In a thread about the guy who had the temerity to write a book titled “The Straight Dope” without being Cecil I suggested adding him to our Enemies List™. That got me thinking, who would be on it and in which order?.
So, if only to start the ball rolling, my submission:
The Straight Dope Message Board Enemies List™:
<mcnulty>What the fuck did I do?</mcnulty>
Stranger
He knows what he did…
(It’s because he went to the Mariana Trench in 2012, thus ruining the whole “once, for 20 minutes, in the 1960s” thing)
‘The Straight Dope Message Board’ is #1 on ‘The Straight Dope Message Board Enemies List™’?
Are we that self-hating of a bunch?
Sometimes we are. You never been in The Pit?
My contribution to The List:
3. AI slop
6. VP JD & Stephen Miller
9. Lufthansa Iberia
It was a riff on Homer Simpson’s enemies list where the very first entry is “Homer Simpson”, but yes, while we may be not our #1 enemy I think we should be on the list, if only to keep us on our toes…
Homer, this is just Nixon’s list with his name scratched out and yours at the top
At least ours is not Homer’s list with his name scratched out and ours at the top…
Can I just add ‘Homer,’ then? But not Simpson – that MoFo that wrote The Iliad.
“Sing, O muse, of the wrath of David, N Rockies, that brought countless ills upon the Dopers.”
Why the wrath against The Iliad? I liked the prose adaption I read about 3 decades ago…
Not the work. The man:
The authorship of the Odyssey and the Iliad is disputed. While some scholars believe Homer is solely responsible, others claim that the poems were retold and revised by numerous people. This theory has led to various explanations for the use of the word Homer. Some speculate that it was a term meaning wandering blind poet.
I know some stuff.
The whole MAGA movement and lot of other people in the Trump administration like Attorney General Pam Bondi and Robert Kennedy, Jr.
Specially Kennedy.
There are all kinds of people in the political sphere such as Putin and Netanyahu and Elon Musk; but I think it would be more interesting for the OP to exclude those types.
So, would any of these strike ire here?
Meghan Markle/Prince Harry
Sean “Diddy” Combs
Kanye West
Bill Cosby
Gwyneth Paltrow
Woody Allen
Others?
Surely Oprah Winfrey must be up there
William Poundstone-for revealing Cecil Adams’ “true identity” as…
Ed Zotti.
Absolutely, the lying snitch.
Agreed: I take VP JD & Stephen Miller back. Insert FIFA instead. Or, if it must be a person, make it their boss: Infantino, whom I like to call Mafiantino.
There are a few woo-practitioners whose names seem to crop up a lot around here. Uri Geller was a common takedown target for a while.
I don’t know if anyone else feels the same about Jonathan Haidt as I do, but he’s a PhD which is often trotted out as a “centrist” who says all sorts of flattering things about conservative psychology. It’s one example of a high-paying grift where pseudo-intellectuals sell conservatives’ own ideas back to them as some sort of forbidden knowledge or “scientifically proven” moral theory.
Alan Alda
(Many here can’t mention him without bad-mouthing him.)