# 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:** 21
**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, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/401 "2007-02-18T22:46:36Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] There once was a girl named Eddy Who looked awfully good in a teddie. When by Liberal dissed She stood up and hissed And unlike a cat, is no 'fraidy. …trying to be a bit clever there with the username mangled and spread across lines 1, 2 and 5. So far, I haven’t a good rhyme for “ContraPuntal”, though if I shorten it to “ContraPunt”, there’s some potential, albeit misogynistic. [/QUOTE] Nicely done, sirrah! Especially clever with the last line. (Mutters into beer: Damn, I have A Rival for Supreme Being of Doperdom Limericking! Must devise a fiendish plot to destroy this upstart, yet not get caught… :mad: ) Now, then, let’s see what I can do with the challenge presented: There once was a chap, **Contrapuntal** , By scansion ill-done, quite disgruntled. He wrote his own verses With diligent curses At having to rhyme words like “frontal”. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2007, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/402 "2007-02-18T22:56:38Z")
The Doper one called Libertarian Met one he thought a barbarian. To dismiss the rough slacker, Gave five hundred smackers His mind’s like an octogenarian’s. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/403 "2007-02-18T23:01:41Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] And unlike a cat, is no 'fraidy. [/QUOTE] Oh yeah? Does [this](http://s125.photobucket.com/albums/p59/RampasMornay/?action=view¤t=Paintedcat12.jpg) look like a 'fraidy cat to you? ---
**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:** [February 18, 2007, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/404 "2007-02-18T23:09:02Z")
My opening line should be “The poster _once_ called Libertarian”. I only noticed the error after the edit window had expired. ---
**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, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/405 "2007-02-18T23:09:13Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] The best I can do is wish you luck and a hope that some of your friends get you to calm back down again. [/QUOTE] Well, I appreciate that very much. I really do. But looking around, I have to wonder what you mean by “calm” and how others — whom you’re not criticizing — are demonstrating it. 😕 > [@Qadgop](#): > > Liberal, previously known as Libertarian, has a very long and storied posting history here. One might need to be familiar with many of those episodes to understand the feelings of many of the posters in this and related threads. Right. Those people weren’t here at the time. How can they hold any blame? ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/406 "2007-02-18T23:10:43Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] Assuming buyer = Liberal, I have to disagree. He hasn’t shown a moment of grace in this whole thread. [/QUOTE] The _alternative_ was graceful, and the initial handling of it. Later, not so much. Bryan Ekers, intending hilarity, [Suggested not bribery but charity](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8251071&postcount=158). Lib [took his advice](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8251208&postcount=160) But, [challenged](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8269077&postcount=286), [spoke twice](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8270160&postcount=301) And now we’re debating his verity. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/407 "2007-02-18T23:18:54Z")
A poster with no sense of faith got ire and some sort of hate one Doper, named Lib, payed up, while quite glib: “Get out of here now, post haste” ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/408 "2007-02-18T23:19:14Z")
[QUOTE=xenophon41] Bryan Ekers, intending hilarity, [Suggested not bribery but charity](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8251071&postcount=158). Lib [took his advice](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8251208&postcount=160) But, [challenged](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8269077&postcount=286), [spoke twice](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8270160&postcount=301) And now we’re debating his verity. [/QUOTE] Bows, in awe. ---
**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, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/409 "2007-02-18T23:29:53Z")
Yep. Winner by a mile. ---
**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 19, 2007, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/410 "2007-02-19T01:15:41Z")
[QUOTE=xenophon41] Bryan Ekers, intending hilarity, [Suggested not bribery but charity](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8251071&postcount=158). Lib [took his advice](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8251208&postcount=160) But, [challenged](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8269077&postcount=286), [spoke twice](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8270160&postcount=301) And now we’re debating his verity. [/QUOTE] **BRAVO!!!** :: Tenders limerick crown and commemorative beer stein (handle only slightly chipped) :: ---
**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 19, 2007, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/411 "2007-02-19T01:23:58Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] Oh yeah? Does [this](http://s125.photobucket.com/albums/p59/RampasMornay/?action=view¤t=Paintedcat12.jpg) look like a 'fraidy cat to you? [/QUOTE] [Or this?](http://pets.webshots.com/photo/2044203090000735275siEHGb) Trust me, you don’t wanna [get in Fred’s face.](http://pets.webshots.com/photo/2425749010000735275XFHPzM) ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/412 "2007-02-19T04:40:00Z")
> [@](#): > > **rubystreak** : OK, Zoe, will you shut the fuck up about it now? Hell, if you were really a grown up, you might even apologize to **PRR** , but I know that’s probably too much to expect from a good Christian like you. **rubystreak** , an apology for pointing out his tortured use of the language would be a lie. A “_good_ Christian” would manage to love **PRR** in spite of his efforts at deception and his personal attacks. What does being “really a grown up” mean? Telling people to “shut the fuck up”? > [@](#): > > **twickster** : (I can, however, assure Zoe that…his claim to have sold a piece of writing to another Doper for publication is true – I am that Doper, I’m editor in chief of a nationally distributed publication, and the piece will run in that publication. Let me know who you want to check my credentials, and I’ll proceed with that step.) That part of his claim I have not challenged as best I remember. Why would I challenge your credentials as the editor of a nationally distributed publication? It’s not like you to offer strawman arguments. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/413 "2007-02-19T07:30:48Z")
[QUOTE=Zoe] **rubystreak** , an apology for pointing out his tortured use of the language would be a lie. A “_good_ Christian” would manage to love **PRR** in spite of his efforts at deception and his personal attacks. [/quote] Which you should. Or you’re going to hell. 😉 > [@](#): > > What does being “really a grown up” mean? Telling people to “shut the fuck up”? I don’t think you need to shut the fuck up in general. I simply wish you to stop questioning whether he was a professor, because you. are. just. wrong. You need to let it go. PRR is gone. He was a professor, sweetheart, but he won’t darken your door again. Let it go. ---
**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:** [February 19, 2007, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/414 "2007-02-19T07:38:13Z")
There once was a poster named Ruby Who needed to relax with a doobie Defending the Prof While others did scoff … something-something-something… Scooby! [sub]I’d have finished that limerick if not for those meddling kids![/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/415 "2007-02-19T07:42:22Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] There once was a poster named Ruby Who needed to relax with a doobie Defending the Prof While others did scoff … something-something-something… Scooby! [sub]I’d have finished that limerick if not for those meddling kids![/sub] [/QUOTE] She drove off in a huff in her hoopty? But she had a set of really nice boobies? Got the munchies and ate all the Jujubees? ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/416 "2007-02-19T07:45:51Z")
> [@](#): > > What does being “really a grown up” mean? I can’t imagine the explanation would be useful to you , Zoe, so how’s about you fuck off and die? A real grown up would admit their obvious faults, but I’m curious why that would even cross your mind. ---
**Author:** ![Sevastopol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Sevastopol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sevastopol)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/417 "2007-02-19T08:01:18Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] Well, speaking only for myself, should Liberal blink and decide not to forward the $500, I won’t think any less of him. 😃 [/QUOTE] Than what? ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/418 "2007-02-19T08:05:03Z")
Less than zero. It is most unseemly to hammer a joke everyone already “got”. It is particularly unseemly to respond to a jackass who decide limericks are funny, for an evening or two. ETA: yes haj, i did add it as a joke originally - now I can’t help myself. I mock Liberal as habit. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/419 "2007-02-19T11:49:54Z")
[QUOTE=Zoe] That part of his claim I have not challenged as best I remember. Why would I challenge your credentials as the editor of a nationally distributed publication? It’s not like you to offer strawman arguments. [/QUOTE] So I have enough credibility to … what, vouch for myself? vouch for having bought an article from **prr**? … but not enough to vouch for him? Yes, **zoe** , he’s a college professor. In an English department. At a major university. ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500/420 "2007-02-19T14:55:25Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] So I have enough credibility to … what, vouch for myself? vouch for having bought an article from **prr**? … but not enough to vouch for him? Yes, **zoe** , he’s a college professor. In an English department. At a major university. [/QUOTE] But does his hubby work in a prison? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500.md?page=20) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-dopers-and-eventually-pitters/391500.md?page=22)