# Ask the Perpindiguayan... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 15, 2015, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-perpindiguayan/720122 "2015-05-15T17:12:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-perpindiguayan/720122/41 "2015-05-15T22:34:42Z")
I have to say, that I’ve been struggling with the same issue. I identify with your description of being a Perpindiguayan, but so few of us are as vocal about it as you, it helps just to put a label to it. So… thank you for furthering the cause and mitigating the confusion and persecution. That said, have you put a label to not being from other countries as well? ---
**Author:** ![mascaroni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mascaroni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mascaroni)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-perpindiguayan/720122/42 "2015-05-15T22:53:56Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > I have to say, that I’ve been struggling with the same issue. I identify with your description of being a Perpindiguayan, but so few of us are as vocal about it as you, it helps just to put a label to it. So… thank you for furthering the cause and mitigating the confusion and persecution. > > That said, have you put a label to not being from other countries as well? Well… I must admit that I’m rather worried about being confused with someone from Liechtenstein. I’m not sure there’s a word for it though. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-perpindiguayan/720122/43 "2015-05-15T23:27:23Z")
Have you been Perpindiguayan your entire life or did you have to convert? What would you do if you found out you had been switched at birth and actually you are Paraquayan? ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-perpindiguayan/720122/44 "2015-05-15T23:40:54Z")
I’m an obphilatelist in that I demand recognition for not collecting stamps. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-perpindiguayan/720122/45 "2015-05-16T00:40:47Z")
> [@mascaroni](#): > > Well… I must admit that I’m rather worried about being confused with someone from Liechtenstein. I’m not sure there’s a word for it though. If so, it would be unpronounceable. I used to know a girl from Liechtenstein, and she had a problem with pronouncing anything, but I digress. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-perpindiguayan/720122/46 "2015-05-16T01:19:00Z")
Some of my best friends are Perpindiguayan. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-perpindiguayan/720122/47 "2015-05-16T01:25:42Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > Some of my best friends are Perpindiguayan. Well, bully for you! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Teach-me-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a4c791/32.png) [@Teach-me-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teach-me-not)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-perpindiguayan/720122/48 "2015-05-16T02:54:18Z")
I always thought the spelling was Perp **e** ndiguay. 😕 > [@Senegoid](#): > > I’m a Perpindiguayan too, and I always thought the majority of other Dopers are likewise. (Am I just making a stereotyped Perpindiguayist assumption here?) Anyway, if that’s true, then this will probably be a short thread. After all, presumably only the relatively few unperpindiguayan people on this Board would have any questions to ask, right? > > Excuse me while I report myself for threadshitting. Well, yes, most of us are Perpindiguaians, but we don’t know it yet. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Teach-me-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a4c791/32.png) [@Teach-me-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teach-me-not)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-perpindiguayan/720122/49 "2015-05-16T03:04:34Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Nor have I seen his picture on a milk carton. :dubious: Last time I found him, he was herding sheep. Did he get lost on the way home? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-perpindiguayan/720122/50 "2015-05-16T03:29:11Z")
Just so everyone knows, being Perpindiguayan: you’re born that way. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-perpindiguayan/720122/51 "2015-05-16T15:38:09Z")
When will your people be properly represented at Epcot? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-perpindiguayan/720122/52 "2015-05-16T16:15:33Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Just so everyone knows, being Perpindiguayan: you’re born that way. I think it’s a choice and Perpindiguayans can undergo therapy to change their orientation to Paraguayan. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-perpindiguayan/720122/53 "2015-05-16T18:00:07Z")
But what does this have to do with Patagonia? ---
**Author:** ![Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ac8455/32.png) [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Great_Darsh_Face)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-perpindiguayan/720122/54 "2015-05-16T21:43:55Z")
> [@mascaroni](#): > > Well… I must admit that I’m rather worried about being confused with someone from Liechtenstein. I’m not sure there’s a word for it though. Funny you should say that, because I’m a Dunkelsteinian myself. I’ve an idea we Dunkelsteinians are even more ubiquitous than Perpindiguayans, though. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2015, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-perpindiguayan/720122/55 "2015-05-17T01:07:08Z")
I knew a girl from Dunkelstein. She always picked the pickles off of her cheeseburgers at restaurants. It was very embarrassing. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2015, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-perpindiguayan/720122/56 "2015-05-17T04:22:44Z")
How many llamas do you not have? ---
**Author:** ![Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ac8455/32.png) [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Great_Darsh_Face)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2015, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-perpindiguayan/720122/57 "2015-05-17T06:23:00Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I knew a girl from Dunkelstein. > She always picked the pickles off of her cheeseburgers at restaurants. > It was very embarrassing. Please don’t stereotype - that’s not at all a Dunkelsteinian thing. I for one cheerfully eat the burger just how they serve it and I know I’m not at all unique in that respect. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2015, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-perpindiguayan/720122/58 "2015-05-17T20:14:44Z")
> [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](#): > > Please don’t stereotype - that’s not at all a Dunkelsteinian thing. I for one cheerfully eat the burger just how they serve it and I know I’m not at all unique in that respect. Some of my best friends are Dunkelsteinian! And I don’t like pickles, either. ---
**Author:** ![Teach-me-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a4c791/32.png) [@Teach-me-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teach-me-not)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2015, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-perpindiguayan/720122/59 "2015-05-19T01:57:01Z")
Q: What do you call a Perpindiguayian who hates all Paraguayians? A: A raycist. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2015, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-perpindiguayan/720122/60 "2015-05-19T03:34:12Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > But what does this have to do with Patagonia? Or the North Face? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-perpindiguayan/720122.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-perpindiguayan/720122.md?page=4)