# So, what's the point, Konrad?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-point-konrad/3354
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [December 2, 1999, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-point-konrad/3354 "1999-12-02T08:48:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@ChrisCTP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisCTP)
#### Post date: [December 10, 1999, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-point-konrad/3354/41 "1999-12-10T21:53:00Z")
Hm. Ok, well, I think it’s safe to say that this thread has run its course.
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“…all the prettiest girls live in Des Moines…”
–Jack Kerouac, _On the Road_
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### Author:  [@Konrad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Konrad)
#### Post date: [December 12, 1999, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-point-konrad/3354/42 "1999-12-12T01:38:00Z")
Rousseau: \Get stuffed.\ I’ll give your opinion the consideration it deserves.
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### Author:  [@bj0rn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bj0rn)
#### Post date: [December 13, 1999, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-point-konrad/3354/43 "1999-12-13T13:17:00Z")
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> Heavy on the misinterpretation
good one rousseau, specially coming from you who cant interpet ‘cant’ from ‘cant’ in a sentance!
bj0rn
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### Author:  [@Occam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Occam)
#### Post date: [December 13, 1999, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-point-konrad/3354/44 "1999-12-13T17:16:00Z")
Look, we’re going to deal with this right now. Pointing out spelling mistakes is no substitute for wit.
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### Author:  [@VegForLife](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VegForLife)
#### Post date: [December 14, 1999, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-point-konrad/3354/45 "1999-12-14T06:04:00Z")
Especially when it’s executed thusly (emphasis mine):
**g** ood one rousseau, **specially** coming from you who **cant** **interpet** ‘cant’ from ‘cant’ in a sent **a** nce!
The fact that both quoted "can’t"s in the sentence don’t help, either, nor the missing comma.
Geez, bj0rn, don’t take this path, stick to what you do best. What is that again?
Rich
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### Author:  [@VegForLife](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VegForLife)
#### Post date: [December 14, 1999, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-point-konrad/3354/46 "1999-12-14T06:06:00Z")
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> The fact that both quoted "can’t"s in the sentence don’t help, either, nor the missing comma.
Sorry, that should be:
The fact that both quoted "can’t"s in the sentence are identical doesn’t help, either, etc.
Rich
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### Author:  [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)
#### Post date: [December 13, 1999, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-point-konrad/3354/47 "1999-12-13T20:41:00Z")
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> cant (kànt) noun
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> 1. Monotonous talk filled with platitudes.
> 2. Hypocritically pious language.
> 3. The special vocabulary peculiar to the members of an underworld group; argot.
> 4. Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
> 5. The special terminology understood among the members of a profession, discipline, or class but obscure to the general population; jargon. See synonyms at dialect.
from _The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition_ copyright © 1992 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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### Author:  [@ChrisCTP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisCTP)
#### Post date: [December 13, 1999, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-point-konrad/3354/48 "1999-12-13T21:38:00Z")
Oh, fer cryin’ out loud…
Lynn, would you please do me the favor of _killing_ this thread? Please?
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“…all the prettiest girls live in Des Moines…”
–Jack Kerouac, _On the Road_
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### Author:  [@pricciar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pricciar)
#### Post date: [December 13, 1999, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-point-konrad/3354/49 "1999-12-13T21:58:00Z")
Huh?
Everytime a thread doesn’t go the way you want it to go you wanna close it?
Huh?
pat
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### Author:  [@ChrisCTP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisCTP)
#### Post date: [December 14, 1999, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-point-konrad/3354/50 "1999-12-14T09:04:00Z")
The damn thread didn’t go anywhere, Pat. I don’t know why I even bothered with opening it. That’s why I want to kill it. No reason to keep it around, cluttering things up.
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“…all the prettiest girls live in Des Moines…”
–Jack Kerouac, _On the Road_
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### Author:  [@bj0rn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bj0rn)
#### Post date: [December 14, 1999, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-point-konrad/3354/51 "1999-12-14T10:31:00Z")
you are correct chris, some people have wondered off topic (some werent even on topic in the first place).
i guess though that if konrad could have intelligently argued his point (not just asking us to find illogical arguments he made). i dont want to blame just him for how this thread has turned out, but this is “his” thread and he should perhaps pay better attention to it.
as for them other silly sods:
thank you andros(you are not a silly sod :))for pointing that out to the canters! i would have thought they would figure this out themselves.
of course ‘cant’ and ‘cant’ are spelled the same way! its the same bloody word! if i was to write “can’t” and ‘cant’ in the same sentance where there could be the slightest doubt about misinterpetation i would somehow attribute each word with an explanation (if the sentance itself wouldnt).
what i meant was “coming from you who cant interpet ‘cant’ from ‘cant’ in a sentance!” and there is nothing mysterious about it.
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> Look, we’re going to deal with this right now. Pointing out spelling mistakes is no substitute for wit.
right you are, but if it was true which one would be the stupid one, the misspeller or the corrector?
bj0rn
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### Author:  [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)
#### Post date: [December 14, 1999, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-point-konrad/3354/52 "1999-12-14T12:25:00Z")
bj0rn,
Stop sniffing your Magic Marker, post haste !
## Boy, is this kid inhaling or what 😉
Coldfire
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“You know how complex women are”
- Neil Peart, Rush (1993)
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### Author:  [@Rousseau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rousseau)
#### Post date: [December 14, 1999, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-point-konrad/3354/53 "1999-12-14T21:29:00Z")
Fine, to appease Chris, every post from now until the end of this thread will end with “None of this changes the fact that Konrad is an immature stupid-head.”
I would like to take this opportunity to propose my hypothesis that bj0rn is full of shit, and he actually meant to write “can’t,” but the punctuation concepts involved were a little to advanced. He got both lucky (in that “cant,” by some grace of God, actually was a word), and bailed out (by andros, who took the time to look “cant” up in the dictionary just to save bj0rn’s Viking ass).
BTW, bj0rn,
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> i guess though that if konrad could have intelligently argued his point (not just asking us to find illogical arguments he made).
## People, am I the only one who sees the irony in these statements?
The IQ of a group is equal to the IQ of the dumbest member divided by the number of people in the group.
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### Author:  [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)
#### Post date: [December 14, 1999, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-point-konrad/3354/54 "1999-12-14T22:55:00Z")
Rousseau, I believe you meant to say, “None of this changes the fact that Konrad is an immature stupid-head.”
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### Author:  [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)
#### Post date: [December 15, 1999, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-point-konrad/3354/55 "1999-12-15T12:59:00Z")
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> I would like to take this opportunity to propose my hypothesis that bj0rn is full of shit, and he actually meant to write “can’t,” but the punctuation concepts involved were a little to advanced.
I would like to take this opportunity to propose my hypothesis that Rousseau meant to type “too advanced,” but the difference between “to,” “too” and “two” is a little too advanced.
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“It’s my considered opinion you’re all a bunch of sissies!”–Paul’s Grandfather
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### Author:  [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)
#### Post date: [December 15, 1999, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-point-konrad/3354/56 "1999-12-15T13:20:00Z")
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> I would like to take this opportunity to propose my hypothesis that Rousseau meant to type “too advanced,” but the difference between “to,” “too” and “two” is a little too advanced.
I would like to take this opportunity to propose my hypothesis that Phil meant to type “the differences between ‘to,’ ‘too,’ and ‘two,’ are a little too advanced.”
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### Author:  [@bj0rn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bj0rn)
#### Post date: [December 15, 1999, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-point-konrad/3354/57 "1999-12-15T19:47:00Z")
_lost of error stuff_
i would like to take this opportunity to propose that your hypothesis does not matter in this case.
andros:
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> Rousseau, I believe you meant to say, “None of this changes the fact that Konrad is an immature stupid-head.”
who knows? who cares? is is not just a hypothesis?
bj0rn - bibo, ergo sum (this one is for you coldfire ;))
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### Author:  [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)
#### Post date: [December 15, 1999, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-point-konrad/3354/58 "1999-12-15T19:52:00Z")
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> I would like to take this opportunity to propose my hypothesis that Phil meant to type “the differences between ‘to,’ ‘too,’ and ‘two,’ are a little too advanced.”
I would like to take this opportunity to propose my hypothesis that WallyM7 meant to type “the differences among ‘to,’ ‘too,’ and ‘two,’ are a little too advanced.”
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### Author:  [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)
#### Post date: [December 15, 1999, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-point-konrad/3354/59 "1999-12-15T20:32:00Z")
I would like to take this opportunity to propose my hypothesis that none of this changes the fact that Konrad is an immature stupid-head.
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“There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.”
~P.J. O’Rourke~
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### Author:  [@Rousseau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rousseau)
#### Post date: [December 15, 1999, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-point-konrad/3354/60 "1999-12-15T20:50:00Z")
I respectfully concur with UncleBeer
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