# 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:** 19
**Author:** ![evilhomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/43a26b/32.png) [@evilhomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilhomer)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/361 "2009-02-06T14:20:30Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > That reminds me of a Ron I met one time…he told me that he’d actually met Pink Floyd backstage and shaken his hand. I was impressed. Maybe he meant [this](http://images.google.com/images?q=muppet%20Floyd&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi) Floyd? He’s kind of pink… ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/362 "2009-02-06T14:22:11Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > That reminds me of a Ron I met one time…he told me that he’d actually met Pink Floyd backstage and shaken his hand. I was impressed. 🙂 Wow _The_ Pink Floyd? Do you call him Pink or Mr. Floyd? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/363 "2009-02-06T14:31:41Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > 🙂 Wow _The_ Pink Floyd? Do you call him Pink or Mr. Floyd? First you have to ask which one is him. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/364 "2009-02-06T14:37:38Z")
> [@evilhomer](#): > > Maybe he meant [this](http://images.google.com/images?q=muppet%20Floyd&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi) Floyd? He’s kind of pink… Well, that _would_ be cool. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2009, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/365 "2009-02-06T14:38:45Z")
I once knew a woman who was a negative Ronnett. No matter how bad something in your life was, hers had to be worse. She married a guy who she met in prison while he was doing time for manslaughter! My favorite story: We were discussing the recent death of a friend’s 4 year old son, the victim of a murder/suicide by his insane father. Now, that has to be the worst thing that could happen to anyone, right? Negative Ronnett states: Well, nobody has it worse than me. I had to bury my mother and father. Toots, you are supposed to bury your parents, not your children. ---
**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 6, 2009, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/366 "2009-02-06T14:49:19Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Toots, you are supposed to bury your parents, not your children. Well, it depends in the details really. Am I right? I mean, when you need to hide the bodies, you’ve gotta dig really _deep_ or animals will pull them right out of the ground. That’s a lot of work for one person. ---
**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 6, 2009, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/367 "2009-02-06T15:14:45Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Well, nobody has it worse than me. I had to bury my mother and father. I’d have responded, “Personally? You couldn’t afford a cemetery? Wow, that is bad. Where’d ya plant 'em?” ---
**Author:** ![accidentalyuppie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@accidentalyuppie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/accidentalyuppie)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/368 "2009-02-06T15:18:49Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > I honestly believe that any adult who un-ironically accuses someone of “being mean to” thereby calls for themselves to be placed under intense maturity scrutiny. This reminds me, I have a Ron-duh story. Many years ago, my best friend got married. She is from a military family and had her wedding at the military base in Virgina where most of her family was stationed. Most of her friends from NYC made the trip to attend the wedding, about 40 of them …including me, her husband’s best man and his girlfriend, Ron-duh. I’m sure you know that Ron’s and Ron-duh’s don’t deal well with the concept of someone else’s special day. This was further complicated by the fact that Ron-duh’s boyfriend/babysitter was the best man and had other duties that day…he was a nice enough guy and all I can say is that Ron-duh must’ve been hell on wheels in the sack for this guy not to have kicked her to the curb. So it is now the morning of the wedding day. My friend entertained all her out of town friends the night before and was now absorbed in her wedding and getting ready and stuff. But the phone kept ringing. Robert called her to report that Ron-duh was very upset because she couldn’t buy cigarettes at the on-base PX because she wasn’t military ( the PX is a cut price store for service people only located on the military base). Ron-duh was not happy with the suggestion that she leave and buy her smokes at the 7-11, she was very upset that because the PX was “being mean” to her and she wanted someone to come down and talk to them. I think she got hung up on. But Robert soon called the bride-to-be again, saying that Ron-duh wanted to know if any of the bridesmaids had any Vicodin or Percocet because she had a headache. The answer was no, she pushed the issue and got hung up on again. Now we are at the church and Robert is pulling best man duty and unable to babysit Ron-duh, who showed up at the wedding in some sort of tattered black lace get-up. She is escorted to her seat. But Ron-duh is unable to sit still for any length of time without her Percocets. She gets up and starts wandering around the church. She wanders all the way up to the altar and starts picking things up and examining them. Then ( still at the altar ) she pulls out a cigarette and lights up. At this point the bride’s dad, in full uniform, walks up to her and ( not kindly) tells her to put out the cigarette and take her seat. Of course she doesn’t. She gets dark and angry and exits and finds the room where the bridal party is getting dressed and storms in and starts screaming at the bride that her dad is “being mean” to her. At this point the groom and best man find someone to take her back to her hotel- still kicking and screaming, I’m sure- and thankfully we did not see her again all weekend. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/369 "2009-02-06T15:49:50Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > My favorite story: We were discussing the recent death of a friend’s 4 year old son, the victim of a murder/suicide by his insane father. Now, that has to be the worst thing that could happen to anyone, right? Negative Ronnett states: Well, nobody has it worse than me. I had to bury my mother and father. > > Toots, you are supposed to bury your parents, not your children. :eek: Did she say this in the presence of the woman who had lost her son? ---
**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:** [February 6, 2009, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/370 "2009-02-06T16:05:22Z")
Fortunately, no. She did tell the woman it was “her fault” for not trying to get the child away from his father. I guess Ron-duh didn’t think going to family court _sixteen times in four years_ was enough of an effort. ---
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/371 "2009-02-06T16:38:40Z")
> [@accidentalyuppie](#): > > This reminds me, I have a Ron-duh story. What a story!! Technically - I think she was a Ronnette, not a Ron-duh. Ron-duhs are the people who are dumb enough to date the Rons in the first place:cool: Either way - I can totally picture her wandering around the church - reminds me of my own wedding. But I won’t bore y’all with that. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/372 "2009-02-06T16:51:30Z")
I seriously doubt you could bore us with any story you tell. You are a master story-teller! Spill it! ---
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/373 "2009-02-06T17:21:50Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > That reminds me of a Ron I met one time…he told me that he’d actually met Pink Floyd backstage and shaken his hand. I was impressed. Wow…when i tried to do that they told me Pink wasn’t well, he stayed back in the hotel. ---
**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/374 "2009-02-06T18:53:05Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > Thanks. We joke the she’s used 3 or her 9 lives - 1 for getting out of Germany with her family in 1938; 1 for the 1993 WTC bombing; and 1 for 9/11. But that’s neither here, there, or Ron. Sounds like she might have used two or three just on 9/11/01. > [@Jolly\_Roger](#): > > Wow…when i tried to do that they told me Pink wasn’t well, he stayed back in the hotel. Beaten to the punch yet again. RR ---
**Author:** ![gurujulp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba9def/32.png) [@gurujulp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gurujulp)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/375 "2009-02-06T21:28:35Z")
> [@melodyharmonius](#): > > Lol - don’t inflict Ron on poor Garth. Wasn’t Chris Gaines bad enough? > > Okay, I just have to say that this thread made me finally feel like a Doper. Previously I had felt only like an entertained interloper. So I must confess, it is all of you who have given me the highest enjoyment-to-participation factor. > > **I won’t tell you just how close you’ve come**. Bolding mine. That isn’t HIM with a pseudonym, is it? ---
**Author:** ![accidentalyuppie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@accidentalyuppie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/accidentalyuppie)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/376 "2009-02-06T21:37:01Z")
> [@melodyharmonius](#): > > What a story!! > > Technically - I think she was a Ronnette, not a Ron-duh. Ron-duhs are the people who are dumb enough to date the Rons in the first place:cool: > > Either way - I can totally picture her wandering around the church - reminds me of my own wedding. > > But I won’t bore y’all with that. Yes, you are correct, I forgot my proper Ron terminology…also, I should’ve called the hapless boyfriend Robert-Duh. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/377 "2009-02-06T22:24:03Z")
Somehow in reading all this it didn’t occur to me that I knew a “Ron.” SteveRon came to our little college in my senior year. He quickly established that he’d been a cop while a teenager, been in shootouts, been undercover, played for Uncle Slam, and had gold record(s) with them. Wikipedia shows they only had one album at that point, but we didn’t know that. I did wonder how I’d never heard of a band like that with that kind of success, but I’d met too few megalomaniacs at that point. He didn’t seem to want to be real friends with us, so he drifted away, and I think only lasted that year there. What a tool and liar. ---
**Author:** ![Kaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@Kaio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaio)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2009, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/378 "2009-02-07T19:51:10Z")
> [@melodyharmonius](#): > > “But,” he added, leaning forward in his Ron-on-the-prowl way. “Had I realized you guys wanted them, I would have given them to you.” > > If you only knew, Ron, if you only knew. Okay, at this point I don’t think I could have stopped myself from totally losing it. And then when Ron asks why I’m laughing like a loon, I don’t think I could keep myself from explaining the whole damn thing, in detail, _just_ so I could see the look on his face. And yes, we need to hear the wedding story. Dare I say it? You’re like the female version of **Master Wang-Ka**. Your stories have me rolling, over here. ---
**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/379 "2009-02-08T07:28:53Z")
> [@Kaio](#): > > Okay, at this point I don’t think I could have stopped myself from totally losing it. And then when Ron asks why I’m laughing like a loon, I don’t think I could keep myself from explaining the whole damn thing, in detail, _just_ so I could see the look on his face. > > And yes, we need to hear the wedding story. Dare I say it? You’re like the female version of **Master Wang-Ka**. Your stories have me rolling, over here. If you did explain it, I’m sure that Ron would come up with a even “foot-in-mouth” explanation, such as: 1. You must have gone to the wrong seats! 2. I will call the manager to demand a refund! I got connections there, ya know. 3. Oh that town doesn’t have enough prime seating. I’m sure of it? Why, because I am partner with the theater there and I have been urging to them to add in more seats but… ---
**Author:** ![ajdebosco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@ajdebosco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ajdebosco)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417/380 "2009-02-09T21:24:52Z")
> [@melodyharmonius](#): > > **Today’s Contribution:** > > As you may recall, Ron and my sister had bought Garth Brooks tickets … my father proposed a plan. My father would buy the concert tickets from them, enabling them to get the money they so “desperately” needed. > > Of course, this was not fair to either Ron or my sister. Give up concert tickets so they could have food and gas? Eschew luxury for practicality? Heresy! But after a few days, they took the offer and the exchange was made. … > > “But,” he added, leaning forward in his Ron-on-the-prowl way. “Had I realized you guys wanted them, I would have given them to you.” > > If you only knew, Ron, if you only knew. Pure genius, Mel to the H! Next time one of my careless, wasteful, upside down priorities aquaintances puts the bite on me for an “ahem” loan, I’ll employ that deliciously brilliant strategy. One word of caution to all reading this, though: concert tickets are too often counterfeited these days. I’ve worked as a ticket taker/usher at a number of venues, and it never fails ~ the scarcer of more expensive the tickets are, the more bogus ones we have seen. A good way to protect oneself is to carefully examine the disclaimer on the back, forgeries often lack any of the micro writing for lawyers on the reverse side, or they don’t match the onfo on the front. For instance, I’ve seen mgmt. not responsible type references to what is obvioulsy a sporting event on the rear, but the front of the ticket is for, say The Lion King. Finally, I’d nearly forgotten the prowling Ron demeanor you described in your first post…I can almost smell the flame broiled pickels and onion breath from here. You made my day, again. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ron-thread/475417.md?page=20)