# Ask Qadgop's Kid! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 1, 2004, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-qadgops-kid/243044 "2004-05-01T21:59:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hugh\_Jass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@Hugh\_Jass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hugh_Jass)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-qadgops-kid/243044/21 "2004-05-02T01:57:39Z")
How did he become a mercotan? Will you become one too? Has he put pressure on you to be a mercotan? ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-qadgops-kid/243044/22 "2004-05-02T01:59:30Z")
If your post count goes up here while your grades go down, then what? ---
**Author:** ![Sisyphus\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sisyphus\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sisyphus_Stone)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-qadgops-kid/243044/23 "2004-05-02T02:03:37Z")
Being the son of, not one, but two MDs, I’ve never been able to fake an illness to stay home from school. Has your dad ever caught you out trying to feign a sick gut or the odd malady to escape the torture of school? And, did he get you to pull his finger when he had a fart stored up? ---
**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:** [May 2, 2004, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-qadgops-kid/243044/24 "2004-05-02T02:26:26Z")
Do you ever tire of telling someone you’ve newly met that, " My Dad’s In Prison". I could run with that one for _years_. And what is this about _Accidental Sex Education_? Was it something like, “Oh, I didn’t know that went in \* there \*.” Do you fly planes as well? ---
**Author:** ![Mercury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e95f7d/32.png) [@Mercury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercury)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-qadgops-kid/243044/25 "2004-05-02T02:31:49Z")
What imaginary numbers incident? Do you mean imaginary numbers like “3i?” [whispers] Eleventy-three? ---
**Author:** ![elfbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b782af/32.png) [@elfbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfbabe)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-qadgops-kid/243044/26 "2004-05-02T02:33:58Z")
> [@Hugh Jass](#): > > How did he become a mercotan? Will you become one too? Has he put pressure on you to be a mercotan? I dunno, do you get a toaster for every new mercotan you convert? ---
**Author:** ![elfbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b782af/32.png) [@elfbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfbabe)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-qadgops-kid/243044/27 "2004-05-02T02:35:44Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > If your post count goes up here while your grades go down, then what? Fortunately, I don’t have to maintain a certain GPA to get them to keep paying my tuition. I think they would just be Very Disappointed. And **Qadgop** does a pretty intimidating Very Disappointed, let me tell you. ---
**Author:** ![elfbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b782af/32.png) [@elfbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfbabe)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-qadgops-kid/243044/28 "2004-05-02T02:39:34Z")
> [@Sisyphus' Stone](#): > > Being the son of, not one, but two MDs, I’ve never been able to fake an illness to stay home from school. Has your dad ever caught you out trying to feign a sick gut or the odd malady to escape the torture of school? Me, no. I was always pretty healthy and pretty good about attending school regularly. The very few times I did fake sick, (I think in late elementary school?) they were willing to let me stay home just because I supposedly wasn’t feeling well, whether or not it came from any actual illness. My sister, on the other hand… > [@](#): > > And, did he get you to pull his finger when he had a fart stored up? No, I had uncles for that. ---
**Author:** ![elfbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b782af/32.png) [@elfbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfbabe)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-qadgops-kid/243044/29 "2004-05-02T02:42:15Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > Do you ever tire of telling someone you’ve newly met that, " My Dad’s In Prison". > > I could run with that one for _years_. No, I am a nice person and don’t go in for tormenting others. it sounds like fun, though > [@](#): > > And what is this about _Accidental Sex Education_? Was it something like, > “Oh, I didn’t know that went in \* there \*.” Nah, just reading books whose exact contents **Qadgop** had not properly remembered… 😉 > [@](#): > > Do you fly planes as well? Nope. ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-qadgops-kid/243044/30 "2004-05-02T03:19:18Z")
So, he crashed a plane, and you don’t fly as well, huh? Think I will keep out from under any flying Mercotans. Tris. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-qadgops-kid/243044/31 "2004-05-02T03:55:39Z")
Do you get to test drive all the cool new meds before the other kids do? Is it true that sometimes when your friends are over he glues a big magnifying glass lens to his wrist, and tells them he’s with the Galactic Patrol and can read their thoughts? ---
**Author:** ![Rabid\_Squirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-qadgops-kid/243044/32 "2004-05-02T04:49:54Z")
Ever asked for a second opinon on medical issues? I remember doing this once to my old man, but I was only 6 at the time. Fortunately, he thought it was cute. 😛 As a result of your father being a doctor, did it encourage/discourage you from going into medicine? Have you ever ‘accidently’ looked through medical books for the gross pictures? ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Dave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Great\_Dave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Dave)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-qadgops-kid/243044/33 "2004-05-02T05:32:16Z")
How’s the vegemite going down? ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-qadgops-kid/243044/34 "2004-05-02T07:36:46Z")
What the _hell_ does Qadgop the Mercotan mean, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-qadgops-kid/243044/35 "2004-05-02T09:55:52Z")
When you greet your dad, do you ever say “What’s up, Doc?” and mime chewing on a carrot (ala Bugs Bunny)? My dad (an entomologist) never got that… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Osip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4491bb/32.png) [@Osip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osip)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-qadgops-kid/243044/36 "2004-05-02T11:34:00Z")
Does he have a yellow Harley Davidson in the garage he loves but the rest of the family secretly want to sell out from under him? ---
**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:** [May 2, 2004, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-qadgops-kid/243044/37 "2004-05-02T11:45:07Z")
Yeah, what’s the deal with the vegemite and cheese fixation, anyway? I meean, Jeez Louise…no _wonder_ he’s in the Big House. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-qadgops-kid/243044/38 "2004-05-02T11:50:45Z")
Oh! And when are he and Momgop going to come visit Bawlmer, so we can meet you all? ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-qadgops-kid/243044/39 "2004-05-02T12:02:56Z")
Will you search on a usual basis for threads he has particpated in or started? Do either of you want a measure of privacy? ---
**Author:** ![elfbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b782af/32.png) [@elfbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfbabe)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-qadgops-kid/243044/40 "2004-05-02T13:25:39Z")
So many questions… > [@Mercury](#): > > What imaginary numbers incident? Do you mean imaginary numbers like “3i?” When I was little, he told me that imaginary numbers were things like eleventy-three and forty-twelve. You know, numbers that didn’t really exist, hence imaginary. > [@astro](#): > > Do you get to test drive all the cool new meds before the other kids do? Well, yes, but that’s because I’m a college student who doesn’t have very much money and does medical testing for spare cash. Not because I’m his kid. > [@astro](#): > > Is it true that sometimes when your friends are over he glues a big magnifying glass lens to his wrist, and tells them he’s with the Galactic Patrol and can read their thoughts? He never told MY friends that. He did tell them about our house rules, though - those being “no sex, no drugs, no barratry.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-qadgops-kid/243044.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-qadgops-kid/243044.md?page=3)