# Doppelganger has left the building... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 3, 2005, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelganger-has-left-the-building/297551 "2005-04-03T19:27:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelganger-has-left-the-building/297551/21 "2005-04-04T01:10:35Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > One thing that confuses me: > > The only thread I saw Doppleganger in was in IMHO, titled “Does ‘Girl’s night out’ bother anyone?” or something like that. I noticed the banning of Doppleganger, who wrote the OP, and noted in thread how we’d probably never find out how Girl’s night out went. Someone else said “search for Roland Deschain”, I wrote something like “Are you saying he was a sock?” > > This was just a few hours ago. Go try to find that thread. It’s gone. Other Doppleganger threads are still there, including an ongoing one about “why do lesbians like butch girls?” But that thread has been dissappeared. > > I’ve never seen a whole thread thrown into a black hole on the SDMB. Well, except for that Winter of Missed Content. WTF? 😕 There was not such thread, it was swamp gas lit by the full moon; now please look at this light for a second… ---
**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelganger-has-left-the-building/297551/22 "2005-04-04T01:25:02Z")
I gotta change my username for sure now… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelganger-has-left-the-building/297551/23 "2005-04-04T01:28:28Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > One thing that confuses me: > I’ve never seen a whole thread thrown into a black hole on the SDMB. 😕 It happens quite frequently here, especially with those sorts of circumstances. At least I’ve observed it over a dozen times, and I haven’t even been watching for that sort of thing real closely. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelganger-has-left-the-building/297551/24 "2005-04-04T01:34:11Z")
Hmmph. I guess I wasn’t paying attention that closely. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelganger-has-left-the-building/297551/25 "2005-04-04T01:38:39Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > I’ve never seen a whole thread thrown into a black hole on the SDMB. Well, except for that Winter of Missed Content. WTF? 😕 It was pathetic trolling, **squeegee** , of the sort that’d lower your IQ by forty points just by reading it. Such is removed because why give losers their jollies? Veb ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelganger-has-left-the-building/297551/26 "2005-04-04T01:43:06Z")
I wouldn’t defend that thread as something to be cherished and pored over. It struck me as weird narcissism on the OPs part, but I was willing to cut him some slack, because I didn’t know who he was, not realizing there was some board history I wasn’t aware of. It still strikes me as odd to vaporize what other people who participated wrote in that thread. Whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelganger-has-left-the-building/297551/27 "2005-04-04T01:47:14Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > You might try “Doppleganger” – the jerk couldn’t even spell his sock-name right. Heh. I have rotten spelling skills. Figures I’d use the correct spelling and screw everybody up with _that_. Sorry: Doppleganger it was. You can hear the change in pitch as his thread falls rapidly away from us into the abyss… ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelganger-has-left-the-building/297551/28 "2005-04-04T01:54:53Z")
> [@Loopydude](#): > > You can hear the change in pitch as his thread falls rapidly away from us into the abyss… [Pedantic mode ON] No, that would be _Dopplerganger_. What is this “pun” you speak of? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelganger-has-left-the-building/297551/29 "2005-04-04T01:58:09Z")
Oh, cut me some slack, willya? I’ve been inhaling polyurethane fumes all day. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelganger-has-left-the-building/297551/30 "2005-04-04T01:59:31Z")
Is it fun? How about the colors? ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelganger-has-left-the-building/297551/31 "2005-04-04T02:03:58Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > I wouldn’t defend that thread as something to be cherished and pored over. It struck me as weird narcissism on the OPs part, but I was willing to cut him some slack, because I didn’t know who he was, not realizing there was some board history I wasn’t aware of. > > It still strikes me as odd to vaporize what other people who participated wrote in that thread. Whatever. I was the one that posted “search for **Roland** ” just ‘cause it was so incredibly, freakin’ obvious it was him. The vast majority of his threads were the exact same skeevy crap. I hadn’t been sure if he was trollin’ or just a seriously messed up individual but since he used the _exact same_ story for his recent post, I’m thinking that he really is a pathetic, twisted sad-sack. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelganger-has-left-the-building/297551/32 "2005-04-04T02:05:18Z")
Not as vivid as what I get with epoxy or mineral spirits, but it beats the cherrywood stain hands down. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelganger-has-left-the-building/297551/33 "2005-04-04T02:52:11Z")
> [@tremorviolet](#): > > I was the one that posted “search for **Roland** ” just ‘cause it was so incredibly, freakin’ obvious it was him. The vast majority of his threads were the exact same skeevy crap. I hadn’t been sure if he was trollin’ or just a seriously messed up individual but since he used the _exact same_ story for his recent post, I’m thinking that he really is a pathetic, twisted sad-sack. Not obvious to me – I didn’t pay attention to the Saga of Roland on the first go-round until it was already over. And I wasn’t going to wade through 167-in-11-days trainwreck threads out of idle curiousity. ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelganger-has-left-the-building/297551/34 "2005-04-04T03:05:32Z")
With threads like this [one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=309418), who else could it be but Roland? Smart man though. Managed to cut through all the crap and get to what was really important about the Schiavo case. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelganger-has-left-the-building/297551/35 "2005-04-04T03:09:07Z")
Ah, **roland**. My first thought was he lied with every word. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelganger-has-left-the-building/297551/36 "2005-04-04T03:14:33Z")
Now I feel dumb… I let an Irken get by without noticing! ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelganger-has-left-the-building/297551/37 "2005-04-04T03:27:50Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > Ah, **roland**. > > My first thought was he lied with every word. Aw, geeze, Qadgop… I should really read that poem sometime. It can’t be any worse than the last four Dark Tower books. ---
**Author:** ![belladonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelganger-has-left-the-building/297551/38 "2005-04-04T03:45:57Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > I should really read that poem sometime. I just noticed that the whole first stanza is a pretty apt take on trolling, if you look at it right…Interesting. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the working of his lie On mine, and mouth scarce able to afford Suppression of the glee that pursed and scored Its edge, at one more victim gained thereby. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelganger-has-left-the-building/297551/39 "2005-04-04T06:56:00Z")
Man, the post on french fries. Remember when his prior incarnation posted about potato chips not tasting as good as they used to? Shows how little attention I pay that I didn’t pick up on that at the time . . . Heehee . . . Roland is sorta like Butters on South Park. He suffers so much, but he’s so pathetic, and he brings so much of it on himself, that it becomes incredibly entertaining to watch. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelganger-has-left-the-building/297551/40 "2005-04-04T06:58:44Z")
I would humbly submit that he is much more like Zim than any south part character. [And I can prove it.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5745036&postcount=112) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelganger-has-left-the-building/297551.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelganger-has-left-the-building/297551.md?page=3)