# ....Stranahan!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 13, 2002, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranahan/136589 "2002-11-13T16:09:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranahan/136589/21 "2002-11-14T22:53:04Z")
**Eve** , that brought a tear to my eye. **Stranahan** would have been proud! He was a great patron of the arts, you know. Well-schooled in Latin and Greek. He committed _Paradise Lost_ to memory when he was only fourteen years old. He invented the clerihew, and conducted the Brooklyn Philharmonic between 1868 and 1873. **GfH** : What is this? A flirt hijack in a serious thread? **Stranahan** would have HATED that. He brooked no nonsense. “You’re just the sort of person who is leading this country to rack and ruin,” **Stranahan** would have said. ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranahan/136589/22 "2002-11-14T23:17:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by \*\*Ukulele Ike \*\*\* > “What did he do…? Well… **Stranahan** was the FIRST MAN to put CHEESE in a BLITZ!!!” Another lame joke about Brett Far-ve laying down for Strahan’s sack record last year? ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranahan/136589/23 "2002-11-15T01:20:50Z")
{Charlie McCarthy Voice] I meant to type “blintz.” {/Charlie McCarthy Voice} Anyone ELSE care to point out the typo? ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranahan/136589/24 "2002-11-15T01:53:39Z")
Sure! Uh, **Ike** , you typed “blitz,” not “blintz.” :: d&r :: ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranahan/136589/25 "2002-11-15T02:00:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Billdo \* > \*\* > > No, No, No, **Gazelle from Hoboken**. The triumphal arch in Harry met Sally is in Manhattan. The Washington Square Arch is in Washington Square Park at the foot of Fifth Avenue in Greenwich Village.\*\* In fact, it’s but a few steps away from my apartment. It’s a little known fact (and much more than a coincidence) that many SD Staffers have Triumphal Arches built near their homes. In many cases, the arches were constructed a century or more before we even lived there. The conspiracy theorists can natter on all they want about pyramids on dollar bills and whatnot – we know who the _real_ illuminati are. ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranahan/136589/26 "2002-11-15T02:20:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gazelle from Hell \* > **Billdo** , you’re funny. Hey, do you tittilate as much as your handle suggests? If so, are you busy tonight? > > ::smacking myself for my brazenness:: > > :::wondering if I spelled brazennness correcccctttllly::: Actually, I have some free time tonight. Shall we tittalater? And do you mind if I smack your brazenness? (And, balderdash, **Ike**! **Stranahan** would have been proud. It was one of his fondest wishes to be memorialized overlooking an arch under which gentle lovers could quietly flirt in the middle of a giant traffic circle with honking cars trying to get every which way.) ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranahan/136589/27 "2002-11-15T13:13:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by manhattan \* > **In fact, it’s but a few steps away from my apartment.** Your neighborhood is also home to the world-famous statue of Garibaldi. Also a great man, though certainly not in the **Stranahan** class. Garibaldi would often take respite from his important work in forging the Italian nation-state to visit with **Stranahan** in his Brooklyn garden, discussing matters of international policy and perhaps playing a few hands of bridge whist. ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranahan/136589/28 "2002-11-15T14:01:59Z")
::waiting for someone to log in as **Stranahan** just so they can refer to this thread as proof of their greatness:: **Uke** , I think you’re jealous. Flirt hijacks are not only a cure for the common cold, but are environmentally friendly, dolphin safe, and prescribed by Doctor Mom. **Billdo** , call me. 1-900-HOB-OKEN ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranahan/136589/29 "2002-11-15T19:54:06Z")
Hey, **Gazelle** , if you’ll be Hoboken, I’ll be Weehawken. We’ll just have the Lincoln Tunnel between us. ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranahan/136589/30 "2002-11-15T20:14:28Z")
Why does that sound so dirty? ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranahan/136589/31 "2002-11-15T21:33:14Z")
Come on, darlin’, I’ll take you around all of the dirty New Jersey place names, from your Ho-Ho-Kus to your Rumson. ---
**Author:** ![stuyguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@stuyguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuyguy)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranahan/136589/32 "2003-04-21T04:01:57Z")
I resurrected this thread to alert all the Stranahan fans that some of us Dopers might pay our respects to ol’ Mr. S on May 18. Check out my post in this [thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=3307332#post3307332) ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranahan/136589/33 "2003-04-21T07:15:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ukulele Ike \* > Ewwwwww…there’s copyeditors all over! Get’ em offa me! Get 'em OFF! [gets out fly swatter] Smack! Whap! Splat! Goosh! and Smoosh! Happy, **Ike**? Complain for another millesecond and I’ll tell them all where your user name comes from! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranahan/136589.md?page=1)