# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852/81 "2007-01-09T03:54:30Z")
[QUOTE=The Flying Dutchman] Now try and find a cite where I started a pit thread of an unaccomplished idiot. [/QUOTE] have you pittted yourself lately? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852/82 "2007-01-09T03:57:04Z")
[QUOTE=The Flying Dutchman] Now try and find a cite where I started a pit thread of an unaccomplished idiot. [/QUOTE] Hey, **Liberal** , if I weren’t a gentleman… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852/83 "2007-01-09T07:17:42Z")
Wait! Wait! I haven’t finished my analysis! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852/84 "2007-01-09T13:57:51Z")
[QUOTE=Czarcasm] Hey, **Liberal** , if I weren’t a gentleman… 😛 [/QUOTE] I didn’t bring \*\* Lib\*\* to the pit, you did. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852/85 "2007-01-09T14:21:35Z")
[QUOTE=The Flying Dutchman] I didn’t bring \*\* Lib\*\* to the pit, you did. [/QUOTE] [Liberal](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=403009) Are you OK? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852/86 "2007-01-09T14:42:56Z")
[QUOTE=The Flying Dutchman] I didn’t bring \*\* Lib\*\* to the pit, you did. [/QUOTE] If I recall correctly, _you_ pitted him-I merely moved your weakly disguised pitting to the proper forum. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852/87 "2007-01-09T15:32:58Z")
[QUOTE=The Flying Dutchman] Thankyou for the clarification I’m sorry if I harmed you in any way I’m sorry that I suggested that you gratuitously inferred that I was being macho. You had good reason. Anything else 🙂 [/QUOTE] Okay, fine. We’ll leave it at that. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852/88 "2007-01-09T16:06:53Z")
I _still_ say you use the images and representations of professional golf tournaments without the express written permission of the PGA. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852/89 "2007-01-09T16:12:06Z")
Tamerlane is well worth the pitting. Rebelling against the Jats is one thing; but there is _no_ excuse for that whole “making towers out of human skulls” thing. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852/90 "2007-01-09T16:28:41Z")
[QUOTE=Malthus] Tamerlane is well worth the pitting. Rebelling against the Jats is one thing; but there is _no_ excuse for that whole “making towers out of human skulls” thing. :mad: [/QUOTE] Hey! What’s wrong with recycling, huh? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852/91 "2007-01-09T16:59:38Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] Hey! What’s wrong with recycling, huh? 😕 [/QUOTE] So _that’s_ what happens when you don’t put your cardboard in the correct container? :eek: Environmentalism just got outta hand. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852/92 "2007-01-09T18:24:32Z")
Hey, **Malthus** , I’m really getting a kick out of seeing your username coupled with the content of your last two posts here. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852/93 "2007-01-09T19:52:34Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] Hey, **Malthus** , I’m really getting a kick out of seeing your username coupled with the content of your last two posts here. 😃 [/QUOTE] Soon my posts will multiply and outstrip my supply of readers. 😉 ---
**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 9, 2007, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852/94 "2007-01-09T23:49:16Z")
[QUOTE=The Flying Dutchman] The only reason that prompted me to reply in this thread is that I really owe you an appology. I ask you to accept that the editing of that post was not intentional to deceive. My attempt was to focus. I was clearly wrong. Upon re reading your post I had to ask myself “what the hell was I thinking?”. So **Colibri** I am truly sorry about that post. I was wrong. [/QUOTE] Thanks for the apology. And I’m glad to see that you have offered **Tamerlane** an apology (more or less). (But I also hope you never pit me out of “respect.” It’s never a good thing to be pitted, even mistakenly or out of “respect.”) However, I do think you need to examine “what the the hell you were thinking.” First, you misinterpreted \*\*Tamerlane’s \*\* comment, put the worst possible spin on it, and took offense at it; then you edited my comment in a way that changed its meaning, and took offense at that. I’ll take you on your word that your _intent_ was not to deceive others; but you were certainly deceiving yourself as to what both **Tamerlane** and I were actually saying. You seem to be undertaking some self-analysis; I hope you can find out why you are so quick to take offense. As I said before, you seem to be highly concerned that people “respect” you, but don’t seem to understand how to go about gaining it. Certainly pitting a poster like **Tamerlane** is not the way to go about it, not unless the offense is something major and you are absolutely sure you are in the right. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852/95 "2007-01-10T00:35:22Z")
Colibri is absolutely correct. Even someone with the status of Wally M (which was nearly godlike) can be put in place when the assailant is right. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tamerlane/386852.md?page=4)