The one time it's not really acceptable to refer to yourself as "Dr."

It occurs to me that I should add a caveat to yesterday's post about the politics and pomposity of referring to yourself as "Doctor". There is in fact at least one set of circumstances that can make referring to yourself as "Dr." pompous to the point of being hysterically funny: when your "doctorate" comes out of a crackerjack box, but you then proceed to use the "Dr." title at absolutely every possible opportunity, including your listing in the local phone book.

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The image comes from a now out-of-date Pensacola phone book. The cropping and blurring are deliberate, and intended to protect the innocent. And the guilty.

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Hey, that's my phonebook!

Man, haven't been to Dinosaur Adventure Land in a while... That's always good for a laugh.

Is there an honorific for felons? Because surely Dr. Dino will have invested more time and energy in the federal penal sysstem than most PhD's do in graduate school.

Do you include chiropracter* in the list of people who claim to be doctors but shouldn't? I saw a billboard for one earlier and couldn't help but think of this post.

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