# Alphagene can't take a girl calling him "dork" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 9, 2001, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-cant-take-a-girl-calling-him-dork/61399 "2001-04-09T20:27:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Freyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freyr/32/5763_2.png) [@Freyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freyr)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-cant-take-a-girl-calling-him-dork/61399/41 "2001-04-10T21:50:39Z")
My guess it that **you da man** has been reading that excellent novel, _The Left Hand of Dorkness_ by U. K. LeGuin. After all, **you da man** had a hard time telling which sex **Alphagene** was. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_and\_I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Cat\_and\_I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_and_I)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-cant-take-a-girl-calling-him-dork/61399/42 "2001-04-10T21:54:31Z")
Mind coming back to tell them what you’re mad about? And this time leave me out of it, okay? I said my piece about Alfie’s bragging and saw it- that’s sufficient for a minor boast- I didn’t need it repeated. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-cant-take-a-girl-calling-him-dork/61399/43 "2001-04-10T21:56:39Z")
Perhaps **Cat and I** was/were (aside to grammarians: how do you do the verb with a name like Cat & I? singular? plural?) attempting to emulate that great actress Audrey Hepburn in _Wait until Dork_? ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-cant-take-a-girl-calling-him-dork/61399/44 "2001-04-10T22:21:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by wring \* > **(aside to grammarians: how do you do the verb with a name like Cat & I? singular? plural?)** Singular. It’s referring to one person, unless two people are sharing a name. Why not shorten it to **Cat** when referring to the poster? ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-cant-take-a-girl-calling-him-dork/61399/45 "2001-04-10T22:34:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Freyr \* > \*\*My guess it that **you da man** has been reading that excellent novel, _The Left Hand of Dorkness_ by U. K. LeGuin. After all, **you da man** had a hard time telling which sex **Alphagene** was. \*\* It’s entirely possible, but couldn’t he have been reading Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Dorkover series? Or conversely, he could have read L.Sprague deCamp’s masterpiece Lest Dorkness Fall. One more possibility comes from the master of modern (well, 1950’s at least) terrror: Fritz Leiber: coulda been Gather, Dorkness or Our Lady of Dorkness What do _you_ think? Fenris ---
**Author:** ![you\_da\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ac8455/32.png) [@you\_da\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_da_man)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-cant-take-a-girl-calling-him-dork/61399/46 "2001-04-10T23:17:50Z")
\*\*Yeah, yeah, I know. The rant came out wrong. \*\* I’m a bad ranter. But I’m not very practiced, that’s all. The initial post was supposed to quote Alphagene, but with the thread locked I had to cut and paste instead and it lost that part where it says "Originally posted by… So I’m just going to start over, and hopefully simplify it so it makes sense. And Cat: Fine by me, I’ll leave you out of the new one. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-cant-take-a-girl-calling-him-dork/61399/47 "2001-04-10T23:44:18Z")
I dunno, I’m reading all this, and in the back of my head I’m hearing that famous Springsteen album, _Dorkness on the Edge of Town_. (I’m assuming this game is still on?) ---
**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:** [April 11, 2001, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-cant-take-a-girl-calling-him-dork/61399/48 "2001-04-11T00:00:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by riley dieffenbach \* > \*\*WTF I am way confused - what does you da moron have to do with Cat and I. Are they the same person? Cohabitators? This may just end up in Weird Earl. \*\* Which would make the OP the Dork of Earl. ---
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2001, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-cant-take-a-girl-calling-him-dork/61399/49 "2001-04-11T00:09:08Z")
It’s not terribly complex: [/list][li]Cat insulted a poster in ATMB. In this case, me.[/li][li]Insults, no matter how lame, belong in the Pit, not in ATMB.[/li] That’s why I closed the thread. Which reminds me, I closed your other thread. It’s redundant. If you want to believe that it’s because I “can’t take” it, then go right ahead. The Alpha Male cares not. Why Cat took my post about being an alpha male so personally is beyond me. You own current crusade, **ydm** , is equally bizarre. Keep the precious insults about my genotype and my endocrine system coming though. It’s funny as hell, in its own special way. To wit: > [@](#): > > It was supposed to be joking, but now it seems true. > > "Hmm… AOL Instant Messenger Handle: Alphagene22 > Isn’t the 22nd letter Chi, as in “X”, the X-gene? " What does this even _mean_? ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2001, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-cant-take-a-girl-calling-him-dork/61399/50 "2001-04-11T00:16:37Z")
Please, everyone, be sure to adhere to this thread’s [dress code](http://www.lileks.com/institute/dorcus/index.html). The management thanks you. ---
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2001, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-cant-take-a-girl-calling-him-dork/61399/51 "2001-04-11T00:48:47Z")
Ladies and gentlemen … From Los Angeles, California … the **Dorks!** ---
**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:** [April 11, 2001, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-cant-take-a-girl-calling-him-dork/61399/52 "2001-04-11T00:49:38Z")
You da man is clearly the superhero of dorkiness. That’s right, he’s the (wait for it…) Dork Knight! Aha-ha-ha-ha… huh. Seemed funnier in my head. ---
**Author:** ![absoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@absoul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/absoul)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2001, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-cant-take-a-girl-calling-him-dork/61399/53 "2001-04-11T01:03:15Z")
This thread has so much mass that it’s draining the light from my cubicle… too much Dork Matter. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2001, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-cant-take-a-girl-calling-him-dork/61399/54 "2001-04-11T01:05:56Z")
[Bart Simpson] “You are, as we say in Latin, a _Dorkus Malorkus_.” [/Bart Simpson] ---
**Author:** ![absoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@absoul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/absoul)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2001, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-cant-take-a-girl-calling-him-dork/61399/55 "2001-04-11T01:18:15Z")
Did anyone notice the other [Dork Hole](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=67029)? ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2001, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-cant-take-a-girl-calling-him-dork/61399/56 "2001-04-11T01:27:00Z")
…anybody seen Jessica Alba wander through this thread? ---
**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2001, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-cant-take-a-girl-calling-him-dork/61399/57 "2001-04-11T01:41:19Z")
[Forrest Gump]My mama always saaid, “Life is like a box of chocolates, you nevah know whatchur gonna get.”[/Forrest Gump] ---
**Author:** ![Protesilaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Protesilaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Protesilaus)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2001, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-cant-take-a-girl-calling-him-dork/61399/58 "2001-04-11T03:42:20Z")
If only we knew how old this guy was. We could write the definitive history of the Dork Ages! ---
**Author:** ![Hoyle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/858c86/32.png) [@Hoyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoyle)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2001, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-cant-take-a-girl-calling-him-dork/61399/59 "2001-04-11T03:49:20Z")
Um… so why does everyone think “dork” is so bad? Wasn’t it a generic insult in grammar school? Are we that PC now? This pit sure isn’t like it once was. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2001, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-cant-take-a-girl-calling-him-dork/61399/60 "2001-04-11T04:23:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dijon Warlock \* > \*\*…anybody seen Jessica Alba wander through this thread? \*\* No, but my sisters go to school with her. I’ve been wondering why there’s no Dorth Vader inviting Luke over to the Dork Side. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-cant-take-a-girl-calling-him-dork/61399.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-cant-take-a-girl-calling-him-dork/61399.md?page=4)