# Warning for "Dial down the crazy." **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 1, 2011, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-for-dial-down-the-crazy/587553 "2011-07-01T20:55:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 23
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2011, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-for-dial-down-the-crazy/587553/23 "2011-07-02T05:10:45Z")
> [@CitizenPained](#): > > That is stretching it, **Marley**. \*Dial down the crazy \*is not calling a person crazy […] > > _Dial down the crazy_ is another way of saying calm down or let’s stop the madness. That may have been your intent, but it’s not evident in what you wrote. The full line was: > [@God: Just kidding, killing is AOK with me. And here's a list of people to whack!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-just-kidding-killing-is-aok-with-me-and-heres-a-list-of-people-to-whack/587324/111): > > HaShem had no son. Dial down the crazy, would ya? If your intent was to say you should both stop the madness, then the personal address “would ya?” was a bad choice. If you were trying to say “calm down,” then saying that he was saying something crazy was not likely to accomplish your goal. And your other comments about **Diogenes the Cynic** elsewhere in the thread, like > [@God: Just kidding, killing is AOK with me. And here's a list of people to whack!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-just-kidding-killing-is-aok-with-me-and-heres-a-list-of-people-to-whack/587324/104): > > Well Dio is the expert Armchair Googlist, so let’s give him credit where credit is due. :rolleyes: Certainly made it look like “dial down the crazy, would ya?” was also intended as a personal comment. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-for-dial-down-the-crazy/587553)._