Come out of the closet: What SDMB rules of a"cool" do you break?

Pontiac’s Canadian equivalent to the Chevy Sprint?

A doper of some stature who declared that “two items does not constitute a list.”
Hence, a list of two terms would consist of a third item, “Hi Opal!”

The circle was recently completed when Opal herself (OpalCat–who’s made several appearances in this damn thread–come on, people!) made a list of two items and someone told her that “two items does not constitute a list.” :smiley:

I, for one, was worried that the Dope would spontaneously cease to exist. Thankfully, it hasn’t.

Yet.

To be fair to “people”, there are so many similar user names that I would never assume that OpalCat and Opal are one and the same.
I might ask.
What’s this?
My screen’s getting dimmer!
Noooooo.

When I put on weight, it’s because I eat too much and exercise too little.

I don’t know how to do a spoiler box. /slinks away

Oh, that’s easy!

Just look at the bottom of the page and click “vb code ‘on’”

There ya go!
And to see a spoiler, click “reply”.

I don’t know how to quote from more than one Doper in my replies.

Just do it by hand. It’s easy:

[ quote=control-z ]I don’t know how to do a spoiler box.[ /quote ]

Blah blah blah

[ quote=vivalostwages ]I don’t know how to quote from more than one Doper in my replies.[ /quote ]

Snark snark snark

Take out the spaces between the brackets and you’re set.

I think beer mostly sucks. I can tolerate it if it’s a REALLY cold brew. but mostly see no reason to drink it.

I hate coffee.

I enjoy the McDonald’s “Filet-O-Fish”. I adore White Castle.
I dislike Thai food, and most Indian food.

I love horse racing. I even like greyhound racing.

I hated “Rushmore”.

“The Sopranos” looks boring to me.

I find Wilco pretty boring, too.

Ah, that’s simple enough, but has somehow escaped me. I thought you had to set black text on a black background manually or something.

Ok, since you told me how to do a spoiler, I’ll give you an easier way to see a spoiler. Just left-click somewhere above the spoiler, and while holding the button drag downwards. It will highlight the text and you can see it. On a Windoze machine you can also hit Control-A to highlight all the text on a page. Either way just left-click somewhere to undo the highlighting.

Actually, I’m only 5’2".

What rules of SDMB cool do I break? The biggest one that I can think of is that I have absolutely no interest in science fiction writing. Cafe Society is constantly saturated with an unending torrent of science fiction authors and I never recognize any of them, but everyone else seems to not only love them immensely but also have read every syllable they’ve ever written.

The only science fiction story I have ever read is I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, by Harlan Ellison. I liked it. Besides that, I’m totally out of the loop.

There’s also a verb spelled “effect”, meaning “to bring about”, as in “effect change”. :smiley:

Just read a lot, and you’ll remember them from seeing them used.


And to get back to the subject under discussion:

I don’t like beer.

I don’t post often enough to be one of the “cool kids” :slight_smile:

I don’t use spellcheck (I’m just naturally anal retentive.)

The only time I’ve used “Hello, Opal” is when I met her at one of the Cleveland dopefests.

I don’t watch Buffy, or the Simpsons, or Firefly, or most of the others, mainly because my TV isn’t hooked up to cable or even an antenna. I just use it to watch DVDs and videotapes, and once connected it up briefly to a set of rabbit ears to watch one of the playoff games that involved a local team. (but I’m not really much of a sports fan either.) I spend most of my leisure time reading, either books or the Internet.

I’m probably older than the average Doper, but I can’t even tell them to “Get off my damn lawn!” because I live in an apartment. :slight_smile:

Or you can just CTRL-click in the spoiler box.

I covered that in the H4, actually.

I’m another one who really enjoys Starbucks. I love Jesus and deeply believe in an afterlife. I feel that a person can be educated and intellegent yet believe in something more powerful than ones self. I don’t care if that was incorrect useage or if I’ve misspelled every other word in this post. What the people here think of me is of no importance to me. I think some of Samperos (sp) stories are sort of funny. But I don’t think that his or her every post is side splitting as a lot of folks here seem to. I think abortion is wrong. The only thing I watch on tv is Dirty Jobs and Survivior Man. I rarely drink. I have two babies that I love dearly. I love kids. I like cats and dogs but I value humans more.

I don’t pretend “Cecil Adams” is a real person or is never wrong.

I’m a Latin American who doesn’t hate the US.

I think Bush made a much better president than Gore or Kerry could’ve.

I couldn’t care less if the earth was created 6000 or 15 billion years ago. Ditto for evolution.

If you’re talking about post 104, you covered “effect” as a noun, not as a verb.

Whoops! I was thinking about another thread. Sorry.