### Author:  [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2016, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-penn-thinks-hes-a-journalist/742813/61 "2016-01-13T14:13:48Z")
> [@bienville](#):
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> Mmmmm… I’d love to be the bacon in _that_ KFC Double Down.
I’m not entirely sure if you’re talking about sex or cholesterol.
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### Author:  [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2016, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-penn-thinks-hes-a-journalist/742813/62 "2016-01-13T14:53:50Z")
> [@](#):
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> Quote:
> Look, I’m sorry your childhood was shit,
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> It was, and now after reading your response, my adulthood is now shit.
GUFFAW! Good comeback! \
I was friends with an Emo on LJ, and he once said that he got something like 147 negative responses to a post he made. I asked him how he knew that and he replied: Easy. I cut myself for every time I saw one and then counted the slashes.
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### Author:  [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2016, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-penn-thinks-hes-a-journalist/742813/63 "2016-01-13T15:30:29Z")
> [@Ravenman](#):
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> I’m not entirely sure if you’re talking about sex or cholesterol.
Maybe we could get George Castanza in here as a consultant?
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### Author:  [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2016, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-penn-thinks-hes-a-journalist/742813/64 "2016-01-13T15:32:26Z")
> [@russian\_heel](#):
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> My therapist just killed himself.
I’d leave that tidbit off of any dating profiles you might have up.
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2016, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-penn-thinks-hes-a-journalist/742813/65 "2016-01-17T02:37:58Z")
> [@bobot](#):
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> I wonder, if the cartel thinks that Sean Penn had something to do with El Guapo’s capture, did Sean Penn just earn himself a spot on a list?
> [@Diceman](#):
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> As for Sean Penn, I’m seriously wondering if we will soon hear that Mr. Penn has committed suicide. By shooting himself 50 times with at least half a dozen different weapons :eek: . I mean, it seems to me that the possability for “blowback” is fairly high. Then again, if it does happen, Penn really has nobody but himself to blame, because I very much doubt his reasons were anything other than self-serving.
[Reports are already emerging.](http://www.snopes.com/sean-penn-death-hoax/)
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### Author:  [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2016, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-penn-thinks-hes-a-journalist/742813/66 "2016-01-17T08:09:26Z")
> [@billfish678](#):
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> I’d leave that tidbit off of any dating profiles you might have up.
Married for almost 16 years, I don’t that will be necessary anytime soon.
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### Author:  [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2016, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-penn-thinks-hes-a-journalist/742813/67 "2016-01-17T09:21:11Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#):
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> [Reports are already emerging.](http://www.snopes.com/sean-penn-death-hoax/)
Those are fake reports
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2016, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-penn-thinks-hes-a-journalist/742813/68 "2016-01-17T14:43:04Z")
> [@madsircool](#):
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> Those are fake reports
I know that. But they’re still reports. It’s a nascent Urban Legend.
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### Author:  [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2016, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-penn-thinks-hes-a-journalist/742813/69 "2016-01-17T22:25:28Z")
> [@Steophan](#):
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> It may just be my taste, but I’ve liked him. He overacts and over-emotes to an extent that I find it impossible to forget that I’m watching a performance. For comparison, watch Mystic River and compare the styles of Penn and Tim Robbins - someone I do consider a masterful actor.
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> Penn may have talent, but to my mind he uses it to show off rather than to portray a character well, or make a great film (he’s been in several great films, but in most of them I’ve felt they were great despite him). Compare to Nicolas Cage, who is capable of just as much overacting but mostly only does so in crap or silly films (and on the increasingly rare occasions he’s in a good film tones it way down), or Daniel Day Lewis, who can when necessary give some of the largest performances anyone’s ever given on screen, but is also capable of great subtlety, as well as disappearing into a character more than almost anyone else.
Acting-wise, I’m a Sean Penn fan. However, the Oscar he won for _Mystic River_ wasn’t earned. He was overacting horribly. In my opinion, he won that award as a way of the Academy saying “we fucked you over for _Dead Man Walking_. You should have won for that, rather than Nic Cage for _Leaving Las Vegas_.”
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