# Fringe Love. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 20, 2011, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-love/589699 "2011-07-20T10:53:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Steken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Steken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steken)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-love/589699/1 "2011-07-20T10:53:00Z")
Against my better knowledge, imma gonna risk opening up a big ol’ can of worms with this one. (So mods, if this thread goes sour real quick, just do what you gotta do.) But anyways, here we go: Who is the most maligned, fringe-y, considered-out-there, largely-or-completely-ignored-by-academia, unfit-for-civilized-society, you’ll-never-be-invited-again-if-you-bring-him-or-her-up-at-a-cocktail-party type-of thinker who you believe was/is either actually _right_, or at least sorta-maybe-somehow-on-to-something? I have two in the latter category myself, but first I’d like to see what you lads come up with. And please let’s try to be nice and respectful. We can do it. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-love/589699/2 "2011-07-20T13:53:41Z")
> [@Steken](#): > > if this thread goes sour real quick, Looks like we missed that bullet! ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-love/589699/3 "2011-07-20T13:59:03Z")
What are you actually asking? Are you proposing a Borat type of situation, like the black stripper at the hoity-toity dinner party? ---
**Author:** ![Lobelia\_Overhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@Lobelia\_Overhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobelia_Overhill)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-love/589699/4 "2011-07-20T15:05:18Z")
Daniel Jackson? Oh wait, did you mean a real person? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-love/589699/5 "2011-07-20T15:33:53Z")
Alfred Wegener? ---
**Author:** ![Steken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Steken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steken)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-love/589699/6 "2011-07-20T15:51:24Z")
Oh boy. More like “who do you think are the most underrated and/or most unfairly maligned thinkers of our time?” (Which, come to think of it, probably should have been the title in the first place! Can this be fixed?) So, yeah, like a modern-day Alfred Wegener. … Or indeed a real-life Daniel Jackson! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-love/589699/7 "2011-07-20T16:24:30Z")
Tesla was pretty thrashed upon - perhaps him? And he was a bit OCD nuts as well, bonus points? ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-love/589699/8 "2011-07-20T16:37:56Z")
Came for discussion of sex with badgers and radishes, leaving disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-love/589699/9 "2011-07-20T16:39:25Z")
Sex with radishes? Oh, the pain! ---
**Author:** ![BobArrgh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobarrgh/32/2881_2.png) [@BobArrgh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobArrgh)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-love/589699/10 "2011-07-20T16:54:35Z")
I thought it was badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger mushroom mushroom snake. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-love/589699/11 "2011-07-20T17:07:18Z")
> [@BobArrgh](#): > > I thought it was badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger mushroom mushroom snake. No, it’s turtles all the way down. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-love/589699/12 "2011-07-20T17:31:59Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > sex with badgers The Honey Badger doesn’t give a shit. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/4r7wHMg5Yjg/maxresdefault.jpg "The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger (original narration by Randall)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg)