# Things I want to say to or about alaricthegoth.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [December 6, 2005, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372 "2005-12-06T16:18:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2005, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/21 "2005-12-07T03:22:27Z")
> [@John Corrado](#):
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> …Just because **elucidator** writes flowery prose to cover the fact that he really doesn’t have anything to say does not mean that just anyone can get away with that: **luci** is a maestro of bullshit, a veritable di Vinci of meaningless prose…
Bereft. Inconsolable.
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### Author:  [@bizzwire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bizzwire)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2005, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/22 "2005-12-07T03:59:17Z")
[For once, I’m ahead of the wave.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6860940&postcount=21)
Personally, I actually like him. He’s…plucky. The only suggestion I would add is, “Dude, You don’t have to write 5 responses to your own freakin’ posts.” Put them all together. Then take out every third word. Won’t make it any more intelligible, but cumulatively, it will save about 32.4 person-hours of eyestrain on behalf of the rest of us.
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### Author:  [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2005, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/23 "2005-12-07T04:12:35Z")
> [@elucidator](#):
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> Bereft. Inconsolable.
Don’t worry. They said the same thing about Twain.
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### Author:  [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2005, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/24 "2005-12-07T04:18:14Z")
> [@minty green](#):
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> Don’t worry. They said the same thing about Twain.
Shania?
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### Author:  [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2005, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/25 "2005-12-07T04:32:51Z")
Shakira.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2005, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/26 "2005-12-07T05:41:11Z")
You play Shania and I play Shakira
You play Ashanti and I play Aaliyah
Shania, Shakira, Ashanti, Aaliyah
Let’s turn the stereo off
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### Author:  [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2005, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/27 "2005-12-07T06:23:32Z")
> [@Cemetery Savior](#):
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> Sounds liek someone got through Page 11 of Finnegan’s Wake to me. :smack:
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> -Cem
I was thinking more along the lines of Vulturo from _Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law_.
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### Author:  [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2005, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/28 "2005-12-07T14:04:32Z")
> [@John Mace](#):
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> Aren’t you at least a little concerned that you were able to produce a reasonable facsimile of **aleric** ’s prose style? I’d be afraid if I could turn my brain off like that.
You wouldn’t believe how long it took me to write that. And I think I pulled something in my brain. If you see me limping into threads with dumb posts, I’m going to blame it all on alaric: first I had to read his crap, then I tried to emulate it.
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2005, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/29 "2005-12-07T17:37:55Z")
> [@Ravenman](#):
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> You wouldn’t believe how long it took me to write that. And I think I pulled something in my brain. If you see me limping into threads with dumb posts, I’m going to blame it all on alaric: first I had to read his crap, then I tried to emulate it.
There but for the grace of Og go we, I guess.
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### Author:  [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2005, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/30 "2005-12-07T18:05:04Z")
> [@elucidator](#):
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> Bereft. Inconsolable.
And worst of all, guilty as charged.
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### Author:  [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2005, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/31 "2005-12-07T19:33:20Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#):
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> You play Shania and I play Shakira
> You play Ashanti and I play Aaliyah
> Shania, Shakira, Ashanti, Aaliyah
> Let’s turn the stereo off
A thing of beauty, **Little Nemo**. Truly stuff of The Dope.
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### Author:  [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2005, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/32 "2005-12-07T21:43:33Z")
> [@elucidator](#):
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> Bereft. Inconsolable.
It was however, the most complimentary insult I’ve ever seen. A gem.
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### Author:  [@alaricthegoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alaricthegoth)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2005, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/33 "2005-12-08T11:53:55Z")
> [@John Corrado](#):
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> A: Did the bar not have a _written_ section?
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> B:Try using simple words.
> Try to correctly use punctuation and correct capitalization.
> Try avoiding allegory.
> Try to ensure that your sentences are complete, and that they contain such important parts as subjects, verbs, and a coherent connection to the previous sentence. If that seems too tough, which it seems it might be, try to at least ensure a coherent connection to something someone else said in the thread.
> Spacing is also important, as it keeps words apart.
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> C: It is generally acceptable to follow up one’s post with an immediate post to correct mistakes or better explain a concept. If one has to follow up one’s initial post with [three successive posts](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=348216) to try and flesh out one’s initial thoughts, perhaps one should fucking well try writing it _all_ out first and editing
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> D: one feels a contact high from reading the OP.
A:Yet another bit of evidence to bolster the proposition that thc levels are exponentially greater these days than they were when I took the bar
B: I shall re-install that spell checker, (but not the style plugin…)
C: fair enough
D: this is bad because?
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### Author:  [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2005, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/34 "2005-12-08T11:58:03Z")
Oh, and use preview.
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### Author:  [@alaricthegoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alaricthegoth)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2005, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/35 "2005-12-08T12:02:15Z")
> [@Knowed Out](#):
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> Give him a break. His old man was the #3 Communist in the country. You know what those commies do (did) to impressionable young minds. It freezes them in the 60’s mindset.
no no-my GODFATHER
My old man was a mob lawyer, not a stalinist.
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### Author:  [@alaricthegoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alaricthegoth)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2005, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/36 "2005-12-08T12:08:44Z")
> [@Marley23](#):
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> Isn’t that terrifying? If he’s a trial lawyer, someday one of his clients will be executed for an unpaid parking ticket. “Your honor, we refuse to recognize the legitimacy of this court, the police department, and the state’s parking meters, which were imposed after an illegal occupation!”
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> I disagree. It’s bad enough that _we_ have to read **alaric** ’s posts. Making **alaric** read them seems cruel. However, his friend may deserve it - just for being friends with him.
at the risk of hijacking the thread, the court, at least, is illegal under the governing principles of international law as regards the rights and obligations of occupying powers (even if we grant, which I don’t that the occupation is legal by virtue of a retrospective endorsement by UN).
The jurisdiction of the court, unlike the occupation and its bastard offspring, the successive temporary/constituent authorities, has never been ratified.
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### Author:  [@alaricthegoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alaricthegoth)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2005, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/37 "2005-12-08T12:09:47Z")
> [@Priceguy](#):
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> Oh, and use preview.
I have never been sorry when I used preview…
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### Author:  [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2005, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/38 "2005-12-08T14:18:44Z")
> [@alaricthegoth](#):
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> no no-my GODFATHER
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> My old man was a mob lawyer, not a stalinist.
Was he the #3 mob lawyer in the country?
I understand there’s different strains of communist thinking like Marxist, Leninist, Maoist, etc, but Stalinist? He was no communist. He was a thug. His method of distributing the wealth was to kill all the farmers and take their grain.
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### Author:  [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2005, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/39 "2005-12-08T15:16:56Z")
> [@alaricthegoth](#):
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> no no-my GODFATHER.
Who the fuck ranks shit like that? I never saw that category in Wallechinsky’s books.
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### Author:  [@Psycho\_Pirate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Psycho_Pirate)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2005, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-want-to-say-to-or-about-alaricthegoth/334372/40 "2005-12-08T16:03:40Z")
> [@E-Sabbath](#):
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> He’s not New Iskander or Psycho Pirate. He actually brings an interesting viewpoint to discussions, and after I figure out what the fuck he’s saying, I generally will disagree, but it’s a new perspective.
Ooh! I have a fan! I had no idea that you had been following my mostly lurking presence on this board.
I’ll add you to my list of admirers, and of course you will be put on the P3 (Psycho Pirate Philes) newsletter mailing list.
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