# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 7
**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:** [June 10, 2011, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611/121 "2011-06-10T09:32:25Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > 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. It’s because your name is “Wendell”. That’s a red rag to a bully right there. ---
**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611/122 "2011-06-10T09:50:23Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > 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 … 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. > [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > Why don’t you do that right now, Big D Ron? We can hold a Dopefest in D.C. later that day where you tell us about how successful that was. We can hold it somewhere with a TV that will be showing the press conference that the (now ex-)president holds in which he tells the nation why he was so impressed by you showing up at the White House that he immediately resigned. Well, not quite immediately, since first he fired all federal workers and cancelled all federal laws made up to that point. At the Dopefest, you can tell us about how you immediately hired replacements for all those workers and created a completely new set of laws. A man of Big D’s obvious keen insights and sensitivities might have taken this comment to be intentionally a little sarcastic. In his world, that can mean only one thing: A Jeet Kune Do battle to the death! ---
**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, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611/123 "2011-06-10T10:08:08Z")
I didn’t say I wasn’t sarcastic. I said that I didn’t say or imply that Big D Ron was stupid or a poor writer or untruthful. ---
**Author:** ![ajdebosco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@ajdebosco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ajdebosco)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611/124 "2011-06-10T14:03:34Z")
> [@Vlad\_Igor](#): > > “The light that burns twice as bright, burns half as long. And you have burned so very, very brightly, Roy.” I have been away for too long, so this thread, and this post in particular just gave me fits of convulsive laughter. Well done, all. “..with only a few years in which to store up the experiences which you and I take for granted. If we give them a past, we create a cushion, or a pillow for their emotions…” ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611/125 "2011-06-10T16:32:57Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > I didn’t say I wasn’t sarcastic. I said that I didn’t say or imply that Big D Ron was stupid or a poor writer or untruthful. If you were the nicest poster yet he picked you to threaten to beat up, doesn’t that say a lot about his mental state? ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611/126 "2011-06-10T16:53:24Z")
> [@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. Can we take up a petition to the mods to allow JKD back on to bring the funny some more? ---
**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 10, 2011, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611/127 "2011-06-10T16:57:44Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Agreed. Can we take up a petition to the mods to allow JKD back on to bring the funny some more? One should think twice before filling one’s canteen from a steady stream of gold. ---
**Author:** ![ajdebosco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@ajdebosco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ajdebosco)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611/128 "2011-06-10T17:17:32Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Agreed. Can we take up a petition to the mods to allow JKD back on to bring the funny some more? Not the evil alter ego; I vote for the genius, accomplished author, with nary a prevarication in his posts. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611/129 "2011-06-10T18:01:50Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > it doesn’t even apply to them… Unless Creative Loafing has become a government entity while I wasn’t looking. I was likening Creative Loafing’s position to that of say, a newspaper or weblog publisher. For example, while the NYT, WaPo, WSJ and the Drudge Report’s OpEd pieces are protected under the First Amendment, the publishers are not obligated to publish all dissenting opinions from their readers. Or _any_ letters to the Editors, if they so choose. Similarly, posters to the SDMB post under sufferance of CreaLo and have no constituional right(s) protecting their utterances (i.e., posts). Have I understood your comment correctly and have I clarified my position? Regards, and apologies for the minor hijack. And now, back to the hijnks…😃 ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611/130 "2011-06-10T18:30:51Z")
You guys can’t like prove the texas _chainsaw_ massacre isn’t real. Hellhounds, man, hellhounds. Look it up. But don’t use books. I know a sheriff and I AM a master of Jeet Kune Do - I don’t even care if there can be one. I don’t care man. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611/131 "2011-06-10T23:03:50Z")
Threads like this make me appreciate my Dopelife all the more. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611/132 "2011-06-10T23:59:32Z")
Just wanted to say that > [@](#): > > Ingorance people call me dumb!! …is one of the all-time great SDMB lines. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > One should think twice before filling one’s canteen from a steady stream of gold. Isn’t that what William Jennings Bryan said? ---
**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:** [June 11, 2011, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611/133 "2011-06-11T15:13:03Z")
By the way, that was the best use of [Technique 10](http://www.cracked.com/funny-3809-internet-argument-techniques/) I’ve seen in a long time. The example in the article and the one in this team are virtually identical. They also managed to work in #5 and a bit of #2 and #9 as well. That article does need a “sheeple” entry though - it gets used enough here. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611/134 "2011-06-13T16:14:41Z")
> [@Big\_D\_Ron](#): > > Because most of you people don’t have any commen sense and only rely on what books and science says! I think this would make an absolutely wonderful tagline for GQ. ---
**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-story-of-the-texas-chainsaw-massacer-and-cecil-can-u-read-this-and-comment-on-it/584611/135 "2011-06-15T02:27:56Z")
> [@Jeet\_Kune\_Do](#): > > O im sorry it was’nt the constitution it was the Declaration of Independence. Go look it up people. > > “This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their Constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it.” > Source(s): > [http://www.overthrowthegovernment.org/](http://www.overthrowthegovernment.org/) > [http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote\_blog…](http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog%E2%80%A6) > [@Oakminster](#): > > Your first link is somewhat less than persuasive. Unintentionally funny, but that isn’t a plus in a debate. The second one isn’t working for me. I’m sure it says in the Constitution (sorry, but my brain forbids me to mispell it, I wanted to and tried!) that people who can’t do decent web design and can only make web pages that have designs 10 or more years out of date are not allowed to run anything more important than a book club. > [@Punoqllads](#): > > Based upon his writing style and maturity level, you at best went to school with his parents. Actually, an early post of Ron’s said he was 22. Which was a shame, from the get-go, I pictured him as an overweight, middle-aged lower class typical Texan (NASCAR wear optional) - while he apparently misrepresented a lot of things, I’m doubting that one somehow. A shame, as it works better my way. [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=6)