# Dope-aholics Anonymous **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 20, 2000, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-aholics-anonymous/22960 "2000-06-20T08:15:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BigJoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9bd4f/32.png) [@BigJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigJoe)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-aholics-anonymous/22960/21 "2000-06-20T21:01:09Z")
It started innocently enough. It was a slow week at work and I stumbled over Unca Cece’s archives. I’d drop by a couple of times a week, check the column and the mail bag. Then they started the Thread Spotting feature and I was doomed. It was the Evil Nazi Ground Hogs that brought me low. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=15906](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=15906) ---
**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-aholics-anonymous/22960/22 "2000-06-20T22:43:34Z")
So far the D.A. members are: [in alphabetical order] BigJoe BratMan007 etgaw1 Eve GaWd Mr. Cynical pluto Silo struuter tatertot Techchick68 ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-aholics-anonymous/22960/23 "2000-06-20T22:52:56Z")
I tell my wife I’m checking out the Monster board then sneak over and call everybody who posts in the Pit a big baby. I’m an anti-social doper. ---
**Author:** ![Brunetter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@Brunetter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brunetter)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-aholics-anonymous/22960/24 "2000-06-20T22:55:11Z")
I can’t stay away. God knows I’ve tried. But whenever I’m at my computer (which is all day, since I work, live, and play on the damn thing) I can’t help but wonder … Who’s getting roasted in the Pit? What’s going on in Doperville? Is there anything on MPSIMS that will allow me to contribute my own mudane, pointless experiences, thus to enlighten the masses? Is this the day someone will point out my cool sig and decide I’m no longer a newbie and worthy of conversing and/or mad flirting? I was tricked into coming here! Cruelly tricked. It all started with an ad on a humour email I’m subscribed to. “Can women have non-genital orgasms?” The ad beckoned. “Click here to find out.” Click here, click here … c’mon you know you want to … first time’s free… Before long, I started to refer to conversations (even in real life) as THREADS, and it’s hard to talk to me without hearing "That reminds me of what I read on the Dope the other day … Seems Eve was leaving her cat with a sitter for a weekend … " Help me. Please. ---
**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-aholics-anonymous/22960/25 "2000-06-20T23:28:30Z")
Ummmmmmmmm… i’d like to join; I realy would! But is it ok if I join after the Vegas Dopefest? I…I…need a …fix… ---
**Author:** ![purrplebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@purrplebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purrplebear)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-aholics-anonymous/22960/26 "2000-06-20T23:46:51Z")
HA! VB, _You_ should talk! This is all your fault! _WHO_ invited me to join? **WHO** got me to start posting right away by starting a welcome thread for me? And _now_ you want to join this group! 😛 Well, ok, can I join too? I’ll be good, honest I will. I haven’t even mentioned a ‘thread’ for… oh… about…3 days, I think. At least to someone other than a Doper. 😉 But, it’ll have to be **after** the Vegas Dopefest! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-aholics-anonymous/22960/27 "2000-06-20T23:47:10Z")
It started years ago, socially. A friend got me hooked by showing me that fatal first book. I had to get the second, read the third in the store without buying it. I was slipping, bad. I read the books more than anything. It wasn’t enough. Then, that fatal day when I discovered Mr. A was on the net.I logged on to the site and was stunned. Tons of columns. I felt the rush again, and was hooked. Would spend hours browsing the site. Then, when that began to wear off… _sigh_ I discovered message boards. I only lurked, honest! For the longest time that held me… I told myself I was normal, and could quit anytime. I wasn’t one of… them. Then one day I took that step. I posted. I forget what it was about. Suddenly all those years of BBSing came back, and I went mad, feeling the rush again. Now I’m trying not to take that final step… posting in the pit… I’m losing it tho… Every day I feel the urge to hit bottom and post there… I need help… Bad… _sobs_ ---
**Author:** ![Girlbysea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Girlbysea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girlbysea)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-aholics-anonymous/22960/28 "2000-06-20T23:49:52Z")
Hi, my name is Girlbysea, no…GBS no… Damn, guess I forgot the real one!!!.. ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-aholics-anonymous/22960/29 "2000-06-20T23:50:26Z")
I’d like to join, honest. But…what else would I do at my boring as hell job with not enough work for me? Oh heck, I’ll join. Sign me up and pass the beer! ---
**Author:** ![winky99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/71c47a/32.png) [@winky99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/winky99)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-aholics-anonymous/22960/30 "2000-06-29T20:47:52Z")
:peaks in the door: Asks feebly, “Is the DA meeting?, I, uh, am supposed to pick up a, uh, [pause] friend.” ---
**Author:** ![winky99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/71c47a/32.png) [@winky99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/winky99)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-aholics-anonymous/22960/31 "2000-06-29T20:50:26Z")
As an addict you’d think I could post a damn message correctly. “Hi, my name is Scott, and I have a problem.” ---
**Author:** ![GolfWidow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a698b9/32.png) [@GolfWidow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GolfWidow)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-aholics-anonymous/22960/32 "2000-06-29T21:01:59Z")
I DON’T have a problem. There is nothing wrong with spending 4 to 5 hours a day lurking and occasionally posting. What do you mean “IRL?” This is my real life! \ Let go of me. I DO NOT HAVE A PROBLEM! ---
**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-aholics-anonymous/22960/33 "2000-06-29T21:16:13Z")
So far the D.A. members are: [in alphabetical order] BigJoe BratMan007 Brunetter etgaw1 dropzone Eve Falcon GaWd Girlbysea GolfWidow Mr. Cynical pluto purplebear Saint Zero Silo struuter tatertot Techchick68 Vestal Blue winky99 ---
**Author:** ![ren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@ren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ren)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-aholics-anonymous/22960/34 "2000-06-29T22:01:48Z")
Now, THIS is the thread that should have been named “Most times you’ve done it in one day” then we’d see some REAL numbers. Myself, I’d love to join but I’m too busy working on this post at the moment…I’ll get back to ya. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2000, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-aholics-anonymous/22960/35 "2000-06-30T04:29:41Z")
Hi. My name is Smeghead. \<\\> And I’m a Dopeaholic. Last Monday, I think it was…I forget…they all run together in my mind. Anyway, I was not only online, but either on the board or the chat room for close to 12 hours straight. I need help. I admit that. And I will check back here evey hour on the hour until I am cured, dammit!! I will be free!! ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2000, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-aholics-anonymous/22960/36 "2000-06-30T05:02:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > > Okay, Step One: something about a higher power. > \*\* uh, isn’t that Cecil? I have to admit, I’ve been weak - I’ve even sent out threads to unsuspecting friends, and if they get hooked, it’s on me…I’m new, but I’m hooked… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-aholics-anonymous/22960.md?page=1)