# Whiskey Tango Foxtrot **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 22, 2005, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiskey-tango-foxtrot/300590 "2005-04-22T13:21:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiskey-tango-foxtrot/300590/21 "2005-04-22T18:20:58Z")
> [@Genghis Bob](#): > > Hey, I think I had a \*Rubinetto Grande \* at Starbuck’s last night. Was it bitter and tasteless? ---
**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:** [April 22, 2005, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiskey-tango-foxtrot/300590/22 "2005-04-22T18:24:54Z")
> [@Lord Ashtar](#): > > It’s a great way to keep out the riff raff. Oh, you don’t get rid of me that easily. ---
**Author:** ![AsecretK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ab992/32.png) [@AsecretK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AsecretK)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiskey-tango-foxtrot/300590/23 "2005-04-22T18:29:28Z")
I think the OP needs to read [this](http://web.archive.org/web/20041009182126/http://members.ams.chello.nl/jvane/welcome.htm). ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiskey-tango-foxtrot/300590/24 "2005-04-22T21:05:37Z")
Must be tough going through life without skin. ---
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiskey-tango-foxtrot/300590/25 "2005-04-22T21:15:51Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Was it bitter and tasteless? pnw3d!\* **Chefguy** , you rock. \*That’s still pronounced ‘pawn-threed’, right? right? ---
**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:** [April 22, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiskey-tango-foxtrot/300590/26 "2005-04-22T21:21:55Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > Big Ruby (can I call you that? Thanks.) “Large Tap” in Italian, according to Babelfish. ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiskey-tango-foxtrot/300590/27 "2005-04-22T21:31:03Z")
I just had to pad my post count by posting to a thread that serves no purpose and will be closed any moment now. One hopes. After putting some thought into it, I figure y’all are right. While I was at first willing to give the guy the benefit of the doubt, if he just showed up and started two pointless threads then he deserves whatever he gets. He should at least have paused to see what the place was about first. What a dingus. Probably some bored high-school kid or something. If he’d lurk for a while he’d learn something. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiskey-tango-foxtrot/300590/28 "2005-04-22T21:36:15Z")
> [@Slacker](#): > > Anyway, don’t you have a bridge to keep an eye on? Why don’t you grow a pair and flat out accuse him of being a troll instead of trying to be clever about it? I thought this was a rant against people who use “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot”. Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiskey-tango-foxtrot/300590/29 "2005-04-22T21:45:36Z")
> [@AsecretK](#): > > I think the OP needs to read [this](http://web.archive.org/web/20041009182126/http://members.ams.chello.nl/jvane/welcome.htm). Wow. I need to make a hotkey that inserts that link into a post. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiskey-tango-foxtrot/300590/30 "2005-04-22T22:14:27Z")
When come back, bring pie. (So it’s old, so what? I have rarely seen a more appropriate time to say it.) ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiskey-tango-foxtrot/300590/31 "2005-04-22T23:02:51Z")
> [@Silver Fire](#): > > Why don’t you grow a pair and flat out accuse him of being a troll instead of trying to be clever about it? I beleive that technically, members are not allowed to do so. ---
**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:** [April 22, 2005, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiskey-tango-foxtrot/300590/32 "2005-04-22T23:23:42Z")
> [@AsecretK](#): > > I think the OP needs to read [this](http://web.archive.org/web/20041009182126/http://members.ams.chello.nl/jvane/welcome.htm). [nitpick mode ON] Very good, except the author wrote “stock AND trade” instead of “stock IN trade”. [nitpick mode OFF] ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiskey-tango-foxtrot/300590/33 "2005-04-22T23:54:05Z")
**Troy McCLure SF** I was considering calling Rubinetto “2 posts” Grande that bridge-dwelling term term but thanks for reminding me it’s against the rules. Who has time to read the rules anyway? In the words of “2 posts” himself: * * * I was just trying this board out and didn’t want to take the time to read the voluminous posts on “THE RULES”.\*\*\* © 2005 Rubinetto “2 posts” Grande Enterprises God knows he has better things to do - there was a “World Wrestling Federation” pay-per-view death match he had to see. ---
**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:** [April 23, 2005, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiskey-tango-foxtrot/300590/34 "2005-04-23T01:22:58Z")
> [@Troy McClure SF](#): > > I beleive that technically, members are not allowed to do so. Technically, being creative about it is also verboten. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiskey-tango-foxtrot/300590/35 "2005-04-23T01:47:49Z")
> [@Troy McClure SF](#): > > I beleive that technically, members are not allowed to do so. Technically, Slacker is still accusing him of being a troll. I hate to get all junior mod on everyone, but the rules don’t say that you can’t use “the T-word”, they say you can’t accuse someone of being a troll. References to bridges, goats, and hairy knuckles (or whatever the fuck else) are just as “illegal” around here as the word itself. I don’t really give a shit if people call other members or guests trolls, but at least have it in you to actually do it. If you’re so worried about breaking the rules and mod warnings, maybe you (generic) should just shut the fuck up rather than trying to circumvent the rules by being “cute”. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiskey-tango-foxtrot/300590/36 "2005-04-23T15:02:08Z")
Mrs. Grimwald! Mrs. Grimwald! You forgot to give us homework! ---
**Author:** ![Elysian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c77e96/32.png) [@Elysian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elysian)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiskey-tango-foxtrot/300590/37 "2005-04-23T15:10:32Z")
> [@Silver Fire](#): > > References to bridges, goats, and hairy knuckles (or whatever the fuck else) are just as “illegal” around here as the word itself. :eek: But how are the MPSIMS people going to carry out their welcoming rituals without the goat? The goat probably does need some time off (he’s still wobbly around the knees) but the newbies just won’t be the same. They need to be thoroughly violated before being welcomed to the forums, to soften them up for the ass kickins they are going to get later. ---
**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:** [April 23, 2005, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiskey-tango-foxtrot/300590/38 "2005-04-23T15:18:53Z")
Ass. Door. Etc… ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiskey-tango-foxtrot/300590/39 "2005-04-23T19:55:35Z")
> [@Silver Fire](#): > > Why don’t you grow a pair and flat out accuse him of being a troll instead of trying to be clever about it? Why do you have to ruin a perfectly good pile-on? ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiskey-tango-foxtrot/300590/40 "2005-04-23T22:01:29Z")
> [@Silver Fire](#): > > I thought this was a rant against people who use “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot”. Oh well. I thought so too. ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiskey-tango-foxtrot/300590.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiskey-tango-foxtrot/300590.md?page=3)