# Well... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 13, 2003, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well/148303 "2003-01-13T15:21:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well/148303/201 "2003-01-15T19:10:04Z")
I concur. Accuracy be damned, that was a fairy story to last the ages. My only contribution is this old chestnut: imagine if they had a war and nobody came? pan ---
**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:** [January 15, 2003, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well/148303/202 "2003-01-15T19:10:06Z")
This is better than the crazy monkey show! Please, continue with your petty bickering… Esprix [sub](Double points to whoever can name _both_ references!)[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well/148303/203 "2003-01-15T19:21:22Z")
I am sorry that **Algernon** said EXACTLY what I wanted to say, because I am now left with a “what he just said”. ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well/148303/204 "2003-01-15T19:28:30Z")
I’m sorry Waverly, but that story was metaphor wrong. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well/148303/205 "2003-01-15T19:30:13Z")
Heh. I swear that **Waverly** was channeling Bernard Malamud when she was talking about the fruit fight. I mean, my mind harkened back to Roy Hobbs’ first night with Memo where he… “…amidst the melons and cherries he found what he wanted and he took it.” That quote’s not exactly right (don’t have _The Natural_ sitting in front of me an’ all), but Malamud did give a fruit metaphor when describing Hobbs and Memo’s mistaken night of passion. So, are the Librarian and Mother Goose ever going to get naked in this story? (Let’s leave out the butcher and the baker, because I’m not sure how they fit in.) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bren\_Cameron\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@Bren\_Cameron\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bren_Cameron_1)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well/148303/206 "2003-01-15T19:39:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Esprix \* > \*\*This is better than the crazy monkey show! > > Please, continue with your petty bickering… > > Esprix > > [sub](Double points to whoever can name _both_ references!)[/sub] \*\* Dang, I only got the STNG one…and now the other one is going to drive me nuts wondering. ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well/148303/207 "2003-01-15T19:49:21Z")
Don’t worry, Diane, I’ll include Artemis, the townsperson who cautions the baker that he is, in reality, wielding musk melons and not cantaloupes in the print version. No smilie, but I’m just kidding. It’s fine if you don’t like my take on events. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well/148303/208 "2003-01-15T19:58:00Z")
A wonderful story, Waverly! 😃 I think I saw where the first orange came from. Just before the quickly unfolding events, Mother Goose had summoned the market manager, Cockfryer, to lodge a complaint as everyone behind her waited patiently and gave her encouragement. But when Cockfryer finally arrived, goose feathers began to fly as a fight between them ensued. Mother Goose then demanded that he close down the market since she had gotten the oranges she came for. It was then that the town cryer, Woefully, declared that everyone in the market was neurotic and self-pitying. “What we need,” cried the cryer, “is a good clusterfuck!” Then I saw his hand release an orange blur. Next thing I knew, the old attorney, Moldy Green, was calling for a doctor in the house to stop the bleeding. Anyway, I thought you might like to know that the Librarian and Mother Goose settled their differences and became friends. But you’re right that they don’t discuss oranges anymore. And _Burble’s Book of Tasty Pastries_ has been retired from the library. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well/148303/209 "2003-01-15T20:03:40Z")
I don’t even get a fucking cameo? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well/148303/210 "2003-01-15T20:04:58Z")
😃 😃 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well/148303/211 "2003-01-15T20:07:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* > \*\*I don’t even get a fucking cameo? \*\* Can someone _please_ write in the script a scene where **jarbabyj** is fucking someone? Is the baker currently involved with anyone? Is he straight? Good, tell him his part has been enlarged. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well/148303/212 "2003-01-15T20:09:23Z")
God go with you too, Lib. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well/148303/213 "2003-01-15T20:13:12Z")
Peace upon all your days, Duck. See ya round the board. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well/148303/214 "2003-01-15T20:15:10Z")
A google search of Let Bygones Be Bygones reveals 19,400 hits. Let’s all go home and eat some rice pudding and leave this horrid place behind. What say? ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well/148303/215 "2003-01-15T20:17:33Z")
> [@](#): > > Don’t worry, Diane, I’ll include Artemis, the townsperson who cautions the baker that he is, in reality, wielding musk melons and not cantaloupes in the print version. Nope sorry Waverly, until you include the Zeke, the town drunk who wanders around incoherently mumbling the slips on the fruit guts and cracks his head on the gutter and the widow Hollopeter who is sniffing the grapefruit and doesn’t even notice the fight, the story is still metaphorically wrong. Or something. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![minty\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well/148303/216 "2003-01-15T21:28:41Z")
I’ve thought of the perfect ending to our little fable: _And as the townspeople joined each other in singing Kumbaya, one of the wise and benevolent elders locked the gate to the city, so that nobody could disturb them any more._ ---
**Author:** ![EasyPhil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47c2d/32.png) [@EasyPhil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EasyPhil)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well/148303/217 "2003-01-15T21:34:48Z")
_And all that jazzzzzzz!_ ---
**Author:** ![BottledBlondJeanie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/0ea827/32.png) [@BottledBlondJeanie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BottledBlondJeanie)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well/148303/218 "2003-01-15T22:35:58Z")
**Mods** now would be a lovely time to close this thread… [sub]just a thought…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well/148303/219 "2003-01-15T22:39:42Z")
Look at the attention whore, wants to be a threadkiller 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well/148303/220 "2003-01-15T22:49:30Z")
I know exactly how to kill a thread. …so anyway, I used the 80pin connector that came with the drive, and like I said, it auto-detected fine, but it is still registering at only 15MB sec. write speed and it was my understanding that it would be 30-40MB sec. Also, and this is weird, the slave drive on the same EIDE capable is an ATA100, and proportionally, it is just as slow. I can’t believe I’ve got both drives mis-configured. Or could I? What should I look for? Yeah, at any rate, both the bios and the windows hardware monitor tell me the drive is correctly recognized as UDMA 6, which I believe indicates an ATA133… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well/148303.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well/148303.md?page=12)