# Do YOU Yahoo? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 2, 2000, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-yahoo/13527 "2000-02-02T01:47:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kellibelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@kellibelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellibelli)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2000, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-yahoo/13527/21 "2000-02-02T23:19:00Z")
I play cribbage, and reversi…dabble at hearts… I adore crib, but it does seem to be a primarily canadian game… Any takers? ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2000, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-yahoo/13527/22 "2000-02-02T23:39:00Z")
I only Yahoo here: [[http://messages.yahoo.com/bbs?action=m&board=7187646&tid=best5bands&sid=7187646&mid=1&type=date&first=1](http://messages.yahoo.com/bbs?action=m&board=7187646&tid=best5bands&sid=7187646&mid=1&type=date&first=1)]5 bands thread My name there starts with a T. I never quite got the yahoo bio to work right. I don’t know what people do in Yahoo otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2000, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-yahoo/13527/23 "2000-02-02T23:40:00Z")
ok, [topic](http://messages.yahoo.com/bbs?action=m&board=7187646&tid=best5bands&sid=7187646&mid=1&type=date&first=1) ---
**Author:** ![Studi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Studi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Studi)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2000, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-yahoo/13527/24 "2000-02-03T04:05:00Z")
Oh…I thought that said “Do YOU Yoohoo?” That would have been considerably funnier. Studi * * * Don’t _speak_ ill of your enemies; plot it. ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2000, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-yahoo/13527/25 "2000-02-03T04:22:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Do YOU Yahoo? Nope. * * * _formerly known as LauraRae_ I’m a Raggety Ann in a Barbie Doll world. [Laura’s Stuff and Things](http://members.aol.com/lrconaway) ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2000, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-yahoo/13527/26 "2000-02-03T04:37:00Z")
LauraRae, why the new name? sunbear, formerly known as … ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2000, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-yahoo/13527/27 "2000-02-03T06:38:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by sunbear: > **LauraRae, why the new name?** Change is good. And I was craving something a little more creative as a s/n. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2000, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-yahoo/13527/28 "2000-02-03T15:40:00Z")
I have Yahoo Messenger, although I haven’t used it in ages. AIM is the best way to get a hold of me. I’m Drain Bead there, too. * * * “Buffalo Bills? Oh, yeah. The guys that always snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.” --WallyM7 ---
**Author:** ![Y2Sandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/258eb7/32.png) [@Y2Sandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Y2Sandgirl)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2000, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-yahoo/13527/29 "2000-02-06T00:38:00Z")
I got a new Yahoo name and it’s my new email that I’ll be using as well. [Y2Sandgirl@yahoo.com](mailto:Y2Sandgirl@yahoo.com) 🙂 * * * The best things in life are Italian…that’s the thing, though…I’m not Italian. ---
**Author:** ![AzRaek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/azraek/32/16739_2.png) [@AzRaek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AzRaek)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2000, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-yahoo/13527/30 "2000-02-06T03:46:00Z")
I’m AzRaek. Usually in the trivia rooms, making the little kids cry. I have gotten 3 marriage proposals from various nations. I told my against-marriage SO each and everytime I got one. Had the Messanger for a while, but it ate up too much space on my crap laptop. * * * I’m not a fallen angel, I’m a risen demon. ---
**Author:** ![ConMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@ConMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ConMan)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2000, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-yahoo/13527/31 "2000-02-07T06:31:00Z")
Yepper. knconoly But I am not online as much as I am online with IM due to the lack of friends and relatives who don’t have Yahoo! I’m not too crazy about their My Yahoo! Page. I prefer My Netscape. Though the web mail at Yahoo! is much faster than Netscape’s. * * * “Quoth the Raven, ‘Nevermore.’” E A Poe ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2000, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-yahoo/13527/32 "2000-02-06T19:53:00Z")
Brian\_ONeill * * * Yer pal, Satan ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2000, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-yahoo/13527/33 "2000-02-08T06:01:00Z")
I just started Yahooing (did I just make up a new word?). Enright3 there too. I like it because of the “voice” chat. Enright3 ---
**Author:** ![Frankie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/258eb7/32.png) [@Frankie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frankie)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2000, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-yahoo/13527/34 "2000-02-08T06:05:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by kellibelli: > \*\*I play cribbage, and reversi…dabble at hearts… > > I adore crib, but it does seem to be a primarily canadian game… > Any takers?\*\* ## Yah if you don’t mind getting skunked you canuck! -Frankie “Mother Mercy, can your loins bear fruit forever?/Is your fecundity a trammel or a treasure?” -Bad Religion ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2000, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-yahoo/13527/35 "2000-02-07T23:23:00Z")
opalcat\_dot\_com I have the name OpalCat as well, and I created a profile for it, but then when I went to update it, it said “sorry, you’re too young to have a profile” HUH? I mean I HAVE a profile. It obviously didn’t think I was too young when I made it. Also, their age limit is 13. I’m more than twice that. So I wrote to their tech people and asked what the problem was. They sent me back a form letter about why I couldn’t have a profile because I was too young. I replied asking if they had even read my email, pointed out that I already HAD the profile, so obviously something had gotten messed up on their end since I created it, and asked how to fix it. They sent me back a form letter on how to clear my cache. After a month of back and forth, during which I actually did get to talk to a real person, who claimed to have “fixed” the problem, everything was exactly the same. About 6 months later, I decided to try again, with the same results. Finally I managed to get them to delete the user, but while the profile is gone, the name is still taken, so I can’t re-create it. GRR. Yahoo bites so hard. They’ve totally destroyed [Webring.org](http://Webring.org), which they aquired when they bought Geocities. Anyway, I only have the yahoo thing on about 25% of my time online, while AIM and ICQ are always on. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2000, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-yahoo/13527/36 "2000-02-08T03:55:00Z")
My daughter is on Yahoo as tracerbkorn. Her name’s Tracy, she’s 33, single, quite funny, loves Bruce (has tickets to the St. Louis concert in April), and reads the same books I do. (She’s currently on A Clash of Kings.) Geez, it sounds like I’m pimping her. She doesn’t have a computer at home so checks the account at work. (During lunch time, of course.) We work at the same place, in adjoining offices. Feel free to e-mail her. Tell her to get off the 'net and go get her mom a Pepsi. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-yahoo/13527.md?page=1)