# Tighty-righties: Only 8 days until you’re free! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 28, 2008, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tighty-righties-only-8-days-until-you-re-free/469866 "2008-10-28T00:06:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tighty-righties-only-8-days-until-you-re-free/469866/41 "2008-10-28T20:35:49Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Ohio, same thing. What’s important about a no-hitter? You don’t talk about a no-hitter in progress. If you’re on the team, you don’t even talk to the pitcher in question. About anything. Especially the possibility of it fucking up. It jinxes it. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tighty-righties-only-8-days-until-you-re-free/469866/42 "2008-10-28T21:14:16Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > The biggest problem I see with chicken-counting is that it could color people’s analysis of the inevitable voter fraud claims against republicans and could lead to violence if enough people feel that McCain stole the election. Also, it treats polls as some infallible crystal ball when in reality there’s a lot of guesswork involved and sentiment can change quickly. Can’t you just **smell** the fear? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tighty-righties-only-8-days-until-you-re-free/469866/43 "2008-10-28T21:17:22Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > [moralmajoritymyass](http://hamptonroads.com/2008/10/phony-flier-says-virginians-vote-different-days) :rolleyes: Cheeses K. Reist! The Pubs did the exact same thing in '04! Have they run out of ideas?! ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tighty-righties-only-8-days-until-you-re-free/469866/44 "2008-10-28T21:38:15Z")
> [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](#): > > You don’t talk about a no-hitter in progress. If you’re on the team, you don’t even talk to the pitcher in question. About anything. Especially the possibility of it fucking up. > It jinxes it. Okay. I heard about that once, but I thought it was a perfect game. (Why isn’t a no-hitter perfect, anyway?) ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tighty-righties-only-8-days-until-you-re-free/469866/45 "2008-10-28T21:39:18Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > The Republican party is going down in flames this year. It is in tatters. It has crashed into the Amazon jungle, then the passengers climbed out of the wreckage with shovels and started digging themselves deeper. And you all are such “realists” that you can’t believe the evidence in front of your own eyes. Wake up. Count the chickens. Not fair, I didn’t get a chance to grab my Gray’s Sports Almanac before we traveled back to 2004. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tighty-righties-only-8-days-until-you-re-free/469866/46 "2008-10-28T21:49:54Z")
Yes, everyone, we’d sure hate for Obama to lose the election because we _jinxed_ it. Then we might have to go bury a live chicken in a sacred Indian cemetery to appease the Gods and make things right. You know what? I’ll go so far as to bet cash that Obama wins the election, if anybody wants to take me up on it. That’s how worried I am about all this counting chickens crap. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tighty-righties-only-8-days-until-you-re-free/469866/47 "2008-10-28T22:28:59Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Okay. I heard about that once, but I thought it was a perfect game. (Why isn’t a no-hitter perfect, anyway?) In a no-hitter, a batter can still get on base with a walk (a pitcher can even lose the game if he walks too many batters). A perfect game is when the pitcher doesn’t allow anyone to get on base at all. ETA: No-hitters are rare. Perfect games are really really really rare. ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tighty-righties-only-8-days-until-you-re-free/469866/48 "2008-10-28T22:31:15Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Okay. I heard about that once, but I thought it was a perfect game. (Why isn’t a no-hitter perfect, anyway?) An opposing player can get on base (through an error or base on balls) thus it’s no longer ‘perfect.’ 27 up 27 down, That’s perfect. ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tighty-righties-only-8-days-until-you-re-free/469866/49 "2008-10-28T22:39:37Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Okay. I heard about that once, but I thought it was a perfect game. (Why isn’t a no-hitter perfect, anyway?) A perfect game no one gets on base - that means no walks no hit by pitches, nothing. It’s perfection. A no hitter is just that- no hits given up to the other team. A Perfect Game is WAY WAY harder than a No Hitter to accomplish, though a No-no is still pretty tough to get. ---
**Author:** ![stolichnaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@stolichnaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolichnaya)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tighty-righties-only-8-days-until-you-re-free/469866/50 "2008-10-28T22:50:00Z")
A no hitter is a game in which nobody ever gets a hit and it goes on forever, and ever. In History there has only ever been one no-hitter and it is still going on. A perfect game is one that you attend which takes place on a Friday when by all rights you should be at work. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tighty-righties-only-8-days-until-you-re-free/469866/51 "2008-10-28T23:02:13Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > :rolleyes: Cheeses K. Reist! The Pubs did the exact same thing in '04! Have they run out of ideas?! Well, you have to admit that they’re working premise, the end justifies the means, is fairly durable. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tighty-righties-only-8-days-until-you-re-free/469866/52 "2008-10-28T23:18:38Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > 8 days and two months, until he tkaes office. Until then the Pubs will have to limit themselves to whining about the highhandedness and arrogance of the transition team. > > Maybe the Bush staff wil steal all the ‘O’ keys from the keyboards. 🙂 They’ll remove the ‘B’ keys and reinstall them backwards. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tighty-righties-only-8-days-until-you-re-free/469866/53 "2008-10-29T00:26:54Z")
> [@Antinor01](#): > > Oh! I’m a latte sipping effete snob! Can I be one of them? Sorry, the wardrobe mistress has you down for crackhead welfare dependent gangsta rapper. If you can find a latte sipping effete snob who is the same size as you and would prefer to be a crackhead welfare dependent gangsta rapper, you may trade costumes, but we can’t do this pageant properly if EVERYBODY gets to be a latte sipping effete snob. Actually, I think there’s a tall kid dressed as a stalk of celery in the Four Food Groups pageant next door, who had been complaining that he wanted to be something a little more robust, like red meat. He might be willing to trade his celery stalk for a crackhead welfare dependent gangsta rapper costume, and you might have better luck trading into latte sipping effete snob. Now, where the HELL did the socialist lesbians get to? They said they wanted a quick smoke break, and that was half an hour ago… ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tighty-righties-only-8-days-until-you-re-free/469866/54 "2008-10-29T01:41:35Z")
Sorry, we stay at home moms deserve job security folks too were keeping the socialist lesbians too long. We’ll go over and chat with the granola eating tree hugger Birkenstock wearers–we hear they have the best pot. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tighty-righties-only-8-days-until-you-re-free/469866/55 "2008-10-29T01:49:15Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > For Christ’s sake, you guys act like saying Obama’s going to win is gonna jinx him. Karma’s gonna bite us in the ass. > > This is silly stuff. It’s like the ancient Greeks believing that the gods are watching over us, just waiting to punish us if we compare our daughter’s beauty to Artemis, or some such. > > Sure, a meteor could hit the Obama campaign tomorrow. But it’s just as likely…no, more likely…that said meteor would hit McCain’s campaign. > > Count those chickens. COUNT THEM. Count em and weep. Obama’s gonna win. You know it. I know it. The American people know it. > > You know what I’m sick of? Liberals and left-wingers acting like Karl Rove and the Republican party are brilliant political strategists and tricksters. They aren’t. They just aren’t. Sure, Bush squeaked into office not just once but twice. But that isn’t an example of brilliant political strategy, that’s an example of drawing to an inside straight. Sometimes you draw to an inside straight and you win. That doesn’t make it brilliant strategy to draw to an inside straight. > > The Republican party is going down in flames this year. It is in tatters. It has crashed into the Amazon jungle, then the passengers climbed out of the wreckage with shovels and started digging themselves deeper. And you all are such “realists” that you can’t believe the evidence in front of your own eyes. Wake up. Count the chickens. Stop worrying about the Obama campaign and start worrying about state and local races. Gosh, it’s so scary…what if the Democrats don’t get 60 senators so they can quash filibusters? It would be a disaster! Don’t count your filibuster proof majority chickens yet! Aaaaagh! Panic, panic, we might not have a filibuster proof majority! Best post of the day!! ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tighty-righties-only-8-days-until-you-re-free/469866/56 "2008-10-29T01:52:12Z")
> [@neutron\_star](#): > > Calling everyone in Stroudsburg, eh? What are you gonna do after that twenty minutes is up? Call Wilkes-Barre. Trust me, they need calling. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tighty-righties-only-8-days-until-you-re-free/469866/57 "2008-10-29T02:30:18Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > Call Wilkes-Barre. Trust me, they need calling. Is there a Wilkes-Barre Syndrome or have I been watching too much _House_? ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tighty-righties-only-8-days-until-you-re-free/469866/58 "2008-10-29T03:49:57Z")
Well, there’s Epstein-Barr virus, which causes you to turn into a bizarre mixture of sitcom characters: half Perto Rican/Jew tough-guy Sweathog, half corpulent working-class sarcastic mother. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tighty-righties-only-8-days-until-you-re-free/469866/59 "2008-10-29T06:27:03Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > For Christ’s sake, you guys act like saying Obama’s going to win is gonna jinx him. Karma’s gonna bite us in the ass. > > This is silly stuff. It’s like the ancient Greeks believing that the gods are watching over us, just waiting to punish us if we compare our daughter’s beauty to Artemis, or some such. … > > Count those chickens. COUNT THEM. Count em and weep. Obama’s gonna win. You know it. I know it. The American people know it. … Panic, panic, we might not have a filibuster proof majority! Well, yeah: I want a landslide and an airtight mandate. And the odds of _that_ are certainly not overwhelming. Besides, I also believe that it’s best not to tempt fate. ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tighty-righties-only-8-days-until-you-re-free/469866/60 "2008-10-29T14:11:49Z")
We interrupt this lovefest for an item from this morning’s fishwrapper: The latest McClatchy poll shows the gap between Obama and whatsisface _narrowing_. Just thought I’d brighten up everyone’s day. 🙂 Somebody got a chicken to bury? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tighty-righties-only-8-days-until-you-re-free/469866.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tighty-righties-only-8-days-until-you-re-free/469866.md?page=4)