# the mysterious "rowsell rods" - new species, or a hoax? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [November 29, 2001, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mysterious-rowsell-rods-new-species-or-a-hoax/95933 "2001-11-29T15:40:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Spanky\_The\_Dolphin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Spanky\_The\_Dolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spanky_The_Dolphin)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mysterious-rowsell-rods-new-species-or-a-hoax/95933/21 "2001-12-04T07:50:23Z")
And notice that, yet again, another New Guy has posted an OP, never to return again… How typical. :rolleyes: ---
**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:** [December 4, 2001, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mysterious-rowsell-rods-new-species-or-a-hoax/95933/22 "2001-12-04T13:31:24Z")
Yes, but thanks to him, we have all learned so _much_ about Roswell Rods… [sub]and that can’t be a bad thing, can it?[/sub] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mysterious-rowsell-rods-new-species-or-a-hoax/95933/23 "2001-12-04T16:36:15Z")
Antonius Block, thanks, I totally missed the clues. And I thought that might be Rod Steiger, but couldn’t remember his name or what he’d been in, so I really couldn’t look him up and all I really could say was “some actor guy who was in the thing with the thing”. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![snac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@snac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snac)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mysterious-rowsell-rods-new-species-or-a-hoax/95933/24 "2001-12-05T01:25:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Antonius Block \* > [off-topic: how does what appears to be a T and an O or an eye get to represent the MN Twins? Is the latter a pre-split zygote or something? Now I’m _really_ showing my baseball ignorance.] To elucidate off-topic…it is a T and a C (stylized), which stands for Twin Cities. (You would not have this problem with Twins caps of the nineties, which featured…an M) Got it now? Good. Go amaze your more sentient friends. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2001, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mysterious-rowsell-rods-new-species-or-a-hoax/95933/25 "2001-12-05T03:12:28Z")
Aren’t the Twins one of the teams shortly to be amalgamated, or discontinued, or whatever it is they call it? Cancelled due to lack of interest or something? So knowing what that logo stands for may soon come under the heading of “Serious Arcana”, like knowing what all those alchemists’ symbols stand for. [sub]hey, nothing else is going on in this thread, we might as well talk about baseball. Or alchemy…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![DaveW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@DaveW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveW)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mysterious-rowsell-rods-new-species-or-a-hoax/95933/26 "2001-12-05T17:08:13Z")
**Antonius Block** wrote: > [@](#): > > I still think we’ve identified the other RODs, except for the apparent lack of ROD1: You might try [modifying the URL by hand](http://www.watchingyou.com/ROD1.JPG). > [@](#): > > – Who is ROD 1? > – You… are ROD 6. > – I am not a ROD, I am a free man! > – Bwaa haa haa haa haaaaaaa. Funny, but [I don’t see any Rods there](http://us.imdb.com/Credits?0061287). 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mysterious-rowsell-rods-new-species-or-a-hoax/95933.md?page=1)