# Weirddave

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirddave/174221>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [May 9, 2003, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirddave/174221 "2003-05-09T23:03:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 4

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**Author:** ![Ben\_Hicks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbce88/32.png) [@Ben\_Hicks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ben_Hicks)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirddave/174221/61 "2003-05-11T22:45:07Z")

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It just seems to me to be deeply hypocritical to wish hideous, long drawn out death on this man because he isn’t compassionate enough. But maybe that’s just me.

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**Author:** ![Ben\_Hicks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbce88/32.png) [@Ben\_Hicks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ben_Hicks)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirddave/174221/62 "2003-05-11T22:46:28Z")

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That said, the laryngitis thing is funny and I don’t think I’m the only one hoping for an airplane full of piano’s to have a slight…mishap.

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**Author:** ![Ben\_Hicks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbce88/32.png) [@Ben\_Hicks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ben_Hicks)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirddave/174221/63 "2003-05-11T22:49:53Z")

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I also want to make it clear (because I didn’t in my OP and I should have) that this thread wasn’t intended as a means to call out Weirddave specifically. I’ve got no personal beef with him and was just using his quote to highlight what I feel to be a distasteful trend in this forum as a whole, perpetrated by more than a few dopers.

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**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirddave/174221/64 "2003-05-12T17:57:41Z")

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I would find it satisfyingly ironic if Fred were to contract AIDS.

Esprix

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**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirddave/174221/65 "2003-05-13T07:56:55Z")

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I have to say that I will not shed a tear whe Fred dies and if it is a long, lonely, miserable, painful death it will definitely be a form of justice.

And still I would not shed a tear. I don’t have an ounce of sympathy for him.

I watched and cared for my aunt Cathy as she died of cancer! So if you think that calling me names will change my mind, sugarplum, you’ve got another thing coming.

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