# 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:** 12
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/221 "2005-12-23T03:38:16Z")
Could be either way. I only know the phonetic version, not the script. ---
**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, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/222 "2005-12-23T05:10:03Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > And what a foolish, ragtag brigade they were, my friend. And they appear to have given up. Typical. > [@Aeschines](#): > > And I learned a new word too: “baloon animal.” Damnit, why did you have to misspell “balloon”? Still, I’m glad you learned something new, as have I. > [@Aeschines](#): > > You got it, chum! You got it, too, chum. ---
**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 23, 2005, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/223 "2005-12-23T19:03:42Z")
> [@drmark2000](#): > > And they appear to have given up. Typical. Did they give up or were they driven away by your nonsensical banter? ---
**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:** [December 23, 2005, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/224 "2005-12-23T19:10:08Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Did they give up or were they driven away by your nonsensical banter? Oh **Lute** , we were conspiring to let it die, now you blew it. Oops, was that out loud. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/225 "2005-12-23T19:21:22Z")
Would it be permissible for two posters to merge under one name\*, assuming they paid for two memberships? i.e. Folie À Deux ---
**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 23, 2005, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/226 "2005-12-23T21:51:37Z")
> [@drmark2000](#): > > Damnit, why did you have to misspell “balloon”? Still, I’m glad you learned something new, as have I. See, we don’t let each other off the hook. We’re objective! > [@](#): > > You got it, too, chum. Hey, I sent you an e-mail. Write back, buddy. ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/227 "2005-12-23T22:36:50Z")
> [@jrfranchi](#): > > Oh **Lute** , we were conspiring to let it die, now you blew it. > > Oops, was that out loud. No, no, no. We can’t let this die. Keep them here, that way they don’t infect the rest of the boards. ---
**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, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/228 "2005-12-23T23:09:30Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Did they give up or were they driven away by your nonsensical banter? The former. ---
**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 23, 2005, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/229 "2005-12-23T23:13:38Z")
> [@drmark2000](#): > > The former. You need to work on your ability to identify rhetorical questions. ---
**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, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/230 "2005-12-23T23:20:39Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Would it be permissible for two posters to merge under one name\*, assuming they paid for two memberships? > i.e. Folie À Deux You know I believe it would be. I mean, not that I _know_, from my own experience or anything but, yeah, I’ll bet it would be possible. I’ll bet some people have done it. But not me or **Aeschines**. I wouldn’t do that. I’m sure he wouldn’t, either. So it wouldn’t be either of us. But I’ll bet some people have done it. Was there once a member named **Folie À Deux** , or is there still? That’s one of favorite bits of terminology from psychoanalysis! But _I’ve_ never been in one of those. I’m sure **Aeschines** hasn’t, either. Love, Me, myself, and I. ( **Folie A Trois?** ) ---
**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, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/231 "2005-12-23T23:24:02Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > You need to work on your ability to identify rhetorical questions. What the hell for? If you want to say something stupid, why should I cowtow to your desire to deem it “rhetorical”? Big words for small minds. ---
**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, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/232 "2005-12-23T23:30:37Z")
> [@rayh](#): > > No, no, no. We can’t let this die. Keep them here, that way they don’t infect the rest of the boards. With decency and integrity, yeah. By the way, I think **Aeschines** and I have each of us been all over these boards for a number of years. To quote, I assume, the Master, “It’s taking longer than we thought.” ---
**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, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/233 "2005-12-23T23:43:32Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > See, we don’t let each other off the hook. We’re objective! And that cuts both ways, as we each have demonstrated amply in this thread. You know, I don’t even _like_ tights. I mean, they’re funny-looking and everything, and I do appreciate humor in most of its forms, but they just look like they would be, like, real **tight** , you know? > [@Aeschines](#): > > Hey, I sent you an e-mail. Write back, buddy. Got it. Will respond. ---
**Author:** ![drmark2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@drmark2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drmark2000)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2005, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/234 "2005-12-24T01:31:22Z")
Ohhhhhh, all of this is bringing back a childhood memory. We psychologists are attuned to such things, you know. It was summer camp at the local Y. One year, there was this Director named, well, let’s just call him Bill Flower (the last name being pronounced the same as the term popularly used for the bloom or blossom of a plant). Now, unlike his last name might suggest, Flower was no pansy. He looked almost exactly like Mark Spitz, but was mean, _real_ mean. The girls all hated and loved him simultaneously. I think they would have liked to smack him repeatedly as they rode him. The boys, we just hated him. He could slice you up in an instant, verbally, and was consistently physically threatening. Once, while he was chasing a kid around the parking lot for no good reason, the kid shouted, “Why don’t you pick on somebody your own size?” Flower retorted, without hesitation and at a full run, “Because I can’t find anybody!” Now, I despised Flower as much as anyone, but I despised him more than ever at that moment because _I knew it was true_. It was a lesson in life. But I got to him, in the end. There was a Staff vs. Campers softball game, and I was pitching, for the Campers, obviously. Flower came up. I tossed the first pitch straight down the pipe. Whiff! Strike one. Second pitch, straight down the pipe. Whiff! Strike two! I knew what he was doing. I very slowly and softly tossed the next three pitches all over the fucking place, calling out “Ball!” with each one. I let the last one dribble in front of the pitcher’s mound, and shouted, “Take your base!” Then, I ran like hell. We don’t need to get into the rest of the details, but the crowd loved the entire thing. The moral is: If you’re going to top someone who’s better than you, you’re really going to _have_ to beat him at his own game. That feels better. ---
**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 24, 2005, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/235 "2005-12-24T02:34:35Z")
:: flutters lashes :: My hero! :: swoons :: ---
**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 24, 2005, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/236 "2005-12-24T04:19:42Z")
> [@drmark2000](#): > > What the hell for? If you want to say something stupid, why should I cowtow to your desire to deem it “rhetorical”? Big words for small minds. I asked a question that did not need to be answered, Mr. Kresge. That _is_ the definition of a rhetorical question, is it not? ---
**Author:** ![drmark2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@drmark2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drmark2000)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2005, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/237 "2005-12-24T04:43:06Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > I asked a question that did not need to be answered, Mr. Kresge. That _is_ the definition of a rhetorical question, is it not? I’m just curious. To what, exactly, does “Mr. Kresge” refer? ---
**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 24, 2005, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/238 "2005-12-24T04:51:00Z")
> [@drmark2000](#): > > I’m just curious. To what, exactly, does “Mr. Kresge” refer? George Kresge, aka The Amazing Kreskin. The only way for you to really know if your detractors gave up or if you drove them away is for you to be a mind reader. 🙂 ---
**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 24, 2005, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/239 "2005-12-24T06:06:15Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > I asked a question that did not need to be answered[…]. I’ve never seen you ask one that did. ---
**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 24, 2005, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304/240 "2005-12-24T06:42:33Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > I’ve never seen you ask one that did. There ya go. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-become-of-sdmb-especially-gd-s/336304.md?page=13)