# Don't you hate the steady 'Drip, drip, drip' of gonorrhea? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 10, 2012, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-hate-the-steady-drip-drip-drip-of-gonorrhea/631018 "2012-08-10T00:13:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [August 10, 2012, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-hate-the-steady-drip-drip-drip-of-gonorrhea/631018/1 "2012-08-10T00:13:02Z")
[Gonorrhea becoming resistant to only treatment left](http://thegrio.com/2012/08/09/gonorrhea-becoming-resistant-to-only-treatment-left/) > [@](#): > > “Cephalosporin-resistant gonorrhea could potentially mean untreatable gonorrhea,” says Dr. Gail Bolan, director of the Division of STD Prevention at the CDC. “Untreatable gonorrhea is a real possibility.” > > Gonorrhea has already become resistant to every other class of drug used to treat it. Of course some people won’t believe that claptrap. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-hate-the-steady-drip-drip-drip-of-gonorrhea/631018/2 "2012-08-10T00:43:59Z")
What about the old drug free treatment? ---
**Author:** ![Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Backwater_Under_Duck)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-hate-the-steady-drip-drip-drip-of-gonorrhea/631018/3 "2012-08-10T00:54:14Z")
Call Roto-Peter, that’s the name, and you flush your troubles down the drain… Rotten Peter, Rotten Peter. ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-hate-the-steady-drip-drip-drip-of-gonorrhea/631018/4 "2012-08-10T00:55:25Z")
Dave’s not here. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-hate-the-steady-drip-drip-drip-of-gonorrhea/631018/5 "2012-08-10T03:34:32Z")
I thought it was Peter Rooter I got a basketball jones ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-hate-the-steady-drip-drip-drip-of-gonorrhea/631018/6 "2012-08-10T04:31:46Z")
I’m pretty sure it was Roto-Peter. Sgt. Stedenko told me himself, though he never did reveal who cut his hair. ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-hate-the-steady-drip-drip-drip-of-gonorrhea/631018/7 "2012-08-10T04:35:58Z")
Nope. You were correct… [http://www.metrolyrics.com/peter-rooter-lyrics-cheech-chong.html](http://www.metrolyrics.com/peter-rooter-lyrics-cheech-chong.html) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-hate-the-steady-drip-drip-drip-of-gonorrhea/631018/8 "2012-08-10T07:50:17Z")
> [@Nature\_s\_Call](#): > > Nope. You were correct… [http://www.metrolyrics.com/peter-rooter-lyrics-cheech-chong.html](http://www.metrolyrics.com/peter-rooter-lyrics-cheech-chong.html) Thanks, that’s how I remembered it. If I had my 8-track still, I’d make a sound file of it just to be sure. Anyone got an actual audio file? Either way, we all benefited from the Evelyn Woodhead Speed Reading Course ETA: found a sound file [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98zRMdOoPn8](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98zRMdOoPn8) “Peter Rooter” wins Roto-Rooter jingle is what is was based on. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-hate-the-steady-drip-drip-drip-of-gonorrhea/631018/9 "2012-08-10T08:08:57Z")
Good god, we really should inform the public about this! Too bad a very sexy learning disability is equally on the rise: sexlexia. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2012, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-hate-the-steady-drip-drip-drip-of-gonorrhea/631018/10 "2012-08-10T09:17:52Z")
I always thought it was the > [@](#): > > _drip, drip, drip_ of the **syphilitic prick** > Of a British Grenadier from my collection of campfire songs Si ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-hate-the-steady-drip-drip-drip-of-gonorrhea/631018/11 "2012-08-10T12:15:56Z")
Drip, drip, drip! It’s gonor-rhe-a! Should have kept it in your pants. Even Cephalosporine Is too weak to get you clean. Now you’ll spend your days deprived of all romance. ---
**Author:** ![JoseB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/joseb/32/1530_2.png) [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-hate-the-steady-drip-drip-drip-of-gonorrhea/631018/12 "2012-08-10T13:24:14Z")
So, time to bring back mercury and silver nitrate! (the latter used from the late 19th century until the development of antibiotics). Time to resurrect the alleged medical treatment as carried out in English ships in the 16th century, namely direct injection of mercury in the urinary meatus of clap-stricken sailors! Oh, what FUN it will be… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-hate-the-steady-drip-drip-drip-of-gonorrhea/631018/13 "2012-08-10T13:33:01Z")
From a “pep” talk by a lanky and expressive army sergeant at an overseas base orientation: “You go to the village, wear a fuckin’ _raincoat!_ You don’t, you be goin’ on sick call drippin’ _like a faucet!_ And you don’t be goin’ home til we can plug it up. Takes 3 shots in the left side of the right nut with a square needle _this big!_”