# 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:** 14
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/261 "2006-04-13T17:54:57Z")
> [@drmark2000](#): > > Now, most petty bureaucrats aren’t serial killers, but killing takes many forms, me hearties, many forms. Perhaps, but all the forms do tend to have one glaring similarity - there’s a dead body involved. ---
**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, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/262 "2006-04-13T19:13:12Z")
> [@norinew](#): > > 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? I never used the word “idiot.” You did. Telling? Yes. The married women who I’ve bedded, or more aptly have bedded me, have been geniuses, in their hindsight. God, the plaintive and pathetic stories I’ve heard, post-coitally. They’d all give up their limp-dicked, inattentive, disinterested husbands and their yowling brats if they just had the chance to do it all again. But they don’t. Such is the tragedy of the marriage industry. And tragedy it is. Why don’t you people stop pretending to be something that you’re not? ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/263 "2006-04-13T19:31:45Z")
> [@drmark2000](#): > > Why don’t you people stop pretending to be something that you’re not? You first. ---
**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, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/264 "2006-04-13T20:04:02Z")
> [@drmark](#): > > Such is the tragedy of the marriage industry. And what do you have to say about women like me who are quite happily long-term married, with no interest whatsoever in straying? ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/265 "2006-04-13T20:07:45Z")
> [@norinew](#): > > And what do you have to say about women like me who are quite happily long-term married, with no interest whatsoever in straying? Probably that you’re deluding yourself and it’s your husband who’s straying. ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/266 "2006-04-13T20:11:11Z")
> [@drmark2000](#): > > The married women who I’ve bedded, or more aptly have bedded me, have been geniuses, in their hindsight. God, the plaintive and pathetic stories I’ve heard, post-coitally. They’d all give up their limp-dicked, inattentive, disinterested husbands and their yowling brats if they just had the chance to do it all again. But they don’t. Such is the tragedy of the marriage industry. That’s called “an active fantasy life.” Most people who engage in extramarital affairs have them. Pretending that things would be better if only \ helps them escape from whatever horror they feel their lives have become. It’s bullshit, and I’d expect a competent therapist to recognize it as such. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/267 "2006-04-13T20:14:46Z")
> [@](#): > > …I’d expect a competent therapist to recognize it as such. He claims to be clinical, not competent. ---
**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 13, 2006, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/268 "2006-04-13T20:15:31Z")
> [@Maureen](#): > > That’s called “an active fantasy life.” Most people who engage in extramarital affairs have them. Pretending that things would be better if only \ helps them escape from whatever horror they feel their lives have become. It’s bullshit, and I’d expect a competent therapist to recognize it as such. Several things wrong with your post: \* 1. You are accepted that DrMock was telling the truth about the affairs. 2. You are having an intelligent discussion with a grade A jerk 3. You seem to be assuming he is a therapist of any sort. Jim \*Just kidding, I know you don’t believe this BS ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/269 "2006-04-13T20:42:13Z")
[this is what you get for encouraging him](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=367247) ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/270 "2006-04-13T21:00:46Z")
I guess we have the official answer re: [how much is too much](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=367252) ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/271 "2006-04-13T21:02:17Z")
Aw, dammit. And he was more fun than the guy with the lavender text, too. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/272 "2006-04-13T21:03:29Z")
Aw, gee. We never got to see his 20,000 character manifesto. I’m so disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/273 "2006-04-13T21:10:29Z")
> [@drmark2000](#): > > I haven’t been suspended again, yet, and I haven’t been banned, yet, and this all seems to have been going on for a long time. This is a real long thread! > > So, what’s the deal? The wheels of justice move slowly. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/274 "2006-04-13T21:11:20Z")
Anybody want to place a bet on how long it’ll take till we see a sock? ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/275 "2006-04-13T21:18:49Z")
Damn, I really miss him. He was so … incandescent. Plus, he broke the Mr. Rogers masturbation scandal. You don’t get news like that just anywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/276 "2006-04-13T21:26:47Z")
Arbitrary authority is great when it’s not being directed against me. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/277 "2006-04-13T21:48:16Z")
> [@Dangerosa](#): > > The wheels of justice move slowly. But they grind up Larry Fine, or something. ---
**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 13, 2006, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/278 "2006-04-13T22:09:25Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > Anybody want to place a bet on how long it’ll take till we see a sock? See a sock? I thought he was an extra clever Paisley Stocking. 😉 Good riddance to bad rubbish. That Mr Rogers thread was blatant, he’s been building up to this since he was back. What’s it called when a bad poster wishes to exit as noisily as possible as his subscription ends? Jim ---
**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, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/279 "2006-04-13T22:55:38Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > He claims to be clinical, not competent. Well, he’s clinically something, and very competent at it. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/280 "2006-04-14T02:47:08Z")
Ya know, I think he really _did_ put people on his ignore list. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325.md?page=15)