# What has become of SDMB, especially GD’s? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 19, 2005, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304 "2005-12-19T16:04:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![drmark2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@drmark2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drmark2000)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/201 "2005-12-22T17:39:17Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#): > > You give suggestions for revison here > that I think make my stanza even worse. > But–pay attention, man, I think it’s obv: > your changes make my words not be verse (blank). Pllllllllppppth. Ya :wally. ---
**Author:** ![drmark2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@drmark2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drmark2000)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/202 "2005-12-22T17:44:27Z")
> [@Heckity](#): > > All along I’ve been thinking “blowhard”. Now I see that it should have been the imperative - Blow Hard. Clearly in the making of balloon animals **drmark2000** sucked. Hey, you really ought to always use a balloon pump. They’re inexpensive, and they work quite well. A day’s entertainment could result in a blown blood vessel in your eye. Never did for me, even when I was a do-it-yourselfer, but it could. And I was always quite good at making them animals. And it was fun, so much fun. The kids just loved it. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/203 "2005-12-22T17:45:00Z")
And now I’m thinking it’d be so sweet If all participation in this thread Occurs in blank verse form, or not at all We’d show them what we’re made of, by the Gods! Daniel ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/204 "2005-12-22T18:06:26Z")
This is the Dopers’ prime evil: The murmuring fools and the assholes A-twitter with bloviant musings Of cretinous self-adolators. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/205 "2005-12-22T18:08:39Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#): > > And now I’m thinking it’d be so sweet > If all participation in this thread > Occurs in blank verse form, or not at all > We’d show them what we’re made of, by the Gods! > > Daniel What from Daniel might be sweet From my keyboard would seem less so Apoetic am I, so that even Blank verse is beyond my meager grasp I’ll have to be content to watch the poetry unfold. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/206 "2005-12-22T18:13:44Z")
A skinny solipsistic fool Cried out “Well met, O tool of my tool! Now, doctor, mark too: Thousands not like us – boo! We’ll enlighten them. You and I rule!” ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/207 "2005-12-22T18:44:48Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#): > > I feel so…validated. Yes, the theme of this thread has been a transformation of invalidation into validation. All are welcome to sup at this beneficient table. > [@](#): > > Am I still a tool? maybe I’ll call my sitcom _Awl in the Family_. There once was a tool on the Dope who thought himself sharp with a trope. But his time in the Pit spent pulling dull shit has shown that the awl’s just a rope! > [@](#): > > Imagine, for a moment, a world in which you were a gibbering cretin with the self-awareness of, oh, let’s say a balloon animal […]. There is a contradiction here. A baloon animal cannot gibber. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/208 "2005-12-22T18:49:18Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > In the current lull in the reciprocal blowjob-fest between you and **Aeschines** , we have had to resort to our own pitiful witicisms to amuse ourselves. Our 69 wasn’t amusing enough? Or do you just not swing that way? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/209 "2005-12-22T18:54:22Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > There is a contradiction here. A baloon animal cannot gibber. They can squeak though. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/210 "2005-12-22T19:00:45Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > Our 69 wasn’t amusing enough? Or do you just not swing that way? It was amusing enough. One of you alone is mildly amusing, the two of you together is wildly so. I was referring to the lull when you and your fellow hero had taken a break from congratulating each other. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/211 "2005-12-22T19:02:49Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > It was amusing enough. One of you alone is mildly amusing, the two of you together is wildly so. I was referring to the lull when you and your fellow hero had taken a break from congratulating each other. No, just a quick cigarette. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/212 "2005-12-22T19:04:59Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > They can squeak though. Yes, that’s right. If I were a squeaky, self-aware animal baloon, I’d be a poodle lilting through this thread, lifting his leg and spraying airy piss on the Unjust and the Cruel! ---
**Author:** ![drmark2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@drmark2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drmark2000)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/213 "2005-12-22T19:24:16Z")
Hey, you guys, wait up! Wait up for me! I can give this a shot! There once was a man from Pawtucket, Who… Aw, fuck it. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/214 "2005-12-22T19:26:19Z")
> [@drmark2000](#): > > It just goes to show you, a couple of well-trained soldiers can overcome an entire army of bumblers. And what a foolish, ragtag brigade they were, my friend. > [@](#): > > And, I’ve picked up a few new words in the bargain! “Contumely” and “casuistry” from yourself, **Aeschines** , and “inapposite” from, of all sources, **Miller**. This is very gratifying. A few new bullets in my bandolier. Can’t be bad. And I learned a new word too: “baloon animal.” > [@](#): > > But remember, the defense of liberty requires eternal vigilance! This would be no time to let up! Not that I think you would, but I’m just making sure to sound the rallying cry, yet again, here and now. No doubt. As Snape says, “Never give up, never surrender!” > [@](#): > > But there’s always the next episode, and a new series of seemingly insurmountable challenges to conquer. That is one of Reality’s chief joys: As Todd Rundren said, “There’s always more (international feel).” > [@](#): > > We’ve done it! We can do it! Let’s keep at it! You got it, chum! ---
**Author:** ![drmark2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@drmark2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drmark2000)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/215 "2005-12-22T19:35:33Z")
> [@drmark2000](#): > > Hey, you guys, wait up! Wait up for me! I can give this a shot! > > There once was a man from Pawtucket, > Who… > > Aw, fuck it. Wait! Wait! Wait a minute! I think I can do it! There once was a man from Pawtucket, Who found one of those very rare 13-inch long oysters and tried to shuck it. Said the oyster to he, That shucker intimidates me, But I think I can show you where to tuck it. That’s the blankest verse I could come up with. ---
**Author:** ![drmark2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@drmark2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drmark2000)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/216 "2005-12-22T19:58:39Z")
> [@drmark2000](#): > > There once was a man from Pawtucket, > Who found one of those very rare 13-inch long oysters and tried to shuck it. > Said the oyster to he, > That shucker intimidates me, > But I think I can show you where to tuck it. Damn, it works on so many levels! ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/217 "2005-12-22T20:06:44Z")
> [@](#): > > No doubt. As Snape says, “Never give up, never surrender!” Nope, that is ToolTime Tim’s line. Snape says “By Grabthar’s hammer, by the Suns of Morvan, you shall be avenged.” ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/218 "2005-12-22T21:55:20Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > And I learned a new word too: “baloon animal.” There’s definitely a new word in there. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/219 "2005-12-22T22:56:54Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Nope, that is ToolTime Tim’s line. > > Snape says “By Grabthar’s hammer, by the Suns of Morvan, you shall be avenged.” Ah yes, thanks. That’s a fun flick, though, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![drmark2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@drmark2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drmark2000)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/220 "2005-12-23T01:45:06Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Nope, that is ToolTime Tim’s line. > > Snape says “By Grabthar’s hammer, by the Suns of Morvan, you shall be avenged.” Are you sure that isn’t “By the _sons_ of Morvan”? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304.md?page=12)