# Winning the shut down messaging game.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-the-shut-down-messaging-game/670242>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [October 3, 2013, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-the-shut-down-messaging-game/670242 "2013-10-03T02:40:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-the-shut-down-messaging-game/670242/21 "2013-10-03T19:56:21Z")

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> [@Debaser](#):
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> So, if I go find **Shodan** and behead him maybe the Tea Party will take me back?

Either that or grab his nose and poke him in the eyes.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-the-shut-down-messaging-game/670242/22 "2013-10-03T20:12:11Z")

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Actually, 27% is a serious underestimate of the crazification factor. Sure, it’s safe to say that everyone who voted for Keyes was crazy… But who’s to say that everyone who was crazy voted for Keyes? Much more reasonable, I think, to assume that people who are voting for irrational reasons are essentially choosing at random, and that they would thus be divided equally between the candidates… Meaning that the true crazification factor is closer to 54%.

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**Author:** ![Debaser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@Debaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debaser)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-the-shut-down-messaging-game/670242/23 "2013-10-03T20:19:27Z")

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> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#):
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> Either that or grab his nose and poke him in the eyes.

Sure, but then there would be no quickening and I wouldn’t get his conservative energy and power.

What are you, less than a hundred years old or something, newbie?

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**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-the-shut-down-messaging-game/670242/24 "2013-10-03T20:36:53Z")

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> [@Debaser](#):
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> What are you, less than a hundred years old or something, newbie?

Less than a hundred? No, I’m Mo.

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