# What? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 3, 2013, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what/670299 "2013-10-03T21:47:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [October 3, 2013, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what/670299/1 "2013-10-03T21:47:19Z")
Well? ---
**Author:** ![Rain\_Soaked](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@Rain\_Soaked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rain_Soaked)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what/670299/2 "2013-10-03T21:57:17Z")
Oh, nothing. Well, now that you’re here… No, I would feel strange bringing it up. ---
**Author:** ![want2befree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3e96dc/32.png) [@want2befree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2befree)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what/670299/3 "2013-10-03T22:13:31Z")
Who? ---
**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:** [October 3, 2013, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what/670299/4 "2013-10-03T22:14:16Z")
You first. I’ll chime in later. ---
**Author:** ![TimeWinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@TimeWinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeWinder)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what/670299/5 "2013-10-03T22:14:29Z")
Sorry. I’ve taken care of it. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what/670299/6 "2013-10-03T22:16:51Z")
Well, if you don’t know, I can’t tell you. ---
**Author:** ![want2befree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3e96dc/32.png) [@want2befree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2befree)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what/670299/7 "2013-10-03T22:45:23Z")
But how will I know unless you tell me, because if you know and I don’t know then it’s your fault that I don’t know. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2013, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what/670299/8 "2013-10-03T23:08:21Z")
[When? Where?]([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w\_ep-m4rxI](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w_ep-m4rxI)) ---
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what/670299/9 "2013-10-03T23:14:29Z")
It’s posted in a usenet forum. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what/670299/10 "2013-10-03T23:20:13Z")
Huh? Or, as all cellphone users say in their conversations, “Uh?” ---
**Author:** ![turtlescanfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@turtlescanfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/turtlescanfly)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what/670299/11 "2013-10-03T23:24:32Z")
He’s on second. ---
**Author:** ![want2befree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3e96dc/32.png) [@want2befree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2befree)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what/670299/12 "2013-10-03T23:25:42Z")
Who’s on first? ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what/670299/13 "2013-10-04T00:10:37Z")
This. ---
**Author:** ![Archeonomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Archeonomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archeonomist)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what/670299/14 "2013-10-04T00:12:28Z")
It wasn’t me, I swear! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what/670299/15 "2013-10-04T00:18:31Z")
I said the cat just barfed in your sock drawer and from the look of things it had been eating eggs and, I dunno, maybe chimmichurri. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2013, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what/670299/16 "2013-10-04T00:43:58Z")
No, seriously, what? And mods, I know you’re locking and loading right now, but give it a chance. This IS a serious thread–I have a nefarious AND surreptitious point to be made and knowledge to be uncovered. Let it live! Oh for the love of the carpenter who hung from carpentry, let it live! ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what/670299/17 "2013-10-04T01:17:54Z")
Insanity, that’s what! Or greed. One of those. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what/670299/18 "2013-10-04T01:39:34Z")
Well? That’s a deep subject. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what/670299/19 "2013-10-04T03:39:06Z")
> [@want2befree](#): > > But how will I know unless you tell me, because if you know and I don’t know then it’s your fault that I don’t know. But you should know from all the hints I’ve been giving you and all of our history together! Okay, I’ll stop now. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what/670299/20 "2013-10-04T03:40:07Z")
Nefarious AND surreptitious? I second the plea to let this thread die a natural death, rather than taking it out back and shooting it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what/670299.md?page=2)