# Been hooked on the Dope since 1990... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 31, 2011, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/been-hooked-on-the-dope-since-1990/583802 "2011-05-31T01:17:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/been-hooked-on-the-dope-since-1990/583802/21 "2011-06-01T09:47:54Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > You got booted? How? Not quite sure. I had this username then as well, but the (very) few posts that I bad back then are now gone. Possibly the great hamster uprising did it. But I’m here now - that’s what counts. ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/been-hooked-on-the-dope-since-1990/583802/22 "2011-06-01T13:56:55Z")
The television show hooked me, and my incredible crush on Mike Lukas. I found the website a bit after that but I didn’t join the boards. This must have been a couple years later since I’m not sure when the website went up. I remember I worked at Kinko’s and would use the computer in my off time to read the archived articles. I had heard the rumor about asbestos in tampons, and I didn’t know what an urban legend was but I knew it sure didn’t sound right. I emailed and Tuba or Lynn emailed me back and told me to rest easy and keep plugging away. I thought “These are people with my sense if humor.” But then, of course, I was intimidated so I lurked for years before finally signing up in 2000. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/been-hooked-on-the-dope-since-1990/583802/23 "2011-06-01T14:02:30Z")
I think I read the column occasionally, but it was the book collection that really struck a chord with me (early 90’s I guess). I remember reading it on a plane, and when I read the column about people putting milk jugs around their lawn to keep dogs from shitting in their yard, with the description of a mutt laying a turd directly on one of them, I laughed long and hard. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2011, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/been-hooked-on-the-dope-since-1990/583802/24 "2011-06-02T00:52:36Z")
The book sat in my husband’s bathroom at his parents for years ignored by me. One day, bored with the reading material, I finally picked up one of the Dope copies and was hooked. That was maybe 1991ish or 1992. Found SDMB via AOL a few years later ( not as Shirley Ujest) and have been here online ever since, contributing utter nonsense on a daily basis. The things I could have accomplished in my life if I wasn’t always going, _I need to check the boards._ Heroin would be easier to quit. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2011, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/been-hooked-on-the-dope-since-1990/583802/25 "2011-06-02T04:40:09Z")
I believe I saw the columns in a free weekly while living in Albuquerque. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/been-hooked-on-the-dope-since-1990/583802.md?page=1)