# Do you doodle? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 2, 2013, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-doodle/654607 "2013-04-02T08:10:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ms.Pumpkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@Ms.Pumpkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms.Pumpkin)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-doodle/654607/21 "2013-04-03T02:51:13Z")
I do. I draw stars more than anything, but also cubes, asterisks, really basic smiley-faces(think emoticons on paper), hearts, letters or whole words in a different handwriting than normal, and my name/signature. On the radio the other morning, they were discussing some study(sorry-no cite) that somehow concluded that people who doodle sharp lines and angles are “less creative” than those who draw circles and spirals and curved lines. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-doodle/654607/22 "2013-04-03T03:16:35Z")
I doodle. It’s relaxing. I draw lots of interlocking, random paisley swirls filled with moire patterns. Seeing old school papers from elementary school, I was doodling that even as a kid. ---
**Author:** ![Victor\_Charlie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7ea924/32.png) [@Victor\_Charlie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Victor_Charlie)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-doodle/654607/23 "2013-04-03T07:11:26Z")
If I’ve been given one or more pages of typed information for the purpose of the meeting, I’ll turn the existing letters into faces, animals or other objects. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-doodle/654607/24 "2013-04-03T08:51:40Z")
I doodle, but it takes away from my concentration and I miss a whole lot of stuff. So I try to keep it to a minimum unless I’m really sure I don’t have to pay attention. Then I come up with stuff like “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Pringle”. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-doodle/654607/25 "2013-04-03T12:41:50Z")
I can rarely have a phone conversation for over one minute without doodling. My school notebooks are filled with doodle-graffiti in the margins and other empty spaces - mostly squiggly lines and stars and snakes. ---
**Author:** ![PurpleClogs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f04885/32.png) [@PurpleClogs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleClogs)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-doodle/654607/26 "2013-04-03T15:09:29Z")
I fill in the circles, connect lines, stuff like that. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-doodle/654607/27 "2013-04-03T15:41:46Z")
One of the other things I would write in meetings, besides notes, was whatever I was thinking at the time. Okay most of the time but one day I hadn’t realized my boss was looking over my shoulder. One of my obnoxious coworkers was rambling on about something and I wrote ‘I wish somebody would make that asshole shut up’. I heard the snicker and realized my boss had read it. He seemed to like me a whole lot better after that. I learned to be a little more careful about what I wrote. ---
**Author:** ![Ms.Pumpkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@Ms.Pumpkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms.Pumpkin)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-doodle/654607/28 "2013-04-03T17:58:35Z")
> [@sahirrnee](#): > > …One of the other things I would write in meetings, besides notes, was whatever I was thinking at the time. > Okay most of the time but one day I hadn’t realized my boss was looking over my shoulder. > One of my obnoxious coworkers was rambling on about something and I wrote > ‘I wish somebody would make that asshole shut up’… I do that, too! I found an old notebook I had taken to a meeting, and across one margin, I had written, “Shut up. Shut UP! Oh, just kill me now!.” I’m guessing someone asked a stupid question. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-doodle/654607/29 "2013-04-03T18:43:08Z")
Stick figures, swords, cubes, and patterns based on the lines on the paper ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-doodle/654607/30 "2013-04-03T22:59:56Z")
At the single most boring meeting (and longest!) I was ever in, I started keeping a chart. On the x-axis, I measured adjectives uttered by the speakers. On the y-axis, I measured yawns (anyone’s, not just my own.) As you might expect, the curve was a very clean parabola. ---
**Author:** ![scootergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@scootergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scootergirl)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-doodle/654607/31 "2013-04-03T23:46:08Z")
“Doodle” is my middle name. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-doodle/654607/32 "2013-04-04T06:06:31Z")
Scooter Doodle? I like it. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-doodle/654607/33 "2013-04-04T07:16:41Z")
‘Girl’ is a pretty unusual surname. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-doodle/654607/34 "2013-04-06T03:50:15Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > I can rarely have a phone conversation for over one minute without doodling. > > My school notebooks are filled with doodle-graffiti in the margins and other empty spaces - mostly squiggly lines and stars and snakes. I used to get crap for that from my teachers. Well, guess what, Mrs. Coddlington, I ended up doodling for a living! And teaching business execs to doodle. And now I frame my doodles and people buy them (seriously, I have trouble believing that one myself). So keep playing in those margins… you never know. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2013, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-doodle/654607/35 "2013-04-06T05:54:52Z")
Yep. Put a piece of paper and pen in front of me during a meeting, and all I’ll have on it is weird, abstract cubes, spheres, triangles and squares, connected by angles, lines, and finely feathered ballpoint shading. Sometimes there’s a random word or three, like, “Due EOD Fri.” No idea what that means or what anyone was saying. I have reams of the stuff. I wonder if I came through that Friday. ---
**Author:** ![\_Olive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/4af34b/32.png) [@\_Olive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Olive)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-doodle/654607/36 "2013-04-06T06:27:27Z")
I doodle with pen and paper, and without. HA~ ---
**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:** [April 6, 2013, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-doodle/654607/37 "2013-04-06T06:42:19Z")
> [@\_Olive](#): > > I doodle with pen and paper, and without. > > HA~ The former must really chafe. ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-doodle/654607/38 "2013-04-08T02:02:00Z")
For years I doodled only stars. Then I switched to flowers. I can’t draw for shit, though. ---
**Author:** ![scootergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@scootergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scootergirl)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-doodle/654607/39 "2013-04-08T05:21:16Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Scooter Doodle? > > I like it. > [@Mangetout](#): > > ‘Girl’ is a pretty unusual surname. Yes, my name is Scooter Doodle Girl and it has gotten me far in life :D. No seriously, I love to doodle and draw… and maybe I’ll even share something. How in the hell do I attach something on here? ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-doodle/654607/40 "2013-04-08T05:31:33Z")
I’ve doodle my whole life. Not a phone person, so if I have to be on a phone on a meeting or something? Doodleville. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-doodle/654607.md?page=1)