# When manhattan quit? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 30, 2003, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-manhattan-quit/198585 "2003-08-30T06:17:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Homer\_J.Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a698b9/32.png) [@Homer\_J.Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer_J.Simpson)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-manhattan-quit/198585/1 "2003-08-30T06:17:49Z")
When manhattan quit as a moderator did he take the 1920’s Style Death Rays used to destroy hyjacked General Questions threads? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-manhattan-quit/198585/2 "2003-08-30T06:25:48Z")
Um, **Homer**? You might want to wait a couple hours AFTER you get back from Moe’s to post. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-manhattan-quit/198585/3 "2003-08-30T06:39:22Z")
Oh 😛 **Guin**. That was funny. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-manhattan-quit/198585/4 "2003-08-30T07:20:49Z")
Can we stop with the death rays already? ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-manhattan-quit/198585/5 "2003-08-30T07:29:19Z")
Sorry I just Death Ray…eep I mean to say that the Death Ray administrators operate in Death Ray ways we will never Death Ray understand Sincerely, “Death Ray” Incubus 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DreadCthulhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DreadCthulhu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreadCthulhu)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-manhattan-quit/198585/6 "2003-08-30T07:33:48Z")
No! Now that I have a 1920’s style “Death Ray”, no one can stop me!!! The world is mine!!! MWHAHAHAHAHA!!! ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-manhattan-quit/198585/7 "2003-08-30T07:35:10Z")
“Death Ray” 🙂 !!! …waits for well deserved laughter from the crowd… …crickets… Okay, I don’t get it. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-manhattan-quit/198585/8 "2003-08-30T07:42:20Z")
Ah, they’re 1920’s style “Death Rays”. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-manhattan-quit/198585/9 "2003-08-30T11:30:54Z")
**Apos** - you mean you haven’t heard of 1920’s style Death Rays? ---
**Author:** ![dave316](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dave316](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dave316)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-manhattan-quit/198585/10 "2003-08-30T15:01:53Z")
i hope you all know that your putting Americans in danger with all this talk about 1920’s style Death Rays with all this terrorism going on and might I add that we are at code level magenta . I think we should limit talk about death rays to those made before 1870 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-manhattan-quit/198585/11 "2003-08-30T15:51:55Z")
Where wolf? ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dead\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Badger)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-manhattan-quit/198585/12 "2003-08-30T16:02:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Gaspode \* > \*\ ***Apos** - you mean you haven’t heard of 1920’s style Death Rays? \*\* I have, but only cos every other post mentions them, it seems. I’ve been meaning to ask, and this seems as good a place as any: WHAT FLIPPING DEATH RAYS, GODDAMMIT? and if anyone says “1920’s style ones” I shall rip out their spleen and feed it to my budgie… ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-manhattan-quit/198585/13 "2003-08-30T16:06:23Z")
Dead, I think they’re 1920’s style “Death Rays”. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-manhattan-quit/198585/14 "2003-08-30T16:15:58Z")
There a thread in GQ Scalar Weapons 400 plus posts when Manny left is because of thread? ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-manhattan-quit/198585/15 "2003-08-30T16:19:28Z")
Here there be [death rays](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=202225). ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dead\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Badger)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-manhattan-quit/198585/16 "2003-08-30T16:27:24Z")
_hugs Wilson in manly fashion_ _pets budgie menacingly_ ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-manhattan-quit/198585/17 "2003-08-30T16:34:48Z")
How dared him? I demand he return to his post inmediately. He can’t ban me now, can he? ---
**Author:** ![DarrenS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DarrenS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrenS)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-manhattan-quit/198585/18 "2003-08-30T16:38:04Z")
Ah, it’s a 1920s style “Monkey Butler” thread. ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-manhattan-quit/198585/19 "2003-08-30T17:11:34Z")
OK, I feel really, really, really stupid and uninformed now, but I guess this must have happened when I was away on my trip and didn’t have much chance to check out the SDMB…but when did manhattan quit??? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Scruloose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@Scruloose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruloose)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-manhattan-quit/198585/20 "2003-08-30T17:20:22Z")
[August 19th.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=205809) At least that’s when Ed told us. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-manhattan-quit/198585.md?page=2)