# You and the Pit **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 7, 2000, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438 "2000-12-07T05:04:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/21 "2000-12-07T19:11:49Z")
I once complained at a Dopefest that no one ever flamed me in the Pit. The next day, Green Bean opened a thread there to call me a poopy-head. Doesn’t really count does it? I have been spending a lot of time in GD and The Pit lately. Maybe I’ll get a real flame soon. ---
**Author:** ![Flypsyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@Flypsyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flypsyde)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/22 "2000-12-07T22:29:46Z")
Yeah, Lex, one would _think_ Demo’d be a damn gentleman and return the consideration, but he’s a worthless gob of plasma, and such an expectation is probably setting the bar too high for the git. ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/23 "2000-12-07T23:17:29Z")
I’m SHOCKED I’ve not been called out before! Seriously! After some of the shit I’ve pulled… I don’t think I’ve ever been seriously involved in a thread about me that wasn’t started by me. –Tim ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/24 "2000-12-07T23:25:53Z")
I’m SHOCKED I’ve not been called out before! Seriously! After some of the shit I’ve pulled… I don’t think I’ve ever been seriously involved in a thread about me that wasn’t started by me. –Tim ---
**Author:** ![Fletch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/919ad9/32.png) [@Fletch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fletch)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/25 "2000-12-08T01:21:43Z")
No Montfort, I haven’t been the recipient of a pit post yet. And you never did state why you said “Hi Opal” to be in the celebrity dead pool 2001 thread. I am still the same grizzled old dude that helped you achieve the post count to get away from Satans signature. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/26 "2000-12-08T03:58:07Z")
You think you have it bad? Try being a _moderator_ without a Pit thread in your honor! Who the hell do I have to piss off around here?!? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/27 "2000-12-08T04:13:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fletch \* > \*\*No Montfort, I haven’t been the recipient of a pit post yet. And you never did state why you said “Hi Opal” to be in the celebrity dead pool 2001 thread. I am still the same grizzled old dude that helped you achieve the post count to get away from Satans signature. \*\* Yeah, **Fletch** , I remember you. Anyway, **OpalCat** hates lists of less than three items, so, she insists that people put something like “Hi Opal!” as a placemarker in short lists, so they have at least three items. ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/28 "2000-12-08T05:41:00Z")
No problem here, all I have to do it mention my distaste for interupting a football game or do a mild rant about quoting entire posts. I get my ass flamed for mild rants…pretty lame if you ask me. Hell I 'spose that I start my own Pit threads just by posting. Gee I feel lucky. \< shuffling off to other areas of the 'net \> ---
**Author:** ![Melpomene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/0ea827/32.png) [@Melpomene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melpomene)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/29 "2000-12-08T14:56:26Z")
pssst…Montfort…pssst… Go look in the Pit for your name… _nudge_nudge\* 😉 ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/30 "2000-12-08T15:04:27Z")
Never been the recepient. funny enough, If it does happen, I wouldnt have a problem providing answers, unless of course it gets personal, and then of course, my motto will be “from Hells heart, I stab at thee” Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I respect that. then again, I rorely post anything controvertial. ---
**Author:** ![Anniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@Anniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anniz)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/31 "2000-12-08T15:09:42Z")
I don’t think there’s any change you see that with my name there. I’m to fucking nice. I mean, I don’t kick, I don’t spit, I don’t hit anyone and I’m always nice, right **Montfort**?;)😛 ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/32 "2000-12-08T15:37:29Z")
Yes, **Anniz** , you’re always nice, except when you spill water on me. 🙂 And, **Melpomene** , someone beat you to the punch, but the thread is now deleted. ---
**Author:** ![Melpomene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/0ea827/32.png) [@Melpomene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melpomene)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/33 "2000-12-08T15:50:05Z")
Yeah, I see that, now that you point it out… ☹ Damn. There I go again, trying (unsuccessfully) to cater to other people’s whims. _sigh_ ::wanders off to the company kitchen to find some Brandy:: ---
**Author:** ![quasar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/48db29/32.png) [@quasar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quasar)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/34 "2000-12-08T18:02:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Montfort \* > \*\*Do you ever check the Pit looking for a thread called: > > **Hey (your name), get in here, you (insert vile name)!!!** > \*\* Nope, I never check it. Why? Well, I never write inflammatory remarks. That is just not my thing. Thus, I don’t expect a barrage of insults being ejaculated in my direction. And besides, if somebody wants to insult me without being provoked, why should I care? That is their prerogative; I just wouldn’t hold enough respect for people of such low caliber to be affected by whatever crap erupts from their twisted minds. I prefer to follow an interchange of ideas which, if not guided by civilized and rational lines of argumentation, I can promptly terminate, since I don’t appreciate wasting my time with narrow-minded individuals. That being said, I think you are a low-life, post-padding moron whose very existence makes me feel ashamed of being a Homo Sapiens. Scumbags like you…😃 Where was I? Oh yes, I almost never descend to the lowly depths of the Pit. Most dopers are really great, and hence I have never had a problem with any of them in particular that would merit a rampage of insults, which, however fun they might be when expressed in a mutually agreed upon non-serious fashion, are futile in nature when raised in obedience to the feral, passion-guided instinct rather than the always calm and objective voice of reason. * * * Merry X-mas, and a happy new…Millenium!!! For every reply to a post bearing this sig I am generously donating **1 cent** to the **International Center for the Cryogenic Preservation of Cecil Adams** ---
**Author:** ![hypergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/49beb7/32.png) [@hypergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hypergirl)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2000, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/35 "2000-12-09T04:23:09Z")
I think that the only time I have ever been mentioned in the pit was as part of the group of relatively young dopers. Well that, and the idiotic thread I started when I was a newbie. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2000, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/36 "2000-12-09T07:52:39Z")
I’ve had one pit thread with my name in the title. You can find that [here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=42184) Sure, it’s not _technically_ a pit thread because it got moved to MPSIMS, but it did start out in the pit. 🙂 Anyway, I never search the pit specifically for my name. ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2000, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/37 "2000-12-09T11:52:28Z")
where they even asterisked by name to further highlight my shame: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=48786](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=48786) Cruel bastards. ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2000, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/38 "2000-12-09T13:05:53Z")
I’ve never been called out in the Pit, either. Nor have I ever been mentioned in a “Who is your [least] favorite poster” thread, or a “Which poster would you most like to kiss [kick] thread” or nuthin’. As a matter of fact, my contribution occasionally kills off otherwise healthy threads. I wouldn’t be surprised to see this thread die now that I’ve posted to it. I am the Original Invisible Poster. Jess [runs away crying as if her little heart would break] ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2000, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/39 "2000-12-09T15:22:01Z")
**Jess** , you are hardly invisible. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2000, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/40 "2000-12-09T16:04:25Z")
Double Whammy…it had never occured to me to search on my own name before, but I glommed right onto the idea as soon as you all brought it up. I’m as needy as the next guy. So I do a search on “Cranky” since that’s what many people shorten my handle to… and up comes the Mistletoe thread! I tear in there thrilled to my toes that someone named ME as a person they’d most like to drag under the mistletoe to play tongue hockey with. I desperately search through 1…2…3…4 pages of posts. And all it turns up is one person talking about feeling cranky. And they didn’t mean feeling ME. Is there anything more pathetic than such desperation for attention, followed by hope and hubris, followed by crushing reality? LOL [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438.md?page=3)