# So, Otto. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 25, 2007, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-otto/423915 "2007-10-25T02:07:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-otto/423915/61 "2007-10-25T22:16:48Z")
[QUOTE=CarnalK] So you said the new meds are working, did you? I’m less convinced. [/QUOTE] Yeah, they’re working. That’s why I can calmly suggest you direct your ire to the [sick fuck](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?userid=58179) who was originally so flippant about the death rattle — here on a board with real people who have had real loved ones die right in front of them. If it bothers you to hear what it really is, then it should bother you a thousand times more to hear it [tossed out as a joke](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9108025&postcount=23). Of course, you will see it differently, and my viewpoint cannot possibly have any validity! 😃 God I love Clonazepam! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-otto/423915/62 "2007-10-25T22:22:34Z")
Well, hey, if calmly describing your Mother’s death so you can score a message board zinger means the drugs are working then I guess I’ll just shutup and let you get on with business. Never change, liberalalatarian, please, never change. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-otto/423915/63 "2007-10-25T22:24:15Z")
Your viewpoint is fucked up beyond all recognition, rooted as it is in a complete absence of a sense of humor AND a complete inability to recognize when something is inappropriate. Here’s an FYI: If I start a thread about how my car “died” and incorporate a flippant comment about its death rattle, that will NOT be an invitation for you to further desecrate your poor mother’s memory by again relating what she sounded like as she passed away. And don’t bother trying to pass off the “sick fuck” title to **lobstermobster** ; after that post, the crown is clearly yours. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-otto/423915/64 "2007-10-25T22:25:00Z")
You guys know she was just making a silly movie quote right? ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-otto/423915/65 "2007-10-25T22:25:33Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] Yeah, they’re working. That’s why I can calmly suggest you direct your ire to the [sick fuck](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?userid=58179) who was originally so flippant about the death rattle — here on a board with real people who have had real loved ones die right in front of them. If it bothers you to hear what it really is, then it should bother you a thousand times more to hear it [tossed out as a joke](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9108025&postcount=23). Of course, you will see it differently, and my viewpoint cannot possibly have any validity! 😃 God I love Clonazepam! 🙂 [/QUOTE] Oh my god you are such a fucking drama queen! lobstermobster is a sick fuck, but in this case, just making an off-color joke in the Pit. This thread is not about you or your mother. Why don’t you Pit LM for her insensitive comment if it bothers you so much? Or maybe just STFU? ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-otto/423915/66 "2007-10-25T22:26:04Z")
Brad Pitt, Ed Norton… Bueller? ---
**Author:** ![lobstermobster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobstermobster/32/10033_2.png) [@lobstermobster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobstermobster)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-otto/423915/67 "2007-10-25T22:27:01Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] Yeah, they’re working. That’s why I can calmly suggest you direct your ire to the [sick fuck](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?userid=58179) who was originally so flippant about the death rattle — here on a board with real people who have had real loved ones die right in front of them. If it bothers you to hear what it really is, then it should bother you a thousand times more to hear it [tossed out as a joke](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9108025&postcount=23). Of course, you will see it differently, and my viewpoint cannot possibly have any validity! 😃 God I love Clonazepam! 🙂 [/QUOTE] Holy SHIT. First of all, I thought the death rattle was just this literary term not the actual rattle of Liberal’s dying mother. Second of all, is everything off limits now? If I say I hate asparagus is someone going to fly off the handle because I’m being so flippant about their dead dog’s (not comparing a dog to a mother)favorite vegetable? Third, what the fucckkkk? ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-otto/423915/68 "2007-10-25T22:31:09Z")
[QUOTE=bbs2k] You guys know she was just making a silly movie quote right? [/QUOTE] I’m waiting for **Lib** to tell us what movie _his_ quote is from. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-otto/423915/69 "2007-10-25T22:36:49Z")
[QUOTE=lobstermobster] Holy SHIT. First of all, I thought the death rattle was just this literary term not the actual rattle of Liberal’s dying mother. Second of all, is everything off limits now? If I say I hate asparagus is someone going to fly off the handle because I’m being so flippant about their dead dog’s (not comparing a dog to a mother)favorite vegetable? Third, what the fucckkkk? [/QUOTE] Don’t worry about it. We’ve got your back on this one. **Liberal** , I never join in the pile-ons that happen to you around here, but you’re totally overreacting with this. **LM** obviously just making a sort of Carlinesque quip about a cliched phrase (apparently without even realizing it had any literal connotations) and you personalize that as an attack on your mother? Lighten up, dude. Should we avoid saying anything figurative about having heart attacks or strokes because someone might have a relative who died of a heart attack or a stroke? ---
**Author:** ![lobstermobster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobstermobster/32/10033_2.png) [@lobstermobster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobstermobster)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-otto/423915/70 "2007-10-25T22:37:20Z")
You can listen to sounds of the death rattle on pulmonary medical websites. God the internet is truly amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-otto/423915/71 "2007-10-25T22:38:00Z")
[QUOTE=Jodi] I’m waiting for **Lib** to tell us what movie _his_ quote is from. [/QUOTE] One that’s running only in his head, 24 hours a day, baby. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-otto/423915/72 "2007-10-25T22:38:34Z")
[QUOTE=lobstermobster] dude you can listens to sounds of the death rattle on pulmonary sites. God the internet is truly amazing. [/QUOTE] Ok, now THAT is fucking dark. ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-otto/423915/73 "2007-10-25T22:40:23Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] **Liberal** , I never join in the pile-ons that happen to you around here, but you’re totally overreacting with this. **LM** obviously just making a sort of Carlinesque quip about a cliched phrase (apparently without even realizing it had any literal connotations) and you personalize that as an attack on your mother? Lighten up, dude. [/QUOTE] I agree. Let’s get back to pitting **Otto** , that sounds like more fun. 🆒 ---
**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:** [October 25, 2007, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-otto/423915/74 "2007-10-25T22:44:51Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] **Otto** , go to a fucking meeting, for fuck’s sake. [/QUOTE] He tried. They gave him a chip and he lost it betting on an AJ offsuit. So, Liberal, what do you suppose Andrew Jackson’s final breath was like? I bet he was singing joyfully about a life well led. ---
**Author:** ![lobstermobster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobstermobster/32/10033_2.png) [@lobstermobster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobstermobster)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-otto/423915/75 "2007-10-25T22:46:32Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] So, Liberal, what do you suppose Andrew Jackson’s final breath was like? I bet he was singing joyfully about a life well led. [/QUOTE] aww that’s heartwarming. I hope mine is like that. ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-otto/423915/76 "2007-10-25T22:54:48Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] You’re thinking of what agent orange smells like. [/QUOTE] I think you mean napalm. ETA: Sorry O-man I hadn’t seen your post when I jumped to post… ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-otto/423915/77 "2007-10-25T22:57:07Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > I bet he was singing joyfully about a life well led. Nobody knows. One day he started coughin’ then about a week later when the coughin’ stopped, Ol’ Hickory was dead. Fun fact: Confederate General _Stonewall_ Jackson is said to have gasped “Let us cross over the river and rest under the trees. Oy.” TMYK ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-otto/423915/78 "2007-10-25T23:03:27Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] The death rattle is a horrible, haunting sound that you will never forget, having heard it. Their suffocation is slow, as the lung’s mucous allows just enough passage of air to sustain one more long drawn out gasp. When the body makes its last few demands for breath, the rattle you hear is the sound of drowning. [/QUOTE] … and then you came back, against your own prediction. I’ll leave it at that, since the last time this topic was brought up, it ended up in all kinds of warnings and pittings. Or were you talking you talking about someone else’s? Back to attention whoring everyone. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-otto/423915/79 "2007-10-25T23:16:19Z")
Whoa. . . this thread is surreal!! On topic. . . let’s see. I didn’t know anything about **Otto** before this thread and the linked one, but if I ever meet him in person, I’ll know to hide my 20 bucks. So there’s that. Ignorance fought. Continue on. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-otto/423915/80 "2007-10-25T23:18:57Z")
Some people are lamenting the death of the Pit, but I say it’s as strong as ever. Hell, in the average pit thread nowadays you can find pileons of 2-4 different Dopers! It’s like watching a ping pong game: Now **Otto** is getting served, now **lobstermobster** , now **Liberal** …who’s next? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-otto/423915.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-otto/423915.md?page=5)