# Thank you, Dopers and (eventually) Pitters! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 9, 2007, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500 "2007-02-09T15:18:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 17
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/321 "2007-02-18T00:15:01Z")
[QUOTE=Jodi] It wouldn’t be with me if I were **Tris** , seeing as how you’ve placed on **Tris** the onus of monitoring **prr** ’s posting (or lack thereof) for the next two years. He is already agreeing to hold funds for this little pissing contest only out of the goodness of his heart, with no compensation or benefit to him. [/quote] I didn’t ask him to monitor anything. I’ll be happy to monitor it. > [@](#): > > I would also point out that the terms of your meanspirited contract do not make clear whether you are agreeing that “ **pseudotriton ruber ruber** ” not post here for two years, or that the individual currently known by that pseudonym not post here for two years under any name. It seems obvious to me that, should he choose, he could merely open a new account with a new name and post away while also taking your money. What happens then? I seriously doubt TPTB will assist. My understanding is that the actual person will never post here again. Period. At any rate, I believe socks are automatically banned. > [@](#): > > It also is not clear at this point whether the parties are in agreement that **prr’s** proposed absence from the Board is for two years only or forever. How so? He responded affirmatively to “Remember that the offer is for your permanent disappearance”. > [@](#): > > Not that I give a rat’s ass about this shady little bargain or either of the participants thereto, but I would genuinely hate for **Tris** to do something out of the kindness of his heart and then end up in the middle of a clusterfuck over 500 clams. Well, I don’t want Tris hurt either. In any way, shape, or form. I don’t even want him uncomfortable with it. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/322 "2007-02-18T01:15:53Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] To be fair, there are times when my recent history shows 10 or 15 (or possibly even 20) posts to a single thread, because that particular thread has a subject I find interesting. Sooner or later, though, the thread dies and my attention wanders like a latchkey kid at the mall. [/QUOTE] Eh, you make a good point. I have likely done the same. ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/323 "2007-02-18T04:06:14Z")
Five hundred bucks is not enough to hurt me. Send the dough, **Liberal**. **Pseudo** , My board email is years old, and very easy to find. My Board name, at hotmail, so you can send me instructions on how you want payment. I will leave my son instructions on paying you if I die. Since you have decided to trust me, I will assume responsibility for trusting **Liberal** and negotiate his payment to me. I will pay the money myself, if he fails to pay me. You have my word, are covered as of this moment. Email to me, of course is perfectly acceptable. I check it fairly often. You may feel free to discuss unrelated issues, as it happens. I have no part of this other than honorable bag man. By replying positively to this post, and acknowledging your intentions, you accept the terms to stop posting thereafter, by your current board name, or any other. One post, and then permanent silence. Good bye. The deal is done. ## Tris You really can’t make this shit up. ~ me ~ ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/324 "2007-02-18T04:10:57Z")
[QUOTE=Triskadecamus] I will leave my son instructions on paying you if I die. [/QUOTE] Tris, it’s great that you’re so scrupulous about this deal, but I wish you’d stop talking about dying. It makes me sad. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/325 "2007-02-18T04:26:20Z")
[QUOTE=Rubystreak] Tris, it’s great that you’re so scrupulous about this deal, but I wish you’d stop talking about dying. [/QUOTE] Well, when one reaches a certain age, it has to be taken into account. For example, I’m in prime heart attack territory - I’m a middle-aged male, I smoke, I drink, I have a bit of a gut. I certainly don’t _expect_ to die tomorrow, but in any long range planning, it would be both foolish and selfish of me not to consider what would happen if I did. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/326 "2007-02-18T04:29:21Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] . I certainly don’t _expect_ to die tomorrow, but in any long range planning, it would be both foolish and selfish of me not to consider what would happen if I did. [/QUOTE] would it be inappropriate tp mention that I’m available for adoption? ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/327 "2007-02-18T04:29:30Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] Well, when one reaches a certain age, it has to be taken into account. For example, I’m in prime heart attack territory - I’m a middle-aged male, I smoke, I drink, I have a bit of a gut. I certainly don’t _expect_ to die tomorrow, but in any long range planning, it would be both foolish and selfish of me not to consider what would happen if I did. [/QUOTE] Precisely! I am hale and hardy, quit drugs and cigarettes more than a decade ago, and have no reason not to expect to enjoy my retirement in a few years. But, I make plans that include the eventuality of my death. In fact, I also intend to shield this particular wad of wealth from legal entanglements, in case I get sued, or robbed. I take promises very seriously. Tris ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/328 "2007-02-18T04:31:23Z")
[QUOTE=Triskadecamus] I am hale and hardy, quit drugs and cigarettes more than a decade ago, and have no reason not to expect to enjoy my retirement in a few years. But, I make plans that include the eventuality of my death. In fact, I also intend to shield this particular wad of wealth from legal entanglements, in case I get sued, or robbed. I take promises very seriously. [/QUOTE] Of course you do, and I wasn’t criticizing you for making plans in case. It just makes me sad, is all. I’d like to see you at many GettysDopes in the future. Stay well, man. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/329 "2007-02-18T04:37:18Z")
[QUOTE=wring] would it be inappropriate tp mention that I’m available for adoption? [/QUOTE] Well, you’d be sadly disappointed. At the moment my investment plan consists of winning Powerball tonight. Although when the truth comes out that I am the father of Anna Nicole’s daughter… ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/330 "2007-02-18T04:40:42Z")
😃 grin ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/331 "2007-02-18T04:46:11Z")
[QUOTE=Rubystreak] Of course you do, and I wasn’t criticizing you for making plans in case. It just makes me sad, is all. I’d like to see you at many GettysDopes in the future. Stay well, man. [/QUOTE] I’ll be there. With Kimche. Hmmm, I have a new recipe for Kimche and salted shrimp soup. I might bring that! Tris ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/332 "2007-02-18T06:05:11Z")
**Rubystreak** , my disbelief in **PRR’s** professional credentials is not based upon his mean-spiritedness or his arrogance. It is based upon his ignorance of the basics of English language. I have seen nothing in our larger universities to make me think they have descended _completely_ into madness. I have every right to defend the standards of my profession and to expose the frauds who lay claim to it without doing the work and having the knowledge required to actually _be_ a teacher. (It’s not as simple as it looks.) I think only the mods will determine if I have that right _here_. If _PRR_ could write as well as the average poster to Great Debates, I would not have questioned his claims. Nothing short of a change of writing style would convince me now. He cannot teach a language he does not yet know well himself. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/333 "2007-02-18T06:27:52Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] Well, when one reaches a certain age, it has to be taken into account. For example, I’m in prime heart attack territory - I’m a middle-aged male, I smoke, … [/QUOTE] Well, damn it- stop smoking. We like you. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/334 "2007-02-18T06:29:43Z")
[QUOTE=Triskadecamus] Send the dough, **Liberal**. [/QUOTE] Acknowledged. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2007, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/335 "2007-02-18T06:40:03Z")
[QUOTE=Zoe] I have every right to defend the standards of my profession and to expose the frauds who lay claim to it without doing the work and having the knowledge required to actually _be_ a teacher. (It’s not as simple as it looks.) I think only the mods will determine if I have that right _here_. [/QUOTE] But are you exercising that perceived right for any good purpose? **PRR** has taken **Lib** ’s offer and is leaving. Shouldn’t you give it a rest? What’s the point in flinging stones at the man’s departing back? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/336 "2007-02-18T07:02:32Z")
He’s leaving voluntarily, and thus is fair game. Lost in all the madness about offer details and intervening cat fights has been the message I originally posted to him. All I asked of him was that he put up or shut up with respect to the accusations of irrationality and ignorance. He never made any logical case for his views, but never failed to call a Christian an idiot. When, for example, he claimed that faith is a choice — _faith_, mind you, not mere church attendance or anything — I challenged him to choose to believe. He ignored me until his silence became conspicuous, and then he said simply that he could if he wished, but just didn’t want to. No one calling me a “weasel” here had called him a weasel there. So bizarre were his claims that I always suspected a lack of sincerity. And sure enough, he is willing to put his cause to rest for money. I’ve done the board’s atheists a favor. Like I said in that first post, the good arguers for materialism were being drowned out by him and his cohorts, like Badchad. He was never sincere, and his sell out is proof. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/337 "2007-02-18T08:46:41Z")
> [@](#): > > **ETF** : But are you exercising that perceived right for any good purpose? PRR has taken Lib’s offer and is leaving. Shouldn’t you give it a rest? What’s the point in flinging stones at the man’s departing back? In the three days that I have been away from the SDMB, several comments have been made about me and about whether or not my accusations against **PRR** were appropriate. I was responding _at my first opportunity_ to those comments. They were not comments made by **PRR**. I was not flinging stones at his departing back. But what if I had been? This is the Pit. He is not banned. Yes, I think I served a good purpose. It began with his false claims about acceptable usage and I was fighting ignorance. When **PRR** is no longer an “is leaving” but is an “has left,” and others do not have any questions or comments that I wish to address, then I will not be commenting on that subject further. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/338 "2007-02-18T09:10:30Z")
[QUOTE=Triskadecamus] Five hundred bucks is not enough to hurt me. Send the dough, **Liberal**. **Pseudo** , My board email is years old, and very easy to find. My Board name, at hotmail, so you can send me instructions on how you want payment. I will leave my son instructions on paying you if I die. Since you have decided to trust me, I will assume responsibility for trusting **Liberal** and negotiate his payment to me. I will pay the money myself, if he fails to pay me. You have my word, are covered as of this moment. Email to me, of course is perfectly acceptable. I check it fairly often. You may feel free to discuss unrelated issues, as it happens. I have no part of this other than honorable bag man. By replying positively to this post, and acknowledging your intentions, you accept the terms to stop posting thereafter, by your current board name, or any other. One post, and then permanent silence. Good bye. The deal is done. ## Tris You really can’t make this shit up. ~ me ~ [/QUOTE] Are you assuring me that as of this moment YOU consider yourself to owe me $500, payable in two years (at approximately 4 a.m. on February 18th, 2009–you can pay me earlier if 4 a.m. isnt convenient for you) whether Liberal sends you the check at all, or whether it turns out to be any good or not? Because if not, I’ll continue posting (those are my terms) until you get his check and verify that it’s good. You understand, it would be foolish of me to forgo posting for two minutes, much less for two years, just to learn from you, “Oh, I never got that check from **Lib** after all” or “I got the check, but it bounced when I tried cashing it” because no one here would blame you as much as they’d blame that weaseling **Liberal** , who would be out nothing and whose standing in this commmunity couldn’t get much lower no matter what he did. So, if it’s all the same to you, unless you’re making that commitment to owing me $500 personally as of this moment even if **Liberal** sends you nothing, I’d be much more comfortable starting the clock when you have cashed (or deposited) his check. In fact, I’m going to insist on that, both because that’s what I’ve stated previously as my terms, and because I’d feel bad if, say, Liberal were to die before mailing you a good check–if I stopped posting, I’d feel bad about insisting that you still owed me money, and I’m pretty sure most of the SDMB would insist that, under those circumstances, you didn’t owe me a thing. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/339 "2007-02-18T09:55:13Z")
Just fucking go, you slimy ass weasel. He said, “I will leave my son instructions on paying you if I die. Since you have decided to trust me, I will assume responsibility for trusting Liberal and negotiate his payment to me. I will pay the money myself, if he fails to pay me. You have my word, [you] are covered as of this moment.” That answers every one of your dumbass questions. Leave, goddamit. ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/340 "2007-02-18T13:34:18Z")
I have received cash, and other considerations in excess of the agreed upon amount from the poster known as **Liberal** , and already acknowledged the debt to the poster known as **Pseudotriton Ruber Ruber** in the amount of 500 dollars, to be paid on the date mentioned. Any other details on the transactions are private matters between the principals. If I fail to pay, either of you may certainly feel justified to post that fact on the board. Other than silence, the deal is done. Tris [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500.md?page=18)