# The Anti-Pit

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-pit/12933>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 20, 2000, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-pit/12933 "2000-01-20T16:17:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-pit/12933/21 "2000-01-21T03:04:00Z")

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Kat, you asked & I deliver:

from

on page 3, ~ 75% of the way down, John Corrado posts:

> [@](#):
>
> Oh, joy. Flat Earth all over again.  
> Phaedrus: Hypothesis X is absolutely true! Hypothesis Y is absolutely false!
> 
> Everyone Else: Here’s our proof that X is absolutely false. Please tell us why you believe Y is false.
> 
> Phaedrus: Your proof does not stand! And I have absolute proof that Y is false! I’ll post it in a day or two. Did I mention that I ran a genetics company?
> 
> Phaedrus: Mumbles to self for 300 posts.
> 
> Everyone Else: Dammit, Phaedrus, we’ve given you absolute proof that X is false! And you still haven’t bothered to prove that Y is false!
> 
> Phaedrus: Honest, I’ll have that proof any day now. Did I tell you my horror story about being a lawyer in front of the Supreme Court?
> 
> Phaedrus: mumbles to self for another 100 posts
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> Everyone Else: Screw this, we’re going home.
> 
> Phaedrus: Ha! I win! They’ve given up and accepted my arguments! Let me go to another thread and try it again!

Overall, I have to agree with Polycarp though. During a brief period of mostly lucid, well-intentioned posts, I exchanged e-mail with Ken. I personally think he is very bright, but when he was trapped in a maze of mirrors, the brilliance blinded him instead of showing him the way out.

I sincerely hope he gets the help he needs & do wish him well.

With apologies to Clint Black & Merle Haggard:

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I’m sure no one will wonder where he’s gone to  
But if anyone should ask from time to time  
Just tell them that we finally drove him crazy  
And he’s somewhere untangling his mind.\*

* * *

Sue from El Paso

Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-pit/12933/22 "2000-01-21T03:06:00Z")

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Oops, I forgot the link: [http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum5/HTML/000521-3.html](http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum5/HTML/000521-3.html)

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**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-pit/12933/23 "2000-01-21T03:26:00Z")

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Thanks, Polycarp, for saying what needed to be said. Melin and Gaudere took totally underserved hits, and they must have been painful. The whole Ken/Phaedrus thing went totally out of control and just ended up being more sad than anything.

I’m glad it’s all over, and more than glad that two of the best posters here rode it out and stayed–and stayed themselves.

Veb

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