# Curious about another Doper?    Ask them here. (ping:Polycarp)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-another-doper-ask-them-here-ping-polycarp/290244>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 15, 2005, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-another-doper-ask-them-here-ping-polycarp/290244 "2005-02-15T20:08:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-another-doper-ask-them-here-ping-polycarp/290244/121 "2005-02-17T16:03:45Z")

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**Candid Gamera** and **Anaamika** - get a [room.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=302873)

😛

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**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-another-doper-ask-them-here-ping-polycarp/290244/122 "2005-02-17T16:29:05Z")

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> [@CandidGamera](#):
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> Who doesn’t enjoy a good Monty Python reference?
> 
> 😃

There are people who don’t?

Philistines!

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**Author:** ![Aguecheek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Aguecheek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aguecheek)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-another-doper-ask-them-here-ping-polycarp/290244/123 "2005-02-17T17:03:16Z")

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> [@Case Sensitive](#):
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> **Aguecheek** , were you adored once? And don’t say “Yes. For 20 minutes. In 1601.”

Heh. Good Mistress Mary Accost! _sigh!_

[Johnny Dangerously]My mother adored me once. Just once.[/JD]

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**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-another-doper-ask-them-here-ping-polycarp/290244/124 "2005-02-17T18:23:18Z")

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> [@Anaamika](#):
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> There are people who don’t?
> 
> Philistines!

> [@CandidGamera](#):
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> Who doesn’t enjoy a good Monty Python reference?

The sort of blinkered philistine pig-ignorance I’ve come to expect from your type, with your bleeding Masonic handshakes.

Regards,  
Shodan

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**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-another-doper-ask-them-here-ping-polycarp/290244/125 "2005-02-17T18:38:06Z")

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> [@Shodan](#):
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> The sort of blinkered philistine pig-ignorance I’ve come to expect from your type, with your bleeding Masonic handshakes.
> 
> Regards,  
> Shodan

I am \*really \* hoping this is a joke. Even if it is, I don’t get it.

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**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-another-doper-ask-them-here-ping-polycarp/290244/126 "2005-02-17T18:40:01Z")

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> [@Aguecheek](#):
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> Heh. Good Mistress Mary Accost! _sigh!_

Sir Andrew? Is that you?

> [@](#):
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> ’Tis not the first time I have constrained one to call me knave.

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**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-another-doper-ask-them-here-ping-polycarp/290244/127 "2005-02-17T18:58:37Z")

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> [@Anaamika](#):
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> I am \*really \* hoping this is a joke. Even if it is, I don’t get it.

Shodan merely makes a more obscure Python reference.

First sketch, episode seventeen : [http://www.pythonland.com/episode17.php](http://www.pythonland.com/episode17.php)

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**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-another-doper-ask-them-here-ping-polycarp/290244/128 "2005-02-17T21:55:39Z")

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Sorry.  
I nearly got in at Hendon.

Regards,  
Shodan

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**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-another-doper-ask-them-here-ping-polycarp/290244/129 "2005-02-17T22:23:05Z")

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> [@CandidGamera](#):
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> Shodan merely makes a more obscure Python reference.
> 
> First sketch, episode seventeen : [http://www.pythonland.com/episode17.php](http://www.pythonland.com/episode17.php)

Huh…sigh.

Perhaps one day I will be able to recognize these, too. Poop.

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**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-another-doper-ask-them-here-ping-polycarp/290244/130 "2005-02-17T23:13:47Z")

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> [@Anaamika](#):
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> There are people who don’t?
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> Philistines!

You are offended by young women named Phyllis aged between 12 and 20?

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**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-another-doper-ask-them-here-ping-polycarp/290244/131 "2005-02-17T23:29:45Z")

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> [@Polycarp](#):
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> You are offended by young women named Phyllis aged between 12 and 20?

Ha ha. 😛😛😛

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**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-another-doper-ask-them-here-ping-polycarp/290244/132 "2005-02-18T00:04:53Z")

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> [@Anaamika](#):
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> There are people who don’t?
> 
> Philistines!

Stone them! They said Jehovah!

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**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-another-doper-ask-them-here-ping-polycarp/290244/133 "2005-02-18T00:06:19Z")

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> [@iampunha](#):
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> Stone them! They said Jehovah!

Hey now I have a question about another Doper?

What in the bloody hell does “iampunha” mean?

I separate it out as I Am Punha. What does that mean?

And where did you start running nekkid through threads? How?

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**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-another-doper-ask-them-here-ping-polycarp/290244/134 "2005-02-18T01:59:38Z")

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> [@Anaamika](#):
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> What in the bloody hell does “iampunha” mean?
> 
> I separate it out as I Am Punha. What does that mean?

I actually know the answer to this, but wild horses couldn’t pull it out of me! 😛

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**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-another-doper-ask-them-here-ping-polycarp/290244/135 "2005-02-18T02:33:46Z")

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> [@Anaamika](#):
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> Hey now I have a question about another Doper?
> 
> What in the bloody hell does “iampunha” mean?
> 
> I separate it out as I Am Punha. What does that mean?
> 
> And where did you start running nekkid through threads? How?

I’ll make a wild guess and say you need to add another space.

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**Author:** ![Good\_Egg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@Good\_Egg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Good_Egg)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-another-doper-ask-them-here-ping-polycarp/290244/136 "2005-02-18T02:39:33Z")

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**Liberal** , what do you do for a living?

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**Author:** ![Good\_Egg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@Good\_Egg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Good_Egg)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-another-doper-ask-them-here-ping-polycarp/290244/137 "2005-02-18T02:42:40Z")

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**Guinastasia** , you seem to have the most posts here. What is the worst thing you’ve ever read here and the best?

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**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-another-doper-ask-them-here-ping-polycarp/290244/138 "2005-02-18T02:50:40Z")

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> [@Grey](#):
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> I’ll make a wild guess and say you need to add another space.

IIRC (and I _should_, since I’ve read **iampunha** ’s username origin story many times), **Anaamika** is on the right track. **Punha** , please smite me if I’m wrong.

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**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-another-doper-ask-them-here-ping-polycarp/290244/139 "2005-02-18T14:14:04Z")

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**Aesiron** , how ya doin’?

And it is pronounced

Ace, iron

or

Ace, er, _on_

or

Ay, sir, on!

or

Ay, sirrah (n) !

or what?

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**Author:** ![audiobottle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@audiobottle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audiobottle)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-about-another-doper-ask-them-here-ping-polycarp/290244/140 "2005-02-18T14:19:32Z")

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Well as long as we’re asking pronunciations, how do you pronounce your name, **a35362**?  
Is it a, 35362  
or  
a35, 362  
or  
a3536,2  
or  
Bob?

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