Tell us why, when the list of the most insane Dopers is made, your name will be in the top 20. Bonus points for predicting exactly how high you’ll rank.)
But just YOU. No fair Saying while other Dopers are insane. I mean, yes, we all know that fat bastard Fabulous Creature isn’t right in the head, but attacking him outside Pit is a sure way to a thread-locking.
What if I attended the Academy instead of the University? Does that still count?
:: carefully writing Terrifel’s name on a hank of untanned rhino hide::
Yes, it does.
That’s ONE, by the way.
I think my record speaks for itself, really.
At Hopkins, they said I was mad because I complained about being on call too much; every other night for 8 weeks during my surgical rotation. That generally worked out to being in Mr. Hospital for 40 hours and out for 8 hour, for nearly two months. (At Hopkins, you can complain about not being on call enough, not too much. They see the problem with every other night call as being that you miss half the great cases.)
That, and because when I needed homogenized rat liver for an experiment, I misread the protocol and harvested 40 livers, when 4 would have done fine. (It sure would have been easier to haul 4 used rats instead of 40 from the Psych lab at the undergrad campus to the med school lab in east Baltimore. The trunk of my car was a scary sight!)
Most people get suspicious when they enter my room. Chem minors and majors turn and flee. I guess it’s the lingering scent of deodorant that does it . . . or the potassium nitrate . . . perhaps the potassium perchlorate . . . I guess the big box of aluminium powder on my desk doesn’t help . . .
I’d guess this ranks me as an 18.
They said that my combination soft-serve ice cream machine/callous remover would never work, but look at me today! My feet are aswell with Chocolate/Vanilla swirled goodness!
… and I wipe my feet on those loathsome peons who attended ‘the Academy’!
I hope no one gets wind of all the bodies and other stuff buried in my back yard, nor the inhererently eeeevil dog that runs my life. Also factor in my fascination with fire and gore.
I’ll probably rank around 18 +/- 1.
Bah. At the University, they’ll say that anyone’s mad.
Well, when I created my own race of Atomic Supermen, they did think I was a trifle quirky. But I will show them. I’ll show them all.
Well, I literally WAS Mad at the University. Long, bitter story.
You know that scene in Animal House where Bluto says “Seven years of college, down the drain!” ?
Piker.
I started almost from scratch and get my Ph.D. elsewhere. But my Army of the Undead is almost ready for me to take my revenge. Then those Fools who laughed at me will learn the Truth!
My students will testify as to my maniacal laughter at their sufferings. I also have the whole Doctor Evil/Blofeld shaved-head thing going. I even have the requisite cat or 12.
Oh, and I once raised a Spectral Legion with a chicken bone left over from a bucket of Popeye’s chicken. That ought to count for something!
For a year period, every Friday night I would walk around the city of Boston for about 3 hours. Normal enough you say? Well, this was no ordinary walk mind you. I had aqua-colored hair and a huge walking stick. I would prance around and talk to anyone who came near. People around town started calling me Moses.
That was fun.
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I think based on some of your more, um, zymurgically-based posts you’re a little higher, Auto. Certaintly the top 7.
Well, there was the time three summers ago when I had to explain to a cop that the decaying odor in my Jeep was a dead dog, not a human…cite? Deodorizing a car - Factual Questions - Straight Dope Message Board
(BTW, the solution involved trading in the Jeep)
I’m perfectly normal.
zymurgically???
I’ve never understood it why they did it, really. Maybe it was the umbrella duels with my invisible foes in the Quad. Or the mobile fog bank that occasionally gathered around my backpack. Or making everyone in the physics building speak in chipmunk voices for a day.
In retrospect, though, it was probably the explosions.
Given the overall lunacy level amongst Dopers, I’ll be lucky if I make 19.
Induced through the wonderful phenomenon of fermentation.
In grad school, I maintained that “you’re not a real physicist until you have your own notation” and would replace typical variables with those of mine own devising. Alpha, sigma, lambda are all over-used and pedestrian. Add extra loops and squiggles to make something unique! Double-mu, super-chi and extra-xi are the way to go. As a bonus, your manuscripts are pain for others to copy and near-impossible to LaTeX.
As long as your science is good, they can’t complain about the notation. Mwa-ha-ha-ha!