# Quick, get 'em now! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 2, 2006, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-get-em-now/338115 "2006-01-02T21:21:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**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:** [January 3, 2006, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-get-em-now/338115/61 "2006-01-03T03:57:11Z")
> [@drmark2000](#): > > Good one! Yes, I assumed that was your usual gait. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-get-em-now/338115/62 "2006-01-03T04:00:08Z")
I don’t think this thread is going to get anywhere. **drmark2000** et al will just see the general conversation, debating, and insulting of them as yet more proof they they are more intelligent, witty, refined people. The more insults, the more they will become convinced of their superiority. I predict that **drmark2000** ’s “destruction” of the boards thread will include the words “complex”, “inferiority”, “incapable”, “lowbrow” (may be hyphened, i’m unsure), and some form of laughter. If we’re really lucky, he may threaten to leave. **drmark2000** , there’s a difference between intelligence and pompousity. For all I know, you could indeed be quite intelligent. I concede it is a possibility. However, I can say without a doubt that you are not the incredibly-superior-to-all being you seem to think you are. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-get-em-now/338115/63 "2006-01-03T04:10:02Z")
> [@drmark2000](#): > > Canter. You had to look the word up, didn’t you. > > Not that that’s a bad thing. It’s just that I _know_ you had to look the word up. You’re wrong. It’s a horse’s gait. Walk, trot, canter, gallop. Now if you asked me to describe what it is that makes a canter, _that_ I’d have to look up. You may be smart - I can’t tell behind the pretentiousness - but that doesn’t mean everybody else is stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Brainiac4](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brainiac4/32/3534_2.png) [@Brainiac4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac4)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-get-em-now/338115/64 "2006-01-03T04:41:04Z")
> [@drmark2000](#): > > Canter. You had to look the word up, didn’t you. > > Not that that’s a bad thing. It’s just that I _know_ you had to look the word up. And you know this how? Because of your massive intellect? As \*\*Frank \*\*notes, being smart yourself does not make everyone else stupid. Acting as it if does, however, does reveal you to be a pompous ass. ---
**Author:** ![Atticus\_Finch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Atticus\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atticus_Finch)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-get-em-now/338115/65 "2006-01-03T04:50:42Z")
It’s the bit where **drmark2000** pretends to be a doctor that’s so adorable. Look, he really is a doctor! It’s right there in his name!! > [@drmark2000](#): > > When you use big words, you must do so without pretense! You must demonstrate that you not only understanding the meaning of the word, but also its apppropriate use. > > You choose words of little significance to the accomplished, bombastic circumlocutor. The words are obvious, and placed as they are, belying of a pedestrian intellect, at least as far as sarcasm is concerned. Bombastic means pompous, circumlocutor would perhaps mean someone who speaks in a roundabout way. Is it just me or are you calling yourself a pompous ass who can’t talk straight? Can’t be, as you are choosing your words unpretentiously and apppropriately. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-get-em-now/338115/66 "2006-01-03T04:56:56Z")
> [@Metacom](#): > > They’re creeped out that some long-haired stranger is watching them try to pee with a contemplative look on his face. Duh. Well, I’m generally waiting for them to finish up so I can take their picture–which in dogese means I’m going to point a metal box at them that shines a red light on them until it flashes brightly and unpredictably. So yeah, you’re not far off :D. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![drmark2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@drmark2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drmark2000)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-get-em-now/338115/67 "2006-01-03T05:13:59Z")
Why, look! [QUOTE=Atticus] is BackAtUs! The guy who incited all of this garbage has deigned to rejoin! > [@Atticus Finch](#): > > It’s the bit where **drmark2000** pretends to be a doctor that’s so adorable. Look, he really is a doctor! It’s right there in his name!! I possess a PhD in clinical psychology from an accredited educational institution. This is simply a fact. As I have said before, and have said previously that I would certainly say again, “The truth remains the truth regardless of what you opt to believe.“ That’s the beauty of truth, as far as I’m concerned. The lot of you, harping on my doctorate, whether positively or negatively, in so doing avoid the fact that you cannot match me for reasoning. This has nothing to do with the letters after my name, or yours, for that matter. It has to do with intellectual integrity, which is little associated with academic achievement. I’m sorry that that’s true, but it’s true. > [@Atticus Finch](#): > > Bombastic means pompous, circumlocutor would perhaps mean someone who speaks in a roundabout way. Is it just me or are you calling yourself a pompous ass who can’t talk straight? Can’t be, as you are choosing your words unpretentiously and apppropriately. I choose my words with exceeding care, as did James Joyce. And I’m slicing you all up with a combination of practiced ease and sadness, as did Joyce. ---
**Author:** ![drmark2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@drmark2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drmark2000)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-get-em-now/338115/68 "2006-01-03T05:17:39Z")
Some of the formatting is fucking up, and I don’t think it has to do with how I’m posting. Please fix it, mods, as you deem appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-get-em-now/338115/69 "2006-01-03T05:19:00Z")
> [@drmark2000](#): > > Some of the formatting is fucking up, and I don’t think it has to do with how I’m posting. You’re wrong: it absolutely has to do with how you’re posting. Show some intellectual integrity and take responsibility for at least this triviality. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Atticus\_Finch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Atticus\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atticus_Finch)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-get-em-now/338115/70 "2006-01-03T05:19:26Z")
Your quote tags are screwed up. Watch out for that. Yep, I’ve rejoined the pitting a few hours after I left off. Started the thread, posted a few times, went off and had dinner with some mates, came back. Meh. If you’re winning this argument, why do you feel the need to keep saying you’re winning, you’re slicing us up? Why the constant self-affirmation, the comparisons to intellectuals such as Joyce? ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-get-em-now/338115/71 "2006-01-03T05:42:26Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > You may be smart - I can’t tell behind the pretentiousness - but that doesn’t mean everybody else is stupid. FWIW, _you_ are definitely stupid. **drmark2000** , let’s leave these children be, as I suggested earlier. We handed ass to this same riff-raff just two weeks ago, and I think they can go a few weeks more without a booster shot. Currently, their standup act stinks on ice, and sticking around falsely implies that the “material” is more than worthless. ---
**Author:** ![Atticus\_Finch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Atticus\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atticus_Finch)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-get-em-now/338115/72 "2006-01-03T05:46:17Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > FWIW, _you_ are definitely stupid. Zing! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-get-em-now/338115/73 "2006-01-03T06:51:25Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > We handed ass to this same riff-raff just two weeks ago > [@drmark2000](#): > > I’m slicing you all up with a combination of practiced ease and sadness It’s like some kind of denial circle-jerk. ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-get-em-now/338115/74 "2006-01-03T08:33:51Z")
> [@drmark2000](#): > > … I’m slicing you all up with a combination of practiced ease and sadness, as did Joyce. I think the **dr** is off the **mark** here. It was _shepherds’ pie_ Joyce sliced up with a combination of practiced ease and sadness. Bread, he sliced with verve and bold insouciance. Golf shots in his hands were generally sliced with innocence and childlike curiosity. The record does not mention Joyce slicing _anything_ with inane comparisons and accidental comedy. Can you guys imagine what this fella’s diary must look like? \*Dear Diary: Woke up early this morning, having slept like a modern Alexander. Peed like Bucephalus. Showered with the courage and attention to detail of DeGaulle. Toweled off with a thoroughness reminiscent of Sinatra, with a touch of Thomas More around the ankles. Poured and ate bran cereal with the grim determination of Increase and Cotton Mather combined. Dressed like Edith Head. I mean, as tastefully as she would have had she been a man. Got the mail elegantly, like Cary Grant squared. Spotted some intellectual inferiors at the pond and toyed with them for a while, like Socrates among frogs. Stupid frogs didn’t even realize how badly they were outclassed. Returned home to change into dry shoes and socks, like some famous male fashion guy this time. Stupid frogs. Spent afternoon bestriding the narrow world (of the internet) like a Colossus, pausing to eat a taco with the joyful exuberence of Marceau. Dappled shirt with green sauce like Picasso. Hid stain behind napkin with the cunning of Rommel, the better to attract women like, um – Returned home triumphant and laurel-laden like Darius I, pausing to shout at some more inferiors on the way, essaying subtle jibes like Churchill did toward Lady Astor. Then, ran like Owens toward the finish line. Got home in time for Jeopardy!, which I watched with the attention and skill of DeBakey. Now to brush my teeth like Saint Augustine and then an early bedtime, which I greet with the calm equanimity of Siddhartha Gautama, knowing that in everything I do I equal or exceed the best that humanity has yet produced.\* ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-get-em-now/338115/75 "2006-01-03T09:21:28Z")
> [@drmark2000](#): > > You choose words of little significance to the accomplished, bombastic circumlocutor. The words are obvious, and placed as they are, belying of a pedestrian intellect, at least as far as sarcasm is concerned. > > Work harder, and you’ll get there. I’ll put my money on it. There’s no need to lead each use of ‘and’ with a comma. It just makes your stuff more difficult to read. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-get-em-now/338115/76 "2006-01-03T09:32:33Z")
I badly needed that laugh, **King of Soup**. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Parker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@Richard\_Parker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Parker)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-get-em-now/338115/77 "2006-01-03T09:37:03Z")
Why is it always the clinical psych people? Seriously, find me a sane clinical psych person and I’ll find you a right-wing sociologist. [/stereotype] ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-get-em-now/338115/78 "2006-01-03T12:13:08Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > FWIW, _you_ are definitely stupid. > > **drmark2000** , let’s leave these children be, as I suggested earlier. We handed ass to this same riff-raff just two weeks ago, and I think they can go a few weeks more without a booster shot. > > Currently, their standup act stinks on ice, and sticking around falsely implies that the “material” is more than worthless. Can somebody please direct me to wherever they were handing out ass? I’ve lost mine and it makes it difficult to sit down. And it’s just adorable that you’ve finally found someone that will back up your claims of victory. ---
**Author:** ![Brainiac4](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brainiac4/32/3534_2.png) [@Brainiac4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac4)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-get-em-now/338115/79 "2006-01-03T12:43:26Z")
> [@drmark2000](#): > > I possess a PhD in clinical psychology from an accredited educational institution. This is simply a fact. Did you perhaps pick it up at an estate sale? I note that you are so proud of your alma mater that you inform us it’s accredited. Yep, that’s the first thing I am going to mention. Wouldn’t want my inferiors to think that my school wasn’t accredited, just because it’s a correspondence school… ---
**Author:** ![Brainiac4](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brainiac4/32/3534_2.png) [@Brainiac4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac4)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-get-em-now/338115/80 "2006-01-03T12:44:46Z")
> [@drmark2000](#): > > Some of the formatting is fucking up, and I don’t think it has to do with how I’m posting. > > Please fix it, mods, as you deem appropriate. Using the “Preview Post” button below the text entry box will show you what your post will look like. I know it’s hard to read over your prose, but at least you could do us the courtesy of ensuring that it takes the approximate shape you wanted. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-get-em-now/338115.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-get-em-now/338115.md?page=5)