# Wow. I work with a Bruce. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 20, 2008, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-work-with-a-bruce/438401 "2008-02-20T19:03:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DudleyGarrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-work-with-a-bruce/438401/21 "2008-02-20T20:49:15Z")
[QUOTE=Flander] You’re all spelling it wrong!!! It’s **Bruce_tthhh_**! [/QUOTE] See, you’re missing the musical gay inflection. BrruuuUUUuuuucth. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-work-with-a-bruce/438401/22 "2008-02-20T20:52:40Z")
[QUOTE=Cat Fight] What’s a Bruce? [/QUOTE] Growing up in Wisconsin in the 70’s a Bruce was a fag. No idea why though. I’m kinda surprised it’s still being used. I haven’t heard it in over twenty years but then I haven’t lived in the mid-west for over twenty years. We used to call cool things “douche!” No idea why about that either, but maybe they still do. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-work-with-a-bruce/438401/23 "2008-02-20T20:53:14Z")
I used to work with a guy named Francine. I think he was more flaming than any Bruce I’ve ever met. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-work-with-a-bruce/438401/24 "2008-02-20T20:57:51Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] Jane Goodall [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Silver Tyger Girl] Batman [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Savannah] Springsteen [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Ludovic] Chuck Norris [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=NurseCarmen] Francine [/QUOTE] Those are all Crickerters! ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-work-with-a-bruce/438401/25 "2008-02-20T20:59:28Z")
[QUOTE=Wargamer] Oh Lord, we beseech Thee… Amen! ETA: Crack a tube! :smack: [/QUOTE] This here’s the wottle, emblem of our land. You can stick it in a bottle, you can hold it in your hand. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-work-with-a-bruce/438401/26 "2008-02-20T21:00:45Z")
My first thought after reading the title was _a descendant of Robert the Bruce?_ Then, it was the Monty Python _Bruce_. Now I understand. ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-work-with-a-bruce/438401/27 "2008-02-20T21:04:49Z")
_And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel_ ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-work-with-a-bruce/438401/28 "2008-02-20T21:07:30Z")
Rule 1: no poofters! ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-work-with-a-bruce/438401/29 "2008-02-20T21:21:54Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] An actual limp-wristed, lisping, mincing queen of a Bruce. This guy looks like he steppped out of about 1973. Male pattern baldness, overcompensating beard, the full-on flaming stereotype. I had no idea there were any Bruces left in the wild. I feel like Jane Goodall, except not as butch. [/QUOTE] \*_Otto, \*\* I_ seriously \* wonder if he was one of my roommates in college. His name was Bruce F, he spent his time knitting, baking, and arranging all of his clothes by their shade of purple in the closet. (He only had purple clothing). There was also a collection of purple unicorn wall art. He was definitely gay. The funny part was that his parents were definite biker people and so he had the occassional Harley-Davidson thing around. ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-work-with-a-bruce/438401/30 "2008-02-20T21:29:36Z")
_There’s nothing Nietzsche couldn’t teach ya 'Bout the raising of the wrist. Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed._ ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-work-with-a-bruce/438401/31 "2008-02-20T21:44:20Z")
[QUOTE=Dolores Reborn] If I’m not being whooshed, Bruce is a long-time stereotypical name for a gay guy. And the OP works with one, a flamboyantly gay guy named Bruce. That’s it. [/QUOTE] To be fair, it should really be _Bwucie_. Si ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-work-with-a-bruce/438401/32 "2008-02-20T21:46:51Z")
…and Rene Descarte Was a drunken fart I drink therefore I am! ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-work-with-a-bruce/438401/33 "2008-02-20T21:48:22Z")
Whattabout John Stuart Mill and Aristotle? ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-work-with-a-bruce/438401/34 "2008-02-20T21:54:42Z")
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will, on half a pint of shandy was particuliarly ill! Plato they say, could stick it away, half a crate of whiskey every day, Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle, Hobbes was fond of his dram, And Rene Descartes, that drunken fart, I drink, therefore I am. There’s nothing Nietschze couldn’t teach ya about the raising of the wrist, Socrates himself is particuliarly missed… A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he’s pissed! ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-work-with-a-bruce/438401/35 "2008-02-20T21:55:15Z")
[QUOTE=Kuboydal] Whattabout John Stuart Mill and Aristotle? [/QUOTE] Mill was partiularly ill on only half a bottle of shandy (but it was on his own free will). Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle. It’s all [covered](http://youtube.com/watch?v=xQycQ8DABvc). ---
**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:** [February 20, 2008, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-work-with-a-bruce/438401/36 "2008-02-20T21:59:49Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] Growing up in Wisconsin in the 70’s a Bruce was a fag. [/QUOTE] [Not just Wisconsin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Hulk_%28TV_series%29). ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-work-with-a-bruce/438401/37 "2008-02-20T22:44:47Z")
While I’ve never encountered a Bruce in the wild, in my university years I did have the pleasure of encountering a very similar species called the Bryce in my very own living accomodations. Bryces are very shy and spend much of their time tidying their well-feathered nests, but with a little patience blossom into disco dancin’ maniacs. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-work-with-a-bruce/438401/38 "2008-02-20T22:57:11Z")
[QUOTE=Valgard] I saw the OP and thought that you worked with the professors at the University Of Wallamaloo School Of Philosophy. [/QUOTE] NO POOFTERS! ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-work-with-a-bruce/438401/39 "2008-02-20T23:57:24Z")
Australia is the chosen land God’s only chosen race and if we see a fairy Pom We smash him in the face Which always led me to believe that the whole Bruce thing was a bit facetious, or that Bruce didn’t have the same connotation in the land down under. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-work-with-a-bruce/438401/40 "2008-02-21T00:48:23Z")
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