Forced Out of Retirement

[_Doctor Scratch]

LOL.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

Now, now, Doctor Peterson. You didn't give me much of a choice, did you? If you had wanted me to retire, then you should not have made very serious threats against my livelihood. I would never do that sort of thing to you. See: I actually have ethics and standards. Whereas you are more than happy to rip into a person's in real life existence, I have stuck exclusively to Mopologetic topics, and to things which have arisen directly on the board.

It goes on.

And on.

And on.

And on.

But it's going to go on without me.

Not that it matters, of course. I'm glad to continue my research into Mopologetics with or without you. And besides, your obsessive hatred for me isn't just going to dissolve overnight. You'll be back in order to further try and blacken my character.

[_Doctor Scratch]

In any event, I return to clear the air, and to taunt the Mopologists with my "Doctor" status, as I have a Ph.D. from Cassius University. "Mister" Scratch shall remain permanently buried.

Welcome back, good Doctor. I am pleased to see that you now have some credentials to back up your dazzling rhetorical skills.

Thank you, Dr. Kumen.

I was sad to see you go, and I feared you were gone for good. Will you be sticking around for a while, or is this a surgical strike, so to speak?

Mister Scratch is gone for good. Doctor Scratch will be around indefinitely.

-The Right Reverend Kishkumen the Magnificent
(and yes, I possess ministerial credentials)

p.s. And can you convince Gadianton to come back too?

Dr. Robbers? It seems to me that Dr. Robbers is needed to help restore Cassius University to its full bloom. I will dispatch "informants" to deal with the matter post-haste.

[_Kishkumen]

I don't think that Scratch has a doctor's degree. He put the word doctor in quotation marks.

Pretty cavalier of you, considering how many people are being threatened with lawsuits these days.

[_Doctor Scratch]

I don't think that Scratch has a doctor's degree. He put the word doctor in quotation marks.

The Ph.D-granting committee at Cassius University certainly saw fit to laud me with the degree. I don't appreciate your insinuations, whyme.

[_Kishkumen]

Mister Scratch is gone for good. Doctor Scratch will be around indefinitely.

And are you the same person, or are you simply filling the same calling?

Dr. Robbers? It seems to me that Dr. Robbers is needed to help restore Cassius University to its full bloom. I will dispatch "informants" to deal with the matter post-haste.

Yes, Dr. Robbers. Please do dispatch some of your informants to deal with the matter. My minions and I will be waiting with baited breath for his triumphant return. Every good professor needs minions.

[_Blixa]

Every good professor needs minions.

This has apparently been my mistake. Assistants, junior faculty, yes. Minions, no. I may need to apply to Cassius University for a grant...

[_Some Schmo]

But it's going to go on without me.

Oh look... it's the latest departure to end all departures.

I wonder if he'll ever be back...

[_why me]

I don't think that Scratch has a doctor's degree. He put the word doctor in quotation marks.

The Ph.D-granting committee at Cassius University certainly saw fit to laud me with the degree. I don't appreciate your insinuations, whyme.

Sorry...but I refer to this that you wrote in your original post:

In any event, I return to clear the air, and to taunt the Mopologists with my "Doctor" status, as I have a Ph.D. from Cassius University. "Mister" Scratch shall remain permanently buried.

But I will grant you that you received a doctorate from Cassius University.

[_Pokatator]

But it's going to go on without me.

More from the Drama Queen.

[_Kishkumen]

This has apparently been my mistake. Assistants, junior faculty, yes. Minions, no. I may need to apply to Cassius University for a grant...

On the faculty of Cassius U, we have cut out all of the fat. Assistants? Junior faculty? Administration? Students? No. Here, one matriculates and then acquires tenure and minions in a single fell swoop. Ah, minions. What would we do without them?