# Am I the Only One? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 23, 2004, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980 "2004-03-23T20:41:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/21 "2004-03-23T23:00:40Z")
> [@FilmGeek](#): > > Am I the only one who compulsively reads even if I’ve read it a hundred times before? Would you like me to recite the back of my shampoo bottle for you? I can, you know… ---
**Author:** ![JayElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@JayElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JayElle)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/22 "2004-03-23T23:03:30Z")
> [@SSgtBaloo](#): > > I know I’m not the only one or they’d never put them on dvd, but… > > I like 1950’s-1960’s movies that claim to be about sex but are really about courtship. “That Touch of Mink” and “Pillow Talk” (both with Doris Day) are prime examples. “Pillow talk, pillow talk Another night of getting my fill of pillow talk You and I both agree there must be a boy Must be a pillow Must be a pillow talking boy for me…” Yep, got it on video. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ContumeliousBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/57b2e6/32.png) [@ContumeliousBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ContumeliousBob)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/23 "2004-03-23T23:06:20Z")
[http://www.authentichistory.com/images/ww2/toons/ww2toons01.html](http://www.authentichistory.com/images/ww2/toons/ww2toons01.html) Here is some ww2 cartoon action for you. In the Fuerher’s face is pretty fun to watch. I am surprised disney would release the ww2 era cartoons, due to the fact that they are very un-pc, and pc-nazis would go buck wild and want them edited. i.e. The bugs bunny cartoon where bugs is a matador. They made the cartoon ‘safe’ by eliminating the part where he blows the bull up. Revisionists suck, PC revisionists suck worse. Oh and for the OP, am I the only one who thinks people who hate Christopher Columbus are weak minded fools? I mean come on, he is dead, and what he did was the ‘in’ thing to do back then. Why don’t you pick on someone who is alive? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/24 "2004-03-23T23:06:25Z")
> [@cards](#): > > I mentally find the divisor and the product on license plate numbers while driving. I rejoice at finding prime numbers. > > Time to leave for my afternoon commute. I mentally see if they are divisible by 2,3,4,5,6 and 9, since they are easy to do. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/25 "2004-03-23T23:07:10Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > 1. That listens to an album repeatedly, and then upon hearing a song on the radio, immediately expects to hear the next song from the album? … Not only that, but since I have listened to tapes I made from my record albums so many times I’m really confused when I hear a certain song **without** a scratch in it. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/26 "2004-03-23T23:07:54Z")
> [@AmericanMaid](#): > > Great idea! But should I only give one “am I the only one” or more? Eh, I’ll give more. > > Am I the only one who: > > 1. Is such a movie soundtrack fan that I sometimes see movies just to experience the soundtrack (I blame Hans Zimmer for the fact I actually saw “Pearl Harbor”)? > > 2. Thinks socialism is a good idea and it’s too bad that the actual practice of it is a disaster? > > 3. Believes that the Bush administration allowed 9/11 to happen just to further their political agenda? > > 4. Wants to be rich and feels guilty about it? > > 5. Dabbles in genetics, neurology, physics, and geo-sciences as a hobby? I do all of those too 🙂 (Except that tempered socialism has been proven to work; it’s Communism that’s the problem). ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/27 "2004-03-23T23:42:34Z")
> [@cards](#): > > I mentally find the divisor and the product on license plate numbers while driving. I rejoice at finding prime numbers. [/SIZE] You must be a “number” person. I’m a “word” person. I look at the letters on license plates and make words. If a plate has the letters “HSE” I try to think of as many words as I can with the letters “HSE” in that order: House, Hose, Horse, Hearse, Choose, Chose, Chase, Chaise, etc. I even do it when I walk through parking lots. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Gretchen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Miss\_Gretchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Gretchen)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/28 "2004-03-24T00:22:45Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > I mentally see if they are divisible by 2,3,4,5,6 and 9, since they are easy to do. I do that too! I’m always particulary pleased when one is divisble by 11, for some reason. I also see numbers as colours - two is red, four is green, five is blue, etc. I remember phone #'s and such more as a series of colours, rather than a series of numbers. I’m also obsessive about growing tomatoes - I have 6 different types started this year. I’d also really like to be able to create some “Island of Dr. Moreau” style veggies cross-bred with various creatures, but that may have to wait until I get a proper greenhouse or something. 🙂 Who’s Eric Bogosian, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/29 "2004-03-24T00:38:17Z")
[QUOTE=JayElle] [li]Is sexually attracted to men that many others would find “ugly”?[/li][/QUOTE] In a previous thread on the Dope, I admitted to finding Wallace Shawn attractive. I dare you to beat that! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![sinjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/30 "2004-03-24T00:40:06Z")
Am I the only PhD engineering prof techy that is addicted to romance novels? I do know one math PhD candidate who reads them as well and Star Wars novels to boot, but he shall remain nameless. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/31 "2004-03-24T00:43:41Z")
I play license plate cribbage. Pickups in Washington state have 5 numbers and I try to see how good of a cribbage hand the numbers would make. The best hand would be 28 and a few years ago I saw a plate with 55505, with 0 being 10, that has been the only 28 hand I have seen. I love growing [garbage can potatoes.](http://www.ciscoe.com/~ciscoe/archive/spuds.html) I have bought a fishing license every years since I can remember and I haven’t been fishing in about 10 years. Yes, I have bought my 2004 license and I am going to try to go fishing at least once. Maybe. I collect skunks. I have about 200 of them. I also collect Monopoly pieces. I just paid $28 for a gold plated Studebaker pickup token. ---
**Author:** ![saramamalana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@saramamalana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saramamalana)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/32 "2004-03-24T01:46:46Z")
**FilmGeek** , your brother is cool. I dig TMBG and not Tool, but I like that analogy. > [@](#): > > 1. That listens to an album repeatedly, and then upon hearing a song on the radio, immediately expects to hear the next song from the album? Not only do I do that, but if I have a song that I’ve used on a mix, I’ll sometimes expect to hear the song that would be next on the mix. Or I’ll hear the song when I’m playing the album it’s originally from and then expect to hear the next song that’d be on the mix and vice versa. Mmm I _think_ that made sense. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/33 "2004-03-24T01:47:16Z")
> [@OpalCat (who was replying to Film Geek)](#): > > Would you like me to recite the back of my shampoo bottle for you? I can, you know… I am so glad I am not alone in this. The ingredients of any bathroom item, I can give you. I mean… I cannot be in there and not read. I was at a friend’s house once, and her guest bathroom was devoid of anything other than a bar of soap. Unfortunately the logo had worn off of that, so I was left with nothing to read. It’s a miracle that I survived, really. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/34 "2004-03-24T01:49:26Z")
> [@saramamalana](#): > > Not only do I do that, but if I have a song that I’ve used on a mix, I’ll sometimes expect to hear the song that would be next on the mix. Or I’ll hear the song when I’m playing the album it’s originally from and then expect to hear the next song that’d be on the mix and vice versa. Mmm I _think_ that made sense. Have you ever had it actually happen? **Once** , just once, I actually had two consecutive songs from a mix play back-to-back on the radio. Talk about messing with your head when the 3rd song doesn’t follow. ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/35 "2004-03-24T04:18:04Z")
> [@cards](#): > > I mentally find the divisor and the product on license plate numbers while driving. I rejoice at finding prime numbers. I also divide one number by the other, but my goal is to find plates where the result is close to the golden ratio. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/36 "2004-03-24T04:40:20Z")
> [@PictsiePat](#): > > Am I the only PhD engineering prof techy that is addicted to romance novels? > > I do know one math PhD candidate who reads them as well and Star Wars novels to boot, but he shall remain nameless. Well, I’m not an engineer, but I like to think I’m reasonably intelligent, and I, well, uh, umm, I read romance novels. Barbara Cartland romance novels. I am so ashamed! I must be the only one. ---
**Author:** ![heresiarch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/278dde/32.png) [@heresiarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heresiarch)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/37 "2004-03-24T05:01:11Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > However, I can certainly identify, because over the last year I’ve been formulating a somewhat elaborate sociological theory that looks at human society through the lens of the “social hive,” like ants and mole-rats and such, wherein the species, as a whole, naturally produces a range of personality types, a variety of people who fall in various places on the bell curves of intelligence, progressiveness/conservatism, aggressiveness, risk-taking, creativity, and so on, to maximize the chances of success for the social group as a whole. I think we match on this. I’ve had the idea that certain personalities, like extreme introversion or adventure-seeking, served some purpose in primitive socieities. And I suppose they still fulfill roles in modern society. I never developed it into a sociological theory though. If you decide to post a thread, I’d definitely be interested. ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/38 "2004-03-24T05:15:55Z")
> [@saramamalana](#): > > I… > > 1. Love the band “Fleming and John.” I swear no one has heard of thse people! > [@Fleming and John](#): > > Don’t tell my ears, cause they’re not listening > Don’t tell my heart, it doesn’t know what it’s missing > Don’t tell my eyes, cause they just won’t believe, > That you’re not in love with me. You’re definitely _not_ alone. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/39 "2004-03-24T05:23:35Z")
I look at license plate tabs, just to see if they’re expired or not. When I see someone with expired tabs, I usually become frustrated knowing that person would probably not get pulled over, but were I to swerve just a bit, I probably would. I haven’t been pulled over for any driving infraction in 12 years, but I still get paranoid. I find John Malkovich’s nose fascinating. I also know every ingredient in every product within arms reach of the ‘throne’. I have a few of those bathroom reading books, but it’s just not the same. I chew the inside of my mouth. ---
**Author:** ![Intent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5e9695/32.png) [@Intent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intent)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/40 "2004-03-24T05:30:05Z")
> [@jarbabyj](#): > > 1. Liked the movie **Newsies** Oh no, I like that movie too! I’m a sucker for a musical, and that was my first experience with Christian Bale. Continuing with thread… Am I the only one who plays games like mindsweeper and solitaire obsessively while they surf online? Who likes to watch the trailer right before they watch the movie? I also like to play with the numbers on a digital clock. I try to use some form of math to get the minutes to equal the hours. It’s a little wierd. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980.md?page=3)