# TRlUMPHANT RETURN, MOTHERFUCKERS **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 14, 2011, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trlumphant-return-motherfuckers/585453 "2011-06-14T16:42:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trlumphant-return-motherfuckers/585453/1 "2011-06-14T16:42:49Z")
My \*darling \*friends, loyal opposition, and slavering tards, I’m so \*terribly \*sorry I’ve had to neglect you for so long. Unfortunately, since I post from the office, that means that the things I get paid to do come first, and the things I get paid to do have been coming hot and heavy (\*if \*you know what I mean) for the past month and a half. Special bonus: for at least a while, the boards somehow ended up on our filter. But now! At last! I’ve cleared the nastiest of the major projects off my plate. And this morning, I happened to click a link from a friend from the boards who was checking up on me, and **LO!** _Yea verily_, I once again could access the SDMB while on the company network. As always, I’ll never know when I might again be called to actually \*work \*for my salary, thus being forced to neglect you yet again. But, for the time being, it appears: **I am back.** ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trlumphant-return-motherfuckers/585453/2 "2011-06-14T16:47:51Z")
Friend, stalker, potato, potahto. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trlumphant-return-motherfuckers/585453/3 "2011-06-14T16:50:53Z")
Didn’t notice you were gone. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trlumphant-return-motherfuckers/585453/4 "2011-06-14T16:51:41Z")
Working instead of posting? What kind of excuse is that? ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trlumphant-return-motherfuckers/585453/5 "2011-06-14T16:52:45Z")
Who are you again? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trlumphant-return-motherfuckers/585453/6 "2011-06-14T16:58:49Z")
Oh, joy. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2011, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trlumphant-return-motherfuckers/585453/7 "2011-06-14T17:00:24Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > My \*darling \*friends, loyal opposition, and slavering tards, I’m so \*terribly \*sorry I’ve had to neglect you for so long. Unfortunately, since I post from the office, that means that the things I get paid to do come first, and the things I get paid to do have been coming hot and heavy (\*if \*you know what I mean) for the past month and a half. Special bonus: for at least a while, the boards somehow ended up on our filter. > > But now! At last! I’ve cleared the nastiest of the major projects off my plate. And this morning, I happened to click a link from a friend from the boards who was checking up on me, and **LO!** _Yea verily_, I once again could access the SDMB while on the company network. > > As always, I’ll never know when I might again be called to actually \*work \*for my salary, thus being forced to neglect you yet again. But, for the time being, it appears: > > **I am back.** **Shot!** You’re alive! I feared something terrible and murderous had happened to you, though admittedly I was too lazy to check. Does this mean I should recall the assassins I sent after your top seven enemies? ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trlumphant-return-motherfuckers/585453/8 "2011-06-14T17:21:04Z")
Thanks for checking in. We’ll let you know if something interesting happens on the Dope. Until then, feel free to focus on your work. Really, we’ll call you. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2011, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trlumphant-return-motherfuckers/585453/9 "2011-06-14T17:22:00Z")
Does the OP have any evidence that I have, indeed, at any point fucked my mother? If not, I would suggest a little more circumspection. ---
**Author:** ![BottledBlondJeanie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/0ea827/32.png) [@BottledBlondJeanie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BottledBlondJeanie)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trlumphant-return-motherfuckers/585453/10 "2011-06-14T17:28:55Z")
Wow. Please let this thread go where it needs to. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trlumphant-return-motherfuckers/585453/11 "2011-06-14T17:40:59Z")
Who said we actually wanted you to come back? Now, do be on your way. (doobie, ha!). FTR, anyone who halts a conversation to look up the official language of Lebanon is OK in my book. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trlumphant-return-motherfuckers/585453/12 "2011-06-14T17:46:07Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Who said we actually wanted you to come back? Now, do be on your way. (doobie, ha!). > > FTR, anyone who halts a conversation to look up the official language of Lebanon is OK in my book. Arabic and French, right? ETA: huh, not French apparently. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trlumphant-return-motherfuckers/585453/13 "2011-06-14T17:56:03Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > Arabic and French, right? > > ETA: huh, not French apparently. Yes and no. I believe we came up with Arabic (official) and Lebanese with French and English as a close second. ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trlumphant-return-motherfuckers/585453/14 "2011-06-14T17:59:13Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > **Shot!** You’re alive! I feared something terrible and murderous had happened to you, though admittedly I was too lazy to check. > > Does this mean I should recall the assassins I sent after your top seven enemies? Assassins?! Curse you, **Skald** - I had hoped for a quiet week. _runs, hides, trembles_ ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trlumphant-return-motherfuckers/585453/15 "2011-06-14T18:01:31Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Yes and no. I believe we came up with Arabic (official) and Lebanese with French and English as a close second. There’s no such language as “Lebanese”, trust me there. The currency has French and Arabic. (Technically, the 1,000 note, which is the small change, has Phoenician on it as well.) ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trlumphant-return-motherfuckers/585453/16 "2011-06-14T18:07:01Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > There’s no such language as “Lebanese”, trust me there. The currency has French and Arabic. (Technically, the 1,000 note, which is the small change, has Phoenician on it as well.) Admittedly, I don’t know much about the area, I was just going by this wiki article. [Lebanese Arabic](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_Arabic) which starts out with “Lebanese or Lebanese Arabic…” The wiki article on Lebanon says “The majority of Lebanese people speak Lebanese Arabic” So from those two statements I felt it was fair to say that one of the languages spoken in Lebanon was Lebanese. But I’m open to being corrected. The wiki article on Lebanese Arabic seems to refer to it as both a dialect of Arabic and also it’s own language, so I’m not really sure which one it is. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trlumphant-return-motherfuckers/585453/17 "2011-06-14T18:08:18Z")
_\_ ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trlumphant-return-motherfuckers/585453/18 "2011-06-14T18:11:08Z")
> [@BottledBlondJeanie](#): > > Wow. Please let this thread go where it needs to. I’m sorry, but we don’t currently _have_ a “ **M** undane **P** ointless **S** tuff **N** obody **C** ares **A** bout” forum. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trlumphant-return-motherfuckers/585453/19 "2011-06-14T18:12:47Z")
I really enjoyed reading here more while you were absent. Feel free to take another long break. But thanks for the announcement, asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trlumphant-return-motherfuckers/585453/20 "2011-06-14T18:14:56Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Admittedly, I don’t know much about the area, I was just going by this wiki article. > [Lebanese Arabic](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_Arabic) which starts out with “Lebanese or Lebanese Arabic…” > > The wiki article on Lebanon says “The majority of Lebanese people speak Lebanese Arabic” > So from those two statements I felt it was fair to say that one of the languages spoken in Lebanon was Lebanese. But I’m open to being corrected. > > The wiki article on Lebanese Arabic seems to refer to it as both a dialect of Arabic and also it’s own language, so I’m not really sure which one it is. Pretty much a dialect, in the sense that every Arabic-speaking country has its own dialect, which are fairly distinct from formal/written Arabic but not really separate languages. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trlumphant-return-motherfuckers/585453.md?page=2)