# Wonko, please find some other way to amuse yourself. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 24, 2002, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonko-please-find-some-other-way-to-amuse-yourself/110665 "2002-05-24T15:28:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonko-please-find-some-other-way-to-amuse-yourself/110665/21 "2002-05-24T19:37:30Z")
sorry on both counts, **Wikkit** there ain’t no such thing here as ‘gender specific name’ (I refer you to **CrankyAsAnOldMan** for example) and certainly not with a non standard reference that is **Wonko’s**. your hijack was not A; Mean spirited and **designed** to obscure the truth, and B. Did not encourage people to be falsely concerned on your behalf, and C. spread disinformation (which his posts would do w/o a close reading of the thread -and, as it turned out was factually incorrect re: he **is** able to get breast cancer). ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonko-please-find-some-other-way-to-amuse-yourself/110665/22 "2002-05-24T19:37:58Z")
1. I’m sorry I pissed people off. I figured that you would know that I don’t tend to take much seriously. 2. You realize of course, that giving anyone this much attention for immature and asinine behavior perpetuates all “trolling” activities, both real, imagined, and alleged. 3. Hello Opal! 4. Will I get in trouble for apologizing in the Pit? I don’t know! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonko-please-find-some-other-way-to-amuse-yourself/110665/23 "2002-05-24T19:45:41Z")
> [@](#): > > [angry bastard rant o’ evil]I also believe that anyone who goes to an anonymus message board for medical advice, instead of an actual real doctor, is probably a person that shouldn’t be reproducing anyhow.[/angry bastard rant o’ evil] Well, Wonko does raise a good point here. You shouldn’t rely on the internet for medical advice, because you never know if you’re talking to a fuck-pustule like Wonko. Excellent self-fulfilling prophecy there, Wonk. ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonko-please-find-some-other-way-to-amuse-yourself/110665/24 "2002-05-24T19:47:21Z")
Precisely. Thanks Miller! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonko-please-find-some-other-way-to-amuse-yourself/110665/25 "2002-05-24T20:33:58Z")
> [@](#): > > 1. I’m sorry I pissed people off. I figured that you would know that I don’t tend to take much seriously. And we would know this how? Until this thread, I’d never heard of you. (and thanks a lot for bringing him to my attention, **podkayne**. Just when I’d almost regained my faith in humanity.) > [@](#): > > 1. You realize of course, that giving anyone this much attention for immature and asinine behavior perpetuates all “trolling” activities, both real, imagined, and alleged. So you admit you’re asinine and immature. How 'bout knocking that off now, 'mkay? > [@](#): > > 1. Hello Opal! It’s “Hi, Opal!” If your going to go around repeat terribly, terribly tired jokes, at least get them right. But, considering the source of your screenname, terribly tired jokes must be your stock in trade. > [@](#): > > 1. Will I get in trouble for apologizing in the Pit? I don’t know! Neither do I. Try it and find out. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonko-please-find-some-other-way-to-amuse-yourself/110665/26 "2002-05-24T20:39:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jodi \* > > **Guin** , you need a margarita. Or three. 🙂 Let’s not lose our perspective here, 'kay? Hmmm…make that a mudslide and you’re on! (I just wanted an excuse to use that phrase, “Eat a slice of Hell.”) ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonko-please-find-some-other-way-to-amuse-yourself/110665/27 "2002-05-24T21:11:05Z")
Thank you for the apology. (I am, apparently, feeling slightly more charitable than **Miller** , so I’ll err on the side of possibly being a chump again and assume that **Wonko** is feeling at least somewhat contrite.) However, **Wonko** , you completely lost me in your next post. It is certainly true that only an idiot gets medical advice from a message board, but does not make it okay to post whatever you want. It is also true that only an idiot crosses the street without looking for traffic, but that doesn’t make it okay for you to mow a pedestrian down. I don’t think it is such an unreasonable expection that, in a thread about serious medical issues, people should refrain from posting anything intentionally intended to cause confusion. ---
**Author:** ![Daowajan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Daowajan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daowajan)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonko-please-find-some-other-way-to-amuse-yourself/110665/28 "2002-05-24T21:13:36Z")
**Miller** - Well yeah, but I seriously doubt anyone in that other thread’s dumb enough to take any one other anonymous person’s advice as gospel. The arguments that’ve broken out in there are proof of that. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonko-please-find-some-other-way-to-amuse-yourself/110665/29 "2002-05-24T22:07:39Z")
GUIN, here ya go – one mudslide. And I’ll have a margarita and a slice of hell, but only if it’s _fresh_. WONKO, since you apologized, a drink for you as well, but only after your spanking. Spanking first, then drinking, I always say. [sub]Well, usually it’s drinking first then spanking but . . . uh, am I still talking out loud?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonko-please-find-some-other-way-to-amuse-yourself/110665/30 "2002-05-24T22:09:27Z")
“Trilogy of five?” I thought a trilogy was three? ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonko-please-find-some-other-way-to-amuse-yourself/110665/31 "2002-05-25T01:29:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Monty \* > \*\*“Trilogy of five?” I thought a trilogy was three? \*\* Some people are just more stubborn than others. Now if you don’t mind, I have some inattentive pedestrians to mow down, and then I’m going out for a mammogram- > [@](#): > > According to the American Cancer Society, it is estimated that 1400 men developed breast cancer in 1995. This number accounts for 0.76% (or just under 1 percent) of the new breast cancer cases diagnosed in that year and 0.2% of all cancers in males. In the same year, an estimated 240 men died of breast cancer, accounting for 0.5% of total breast cancer deaths and 0.08% of cancer deaths among men. These incidence and mortality statistics are certainly smaller than those for other types of cancer, but it does not mean that breast cancer in men is an insignificant occurrence. ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonko-please-find-some-other-way-to-amuse-yourself/110665/32 "2002-05-25T16:07:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Daowajan \* > \*\ ***Miller** - Well yeah, but I seriously doubt anyone in that other thread’s dumb enough to take any one other anonymous person’s advice as gospel. The arguments that’ve broken out in there are proof of that. \*\* But you don’t know what the people who are _reading_ the thread but not _posting_ are thinking. **Wonko** , you’re a real annoying son of a bitch, you know that? I’m trying _real hard_ to believe that you recognize that you did something wrong–or at the very least, something in poor taste–but you aren’t giving me a lot to work with, here. It’s not fun having my words thrown back in my face, and, coupled with your half-hearted apology (“I’m sorry I pissed people off,” not “I’m sorry I did what I did,”) I’m about ready to write you off. If you’re really sorry, then you could go a long way by saying so–and knocking off the “I’m a light-hearted scamp, aren’t I?” bullshit. Whee, I’m an asshole . . . Whee, I run down pedestrians . . . Whee, I don’t have to worry about breast cancer . . . I’m afraid I’m not terribly impressed. ---
**Author:** ![LolaBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@LolaBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaBaby)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonko-please-find-some-other-way-to-amuse-yourself/110665/33 "2002-05-25T17:08:43Z")
I am reading but haven’t posted till now. My thoughts were, “God, what a fucking asshole. And he says he’s 32? He’s acting more like a fucking 12 year old, giggling at his oh-so-‘new’ jokes.” But to be fair, he _did_ apologize, and I for one can’t really discern his tone or intent over the words on a screen but to me it does seem he realized he fucked up. Much more than some other people in this forum who bash dead people about their (lack of) looks. Wonko, I don’t wish this on you, but one day you may look back and think what a fucking ass you were. I have a 25 year old friend who is dying of cervical cancer, another 20 year old friend who is awaiting abnormal Gyn test results, and I also have 2(Count 'em, TWO) male friends who have had a bout with breast cancer. Don’t be counting yourself out _yet_, buddy. ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonko-please-find-some-other-way-to-amuse-yourself/110665/34 "2002-05-25T18:02:28Z")
Folks, we mods are having as much trouble as you all are accessing the boards. Sorry that I didn’t see this earlier. **Wonko** , as I said in the thread, you know better than this. Keep it out of GQ. ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonko-please-find-some-other-way-to-amuse-yourself/110665/35 "2002-05-26T12:50:04Z")
Will do Manny. ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonko-please-find-some-other-way-to-amuse-yourself/110665/36 "2002-05-26T12:50:04Z")
Will do Manny. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonko-please-find-some-other-way-to-amuse-yourself/110665/37 "2002-05-26T18:20:54Z")
Here’s a couple of \*\*, , , , \*\* 's for ya to use in the above double postings. Unless, of course, you were trying to say something **other** than, “Will do, **Manny** ” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonko-please-find-some-other-way-to-amuse-yourself/110665/38 "2002-05-26T19:20:59Z")
Hey! Leave our dopefest activities out of this! ---
**Author:** ![choosybeggar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@choosybeggar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choosybeggar)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonko-please-find-some-other-way-to-amuse-yourself/110665/39 "2002-05-26T23:20:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jodi \* > \*\* > WONKO, since you apologized, a drink for you as well, but only after your spanking. Spanking first, then drinking, I always say. [sub]Well, usually it’s drinking first then spanking but . . . uh, am I still talking out loud?[/sub] \*\* [monty python]And then, the oral sex.[/monty python] ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2002, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonko-please-find-some-other-way-to-amuse-yourself/110665/40 "2002-05-28T05:03:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by wring \* > \*\*Here’s a couple of \*\*, , , , \*\* 's for ya to use in the above double postings. Unless, of course, you were trying to say something **other** than, “Will do, **Manny** ” 😃 \*\* I would just like to say that yes, I meant it -with- the comma, as I am indeed a man, and a straight one at that. Thanks for covering for me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonko-please-find-some-other-way-to-amuse-yourself/110665.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonko-please-find-some-other-way-to-amuse-yourself/110665.md?page=3)