# This Blinky and Pinky numnuts is still around?

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [February 12, 2017, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-blinky-and-pinky-numnuts-is-still-around/779685 "2017-02-12T20:51:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-blinky-and-pinky-numnuts-is-still-around/779685/37 "2017-02-13T01:41:09Z")

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> [@ThelmaLou](#):
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> Confronting trollery is a waste of time. When has confrontation ever shut a troll up? They want confrontation. They want to be noticed. They want the fuss and bother. They want to pull a thread off-topic. Trollery IGNORED is the way to go. That’s all I got.

Back in the old usenet days on alt.folklore.urban people would sometimes respond to blatent trollery with recipes. It actually increased the signal to noise ratio more than argument, plus, who isn’t interested in a chocolate chip cookie variant?

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