# The Collounsbury Mea Culpa **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 25, 2003, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-collounsbury-mea-culpa/164041 "2003-03-25T16:16:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-collounsbury-mea-culpa/164041/21 "2003-03-25T18:18:25Z")
He’s invented a new style of poetry: the Arabian, or Collunsburian, Sonnet. The format: 170ish lines of unrhymed, unmetered verse, concluding with an equally unrhymed couplet. Way to go, welcome back and good luck. Happy ---
**Author:** ![shelbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@shelbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shelbo)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-collounsbury-mea-culpa/164041/22 "2003-03-25T18:45:22Z")
Welcome back. So did your wish come true? Were you a cheesemaker? ---
**Author:** ![Truth\_Seeker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5fc32e/32.png) [@Truth\_Seeker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truth_Seeker)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-collounsbury-mea-culpa/164041/23 "2003-03-25T18:50:33Z")
> [@](#): > > _originally posted by Collounsbury_ > \*\*First, I should say that I had lost patience with what > I viewed as egregious ignorance. \*\* Me, too. This has significantly curtailed my posting in GD for a while now. If there one unforgivable logical error in GD, it’s painting with a broad brush, “All Muslims hate America” and other such rot. Yet it happens all the time. One poster put it quite well. > [@](#): > > \*\*It’s not just the bigotry. It’s the numerous logical fallacies flying all over the place. By the time some issues are being patiently addressed, the Mother of all of Medusa’s heads resurfaces: “I do not like X… But, I don’t go around killing X… these Muslims do…” \*\* This doesn’t just happen with respect to Islam, either. The attitude crops up in all kinds of discussions. More often than not, the entire discussion gets derailed in an effort to address this attitude. Fighting ignorance is fine but having to fight the same ignorance over and over and over gets old. So while blowing up in GD is unacceptable, the urge to do so is understandable. There has to be some way to address this. Perhaps we can put a “Don’t paint with a broad brush” sticky in GD or something. Oh, and **Collounsbury** , tell your Christian Arab friend to start posting here! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-collounsbury-mea-culpa/164041/24 "2003-03-25T18:52:03Z")
You had me at “salutory.” Welcome back, **Coll**. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-collounsbury-mea-culpa/164041/25 "2003-03-25T18:58:04Z")
Good to see you back **Coll**. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-collounsbury-mea-culpa/164041/26 "2003-03-25T19:01:55Z")
That’s a long post to say “I removed the broomstick from my ass. Glad to be back.” 😃 Heh, um, that was meant to be funny. Glad to have you. Welcome back. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-collounsbury-mea-culpa/164041/27 "2003-03-25T19:42:01Z")
The same quality in OP as I and many others had come to expect from your posts until your patience forgot itself for that time. Glad to see you have it back, and good luck in GD:) ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-collounsbury-mea-culpa/164041/28 "2003-03-25T19:49:48Z")
**Coll** , in 2002, I privately thought of you as “The Voice of Reason – with foam on his chops.” In a bizarre sort of way, I suppose I’ll miss that dissonance that came of trying to reconcile your more-sharply-contrasting qualities. I’m a masochistic absurdist, though. Thanks for coming back. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-collounsbury-mea-culpa/164041/29 "2003-03-25T20:20:01Z")
I’m intensely interested in getting your take on recent occurences in your part of the world. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-collounsbury-mea-culpa/164041/30 "2003-03-25T20:25:42Z")
Welcome back **Coll**. I’d ask you how to pronounce Qatar, but I found that you answered that question a while back. ---
**Author:** ![eponymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e0b2c6/32.png) [@eponymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eponymous)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-collounsbury-mea-culpa/164041/31 "2003-03-25T20:42:58Z")
Apology, blah, blah, blah… Just kidding, **Collounsbury** , nicely worded mea culpa. Glad to have you back and am looking forward to hearing your take on the current situation in Iraq/Mid-East in general. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-collounsbury-mea-culpa/164041/32 "2003-03-25T20:55:54Z")
> [@](#): > > Understanding full well the skepticism likely to arise from my return Shoot, C-bury, nobody’s eying your return with skepticism. Nobody ever thought you were merely the Troll Du Jour, and so nobody’s waiting with bated breath to see the Troll Du Jour lose it again and see Lynn pull his plug again. Glad to have ya back. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-collounsbury-mea-culpa/164041/33 "2003-03-25T21:09:51Z")
Ditto all. Welcome back. ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-collounsbury-mea-culpa/164041/34 "2003-03-25T21:55:11Z")
I’m glad to see that reports of your demise were greatly exaggerated. ---
**Author:** ![jacksen9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@jacksen9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jacksen9)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-collounsbury-mea-culpa/164041/35 "2003-03-25T22:27:55Z")
I am glad you are back. Your contribution has great value. I am pleased that the mods decided to review their decision. I trust their judgement and appreciate their commitment to the board even more than before. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-collounsbury-mea-culpa/164041/36 "2003-03-25T22:32:16Z")
Who _are_ you? 😉 Welcome back! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-collounsbury-mea-culpa/164041/37 "2003-03-25T22:56:43Z")
The vitriol is higher than ever at the SDMB with this crazy, kooky war thing. I’m a very miled mannered guy and I called somebody a fucktard just the other day. So be careful, there’s more reason than ever to be pissed off. I rarely saw your posts, as I’ve always felt that GD is the den of maniacs (I mean that in the best possible sense of the term!). I tend to stick to IMHO where, though there is a great deal of overlap in thread subjects, people in IMHO generally realize they are stating an opinion rather than delivering stone tablets from God for the rest of us to marvel at. Good luck! I think many of us had a small taste of ehat you’ve gone through during the Winter of Our Lost Content. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-collounsbury-mea-culpa/164041/38 "2003-03-25T23:58:44Z")
I can’t _wait_ to hear what you have to say about the current, uh, situation. And your story of the pro-American Christian Arab is, paradoxically, both shocking and not at all surprising — and very, very depressing. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-collounsbury-mea-culpa/164041/39 "2003-03-26T00:05:52Z")
**Collounsburys** back, now you’re gonna be in trouble… Hey la, hey la, the Grouch is back… Jump on your post and grind it down to rubble! Hey la, hey la, the Grouch is back… Yeeeee-haw! ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-collounsbury-mea-culpa/164041/40 "2003-03-26T00:30:15Z")
Welcome back, **Collunsbury**. It’s great to see you got a second chance., [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-collounsbury-mea-culpa/164041.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-collounsbury-mea-culpa/164041.md?page=3)