# Tell me Starving Artist wouldn't be a burglar. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 5, 2007, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-starving-artist-wouldnt-be-a-burglar/394726 "2007-03-05T21:49:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nancarrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c37758/32.png) [@Nancarrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nancarrow)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2007, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-starving-artist-wouldnt-be-a-burglar/394726/21 "2007-03-05T23:02:13Z")
I tell you, the pit just ain’t what it used to be. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2007, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-starving-artist-wouldnt-be-a-burglar/394726/22 "2007-03-05T23:08:28Z")
So why **did** the socialist dictator burglar cross the road? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2007, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-starving-artist-wouldnt-be-a-burglar/394726/23 "2007-03-05T23:27:27Z")
To levy taxes against the property owners on the other side? ---
**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:** [March 5, 2007, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-starving-artist-wouldnt-be-a-burglar/394726/24 "2007-03-05T23:30:19Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] So why **did** the socialist dictator burglar cross the road? 😕 [/QUOTE] Depends. Do you mean a socialist dictator who is also a burglar, or a burglar who steals socialist dictators? ---
**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:** [March 6, 2007, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-starving-artist-wouldnt-be-a-burglar/394726/25 "2007-03-06T00:05:41Z")
**Nancarrow** , I was around while **Starving Artist** was talking to himself in the basement. I followed the monologue closely, and he mentioned many things, but never mentioned breaking into people’s houses. There’s your evidence! Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-starving-artist-wouldnt-be-a-burglar/394726/26 "2007-03-06T00:09:47Z")
Statically speaking, \*\*Starving Artist \*\*would become a burglar long before HRC would become a socialist dictator. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-starving-artist-wouldnt-be-a-burglar/394726/27 "2007-03-06T00:12:32Z")
[QUOTE=kaylasdad99] **So a socialist, a dictator, and a burglar walk into a bar…** 😃 [/QUOTE] Indeed. You would think at least one of them would have noticed it, and ducked! :dubious: Playing it straight, however, I would have to say to **Nancarrow** that some rumour he heard back in the 1990s before Al Gore invented the Internet, which he cannot substantiate in any way other than his memory, is insufficient grounds on which to entertain seriously the proposition that **Starving Artist** did at one time avow his intent to become a burglar. Now, if we could only find a way to extend that principle to lady Senators who formerly were First Ladies and their effort to provide health care for the uninsured, and to prevent fraud among medical insurance providers in the process, perhaps we might get somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Nancarrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c37758/32.png) [@Nancarrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nancarrow)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-starving-artist-wouldnt-be-a-burglar/394726/28 "2007-03-06T00:14:42Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] Statically speaking, \*\*Starving Artist \*\*would become a burglar long before HRC would become a socialist dictator. [/QUOTE] Actually, statically speaking, nothing much would become at all. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-starving-artist-wouldnt-be-a-burglar/394726/29 "2007-03-06T00:27:02Z")
😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃 Well done, sir…or madame, as the case may be! A rollicking good OP, if I do say so myself! ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-starving-artist-wouldnt-be-a-burglar/394726/30 "2007-03-06T00:30:30Z")
[QUOTE=kaylasdad99] **So a socialist, a dictator, and a burglar walk into a bar…** [/QUOTE] …and one of the patrons says, “Hi, Hillary…what’s with the mask?” ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-starving-artist-wouldnt-be-a-burglar/394726/31 "2007-03-06T00:49:59Z")
[QUOTE=Starving Artist] 😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃 Well done, sir…or madame, as the case may be! A rollicking good OP, if I do say so myself! [/QUOTE] One of them had to be… ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-starving-artist-wouldnt-be-a-burglar/394726/32 "2007-03-06T00:51:47Z")
**SA** …I liked my punchline to that joke better! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-starving-artist-wouldnt-be-a-burglar/394726/33 "2007-03-06T01:07:13Z")
Of course you did. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-starving-artist-wouldnt-be-a-burglar/394726/34 "2007-03-06T02:01:34Z")
You know, I am sure \*\*Starving Artist \*\* prefers the more PC term of Treasure Finder to burglar. Burglar has so many negative stereotypes. I hope in the future the Op refrains from such crass and anti-social remarks in the pit. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-starving-artist-wouldnt-be-a-burglar/394726/35 "2007-03-06T02:05:59Z")
Now that I’ve read that entire thread… I still can’t insult **Nancarrow**. Who could, when his analysis was spot-on? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-starving-artist-wouldnt-be-a-burglar/394726/36 "2007-03-06T02:13:12Z")
[QUOTE=kaylasdad99] or perhaps **So a socialist, a dictator, and a burglar walk into a bar…** [/QUOTE] …but the bartender is a cannibal, and says, “sorry, we don’t serve food here.” Don’t mind me, I’m going for the room-clearing joke. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-starving-artist-wouldnt-be-a-burglar/394726/37 "2007-03-06T02:25:31Z")
Ahem… “Fuckwit!” It had to be done. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-starving-artist-wouldnt-be-a-burglar/394726/38 "2007-03-06T03:04:08Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] Now that I’ve read that entire thread… [/QUOTE] You read the entire thread??? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-starving-artist-wouldnt-be-a-burglar/394726/39 "2007-03-06T05:13:52Z")
[QUOTE=Starving Artist] You read the entire thread??? :eek: [/QUOTE] Well dude, I just read the whole thing, and if your asshole doesn’t feel about |-----------------------------| \<---- THIS big, then your brain must be about |–| \<---- this tiny… Just sayin’. That’s no garden variety trainwreck there, you must’ve been working on that for months! ---
**Author:** ![Brainiac4](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brainiac4/32/3534_2.png) [@Brainiac4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac4)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-starving-artist-wouldnt-be-a-burglar/394726/40 "2007-03-06T06:25:46Z")
I just read the whole thing too. You’re an idiot, **SA**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-starving-artist-wouldnt-be-a-burglar/394726.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-starving-artist-wouldnt-be-a-burglar/394726.md?page=3)