# Has the SDMB community ever witnessed someone go insane? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 14, 2014, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106 "2014-04-14T19:19:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/81 "2014-04-18T20:25:04Z")
There was a guy who believed that the one and only (literally the ONLY, no matter how many testimonies were offered) way to sexually satisfy a woman was to “power-suck” her nipples. I kind of want to say that it was JDT, as a side-note to his circumcision obsession, but I’m probably wrong. Ninja’d ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/82 "2014-04-18T20:33:17Z")
Man, there sure has been a lot of crazy around here. I’m starting to wonder if this is good for my mental health. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/83 "2014-04-18T20:35:12Z")
> [@OneCentStamp](#): > > Was **JDT** the nipple hoovering guy? 😃 > [@dogbutler](#): > > Foreskin stretcher guy. He was both. Foreskins were his primary (and apparently only) interest, and in the ensuing discussions, he shared copious amounts of advice on related matters sexual. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=881102&postcount=147](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=881102&postcount=147) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/84 "2014-04-18T20:36:20Z")
I’m wondering if that guy was actually on a secret mission to wipe out humanity by ruin everyone else’s sex life with bad advice. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2014, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/85 "2014-04-19T00:43:06Z")
Well, I recall Serlin saying that women should use apple-scented feminine deodorant. Not QUITE in the same league, but pretty bad. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2014, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/86 "2014-04-19T02:00:32Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Well, I recall Serlin saying that women should use apple-scented feminine deodorant. Not QUITE in the same league, but pretty bad. Well, I…can’t say that would be all bad. 😛 But then again the first girl I ever kissed had just eaten an apple Jolly Rancher, so I have some particular associations in that regard… ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2014, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/87 "2014-04-19T02:36:51Z")
> [@OneCentStamp](#): > > Well, I…can’t say that would be all bad. 😛 > > But then again the first girl I ever kissed had just eaten an apple Jolly Rancher, so I have some particular associations in that regard… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2014, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/88 "2014-04-19T03:13:20Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > What does a Ph.D. have to do with any of that? As someone who is about to have a PhD, I can safely say: You are currently watching me go insane. I wont start typing like this where ever ything is dis join ted. Or rant about how Coke and Pepsi are the same thing. But it is really doing a number on my mental health, is the relevance. Pile on all the other recent major life changes, and it means that I want to finish soon, but am starting to wonder if doing the “dropped out with 1 credit left” thing is a good option. But of course it’s a self-selecting group. You’ve gotta be a little crazy to think academia was a good idea. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2014, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/89 "2014-04-19T04:11:35Z")
> [@Eliahna](#): > > Did he? I don’t remember that. I thought he went blind. Definitely a shady character. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2014, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/90 "2014-04-19T18:17:11Z")
Would lekatt count? ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2014, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/91 "2014-04-19T18:49:41Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Would lekatt count? That’s a good one. If not flat out insane, he was at least weapons-grade weird. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2014, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/92 "2014-04-19T19:15:30Z")
> [@OneCentStamp](#): > > That’s a good one. If not flat out insane, he was at least weapons-grade weird. Lekatt’s Law: Any sufficiently weird dude is impossible to tell from insane. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2014, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/93 "2014-04-19T19:25:37Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > Lekatt’s Law: Any sufficiently weird dude is impossible to tell from insane. **B/Dav’s Law:** It’s perfectly okay to have crazy thoughts & ideas, as long as you don’t tell the entire world about them. To paraphrase Forrest Gump: “Crazy is as crazy does.” ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2014, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/94 "2014-04-19T20:34:11Z")
Hate to bring this up, as I was a fan of his, but one poster was acting a bit… unstable before he died, IMO. Very argumentative and short-fused. ☹ Not sure what was going on IRL. **Q.E.D.** ---
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/848f3c/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_Dunlop)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2014, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/95 "2014-04-19T22:01:50Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > Turns out I still have [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=711833) bookmarked. I’m still waiting and watching for Lucent Technologies to rise from the abyss and swallow all of our souls. Reading JohnClay’s threads is one of my favorite StraightDope activities. They’re an amazing mixture of humorous, interesting, and frightening. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2014, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/96 "2014-04-19T23:00:34Z")
There was a poster here (who was mentioned up thread) who, on her own message board, had a tantrum, carved a message in her forearm with a gem razor, took a photo of it, uploaded it, and posted it to her message board. I got tangentially involved when poster A, who personally knew the poster and her husband, asked me for poster B’s phone number, because poster B had hubby’s cell phone number and poster A didn’t have it at work. ---
**Author:** ![Frazzled](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frazzled/32/3368_2.png) [@Frazzled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frazzled)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/97 "2014-04-20T00:05:32Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > Hate to bring this up, as I was a fan of his, but one poster was acting a bit… unstable before he died, IMO. Very argumentative and short-fused. ☹ Not sure what was going on IRL. > > **Q.E.D.** He was the first person I thought of when I saw the thread title. Clearly somebody struggling with demons. The second I thought of has also been mentioned but I dare not mention her without a third reference. Very sad in both cases, when they were lucid I liked them very much. ---
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/98 "2014-04-20T00:23:39Z")
There was the woman who thought she was the illegitimate daughter of JFK. I think she was just another one-post wonder, though. Everybody (well, maybe I shouldn’t say _everybody_) basically bullied her away. Although I can’t remember how, I somehow figured out who she was and went to her Facebook page. I noticed somebody from this board had done the same thing and had befriended her. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/99 "2014-04-20T00:35:07Z")
I know what they say about “the crazy,” but I had a bit of a crush on **TechChick**. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Frazzled](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frazzled/32/3368_2.png) [@Frazzled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frazzled)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/100 "2014-04-20T00:35:37Z")
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