# Thanks, TVeblen **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 6, 2008, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-tveblen/462360 "2008-09-06T17:32:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 16
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-tveblen/462360/301 "2008-09-10T00:47:17Z")
**tomndebb** , you are my new hero. **Mr. Svinlesha** , I’m reminded of the man who appeared on “Hardball” a few months ago, and kept comparing the Democrats to Neville Chamberlain for wanting to meet with the Iranians (or was it someone else), and saying that they were appeasers, just like he was. Only when Chris Matthews asked him what made Chamberlain an appeaser in the first place, the guy couldn’t answer, and just kept shouting over and over again that he was one. When the guy finally shutup and admitted he didn’t know, Matthews explained to him about the Munich Agreement. Sounds like **Starving Artist** might be the same guy. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-tveblen/462360/302 "2008-09-10T02:52:21Z")
> [@Open letter to Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-letter-to-bricker/462263/185): > > **kaylasdad99** essentially warned me that he will hold anyone voting for McCain to be vile and evil and dispicable people, and by implication that if I support McCain this is how he’ll view me. Hasn’t that ship sailed? Are there people how don’t view you this way already? > [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Seriously, you are not doing any favors to the reputation you’ve enjoyed around here up to now. I suppose engaging **Starving Artist** in this sort of a debate could damage one’s reputation. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Svinlesha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/22d042/32.png) [@Mr.Svinlesha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Svinlesha)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-tveblen/462360/303 "2008-09-10T05:47:41Z")
**Guin:** I’ve had that exact same thought. But I don’t think yelling back at him gets me anywhere. There’s this old adage about pig-wrestling: never wrestle with a pig, it’ll just make the pig happy and get you dirty – something like that. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-tveblen/462360/304 "2008-09-10T05:49:54Z")
Might be Twain: “Never try to teach a pig to sing, it can’t be done, and it annoys the pig.” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-tveblen/462360/305 "2008-09-10T05:52:33Z")
You’ve been a Guest since August of 2000? Jesus, what a cheap sumbitch! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-tveblen/462360/306 "2008-09-10T05:54:08Z")
Yeah, but at least pigs (Wilbur, Babe) are cute. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-tveblen/462360/307 "2008-09-10T05:56:55Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > You’ve been a Guest since August of 2000? Jesus, what a cheap sumbitch! If i remember correctly, he used to be a member. I think his guest status must be some sort of software issue or database issue. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Svinlesha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/22d042/32.png) [@Mr.Svinlesha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Svinlesha)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-tveblen/462360/308 "2008-09-10T05:57:23Z")
**luci:** Well, I for one would never join a club with standards so low it would have me as a member. **Guin:** And what does that make me? Chopped liver? ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-tveblen/462360/309 "2008-09-10T07:59:33Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > And now you come out with some disingenuous stuff yourself: Cheney told Leahy to go fuck himself on the floor of the senate, not because Leahy called his daughter a dyke. IIRC, it was an unprovoked attack due to the nerve of Senator Leahy for addressing The Grand Vizier, er, VP. The rudeness and incivility was all on the VP. But he was defended here, IMS. Never by me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-tveblen/462360.md?page=15)