# What Exit? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 25, 2007, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exit/423959 "2007-10-25T14:30:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exit/423959/21 "2007-10-25T15:30:36Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Oh, come on! We can still save this Pitting! Let’s work up some venom here. Surely Jim has pissed off somebody about something **worthwhile** sometime. [/QUOTE] Jim’s username reminds me of times I have failed to know the correct exit. Bastid! ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exit/423959/22 "2007-10-25T15:32:00Z")
[QUOTE=Borborygmi] Jim’s username reminds me of times I have failed to know the correct exit. Bastid! [/QUOTE] And your location is a thorn in the side of everyone who set foot in that thread. Bastid! ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exit/423959/23 "2007-10-25T15:36:50Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] You seem to be taking offense from a small post where I was actually putting myself in exactly the same light that I put you. It was not in any way an attack aimed at you, it was meant as a counterpoint to how \*\*Mangetout \*\* has seemingly been able to avoid the squabbles and pissing matches that you and I and many others with high posts counts or post counting rates have gotten into. [/QUOTE] Like I said in the OP, I don’t give a damn what the threadshitters think or say. They just come with the territory, like vultures come to a carcass. And again, like I said, this is not a blast-you pitting, but a pitting by which I hope we can reconcile with one another. If your interest has not yet waned, let me reiterate what I’m looking for here. There is no need for you to make any guesses about me. I am around often enough that you can ask me. Let me give you an example: “Lib, do you work? If so, do your health problems affect what you do?” If you think you can do that, great. If not, then it will be business as usual I suppose. But in any event, I cannot stress enough how little care about your moral judgments of me. Are we clear here? ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exit/423959/24 "2007-10-25T15:39:16Z")
Oh Shit! Look out I feel a flame out coming, Lib is climbing up on the cross again. ---
**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:** [October 25, 2007, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exit/423959/25 "2007-10-25T15:39:41Z")
[QUOTE=Mr Bus Guy] \*\* silenus\*\*, Jim IS a Yankee fan. Probably not Pit-worthy though. Just kind of amusing. [/QUOTE] I know, but these days, being a Yankee fan deserves something other than derision and contempt. What’s the word I’m looking for here? Not pity… Schadenfreude. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exit/423959/26 "2007-10-25T15:39:53Z")
[QUOTE=Antinor01] We’re sorry, but it doesn’t count. You still remain unpitted…please collect your parting gift as you exit stage left. [/QUOTE] Wait, what exit? ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exit/423959/27 "2007-10-25T15:41:54Z")
[QUOTE=Borborygmi] Jim’s username reminds me of times I have failed to know the correct exit. Bastid! [/QUOTE] He is also a Yankees fan. That ought to be worth something. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exit/423959/28 "2007-10-25T15:46:14Z")
[QUOTE=Mr Bus Guy] **silenus** , Jim IS a Yankee fan. Probably not Pit-worthy though. Just kind of amusing. [/QUOTE] I did pit him for that on the Bizarro Dope. I suppose those don’t really count. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exit/423959/29 "2007-10-25T15:51:44Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Oh, come on! We can still save this Pitting! Let’s work up some venom here. Surely Jim has pissed off somebody about something **worthwhile** sometime. [/QUOTE] Well, he’s a **GIANTS** and _ **Yankees** _ fan, so I got nothing there. Hey, he’s not an **Islanders** fan! Now I’ve got something to pit him for. Hmmm, I guess not. I got nothing. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exit/423959/30 "2007-10-25T16:17:30Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] Like I said in the OP, I don’t give a damn what the threadshitters think or say. They just come with the territory, like vultures come to a carcass. And again, like I said, this is not a blast-you pitting, but a pitting by which I hope we can reconcile with one another. If your interest has not yet waned, let me reiterate what I’m looking for here. There is no need for you to make any guesses about me. I am around often enough that you can ask me. Let me give you an example: “Lib, do you work? If so, do your health problems affect what you do?” If you think you can do that, great. If not, then it will be business as usual I suppose. But in any event, I cannot stress enough how little care about your moral judgments of me. Are we clear here? [/QUOTE] Yes, we are clear. I am honestly sorry you took offense at my statement, and here comes the weasel part on my part; I honestly do not understand why you did. Was it insulting? Was it said in a negative way? Was it said as a fact? Hell, I go out of my way to preface my guesses at anything with the fact it is a guess. I was not questioning whether you worked; I thought I was answering a simple little question by a new poster from India about those of us that post a lot. I knew Guin’s situation, she has posted about it and I congratulated her on getting a job, I think that is great. I thought, wrongly, that you did not and thus you had plenty of time to post if you felt like it. I was wrong. I apologize for being wrong. I will not make any more guesses concerning you and I apologize for having done so in my last post. I hope that is good enough. Jim ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exit/423959/31 "2007-10-25T16:19:56Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] I hope that is good enough. Jim [/QUOTE] Ten bucks says it won’t be, but I don’t have a clue how he’ll manage to twist it into additional kindling under the stake he wants to be burned at. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exit/423959/32 "2007-10-25T16:22:26Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Was it insulting? Was it said in a negative way? Was it said as a fact? Hell, I go out of my way to preface my guesses at anything with the fact it is a guess. [/quote] It was just icky is all. It gives me the heebie-jeebies that someone is guessing about my personal real life. I reveal of it what I wish and no more. When I see speculation about it — especially completely uninformed speculation — it makes me a mite squeamish. > [@](#): > > I was wrong. I apologize for being wrong. I will not make any more guesses concerning you and I apologize for having done so in my last post. > > I hope that is good enough. > > Jim Yep, that’s great. I believe we have reconciled. 🙂 Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exit/423959/33 "2007-10-25T16:23:29Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Ten bucks says it won’t be, but I don’t have a clue how he’ll manage to twist it into additional kindling under the stake he wants to be burned at. [/QUOTE] You lose sweetie, pay up. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exit/423959/34 "2007-10-25T16:25:23Z")
[QUOTE=Mr Bus Guy] You lose sweetie, pay up. 😛 [/QUOTE] That wasn’t a bet – it was a statement of my intent to do an origami puppet with a sawbuck. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exit/423959/35 "2007-10-25T16:27:36Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] That wasn’t a bet – it was a statement of my intent to do origami with a sawbuck. 😃 [/QUOTE] Ooh, can you make a frog out of it? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exit/423959/36 "2007-10-25T16:29:10Z")
Well, I can say that **What Exit?** does annoy me sometimes with the net nannying, but it hasn’t gotten to the point where I consider it pitworthy. To immerse oneself into soap opera situations is just second nature for some people. Then there’s the ones who keep asking questions, won’t take hints to back off, WON’T SHUT UP, KEEP BRINGING EVERYTHING UP AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN, **UNTIL FINALLY I HAD TO DO SOMETHING TO SHUT HER UP BECAUSE HER MOUTH JUST KEPT YAPPING AND YAPPING AND YAPPING** oh good! Applesauce for desert! ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exit/423959/37 "2007-10-25T16:31:48Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Ten bucks says it won’t be, but I don’t have a clue how he’ll manage to twist it into additional kindling under the stake he wants to be burned at. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Mr Bus Guy] You lose sweetie, pay up [/QUOTE] _Hoping strongly he will take this as a good humored jest…_ Proof the Meds are working! 😉 [QUOTE=Telperien] [QUOTE=twickster] That wasn’t a bet – it was a statement of my intent to do origami with a sawbuck. [/QUOTE] Ooh, can you make a frog out of it? [/QUOTE] I was hoping for a dragon. Jim ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exit/423959/38 "2007-10-25T16:33:14Z")
**twiddles** It’s a fire-breathing frog! That talks! ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exit/423959/39 "2007-10-25T16:34:12Z")
Thread closed at request of OP. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exit/423959/40 "2007-10-25T16:34:53Z")
Origami sawbucks, applesauce and fire-breathing frogs? Time for lunch. And stronger meds. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exit/423959.md?page=1)