# Brit Dope Winter 2003 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 1, 2003, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981 "2003-10-01T21:07:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 39
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/761 "2003-11-14T15:46:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shade \* > \*\*Apparently the de-geeking is working šŸ™‚ \*\* hopefully not on my l33t K0di|V6 5k1llz or Iā€™m out of a jobā€¦ :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/762 "2003-11-14T16:06:13Z")
> [@](#): > > hopefully not on my l33t K0di|V6 5k1llz or Iā€™m out of a jobā€¦ No! Youā€™ve started posting l33t, it may be too late šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/763 "2003-11-14T16:09:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by garius \* > \*\*Iā€™ve been banned from making Monty P references by **Garigirl** - sorry. Its part of her plan to de-geek me. She also wonā€™t let me dye my hair blue or pink anymore. ā˜¹ > > \*\* Sheā€™s a witch! šŸ˜‰ I leave for half an hour and what happensā€¦ šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/764 "2003-11-14T16:19:46Z")
morning. anyone lend me some money? ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/765 "2003-11-14T16:59:14Z")
'Fraid not. Iā€™m a poor penniless grad student. I donā€™t get paid enough for my level of education. ā˜¹ ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/766 "2003-11-14T17:01:10Z")
Morning? ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/767 "2003-11-14T17:08:36Z")
and a good morning to you sir. ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/768 "2003-11-14T18:28:31Z")
Well, thank you, but please relieve my confusion: where in the uk is it morning?? ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/769 "2003-11-14T18:43:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Angua \* > \*\*'Fraid not. Iā€™m a poor penniless grad student. I donā€™t get paid enough for my level of education. ā˜¹ \*\* Donā€™t feel too badly about that. Iā€™ve defended an M.A. thesis (a saga which involved four leg surgeries, the breakup of the Soviet Union, and a dead committee member, not to mention two Russo-Chechen wars) and they still donā€™t pay me enough for my level of education. Plus I have to pay back student loans, because there is no graduate funding for the humanities in this Godawful screwed-up country with its crappy priorities. So Iā€™ve chosen to spend all my spare cash coming to watch you guys drink beer and act silly. Donā€™t disappoint me! (I should be able to spare a couple of bucks to buy someone a beer or two once I get there, though. Donā€™t mind my kvetching; Iā€™m just grumpy, and trying to help my friend get her fiancĆ© out of Turkmenistan. Never a dull moment around here. Sorry for the hijack. šŸ™‚ ) ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/770 "2003-11-15T09:11:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eva Luna \* > \*\*Donā€™t feel too badly about that. Iā€™ve defended an M.A. thesis (a saga which involved four leg surgeries, the breakup of the Soviet Union, and a dead committee member, not to mention two Russo-Chechen wars) and they still donā€™t pay me enough for my level of education. \*\* I donā€™t feel that bad really. Iā€™m doing what I love, so Iā€™m happy. Whatā€™s upsetting though is how I get paid less than someone with \<5GCSEs working at MacDonalds. :rolleyes: ā˜¹ > [@](#): > > **Plus I have to pay back student loans, because there is no graduate funding for the humanities in this Godawful screwed-up country with its crappy priorities.** Eurk. Tell me about it. Bleeding screwed up bleeding countries with screwy priorities. Tell me, anyone, how exactly, is forcing people to pay tuition fees going to make universities less about ā€œsocial classā€ and more about academic eliteism? Cause I canā€™t see it. > [@](#): > > \*\* So Iā€™ve chosen to spend all my spare cash coming to watch you guys drink beer and act silly. Donā€™t disappoint me!\*\* Well, we havenā€™t failed to disappoint yet have we? šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/771 "2003-11-15T22:13:40Z")
Iā€™ll apologize in advance for actually posting something related to the Londope. :rolleyes: With the exception of one round (which requires some travelling to set and which I hope to complete tomorrow), the quiz is now set. Rejoice and be glad. Reading over it, I am disturbed to discover how many questions there are that refer to 1) sex, 2) animals, or 3) bodily functions, with at least two rounds dedicated to at least two out of the three. Iā€™m not sure whether this is mere coincidence, an indication of the caliber of my sense of humor, or some deeply-buried Freudian thing I donā€™t even want to contemplate. Never mind; whatā€™s grist for my therapist is also grist for your entertainment (and, believe me, it could get very grisly indeed). On a more serious note, **please bring a pencil** (with an eraser if possible), as this will be needed for the final round. (You will actually be using these to write; Iā€™m not requiring you to hammer them up **ianzin** ā€™s nose or anything like that.\*) You can use a pen instead, naturally, but Iā€™m guessing you may wish to erase things at some point. Just to repeat: there will be NO ā€œlounge singerā€ round. Other previous hints about the quiz largely still apply as well, although they will avail you naught. Oh, and there will be monkeys. Lots of monkeys. See you there. šŸ˜‰ \*Unless you really want to, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Chimpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@Chimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimpy)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/772 "2003-11-16T17:34:08Z")
i just thought id better stop this disappearing into cyber limbo ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/773 "2003-11-16T17:44:55Z")
Thank you, Gyrate, for your work on the quiz. Yoiu know, weā€™d have been disappointed if there had been no ā€œsexā€, ā€œanimalsā€ or ā€œbodily functionsā€ rounds. Very disappointed. Blessed shall be the Doper who brings along several pencils, for distribution among those Dopers who have no pencil. ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/774 "2003-11-16T22:45:39Z")
You know Iā€™m going to bring along a pack of pencils, donā€™t you? Itā€™s just the kind of person I am. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/775 "2003-11-16T22:47:09Z")
Iā€™d bring a biro. Rebel without a WH Smithā€™s, me. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/776 "2003-11-17T00:48:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tansu \* > \*\*Thank you, Gyrate, for your work on the quiz. Yoiu know, weā€™d have been disappointed if there had been no ā€œsexā€, ā€œanimalsā€ or ā€œbodily functionsā€ rounds. Very disappointed. \*\* I aims ta please. > [@](#): > > \*\*Blessed shall be the Doper who brings along several pencils, for distribution among those Dopers who have no pencil. \*\* Heh. ā€œI wept that I had no eraser, until I met a man who had no pencil.ā€ ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/777 "2003-11-17T10:44:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shade \* > \*\*No! Youā€™ve started posting l33t, it may be too late šŸ™‚ \*\* pH34r m7 l33t 5k1llz. [sub]okay iā€™ll stop now - thats giving me a headache[/sub] I may bring a propelling pencil - just to bo snobby. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/778 "2003-11-17T10:59:26Z")
I have a propelling pencil, but I think I may have broken it. I shal definitely bring my Stationary Box 4H pencil, which I use when Iā€™m attempting to concentrate and write at the same time. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/779 "2003-11-17T11:25:45Z")
iā€™ll bring a 4b pencil just so i can be messy. ---
**Author:** ![Bibliovore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Bibliovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bibliovore)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/780 "2003-11-17T11:57:22Z")
Iā€™ll bring a box of crayons for **Tir**. šŸ™‚ Wheee! KABOOOOM! Boing! etcā€¦ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981.md?page=38) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981.md?page=40)