# Starving Artist: Totally Insane? Or Just Almost? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 13, 2008, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starving-artist-totally-insane-or-just-almost/467678 "2008-10-13T05:04:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 19
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starving-artist-totally-insane-or-just-almost/467678/361 "2008-10-19T19:36:13Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Look at all the goddamned long-haired hippies in this picture. Can you imagine these long-haired goofballs accomplishing anything of importance? > > [Articles](http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/cp/vol-02/no-04/roundtable/images/signing-of-constitution.jpg) Not to mention [this rabble-rousing liberal](http://yohanan.no.sapo.pt/biblioteca/jesus_coroado.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starving-artist-totally-insane-or-just-almost/467678/362 "2008-10-19T20:07:03Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] I have run the previous post throught the Snarkatect 9000 (Radio Shack, $19.99) and it detects no hint of irony. So, either its busted, or I owe XT a graceful and sincere response. [/QUOTE] No snarkyness or irony intended, so no need to recalibrate. I don’t always agree with you, but when I do I do. C’est la vie. -XT ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starving-artist-totally-insane-or-just-almost/467678/363 "2008-10-19T20:49:53Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > Since when was the KKK outlawed? > > -Joe Same time the Mafia was. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starving-artist-totally-insane-or-just-almost/467678/364 "2008-10-19T20:59:20Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Same time the Mafia was. You mean liberals support the Mafia, too? But… aren’t they white? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starving-artist-totally-insane-or-just-almost/467678/365 "2008-10-19T21:16:23Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > You mean liberals support the Mafia, too? > > But… aren’t they white? No, no, no, they’re _Italian._ You know, the people who killed Jeebus. White people only come from places like Germany and maybe England if you’re feeling generous. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starving-artist-totally-insane-or-just-almost/467678/366 "2008-10-19T21:43:28Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > No, no, no, they’re _Italian._ You know, the people who killed Jeebus. White people only come from places like Germany and maybe England if you’re feeling generous. And there’s more than one Mafia-like the Russian or Japanese Mafia. 😉 Besides, I can’t remember-I was too busy working with the IRA at the time. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starving-artist-totally-insane-or-just-almost/467678/367 "2008-10-19T22:21:39Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > The sexual revolution had rather little to do with calls for the rise of the libertine state by those on the Left and everrything to do with the development of the birth control pill that allowed people, Left, Right, Center, and uncommitted, to engage in sex with few worries about pregnancy. There may have been louder spokespersons for free love (a concept that dated to the 19th century) on the Left, but the actual revolution was going on with or without the rhetoric. Thanks for your long and thoughtful post. Watch the 1999 film [The Lifestyle](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0196699/), a documentary filmed in Buena Park, California featuring right-wing conservatives who get together frequently for back year barbecues and group sex. Statistically, more Republicans are in the group sex scene than Democrats. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starving-artist-totally-insane-or-just-almost/467678/368 "2008-10-19T22:33:45Z")
_Ewwww!_ ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starving-artist-totally-insane-or-just-almost/467678/369 "2008-10-19T22:43:21Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > _Ewwww!_ Well, what political party did J. Edgar Hoover belong to? And wasn’t Strom Thurmond supposed to be a total slut? ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starving-artist-totally-insane-or-just-almost/467678/370 "2008-10-19T23:04:59Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Well, what political party did J. Edgar Hoover belong to? And wasn’t Strom Thurmond supposed to be a total slut? I remember that his self-applied nickname was “Sperm” Thurmond. Sorry about skeeving people out. It’s just a useful data point about those who consider liberals the less committed to relationships and more likely to have promiscuous sex. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starving-artist-totally-insane-or-just-almost/467678/371 "2008-10-20T00:01:25Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > I could have written these responses myself, so predictable and dishonest are they. QFT. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starving-artist-totally-insane-or-just-almost/467678/372 "2008-10-20T02:06:23Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > QFT. Quantum Fourier Transform? ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starving-artist-totally-insane-or-just-almost/467678/373 "2008-10-20T02:23:54Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Quantum Fourier Transform? quitium feedium trollicus I presume ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starving-artist-totally-insane-or-just-almost/467678/374 "2008-10-20T02:36:33Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > QFT. Why should we interrupt this thread to talk about Quantum Field Theory? I say that we should get back to giving **Starving for Attention** lots of attention because of his extremely anger provoking, stupid, crazy, groundless and racist opinions. I’m sure he only wants to have an honest and rational discussion, rather than getting lots and lots of attention. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starving-artist-totally-insane-or-just-almost/467678/375 "2008-10-20T02:40:23Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > I remember that his self-applied nickname was “Sperm” Thurmond. > > Sorry about skeeving people out. It’s just a useful data point about those who consider liberals the less committed to relationships and more likely to have promiscuous sex. [Read](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=2625247&postcount=14) [Shakespeare.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5252628&postcount=95) Am I the only guy present who’s had sex with a legendary Republican political strategist’s (hot) wife while he watched, and slapped me on the ass (which creeped me out)? ---
**Author:** ![Bambro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df705f/32.png) [@Bambro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambro)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starving-artist-totally-insane-or-just-almost/467678/376 "2008-10-20T02:43:17Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > QFT. Once you get SA’s cock out of your mouth and finally decide to have an original thought…did you have something to add to the thread? ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starving-artist-totally-insane-or-just-almost/467678/377 "2008-10-20T03:04:12Z")
> [@Bambro](#): > > Once you get SA’s cock out of your mouth and finally decide to have an original thought…did you have something to add to the thread? If you want to be that rude, at least be correct. I’m pretty sure **Gyrate** was slamming **Starving Artist** with that post. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starving-artist-totally-insane-or-just-almost/467678/378 "2008-10-20T03:05:21Z")
> [@F.U.Shakespeare](#): > > Am I the only guy present who’s had sex with a legendary Republican political strategist’s (hot) wife while he watched, and slapped me on the ass (which creeped me out)? Of course not. You’re just the only one bragging about it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starving-artist-totally-insane-or-just-almost/467678/379 "2008-10-20T03:19:57Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Quantum Fourier Transform? It usually means “quoted for truth.” Though if it does in this case, I weep for humanity. And unicorns. I weep for both! ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starving-artist-totally-insane-or-just-almost/467678/380 "2008-10-20T03:26:28Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Though if it does in this case, I weep for humanity. And unicorns. I weep for both! Either I’m completely wrong in my assessment of **Gyrate** ’s intention, or he/she and I share a sense of humor that many people don’t seem to get. Here’s the original quote: > [@Starving Artist](#): > > I could have written these responses myself, so predictable and dishonest are they. Let me paraphrase that quote in a way that **Gyrate** ’s post might make more sense. > [@paraphrase](#): > > Those responses are so predictable and dishonest that they look like something that I’d write. Wouldn’t a QFT be fitting in that case? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starving-artist-totally-insane-or-just-almost/467678.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starving-artist-totally-insane-or-just-almost/467678.md?page=20)