663656/256 "2013-12-28T16:28:50Z")
So, with a friendly smile, I offered him my rash cream. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2013, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-but/663656/257 "2013-12-29T03:49:19Z")
But he was, understandably I suppose, reluctant to put anything else I offered him on his body. ---
**Author:** ![Tread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Tread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tread)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-but/663656/258 "2013-12-31T22:33:46Z")
So I offered to apply it for him… ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2014, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-but/663656/259 "2014-01-01T00:06:47Z")
…but I was arrested for solicitation. ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2014, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-but/663656/260 "2014-01-01T01:37:06Z")
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