# Where Have All The Tommys Gone? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 8, 2003, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-tommys-gone/186943 "2003-07-08T04:44:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-tommys-gone/186943/1 "2003-07-08T04:44:15Z")
Where have all the Tommys gone? Long time passing. Where have all the Tommys gone? Long time ago. Where have all the Tommys gone? They call themselves “Thomas” now, the pretentious, affected, arty, assuming, aureate, big, bombastic, chichi, conceited, conspicuous, euphuistic, exaggerated, extravagant, feigned, flamboyant, flashy, flaunting, flowery, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose, high-flown, high-sounding, highfalutin’, hollow, imposing, inflated, jazzy, la-di-da, lofty, magniloquent, mincing, ornate, ostentatious, overambitious, overblown, pompous, puffed up, put-on, rhetorical, showy, snobbish, specious, splashy, stilted, swank, too-too, tumid, turgid, utopian, vainglorious bastards. * * * Has anybody here seen my old friend Bobby, Can you tell me where he’s gone? He’s gone and called himself “Robert” now, the pretentious, affected, arty, assuming, aureate, big, bombastic, chichi, conceited, conspicuous, euphuistic, exaggerated, extravagant, feigned, flamboyant, flashy, flaunting, flowery, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose, high-flown, high-sounding, highfalutin’, hollow, imposing, inflated, jazzy, la-di-da, lofty, magniloquent, mincing, ornate, ostentatious, overambitious, overblown, pompous, puffed up, put-on, rhetorical, showy, snobbish, specious, splashy, stilted, swank, too-too, tumid, turgid, utopian, vainglorious bastard. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-tommys-gone/186943/2 "2003-07-08T05:49:00Z")
What the fuck are you talking about? ---
**Author:** ![Netbrian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71e660/32.png) [@Netbrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Netbrian)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-tommys-gone/186943/3 "2003-07-08T06:13:51Z")
Growing up? ---
**Author:** ![Loopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loopus/32/15343_2.png) [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-tommys-gone/186943/4 "2003-07-08T06:22:04Z")
I’ll have what he’s having. ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-tommys-gone/186943/5 "2003-07-08T06:44:44Z")
Can you teach me to channel Roget, too? ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-tommys-gone/186943/6 "2003-07-08T06:49:16Z")
> [@](#): > > Where have all the Tommys gone? Some of them are still around. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@Tee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tee)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-tommys-gone/186943/7 "2003-07-08T06:52:56Z")
“magniloquent.” New word. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-tommys-gone/186943/8 "2003-07-08T07:03:01Z")
It’s Tommy this and Tommy that and Tommy how’s yer soul. But it’s thin red line of heroes when the guns begin to roll. ---
**Author:** ![tram2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@tram2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tram2)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-tommys-gone/186943/9 "2003-07-08T07:13:00Z")
This [one](http://www.angelfire.com/wa2/comemeetmyfamily/tommysmemorial1.html) has crossed over. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Morrigoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/858c86/32.png) [@Morrigoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morrigoon)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-tommys-gone/186943/10 "2003-07-08T13:30:30Z")
Bah, and here I thought you were talking about the chili burgers. (It’s a socal thing, very yummy!) ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-tommys-gone/186943/11 "2003-07-08T13:32:30Z")
Bizarre rant. ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-tommys-gone/186943/12 "2003-07-08T13:40:06Z")
[Here](http://www.originaltommys.com/locations.html). I personally like In-n-Out burgers better myself, but I’ve never really been into the whole chili burger thing. ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-tommys-gone/186943/13 "2003-07-08T14:00:44Z")
At some point back in high school (class of '93) I noticed that I didn’t know anyone named “Bob”. Everyone whose name was Robert went by “Rob” for short. Could “Bob” be going the way of “Dick”? ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-tommys-gone/186943/14 "2003-07-08T15:30:40Z")
I think _Quadrophenia_ was really the better album. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-tommys-gone/186943/15 "2003-07-08T15:43:24Z")
No shortage of “Tommy” here. That jackass Hilfinger has it plastered on every inch of everything. ---
**Author:** ![Mac\_Guffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Mac\_Guffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mac_Guffin)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-tommys-gone/186943/16 "2003-07-08T15:45:37Z")
What about general Tommy Franks? General Tommy. Not Tom. Seems odd.