# Who Do You Want To Punch Out? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 20, 2009, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577 "2009-07-20T01:16:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577/61 "2009-07-21T15:48:24Z")
If a punch-out is too violent for anyone, you could just give them a [Gibbs-slap](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Gibbs-slap) upside the head. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577/62 "2009-07-21T16:10:58Z")
> [@3trew](#): > > Fedor Emelianenko. If the magic holds up, Anderson Silva and Georges St. Pierre. Ideally, all three at once in some sort of freaky MMA 3 on 1 handicap match. Properly managed, that’d be a nice little earner. > > On a personal level, I’ve come to realize that punching out everyone I want to punch out would be a full time endeavor and I should probably stop thinking like that. Some days it even works. > > If I wasn’t restricted to reality, then I’d punch out Lobo, Raven from Snow Crash, and The Saint of Killers. And John Constantine. Guy just bugs me. I’d love to hear why you would want to punch the Saint of Killers because I thought he gave God his comeuppance. I would like to punch every single California politician that is currently serving or who has served in the last 10 years for the mess we’re in. ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577/63 "2009-07-21T17:18:12Z")
> [@Tahssa](#): > > I’d love to hear why you would want to punch the Saint of Killers because I thought he gave God his comeuppance. It’s not a matter of having a problem with the individual. As an analogy, would you rather be able to say you climbed Everest or the flight of three stairs leading into your friend’s apartment building? ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577/64 "2009-07-21T17:46:19Z")
> [@3trew](#): > > It’s not a matter of having a problem with the individual. As an analogy, would you rather be able to say you climbed Everest or the flight of three stairs leading into your friend’s apartment building? Ooooh good point. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577/65 "2009-07-21T17:55:08Z")
Glenn Beck But I would probably stop myself because his hair reminds me of the hair some cows have right on top of there heads. I love cows. ---
**Author:** ![Mannish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Mannish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mannish)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577/66 "2009-07-21T18:11:26Z")
> [@argent towers](#): > > mike tyson. Just so i could say i did it. [007 373 5963…](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYR_acwm0VQ) ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577/67 "2009-07-21T19:02:57Z")
I want to punch out Billy Mays and then God Rest his Soul again What’s with this guy? He’s dead and he’s still screaming at me from my television? > [@Stoid](#): > > No one, because there would be no real satisfaction in it. > > And this whole concept escapes me. Hurting people who annoy me or piss me off doesn’t change anything. I don’t want to hurt the people who hurt me or make me angry, I want them to stop. I want them to be genuinely regretful not because it led to them being pounded on, but because they have seen the error. The most that pounding on them can ever accomplish is getting them to falsely say or do what they think I want, and that’s not satisfying either. And no punch out but maybe a little pop on the nose to **Stoid** 😃 Just a little one, just to get your attention, just to be annoying, no damage, no big pain, just a little sting ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577/68 "2009-07-21T20:14:28Z")
The Blue Cross bueaucrat who denied coverage for my wifes’s stem cell transplant. Punch, Punch, Punch, Stab, Shoot, _ **KA-BOOM!!** _ ---
**Author:** ![Fuji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Fuji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuji)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577/69 "2009-07-21T20:16:28Z")
Sarah Silverman. ---
**Author:** ![Mannish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Mannish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mannish)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577/70 "2009-07-21T21:09:49Z")
> [@Fuji](#): > > Sarah Silverman. [Seconded…](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9fbIFMAIrQ) ---
**Author:** ![Fuji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Fuji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuji)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577/71 "2009-07-21T21:48:31Z")
> [@Mannish](#): > > [Seconded…](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9fbIFMAIrQ) Thank you! That made my night. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577/72 "2009-07-21T22:19:33Z")
> [@sandra\_nz](#): > > MeMe Roth. Get in line! Also, that “You Are What You Eat” woman from BBC. And all the various and sundry Super 911ing Nannies. Sasha Baron Cohen is on my list too. Also all the C Streeters in Congress. Hypocritical SOBs. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2009, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577/73 "2009-07-21T22:24:35Z")
The vast majority of Free Republic regulars. > [@Stoid](#): > > No one, because there would be no real satisfaction in it. > > And this whole concept escapes me. Hurting people who annoy me or piss me off doesn’t change anything. I don’t want to hurt the people who hurt me or make me angry, I want them to stop. I want them to be genuinely regretful not because it led to them being pounded on, but because they have seen the error. The most that pounding on them can ever accomplish is getting them to falsely say or do what they think I want, and that’s not satisfying either. And you felt the need to post this in here because…? :dubious: ---
**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:** [July 21, 2009, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577/74 "2009-07-21T22:28:44Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > Gandhi. I’d punch Gandhi. Hey man. No. Gandhi, he pack a gun. ---
**Author:** ![ReuvenB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@ReuvenB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReuvenB)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577/75 "2009-07-21T23:31:57Z")
Neal Boortz, drives me up a freaking wall. ---
**Author:** ![Coalcracker0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b38774/32.png) [@Coalcracker0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coalcracker0)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577/76 "2009-07-21T23:56:24Z")
Sarah Bernhart. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577/77 "2009-07-22T01:47:53Z")
> [@3trew](#): > > It’s not a matter of having a problem with the individual. As an analogy, would you rather be able to say you climbed Everest or the flight of three stairs leading into your friend’s apartment building? I’m not sure I get it\*, but I’d probably rather say I climbed the flight of three stairs leading into my friend’s apartment building. Frankly, I don’t think there’s anything at the summit of Mount Everest that I really need that badly to make it worth my trouble. My friend could at least give me a beer. \*ETA: In fact, let’s just say I’m positively certain that I DON’T get it. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577/78 "2009-07-22T03:23:49Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > No one, because there would be no real satisfaction in it. > > And this whole concept escapes me. Hurting people who annoy me or piss me off doesn’t change anything. I don’t want to hurt the people who hurt me or make me angry, I want them to stop. I want them to be genuinely regretful not because it led to them being pounded on, but because they have seen the error. The most that pounding on them can ever accomplish is getting them to falsely say or do what they think I want, and that’s not satisfying either. I normally don’t address thread dung, because…well because who wants to address _shit_? But this time, Imma go ahead and post my mind. Why would you post that? Do you honest to goodness think the posters in this thread are deadly serious? Why are you trying to suck the fun out of a joke? You say, “I want them to be genuinely regretful…because they have seen the error”. Did you read the OP? Do you think it would be useful for the OP to desire that Angela Lansbury regret her curled upper lip? It is a joke. So, my honest question is why are you attempting to suck the levity out of a hilarious thread? Funny threads are my friend. ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577/79 "2009-07-22T03:24:25Z")
Well, sure, if there’s beer involved… ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577/80 "2009-07-22T03:48:02Z")
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