# Anyone ever finger a fellow Doper by an SDMB in joke? Or try to? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 12, 2004, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-finger-a-fellow-doper-by-an-sdmb-in-joke-or-try-to/233833 "2004-03-12T03:00:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2004, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-finger-a-fellow-doper-by-an-sdmb-in-joke-or-try-to/233833/21 "2004-03-12T22:27:44Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > I asked, " Are you a friend of Cecil Adams? You look familiar." I _like_ this approach. I’m going to remember it, should the occasion ever arise. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2004, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-finger-a-fellow-doper-by-an-sdmb-in-joke-or-try-to/233833/22 "2004-03-12T22:41:38Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > A Doper is graciously allowing me to live with him right now because I’m down on my luck but I would risk getting thrown out and being homeless by throwing various heavy objects at his head if he used a 1920’s Death Ray or Hi, Opal joke offline. So I shouldn’t wear the “3. Hi, Opal!” T-Shirt Opal made for me? Yep, I’m special. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Serpentine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@Silver\_Serpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Serpentine)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2004, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-finger-a-fellow-doper-by-an-sdmb-in-joke-or-try-to/233833/23 "2004-03-12T22:46:18Z")
I keep meaing to make a button that just says SDMB on it. White with black letters. If I can find a button-maker, I’ll do it, too. Then mail some to people who want them. Hey, charging a quarter plus shipping (can you send a button via regular mail?) could help me fund my Texas move! And they’d only cost folks $.65! Now I need a button maker. Oh wait. Would that be illegal? ---
**Author:** ![dangergene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@dangergene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangergene)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-finger-a-fellow-doper-by-an-sdmb-in-joke-or-try-to/233833/24 "2004-03-13T12:04:51Z")
> [@Silver Serpentine](#): > > If I can find a button-maker, I’ll do it, too… I gots me that button maker (I’m not sure if I’m allowed to have an SDMB button, I cruise through most of the workday every day. but post maybe once a fortnight). Anyways… um… what was my point? Oh, the button maker. Yes. It’s a very cute Hello Kitty one, which goes with my rugged visage just nicely! Made by Bandai, available at various places here in S’pore, particularly Popular Bookstores (which also exist in HK and Malaysia, and I believe Canadia too, if anyone’s assing through those necks of said woods). _slinks off to continue lurking_ ---
**Author:** ![dangergene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@dangergene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangergene)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-finger-a-fellow-doper-by-an-sdmb-in-joke-or-try-to/233833/25 "2004-03-13T12:06:04Z")
oh, and **Silver** why would an SDMB button be illegal? Or is it the whole, doing-it-without-authorisation-from-the-powers-that-be thing? ---
**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 13, 2004, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-finger-a-fellow-doper-by-an-sdmb-in-joke-or-try-to/233833/26 "2004-03-13T13:27:50Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#): > > I’m just mystified at some of these inside jokes, as a relative newcomer. What’s the story behind the Hi, Opal! bit? > > Though I have noticed a few references to ‘Batman, if he’s prepared’… > > Any other SDMB in-jokes that I should look for? I found [this](http://fathom.org/teemingmillions/injokes.html) to be invaluable. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-finger-a-fellow-doper-by-an-sdmb-in-joke-or-try-to/233833/27 "2004-03-13T21:08:37Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > I found [this](http://fathom.org/teemingmillions/injokes.html) to be invaluable. Ah, thanks! I’ll read up at once. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-finger-a-fellow-doper-by-an-sdmb-in-joke-or-try-to/233833/28 "2004-03-13T21:31:19Z")
I found [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=118749&highlight=SDMB+anthology) thread very interesting as well. It was called the SDMB anthology and gives a lot of board history. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-finger-a-fellow-doper-by-an-sdmb-in-joke-or-try-to/233833/29 "2004-03-13T21:48:30Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > I’d be willing – but I’m not sure I want to have to deal with the dyslexic contingent of the BDSM community. You ain’t heard the half of it. Know what the BDSM community calls their get-togethers? A BDSM Munch. I discovered that 2 years after my registration. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-finger-a-fellow-doper-by-an-sdmb-in-joke-or-try-to/233833/30 "2004-03-14T00:19:31Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > You ain’t heard the half of it. Know what the BDSM community calls their get-togethers? A BDSM Munch. I discovered that 2 years after my registration. I always picture you as looking like Richard Belzer at his most dyspeptic. ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-finger-a-fellow-doper-by-an-sdmb-in-joke-or-try-to/233833/31 "2004-03-14T02:15:19Z")
> [@Jonathan Chance](#): > > So I shouldn’t wear the > > “3. Hi, Opal!” > > T-Shirt Opal made for me? > > Yep, I’m special. **Opal** , I’d pay real money for one of those. I would think there would be some real money in making T-shirts that had “inside jokes” from the SMDB on them. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-finger-a-fellow-doper-by-an-sdmb-in-joke-or-try-to/233833/32 "2004-03-14T02:30:58Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > I think that we should have those EU oval bumper stickers, only ours would say: > > **SDMB** that’s it. No explanation. If anyone asks, just say, " You wouldn’t understand." > > Make it all that much more mysterious. I’d know you without a handshake or password or anything, **Shirley** , 'cause you’d be the most awesomest person in the room. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-finger-a-fellow-doper-by-an-sdmb-in-joke-or-try-to/233833/33 "2004-03-14T03:02:46Z")
At the Nashvegas meets, I usually get to the restaurant first. So I sit down, & tell the waitress that I’m “part of the Cecil Adams party” & if anybody is wandering around lost, she should steer them to me. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-finger-a-fellow-doper-by-an-sdmb-in-joke-or-try-to/233833/34 "2004-03-14T05:24:15Z")
> [@SkipMagic](#): > > Damn. Our Missouri Dopefests are **boring** by comparison. No, no the Missouri Dopefests are just as exciting, but you always leave early and miss out on all the fun.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gotti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7bcc69/32.png) [@Gotti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gotti)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-finger-a-fellow-doper-by-an-sdmb-in-joke-or-try-to/233833/35 "2004-03-14T05:32:39Z")
WTF is a DOPER? ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-finger-a-fellow-doper-by-an-sdmb-in-joke-or-try-to/233833/36 "2004-03-14T05:46:22Z")
> [@Gotti](#): > > WTF is a DOPER? You are, Doper McDoperson! If that _is_ your real name… ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-finger-a-fellow-doper-by-an-sdmb-in-joke-or-try-to/233833/37 "2004-03-14T06:06:12Z")
> [@](#): > > I’d know you without a handshake or password or anything, **Shirley** , 'cause you’d be the most awesomest person in the room. 😃 This just made my day! Just for that, you get to wear the Secret Doper Red Velvet Fez. ---
**Author:** ![Lyllyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@Lyllyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lyllyan)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-finger-a-fellow-doper-by-an-sdmb-in-joke-or-try-to/233833/38 "2004-03-14T06:11:51Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > I think that we should have those EU oval bumper stickers, only ours would say: > > **SDMB** that’s it. No explanation. If anyone asks, just say, " You wouldn’t understand." > > Make it all that much more mysterious. Follow up with “It’s a Doper thing.” ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-finger-a-fellow-doper-by-an-sdmb-in-joke-or-try-to/233833/39 "2004-03-14T12:43:35Z")
> [@Gotti](#): > > WTF is a DOPER? Well, newbie, I thought that would be self-evident, given the name of the website. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-finger-a-fellow-doper-by-an-sdmb-in-joke-or-try-to/233833/40 "2004-03-14T12:51:10Z")
> [@SkipMagic](#): > > Damn. Our Missouri Dopefests are **boring** by comparison. Missouri? Boring? No way! I was watching a Mystery Science Theatre 3000 DVD the other day, and Crow yelled “Hi, Opal!” at one point. I think he’s more likely a doper than John Mayer. But in case I’m wrong: John, you’re a pussy and your music sucks. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-finger-a-fellow-doper-by-an-sdmb-in-joke-or-try-to/233833.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-finger-a-fellow-doper-by-an-sdmb-in-joke-or-try-to/233833.md?page=3)