# Witness haters--are you happy now? :( **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 2, 2013, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witness-haters-are-you-happy-now/670221 "2013-10-02T23:02:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 47
**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 8, 2014, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witness-haters-are-you-happy-now/670221/921 "2014-07-08T22:12:09Z")
dougie, how is your butt doing? ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witness-haters-are-you-happy-now/670221/922 "2014-07-09T05:45:56Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > That somehow gives me a new appreciation for Jack Webb’s artistry in delivering a line. > > Anybody else who says that gets: _😕 wtf? Did he just call that guy’s mother a bitch? Who DOES that?😕:mad:_ > > But when it’s Jack Webb, everybody’s all: _Ooohh, Joe Friday, you rascal, you! BUUURRRRRNNNN! :D:D:D_ I’ve always been a Bill Gannon fangirl, myself. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witness-haters-are-you-happy-now/670221/923 "2014-07-09T12:31:21Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > As far as I’m concerned, all three of you are wrong. Loss of identity is often cited as mankind’s darkest fear. I thought it was adult incontinence. How do you deal with it Duggles? ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witness-haters-are-you-happy-now/670221/924 "2014-07-09T13:18:25Z")
> [@zweisamkeit](#): > > I’ve always been a Bill Gannon fangirl, myself. Frank Smith would demolish Bill Gannon. ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witness-haters-are-you-happy-now/670221/925 "2014-07-09T13:57:43Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > dougie, how is your butt doing? Leck it and see. ---
**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 9, 2014, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witness-haters-are-you-happy-now/670221/926 "2014-07-09T21:52:03Z")
Are you blind? I’m too busy licking my red fox. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witness-haters-are-you-happy-now/670221/927 "2014-07-10T18:51:17Z")
> [@andros](#): > > And the musical sting just completely [sells it](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_T1MgVhlKE). The sarcasm is thick enough to slice. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witness-haters-are-you-happy-now/670221/928 "2014-07-10T19:45:49Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > The sarcasm is thick enough to slice. oouucchhhh - stop dougie, stop! You’re killing us here! We can’t keep up with your razor wit and slicing repartee. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witness-haters-are-you-happy-now/670221/929 "2014-07-10T20:09:48Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > The sarcasm is thick enough to slice. 😕 Sarcasm? There is no sarcasm here, at least not on my end. It’s a well-delivered line, with a pretty awesome musical sting. I realized that I hadn’t seen the actual clip in question, so I figured it was worth posting. Of course…it _is_ a clip of otherwise upstanding straight-arrow Joe Friday calling someone’s mom a bitch for, really, no reason at all. [Hmmmm…](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF2ayWcJfxo) ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witness-haters-are-you-happy-now/670221/930 "2014-07-10T20:23:51Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > You probably could not have contemplated that this “joke” was apparently of a humorous nature I could not perceive, and at any rate unthinkable for me to tell someone else. That is why I bridled and used the Joe Friday quote. This is a fair point, because based on this thread, I’d have bet my house that the joke was of a humorous nature **dougie** could not perceive. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witness-haters-are-you-happy-now/670221/931 "2014-07-11T14:04:54Z")
Not quite correct. In this scene, Friday and Gannon had arrested a young woman, an accessory to a hammer-murder. She was really snotty to them. She blew cigarette smoke in Friday’s face and said, “You got nice eyes–for a cop.” Friday then spoke that line. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witness-haters-are-you-happy-now/670221/932 "2014-07-11T14:27:46Z")
> [@Rysdad](#): > > (Extremely condensed story) That chick in Florida fired a “warning shot,” and they sentenced her to 20 years. From CHICAGO, the musical: “So I fired a warning shot. I fired a warning shot right between his eyes.” ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witness-haters-are-you-happy-now/670221/933 "2014-07-11T14:37:12Z")
Ohhhhhhhh! She was _snotty_! Well then, that completely justifies calling someone’s mom a bitch for no reason. And then never acknowledging it. Or apologizing. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witness-haters-are-you-happy-now/670221/934 "2014-07-11T14:54:34Z")
She and her boyfriend beat a helpless old man to death with a hammer–for six dollars and change. That beats snotty any day. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witness-haters-are-you-happy-now/670221/935 "2014-07-11T15:01:18Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > She and her boyfriend beat a helpless old man to death with a hammer–for six dollars and change. That beats snotty any day. Wait. Now it’s brutal murder that warrants calling someone’s mom a bitch? Not mere snottiness? Hmmm. So…that would imply that if I thought someone were being snotty (even if they weren’t intending to), I would _not_ be justified in, say, calling someone’s mom a bitch out of the blue? ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witness-haters-are-you-happy-now/670221/936 "2014-07-11T15:02:23Z")
(Whoever’s still reading this thing: It is just me, or is this getting surreal?) ---
**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:** [July 11, 2014, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witness-haters-are-you-happy-now/670221/937 "2014-07-11T15:02:57Z")
It is easy to get the last word when you are the producer, creator and star or a TV show. Unfortunately, life is much messier than that, and words have more consequences. ---
**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:** [July 11, 2014, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witness-haters-are-you-happy-now/670221/938 "2014-07-11T15:07:06Z")
> [@andros](#): > > (Whoever’s still reading this thing: It is just me, or is this getting surreal?) Getting? Practically started that way. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witness-haters-are-you-happy-now/670221/939 "2014-07-11T15:09:36Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > She and her boyfriend beat a helpless old man to death with a hammer–for six dollars and change. That beats snotty any day. I think everyone’s disconnect is this… what does her _mom_ have to do with anything? It would be like me calling you an asshole because, say, **andros** was a jerk to me. Unless you’re saying that, since the woman turned out to be a killer, it’s all her mother’s fault?? ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witness-haters-are-you-happy-now/670221/940 "2014-07-11T15:14:50Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > I think everyone’s disconnect is this… what does her _mom_ have to do with anything? It would be like me calling you an asshole because, say, **andros** was a jerk to me. Unless you’re saying that, since the woman turned out to be a killer, it’s all her mother’s fault?? …nm… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witness-haters-are-you-happy-now/670221.md?page=46) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witness-haters-are-you-happy-now/670221.md?page=48)