Yes SCOTUS; of course I’m lways tempted to type that with an unneccasy ‘r’ after the ‘c’ in addition to changing the ‘s’ to an ‘m’, which is why I use ‘The Supremes’ instead. Trying to keep the lines of commincation open and all that.
Rufus, you worry me.
And Stuffy, I’m not from Maryland, so you don’t scare me so much 
Featherlou is a woman, a good observator, Canadien or French, quite modest, and a synesthete.
SHAKES & **Dan the Man ** are the two dopers that come to mind when I think of 100% guy-guys. Not a hint of androgyny there. They are probably proud of it, too. :wally
Elmwood would like to better his flirting skills, has gorgeous dogs and a dazzling white smile.
Sunspace has incredible blue eyes, loves self-deprecatory humour, is an eligible bachelor, makes the most out of living in Canada and is into high-tech, yet environmentally friendly stuff like solar power and Smart-cars.
**Monstro ** is an intelligent young black woman, single, a student, who got an award for her intrigueing, self-drawn homepage.
Lsura, Lamia, and Siege always have a thoughtful, mild and and helpful quality to their posts.
My fellow Dutch Dopers are Swannguy (although he lives in the USA, he probably speaks English with an Limburgs accent) **gouda ** who I think lives in India, PookahMacPhellimey; **gum ** and Tusculan/TTT, and Coldfire of course.
I guess I could give a brief update about myself.
June 2002: got married.
June 2003: found out I had cancer (mixoid-type liposarcoma) and spent about a month in the hospital having a tumor in my knee removed.
June 2004: no signs of new growth, and came out as one of the healthiest people in my office following the annual health checks.
Don’t do that! Stay in the back with me so we can keep an eye on these people :dubious: . Somebody has to, this is a dangerous bunch. Take lots of notes.
Yep, good old East Bay High, currently mentioned in The National Enquirer.
Hey RX, wanna go out to the porch? This kitchen is getting crowded.
Although I recognise a lot of names on the board from various other boards I’m not entirely convinced that they are all the same people, so I’ll keep schtum for now. I KNOw no one knows anything about me…
Back in my smoking days, I would have gone out on the porch 2 hours ago. But no thanks. No time. Too busy updating files…
Well, there were a few more details that I could bring up, but I didn’t wanna seem obsessive.
But, seriously, whatcha got? It’s for my… er… Draelin Biography. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
You guys rock.
But, like, how are you doing that? Assuming you don’t really have files. Are you like super fast and good at searching?
[In which case I bow down before your superior powers.]
Or just really fast at reading? Or do y’all really remember all that?
Because that is an impressive amount to remember.
It’s amazing, you know… some of my files are incredibly detailed, while others are, well…less so.
Daftbugger - She was born in July of '78. Went to school in Wolverhampton. Has travelled in India. Has a fairly large bust. Wears corsets. Has a pet rat. Can make her jaw clunk.
TellMeI’mNotCrazy-She just went to London on the 11th of July. Her mom is Thai. Uses Ultra Secret anti-perspirant. Mouth noises driver her batty.
zoogirl is a…girl. Who…works in a zoo. And lives in Canada. She doesn’t talk about herself much…
Oh, one more:
FaerieBeth is gorgeous, but if you flirt with her, her husband Stonebow will threaten to go medeival on your ass. Literally. They’re like, medeival times people. She also wears corsets. Sometimes Stonebow does, too (in the name of scientific research only, of course. ).
I mainly observed that
all the above posters are stalkers.
For my part, I’ve done all mine from memory - even the later correction on FilmGeek’s place of residence. I was actually looking at the Oklahoma line I wrote, and thinking… “Well, which Dopers do I know cities for?” And running through that list, I hit FilmGeek as Lawrence, KS - which caused immediate cognitive dissonance. “Kansas? Didn’t I just say Oklahoma?” then “D’oh!”
I have a very good memory - it can exploit the tiniest connections to jog out the most surprising information… I constantly surprise people by being able to identify large amounts of information about movies I’ve never seen.
The one thing that trips it up is similar items - similar things confuse it sometimes. I used to confuse Burt Reynolds and Tom Selleck back in the early 80’s - it was the mustaches, you see.
Beyond that, if I notice something, it gets stored in the memory almost certainly.
pet rat died a long time ago. Rufus, you might find more if you search for Dafty as well…
If it weren’t for your name being on the post, I’d swear I’d written this. I’m pretty cinematically challenged, having not seen a lot of the movies that “everybody” has seen, but I can tell you all kinds of odd details about them anyway. And the Tom Selleck, Burt Reynolds thing? Scary. I used to value my uniqueness. Now I see it was all a myth
Heh. Another member of the quasi-eidetic club. Welcome. I also, despite being a huge fan of John Williams and all his works, will often have difficulty identifying the Superman theme distinctly from the opening Star Wars theme - even though I’ve heard both many times.
What’s really fun about the ability is that it allows me to function and contribute in conversations about subjects I’ve never paid much attention to - leaving the other participants wondering just how much I know and how I know it. Coupled with a pretty-good deductive ability, I can mischievously mystify plenty of folk.
I also finish other peoples sentences if they’re fumbling for a word sometimes, almost always with the word they were looking for.
In the spirit of this thread, then, wasn’t it you who ended up being one half (the Lightsabred half) of the modern day Supertwins? I can’t remember who the other half was, although I want to say it was Draelin.
But I know exactly what you mean. I have this uncanny ability to wax knowledgeably on many subjects, even if I really don’t think I have any idea of what I’m talking about. The current project I’m heading is a great example. Came into this thing completely clueless 3 days ago; now I’m asking all the right questions, without even really knowing how I knew I wanted to ask them. (Wow, that sentence made my head hurt.)
Oh, and I always confuse Gary Bussey and Nick Nolte, as well.
Throw in Jon Voight and the three of them always confuse me. They’re really all just one guy. That’s why you never see them all together.
Correct, Draelin and I established that we’re two halves of the same person in the Brando-death thread, after I cracked a not-entirely respectful joke at the expense of the deceased, and she said she was thinking the exact same thing. From there it devolved into Wonder-Twin references and Star Wars innuendo.
Yeah, Busey and Nolte are another easily confused pair.
I guess that puts us all in the “Professor and Mary-Ann” category.
Eh, could be worse. I’ve been on the boards for over two years (even longer than that, in one form or another). I’ve been out for a little over a month. Still my file just reads: “gay Doper.”