# The Two Trick Pony And Marching Manchowder Society **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 19, 2002, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-two-trick-pony-and-marching-manchowder-society/143692 "2002-12-19T00:11:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-two-trick-pony-and-marching-manchowder-society/143692/1 "2002-12-19T00:11:25Z")
I now call the meeting of the Two Trick Pony And Marching Manchowder Society to order. We’d have the secretary read back the minutes of the last meeting, but we all know he was attempting to seduce that new recruit with his eyes and subtle lip undulations and did not write down a damn thing. Our goal of destroying the family and the whole of Western Civilization as we know it is almost in our grasp. We have shows which prosetlyize our way of life on television with millions of people watching! “Straight” men watch _Will and Grace_. When they leave their girlfriends for the garbage man, the dumped girls will make most excellent fag hags for the cause. Breeders actually **PAY** to watch _Queer as Folk_ on Showtime! It is more success than we thought we would see this early on. So, what can we do as the coup de grace? Well… We _must_ **shamelessly** flaunt ourselves in public! We’ll walk down busy streets hand in hand. We’ll start kissing in public and almost look like we’re having sex before a stitch of clothing has been removed. We’ll go to fantasy resorts and ask for the Butt Pirate room! We shall storm the streets and behave as if we were a normal part of society, perverting the natural order and wreaking havoc on the universe at large. Now… go out there and FLAUNT, FLOUNCE, AND BE FABULOUS! _That is all_. The reason this is a Two Trick Pony society is because just one trick is boring. You really need two tricks at once to make life interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-two-trick-pony-and-marching-manchowder-society/143692/2 "2002-12-19T00:20:38Z")
😕 ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-two-trick-pony-and-marching-manchowder-society/143692/3 "2002-12-19T00:25:15Z")
Okay… I was just asked via IM why I started this thread. Well… the term flamboyant was used yesterday in this thread: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=151123](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=151123) While Garf explained his meaning, I thought about the word, the concept, and was irritated by a society that seems to see us living our lives honestly and openly as flaunting and being flamboyant. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-two-trick-pony-and-marching-manchowder-society/143692/4 "2002-12-19T00:29:24Z")
:shrug: Good to know, I guess, but I think the specific event or series of events which prompted you to make the post are irrelevant, **Hastur**. It’s a damn fine rant, and a damn fine sentiment. And if I weren’t so very flamboyant with my hetero lifestyle, I’d be all over you. Er, the rant. All over the rant. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-two-trick-pony-and-marching-manchowder-society/143692/5 "2002-12-19T00:38:21Z")
Screw you and your distasteful, execrable flamboyaphobia, Hastur! What’s wrong with being flamboyant? I’ll have you know sir that I actually truly own a red and black velvet cape. Thanks to people like you I can’t wear it without being laughed at. ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-two-trick-pony-and-marching-manchowder-society/143692/6 "2002-12-19T00:39:51Z")
_{laughs at **Scylla** }_ Esprix ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-two-trick-pony-and-marching-manchowder-society/143692/7 "2002-12-19T00:40:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scylla \* > \*\*Thanks to people like you I can’t wear it without being laughed at. \*\* well, to be honest, that’s not the only reason. you simply don’t have the legs for it, man. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-two-trick-pony-and-marching-manchowder-society/143692/8 "2002-12-19T00:42:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scylla \* > \*\*Screw you and your distasteful, execrable flamboyaphobia, Hastur! > > What’s wrong with being flamboyant? > > I’ll have you know sir that I actually truly own a red and black velvet cape. > > Thanks to people like you I can’t wear it without being laughed at. \*\* Here’s a nice _big_ bowl of manchowder for you to drown your sorrows in. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-two-trick-pony-and-marching-manchowder-society/143692/9 "2002-12-19T00:49:46Z")
Well seriously. What’s wrong with flamboyant. If you’re going to be anything you might as well be it flamboyantly. It’s a mark of success and pride. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-two-trick-pony-and-marching-manchowder-society/143692/10 "2002-12-19T01:07:13Z")
Red and black velvet cape?? I want one!!! ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-two-trick-pony-and-marching-manchowder-society/143692/11 "2002-12-19T01:23:30Z")
I would just like to take this opportunity to state for the record that my username has nothing to do with being flamboyant. Not that there’s anything _wrong_ with being flamboyant, of course… 🙂 F\_X ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_The\_Diver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Buck\_The\_Diver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_The_Diver)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-two-trick-pony-and-marching-manchowder-society/143692/12 "2002-12-19T01:28:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Michael Ellis \* > \*\*😕 \*\* I’m with **Michael Ellis** on this one. Is “flamboyant” yet another SDMB forbidden word? ---
**Author:** ![grendel72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/91b2a8/32.png) [@grendel72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grendel72)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-two-trick-pony-and-marching-manchowder-society/143692/13 "2002-12-19T01:51:48Z")
Why is it that certain people always equate informing them that a word or turn of phrase is offensive to some as “forbidding” it? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-two-trick-pony-and-marching-manchowder-society/143692/14 "2002-12-19T02:03:35Z")
**Hastur,** an old roomie left me a Fundie Decoder Ring, the aid of which with I note that “FLAUNT, FLOUNCE, AND BE FABULOUS” is meant to emphasize the three alliterative “F’s” – and “F” is the **sixth** letter of the alphabet… so… it suggests an automated response of “Get thee behind me!” What does it all mean? ---
**Author:** ![Hamish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Hamish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamish)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-two-trick-pony-and-marching-manchowder-society/143692/15 "2002-12-19T02:12:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hastur \* > \*\*Our goal of destroying the family and the whole of Western Civilization as we know it is almost in our grasp. ☹ But we went through all that trouble inventing it. ---
**Author:** ![Hamish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Hamish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamish)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-two-trick-pony-and-marching-manchowder-society/143692/16 "2002-12-19T02:13:40Z")
(Western civilization, not the family. I’m not taking the blame for the invention of the family 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-two-trick-pony-and-marching-manchowder-society/143692/17 "2002-12-19T02:40:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by wring \* > you simply don’t have the legs for it, man. > 😉 I’m not so sure about that - I saw his marathon pics, and he’s got some damned fine legs. Though one could make the argument that they’re more suited for running shorts than velvet capes. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-two-trick-pony-and-marching-manchowder-society/143692/18 "2002-12-19T02:44:31Z")
**Buck** , what’s the problem? I think that **Hastur** said it quite clearly. Let’s see . . ah, here it is: > [@](#): > > I thought about the word, the concept, and was irritated by a society that seems to see us living our lives honestly and openly as flaunting and being flamboyant. How difficult is this? ---
**Author:** ![pantom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/34f0e0/32.png) [@pantom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pantom)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-two-trick-pony-and-marching-manchowder-society/143692/19 "2002-12-19T03:09:42Z")
I’ve got a Zorro hat to go with that cape. I actually wear the thing out, too. Frequently. It’s actually a rain hat, and it does the job, too. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-two-trick-pony-and-marching-manchowder-society/143692/20 "2002-12-19T03:11:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pantom \* > \*\*I’ve got a Zorro hat to go with that cape. > I actually wear the thing out, too. Frequently. It’s actually a rain hat, and it does the job, too. \*\* I also have an old cavalry sword! We should get together. It would be most flamboyant! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-two-trick-pony-and-marching-manchowder-society/143692.md?page=2)