# the real story of the texas chainsaw massacer, and cecil can u read this and comment on it **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [June 7, 2011, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611 "2011-06-07T08:10:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611/101 "2011-06-08T23:27:30Z")
@JKD: I know you’re banned but I suspect still lurking, so here goes:, I suspected you and BRD were one and the same but your calling other members “pu$$y” pretty much clinched it. Women don’t usually call people that, but immature men frequently do when someone calls BS on something they said. Why? To derail the conversation so they can avoid having to back up their statements with facts. As for freedom of speech under the First Amendment to the (US) Constitution, that applies only to the owners/administrators of this board, not to the posters. If you want to publish anything and everything that comes out of a fatigue-muddled brain, I suggest you start your own web site. Plenty of crackpots, oops, sorry! I meant “_dissenters_” already have. You have a plenty nice day, now, y’hear? ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611/102 "2011-06-09T00:23:58Z")
> [@Toucanna](#): > > As for freedom of speech under the First Amendment to the (US) Constitution, that applies only to the owners/administrators of this board, not to the posters. If you want to publish anything and everything that comes out of a fatigue-muddled brain, I suggest you start your own web site. Plenty of crackpots, oops, sorry! I meant “_dissenters_” already have. it doesn’t even apply to them… Unless Creative Loafing has become a government entity while I wasn’t looking. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611/103 "2011-06-09T00:43:27Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Members are now getting an inkling about why I left that Paradise called Texas. > [@Crazyhorse](#): > > Of course. Because of all the chainsaw massacres. :smack: But of course. 😉 I’m almost certain I went to school with Big D Ron and Jeet Kune Do. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611/104 "2011-06-09T00:44:29Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Unless Creative Loafing has become a government entity while I wasn’t looking. I was under the impression that we were an extra-governmental agency. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611/105 "2011-06-09T02:39:58Z")
That’s what they _want_ you to think. If Creative Loafing were a government agency, don’t you think they’d want to keep it a secret? There are some things the American public isn’t meant to know. It’s better that way. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611/106 "2011-06-09T02:53:09Z")
If we don’t have a thread Hall of Fame, we should, and this should be in the inaugural induction class. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611/107 "2011-06-09T18:09:24Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > But of course. 😉 > > I’m almost certain I went to school with Big D Ron and Jeet Kune Do. Based upon his writing style and maturity level, you at best went to school with his parents. ---
**Author:** ![TSBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@TSBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TSBG)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611/108 "2011-06-09T19:51:18Z")
Cross-thread pollination: is pretending to be your own girlfriend gay? It certainly must qualify as queer, in the newer sense, right? ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611/109 "2011-06-09T19:52:14Z")
It’s neither straight nor gay. It’s simply sad. Or perhaps pathetic is a better word. -XT ---
**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:** [June 9, 2011, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611/110 "2011-06-09T19:53:18Z")
> [@fgasparini](#): > > Cross-thread pollination: is pretending to be your own girlfriend gay? It certainly must qualify as queer, in the newer sense, right? What if I just pretend my hand is my girlfriend? Bi, at best? ---
**Author:** ![Powers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Powers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Powers)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611/111 "2011-06-09T21:01:52Z")
> [@Toucanna](#): > > I suspected you and BRD were one and the same but your calling other members “pu$$y” pretty much clinched it. Women don’t usually call people that, Ah, if only that were true! Powers &8^] ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611/112 "2011-06-09T21:18:44Z")
[QUOTE=Big D Ron;13890915] Come meet me in person and i’ll fuckin put you in a coma! you ever heard of Jeet Kune Do? I’ve been learing martial arts since kindergarden, and im not joking dude! im not afraid of fucking you up! [/QUOTE] I’m sorry. I laughed out loud when I read this. I don’t care who you are, that’s funny right there. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611/113 "2011-06-09T21:40:52Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > What if I just pretend my hand is my girlfriend? Bi, at best? Sexual or dexterous? ---
**Author:** ![JimNightshade](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jimnightshade/32/3354_2.png) [@JimNightshade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimNightshade)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611/114 "2011-06-09T22:04:54Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Sexual or dexterous? Lingual ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611/115 "2011-06-09T22:06:59Z")
Ambisextrous ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611/116 "2011-06-10T03:41:52Z")
> [@Punoqllads](#): > > Based upon his writing style and maturity level, you at best went to school with his parents. Thinking back on my cohorts, could have been my fellow students or their parents or their grandparents! ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611/117 "2011-06-10T04:30:11Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > I’m sorry. I laughed out loud when I read this. I don’t care who you are, that’s funny right there. Sometimes I think we chase these folks off just a touch too quickly. Had we let him keep going just a _bit_ longer we could have gotten two or three more pages of gold out of this. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611/118 "2011-06-10T05:46:54Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > The only language I can read is English, and this ain’t even close, so I have no idea what you are talking about. It isn’t Esperanto, Japanese, or French, either. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611/119 "2011-06-10T07:11:57Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > Sometimes I think we chase these folks off just a touch too quickly. Had we let him keep going just a _bit_ longer we could have gotten two or three more pages of gold out of this. Agreed. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611/120 "2011-06-10T09:27:57Z")
The fascinating thing about this thread for me was that I, unlike some other posters in this thread, didn’t say or imply that Big D Ron was stupid or that his grammar and spelling were poor or that he was regularly untruthful. In general, I never do that. I don’t have any interest in the question of whether any other poster is intelligent or whether their writing skills are up to par or whether they are truthful in most things. What I did was look at Big D Ron’s statements and draw some logical consequences from them. I then asked him if that was what he actually meant. Note though that I was the one that he said that he would beat up. That’s interesting to me. I try to avoid making personal statements about other posters. I don’t know and have no comment about what they are like overall. I just want to discuss the sources and consequences of their statements. And yet I was the one he wanted to beat up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611.md?page=7)