# Boner gone missing! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 21, 2010, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boner-gone-missing/529886 "2010-02-21T17:27:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boner-gone-missing/529886/21 "2010-02-22T17:49:11Z")
> [@HelloNinja](#): > > Maybe my viewpoint is colored by reading the twitter postings of various comedian friends of his (Scott Aukerman, Doug Benson, Steve Agee, etc) that are all sincerely worried for their missing friend - but are boner jokes really that funny? Not to lose sight of the fact that his family and friends are deeply concerned for his welfare - but yes, in a different scenario, if you’re a male, boner jokes are hilarious, if you retain a sufficiently juvenile mindset. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boner-gone-missing/529886/22 "2010-02-22T17:54:05Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Not to lose sight of the fact that his family and friends are deeply concerned for his welfare - but yes, in a different scenario, if you’re a male, boner jokes are hilarious, if you retain a sufficiently juvenile mindset. I am male and I often do find boner jokes pretty damned funny… Just doesn’t sit well with me with this scenario. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boner-gone-missing/529886/23 "2010-02-22T18:35:17Z")
No problem. I understand. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boner-gone-missing/529886/24 "2010-02-22T19:10:20Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > if you’re a male, boner jokes are hilarious Checks username. Checks post. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boner-gone-missing/529886/25 "2010-02-26T00:55:54Z")
Sadly, it seems [this particular story has no happy ending.](http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/25/growing.pains.actor.dead/index.html?hpt=T1) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boner-gone-missing/529886/26 "2010-02-26T01:07:08Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Sadly, it seems [this particular story has no happy ending.](http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/25/growing.pains.actor.dead/index.html?hpt=T1) Wow. Sad to hear it. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boner-gone-missing/529886/27 "2010-02-26T01:13:57Z")
That’s so sad. Poor guy. I feel for his family. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boner-gone-missing/529886/28 "2010-02-26T01:14:08Z")
That sucks. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boner-gone-missing/529886/29 "2010-02-26T01:16:53Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Checks username. Checks post. > > 😃 Johnny [del]coc[/del]Cochrane? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boner-gone-missing/529886/30 "2010-02-26T01:30:36Z")
He’s dead, Jim. ---
**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:** [February 26, 2010, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boner-gone-missing/529886/31 "2010-02-26T01:44:55Z")
I agree with my daughter who, when she found out Andrew was most likely dead cried, “Boner!!?? Why not Kirk???” Mean sure but honest. ---
**Author:** ![Shark\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Shark\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boner-gone-missing/529886/32 "2010-02-26T01:46:00Z")
Updated article says he took his own life. Sad story. I wonder if he used his own gun, or Chekov’s Gun? ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boner-gone-missing/529886/33 "2010-02-26T01:51:27Z")
It’s very sad, any way you look at it. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boner-gone-missing/529886/34 "2010-02-26T03:01:41Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > I agree with my daughter who, when she found out Andrew was most likely dead cried, “Boner!!?? Why not Kirk???” > > Mean sure but honest. Cameron, rather than Captain, I assume. _we need a grim-humor smiley_ ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boner-gone-missing/529886/35 "2010-02-26T03:03:54Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > Cameron, rather than Captain, I assume. _we need a grim-humor smiley_ I was wondering that myself! ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boner-gone-missing/529886/36 "2010-02-26T03:57:40Z")
Sad to hear about his passing. Depression is so often overlooked. I’ve lost several friends who took their own lives very much by surprise. I also doubt that he only appeared in 25 episodes of “Growing Pains”. I think IMDB’s tally of his appearances must be off. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boner-gone-missing/529886/37 "2010-02-26T04:04:58Z")
Here is the video of Walter Koenig talking about it. It’s hard to watch. [My son took his own life.](http://www.tmz.com/videos?autoplay=true&mediaKey=1e8b86c6-b2e0-49d6-808d-c0311b746af4) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boner-gone-missing/529886/38 "2010-02-26T06:14:33Z")
All joking aside, this is very sad news. I watched the video and Walter Koenig sounded very devastated. I never really watched “Growing Pains,” so I wasn’t familiar with Andew Koenig, but as a "Star Trek’ fan for nearly half a century now, I am very familiar with Walter. My heart goes out to his family. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boner-gone-missing/529886/39 "2010-02-26T13:02:58Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Here is the video of Walter Koenig talking about it. It’s hard to watch. > > [My son took his own life.](http://www.tmz.com/videos?autoplay=true&mediaKey=1e8b86c6-b2e0-49d6-808d-c0311b746af4) Slammed me right back to my sister’s suicide 20 years ago. I truly believe that losing a child is one of the worst things that can happen to a parent, and it doesn’t matter how old the child is. I’m glad he and his wife could hold it together for the press conference but boy you can just feel the pain rolling off him. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boner-gone-missing/529886/40 "2010-02-26T13:14:36Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Slammed me right back to my sister’s suicide 20 years ago. I truly believe that losing a child is one of the worst things that can happen to a parent, and it doesn’t matter how old the child is. I’m glad he and his wife could hold it together for the press conference but boy you can just feel the pain rolling off him. Pain, confusion, regret. I don’t think they are responsible, but I’m sure they can’t help but wonder what they could have done throughout his life to stop this. I hope they can see that in the years that come. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boner-gone-missing/529886.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boner-gone-missing/529886.md?page=3)