# The Ron Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 2, 2008, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417 "2008-12-02T22:39:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 17
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/321 "2009-01-30T07:59:35Z")
Ooh, I’d be furious! Is he your boss, or a jerk co-worker, **Annie-Xmas**? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/322 "2009-01-30T11:43:14Z")
> [@melodyharmonius](#): > > Yup, it was Chrissy. I have no idea _which_ Chrissy. I would have been able to tell you if it was Jenna or Marilyn or Shannon . . .but I don’t have a Chrissy in my 'stache of Porn Stars memory . . . I was thinking it might have been Chris **t** y Canyon. She was apparently a famous adult film actress. So I’ve been told. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/323 "2009-01-30T12:54:28Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I was thinking it might have been Chris **t** y Canyon. She was apparently a famous adult film actress. So I’ve been told. That’s my guess too. Also, so I’ve been told. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/324 "2009-01-30T13:13:41Z")
> [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](#): > > Ooh, I’d be furious! Is he your boss, or a jerk co-worker, **Annie-Xmas**? Jerk co-worker, married to the Big Boss. Which explains everything. His wife got an earful the next day. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/325 "2009-01-30T13:37:52Z")
> [@melodyharmonius](#): > > Getting an evil streak, I printed out the list and addresses and had my assistant make 25 copies of it on a variety of colored sheets of paper. And I instructed her to mail one copy of the list to my sister every day for the next 5 weeks. Thank you for giving me my new devious plan to use on my sister in law! Brilliant! Muahahaahahahaa!!! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/326 "2009-01-30T14:12:17Z")
As someone else once said about my Ron: “He’s the only person I know whose friends don’t like him.” ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/327 "2009-01-30T15:37:03Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Anyone ever heard the after-the-purchase explanation of, “I just bought a thousand-dollar thing, but it was on sale, down from fifteen hundred, so actually I saved us five hundred dollars, we’re five hundred dollars _ahead_ really!” My SiL these past Christmas: “I just wanted a shirt but gee it was all so cheap there was no way I could buy only what I needed!” Three blouses, a shirt, a jumper, a dress and two jackets. And that was at only one store, there had been other stores prior to reaching that one. I know there has never in the whole history of the world two people who agreed completely about how to spend money, but SiL+clothes is something that makes my hands itch for a good knife. One of my roomies was a Ronette. She was from India, her nick was Mona, which we all agreed fit her to a T as in Spanish it’s got a triple meaning and the last two were her: - female monkey - cute girl - stupid girl Cute, she was. The IQ of a broken brick, she had 😛 She was in college with a sports scholarship and often whined about not being a professional player; we’d point out that “making enough from sports to pay for your college and your livelihood” does indeed count as “professional” compared with most people in the world, it merely doesn’t count as top rack. She got paid every two weeks from student-work. Every single time her first stop would be the clothing store; not the grocer’s, not bills… after a month, I started reminding her on payday of the payments she had due, and this helped. She owed money to everybody. She left her boyfriend for a Norwegian who played in her same school, because “with me beign so dark, although my mother would die if she saw me so dark, haha, and him being so blonde, I think we just look totally cute!” The Norwegian and his Argentinian roomie moved into another apartment in our same complex… or rather, the Argentinian moved there and the Norwegian spent most of the time at our place. When I pointed out that I was paying for half a fridge and wanted half a fridge, Ronette said “you should be grateful he pays for his own food! If you don’t like it this way, move out!” This was a Thursday. Next day I walk in announcing I’ve already found a new place (a room in a house one hundred yards down the same street, where I stayed for two years… well, not _in_ the room!) and Ronette says “well, I’ll be! Remember to pay me what you owe me, then!” “You mean to get back the money that _you_ owe _me_, you mean?” I then proceeded to prove that she owed me about $300. In front of her friends. While they laughed. She never paid me back, of course, but given how much she owed to some others, those $300 were petty cash (basically she owed me her part of the last two phone bills and her half of the last rent payment). I’d slashed the power bill in that flat to 1/10 of what it was when I moved in (I never had the windows open with the a/c on, nor the a/c on with the house empty) so what she owed me from that was very little. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/328 "2009-01-30T15:42:51Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I was thinking it might have been Chris **t** y Canyon. She was apparently a famous adult film actress. So I’ve been told. Just like Ron to screw that up. ---
**Author:** ![occlusian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/eada6e/32.png) [@occlusian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/occlusian)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/329 "2009-01-30T16:41:11Z")
> [@Mindfield](#): > > OH! OH! > > I can’t believe I didn’t think of this guy. > > Ladies, feast your eyes on your dream man. His name is [John Fitzgerald Page](http://johnfitzgeraldpage.com/default.aspx). He’s an actor/model, and he lives a fast-paced, glamorous life. Why, he’s been all over the [blogosphere](http://gawker.com/news/douchebags/nightmare-online-dater-john-fitzgerald-page-is-the-worst-person-in-the-world-309684.php), and he’s even been on [Dr. Phil](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRKNYyF3yf4)! The best thing – he has his “filmography” (mostly stuff like “Guy in Crowd”) on his website, and lists the Dr. Phil appearance, _along with its title_: “Male Egos: Out of Control!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/330 "2009-01-30T21:43:07Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > One of my roomies was a Ronette. She was from India, her nick was Mona, which we all agreed fit her to a T as in Spanish it’s got a triple meaning and the last two were her: > > - female monkey > - cute girl > - stupid girl > Cute, she was. The IQ of a broken brick, she had 😛 I’ve been using, for years, the expression: “All the brains of a scrambled turnip.” I wonder which is stupider: a scrambled turnip, or a broken brick. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/331 "2009-01-30T22:13:19Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > I wonder which is stupider: a scrambled turnip, or a broken brick. Neither. Bag of hair is stupider than both. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2009, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/332 "2009-02-02T13:26:59Z")
> [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](#): > > [Quote=OtakuLoki] > I wonder which is stupider: a scrambled turnip, or a broken brick. Neither. Bag of hair is stupider than both. [/QUOTE] How do either of those stack up against a football bat? ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/333 "2009-02-03T00:39:58Z")
They are all Jeopardy contestants compared to: “Half a bag of Hammers” Unclviny ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/334 "2009-02-03T02:45:16Z")
I like “thick as a whale omelette” myself. ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/335 "2009-02-03T16:35:22Z")
I always preferred “Dumber than a box of hammers…” with the preferred embellishments of “…labeled ‘One Box of Hammers’…in the back room of a hammer store.” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/336 "2009-02-03T16:55:15Z")
No no, folks - it’s a box of wet hair, or a bag of hammers. Carrying hammers in a bag is considerably stupider than carrying them in a box. ---
**Author:** ![cwthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/337 "2009-02-03T17:05:36Z")
No, it’s a box of rocks, or a sack of _broken_ hammers. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/338 "2009-02-03T17:37:16Z")
Let’s take this discussion outside, y’all. [Dumber than a …](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=504900) ---
**Author:** ![ajdebosco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@ajdebosco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ajdebosco)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/339 "2009-02-03T17:39:58Z")
Not the sharpest knife in the drawer, or the sharpest tool in the shed, are among the preferred descriptions, but I’ve always appreciated the simplicity of “being so obtuse.” For someone who is otherwise intelligent, but has trouble graspng concepts like projected self image, or good decision making…“Her cheese done slid offa her cracker.” ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/340 "2009-02-03T19:12:57Z")
How 'bout “Dumber than a Ron on a weekend.”…? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417.md?page=18)