# I'm terribly disappointed with the recent lack of crackpots **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [December 3, 2007, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-terribly-disappointed-with-the-recent-lack-of-crackpots/428716 "2007-12-03T22:37:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Quint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/76d3ee/32.png) [@Quint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quint)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-terribly-disappointed-with-the-recent-lack-of-crackpots/428716/21 "2007-12-06T01:11:09Z")
I guess you just never know what’s going to bring them out, **dropzone**. Check [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=446711). ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-terribly-disappointed-with-the-recent-lack-of-crackpots/428716/22 "2007-12-06T03:00:02Z")
Hokey smoke, Bullwinkle, I just came here to post that exact link! Coincidence? Or Synchronicity? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-terribly-disappointed-with-the-recent-lack-of-crackpots/428716/23 "2007-12-06T05:33:57Z")
[QUOTE=Exapno Mapcase] Hokey smoke, Bullwinkle, I just came here to post that exact link! Coincidence? Or Synchronicity? [/QUOTE] Neither, man. If you can’t see a massive government conspiracy WHEN IT’S STARING YOU IN THE F\*\*\*\*\*G FACE, then you never will. And for that, I pity you. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go get my tinfoil hat taken in a little. ---
**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:** [December 6, 2007, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-terribly-disappointed-with-the-recent-lack-of-crackpots/428716/24 "2007-12-06T22:20:53Z")
[QUOTE=CJJ\*] I know you’re being facetious **dropzone**. [/QUOTE] 😕 I have no idea where you might’ve gotten THAT impression. I’m as serious as a heart attack–I luvs me some loonies. > [@](#): > > However I’ve found with age that these type of battles are no longer fun; they have basically become exercises in humiliation or contests to see who can devise the most clever insult. And I’ve found with age that serious discussions have their place and that I can feel sorry for some of the sad creatures who stumble in here, but they mostly end up im MPSIMS and I never see them. The ones I like are the ones who function well enough IRL but who have constructed personal realities that have veered off from mine (the only valid one, of course) in interesting directions. The ones for whom 2+2=5.347 only when they talk about their pet topics. I’ll admit, though, that I suspect **Chainsawvictum** does not meet those requirements, and my interest there is a fascination with his constructed reality, not a desire to see him slapped down. That is, if his post is not really spam for an upcoming Texas (Arkansas?) Chainsaw Massacre sequel. > [@](#): > > I’m far more interested in a serious community devoted to discussing questions/topics where I don’t automatically know the answer. BORING! 😉 Anyway, I already know most of the answers to the questions here and a surprising number are “Yes,” “No,” and “Look it up your own damn self, the same way I did.” > [@](#): > > “Fighting ignorance” isn’t always an external battle… For me the internal battle is fighting being a jerk, and I apologize if I seem that way in this response. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-terribly-disappointed-with-the-recent-lack-of-crackpots/428716/25 "2007-12-06T23:52:21Z")
Psst. Everybody to look at Chainsaw thread… ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-terribly-disappointed-with-the-recent-lack-of-crackpots/428716/26 "2007-12-06T23:57:26Z")
[QUOTE=Chefguy] Psst. Everybody to look at Chainsaw thread… [/QUOTE] Pssst. Look at at the link in post #21… ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-terribly-disappointed-with-the-recent-lack-of-crackpots/428716/27 "2007-12-07T00:48:25Z")
[QUOTE=Stranger On A Train] I don’t know what it all means, but when I’m feeling a little down at work I just pull up [TimeCube.com](http://www.timecube.com/) [/QUOTE] Its somewhat bemusing to find out that the world’s mysteries need “official” websites 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![yelimS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/54ee81/32.png) [@yelimS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yelimS)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-terribly-disappointed-with-the-recent-lack-of-crackpots/428716/28 "2007-12-07T12:48:25Z")
[QUOTE=dropzone] [Autolevitation?](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_136.html) Zipola. [/QUOTE] [Quote=Cecil] It is one of the regrets of my life that I didn’t get a chance to go, but I did read the story about it in the Washington Post. Said story was written by my old college roommate Steve. [/quote] This sounds like a golden opportunity to reveal Cecil’s true identity, doesn’t it? Can anyone dig up that article, and call Steve? ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-terribly-disappointed-with-the-recent-lack-of-crackpots/428716/29 "2007-12-08T16:53:23Z")
Crackpots are naturally drawn to presidential campaigns. Between the early start this time around and the large numbers of candidates, nearly all the loonies in the US are busy, busy, busy. Very few of them have any time to alert us to the rising danger of haunted eggplants. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-terribly-disappointed-with-the-recent-lack-of-crackpots/428716/30 "2007-12-09T12:42:14Z")
[QUOTE=John W. Kennedy] There are still the anti-Stratfordians. (news:humanties.lit.authors.shakespeare, which used to be their home, has recently been taken over by a solipsist). [/QUOTE] Solipsists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you will about anti-Stratfordianism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-terribly-disappointed-with-the-recent-lack-of-crackpots/428716/31 "2007-12-09T13:30:35Z")
I used to think that Cecil’s letters were made up too until this one time I was travelling across country by train. I went to my compartment and the blinds were drawn, I opened the door and saw the most erotic sight I have ever seen - two blonde twins munching on each other like there was no tomorrow. "Goot day.’ said Inge, the younger of the naked Swedish models… Sorry, I thought this was Penthouse. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-terribly-disappointed-with-the-recent-lack-of-crackpots/428716/32 "2007-12-09T16:25:50Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.] > [@Chefguy](#): > > Psst. Everybody to look at Chainsaw thread… Pssst. Look at at the link in post #21… [/QUOTE] What is this, a psssting contest? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-terribly-disappointed-with-the-recent-lack-of-crackpots/428716/33 "2007-12-10T01:38:57Z")
[QUOTE=Derleth] Solipsists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you will about anti-Stratfordianism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos. [/QUOTE] Clap…clap…clap. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-terribly-disappointed-with-the-recent-lack-of-crackpots/428716/34 "2007-12-10T06:03:51Z")
[QUOTE=AskNott] Crackpots are naturally drawn to presidential campaigns. [/QUOTE] That’s the reason for our loonie-dearth. They’re all out drumming up votes for Ron Paul. And thanks to the Google ads, I now realize that Freemasonry is responsible for psoriasis. ---
**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-terribly-disappointed-with-the-recent-lack-of-crackpots/428716/35 "2007-12-11T00:07:29Z")
I tried my best awhile ago with [this reference to Tesla](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=424158), but no takers. I’ll fully admit, I was hoping to draw folks out, and was looking for a bit of a dustup, but I’m the one who got slapped. Serves me right… ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-terribly-disappointed-with-the-recent-lack-of-crackpots/428716/36 "2007-12-11T00:25:50Z")
[QUOTE=Plynck] I tried my best awhile ago with [this reference to Tesla](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=424158), but no takers. I’ll fully admit, I was hoping to draw folks out, and was looking for a bit of a dustup, but I’m the one who got slapped. Serves me right… [/QUOTE] They were probably intimidated, because they couldn’t remember Plynck’s number (or Plynck’s constant, or whatever it is.) Me, I can’t even remember Avocado’s number. :smack: ---
**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:** [December 11, 2007, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-terribly-disappointed-with-the-recent-lack-of-crackpots/428716/37 "2007-12-11T00:30:31Z")
I suppose you could at least read [CrankDotNet](http://www.crank.net/) for your crackpot fix. I know it’s not the same, though… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![John\_W.Kennedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_w.kennedy/32/1031_2.png) [@John\_W.Kennedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_W.Kennedy)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-terribly-disappointed-with-the-recent-lack-of-crackpots/428716/38 "2007-12-11T02:05:51Z")
…or the new [creationist wiki](http://creationwiki.org/). We could deface all the entries with the 9th (RC 8th) and 3rd (RC 2nd) commandments. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-terribly-disappointed-with-the-recent-lack-of-crackpots/428716/39 "2007-12-11T02:10:58Z")
[QUOTE=AskNott] They were probably intimidated, because they couldn’t remember Plynck’s number (or Plynck’s constant, or whatever it is.) Me, I can’t even remember Avocado’s number. :smack: [/QUOTE] If you can’t remember Plynck’s number, don’t go on the game show The Price is Right. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-terribly-disappointed-with-the-recent-lack-of-crackpots/428716/40 "2007-12-12T17:19:07Z")
[QUOTE=Cluricaun] Clap…clap…clap. [/QUOTE] They’re Dopers, Donnie. There’s nothing to worry about. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-terribly-disappointed-with-the-recent-lack-of-crackpots/428716.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-terribly-disappointed-with-the-recent-lack-of-crackpots/428716.md?page=3)