# To protest the closing of the 2.5 Kennedy threads **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 5, 2008, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-protest-the-closing-of-the-2-5-kennedy-threads/455373 "2008-07-05T13:52:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-protest-the-closing-of-the-2-5-kennedy-threads/455373/21 "2008-07-05T18:29:42Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] 2.5" has very carefully and rapidly and thoroughly built up a reputation as a troll and a jerk. . [/QUOTE] I can’t figure out why he’s still allowed to post. 😕 Many others were Banned for less. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-protest-the-closing-of-the-2-5-kennedy-threads/455373/22 "2008-07-05T18:30:48Z")
[QUOTE=Two and a Half Inches of Fun] - unmerciful continuation of the war on terror, but no more stupid diversions like Iraq―keep Gitmo open without habeas - equal civil rights for all Americans, including homosexual Americans - a flat tax - no national health care - textualist judges - an end to tax breaks for churches - increased immigration of highly educated/highly qualified individuals - the end of obscenity laws that prevent “Howl” and “Ulysses” from being read on the radio - a national civil rights law which includes a complete right to abortion at any time for any reason - a national civil rights law which includes a right to assisted suicide (similar to the Oregon law). - Stronger punishment for violations of the criminal law. 1st felony is minimum of 20 years. Second offense life. [/QUOTE] If you believe this, why do you think Jesse Helms was a great man? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-protest-the-closing-of-the-2-5-kennedy-threads/455373/23 "2008-07-05T18:31:45Z")
Twenty two posts in and no link? ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-protest-the-closing-of-the-2-5-kennedy-threads/455373/24 "2008-07-05T18:34:23Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] Twenty two posts in and no link? [/QUOTE] They’re both still right there on the front page and are the only locked threads therein. But, since you asked nicely: [Link #1](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=474331) [Link #2](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=474339) ---
**Author:** ![Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea666f/32.png) [@Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_and_a_Half_Inches_of_Fun)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-protest-the-closing-of-the-2-5-kennedy-threads/455373/25 "2008-07-05T18:41:15Z")
[QUOTE=Lamar Mundane] If you really believe all this, why in the hell do you think Jessee Helms was a great man? You’ve all but admitted that you’re a troll. [/QUOTE] Great: Powerful; influential. Hitler was a great man, but one of the most evil persons to ever live from my perspective. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-protest-the-closing-of-the-2-5-kennedy-threads/455373/26 "2008-07-05T18:46:49Z")
[QUOTE=Two and a Half Inches of Fun] Great: Powerful; influential. Hitler was a great man, but one of the most evil persons to ever live from my perspective. [/QUOTE] So, would you dance on _his_ grave? ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-protest-the-closing-of-the-2-5-kennedy-threads/455373/27 "2008-07-05T18:47:56Z")
I suspect everyone has at least a little bit of an itch to stir the pot, to give the complacent or smugly feathered a bit of a surprise ruffling. (Or, inversely, feels irritated when the only vocal/visible expressions of “what we think” does not include one’s own perspective in the slightest). **2.5 Inches** scratches that itch way too often; whenever I see a 2.5 post I anticipate a deliberate attempt to get me riled up. I’m getting tired of it. Does he occasionally have a good solid point? Yeah. Did he this time? Yeah. \*\*Bricker[/b] is on target, too. I thought we had at least an informal moratorium on dancing on the graves of dead politicians at least until their deaths were no longer fresh. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-protest-the-closing-of-the-2-5-kennedy-threads/455373/28 "2008-07-05T18:50:02Z")
[QUOTE=Two and a Half Inches of Fun] Great: Powerful; influential. Hitler was a great man, but one of the most evil persons to ever live from my perspective. [/QUOTE] That is going for a definition that is not seen often, You might as well have said that Helms was pregnant. 🙂 I do see a difference between a great work of art, for example, and a controversial one. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-protest-the-closing-of-the-2-5-kennedy-threads/455373/29 "2008-07-05T18:54:14Z")
[QUOTE=GIGObuster] You might as well have said that Helms was pregnant. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Sure, Helms was pregnant… _with greatness!_ ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-protest-the-closing-of-the-2-5-kennedy-threads/455373/30 "2008-07-05T19:52:54Z")
Because Senator Helms was a powerful man, you would not want to dance on his grave? I do not understand this logic. Please explain. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-protest-the-closing-of-the-2-5-kennedy-threads/455373/31 "2008-07-05T20:13:30Z")
I prefer not to dance on anyone’s grave when the dirt is still fresh, uncompacted and could get my shoes muddy. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-protest-the-closing-of-the-2-5-kennedy-threads/455373/32 "2008-07-05T20:21:58Z")
I’m still just trying to figure out how you can half a thread. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-protest-the-closing-of-the-2-5-kennedy-threads/455373/33 "2008-07-05T20:30:01Z")
[QUOTE=John Mace] I’m still just trying to figure out how you can half a thread. [/QUOTE] Which reminds me, I was at the ball park a couple weeks ago with a friend. The home team runs out on the field to start the game, and the announcer sez, “and now, here are your 2008 Houston Astros!” Friend turns to me and says, “Wait a minute. I only count nine.” ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-protest-the-closing-of-the-2-5-kennedy-threads/455373/34 "2008-07-05T20:33:44Z")
[QUOTE=E-Sabbath] Because Senator Helms was a powerful man, you would not want to dance on his grave? I do not understand this logic. Please explain. [/QUOTE] Great men curse their own graves. He who dares to dance on Jesse’s shall become a hummaseckshule. And if you’re already one—well, you’re already cursed, aren’t you? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-protest-the-closing-of-the-2-5-kennedy-threads/455373/35 "2008-07-05T20:39:00Z")
[QUOTE=John Mace] I’m still just trying to figure out how you can half a thread. [/QUOTE] Well, at least the bill of rights says you don’t have to quarter a soldier. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-protest-the-closing-of-the-2-5-kennedy-threads/455373/36 "2008-07-05T21:45:55Z")
[QUOTE=Two and a Half Inches of Fun] Great: Powerful; influential. Hitler was a great man, but one of the most evil persons to ever live from my perspective. [/QUOTE] I think you’re confusing “great” with “notorious”. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-protest-the-closing-of-the-2-5-kennedy-threads/455373/37 "2008-07-05T23:40:36Z")
[QUOTE=Bricker] This is why I’ll never seek moderator duties here – you too often find yourself in a damn’d if you do and dam’d if you don’t predicament. [/QUOTE] Wow! We’re always looking for moderators who understand this dichotomy. You’d be perfect. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea666f/32.png) [@Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_and_a_Half_Inches_of_Fun)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-protest-the-closing-of-the-2-5-kennedy-threads/455373/38 "2008-07-06T00:06:50Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] So, would you dance on _his_ grave? [/QUOTE] I would piss in Hitler’s skull, if possible. But Hitler is a special case. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-protest-the-closing-of-the-2-5-kennedy-threads/455373/39 "2008-07-06T00:11:08Z")
[QUOTE=Two and a Half Inches of Fun] I would piss in Hitler’s skull, if possible. But Hitler is a special case. [/QUOTE] How so? An extreme case, to be sure, but your skull-pissing is acceptable and their grave-dancing is not? ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-protest-the-closing-of-the-2-5-kennedy-threads/455373/40 "2008-07-06T00:31:26Z")
[QUOTE=Two and a Half Inches of Fun] I would piss in Hitler’s skull, if possible. But Hitler is a special case. [/QUOTE] I’m sure somebody feels that way about you, too. And the day’s not over yet. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-protest-the-closing-of-the-2-5-kennedy-threads/455373.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-protest-the-closing-of-the-2-5-kennedy-threads/455373.md?page=3)