# Was it something I said? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 14, 2000, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-something-i-said/7256 "2000-02-14T20:02:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-something-i-said/7256/21 "2000-02-15T03:11:00Z")
Inspired by a _National Lampoon_ cover of about 23 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-something-i-said/7256/22 "2000-02-15T03:12:00Z")
handy, there will _never_ be a last word on this MB. ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-something-i-said/7256/23 "2000-02-15T03:30:00Z")
Hey Lumpy, I am new here and you don’t know me well enuff to ignore me yet! 😉 I was wondering if I had the thread touch of death, or that I was the invisable woman! Ya’ know like being new puts you in the untouchable cast or something! But I will add my post so nobody else has to feel bad about killing this one off! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![NickyLarson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b2d939/32.png) [@NickyLarson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NickyLarson)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-something-i-said/7256/24 "2000-02-15T03:46:00Z")
And you know, the following month they said they DID kill that dog! :eek: :eek: * * * Then we’ll turn our tommy guns on the screaming ravaged nuns and the peoples voice will be the only sound. -P. Sky ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-something-i-said/7256/25 "2000-02-15T03:57:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by AuntiePam: > \*\*Much as I’d like to leave Mangeorge’s post at the end for awhile, confirming him as a possible thread-killer, it wouldn’t seem right. He’s seems like a decent sort. > > Besides, couldn’t do that to a fellow King fan. > > Now if someone will return the favor?\*\* Thanks, AuntiePam. Opps. ☹ Peace, mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![Cap\_n\_Crude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Cap\_n\_Crude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cap_n_Crude)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-something-i-said/7256/26 "2000-02-15T15:20:00Z")
Threadkillers of the world unite! Maybe we should start our own club? Nah – I’m guessing the meetings would get boring after about 10 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Pixoid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Pixoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixoid)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-something-i-said/7256/27 "2000-02-15T15:52:00Z")
Sorry, Cap’n…I just couldn’t let you kill your own thread. So I’ll do it for you. 🙂 -Pix ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-something-i-said/7256/28 "2000-02-15T15:59:00Z")
Cap: Here’s my diagnosis and prescription. The UserName “Cap’n Crude” makes some posters nervous…they’re afraid you’re going to say something off-color or unpolished, so they avoid you and tend not to respond to your questions. So you should get busy starting threads about the Oil Business. Wax poetic on the wide Texas Plains, the thrum of the pumps, the romanticism of striking a huge rich gusher. Soon the rest of us will start visualizing you as James Dean in GIANT, only wearing a pirate hat…handsome, self-confident, a smudge of Black Gold there, just highlighting your left cheekbone. “Cap’n CRUDE…Swashbuckler of the Panhandle” everyone will start thinking. People will be falling all over themselves to post after you. And the chicks will go wild. * * * Uke ---
**Author:** ![Cap\_n\_Crude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Cap\_n\_Crude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cap_n_Crude)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-something-i-said/7256/29 "2000-02-15T17:45:00Z")
Tempting suggestion, Ike. Only one problem – I’ve never been to Texas (or the oil fields of the Middle East), and my ignorance would be as obvious as FORMERAGENT’s double-naught operative persona. Maybe I could expound on the stimulating hustle and bustle of The Big Apple, a la Carl Sandberg and Chicago? Of course, Sandberg was profoundly gay, and tended not to attract the women-folk. I’d hate to get that mixed up. Now, if only I could figure out a way to post as my world-famous Eric Cartman impression … one of my more endearing talents. –Da Cap’n “It’s all a bunch of tree-hugging hippie crap!” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Thirsty4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@Thirsty4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thirsty4)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-something-i-said/7256/30 "2000-02-15T17:59:00Z")
Is this thread dead yet? I want to be the Thread Killer! (We should start a new category to vote for on OpalCat’s poll.) * * * “You CAN’T be evil. 'Cos no matter how many ‘bad’ things you do on purpose, you MUST be doing it because you think it’s the right thing to do.” ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2000, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-something-i-said/7256/31 "2000-02-16T06:22:00Z")
Myabe if you changed your moniker to Captain crunch… ---
**Author:** ![Nickrz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@Nickrz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nickrz)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2000, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-something-i-said/7256/32 "2000-02-16T06:35:00Z")
Will this thread find new life in MPSIMS? Stay tuned, boys ‘n’ girls! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-something-i-said/7256.md?page=1)