# Shodan and AClockWorkMelon

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 19, 2010, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-and-aclockworkmelon/557705 "2010-10-19T21:24:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-and-aclockworkmelon/557705/95 "2010-10-20T22:51:10Z")

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From a new thread in GD:

> [@Okay, let's have that "Does AA work?" thread. (Alcoholics Anonymous)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-lets-have-that-does-aa-work-thread-alcoholics-anonymous/557706/29):
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> > [@Okay, let's have that "Does AA work?" thread. (Alcoholics Anonymous)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-lets-have-that-does-aa-work-thread-alcoholics-anonymous/557706/28):
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> > I have only the “anecdote” that among alcoholics I’ve known, success at sobriety was very strongly correlated with AA attendance.
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> > I’ve already mentioned one woman, sober for the last 30 years of her life, who became a very successful life-saving counsellor and, despite having strong will-power, _still_ insisted on attending meetings because she “needed to.”
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> And second-hand anecdotal evidence is always better than scientific studies. That’s why we can be sure that Laetrile works.
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> :rolleyes:
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> Regards,  
> Shodan

**Shodan** makes the same incorrect point he made in the earlier thread, even though I explained his error, and **also manages to insult a woman whose feet he’s not worthy to lick**. Hell – he’s not worthy enough to lick her dog’s feet.

I don’t “keep score” on Dopers, so often forget which ones of you are liberals, which ones are right-wingers, etc., and even end up whoooshed a lot. 😃 But my subconscious has tuned in to the Doper named **Shodan** : He thinks he’s intelligent, but almost everything he says is incorrect. Not just incorrect in the sense of an uneducated imbecile, but incorrect like a guy who’s had 1 or 2 years of college, so thinks he’s erudite but is actually even more of a racist prick than the proverbial village fool. The really sad thing is this: I’d not be surprised if **Shodan** actually has an above-average I.Q.! Instead some bitterness or sexual frustration has left him so closed-minded that he appears to have a severe cognitive deficit.

I see him corrected frequently. He then goes silent (one imagines a dog slinking off tail between legs), and reappears in a new thread spouting the exact same vomitous tripe that was refuted ! His posts are so devoid of useful content, and have such twisted thinking, that for a while I thought he was just a “facetious” guy “whoooshing.” But I’ve never seen evidence of humor, or any likeable emotion, and am starting to feel sorry for the asshole. I hope he doesn’t read this message – I’ll guess he already hates himself enough.

There may be a few Dopers even stupider and more insolent than **Shodan** (though none come to mind), but they mostly have redeeming amusement value. **Shodan** is just a real drag.

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