# Leading Viagra Scientist Dead at 92 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 24, 2009, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leading-viagra-scientist-dead-at-92/497448 "2009-05-24T07:18:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2009, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leading-viagra-scientist-dead-at-92/497448/21 "2009-05-24T18:25:53Z")
> [@Coldfire](#): > > Nice one. 🙂 > > However, just how well would this wood stand peckers? Pretty well I’d say…it would be able to take it fair share of little pricks ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leading-viagra-scientist-dead-at-92/497448/22 "2009-05-24T19:33:26Z")
Losing him must be hard on his family. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2009, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leading-viagra-scientist-dead-at-92/497448/23 "2009-05-24T20:23:52Z")
Well that news makes Mr. Happy sad and weepy. Think of all the long, hard years he flogged away on the blood pressure and veins problem, only to get shot down, again and again only to come into his success in the mid-90s, when he was almost 80 years old. Suddenly spurts of success and the popping of champagne corks. But not enough time to spend the tons of money on blow and hookers. ---
**Author:** ![tattman40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/db5fbb/32.png) [@tattman40](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tattman40)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2009, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leading-viagra-scientist-dead-at-92/497448/24 "2009-05-25T16:18:20Z")
At the service…“All Rise…” ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2009, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leading-viagra-scientist-dead-at-92/497448/25 "2009-05-25T20:23:49Z")
I’ve just received the menu for the memorial event. There’s quite a lot of spam. ---
**Author:** ![horsetech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dec6dc/32.png) [@horsetech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/horsetech)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leading-viagra-scientist-dead-at-92/497448/26 "2009-05-26T06:26:35Z")
This shocking news has the medical world at attention. Most likely, he died with a smile on his face. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2009, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leading-viagra-scientist-dead-at-92/497448/27 "2009-05-27T01:24:25Z")
As Furchgott himself probably said: “Keep 'em coming.” ---
**Author:** ![horsetech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dec6dc/32.png) [@horsetech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/horsetech)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leading-viagra-scientist-dead-at-92/497448/28 "2009-05-27T08:35:31Z")
Pastor John Thomas will lead the service, and the funeral march will be played by a (skin) flute. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2009, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leading-viagra-scientist-dead-at-92/497448/29 "2009-05-27T12:21:07Z")
> [@horsetech](#): > > Pastor John Thomas will lead the service, and the funeral march will be played by a (skin) flute. You mean " played by four skin flutes". ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leading-viagra-scientist-dead-at-92/497448/30 "2009-05-27T14:59:01Z")
Will there be a viewing for the pubic? ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leading-viagra-scientist-dead-at-92/497448/31 "2009-05-27T22:38:03Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Will there be a viewing for the pubic? Probably not, it might get really hairy. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leading-viagra-scientist-dead-at-92/497448/32 "2009-05-28T00:34:33Z")
I want to write more but…it’s so hard ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leading-viagra-scientist-dead-at-92/497448/33 "2009-05-28T15:22:57Z")
His family should keep a stiff upper lip about this tragedy. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leading-viagra-scientist-dead-at-92/497448/34 "2009-05-28T15:37:20Z")
Penis get hard! ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leading-viagra-scientist-dead-at-92/497448/35 "2009-05-28T17:24:39Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > Penis get hard! Oh, come now! Here I was thinking you were an upstanding person… it’s really hard on me to have to rethink your status. Maybe I need a set of stiff criteria to judge people by. Come to think of it, I’ll get my staff right on that ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leading-viagra-scientist-dead-at-92/497448/36 "2009-05-28T18:43:40Z")
I hear he was working a new drug cocktail of Viagra and Flomax to treat schizophrenia. The patient will truly won’t know whether he is… …coming or going. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leading-viagra-scientist-dead-at-92/497448/37 "2009-05-28T19:13:32Z")
Summing up his career is easy. Penis ensued. Regards, Shodan ---
**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:** [May 28, 2009, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leading-viagra-scientist-dead-at-92/497448/38 "2009-05-28T19:14:30Z")
At least we have the comfort of knowing he was up and going until the very end. Such a good, hard worker. ---
**Author:** ![tattman40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/db5fbb/32.png) [@tattman40](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tattman40)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2009, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leading-viagra-scientist-dead-at-92/497448/39 "2009-05-29T00:46:17Z")
They had to sit on top of the coffin to close it,like a stuffed suitcase. ---
**Author:** ![horsetech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dec6dc/32.png) [@horsetech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/horsetech)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2009, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leading-viagra-scientist-dead-at-92/497448/40 "2009-05-29T03:21:39Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > You mean " played by four skin flutes". True. Unfortunately, on the day that the service was to be held, there was a minor flood in the church, forcing the congregation to pitch a tent. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leading-viagra-scientist-dead-at-92/497448.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leading-viagra-scientist-dead-at-92/497448.md?page=3)