# We're being sold. Again. Maybe.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-being-sold-again-maybe/621426>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [May 9, 2012, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-being-sold-again-maybe/621426 "2012-05-09T21:09:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-being-sold-again-maybe/621426/81 "2012-05-24T17:22:37Z")

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Dear new Sun-Times overlords,

Please invest some programming time to colorize, flash, italicize, or something the damn zombie threads. I waste enough time/bile/adrenaline/spooge here as is. It’s a real torque to find out that I’m worked up over some ten year old thread.

Thanks, yes it is all about ME.

PS, we need more emoticons as well!

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-being-sold-again-maybe/621426/82 "2012-05-24T17:50:56Z")

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What’s my share of the loot come to?

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-being-sold-again-maybe/621426/83 "2012-05-24T18:32:33Z")

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There seems to be a major misunderstanding here.  
When y’all signed up for this venture did you notice the word printed on page 16, paragraph 8, section D, subsection 6, item f(4)?

_ **Tontine** _.

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**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-being-sold-again-maybe/621426/84 "2012-05-24T19:35:05Z")

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> [@smithsb](#):
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> spooge

Please, I’m begging you, don’t go into further detail.

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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-being-sold-again-maybe/621426/85 "2012-05-24T19:37:22Z")

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> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> There seems to be a major misunderstanding here.  
> When y’all signed up for this venture did you notice the word printed on page 16, paragraph 8, section D, subsection 6, item f(4)?
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> _ **Tontine** _.

There can be only one!

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**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-being-sold-again-maybe/621426/86 "2012-05-24T21:18:26Z")

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> [@RetroVertigo](#):
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> I’d imagine gold plated statues of Marley in his full glory, everywhere.

You gotta be kidding, you think Trump would waste a gold-plated statue on anyone less important than a “Trump”?

I would expect “the world’s smartest human” to immediately be renamed “Donald Trump”, and the column would probably renamed “The Straight Trump” or “The Trump Dope” or something.

And then the quality of the columns would immediately go down, because while the sarcasm, self-importance, and derision of the questioners would remain, the humor and the quality of the factual content would decline rapidly.

And then Ivanka, Don Jr, and Eric would be named administrators.

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-being-sold-again-maybe/621426/87 "2012-05-24T21:21:47Z")

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_Celebrity Moderator_

The horror.

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