# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/101 "2014-04-20T01:57:48Z")
I really miss some of the people mentioned. But then, I am waxing nostalgic these days. ---
**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 20, 2014, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/102 "2014-04-20T02:33:52Z")
> [@Washoe](#): > > 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. Post #75. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/103 "2014-04-21T18:20:26Z")
That’ll teach me to threadskim. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/104 "2014-04-22T11:44:32Z")
I’d have to disagree about QED. I think he was a person who could be pretty abrasive at times and didn’t suffer fools gladly. At a personal level, I had not a great deal of interaction with him, but he was always amusing- depending on what end of the conversation you were on. I always thought his actions were pretty well on a par while he was here. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/105 "2014-04-22T16:29:53Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Well, I recall Serlin saying that women should use apple-scented feminine deodorant. Not QUITE in the same league, but pretty bad. Kind of lends a whole new interpretation to the phrase, “apple cobbler”. 😃 I always wondered what was really going on with **jarbabyj** and her relentless spewing of obscenities. Some of the combinations were hilarious. That didn’t mean there wasn’t some honest illness there. ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/106 "2014-04-22T16:38:50Z")
I think there are people going insane on the “crack” thread. I was. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/107 "2014-04-22T17:45:29Z")
“Witnessed?” I don’t think so. But I had one fuck of a psychotic break-out since I’ve been a member (or maybe was still a guest), so there’s at least one of us currently who may fit the bill. ---
**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/108 "2014-04-23T00:08:32Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > I always wondered what was really going on with **jarbabyj** and her relentless spewing of obscenities. Some of the combinations were hilarious. That didn’t mean there wasn’t some honest illness there. Ah yes. Describing some guy as “as hot as liquid fuck” still stands as one of my all time favorite similies! ---
**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 23, 2014, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/109 "2014-04-23T03:16:29Z")
> [@D18](#): > > Ah yes. Describing some guy as “as hot as liquid fuck” still stands as one of my all time favorite similies! Christ, nobody ever said I was “hot as liquid fuck”, not even…never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/110 "2014-04-23T04:25:10Z")
> [@Fuzzy\_Dunlop](#): > > Reading JohnClay’s threads is one of my favorite StraightDope activities. They’re an amazing mixture of humorous, interesting, and frightening. I _am_ wondering what’s up with all his superstition threads. ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/111 "2014-04-24T00:49:24Z")
**QED** , even on a personal level, did not seem crazy, any crazier than most people on here. Smart, acerbic, bitter and impatient with fools,yes. Helpful and kind on occasion, yes. Crazy, no. I’ve thought about if there was any indicators, and perhaps in retrospect there were, but nothing jumped out at the time. I’ve never asked what actually happened, so all this commentary is speculation and innuendo. Could have died from an allergic reaction to parrot dander for all know. Or peanuts. He was quintessential 'Dope, and I wish he was still around. ---
**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 24, 2014, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/112 "2014-04-24T01:36:03Z")
> [@fisha](#): > > He was quintessential 'Dope, and I wish he was still around. One cannot ask for a better epitaph. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106.md?page=5)