# the fat man barks in the moonlight

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-man-barks-in-the-moonlight/41357>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 15, 2000, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-man-barks-in-the-moonlight/41357 "2000-11-15T20:14:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-man-barks-in-the-moonlight/41357/21 "2000-11-16T01:56:26Z")

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Leezen verry cairvullee, vur eye shell zay zees ownlee wunse…

Zee trayne 'as enturd zee stayshun. Eye ree-pete: Zee trayne 'as enturd zee stayshun.

Zees messuch weel zelf-deestrucked een feyeve zeckunds.

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**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-man-barks-in-the-moonlight/41357/22 "2000-11-16T03:33:43Z")

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Able Baker Charlie to Roger Fox Dog  
Able Baker Charlie to Roger Fox Dog

My nipples explode with the light. - My nipples explode with the light.

Over.

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**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-man-barks-in-the-moonlight/41357/23 "2000-11-16T03:46:38Z")

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Ou sont les neiges…downtown!

The goose force-feeds the burgher then markets him as “soylent gras”.

The Hounds Of Heaven are loosed; they humpeth the legs of the unworthy.

Veb

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**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-man-barks-in-the-moonlight/41357/24 "2000-11-16T05:01:07Z")

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Breaker Breaker

We got a smokey in a plain brown wrapper handing out green stamps. 10-20 on the smokey is in the middle of Death Valley.

Over and out.

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**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-man-barks-in-the-moonlight/41357/25 "2000-11-16T06:00:54Z")

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“The yellow-bellied sapsucker sleeps at four-thirty.”

Your response: “Not in **my** back yard, it doesn’t.”

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**Author:** ![blastfurnace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5e9695/32.png) [@blastfurnace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blastfurnace)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-man-barks-in-the-moonlight/41357/26 "2000-11-16T06:22:01Z")

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butch

[/end trxm]

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-man-barks-in-the-moonlight/41357/27 "2000-11-16T07:11:43Z")

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Dammit! Why do us newbies always get the out-of-date codebooks.

Tell the moon-dog, tell the March hare.

I think.

I’ll be out by the public restroom in the park awaiting orders.

Is that right?

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-man-barks-in-the-moonlight/41357/28 "2000-11-16T07:19:54Z")

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Negative, negative.

Signature-code in error.

Resubmitting…NOW!

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**Author:** ![Lux\_Fiat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-man-barks-in-the-moonlight/41357/29 "2000-11-16T10:16:26Z")

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> [@](#):
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> The Admins ought to take heed of these Winkelriedean shenanigans, if only for the sake of the widow’s son.

Your getaway car is idling out back. It’s the tiny one with no roof. The password at the checkpoint is “Tubal-Cain.”

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**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-man-barks-in-the-moonlight/41357/30 "2000-11-16T10:30:05Z")

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Arnold! Arnold! Klaatu Baraada Nickto!

to the rest, Purple Monkey Dishwasher. The Owl is not what he seems…

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**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-man-barks-in-the-moonlight/41357/31 "2000-11-16T10:58:23Z")

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Dogs barking. Can’t fly without umbrella!  
Repeat. Dogs barking. Can’t fly without umbrella!

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**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-man-barks-in-the-moonlight/41357/32 "2000-11-16T12:27:21Z")

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Attention UK cadres: Thunderbirds are go!

Or not, as the case may be…

jr8

“The conduct of international affairs is essentially dialectic, and you have a sine curve of attitudes. We felt there had to be some clearing of the air.”  
– Alexander Haig, then Secretary of State

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**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-man-barks-in-the-moonlight/41357/33 "2000-11-16T12:34:19Z")

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Strike points can be found below.

[Sigma Rho](http://www.terraserver.com/image.asp?S=13&T=100&X=25&Y=10&Z=1208&W=1&mscssid=)

[Delta Zeta](http://www.terraserver.com/image.asp?S=13&T=100&X=20&Y=10&Z=807&W=2&mscssid=)

[Sigma Chi](http://www.terraserver.com/image.asp?S=11&T=100&X=386&Y=17&Z=217&W=1&mscssid=)

[Beta Phi](http://www.terraserver.com/image.asp?S=13&T=100&X=10&Y=31&Z=302&W=2&mscssid=)

[Alpha Kappa](http://www.terraserver.com/image.asp?S=14&T=100&X=8&Y=26&Z=1139&W=2&mscssid=)

Priority with discretion. Be advised, checkpoints established at peripheral locations in addition to mandatory checks in **all** primary and secondary staging points.

–Tango Iota Mu

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**Author:** ![ThreeLeggedBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@ThreeLeggedBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThreeLeggedBob)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-man-barks-in-the-moonlight/41357/34 "2000-11-16T13:56:08Z")

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riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

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**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-man-barks-in-the-moonlight/41357/35 "2000-11-16T14:08:43Z")

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7 Down  
9 Down  
14 Across

Awaiting further instructions.

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**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-man-barks-in-the-moonlight/41357/36 "2000-11-16T14:32:28Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by TwistofFate \*  
> **Arnold! Arnold! Klaatu Baraada Nickto!**

That’s “Klaatu barada nikto.”

**Arnold** won’t want to mess that one up, or Gort will rip the shit out of him.

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**Author:** ![dpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-man-barks-in-the-moonlight/41357/37 "2000-11-16T14:34:51Z")

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Roger that.

The blackest geese fly low to the ground.  
Southern munchkins contained with ear to the ground.

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**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-man-barks-in-the-moonlight/41357/38 "2000-11-16T15:07:21Z")

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I’m a big, fat muffin that loves to eat  
I’m a big, fat muffin that has no feet  
But most of all I’m a big, fat muffin  
that loooooooooves to explode

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**Author:** ![uberDave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f04885/32.png) [@uberDave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uberDave)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-man-barks-in-the-moonlight/41357/39 "2000-11-16T15:15:47Z")

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jeez Arnold…I said the fat man was in the bathtub.

Now you’re gonna have to clean this mess up.

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**Author:** ![rundogrun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5daacb/32.png) [@rundogrun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rundogrun)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-man-barks-in-the-moonlight/41357/40 "2000-11-16T15:16:14Z")

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Target 13 sleeps with Mrs. Robinson.

repeat

Target 13 sleeps with Mrs. Robinson.

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