# Why Grant's Tomb? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 10, 2011, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-grants-tomb/602464 "2011-11-10T02:42:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-grants-tomb/602464/21 "2011-11-10T06:31:11Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > And while we’re on the subject, is Khufu really buried in [this famous tomb](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Giza) ? Well, he was. Mummies, y’know. ---
**Author:** ![wedgehed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8edcca/32.png) [@wedgehed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wedgehed)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-grants-tomb/602464/22 "2011-11-10T06:33:36Z")
**Why Grant’s Tomb?** I think a much better question would be… **Why Not Grant’s Tomb?** ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-grants-tomb/602464/23 "2011-11-10T06:55:28Z")
> [@smiling\_bandit](#): > > I did, but I saw it as a serious question with a silly joke alongside. You clicked the link and still posted that? Hell, I’d have denied that I clicked it and claimed quick-response oversight. Points for honesty. Triple points to **JM** for the epic whoosh. (No worries, happens to us all, myself included.) As for the pit-ee, **Jinx** has been at this shit as long as I’ve been here and will continue until the death of [the board / him-or-herself / the universe], whichever comes first, so there’s not much point in trying. Of course, if you’re just posting this to scream your wrath into the void, then may it bring you the solace you seek. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-grants-tomb/602464/24 "2011-11-10T08:38:12Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > The most important question is: who’s buried in it? No, Who’s not dead, and if he were, he’d be buried in the TARDIS. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-grants-tomb/602464/25 "2011-11-10T09:39:43Z")
> [@Nametag](#): > > Well, he was. Mummies, y’know. Are you my mummy? ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-grants-tomb/602464/26 "2011-11-10T13:26:51Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > The most important question is: who’s buried in it? No, Who’s on first, What’s on second and I Don’t Know’s buried in Grant’s Tomb. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-grants-tomb/602464/27 "2011-11-10T13:39:03Z")
> [@Lord\_Mondegreen](#): > > That should be “that’s half of 'em,” not “that have of 'em.” > > Two mistakes in one sentence. Grrr. I honestly thought you were just going for a British accent when I first saw it (even thought it kind of sounded London/Cockney to me). ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-grants-tomb/602464/28 "2011-11-10T13:41:06Z")
> [@Lord\_Mondegreen](#): > > Two mistakes in one sentence. Grrr. Yeah. You’s is badly, dummy. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2011, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-grants-tomb/602464/29 "2011-11-10T15:13:54Z")
> [@Lord\_Mondegreen](#): > > That should be “that’s half of 'em,” not “that have of 'em.” > > Two mistakes in one sentence. Grrr. Mistakes? Granted, if you rush more, you’ll make one or tomb. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-grants-tomb/602464/30 "2011-11-10T15:19:51Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > Mistakes? > > Granted, if you rush more, you’ll make one or tomb. You can pretty much take that for Granted. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-grants-tomb/602464/31 "2011-11-10T15:23:12Z")
> [@Roland\_Orzabal](#): > > You clicked the link and still posted that? Hell, I’d have denied that I clicked it and claimed quick-response oversight. Points for honesty. Triple points to **JM** for the epic whoosh. (No worries, happens to us all, myself included.) I admit - after being around this board long enough, I’ve lost my “Someone’s just joking alarm.” Too many people seem totally serious! The fact that I didn’t realize this was a Pit thread didn’t help. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![mkecane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@mkecane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkecane)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-grants-tomb/602464/32 "2011-11-10T15:27:08Z")
> [@42fish](#): > > No, Who’s on first, What’s on second and I Don’t Know’s buried in Grant’s Tomb. Naturally. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-grants-tomb/602464/33 "2011-11-10T15:30:11Z")
> [@mkecane](#): > > Naturally. I thought Naturally was cremated? ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-grants-tomb/602464/34 "2011-11-10T16:31:53Z")
Isn’t it an above ground crypt and in fact no one is buried in Grant’s tomb? ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-grants-tomb/602464/35 "2011-11-10T18:29:18Z")
> [@Bill\_Door](#): > > Isn’t it an above ground crypt and in fact no one is buried in Grant’s tomb? Yes, that’s why you see the occassional cryptic (heh) answer “nobody is buried in Grant’s Tomb.” Like El Kabong said above, strictly speaking nobody’s “buried” there; Grant and his wife are _entombed_ there. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-grants-tomb/602464/36 "2011-11-10T19:11:38Z")
Well, this thread has sort of devolved into general tomfoolery and witticisms, but i think it’s something that should be taken more seriously, at least by the staff around here. In the thread linked by the OP, **samclem** says: > [@](#): > > Jinx. I’ve closed this thread. You’ve been counseled previously to Google answers to simple questions. This would be one. I’m just wondering how many times **Jinx** has to actually be told this before you do more than just close the occasional thread? The guy (? not sure of **Jinx** ’s sex) is a fucking retard who has, despite starting literally thousands of GQ threads, scarcely made a single useful contribution to this message board in almost 12 years of posting. Last July, **Colibri** closed a **Jinx** [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=570733), saying: > [@Colibri](#): > > Considering the number of times you’ve been asked to try Wiki before asking simple questions here, I think my head just exploded. > > This is closed. And just a few days [earlier](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=569743): > [@Colibri](#): > > Given that this question is easily answered on Wikipedia, and that the OP has on many, many, many occasions been requested to first check Wiki or Google before asking simple questions here, this thread is closed. About three months before that, **samclem** made a similar [observation](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=558177): > [@samclem](#): > > And, since the OP does this crap all the time, this one is closed. And about a [week](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=557287) before that: > [@Colibri](#): > > You have been asked repeatedly not to ask such easily researched questions in GQ. The second post contains a link you could have very easily found with a very simple Google search. Samclem closed another one of your threads yesterday. Unless you start showing some minimal ability to use Wikipedia and Google, you are likely to find your threads being closed. Going back a little further, we find that even in 2008 the mods were already [noting](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=485384) that **Jinx** ’s idiocy had a long history: > [@Colibri](#): > > You’ve been asked before to try using other available sources of information before asking such simple and easily answered questions in GQ. Given that the basic question has been answered, I will refer you to the many news sources on the internet, plus other threads on this board. I am going to close this thread. [And](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=479490): > [@Colibri](#): > > Jinx, we often overlook excessively simple-minded questions, and let them slide. But you have made something of a career of them. When the question is as easily researched as this one, you might try finding out the answer on your own. “Simple-minded” is right, and a perusal of **Jinx** ’s GQ OPs shows dozens, probably hundreds, of threads that probably should have been given similar treatment. When does this fucking moron actually get reined in, or given a warning for all the asinine bullshit, and for refusal to obey mod instructions? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-grants-tomb/602464/37 "2011-11-10T19:18:49Z")
Wow, **mhendo** , talk about tl;dr! I’m reminded of the thread where someone asked why the movie **Seabiscuit** had such a stupid title. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-grants-tomb/602464/38 "2011-11-10T19:49:55Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > You can pretty much take that for Granted. No, you take it for Granite, because that’s what it’s made of. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-grants-tomb/602464/39 "2011-11-10T21:28:41Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Well, this thread has sort of devolved into general tomfoolery and witticisms, but i think it’s something that should be taken more seriously, at least by the staff around here. > > In the thread linked by the OP, **samclem** says:I’m just wondering how many times **Jinx** has to actually be told this before you do more than just close the occasional thread? The guy (? not sure of **Jinx** ’s sex) is a fucking retard who has, despite starting literally thousands of GQ threads, scarcely made a single useful contribution to this message board in almost 12 years of posting. > > Last July, **Colibri** closed a **Jinx** [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=570733), saying:And just a few days [earlier](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=569743):About three months before that, **samclem** made a similar [observation](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=558177):And about a [week](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=557287) before that:Going back a little further, we find that even in 2008 the mods were already [noting](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=485384) that **Jinx** ’s idiocy had a long history:[And](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=479490):“Simple-minded” is right, and a perusal of **Jinx** ’s GQ OPs shows dozens, probably hundreds, of threads that probably should have been given similar treatment. > > When does this fucking moron actually get reined in, or given a warning for all the asinine bullshit, and for refusal to obey mod instructions? Indeed. I don’t start a lot of Pit threads, and I’ve probably Pitted less than 6 people in my ~ 10 years here, but this guy and **ralph** are worse than village idiots. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2011, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-grants-tomb/602464/40 "2011-11-11T04:29:02Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Shouldn’t that be “entombed in it”? Yup. Burying bodies happens in graves. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-grants-tomb/602464.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-grants-tomb/602464.md?page=3)