# The giant Scylla Thanksgiving crow eating thread. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 24, 2003, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-scylla-thanksgiving-crow-eating-thread/215049 "2003-11-24T22:06:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![hansel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6bbea6/32.png) [@hansel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hansel)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-scylla-thanksgiving-crow-eating-thread/215049/41 "2003-11-25T05:02:42Z")
Am I the only one who wants to give December a day pass to come back for this event? ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-scylla-thanksgiving-crow-eating-thread/215049/42 "2003-11-25T05:07:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hansel \* > \*\*Am I the only one who wants to give December a day pass to come back for this event? \*\* OMFG, that would be an epic thread! ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-scylla-thanksgiving-crow-eating-thread/215049/43 "2003-11-25T05:20:42Z")
I just want to add my voice to those who think **Scylla** has already fulfilled his promise and consumed his requisite portion of crow and so should be let off the hook on thursday. Having said that, there are still a number of others on this board who have grown remarkably silent of late about those enormous stockpiles of WMDs that Bush and Rummy warned us about. I hope that they will all pull up chairs and tuck into the blackbird but hope is cheap. ---
**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:** [November 25, 2003, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-scylla-thanksgiving-crow-eating-thread/215049/44 "2003-11-25T05:52:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Saint Zero \* > \*\*Think the democrats can come up with someone you don’t have to hold your nose to vote for? I’m not voting for some whiny, feel-good, apologizing liberal. \*\* I would be happy with Clark or Dean. I doubt they could out fuck up Bush ---
**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:** [November 25, 2003, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-scylla-thanksgiving-crow-eating-thread/215049/45 "2003-11-25T05:53:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Binarydrone \* > \*\*OMFG, that would be an epic thread! \*\* Let’s throw Chumpsky and Coll into the mix as well! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-scylla-thanksgiving-crow-eating-thread/215049/46 "2003-11-25T05:58:57Z")
I worry. If he has not showed up yet, with all this chum upon the water… ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-scylla-thanksgiving-crow-eating-thread/215049/47 "2003-11-25T06:01:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Diogenes the Cynic \* > I just want to add my voice to those who think **Scylla** has already fulfilled his promise and consumed his requisite portion of crow Yes he has. Still, for the diehard WMD fans still out there, [Kay spoke recently](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/panorama/3226504.stm) on what may turn out to be the mother of all smoking guns: > [@](#): > > the discovery of a dual-use fermentor. > The equipment, which they found while searching the al-Tuweitha agricultural centre near Baghdad, could be used for making bio warfare germs. Sadly: > [@](#): > > testing hasn’t shown that it has been used for that purpose. We’ll have to wait for his _next_ report, due in January 04, to know for sure which way the shoe is going to drop. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-scylla-thanksgiving-crow-eating-thread/215049/48 "2003-11-25T07:06:37Z")
Sorry, but this thread is crass. Taking someone to task when they’ve already stated they made a mistake? Shit, like any of us haven’t been misled by politicians. ---
**Author:** ![Beagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Beagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beagle)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-scylla-thanksgiving-crow-eating-thread/215049/49 "2003-11-25T07:25:59Z")
[Saddam. Is that Rumsfeld?](http://anthony.ianniciello.net/blog/archives/000125.html) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-scylla-thanksgiving-crow-eating-thread/215049/50 "2003-11-25T07:33:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bippy the Beardless \* > \*\*I object to any consideration that the President was Grossly Misinformed. The intelligence gathering community is one of the most professional and skeptical groups you could ever find, they do not create misinformation, but they generate highly accurate reports that politicians can intentionally misread, lie about, or cherry pick from. \*\* What about the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade which was blamed on “old maps”? Then again, I do have a hard time believing that was accidental. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-scylla-thanksgiving-crow-eating-thread/215049/51 "2003-11-25T11:12:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gary Kumquat \* > \*\*Sorry, but this thread is crass. Taking someone to task when they’ve already stated they made a mistake? \*\* Well no because that other thread was not explicitly about this issue and so I and (if I may extrapolate) others didn’t see it. But I saw this one because of the title. > [@](#): > > \*\*Shit, like any of us haven’t been misled by politicians. \*\* Oh I see, so because many politicians mislead: 1/ I shouldn’t mind, and 2/ It’s OK for Bush to start a _freakin war_ on the basis of misleading information? We are not talking about a minor porky pie about whether he smoked dope or got a blow job here. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-scylla-thanksgiving-crow-eating-thread/215049/52 "2003-11-25T11:15:11Z")
Oops. Actually that other thread was about this explicit issue. Sorry about that. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-scylla-thanksgiving-crow-eating-thread/215049/53 "2003-11-25T11:32:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Princhester \* > \*\*Oh I see, so because many politicians mislead: > > 1/ I shouldn’t mind, and > > 2/ It’s OK for Bush to start a _freakin war_ on the basis of misleading information? We are not talking about a minor porky pie about whether he smoked dope or got a blow job here. \*\* So now please q And who said either 1, or 2? What is crass though is to then launch into a gloating rant against a poster who previously said he believed Bush’s claims, and then clearly posted he’d been mistaken. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-scylla-thanksgiving-crow-eating-thread/215049/54 "2003-11-25T11:35:43Z")
Sorry, I hit enter instead of ctrl and posted too early. It should ready: "And who said either 1, or 2? What is crass though is to then launch into a gloating rant against a poster who previously said he believed Bush’s claims, and then clearly posted he’d been mistaken." ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-scylla-thanksgiving-crow-eating-thread/215049/55 "2003-11-25T11:38:22Z")
What part of “Sorry about that” don’t you understand, **Gary**? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-scylla-thanksgiving-crow-eating-thread/215049/56 "2003-11-25T11:41:18Z")
Yeah that was a bit crass. **Princhester** had already said the s/he had missed the other thread. Get it together will ya 😉 ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-scylla-thanksgiving-crow-eating-thread/215049/57 "2003-11-25T11:52:58Z")
I suppose I should take this moment to restate that I was of the opinion that the President would not start something of this magnitute without complete and total evidence. I was entirely wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-scylla-thanksgiving-crow-eating-thread/215049/58 "2003-11-25T12:13:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gary Kumquat \* > **So now please q > And who said either 1, or 2?** Well what precisely did you mean by your comment: “Shit, like any of us haven’t been misled by politicians.” ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-scylla-thanksgiving-crow-eating-thread/215049/59 "2003-11-25T12:26:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yojimbo \* > \*\*Yeah that was a bit crass. **Princhester** had already said the s/he had missed the other thread. > > Get it together will ya 😉 \*\* > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Desmostylus \* > \*\*What part of “Sorry about that” don’t you understand, **Gary**? 🙂 \*\* bollocks to the pair of ya 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-scylla-thanksgiving-crow-eating-thread/215049/60 "2003-11-25T12:34:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Princhester \* > \*\*Well what precisely did you mean by your comment: > > “Shit, like any of us haven’t been misled by politicians.” \*\* Well, here’s my whole post: > [@](#): > > Sorry, but this thread is crass. Taking someone to task when they’ve already stated they made a mistake? > > Shit, like any of us haven’t been misled by politicians. Now I’d say this is a fairly clear statement that I think it is crass to take someone to task when they have already admitted they made a mistake, and were misled by a politician. Please advise if I can clarify or expand on this? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-scylla-thanksgiving-crow-eating-thread/215049.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-scylla-thanksgiving-crow-eating-thread/215049.md?page=4)