# Stoidela, you think the North is better than the South?? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 14, 2000, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stoidela-you-think-the-north-is-better-than-the-south/41190 "2000-11-14T19:48:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stoidela-you-think-the-north-is-better-than-the-south/41190/141 "2000-11-16T22:57:24Z")
I would like to make it clear that I have only **ONE** sock puppet, and that is Freedom2. > [@](#): > > I’m somewhat surprised you’d out me, Freedom; after all, I’m your sock puppet! I have quite an internal battle over this, as I can never really decide if the **REAL** sock puppet is Freedom2 or Gadarene. I don’t know if there’s another sock puppet in this thread. Let me say that again… \*\* I don’t know if there’s another sock puppet in this thread. \*\* I do wonder why some would doubt the motivation behind **VoiceofReason’s** posting any more than any other newbie on the board, though. IMHO it’s probable that any real lurker worth anything could easily have started posting in a pit thread, even if they planned on staying around for any length of time. Hope this clears things up. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Freedom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Freedom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freedom)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stoidela-you-think-the-north-is-better-than-the-south/41190/142 "2000-11-16T23:05:06Z")
If you read Gadarene’s posts, and then you read mine, you can only begin to imagine the turmoil within this head of mine. I actually have two computers to post with. One Marked **GADARENE** and one marked **Freedom**. I’m a little pissed off that I always get the older computer. If she doesn’t watch it I’m going to switch those stickers and take her computer. It is possible that NVMR is Gadarene’s sock puppet. It wouldn’t be the first time she snuck out and cheated on me without my knowledge. (hold on, I’ll ask her) ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stoidela-you-think-the-north-is-better-than-the-south/41190/143 "2000-11-16T23:26:04Z")
Now _I’m_ confused. _unzips pants_ _checks something_ _rezips pants_ _Whew_…still male. **Freedom** , m’friend, I’m afraid you’re a teeny weeny bit confused. 'Cause there’s nothing teeny about my…never mind. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Freedom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Freedom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freedom)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stoidela-you-think-the-north-is-better-than-the-south/41190/144 "2000-11-16T23:36:13Z")
See how confused I am? All this time I thought you were a woman. You have no idea how many internal conflicts this resolves. ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stoidela-you-think-the-north-is-better-than-the-south/41190/145 "2000-11-16T23:40:04Z")
You sayin’ I write like a girl?? Put 'em up! 😃 (Actually, though, I _am_ curious as to what gave you that impression…interesting.) ---
**Author:** ![Freedom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Freedom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freedom)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stoidela-you-think-the-north-is-better-than-the-south/41190/146 "2000-11-16T23:52:35Z")
It’s probably because for the longest time I thought that you and Gaudere were the same poster. (she is a she isn’t she?:)) Then the association probably never left my head. (It’s a mess in here) ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stoidela-you-think-the-north-is-better-than-the-south/41190/147 "2000-11-16T23:56:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Freedom2 \* > It’s probably because for the longest time I thought that you and Gaudere were the same poster. (she is a she isn’t she?:)) > > Then the association probably never left my head. (It’s a mess in here) Oh, yeah, fair point. People were callin’ me Gaudere pretty often the first month or so I was here. Serves me right for choosing a screen name which shared five letters, _in the same order_, with one of the most articulate posters around. Maybe I was hoping that some of that eloquence would rub off on me. …Hey Gaudere, wanna rub off on me? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stoidela-you-think-the-north-is-better-than-the-south/41190/148 "2000-11-17T00:04:49Z")
Xenophon: That was not what Stoid’s rural comment was saying, and even if it was the fact that you took that germ and made it cohesive and comprehensible doesn’t make it what was said (and it’s still wrong.) ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stoidela-you-think-the-north-is-better-than-the-south/41190/149 "2000-11-17T00:08:18Z")
This thread is giving me a major headache. I’m gonna try and do something constructive. ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stoidela-you-think-the-north-is-better-than-the-south/41190/150 "2000-11-17T00:15:58Z")
Think I’ll do the same, **Scylla**. 🙂 Hey **Freedom2** — you’re a charming guy when you lighten up! \ ---
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stoidela-you-think-the-north-is-better-than-the-south/41190/151 "2000-11-17T00:39:40Z")
> [@](#): > > …Hey Gaudere, wanna rub off on me? Sure…you just have to move a little bit closer. Like, say, 2000 miles. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stoidela-you-think-the-north-is-better-than-the-south/41190/152 "2000-11-17T00:52:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gaudere \* > > > [@](#): > > > > …Hey Gaudere, wanna rub off on me? > > Sure…you just have to move a little bit closer. Like, say, 2000 miles. 😉 Yeah? 🙂 Well, considering where I’ll likely be going to law school, I’m gonna end up 1000 miles away in the _other_ direction! I just can’t win, I guess… [sub](Woo hoo! We’ve successfully defused this thread, _and_ I got to flirt with a moderator in the Pit!)[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Freedom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Freedom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freedom)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stoidela-you-think-the-north-is-better-than-the-south/41190/153 "2000-11-17T01:38:21Z")
Yeah…this thread has been defused. I had been typing out a reply waaaaaaaaayyyy earlier in the day to xeno rebutting his points. I was having a blast pulling quotes from the different threads stoidela had been in, when all of a sudden the board turned into molasses. I couldn’t preview my posts, I couldn’t open up other pages or threads. I tried to post in mid-post and then come back later and finish it when things were faster. But my thread never posted. And then the sock puppet thing happened(again). And then everybody got nice. I’m completely defused now. Unfortunately the only person I got to flirt with was Gadarene:), but at least I got a semi-compliment from xeno. (FWIW…That **WAS** a parody not a strawman:)) ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stoidela-you-think-the-north-is-better-than-the-south/41190/154 "2000-11-17T01:45:37Z")
Yeah, Stoidela even complimented my thread today. Sheesh. If I can’t find something to get pissed and self-righteous about soon I’ll have to just pretend. ---
**Author:** ![Freedom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Freedom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freedom)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stoidela-you-think-the-north-is-better-than-the-south/41190/155 "2000-11-17T02:27:47Z")
Yeah, I saw that compliment. With Millosarian, ExTank and me around, you are looking more and more like a moderate:) Did you e-mail a moderator to see if the newest poster is legit? I’m dieing to see their ESP abilites decipher that one:) My bet, as always is on sock puppet. Of course…my record is not exactly stellar. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stoidela-you-think-the-north-is-better-than-the-south/41190/156 "2000-11-17T03:16:09Z")
Blessed are the peacemakers. They separate sweaty, vein-popping, furious partisans until sense and humanity resurface. Of course they often get decked for their efforts, so praise all around to those who cooled off–and those who Fought Ignorance, imposed the cooling off and encouraged discussion instead of ranting. Respectful nods to all parties, Veb ---
**Author:** ![Marvel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marvel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvel)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stoidela-you-think-the-north-is-better-than-the-south/41190/157 "2000-11-17T03:54:39Z")
Stoidela Forgive if I’ve missed something as I’ve only read the first half of the first page of this thread, but… Whatever your political views are, there’s no need to get smarmy with folks. For the record, I’m a lefty who voted for Gore and is disappointed that the Democrats as a whole aren’t _further_ to the left, so this isn’t about disagreeing with your politics. What does bother me is the tone you take with people. Referring to strangers (assuming you’ve never actually met anyone posting here) and thier arguements as “cute” and “darling” the way you did strikes me as condescending. Hey, I think Bush is so inept its scarry (the Reps really should’ve put McCain on the ticket instead), but there’s no need to get nasty with the people who voted for him. I don’t know if you intend to mean “cute” in a complimentary way (my gut feeling is “no”) or if you don’t realize just how brazenly rude your post are, but please stop. You wouldn’t want folks to dismiss your issues as “darling” or some such thing, so please show others the same respect. Thank you. Sincerely, Patty Marvel ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stoidela-you-think-the-north-is-better-than-the-south/41190/158 "2000-11-17T04:00:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Marvel \* > \*\*Stoidela > > Hey, I think Bush is so inept its scarry \*\* It’s just a boil, and they say it will completely heal. I don’t know why you make such a big deal about it. We all can’t live up to your perfect Barbie & Ken Doll images. Damn liberal. I wish you’d stick to the issues. ::trying to decide if I need a smiley here or not:: ---
**Author:** ![Marvel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marvel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvel)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stoidela-you-think-the-north-is-better-than-the-south/41190/159 "2000-11-17T05:43:16Z")
"It’s just a boil, and they say it will completely heal. I don’t know why you make such a big deal about it. We all can’t live up to your perfect Barbie & Ken Doll images. Damn liberal. I wish you’d stick to the issues. ::trying to decide if I need a smiley here or not::" No smiley needed! 🙂 Patty P.S. Pardon my choice of words, but I bet you’re cute! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stoidela-you-think-the-north-is-better-than-the-south/41190.md?page=7)