# The Final Rant **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 20, 2003, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-final-rant/183180 "2003-06-20T15:20:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-final-rant/183180/21 "2003-06-20T17:49:28Z")
I call BS- there’s no way she’ll go without for nearly 2 months. Some nice neighbor will let her use a computer, or she’ll find a library or internet cafe to use. When does the betting start? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-final-rant/183180/22 "2003-06-20T17:54:06Z")
Well now I’m not coming back until Yom Kippur Steelerphan. You ruined it for EVERYONE. CLASS…you can thank steelerphan ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-final-rant/183180/23 "2003-06-20T18:22:35Z")
I’ll send a certain Mr. Brett Favre over to get you all “wired up” in that condo. If you know what I mean…and I think you do. Say hi to Marge for me. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-final-rant/183180/24 "2003-06-20T18:42:33Z")
**lieu** , did you say **jar** is going to be in _Penthouse?_ Hubba hubba! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-final-rant/183180/25 "2003-06-20T19:25:08Z")
Dear Forum, I never thought something like this would happen to me but there’s this welder… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_great_unwashed/32/4791_2.png) [@The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-final-rant/183180/26 "2003-06-20T19:29:31Z")
Well, if you’re leaving us for the summer, all I can say is fuck you, come back soon. ---
**Author:** ![herownself](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8baadc/32.png) [@herownself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/herownself)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-final-rant/183180/27 "2003-06-20T20:48:39Z")
But **jarbaby** , how on earth will **Cervaise** and I find you when we get to Chicago later this summer!?! Damn it! We’re planning a trip to my hometown sometime around the middle of August, so you goddamn well better be back on the board by then! ---
**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:** [June 20, 2003, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-final-rant/183180/28 "2003-06-20T23:49:00Z")
Yeah, what she said! I guess we’ll have to try to initiate a ChiDope and hope somebody remembers to phone the **jarster.** ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-final-rant/183180/29 "2003-06-21T01:18:13Z")
You guys don’t understand. She’s gone. We’re free. \*Ding, dong the witch is dead. Which old witch? The wicked witch. Ding, dong, the wicked witch is deeeaaaaad!\*\* Until she comes back. Then I’m a dead man. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-final-rant/183180/30 "2003-06-21T03:48:36Z")
Whew! Now we can relax. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-final-rant/183180/31 "2003-06-21T03:48:41Z")
> [@](#): > > I will still grind my teeth angrily when someone says “He choked her to death” instead of “He strangled her to death”. Hear me now and understand: > **UNLESS THE MURDERER CLIMBED INSIDE THE WOMAN’S WINDPIPE AND BLOCKED IT, he was NOT CHOKING HER.** Oh, piffle. The OED provides as its first definition: > [@](#): > > **1,** _trans._ To suffocate by external compression to the throat; to throttle, strangle; to produce a sensation of strangling. and cites its use to 1303. After 700 years, I suspect we can accept that usage (unless you want us to follow you around berating you if you happen to use _access_ as a verb). We didn’t borrow _strangle_ from the French until the same period, and **its** earliest citation is **also** 1303. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-final-rant/183180/32 "2003-06-21T10:29:20Z")
Ah, 1303: a great year for dictionary references. Shouldn’t we be having a septicentennial (if that’s the right word) celebration of that excellent year? Miss you, **jar**! ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-final-rant/183180/33 "2003-06-21T10:55:15Z")
If **Steelerphan** hadn’t have done it, I would have! Get thee to a library, **Jarbabyj** , get thee to a library!!! How do you think us sweetness and light types survive without vicarious venting through vicious, vivacious vixens like yourself? CJ ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-final-rant/183180/34 "2003-06-21T12:21:50Z")
You forgot vexing and vituperative. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-final-rant/183180/35 "2003-06-21T15:11:01Z")
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**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-final-rant/183180/36 "2003-06-21T16:09:35Z")
**Enderw24** , your brackets don’t match. (1046 open to 1125 close brackets). ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-final-rant/183180/37 "2003-06-21T17:39:14Z")
Leave to **Ender** to have unmatched brackets. See ya when you get back **jarbabyj**. ---
**Author:** ![Tony\_Montana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@Tony\_Montana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tony_Montana)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-final-rant/183180/38 "2003-06-21T18:38:26Z")
\ “Have a great summer jar,I promise not to pull your pigtails in SD class anymore- next year” -TM ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-final-rant/183180/39 "2003-06-22T01:40:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tusculan \* > \*\ ***Enderw24** , your brackets don’t match. (1046 open to 1125 close brackets). \*\* I never was any good at expressing my emotions. ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-final-rant/183180/40 "2003-06-22T04:39:31Z")
Why doesn’t she go to the library, once in awhile, and use one of their computers? [ul]😉 [sup]\*\* That may cause her to do something silly like read a book\*\*[/sup][/ul] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-final-rant/183180.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-final-rant/183180.md?page=3)