# Valete, Vox Imperatoris **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 22, 2009, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419 "2009-01-22T06:23:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/381 "2009-01-28T06:18:43Z")
It’s not that I wasn’t “in on it”. It’s more that the obviously 13-year-old-male style of the “humor”, the lack of punctuation, and, well, the “joke” just lacks that little something. You know–the funny. ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/382 "2009-01-28T14:48:27Z")
Whatever happened to the OP, anyway? It’s been like four days since he’s posted in his own thread. Has he been grounded? Or has he fallen victim to item #2877 in the _SDMB List of Conventions and Malt-Beverage Recipes_? _Videlicet_: “You know you’re in trouble when your Pit thread becomes a jokefest.” War is Hell, WT Sherman ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/383 "2009-01-28T14:59:08Z")
> [@BJMoose](#): > > Whatever happened to the OP, anyway? It’s been like four days since he’s posted in his own thread. > > Has he been grounded? > > Or has he fallen victim to item #2877 in the _SDMB List of Conventions and Malt-Beverage Recipes_? _Videlicet_: “You know you’re in trouble when your Pit thread becomes a jokefest.” > War is Hell, > WT Sherman What? The OP posted two posts before yours. Or did you mean the object of the OP’s ire? σιγά ω μορωτατε, fachverwirrt ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/384 "2009-01-28T15:08:24Z")
> [@fachverwirrt](#): > > What? The OP posted two posts before yours. Or did you mean the object of the OP’s ire? > > σιγά ω μορωτατε, > fachverwirrt ::looks at thread entry on Pit main page:: :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: War _is_ Hell, BJ Moose ---
**Author:** ![tds1273](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@tds1273](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tds1273)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/385 "2009-01-28T17:38:11Z")
> [@Hostile\_Dialect](#): > > It’s not that I wasn’t “in on it”. It’s more that the obviously 13-year-old-male style of the “humor”, the lack of punctuation, and, well, the “joke” just lacks that little something. You know–the funny. Damn it. I was following this conversation along so well and then this sign-off-less post has to come along and screw it all to hell. Aaargh! It’s driving me to madness. Are you still talking? WHO ARE YOU?! "I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More I cannot say."DA -T ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/386 "2009-01-28T18:36:25Z")
> [@BJMoose](#): > > Whatever happened to the OP, anyway? It’s been like four days since he’s posted in his own thread. What was the OP again? ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/387 "2009-01-28T19:57:53Z")
> [@Hostile\_Dialect](#): > > It’s not that I wasn’t “in on it”. It’s more that the obviously 13-year-old-male style of the “humor”, the lack of punctuation, and, well, the “joke” just lacks that little something. You know–the funny. already explained, already detailed, and I was evidently wrong you still aren’t in on the joke You’re a Dumas Whats a Dumas? It’s French for Dumbass Dumbass Crit > [@BJMoose](#): > > Whatever happened to the OP, anyway? It’s been like four days since he’s posted in his own thread. > > Has he been grounded? > > Or has he fallen victim to item #2877 in the _SDMB List of Conventions and Malt-Beverage Recipes_? _Videlicet_: “You know you’re in trouble when your Pit thread becomes a jokefest.” > War is Hell, > WT Sherman I hate it when the op goes missing in the middle of a thread that has become somehow weirdly hijacked while still largely on topic You’re a Dumas Whats a Dumas? It’s French for Dumbass Dumbass Crit ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/388 "2009-01-28T21:43:11Z")
> [@Critical1](#): > > already explained, already detailed, and I was evidently wrong you still aren’t in on the joke I get it. That doesn’t change the fact that it’s obviously immature and lacking the funny. I’m sure I would laugh if I were 13, though, if that makes you feel any better. Hostile Dialect, Hostile Dialect, Narcissist ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/389 "2009-01-28T21:49:21Z")
> [@Hostile\_Dialect](#): > > I get it. That doesn’t change the fact that it’s obviously immature and lacking the funny. I’m sure I would laugh if I were 13, though, if that makes you feel any better. > > Hostile Dialect, > Hostile Dialect, Narcissist but you dont get it, there was nothing to laugh at if you are 13, the only one laughing was me because as already explained the kid was serious. as in he seriously thought that Dumas was in fact french for Dumbass. your reading comprehension has gone up!! You’re a Dumas Whats a Dumas? It’s French for Dumbass Dumbass Crit ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/390 "2009-01-29T03:21:47Z")
I actually knew a Dumas back when I was 13. And yes, she was teased and called a Dumbass. I felt bad for her. ☹ [Please find my Sig From Here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10752180&postcount=376) ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/391 "2009-01-29T08:49:30Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > Wow. Man. > What is wrong with you? Seriously. Put down the thesaurus and get some rest. Perhaps you are only recently arrived to our little cul-de-sac of the Internet; therefore allow me to acquaint you with a sample of our idiosyncrasies. We take a measure of pride in bandying about words with elaborate flourishes hereabouts. If we were to peruse a thesaurus at every turn, naught but fragmentary thoughts would ever be committed to the virtual parchment. Indeed, some of our number have taken it upon ourselves to ingrain a grander set of verbiage into our synapses, that we may summon them forth with alacrity. It may behoove you either to emulate this feat, or to seek refuge elsewhere on the electron sea. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/392 "2009-01-29T11:11:30Z")
Yeah, okay, whatever. :rolleyes: Go stuff your ass with broken glass and seal it up with glue (by which, of course, I mean “Regards”), ElvisL1ves ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/393 "2009-01-29T14:28:56Z")
> [@sturmhauke](#): > > Perhaps you are only recently arrived to our little cul-de-sac of the Internet; therefore allow me to acquaint you with a sample of our idiosyncrasies. We take a measure of pride in bandying about words with elaborate flourishes hereabouts. If we were to peruse a thesaurus at every turn, naught but fragmentary thoughts would ever be committed to the virtual parchment. Indeed, some of our number have taken it upon ourselves to ingrain a grander set of verbiage into our synapses, that we may summon them forth with alacrity. It may behoove you either to emulate this feat, or to seek refuge elsewhere on the electron sea. :rolleyes: Whatever. I’ve been around long enough to spot pseudo-intellectual verbal diarrhea when I see it, which may make you _feel_ superior, but really doesn’t add much to the discussion. It’s sad to think how long it took you to write that, and if you claim that this is “normal speak” for you, I suspect you spend a lot of time alone. “electron sea” indeed, Robert Frost. Up Your Pompous Ass With A Red Hot Poker, Mark Twain ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/394 "2009-01-29T14:57:54Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > :rolleyes: Whatever. I’ve been around long enough to spot pseudo-intellectual verbal diarrhea when I see it, which may make you _feel_ superior, but really doesn’t add much to the discussion. It’s sad to think how long it took you to write that, and if you claim that this is “normal speak” for you, I suspect you spend a lot of time alone. > > “electron sea” indeed, Robert Frost. > Up Your Pompous Ass With A Red Hot Poker, > Mark Twain Ooooo, I always wanted to do this… (Cough, Ahem) WHOOSH.. _This pointless sig has been approved by the straight dope administration Please see name as stated above_ ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/395 "2009-01-29T16:33:01Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > Ooooo, I always wanted to do this… > > (Cough, Ahem) WHOOSH.. > _This pointless sig has been approved by the straight dope administration > Please see name as stated above_ If I was WHOOSHED, I really missed it. :smack: appropriately embarrassed, Valente ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/396 "2009-01-29T20:29:17Z")
Nearly 400 posts. Jahmazing! ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/397 "2009-01-29T20:34:48Z")
pointless sigs are pointless. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/398 "2009-01-29T20:59:52Z")
> [@Tahssa](#): > > pointless sigs are pointless. Yes, but some of the points aren’t sigless, and that’s the point…of something or other. Save Your Love For Me, Renee And Renata ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/399 "2009-01-29T21:10:41Z")
> [@Tahssa](#): > > pointless sigs are pointless. Bald is not a hair color. Affectaciously, ~NickInUpperLeftCorner ---
**Author:** ![tds1273](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@tds1273](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tds1273)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/400 "2009-01-29T23:55:01Z")
> [@RedFury](#): > > Bald is not a hair color. > > Affectaciously, > ~NickInUpperLeftCorner It [can](http://www.amazon.com/Spray-Hair-Color-Thickener-Dark/dp/B0001LHCZO)be. Zip it up and zip it out, -T [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419.md?page=21)