# Tamerlane **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 5, 2007, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852 "2007-01-05T19:42:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852/21 "2007-01-06T01:54:23Z")
[QUOTE=Rysdad] Did anyone ever pit Schrodinger? [/QUOTE] Someone pitted prime numbers once. Or the number 2. Or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852/22 "2007-01-06T02:24:44Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] Someone pitted prime numbers once. Or the number 2. Or something like that. [/QUOTE] How about all those butterflies causing all those bloody storms. ---
**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:** [January 6, 2007, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852/23 "2007-01-06T03:01:40Z")
[QUOTE=Jodi] This may be the most pathetic Pitting ever. [/QUOTE] I’ve seen patheticer. Not _much_ patheticer, mind you. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852/24 "2007-01-06T04:16:16Z")
“(hopefully)”? Wow… just _Wow_. I didn’t think hyper-sensitivity meters went that high. Dutchman are you off your fucking meds or something? Images of Tamerlane being beaten by a burly Singaporean Sergeant welding a thick rattan cane while shouting. “Well now! You’ll choose your words more carefully in the future! Won’t you now?” \*\* “Whack!”\*\* ---
**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:** [January 6, 2007, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852/25 "2007-01-06T05:13:44Z")
[QUOTE=astro] Images of Tamerlane being beaten by a burly Singaporean Sergeant welding a thick rattan cane while shouting. “Well now! You’ll choose your words more carefully in the future! Won’t you now?” [/QUOTE] Kinky. ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852/26 "2007-01-06T06:38:59Z")
Well, we had geometers pitting each other over parallel lines once. But, that was a classic thread. Pages long, as I recall, and quite informative. But, it was a math geek pitting, mostly inscrutable to the average Doper. This one is mostly lame, and that’s the high points. ## Tris “What have you done to that cat? It looks half dead!” ~ Mrs. Erwin Schrodinger ~ ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852/27 "2007-01-06T12:40:27Z")
The whole thread, and the one it references, strikes me as the petulant whinings of an 8 year old trying to get attention. ---
**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:** [January 6, 2007, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852/28 "2007-01-06T15:41:32Z")
[QUOTE=Turek] The whole thread, and the one it references, strikes me as the petulant whinings of an 8 year old trying to get attention. [/QUOTE] Or one that didn’t get the fire truck he wanted for Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852/29 "2007-01-06T16:59:41Z")
[QUOTE=Tamerlane] Good for you, I guess. - Tamerlane [/QUOTE] How disappointing. I was anticipating you would at the very least dispatch a horde to bring you back the Dutchman’s head on a silver salver. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852/30 "2007-01-06T17:51:19Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > Someone pitted prime numbers once. Or the number 2. Or something like that. > [@rayh](#): > > How about all those butterflies causing all those bloody storms. > [@Triskadecamus](#): > > Well, we had geometers pitting each other over parallel lines once. Am I getting whooshed, or are these real threads? They sound interesting ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852/31 "2007-01-06T18:19:20Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Carrot] Am I getting whooshed, or are these real threads? They sound interesting [/QUOTE] [Prime Numbers (Math rant. You have been warned)](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=104400) [Listen closely, people: parallel lines NEVER intersect!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=128186) I don’t think the butterflies have been pitted yet for causing storms, but there is [No, I Don’t Like Butterflies. Yes, You May Harass Me Mercilessly.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=166667) ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852/32 "2007-01-06T18:30:42Z")
[QUOTE=JeffB] I don’t think the butterflies have been pitted yet for causing storms, but there is [No, I Don’t Like Butterflies. Yes, You May Harass Me Mercilessly.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=166667) [/QUOTE] Link fixed. ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852/33 "2007-01-06T18:41:07Z")
Thank you, kind sir. I’d also like to point out [The Butterfly Effect](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=235517) has been pitted, but that was the move, not the phenomenon. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852/34 "2007-01-07T00:47:30Z")
[QUOTE=Colibri] that’s lamer than Timur himself. [/QUOTE] Colibri, that was fucking awesome. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852/35 "2007-01-07T04:06:48Z")
[QUOTE=Left Hand of Dorkness] Colibri, that was fucking awesome. Daniel [/QUOTE] Thank you. One so rarely has the chance to make puns on the names of Central Asian despots. ---
**Author:** ![Sevastopol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Sevastopol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sevastopol)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852/36 "2007-01-07T04:55:40Z")
[QUOTE=Colibri] Thank you. One so rarely has the chance to make puns on the names of Central Asian despots. [/QUOTE] Ahmen to that. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852/37 "2007-01-07T06:07:01Z")
[QUOTE=Colibri] Thank you. One so rarely has the chance to make puns on the names of Central Asian despots. [/QUOTE] It sucks, but what khan you do? ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852/38 "2007-01-07T06:32:03Z")
Hu are you referring to? ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852/39 "2007-01-07T15:31:35Z")
[QUOTE=China Guy] Hu are you referring to? [/QUOTE] Oh no, [I’m having flashbacks!](http://blogs.salon.com/0001561/stories/2002/11/21/husOnFirst.html) ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852/40 "2007-01-07T15:55:18Z")
[QUOTE=China Guy] Hu are you referring to? [/QUOTE] Ogodai smash! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852.md?page=3)