# What The Hell Is That? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 28, 2004, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-that/247559 "2004-05-28T19:25:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-that/247559/21 "2004-05-28T22:06:48Z")
:: looks :: :: sniffs :: :: inhales deeply :: :: retches :: :: gags :: :: vomits :: :: faints :: ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-that/247559/22 "2004-05-28T22:10:15Z")
Pardon me. :o ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-that/247559/23 "2004-05-28T22:11:17Z")
Bah. Back in **my** day we had real ones, not puny specimens like _that_. And they had the belt in the back. ---
**Author:** ![luluBahrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@luluBahrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luluBahrain)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-that/247559/24 "2004-05-28T22:12:22Z")
It’s yo mama! ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-that/247559/25 "2004-05-28T22:16:22Z")
Yeah, puny. It’s mother is right behind you, and is _she pissed_!! ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-that/247559/26 "2004-05-28T22:17:29Z")
**luluBahrain** like minds 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-that/247559/27 "2004-05-28T22:19:19Z")
What? Those things have mamas? \ Crikey. That explains the tentacle marks _and_ the lunchboxes… ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-that/247559/28 "2004-05-28T22:34:26Z")
(runs home to get death ray) ---
**Author:** ![Lyllyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@Lyllyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lyllyan)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-that/247559/29 "2004-05-28T22:54:53Z")
I don’t know _what_ that is, but I do know… you can keep your weed in there. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-that/247559/30 "2004-05-28T22:59:32Z")
I don’t see it any more. Where did it go? Is it there? Over there? Where? Ooo! Is that it? No, that’s just - oops, my TV show is starting. Later! ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-that/247559/31 "2004-05-28T23:09:54Z")
I didn’t think they could move that fast. I think this may be a new type Either that or it’s not what I think it is. And if it’s not what I’m thinking it is, I don’t know what is it, but it’s dang fast, I’ll tell you that. ---
**Author:** ![luluBahrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@luluBahrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luluBahrain)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-that/247559/32 "2004-05-28T23:10:28Z")
> [@Governor Quinn](#): > > (runs home to get death ray) From what era is this death ray you speak of? ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-that/247559/33 "2004-05-28T23:12:58Z")
> [@luluBahrain](#): > > From what era is this death ray you speak of? I chose my Barris, Carlin, & Barris, from 1962. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-that/247559/34 "2004-05-28T23:15:56Z")
:pshaw: Oh I know what \*that \* is. That’s one of them … oh … Huh. Wut the hell \*IS \* that? ---
**Author:** ![luluBahrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@luluBahrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luluBahrain)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-that/247559/35 "2004-05-28T23:18:13Z")
> [@Governor Quinn](#): > > I chose my Barris, Carlin, & Barris, from 1962. The Barris, Carlin, & Barris cannot handle _that_ . I’d go for the Thunderstick 5000 from 1973. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-that/247559/36 "2004-05-28T23:18:38Z")
Please tell me the dog didn’t bury it where they dumped that cooler. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-that/247559/37 "2004-05-28T23:19:41Z")
Thunderstick? _Thunderstick_? **Thunderstick**? That’ll kill me before it’ll kill it. ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-that/247559/38 "2004-05-28T23:32:47Z")
> [@Inigo Montoya](#): > > Wut the hell \*IS \* that? Hey yoo kids! Git yer lips awf that thing! ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-that/247559/39 "2004-05-28T23:35:20Z")
I know what that is. They left that there. You know, **them**. They’re watching you. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-that/247559/40 "2004-05-28T23:43:37Z")
Oh dear god. Not that cooler. And not _that_ dog. Well, that explains a hell of a lot. Just be careful not to cross the streams when you use the death rays. Wait– Where’d it go? And are there more than one of them now? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-that/247559.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-that/247559.md?page=3)