# The ULTIMATE Aldebaran Pitting.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-aldebaran-pitting/201102
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [September 12, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-aldebaran-pitting/201102 "2003-09-12T01:22:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@DreadCthulhu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreadCthulhu)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2003, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-aldebaran-pitting/201102/21 "2003-09-12T02:28:18Z")
Wow. That is one of the most impressive pitting I have ever seen. But you forgot to mention that Aldebaran is a doo-doo head.
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### Author:  [@Meros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meros)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2003, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-aldebaran-pitting/201102/22 "2003-09-12T02:29:45Z")
To continue the hijack on my coding anomaly: It seems to be some kid of trick of the software in which it doesn’t interpret _any_ of the code if the closing tag has a comma between the bracket and the slash
\*\*like this[,/b]
We know how now…but why?
😕
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2003, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-aldebaran-pitting/201102/23 "2003-09-12T02:37:40Z")
I see one tiny flaw in your monument monument.
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### Author:  [@g8rguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/g8rguy)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2003, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-aldebaran-pitting/201102/24 "2003-09-12T02:43:50Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Ilsa\_Lund \*
> \*\*WTF?😕 \*\*
Oh, pay no mind to **Reeder** ; none of us really do, after all. But just to clarify: he’s channeling the dearly departed [**Lolo**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=17562).
Although really, it should have been “ **Aldebaran** : I’m not impressed.” 😃
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### Author:  [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2003, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-aldebaran-pitting/201102/25 "2003-09-12T02:44:36Z")
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!:sad
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### Author:  [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2003, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-aldebaran-pitting/201102/26 "2003-09-12T02:47:07Z")
Above references monument monument.
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2003, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-aldebaran-pitting/201102/27 "2003-09-12T02:53:13Z")
It was an otherwise otherwise excellent piece of work.
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### Author:  [@Avalonian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avalonian)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2003, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-aldebaran-pitting/201102/28 "2003-09-12T02:58:56Z")
Hey, at least each “monument” is a different link… monumental, you might say. 😉
Nice work, **Ilsa** , and well-deserved, I must say.
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2003, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-aldebaran-pitting/201102/29 "2003-09-12T03:02:05Z")
What’s the problem? You’ve dug up a lot of his threads but I don’t see anything wrong with them. What has he said that isn’t true?
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### Author:  [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2003, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-aldebaran-pitting/201102/30 "2003-09-12T03:09:09Z")
**Diogenes the Cynic** : Please tell me you’re kidding.
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### Author:  [@Wabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wabbit)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2003, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-aldebaran-pitting/201102/31 "2003-09-12T03:11:25Z")
So–you’ve read his threads and nothing strikes you as, well, assholish about them? I think you just pitted yourself (not surprised, really).
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### Author:  [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2003, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-aldebaran-pitting/201102/32 "2003-09-12T03:13:12Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Diogenes the Cynic \*
> \*\*What’s the problem? You’ve dug up a lot of his threads but I don’t see anything wrong with them. What has he said that isn’t true? \*\*
He more or less claimed that Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq in order to convert the Iraqis to his version of Christianity. And of course, this is perfectly true, judging by all the awful stories in the media about the Army’s policy of converting terrified Iraqi muslims at gunpoint.
Wait a minute, I haven’t heard of a single case of that happening. So it isn’t true. And you’re a well-known vacuous partisan.
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### Author:  [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2003, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-aldebaran-pitting/201102/33 "2003-09-12T03:17:30Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Ilsa\_Lund \*
> \*\*Click the word parents.🆒 \*\*
I caught that.
I am impressed with the coding and research of the OP. And that’s extraordinarily hard to do with a Pit OP.
::bows::
Una
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2003, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-aldebaran-pitting/201102/34 "2003-09-12T03:17:37Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Michael Ellis \*
> He more or less claimed that Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq in order to convert the Iraqis to his version of Christianity. And of course, this is perfectly true, judging by all the awful stories in the media about the Army’s policy of converting terrified Iraqi muslims at gunpoint.
That would, of course, fit in perfectly with their ongoing colonization of Iraq.
Oh, wait…
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### Author:  [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2003, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-aldebaran-pitting/201102/35 "2003-09-12T03:20:22Z")
Oh, and Ilsa, would you marry me? Please?
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### Author:  [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2003, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-aldebaran-pitting/201102/36 "2003-09-12T03:24:24Z")
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> Diogenes the Cynic: Please tell me you’re kidding.
DtC lives in a different world, where everything moves to the beat of his bleeding heart. I envy his world, for everything is as he says it to be. Fortunately for us sane ones, however, his world is not our world. No, ours is a boring world, a gray world, a world of facts, evidence, and rationality. Oh, lament, lament, for we are lost in a world without orange skies, red grass, and yellow water! We are lost in a world where a foaming-mouth fit of rage doesn’t instantly make events fall into place according to our desire!
We must worship Diogenes, for clearly he is our superior in every way.
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### Author:  [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2003, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-aldebaran-pitting/201102/37 "2003-09-12T03:25:57Z")
Man, that was a REAL feel-good 11,000th post.
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### Author:  [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2003, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-aldebaran-pitting/201102/38 "2003-09-12T03:32:04Z")
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> \*Originally posted by SPOOFE \*
> **yellow water!**
I created some yellow water this morning.
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2003, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-aldebaran-pitting/201102/39 "2003-09-12T03:36:42Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Atreyu \*
> \*\*BTW, am I the only person who keeps reading that name as “Alderaan”?
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> Man, I’ve seen _Star Wars_ too many times. \*\*
But, Alderaan is a peaceful basketball, I mean planet! We have no weapons!
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2003, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-aldebaran-pitting/201102/40 "2003-09-12T03:36:52Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Michael Ellis \*
> \*\*He more or less claimed that Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq in order to convert the Iraqis to his version of Christianity. And of course, this is perfectly true, judging by all the awful stories in the media about the Army’s policy of converting terrified Iraqi muslims at gunpoint.
>
> Wait a minute, I haven’t heard of a single case of that happening. So it isn’t true. And you’re a well-known vacuous partisan. \*\*
I don’t remember **Aldebaran** saying that was the _reason_ for the invasion but he fears (with some justification) that an influx of fundie proselytizers will be a _byproduct_ of the invasion.
Also, Bush is on record as saying that he thinks he was “called by God” to wage his idiotic war and he used the term "crusade’ to describe it. That’s a term that is quite loaded for Muslims. It sounds much the same to them as _jihad_ does to westerners. “Crusade” may have a lot of nuance to us but to a lot of Muslims it means Christians killing Muslims. _Jihad_ has quite a range of nuance in Arabic (it really means “struggle” and is more often associated with spiritual struggle than with warfare). The sight of a Bible banging, Christian zealot POTUS ranting on about “crusades” in the middle east is quite naturally going to make the hair stand up on the necks of a lot of Muslims, the overwhelming majority of which have fuck-all to do with 9/11 or with terrorism. When you consider the POTUS has already proven that he will lie to justify attacks on Muslim countries then Aldebaran’s fear is quite reasonable. I personally have no faith at all that Bush will not lie again or that he has any personal conscience about killing more innocent people. He has that moral vaccuum that only religious zealotry can produce.
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