# Why none of you are as wise as you think you are **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 5, 2000, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-none-of-you-are-as-wise-as-you-think-you-are/17163 "2000-01-05T19:06:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![MKM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/edb3f5/32.png) [@MKM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MKM)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-none-of-you-are-as-wise-as-you-think-you-are/17163/61 "2000-01-05T21:20:00Z")
Hmmm… Poly, I can only guess on this one… Still Clinton, but Thomas Jefferson / William Jefferson Clinton? * * * “We love Him because He first loved us.” 1 John 4:19 † ---
**Author:** ![Ed\_Zotti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/fbc32d/32.png) [@Ed\_Zotti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ed_Zotti)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-none-of-you-are-as-wise-as-you-think-you-are/17163/62 "2000-01-05T21:22:00Z")
> [@](#): > > David > You will see me another day… trust me, perhaps even in real life. People like me, hand people like you their last checks with a smile… > > … > > so let me start thinking of an excuse to remove you David… of course remember, its business not personal, and its always a matter of national security. FORMERAGENT ([shelsdevil@hotmail.com](mailto:shelsdevil@hotmail.com)) has been banned from the Straight Dope Message Board for posting the above threat. ---
**Author:** ![Lauralee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lauralee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lauralee)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-none-of-you-are-as-wise-as-you-think-you-are/17163/63 "2000-01-05T21:22:00Z")
Mullinator~ You’d have to be blind, deaf, and (ahem) DUMB to miss what he’s setting up!!! ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-none-of-you-are-as-wise-as-you-think-you-are/17163/64 "2000-01-05T21:23:00Z")
That would be William R. King and Gerald Ford (nee Leslie King) * * * Jesus saves… Gretzky grabs the rebound… He Scores! ---
**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:** [January 5, 2000, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-none-of-you-are-as-wise-as-you-think-you-are/17163/65 "2000-01-05T21:26:00Z")
Aw gee, Ed. Now we will have to wait a day or two until Lurker007 comes up with a new ID. ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-none-of-you-are-as-wise-as-you-think-you-are/17163/66 "2000-01-05T21:27:00Z")
Ed - Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Navigator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4af34b/32.png) [@Navigator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Navigator)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-none-of-you-are-as-wise-as-you-think-you-are/17163/67 "2000-01-05T21:28:00Z")
can we play cards now??? * * * † Jon † Phillipians 4:13 ---
**Author:** ![Lauralee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lauralee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lauralee)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-none-of-you-are-as-wise-as-you-think-you-are/17163/68 "2000-01-05T21:30:00Z")
Go fish? ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-none-of-you-are-as-wise-as-you-think-you-are/17163/69 "2000-01-05T21:32:00Z")
Well, looks like my little party is over. Where’s Bjorn when you need him? ---
**Author:** ![Navigator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4af34b/32.png) [@Navigator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Navigator)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-none-of-you-are-as-wise-as-you-think-you-are/17163/70 "2000-01-05T21:35:00Z")
no… go ghoti! * * * † Jon † Phillipians 4:13 ---
**Author:** ![Lauralee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lauralee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lauralee)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-none-of-you-are-as-wise-as-you-think-you-are/17163/71 "2000-01-05T21:37:00Z")
ROFLOL!! Gator, ghoti’s not here!! You can’t go ghoti without a ghoti!! ---
**Author:** ![Spiritus\_Mundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Spiritus\_Mundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiritus_Mundi)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-none-of-you-are-as-wise-as-you-think-you-are/17163/72 "2000-01-05T21:52:00Z")
Mullinator! You win. But the prize was explicitely delineated. You get no laser tank, no super-secret car computer with welded CAPS LOCK, no telescope capable of seeing three space stations/two manned/but only one really with 140 people. You do however get megaprops for your memorizing the Presidents in fourth grade. That gives you one more thing than FORMERAGENT. * * * - The best lack all conviction The worst are full of passionate intensity. \* ---
**Author:** ![SqrlCub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SqrlCub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SqrlCub)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-none-of-you-are-as-wise-as-you-think-you-are/17163/73 "2000-01-05T21:58:00Z")
Thanks Ed! I was going to ask you about that one, (well I actually asked on about this message board). HUGS to all, yes even you FormlessAgent. You are a charicature of cartoon villains, too bad you really weren’t funny. Sqrl * * * Gasoline: As an accompaniement to cereal it made a refreshing change. Glen Baxter ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Zambezi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@Mr.Zambezi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Zambezi)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-none-of-you-are-as-wise-as-you-think-you-are/17163/74 "2000-01-05T22:00:00Z")
That threat was over the top. I feel much better now. Thank you, Ed. ---
**Author:** ![Phaedrus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@Phaedrus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phaedrus)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-none-of-you-are-as-wise-as-you-think-you-are/17163/75 "2000-01-05T22:01:00Z")
You people show yourselves to be really dumb when you taunt a man like that. Many of us take this as fun and games, but there are people like that out there and I have worked with them when I was in political office. I can only hope that he will forget his time here. Do yourselves a favor, please. DO NOT treat everyone with your posts as you have a habit of doing. I ask this for your protection and because I love many of you. I would be so sick and sad if a person like this found you and “did something”. My God, David, you are way too public to act the way you do sometimes. I am asking you as a person that cares for you, to be careful. You could get hurt. I know you are a skeptic, but remember SO AM I, I never thought I would find inside of government what I did when I got into office. It is TEN TIMES worse then ANYONE imagines! I can be a nervous nelly, it is true. But in life I would rather be safe than sorry. Mr, Zotti, I know the rules around here and I know F.A. violated them. Still your actions make me nervous for David and as far as I know there is nothing that could be done to stop F.A. from "handing David his “last Check” if he wanted to. I will be e-mailing you on this matter with a further comment. To all of You, Peace Ken ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-none-of-you-are-as-wise-as-you-think-you-are/17163/76 "2000-01-05T22:10:00Z")
Hmmm … FORMERAGENT gets banned … then Phaedrus immediately posts to this thread for the first time… Making up for not eating your troll-i-os in w while, Phaedy? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Finder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ed655f/32.png) [@The\_Finder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Finder)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-none-of-you-are-as-wise-as-you-think-you-are/17163/77 "2000-01-05T22:10:00Z")
Where would I find FORMERAGENT? I’d like to find out who he is, since I work apparently in the same building with me. Mark ---
**Author:** ![Lauralee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lauralee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lauralee)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-none-of-you-are-as-wise-as-you-think-you-are/17163/78 "2000-01-05T22:10:00Z")
:rolleyes: If I were on the LB my little sarcastic “I’m so worried I can’t handle it” face would appear… ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-none-of-you-are-as-wise-as-you-think-you-are/17163/79 "2000-01-05T22:12:00Z")
Naaah, who’m I kidding? FORMERAGENT has to be dlv. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Finder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ed655f/32.png) [@The\_Finder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Finder)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-none-of-you-are-as-wise-as-you-think-you-are/17163/80 "2000-01-05T22:15:00Z")
Phaedrus, from what I can tell I think FormerAgent is one of our spooks who works on the 3rd floor, thus verifying your worry. Plus the fact that people dismiss what he says, is scary, yet sane. As you know the world we work in with the government is like a foreign planet compared to where you all live. sadly, you may have angered a smart, yet frustrated man, who has power over your lives. I was sent a message just now, to locate him and “retrieve” him, hence my name. Mark Wallers [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-none-of-you-are-as-wise-as-you-think-you-are/17163.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-none-of-you-are-as-wise-as-you-think-you-are/17163.md?page=5)