# Doper with most fascinating posts **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 5, 2006, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-most-fascinating-posts/355558 "2006-05-05T16:05:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gabriela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@gabriela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gabriela)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-most-fascinating-posts/355558/21 "2006-05-06T01:17:05Z")
> [@Least Original User Name Ever](#): > > waitaminit…it says “interesting” posts. i’m more of “humor” or “vapid rant”. Vapid in that sense. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-most-fascinating-posts/355558/22 "2006-05-06T01:17:31Z")
Moved from IMHO to MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-most-fascinating-posts/355558/23 "2006-05-06T01:22:41Z")
> [@gabriela](#): > > Vapid in that sense. Word, Doper sister. Word. ---
**Author:** ![KlondikeGeoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-most-fascinating-posts/355558/24 "2006-05-06T01:37:24Z")
> [@gabriela](#): > > Aww! > Klondike George!!! Uh, he’s my evil twin brother, but that’s OK. As to your posts. Pics? KlondikeGeoff, the good bro. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-most-fascinating-posts/355558/25 "2006-05-06T06:16:38Z")
Well, I’m mostly lousy with names, but **gabriela** , **Scylla** , and **Qadgop the Mercotan** are indeed at the top of my list. I’m a _little_ notable myself, right? As in the “heh, there goes Ran again. He’s always good for a laff” sense, more than the “oh no, HE’S posting again. So much for _this_ thread” sense, I hope. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-most-fascinating-posts/355558/26 "2006-05-06T06:55:36Z")
**Scylla** **Qadgop the Mercotan** **Master Wang Ka** **Eve** **Sampiro** and the newlycomer **gabriela** (not necessarily in that order). I reckon I won’t be in anyone’s list 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gabriela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@gabriela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gabriela)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-most-fascinating-posts/355558/27 "2006-05-06T10:20:56Z")
**Ranchoth** is so notable that, a few days ago, when I was challenged to come up with the name of a person who did not exist, I could not say anything but “Henry Ranchoth”. Which bowled me out of the game, as the Ranchoth half does exist. ---
**Author:** ![gabriela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@gabriela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gabriela)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-most-fascinating-posts/355558/28 "2006-05-06T10:22:02Z")
> [@KlondikeGeoff](#): > > Uh, he’s my evil twin brother, but that’s OK. > > As to your posts. Pics? > > KlondikeGeoff, the good bro. Hey, **KG,** can I talk to your evil twin? I’ve always had a fondness for… evil twins… (paging **Winston Smith** for appropriate mad tyrant laugh) No pics. Ever. ---
**Author:** ![gabriela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@gabriela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gabriela)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-most-fascinating-posts/355558/29 "2006-05-06T10:26:07Z")
> [@Least Original User Name Ever](#): > > Word, Doper sister. Word. I’m a sister! [frisson of newbie thrill running up her spine; clutches her torso with both arms wrapped around her] That feels more welcoming than the goat thing. Hey, just what was it with the goat thing? And that big red X? And the guy with the trebuchet with the lousy aim? Anyway, cool goat roti at the barbecue afterwards. ---
**Author:** ![gabriela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@gabriela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gabriela)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-most-fascinating-posts/355558/30 "2006-05-06T10:28:03Z")
> [@Mighty\_Girl](#): > > **Scylla** > **Qadgop the Mercotan** > **Master Wang Ka** > **Eve** > **Sampiro** > and the newlycomer **gabriela** > > (not necessarily in that order). > > I reckon I won’t be in anyone’s list 😃 I like Mighty Girl. I also have to say I have the same list, except for the newlycomer. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-most-fascinating-posts/355558/31 "2006-05-06T10:28:38Z")
Everyone I want to mention has been mentioned, but I’ll mention them anyway: **SentientMeat** **Qadgop the Mercotan** **gabriela** **Sampiro** And also there was **Lib** , once upon a time. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-most-fascinating-posts/355558/32 "2006-05-06T12:35:47Z")
> [@gabriela](#): > > Damn. > > I could at least bold his name and say it correctly. > > **KlondikeGeoff** , please accept my apologies. > > In token of which: > > Many years ago, there was an obese, mean, double-dealing fellow down in a very rural part of rural Tennessee, who was described to me as “the biggest Bubba around his parts”. He lived in a single-wide trailer, and had an additional trailer behind it which was filled to the top with stolen VCRs, TVs, and moonshine. How do we know this? The police inventoried it after he was murdered. > > He was murdered because he began to deal drugs in a significant way in his little area, and after awhile he ran afoul of the Colombians, whom you can’t treat like they were another little Bubba in your area, to be pushed around by the biggest local Bubba. The firemen put out his burning trailer only to find two bodies within it, which were himself and his twenty-years-younger girlfriend. They were halfway to cremated, that is, burned all over on the outsides, which is referred to inelegantly by our kind of folk as “crispy critters”. The tops of their skulls had blown off, as usually happens when the body gets hot enough for the brain to generate steam. But it could still be seen that their hands were tied with wire behind their backs. > > Now they were lying on a great number of bullets any of which could have gone right through them. But they were also surrounded by layers and layers of bullets in the ashes and debris, because this Bubba used to keep dozens of guns and rifles and shotguns loaded on the walls and around for convenient and handy defense and squirrel hunting, and all of them had exploded as they burned up. > > So this Bubba and his girlfriend were brought in in an exceedingly charred condition for me to try to perform some kind of autopsy to determine the cause and manner of – What? Dinner’s ready? Back later, friends. You go girl! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-most-fascinating-posts/355558/33 "2006-05-06T20:55:50Z")
**Sam Stone** is always a voice of good sense. And **QtM** and **Bricker** amaze me with their knowledge. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-most-fascinating-posts/355558/34 "2006-05-06T21:36:31Z")
I always read stuff from “The LA Crowd”: **Campion** ’s posts are always interesting to me, and helpful in that I can get a bit of insight into what it is my husband the (almost) 2L may be facing. \*\* Stranger on a Train\*\* always posts great science with a Wodehousian style. I learn as much as I laugh. I’ll lump \*\*silenus \*\*in with the LA crowd, although like me he isn’t really. I always find a good food and drink recommendations come from him. **Johnny LA,** although he isn’t in LA anymore, since we share some common High Desert experiences and a love of guns and motorcycles, plus I have a passing interest in aviation (kinda hard to avoid, both in my area of living and my area of work). Johnny LA’s thread on Deserts is what brought me out from lurker to poster, as a matter of fact. Uh, everyone can [del]beat[/del] thank him later. 😃 The medical bunch: \*\*QtM \*\*and more recently **gabriela**. You both have such interesting stories! **Sampiro** , of course. What can I say? He makes me laugh and cry. ---
**Author:** ![Campion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Campion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Campion)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-most-fascinating-posts/355558/35 "2006-05-06T23:11:01Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > **Campion** for telling us like it is - seriously, not many successful, and incredibly rich, litigation lawyers in L.A. would bother would Internet message boards, and then give considered and insightful advice - in excellent English! Once again, **roger** , your perspicacity has me blushing. And to my faithful manservant who pointed out your post to me – there’ll be a half-day off at Christmas this year for you. With a house staff as large as mine, I suppose I can make do for a few hours with one fewer minion. But us rich lawyers have to keep up appearances. > [@The Sausage Creature](#): > > **Campion** ’s posts are always interesting to me, and helpful in that I can get a bit of insight into what it is my husband the (almost) 2L may be facing. I hope that my posts have made plain that the law is an incredibly fun way to spend your life. Fortunately, the hours aren’t horrendous, the work is always interesting, and opposing counsel is, simply, a joy to work with. If you have gleaned some other impression from my posts, it is all a lie. As for me, there are a handful of Dopers whose posts I routinely enjoy, but what I think is truly great is the surprise post – opening up a thread, and reading something by someone I’ve never heard of (or know only vaguely) and being truly tickled by it. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-most-fascinating-posts/355558/36 "2006-05-06T23:23:44Z")
**Eve, Walloon, RealityChuck,** and **Governor Quinn** , for their deep love and knowledge of the early 20th century and its seemingly endless cultural and historical riches. **David Simmons** , for his firsthand accounts of that epoch and cogent insights on our own day. **Lissa,** for educating us about dogs, penology, and museum practice, for her highly articulate brand of outrage, and for having the loveliest name ever given a woman. ---
**Author:** ![BoringDad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ad7895/32.png) [@BoringDad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoringDad)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-most-fascinating-posts/355558/37 "2006-05-09T02:33:56Z")
**Master Wang Ka**? I also like that particular type of poster. Sadly, he seems to be gone. I haven’t run across a thread from him in ages. So if we are including retired posters… then add **Wildest Bill**! ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-most-fascinating-posts/355558/38 "2006-05-09T02:58:47Z")
> [@gabriela](#): > > **Ranchoth** is so notable that, a few days ago, when I was challenged to come up with the name of a person who did not exist, I could not say anything but “Henry Ranchoth”. > > Which bowled me out of the game, as the Ranchoth half does exist. I can live with that. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-most-fascinating-posts/355558/39 "2006-05-09T13:19:31Z")
> [@gabriela](#): > > Hey, **KG,** can I talk to your evil twin? I’ve always had a fondness for… evil twins… (paging **Winston Smith** for appropriate mad tyrant laugh) > > No pics. Ever. Ahem. (me-me-me-me-_meeeee_). : Cough : BWA-HA-ha- **ha**. Ahem. : bows : ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-most-fascinating-posts/355558/40 "2006-05-09T13:43:26Z")
QtM threads always draw me in. Lieu always gets my attention. I always read Rick and GaryT answers to automotive questions with rapt attention. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-most-fascinating-posts/355558.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-with-most-fascinating-posts/355558.md?page=3)