# The SD Lunch Table **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 27, 2001, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sd-lunch-table/78277 "2001-08-27T03:21:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sd-lunch-table/78277/21 "2001-08-28T00:03:01Z")
We had this thing at (one of) my school(s) called “The Pumphouse” because, well, that’s what it was. It provided water for the town campground. That was where we went to smoke cigarettes during lunch hour/study hall/that four minutes between each class. The teachers didn’t care too much about it, mostly because they were too lazy to write that many detentions everyday. Then the new 7th graders decided it would be a good idea to smoke pot out at The Pumphouse before school. They got busted and ruined it for everyone because, after that, the cops started patrolling. Stupid 7th graders anyway. And they wonder why the juniors were always “trashing” them. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sd-lunch-table/78277/22 "2001-08-28T00:36:55Z")
**Wanders in, searches for “Smeghead”, leaves** ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sd-lunch-table/78277/23 "2001-08-28T00:42:43Z")
Can I sit with you **dlgirl?** ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sd-lunch-table/78277/24 "2001-08-28T01:23:47Z")
I, in my wisdom, noticing that no-one is picking me, just 'cause I was away from school for a while, have decided that I will climb up on the old stage that no-one uses anymore, and start reciting Monty Python and horribly off-color jokes until I get some applause. ---
**Author:** ![VitrolicBump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a587f6/32.png) [@VitrolicBump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VitrolicBump)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sd-lunch-table/78277/25 "2001-08-28T01:27:16Z")
Sure, **Zebra**. I don’t mind. :giggle: ---
**Author:** ![darian00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dfb087/32.png) [@darian00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/darian00)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sd-lunch-table/78277/26 "2001-08-28T02:48:08Z")
_walks up to dlgirl and zebra’s table_ Mind if I sit here? ---
**Author:** ![Rossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3e96dc/32.png) [@Rossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rossarian)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sd-lunch-table/78277/27 "2001-08-28T03:33:02Z")
Ugh, few things were more traumatic than the first day of a new semester when you got your lunch and then had to try and figure out which of your friends were in your lunch period and where they might be sitting in the cavernous lunch hall. It really sucked when all your friends were in the other lunch periods and you had to go scoping around for someone you knew. And now I have to find a Straight Dope Lunch table?! ---
**Author:** ![VitrolicBump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a587f6/32.png) [@VitrolicBump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VitrolicBump)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sd-lunch-table/78277/28 "2001-08-28T03:49:04Z")
**Darian00** , you can sit here. **Rossarian** , do you want to join us? 🙂 [hijack]Do you know what’s really funny? At my H.S. there weren’t enough tables for people to sit at, either outside or inside, so my friends and I would sit by our lockers outside. Yes, all our lockers were outside.[/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sd-lunch-table/78277/29 "2001-08-28T12:50:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FairyChatMom \* > \*\*I can bite off both ends, then use the hollow candy to give you sweet little hickies!! 😃 \*\* _Stop it!_ Everyone’s _looking!_ Sheesh, they’ll all think I like _girls_. I could get _cooties_. But if ya gotta do something, let’s sneak down to the shop hall. Just don’t be too obvious about it. 'K? -Rue. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sd-lunch-table/78277/30 "2001-08-28T14:48:22Z")
I’d probably sit by myself ☹ but that’s okay, 'cause I’d read a book. Maybe I’d ask dlgirl and her group if they’d mind if I could sit with them, sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sd-lunch-table/78277/31 "2001-08-28T15:02:07Z")
I’ll be sitting with the other master debaters. ---
**Author:** ![Nymysys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f6c823/32.png) [@Nymysys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nymysys)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sd-lunch-table/78277/32 "2001-08-28T15:05:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Maeglin \* > \*\*I’ll be sitting with the other master debaters. \*\* Waitaminute, a few posts ago you were sitting with me. Whaddap with that, MR? Not MY fault you’re never on AIM anymore, dammit. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sd-lunch-table/78277/33 "2001-08-28T15:07:47Z")
Say “master debater” three times fast. Trust me, you’re at the table. When I _am_ on AIM, you always leave the speaker off or something. ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sd-lunch-table/78277/34 "2001-08-28T15:12:21Z")
I’m not terribly hungry, and the food is bland and unpalatable. I’d probably build a trebuchet out of popsicle sticks, rubber bands, and a plastic spork ; then amuse myself by launching gobs of lumpy mashed potatoes at the ‘band nerds’. ---
**Author:** ![Nymysys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f6c823/32.png) [@Nymysys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nymysys)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sd-lunch-table/78277/35 "2001-08-28T15:15:04Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Maeglin_ > \*\*Say “master debater” three times fast. Trust me, you’re at the table. \*\* Oooooooooooooooooh! If THAT’S what you meant, then where’s Nen? Shouldn’t I be sitting between you two? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sd-lunch-table/78277/36 "2001-08-28T15:19:15Z")
> [@](#): > > Oooooooooooooooooh! If THAT’S what you meant, then where’s Nen? Shouldn’t I be sitting between you two? I was thinking of the verbal/intellectual variety of debate mastery…so yeah, get **Nen** in here. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sd-lunch-table/78277/37 "2001-08-28T20:10:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TroubleAgain \* > \*\*I’d probably sit by myself ☹ but that’s okay, 'cause I’d read a book. Maybe I’d ask dlgirl and her group if they’d mind if I could sit with them, sometimes. \*\* Anyone who remembers my birthday is more than welcome to sit with me. 🙂 And, for God’s sakes, get Nen in here too! Robin ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sd-lunch-table/78277/38 "2001-08-28T20:21:39Z")
That’s okay, don’t mind me. I’ll just sit over here by myself. With my peanut butter sandwich that sticks to the roof of my mouth and a little bag of Fritos. No, really, it’s okay. It’s nice and quiet and peaceful over here. At least that’s what I keep telling myself. ---
**Author:** ![Nen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Nen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nen)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sd-lunch-table/78277/39 "2001-08-28T21:15:30Z")
Well, if the three of you insist, I’ll just sidle on up to the table (in between **Nymysys** and **MsRobyn** , of course). So, what’s the debate at hand? **Euty** , if you put the Fritos on the peanut butter sandwich, it won’t stick to the roof of your mouth. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sd-lunch-table/78277/40 "2001-08-28T21:23:25Z")
I wouldn’t be sitting at a table. I’d be table-hopping and talking to everyone, eventually alightiing outside on the lawn. Unless it’s winter, then I’d be in either the music room or the drama room. Or at cheerleading or basketball practice. Geek though I was, I still had pom-poms! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sd-lunch-table/78277.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sd-lunch-table/78277.md?page=3)