You have to admit, Xploder and the Spasming Assholes has a ring to it…
Dardanelle in Yell County was where Mattie Ross hailed from in “True Grit”. Maybe that’s why the disclaimer about country comes from.
You know how I know that?? I Googled it. I guess I could have started a GQ thread…
Just so we are clear, I am talking about Roland Deschain, the male nurse who discussed in detail the shortcomings of anal sex with his wife. You know, him.
Yeah, I think I’ve bitched elsewhere here about Mattie being from Dar-dan-elle in Yell Coun-ty, when locals sound more like “Darnell in Yell Counny”. I grew up in Dardanelle. And, yeah, I have an accent, but I play power pop, not the least bit country.
BTW, Charles Portis, who wrote True Grit, was a good friend of my Dad’s from college. They both were older students who had been in the military and wrote with various school publications, so I think they had a bond there. I met him once at Arthur’s BBQ in Pine Bluff (This was probably right around the time of True Grit being made into a movie). I was a very small Arky, so I can’t tell you anything other than he wore a crew cut and horn-rimmed glasses, and him and my dad laughed a lot.
My favorite was the innocent wondering if it would be OK for him to shoot the security guard at Wal-Mart. No, I tell a lie - it was the one wondering if you try to save your kid from a burning car or just shoot the little bastard. No, it was the one… Well, I give up. There are just so many good ones to choose from.
My favorite was “My wife wants to go to a “swing club”. What can I expect?”. I believe that was the thread where he started to come apart.
Since Thin Lizzy doesn’t matter much to me, I’ll hijack on and say that around Dardanelle on I-40 is about the most scenic part IMHO. You can catch a glimpse of the lake there, and there is a scenic overlook I’m going to stop at one of these trips…
No. Is it so much to ask that you don’t complain about questions no-one’s forcing you to answer?
I’m not complaining about the question – I’m complaining about the lack of initiative and self-sufficiency. At some point everybody has to learn to tie their own shoes instead of having Mommy do it for them all their life.
I’m constantly amazed that on a board dedicated to fighting ignorance, people are opposed to the use of basic reference materials. Jesus, at least give it a shot yourself before you come running to the board to make people look it up for you.
In order to come apart, one would have to be all together beforehand.
Yeah, it’s pretty on Lake Dardanelle, looking west at the sunset over the mountains. The prominent flat-topped mountain is Mt. Nebo. It has a state park with campground and cabins, along with some private residences. The views from Sunrise and Sunset Points are great. Where you’re talking about is probably near Russellville, possibly London. Dardanelle, the town, is at the dam end of Lake Dardanelle, on the river. It’s about 5 mi. S. of Russellvile.
Sorry for the hijack…Thin Lizzy must be dressed to kill, down at Dino’s Bar & Grill.
Yes, because Thin Lizzy’s crap clutters up the front page of GQ and drives what may be more interesting questions off the front page.
It might also be noted that what Thin Lizzy is doing is explicitly against GQ guidelines.
From the very first sticky in GQ:
Bolding mine.
Personally, I don’t mind if a newbie asks an occasional simple question that’s easily Googled, as long as they eventually figure out how to find things for themselves. And it’s fine if someone has looked for information themselves, and wishes to have some more extended discussion. But what Lizzy is doing shows that he either hasn’t read any of the stickies in GQ, or has chosen to ignore them.
No one’s forcing me to answer them, or even read them – but a slew of asinine questions that are easily googled take up a lot of space on the first page.
True, this does sound excessive. However, pit threads such as this are the reason I have never (at least not that I remember) started a thread in GQ. I read them, find out some interesting things, and leave. It’s not that I’m scared to post one. I just don’t want to go through the hassle of posting a question about something I’m truly interested in knowing about and discussing with the largest group of the smartest people I know, only to have to defend myself in the pit about why I would dare do such a stupid thing. (I’m not trying to yell at you here, TellMeI’mNotCrazy, you’ve already said you generally don’t support when people say “Google is your friend.”)
And another thing (again, not directed at you, TellMeI’mNotCrazy), I think Google fucking sucks. I’ve googled many a thing to come up with jack shit.
You’re setting a pretty low standard there.
And actually, almost none of Roland’s questions could have been answered by Googling. 
Perhaps you’d have better success if you learned not to put “jack shit” into your search string?
The ability to use a search engine effectively is an acquired skill. If you don’t practice it, you don’t learn it.
Would you care to mention someone else who you have seen pitted about asking simple questions in GQ? This seems exceptionally paranoid to me.
That’s the time to ask in GQ, while mentioning that you’ve already tried finding information yourself.
Speaking of paranoia – I saw Colibri’s name as the last poster, and assumed it was to say “talk about people who should look stuff up instead of asking in GQ, what’s with twickster and her stupid questions about birds?” 
Frankly, if you’ve done that, I’ve forgotten it. I would probably remember if you did it 20 times a day, though.
Well, that settles it. I retract what I said. Apologies.
Hell, I figured Thin Lizzy was a summer school class with an inattentive teacher.