# Una: Go Drink a Juicebox

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/una-go-drink-a-juicebox/560481>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [November 12, 2010, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/una-go-drink-a-juicebox/560481 "2010-11-12T21:11:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/una-go-drink-a-juicebox/560481/64 "2010-11-13T22:06:07Z")

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> [@Cisco](#):
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> am I right in understanding that she is being pitted for asking for clarification of some obscure Facebook trend?

Not really, although assorted knuckleheads have followed **Shot From Guns** ’s lead in ragging **Una** over the question itself. But what **Una** is actually being pitted for is snarking at **SFG** in another forum, which **SFG** believes she did only because of a grudge over being insulted in this one.

Una’s question wasn’t stupid at all, and was immediately addressed by a couple of other dopers with perfectly reasonable responses. _Three days later_, **SFG** felt compelled to jump into the thread with her insult-comic shtick and drop this turd:

> [@The web is public domain? Thanks for the info, Cooks Source magazine!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-web-is-public-domain-thanks-for-the-info-cooks-source-magazine/559487/127):
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> It’s called “humor.” I realize this may be a foreign and difficult concept. If you find yourself getting confused, try lying down and watching some public access educational television until the room stops spinning.

And she calls that “answering the question”:

> [@The web is public domain? Thanks for the info, Cooks Source magazine!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-web-is-public-domain-thanks-for-the-info-cooks-source-magazine/559487/156):
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> And, you’ll note, I \*did \*answer your question–I just \*also \*poked fun at you for not realizing it yourself.

Of course, **SFG** missed the whole _point_ of **Una** ’s question. I don’t doubt for a second that **Una** recognized the posts she was referring to as jokes (or at least intended as such). She was asking about the _nature_ of the jokes: why did they take the form of bizarre non-sequiturs about AIDS and missing socks? It’s as if I had made a post in LOLspeak and someone asked “What’s with all the weird misspellings in that post?” Replying “It’s a joke, you fool! Don’t you have a sense of humor?” wouldn’t be a very intelligent way to address that question. Nor was **SFG** ’s.

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