# The SMACKDOWN!!! Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 5, 2017, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smackdown-thread/783807 "2017-04-05T13:58:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Evil\_Economist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Evil\_Economist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Economist)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smackdown-thread/783807/1 "2017-04-05T13:58:58Z")
Have you ever been reading a thread and seen a poster smacked down another so hard that startled birds rose from the trees for miles around? If so, this is the thread for you. To kick it off, I provide the following exchange, following multiple posts by **Okrahoma** that the Syrian problem is Obama’s fault for not taking military action: > [@The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3004): > > “Something” that Obama could have done is military assault on Assad forces that were involved in chemical attacks or declaring a no-fly zone over Syria. Stuff that Trump physically cannot do today, due to heavy Russian military presence in Syria. > [@The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3013): > > Hey Okie, can you guess who made the following tweets? > Obama wants to unilaterally put a no-fly zone in Syria to protect Al Qaeda Islamists [The Daily Beast: The Latest in Politics, Media & Entertainment News](http://thebea.st/143tmfM) Syria is NOT our problem. > 11:58 AM - 29 May 2013 > > We should stay the hell out of Syria, the “rebels” are just as bad as the current regime. WHAT WILL WE GET FOR OUR LIVES AND $ BILLIONS?ZERO > 5:33 PM - 15 Jun 2013 > > What will we get for bombing Syria besides more debt and a possible long term conflict? Obama needs Congressional approval. > 11:14 AM - 29 Aug 2013 > > If Obama attacks Syria and innocent civilians are hurt and killed, he and the U.S. will look very bad! > 12:26 PM - 30 Aug 2013 > > How would you treat the Syria situation if president ?" I’d let them all fight with each other-focus on US! > 4:09 AM - 1 Sep 2013 > > If the U.S. attacks Syria and hits the wrong targets, killing civilians, there will be worldwide hell to pay. Stay away and fix broken U.S. > 6:55 PM - 2 Sep 2013 > > “@BigSexyBDAvis: @realDonaldTrump mr trump would attack Syria or no?” No, lets make our country great again as they fight their war! > 6:45 PM - 3 Sep 2013 > > What I am saying is stay out of Syria. > 7:00 PM - 3 Sep 2013 > > The only reason President Obama wants to attack Syria is to save face over his very dumb RED LINE statement. Do NOT attack Syria,fix U.S.A. > 4:13 AM - 5 Sep 2013 > > AGAIN, TO OUR VERY FOOLISH LEADER, DO NOT ATTACK SYRIA - IF YOU DO MANY VERY BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN & FROM THAT FIGHT THE U.S. GETS NOTHING! > 6:20 AM - 5 Sep 2013 > > President Obama, do not attack Syria. There is no upside and tremendous downside. Save your “powder” for another (and more important) day! > 6:21 AM - 7 Sep 2013 > > Don’t attack Syria - an attack that will bring nothing but trouble for the U.S. Focus on making our country strong and great again! > 4:59 AM - 9 Sep 2013 > > Obama must now start focusing on OUR COUNTRY, jobs, healthcare and all of our many problems. Forget Syria and make America great again! > 6:19 AM - 11 Sep 2013 > > We should stop talking, stay out of Syria and other countries that hate us, rebuild our own country and make it strong and great again-USA! > 10:29 PM - 12 Sep 2013 Ouch. **Okrahoma’s** kids are going to be born with big red hand-shaped birthmarks on their faces. Anyway, please provide your favorite SMACKDOWNS!!! ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smackdown-thread/783807/2 "2017-04-05T14:26:17Z")
The clobbering **Claudia VonL** got from \*\*Cervaise \*\*on the Telemarketer pit thread was something for the ages: Much. Much more on the link. > **[The Telemarketer Speaks. I Respond.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=51270)** > > In this GD thread, Claudia VonL replies to everyone who complains about telemarketers by posting one of the most asinine, poorly reasoned, incompetently written messages I’ve ever seen on the SDMB. And yes, that includes the infamous JDT, so that’s... > [@](#): > > [Telemarketer] **\> and WRITE the company calling you.** > > [Cervaise]This is like shooting fish in a barrel, you know that? Listen, you dumb cunt, if written correspondence is such an effective means of communication, then WHY THE FUCK DOES THIS BULLSHIT INDUSTRY EVEN EXIST? Are you even listening to your own arguments? > > \*\*\> you can catch more flies with honey than vinigar > \*\* > Or, if catching flies is our objective, we can all gather around you, ask you to open your mouth, and watch the filthy insects gravitate to the shit you’re full of. > > **\> And for whatever it is worth to you…Best estimates say that telemarketing will be a dead issue in 10 years.** > > I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to be able to say this, especially after the foregoing, but here it is: > > CITE PLEASE. > \*\* > \> If you can’t wait that long…GET RID OF YOUR PHONE!!!\*\* > > (long pause) > > You poor, addled cow. You seriously offered that as a solution. Either you’re an idiot, which is inarguably within the realm of possibility given all of the above, or you’re acknowledging by implication that what you do is so egregiously unpleasant that such an extreme lifechanging proposition is an acceptable alternative. By the same reasoning, you would counsel someone suffering from a painfully infected ingrown thumbnail to sever the affected hand with a rusty chisel. You can’t take that advice yourself, of course, because then you wouldn’t be able to dial your phone and continue earning your “awsome” money, but then again it’s pretty obvious that consistency and logic have little if anything to do with your dumb-slut worldview. > > Listen to me, you scabby-tongued cretin. Your chosen career is defensible only on the grounds of its legality. What you do with your life is up to you, but if you persist in this vocational option, and worse, if you publicly revel in it as I gather you are in your nearly incomprehensible jeremiad, you must expect that your intellectual superiors will have no choice but to hold you up as an example of the worst kind of gutter trash humanity has to offer. I do not attack your co-workers, your hapless conspirators in disruption and ill-timed inducement. I attack you, and your sneering, sickly smug self-satisfaction. Your total disdain for your impact on people’s lives stands on the threshold of sadism, and is unfathomable in any person who isn’t hamstrung by mental or emotional dysfunction. Until you slither back to the dark abyss that belched you up – or until you seek psychiatric assistance – I will denounce you and your heartless, soulless kind, yea, to my last rattling breath. > > Bring it on, bitch. Now, notice that the pit thread was from 2000, when the usage of words like “cunt” were still allowed against a poster, so we are not likely to see smackdowns like that again. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smackdown-thread/783807/3 "2017-04-05T20:01:34Z")
I think I love **Tony**. The telemarketer thread was pretty awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smackdown-thread/783807/4 "2017-04-05T20:34:29Z")
> [@Evil\_Economist](#): > > Have you ever been reading a thread and seen a poster smacked down another so hard that startled birds rose from the trees for miles around? If so, this is the thread for you. > > To kick it off, I provide the following exchange, following multiple posts by **Okrahoma** that the Syrian problem is Obama’s fault for not taking military action: Some should check on **Okrahoma** after that. He may try to hurt himself. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smackdown-thread/783807/5 "2017-04-05T20:59:04Z")
Most likely just scurry to a more congenial site and complain how this liberal warmbed of leftish is intolerant of anyone who doesn’t walk in lockstep with the Central Committee. But he’ll say it like that’s a bad thing. ---
**Author:** ![CatandMouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c89c15/32.png) [@CatandMouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatandMouse)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smackdown-thread/783807/6 "2017-04-05T21:22:09Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Some should check on **Okrahoma** after that. He may try to hurt himself. I don’t see how he’ll have time for that, being a Trump apologist is a 24/7 job. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smackdown-thread/783807/7 "2017-04-05T21:34:47Z")
The smackdown in the OP was a thing of beauty. This was the response to it: > [@The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3017): > > It’s pathetic that you’re trying to excuse Obama’s inaction at the time when he actually could do something about it by Trump’s tweets. Unless you think it was Trump’s tweets that prevented Obama from doing anything? This is obviously not a fair fight. He doesn’t even feel the impact yet here. Perhaps he has a general numbness about the head as a matter of course. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2017, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smackdown-thread/783807/8 "2017-04-05T21:38:50Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > This is obviously not a fair fight. He doesn’t even feel the impact yet here. Perhaps he has a general numbness about the head as a matter of course. Look at it this way: A football doesn’t know it is being kicked, but when it gets kicked from your own 30 yard line and flies between the goalposts, it is still a thing of beauty. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smackdown-thread/783807/9 "2017-04-05T22:44:21Z")
Eight words: “If ignorance were cornflakes, you’d be General Mills.” ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smackdown-thread/783807/10 "2017-04-05T22:47:25Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Some should check on **Okrahoma** after that. He may try to hurt himself. And it’s pre-existing, so he’ll need to get it looked at before Obamacare is repealed. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smackdown-thread/783807/11 "2017-04-05T22:55:20Z")
After a couple takedowns on **adaher** (starting at post #32981 for those keeping score at home) my final one was, [more of gentle judo-flip than a smackdown](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20067140&postcount=33002) ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smackdown-thread/783807/12 "2017-04-06T01:49:22Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Look at it this way: A football doesn’t know it is being kicked, but when it gets kicked from your own 30 yard line and flies between the goalposts, it is still a thing of beauty. That’s beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smackdown-thread/783807/13 "2017-04-06T04:20:27Z")
> [@CatandMouse](#): > > I don’t see how he’ll have time for that, being a Trump apologist is a 24/7 job. ```auto 25/8! My days have the most hours! My weeks have the most days! What's wrong with you? Are you un-American? Remember that great American band, The Beatles? Their bestest bigliest hit was *Eight Days a Week*. They didn't need any pansy-tushed calendar that was obviously lacking in days. ``` You know. The way things have been going, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if that were to be an actual Trumpweet (Trump + tweet) in the very near future. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smackdown-thread/783807/14 "2017-04-06T11:26:59Z")
**mhendo** had a smackdown on **Saint Cad** in an [About This Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20111482&postcount=47) thread. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smackdown-thread/783807/15 "2017-04-06T12:14:58Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Some should check on **Okrahoma** after that. He may try to hurt himself. There is no balm in Gilead stronger than cognitive dissonance, confirmation bias and the calm, soothing waves of amplitude modulation. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smackdown-thread/783807/16 "2017-04-07T19:59:31Z")
What about the situations where the person lays the smackdown on themselves, then tries to dig out of it, to no avail? Let me present unto the committee the work of **Doorhinge** , taken from the [The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-by-step, Inch-by-inch](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=815247) thread: First there was me: > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/430): > > [Iconic photo of woman deciding between health care and iPhone](https://twitter.com/arctictony/status/839195119857336320) (It’s a reference to the iconic Depression-era photograph of a worried woman in the Dust Bowl) Ann Hedonia then responds: > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/439): > > I would need to buy a new iPhone once a month in order to wastefully spend the money I use for my insurance premiums. And it would need to be a really good iPhone, too-- a 7Plus with lots of memory… (She obviously got the joke). Then, right after, our boy Doorhinge posts the following: > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/441): > > Does that qualify as fake news? The photo doesn’t match the claim. > > _This is_ (Dorothea) _Lange’s most celebrated and iconic portrait of American family life of the thirties and an image that stays in the mind for a great deal of time, such is its power. The subject is Florence Owens Thompson and the name of the photograph is Migrant Mother._ > > [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4ySAzVEDGYI/TtYpMHpncrI/AAAAAAAAO7A/AaAEUu\_VeGU/s640/dorothea+lange+depression+era+photographs+13.jpg](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4ySAzVEDGYI/TtYpMHpncrI/AAAAAAAAO7A/AaAEUu_VeGU/s640/dorothea+lange+depression+era+photographs+13.jpg) > > [The Depression Era Photography of Dorothea Lange ~ Kuriositas](http://www.kuriositas.com/2011/11/depression-era-photography-of-dorothea.html) > > It appears that some asshole on the internet going by the name Tony Haile wants people to believe that the iPHone was available during the 1930’s. The Dope Responds: > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/442): > > It’s a joke. You’re not normal, so I wouldn’t expect you to recognize such humor, but I’m happy to assist. > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/445): > > Completely serious question–are you retarded? > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/446): > > Wow. Just wow. > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/455): > > Pssst, doorhinge a little hint. There is something called [satire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire). You may have heard of it. Also pro-tip: Johnathan swift didn’t actually think cannibalism is a good idea. > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/457): > > Don’t be too hard on him. He thinks the word “irony” is what you use to describe how an iron looks. Even I take a shot: > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/461): > > About 15, 20+ years ago I was talking to somebody on AOL who went through a tornado and they remarked “they said it sounded like a train, but I didn’t hear a single ‘choo-choo’.” (Later, I heard other people say this on those disaster porn shows so it’s apparently a thing). > > Congratulations on beating the choo-choo tornado guy for the dumbest thing ever said to me on the internet. Please, take your response and frame it, displaying it proudly on your wall for you may never attain such heights again. > > Or… at least for the rest of this week. Bad enough, right? But then… _ **Doorhinge doubles-down** _ with the “I got the joke, it was YOU who didn’t get the joke” strategy that was a loser in the fourth grade. > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/465): > > There, there. It’s going to be OK. Tony Haile duped you into thinking that you had discovered an iconic photo of a wanna-be iPhone user, and you couldn’t wait to share your discovery with others. That’s so cute. Better luck next time. The Dope Responds: > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/466): > > So sayeth this Board’s choo-choo tornado guy. 🙂 > > But, really… huh? > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/472): > > It’s a very recognizable photo (hence iconic). Many people understood the poignant juxtaposition of the similarities between a poor 1930’s mother and a 2017 mother. The woman in the photo had sold her tires to pay for food. A modern mother who lives in poverty will have to decide what to sell to pay for health insurance. > > It’s even more ironic since Lange’s photos at the time helped usher in social changes to help the poor get out of their situation and not fall back. Yet here we are nearly 100 years later with similar struggles. Except now people are fighting to ensure she stays poor and falls further into poverty. (That was very patient of you, Filmore. We should all try to do likewise.) > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/473): > > Yes, but its recognition factor is due, in considerable measure, to its historical significance, and dumbfucks like **doorhinge** have no interest in learning from history. > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/476): > > That HAS to be it…not because you’re a drooling cretin, nope, no way, no how. Kindly unplug your keyboard and save the rest of us from your stupidity. Doorhinge Responds: > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/478): > > Hahahaha. Coming from the guy who was so stupid he could only cut and paste someone else’s propaganda, I’m not surprised you’d stoop to ridiculing someone who was trying to describe what it was like to be in a tornado. Haters gotta hate. That’s what people like you do. I respond: > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/479): > > Sure your proper username shouldn’t be “Unhinge”? > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/483): > > Are you sure your proper username shouldn’t be “Crapper with a T”? (Witty retort!) The Board Responds: > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/481): > > So wait. Do I have this right: > > You GOT the original joke, but decided to play it straight - and then, when called on that, thought JohnT was the dummy who didn’t get the joke? > > Walk me through it slowly. I’m as confused by this as by the White House’s position on Obama’s “wiretaps.” > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/482): > > I think you’re burying the lede here, which is that _you learned something_, which many of us didn’t think was possible. If you further confound our expectations by \*retaining \*that information you will be well on your way to becoming a fully functioning human being. > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/487): > > I’m not interested in “burying the lede” with you. Ever. But thanks for asking. > > As to the rest - According to whom? You? According to your standards? Do you have any standards that haven’t been supplied by your favorite political party? > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/491): > > (post shortened) > > Hahahahaha. Another phrase you don’t understand. Is there no limit to your ignorance? > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/485): > > (Post shortened) > > Hahahahaha. Of course you didn’t get the joke. > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/486): > > This is so sad. Another tragic victim of Coprolitic Brain Syndrome - a heartbreaking, overlooked disease. You have my sympathies, and you can take heart in the much-needed attention our current President is bringing to the pitiably afflicted. > > Chin up, buckaroo. Many CBS victims have found rewarding careers in the food service industry. > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/493): > > > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/481): > > > > So wait. Do I have this right: > > > > You GOT the original joke, but decided to play it straight - and then, when called on that, thought JohnT was the dummy who didn’t get the joke? > > > > Walk me through it slowly. I’m as confused by this as by the White House’s position on Obama’s “wiretaps.” > > Couldn’t have been more obvious a joke if she was wearing a nametag that said [“Sophie.”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie's_Choice_(film)) > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/494): > > You’re as confused as I am. I’m going to have to assume that he got the original joke (because, yes, it’s quite obviously a joke. That’s one of the most famous photos in American history) and is just purposely being difficult and is amusing himself and only himself in the process. > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/495): > > A paid Russian troll wouldn’t recognize an iconic American image. Of course, neither would a moron. > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/497): > > Not only would he recognize it, he would know every word to to _The Star Spangled Banner._ > > 😃 > [@The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146/505): > > So, one takeaway from the photo flap in this thread is that it’s getting difficult to tell a Russian troll from a stupid American. The Prosecution rests. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smackdown-thread/783807/17 "2017-04-07T20:15:55Z")
(modest cough) I know this is braggy, but I just thought I’d mention that back in 2012 I [received the inaugural SDMB Golden Paper Towel Tube Award](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=630580&page=86) for [this post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15518113&postcount=4246). Even five years later I remain fully sensible of the great honor bestowed by that prestigious award, especially when I sit down suddenly. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smackdown-thread/783807/18 "2017-04-07T23:03:59Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > (modest cough) I know this is braggy, but I just thought I’d mention that back in 2012 I [received the inaugural SDMB Golden Paper Towel Tube Award](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=630580&page=86) for [this post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15518113&postcount=4246). > > Even five years later I remain fully sensible of the great honor bestowed by that prestigious award, especially when I sit down suddenly. Quote: Originally Posted by Starving Artist in post #2430—the infamous “Paper Towel Tube Test” “I have been very clear in my analyses to describe the difficulties that a 6’3” man would encounter in trying to have anal sex with a young boy in that position. […] Still, it would be easy enough for you or anyone else to test. Just squat down about as far relative to your height as Sandusky would have to for his, and try pumping away at a paper towel tube held in front of you." * * * Oh great. Occasionally saw sporadic references to the paper towel tube thing, but now that I know its origins…jesus - I was about to say I need to take a shower, but, uh… ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smackdown-thread/783807/19 "2017-04-07T23:44:24Z")
_hands **Eddie** large bottle of brain bleach_ Here you go. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smackdown-thread/783807/20 "2017-04-08T01:14:09Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > Quote: > Originally Posted by Starving Artist in post #2430—the infamous “Paper Towel Tube Test” > “Still, it would be easy enough for you or anyone else to test. Just squat down about as far relative to your height as Sandusky would have to for his, and try pumping away at a paper towel tube held in front of you.” OK, show of hands. Other than **SA** ;who here has actually tried this, and how many of you (again, other than **SA** ) have continued habitually doing it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smackdown-thread/783807.md?page=2)