# The Straight Dope, Long As You Toe The Line **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 4, 2001, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-long-as-you-toe-the-line/79594 "2001-09-04T00:40:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-long-as-you-toe-the-line/79594/21 "2001-09-04T04:39:47Z")
psst [sub]Godwin[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-long-as-you-toe-the-line/79594/22 "2001-09-04T05:11:17Z")
Guadere - Gaudere - Goodwin - Godwin - Fascists - Fashasts. What the hell were we talking about? Batty’s Second Law - Jack Batty seldom knows exactly what he’s talking about. ---
**Author:** ![edwino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@edwino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwino)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-long-as-you-toe-the-line/79594/23 "2001-09-04T05:55:18Z")
Fucking fasciscts. Invoke Guadere’s Law myself. ---
**Author:** ![Akatsukami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea666f/32.png) [@Akatsukami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akatsukami)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-long-as-you-toe-the-line/79594/24 "2001-09-04T11:55:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TheLoadedDog \* > \*\*Have fun, and don’t call the mods Nazis. They are Stalinists, and get really upset if you don’t get it right. \*\* They _are_? And here I thought that they were all _Trotskyites_! Damn, no _wonder_ they keep deleting my posts, and sending me unsolicited credit card offers in the mail, and causing my car’s radiator to boil over, and running over my dog, and… ---
**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:** [September 4, 2001, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-long-as-you-toe-the-line/79594/25 "2001-09-04T12:30:18Z")
Sorry about the dog. Our original thought was to steal the mutt and sell it to a lab, but your driveway was small, the hummvee was difficult to manuver, and your dogs leash got caught in the drivetrain after it nipped me and I dropped it. So sorry. ---
**Author:** ![puk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ea5d25/32.png) [@puk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puk)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-long-as-you-toe-the-line/79594/26 "2001-09-04T12:32:50Z")
All I know is Coldie is a Nazi, and I don’t care what the you hippy bastards say! ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-long-as-you-toe-the-line/79594/27 "2001-09-04T13:48:25Z")
Hey, **Clare Ashworth**! 1. I forgive you for whatever your previous crimes were (I have not researched them…😉 ) 2. Welcome! 3. You (and I, and everyone else) are welcome here as long as we abide by a few simple rules… if you don’t like that fact (and many don’t) then you may be banned. It happens. 4. If you can agree to those rules (and, yes, they DO chaff sometimes! But they are necessary to ensure that the forum we have remains workable!)), then you are VERY welcome, indeed! 5. Welcome, again! 6. **Coldie** is not a Nazi… he just has some problems dealing with normally endowed people, that’s all! ---
**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:** [September 4, 2001, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-long-as-you-toe-the-line/79594/28 "2001-09-04T15:02:06Z")
To heck with the OP now that Clare’s evidently learned the lesson! I’m trying to figure out how the dog’s leash nipped Czarcasm. WTF? ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-long-as-you-toe-the-line/79594/29 "2001-09-04T16:35:20Z")
Um, down with the moderators. Dude. _burns an effigy of Czarcasm while chanting anti-moderation slogans_ :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-long-as-you-toe-the-line/79594/31 "2001-09-04T17:14:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Situation No Win \* > \*\*Yet another anti-manhattan thread. Anyone else see a pattern here? \*\* Did you read this thread? Even the OP has come to grips with the concept that **manhattan’s** actions were totally justified. The OP opened 3 thread in GQ that were specifically not GQ material. Most postings to all threads were attempts at alerting her to that effect, yet she kept it up. Always interesting to me that some one who’s ‘new’ here is so ready to pile on a mod’s action that they don’t bother with the facts. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-long-as-you-toe-the-line/79594/32 "2001-09-04T17:14:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Situation No Win \* > \*\*Yet another anti-manhattan thread. Anyone else see a pattern here? \*\* Um … no. How is this an “anti-manhattan” thread? I just thought it was another “let me whine about my inalienable rights to say whatever I want where ever I want, and you can all kiss my patootie if you don’t like it” thread. Even then, the OP’er gave in and accepted the rules here. So, what’s _your_ agenda, **Sitch** (can I call you Sitch)? ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-long-as-you-toe-the-line/79594/34 "2001-09-04T17:39:38Z")
Holy fuck, you’re a putz. 9 whole posts and you’ve got the place wired tight. The paragraph you quoted wasn’t the OP. It was a part of the OP. And the way I read it wasn’t anti-manhattan, it was anit-moderator, manhattan simply being used as an example. But now that I’ve written all that, feel free to ignore it, as I’m sure you will. It is obvious to me that you are nothing but malcontent insistant on stirring up the shit. I’ll offer you long standing and to the point advice – You don’t like it here? Hit the fucking road! [sub] : chanting to myself – DNFTT - DNFTT - DNFTT[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Myrr21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Myrr21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrr21)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-long-as-you-toe-the-line/79594/35 "2001-09-04T17:46:43Z")
> [@](#): > > Could be wrong here, but it sounds as though this person is anti-manhattan. No no no. See, the OP said “Manhattan the Moderator”, and here you go slinging accusations about a nice place to kill a few hours while I wait for my connecting train. > [@](#): > > Japan said the same thing to the US when they started dropping atomic bombs on them. We have **THE BOMB**? Rock out. Hey Coldfire: can I puhhh-leeeasse push the button? > [@](#): > > And now I’m off to read that thread where the _majority of Dopers collectively agreed_… Heh… ---
**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-long-as-you-toe-the-line/79594/36 "2001-09-04T17:49:41Z")
Huh. I expect many of us mods will have to argue now over which of us gets to be Little Boy and which of us gets to be Fat Man. Either way. Buh-bye, Sitch. And nota bene to all other would-be-socks: should over one third of your posts be specifically devoted to complaining about this MB or the moderators, you’re gone. If you have something worthwhile to say, that’s one thing. Just want to sit around and bitch about Nazi moderators? Hit the road. ---
**Author:** ![that\_darn\_cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/59ef9b/32.png) [@that\_darn\_cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/that_darn_cat)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-long-as-you-toe-the-line/79594/37 "2001-09-04T17:50:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Situation No Win \* > Japan said the same thing to the US when they started dropping atomic bombs on them. Aww, jeez. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-long-as-you-toe-the-line/79594/38 "2001-09-04T18:02:07Z")
**Heah heah, getcha peanuts heah, popcorn peanuts heah, ICE cold soda pop, peanuts and popcorn heah, getcha pretzels heah, getcha hot doggies heah, getcha inflatable jarbabyj figurines heah, heah heah, getcha popcorn peanuts heah…**. Gawdy, I love a good show. Wasn’t **Clare Ashworth** the illegitimate daughter of **Thomas Jefferson** , and therefore a historical as well as hysterical figure? 😃 Cartooniverse, munching happily on a hot pretzel and caressing in a most filthy way my newly purchased **jarbabyj** inflatable figurine… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Slip\_Mahoney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Slip\_Mahoney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slip_Mahoney)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-long-as-you-toe-the-line/79594/39 "2001-09-04T20:47:31Z")
Way to be, **Situation No Win**. (_I think I see a self-fulfilling prophesy in that handle)_. You’ve gone and riled up **Batty** , and that’s not a good thing. Go forth and lurk, so that thine days here may be long and prosperous. It costeth nought, yet the rewards are great. ---
**Author:** ![gtzaskar00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9c0ed/32.png) [@gtzaskar00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gtzaskar00)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-long-as-you-toe-the-line/79594/40 "2001-09-04T22:29:40Z")
Did I miss something? Did Japan have the option of turning off their computer and not coming back to a particular message board? Oh wait, that’s right, they had an atomic bomb dropped on them. They really didn’t have much of a choice there. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2001, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-long-as-you-toe-the-line/79594/41 "2001-09-05T01:28:59Z")
To all would-be SDMB Freedom Fighters: Thanks anyway, but we’re perfectly happy under the repressive regime of our dictatorial fascist Nazi Trotskyite Kligon overlords. Try the place down the street. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Clare\_Ashworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Clare\_Ashworth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clare_Ashworth)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2001, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-long-as-you-toe-the-line/79594/42 "2001-09-05T02:50:35Z")
Situation No Win - you have it in one. I ‘surrendered’ because I felt ground down, not because I felt I was wrong. And I still don’t. See my latest post, where I’ve rallied a bit! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-long-as-you-toe-the-line/79594.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-long-as-you-toe-the-line/79594.md?page=3)