# WTF you lonely lurkers interested in mail order brides... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 27, 2004, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-you-lonely-lurkers-interested-in-mail-order-brides/236665 "2004-03-27T02:04:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-you-lonely-lurkers-interested-in-mail-order-brides/236665/21 "2004-03-27T03:38:30Z")
Happy readin, **skutir**. See you on Wednesday. ---
**Author:** ![WernhamHogg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a587f6/32.png) [@WernhamHogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WernhamHogg)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-you-lonely-lurkers-interested-in-mail-order-brides/236665/22 "2004-03-27T03:44:26Z")
> [@belladonna](#): > > [The Mother of All Threads](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=138905) Good stuff. I’ve actually seen that one before. Why’d they close it? I’m still working on my Ring Lardner version, _You Know Me, Bil_. ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-you-lonely-lurkers-interested-in-mail-order-brides/236665/23 "2004-03-27T03:44:58Z")
> [@Ilsa\_Lund](#): > > I am sitting on my hands to keep myself from tearing you to shreds in my own thread, but let me say this: You are stupid, petty, attention whoring motherfucker. Ah yes, the lovely, and eloquent, predictable ilsa (who is a guy) offers another gentle rebuke. By all means get off your hands and tear me to shreads. Why don’t you pit me several times in one day like you did to aldeberan? ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-you-lonely-lurkers-interested-in-mail-order-brides/236665/24 "2004-03-27T03:56:09Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#): > > And what is it with you anyway? Half of the posts you make contain wrong facts, half of the other half are apologies for the “gentle teasing” that you’ve made in the other half of the other half. You’re just weird, dude. I think he wants to be **handy** ’s successor. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-you-lonely-lurkers-interested-in-mail-order-brides/236665/25 "2004-03-27T04:19:28Z")
Oh crikey! I thought that, at last, I had succeeded in being pitted. I do _so_ want to be among the pitted. Does **askeptic** do me the honor of a decent pitting? Alas, no. Just some lame-ass blather about how many views a particular thread has gathered. No personal insults, no inovative demeaning comments. Basically, _nothing_! Ah, well. Off to sleep, perchance to dream of the day when I’ve earned a proper pitting from an experienced Dr. of Pitology. To those of you who said you enjoyed the thread: Thank you. The strange sequence of events driving the thread were, to use a local phrase: “More than passin’ curious”. ---
**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:** [March 27, 2004, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-you-lonely-lurkers-interested-in-mail-order-brides/236665/26 "2004-03-27T04:24:25Z")
> [@askeptic](#): > > He expressed himself well but not well enough to justify your righteous defense claiming that he is a great writer and because he is such a good writer thats why over 16000 fuckin people have viewed it. That number can also mean that one person viewed it 16000 times, you know. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-you-lonely-lurkers-interested-in-mail-order-brides/236665/27 "2004-03-27T04:27:45Z")
> [@Ilsa\_Lund](#): > > I am sitting on my hands to keep myself from tearing you to shreds in my own thread, but let me say this: You are stupid, petty, attention whoring motherfucker. Hello Best Buy? It’s Haj again. Do you have any irony meters in stock? Mine just exploded. Haj ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-you-lonely-lurkers-interested-in-mail-order-brides/236665/28 "2004-03-27T05:46:31Z")
> [@John Carter of Mars](#): > > Oh crikey! I thought that, at last, I had succeeded in being pitted. I do _so_ want to be among the pitted. > > Does **askeptic** do me the honor of a decent pitting? Alas, no. Just some lame-ass blather about how many views a particular thread has gathered. No personal insults, no inovative demeaning comments. Basically, _nothing_! > > Ah, well. Off to sleep, perchance to dream of the day when I’ve earned a proper pitting from an experienced Dr. of Pitology. > > To those of you who said you enjoyed the thread: Thank you. The strange sequence of events driving the thread were, to use a local phrase: “More than passin’ curious”. Oh, I showed it to TubaDiva back when it was only a page or so long. She agreed that it was hilarious, but not really…appropriate…for Threadspotting. I have to admit that probably a hundred or so of those views are probably mine. The subject matter, along with the way it’s told, is fascinating, though I am perturbed at the most recent turn of events (shooting the cat). Honey is wise to decline his suit. I’m gonna lock this, as per the OP’s request. Lynn [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-you-lonely-lurkers-interested-in-mail-order-brides/236665.md?page=1)