Quick, get 'em now!

Yes, I assumed that was your usual gait.

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.

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.

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.

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!!

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.

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

Why, look!

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is BackAtUs! The guy who incited all of this garbage has deigned to rejoin!

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

Zing!

It’s like some kind of denial circle-jerk.

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.*

There’s no need to lead each use of ‘and’ with a comma. It just makes your stuff more difficult to read.

I badly needed that laugh, King of Soup.

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.

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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.

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…

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.