# What would happen if we put an X on CNN? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 28, 2005, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-we-put-an-x-on-cnn/333069 "2005-11-28T16:52:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![bizzwire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/958977/32.png) [@bizzwire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bizzwire)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-we-put-an-x-on-cnn/333069/121 "2005-12-03T22:05:17Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > “Fucktard” has become a favorite of mine. Try some portmanteaus, like “doucheriver” or “moronstick” or “bastidiot.” It’s a fun game. hmmm…ok, I’ll give it a try… “DOUCHEASPHALT!!!” …hmm… “TOASTEROVENVAGINA!!”… …that doesn’t look right… “ANALSTRATOCUMULUS!!!” … Dammit. It doesn’t work… ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-we-put-an-x-on-cnn/333069/122 "2005-12-03T22:37:35Z")
> [@bizzwire](#): > > “ANALSTRATOCUMULUS!!!” > > … > > Dammit. It doesn’t work… Are you kidding? Analstratocumulus. Analstratocumulus. Analstratocumulus. Say it with me… That’s brilliant. I’d say “band name” by I want it for my new porn company. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-we-put-an-x-on-cnn/333069/123 "2005-12-03T23:21:58Z")
> [@bizzwire](#): > > “TOASTEROVENVAGINA!!”… Maybe “TOASTEROVEGINA” or “TOASTEROVENGINA” would work 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 3, 2005, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-we-put-an-x-on-cnn/333069/124 "2005-12-03T23:25:46Z")
How about “TESTOASTERONANIST”? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-we-put-an-x-on-cnn/333069/125 "2005-12-03T23:32:58Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > How about “TESTOASTERONANIST”? I think my brain just broke. What an image! Move over, Autoerotic Asphyxiation! The new kid on the block of possibly fatal masturbation techniques is…Testoasteronanism! ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2005, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-we-put-an-x-on-cnn/333069/126 "2005-12-04T00:32:07Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > This thread and the one before where, if I’m not misaken, the only response was some vapid off topic fluff to **Bricker.**. Though I could be wrong… He offered a half-assed mea culpa in the other thread. Something like “Ok my evidence sucked by I still think I’m right.” I only have one question left: Who knew George W. was a doper? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2005, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-we-put-an-x-on-cnn/333069/127 "2005-12-04T00:46:30Z")
> [@Slacker](#): > > I only have one question left: Who knew George W. was a doper? :eek: Well, he was, but that was years ago, according to him… ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2005, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-we-put-an-x-on-cnn/333069/128 "2005-12-04T01:08:44Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > I think my brain just broke. What an image! > > Move over, Autoerotic Asphyxiation! The new kid on the block of possibly fatal masturbation techniques is…Testoasteronanism! **Testoasteronanism** n. 1. How Powder Toast Man[sup]TM[/sup] gets his toast particles off. see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powdered\_Toast\_Man](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powdered_Toast_Man) ---
**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 4, 2005, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-we-put-an-x-on-cnn/333069/129 "2005-12-04T16:06:06Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Well, he was, but that was years ago, according to him… Now, that’s not fair–he’s never said he was a doper. He’s just said that he’s not used cocaine since Friday, September 4, 1981, around (when was that party?) 7:30 in the evening. As for before then, he’s not going to play that game of Gotcha: he wants to talk about the issues. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2005, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-we-put-an-x-on-cnn/333069/130 "2005-12-04T17:34:58Z")
Cocaine is just God’s subtle way to tell you that you have too much money. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2005, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-we-put-an-x-on-cnn/333069/131 "2005-12-04T19:48:23Z")
> [@Slacker](#): > > He offered a half-assed mea culpa in the other thread. Something like “Ok my evidence sucked by I still think I’m right.” > > I only have one question left: Who knew George W. was a doper? :eek: Good old Clothy is “staying the course” 😃😃😃😃😃 :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2005, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-we-put-an-x-on-cnn/333069/132 "2005-12-04T21:11:16Z")
Where _is_ that little scamp? [crickets chirping] ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2005, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-we-put-an-x-on-cnn/333069/133 "2005-12-04T21:17:00Z")
Brave brave Sir Humpy… ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-we-put-an-x-on-cnn/333069/134 "2005-12-04T21:21:57Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > CNN apparently deliberately put an X on Dick Cheney’s face during a speech last week, then lied about doing it. Their reason for putting the X on his face: to get Cheney (and Bush) to stop lying. {Conspiracy Theory fan,} You fucking tool. They weren’t trying to put him down. Far from it. That was not a black “x”, that was the Greek letter “Chi”, FIRST LETTER OF cHRIST’S NAME. tHEY WanTed to associte Cheney’s face with the new comming of the Christ, as predicted by **mswas.** {Conspiracy Theory fan,} ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2005, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-we-put-an-x-on-cnn/333069/135 "2005-12-04T21:34:07Z")
I keep thinking he must have said _something_ by now. What the hell is the motivation for this routine? This thread wouldn’t have made ten replies if he’d said “Oops, saw it on a blog and took it at face value – never mind,” after the first link to a non-biased source was posted. As it stands, it’s pretty pitiful to endorse a claim about broadcast material that’s as grounded in reality as the enthusiasts of “reverse speech” or “psychic TV”'s analysis of network news. I guess the idea is that if he never acknowledges the way this thread developed, he can still stand with his fingers in his ears, singing “NA NA NA NA NA! There really is a liberal media, just like Joe McCarthy said there was when he coined the phrase.” ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2005, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-we-put-an-x-on-cnn/333069/136 "2005-12-04T21:40:37Z")
That’s quite a phrase to coin 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2005, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-we-put-an-x-on-cnn/333069/137 "2005-12-04T23:08:58Z")
It’s truly comforting to know that somebody can make a bigger ass of themselves in the Pit than I have on my worst day. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2005, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-we-put-an-x-on-cnn/333069/138 "2005-12-04T23:10:18Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > It’s truly comforting to know that somebody can make a bigger ass of themselves in the Pit than I have on my worst day. And, amazingly enough, simply by NOT posting to their own thread! ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-we-put-an-x-on-cnn/333069/139 "2005-12-05T15:36:01Z")
But wait, there’s more… 666 = DCLXVI (thanks **Polycarp** ) which actually stands for “Dick Cheney: Liberals X Visage Intentionally” ---
**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 5, 2005, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-we-put-an-x-on-cnn/333069/140 "2005-12-05T15:53:55Z")
So do we just keep this thread alive until he shows up for a mea culpa? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-we-put-an-x-on-cnn/333069.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-we-put-an-x-on-cnn/333069.md?page=8)