# The good doctor's post was okay - it's Bodoni's that's idiotic **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 12, 2006, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325 "2006-04-12T03:27:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/201 "2006-04-12T23:41:30Z")
> [@drmark2000](#): > > Are you admitting to any redeeming quality in me whatsoever? No ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/202 "2006-04-12T23:47:15Z")
At least we know **drmark** owns a thesaurus. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/203 "2006-04-12T23:52:00Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > At least we know **drmark** owns a thesaurus. We can’t even be sure of that, [this](http://thesaurus.reference.com/) is better than a thesaurus most of the time. ---
**Author:** ![drmark2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@drmark2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drmark2000)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/204 "2006-04-12T23:54:52Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Translation: I failed my licensing process. No I didn’t! That’s a mean and unfair thing to say! It was a clinically useless and pointless process, for myself and everyone else, but I did pass. ---
**Author:** ![drmark2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@drmark2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drmark2000)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/205 "2006-04-13T00:00:42Z")
> [@rayh](#): > > No I didn’t ask _you_, fuckah. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/206 "2006-04-13T00:24:07Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > You dropped your Chivas in my monocle! > > 😉 Two great tastes that go great together! Oh, um, terribly sorry. I have a monocle fetish. I like sipping things out of them. I also _really_ like saying “monocle.” Now if you don’t mind I have a fifth that’s getting lonely. ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/207 "2006-04-13T00:39:21Z")
> [@drmark2000](#): > > I didn’t ask _you_, fuckah. By posting on this board, of which I am a member, yes you did, fuckah. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/208 "2006-04-13T00:52:37Z")
I think some of you are missing a very important point, here. In the OP of the closed thread, **drmark** posits that only an idiot would get married. In this thread, he makes something of a show of how many married women he’s had sex with. In short, he is apparently saying he’s had sex with a bunch of idiots. Poetic, no? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/209 "2006-04-13T00:52:41Z")
> [@drmark2000](#): > > Are you admitting to any redeeming quality in me whatsoever? Yes, I am. Any chance of being like that more often? ---
**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:** [April 13, 2006, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/210 "2006-04-13T00:58:04Z")
:: fondles goatee, taps pencil on bridge of nose :: Hmmmmm… Your last several contributions to this thread, Herr Mark, have varied markedly in grammatical accuracy, assumed persona, and affect, swinging from wheedling through grandiose assertions to outright hostility. Are you perhaps beginning to decompensate? ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/211 "2006-04-13T01:04:10Z")
> [@drmark2000](#): > > I didn’t ask _you_, fuckah. But why didn’t you ask? I know why, I just want to see if you’re smart enough to understand your own lack of asking. [sub]More drmark-style analysis upon his response.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![drmark2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@drmark2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drmark2000)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/212 "2006-04-13T01:04:14Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > **drmark2000** gives his [own take on marriage](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7288853&postcount=1). Fair dos. Makes some reasonable points, contentious enough to grace the Pit. Discussion’s going merrily along, until **Lynn Bodoni** comes along and [uses her power to close it](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7289675&postcount=60). > > Hopefully, when he has her little pow-wow with her fellow officials, they will tell her what an idiot _she_’s been, and help her fight her own self-ignorance. > > As Keats once said, “Hope may vanish, but cannot die.” So, after all of this, let’s revisit the OP. There it is, right above. **roger thornhill** ‘s effort is much appreciated by me, as are those of any others who have demonstrated any semblance of support for me. I also appreciate the input those of who have wished to flay the skin from my bones. See how even-handed I am? “Fair dos”? Alright, I’ll take ‘em. I made more “reasonable points” in the few lines of my marriage OP than I’ve seen in much longer posts, my Magnum Opus (also known as The One) notwithstanding. Did **bodini** close my last thread prematurely? Certainly yes. This is what the mods have resorted to in most of my recent threads, in a show of force reminiscent of the petty bureaucrat and its kind. Bad form. Transparent. Nothing more. But **drmark2000** still lives! Why? I don’t know. But I do live, as yet! I have been honest here, without a doubt my worst fault. I harbor the profoundest respect for what these boards are, and even more for what they could be. Will **bodini** be dressed down as she so richly deserves? Maybe, but certainly not in public. Whatever happens will happen behind the scenes, the middle class wagon-circling in full and highly effective operation. And Keats. You know, I really appreciate Keats. But to quote S. T. Coleridge from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: “Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony. The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.” ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/213 "2006-04-13T01:07:00Z")
> [@drmark2000](#): > > “Fair dos”? Alright, I’ll take ‘em. I made more “reasonable points” in the few lines of my marriage OP than I’ve seen in much longer posts, my Magnum Opus (also known as The One) notwithstanding. > > Did **bodini** close my last thread prematurely? Certainly yes. This is what the mods have resorted to in most of my recent threads, in a show of force reminiscent of the petty bureaucrat and its kind. Bad form. Transparent. Nothing more. > > But **drmark2000** still lives! Why? I don’t know. But I do live, as yet! I have been honest here, without a doubt my worst fault. I harbor the profoundest respect for what these boards are, and even more for what they could be. Apparantly not. ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/214 "2006-04-13T01:32:49Z")
“And the one throwing the lifebelt, Even he needs help at times. Stranded on the shore, Terrified of the waves.” - Brian Patten ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/215 "2006-04-13T01:39:52Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > :: fondles goatee, taps pencil on bridge of nose :: > > Hmmmmm… Your last several contributions to this thread, Herr Mark, have varied markedly in grammatical accuracy, assumed persona, and affect, swinging from wheedling through grandiose assertions to outright hostility. Are you perhaps beginning to decompensate? That shoor is a lotta fancy words to say that he’s flailing. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/216 "2006-04-13T01:50:36Z")
drmark2000 - You did not make one reasonable point in your Marriage OP. And you failed to support any of your so called ‘points’. You couldn’t support them because they where not reasonable, researched, or seem to have any insight into how people work together. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/217 "2006-04-13T01:53:37Z")
> [@drmark2000](#): > > **roger thornhill** ‘s effort is much appreciated by me” We all have our crosses to bear. And this is going to be **Roger** ’s. Lord knows I’ve posted more egregious threads and for the most part still get a modicum of respect. Or at least avoidance of being Pitted for nearly everything I post. I predict his reputation survives this thread. Yours? This thread seems to be defending your rep. I must say I have to accept you as you are. You’re nothing if not consistant. Now, can you tell me why you think what you’re thinking of this post? I have a Ph.D. in calling bullshit. I’d love to see your thoughts on this then pedanticly question you on it. By the way, I’m always going to win this argument. At the University of Douchebag Psychotics, my graduating class always kicked your class’ ass in beer pong. Pussy. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/218 "2006-04-13T01:56:19Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > > [@roger thornhill](#): > > > > And, Cervaise, shame on you for trying that manipulative bullshit. Any member who sees his or her presence here in terms of a popularity contest ends up with nil respect. As you well know. > > No manipulation intended. It was an honest question. You used to be an interesting poster, with a uniquely off-kilter point of view. Lately you’ve just become oblique and pointlessly combative. I don’t know what happened, but I’d welcome a return to original form. > [@What Exit?](#): > > can you link to another recent thread like you described? Seconded. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/219 "2006-04-13T02:38:29Z")
By the way, let’s just take the 50% number pulled out of someone’s ass as a legit stat. Doesn’t that mean that 50% of marriages don’t end in divorce, but rather death? Does that mean marriage kills?!? (I’m sure our fair doctor could make a case that it does.) [Deleted gay marriage reference per my self-imposed ban on the subject until May] But it was kind of a good one, hope someone picks up on it. Let’s look at the 3 likliest possibilities here, and see if we can ferret out the situation. **1)** “Doc” was once married, his wife slept around, and in his Ph.D. euphoria knows he was wronged by everyone and has to focus on married women. To get back at the ignoramus that betrayed his trust. And to actively do what he can to break up another marriage to prove his batshit theories. **2)** “Doc”, at the admitted age of 44 has never been married, likely only had a few dates that he didn’t disgust (my money is on this one), and is just a bitter lonely man worshipping at the alter of whatever sick alter he has constructed in his parent’s basement out of dead kittens. **3)** “Doc” is in no way a Ph.D. His join date is 2002. Makes me wonder the significance of 2000 in his username. Granted, he could have been lurking since then, but it wouldn’t make a lot of sense (for a Ph.D.!!!) to somehow associate that in the username. I’d suspect it’s either the year he earned the degree or the year he began school. If it’s the year he conned the degree, that makes him about 38. Either he had a past he’s not letting on about, or he actually needed that long to get the degree. If you can’t get the Ph.D. in 10 years, it lessens the accomplishment. At least in that field. This isn’t Psychiatry, after all. Or it’s the year he started school, making him at best a newbie to a Master’s program, if he’s been able to bullshit his way that far. And he’s hoping to earn the Ph.D. and is just getting wrapped up with his own bullshit to justify his bullshit. BTW, **drmark2000** , if someone like you can get a married woman to cheat on her husband with you, I hate to think of what the husband is like. If you’re an improvement, just send me the addresses. If you’re actually a better person, those men need to just be taken out. It’s truly frightening to know there are men out there that make you like like a goal. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/220 "2006-04-13T02:48:26Z")
[Here](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/030124.html), Cecil weighs in on the 50% marriage/divorce statistic. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325.md?page=12)