Hello Notthemama,
I have been reading many of your posts and find most of them intelligent.
One or two times you have hinted at being something other then the average Doper…and now I am curious. You have intriqued me greatly.
I also noticed in one thread or another that you do not have any info on your profile because you perfer people don’t know who/what you are…and that has also intrigued me.
So, why don’t you email me at pepperlandgirl@yahoo.com and tell me about yourself a bit. I PROMISE I will not share the info with anybody, and only use my newfound knowledge for good, not bad. Whatcha say?
Please please please!
=)
Come on Notthemama please email me! I don’t want to sound desperate, but I have no shame.
How refreshing to hear someone admit they have no shame!! I have plenty to spare. Would you like some, and then if you have any leftovers, you can send some to ‘aha’!! 
{b] I prefer to think of Notthemama ** as an international spy, she probably has met the REAL James Bond! Only Scotland Yard has her real name and phone number! * She kept her e mail address from them, though. *
Seriously, pepper, there is another thread somewhere that she expressly says that she’s not revealing nuttin’. She doesn’t seem like the kind of person that changes their mind easily either. But, hey, keep trying, even ** aha ** got Jerry Davis and Ed Zotti to ‘personally welcome him’, anything is possible!! 
Anti Pro,
She’s a he!!
Tinker
Anything is possible, but, I’ve never heard a male want to keep his gender a secret.
I dont’ want his whole life story…just a little snippet. I can’t help myself
Please!!! PLEASE!!! Give me something! Nobody will see that email but me and you, notthemama…PLEASE!
Anti Pro, the one detail that Notthemama has revealed is that he is a he. I made the mistake of thinking the mama part meant something, and got corrected for it. Notthemama is a guy.
The origin of his name is from a TV show about dinosaurs living as people in the city. The baby dinosaur referred to the teenage son as “Notthemama” as opposed to his name, as kind of a way of saying “I want mama and you ain’t her.” Or something like that.
Judging by this story, I would interpret Notthemama’s choice of name to indicate he is also fairly young, perhaps a teenager, or maybe in college. That is a swag on my part, but I feel justified with it. (Look at me, I’m so smart. )
Pepperlandgirl, if Notthemama isn’t interested, can I have a shot?
** Irishman, ** this thread is the reason I came back in here tonight ( or today, since it’s now Saturday) because I didn’t mean to sound hateful, or whatever. I don’t care about his/her gender, it’s enough to know this person has a great deal to say, says it in a classy way and is interesting. They have taken a great deal of garbage ::::ahem::::to those surrounding us:::::::: more than any other poster of their worth and value ought to take, and did it with the heart of a lion.
- That said, if Notthemama has said she’s a he * then certainly, I’d believe it. It is just odd that I’ve never heard a male being coy about being a guy. I’ve never heard a guy talk about marriage (and this person is definitely married) the way it was discussed in that OP of ‘juliette’s mommy’.
So, I missed where the gender was finally said. But, this is NO college student, unless he’s gone back to college. They are too learned to be so young.
But, I’d never say a detrimental thing about him, and I didn’t want it interpreted that I had, there are enough bloodsuckers here without me becoming one of them. * You know who you are * though for the life of me, what your motivation is, other than you’ve been bested. Live with it. You think you’re the first person that has ever lost?? Try taking it with some more grace, it’s been demonstrated, so you know what it looks like, try it, it sure will look much better than the egg you usually end up wearing.
** Good luck, pepper! I think you ought to take Irishman up on his offer though, he’d never make you beg, right, Irish?? 
**
These are the things you can find out about me from what I’ve said in other threads.
I’m forty-something.
I’ve been married to the same person for 26 years.
I have 3 kids.
I’m a Christian.
I am self-employed.
I’m a born-and-raised American.
I don’t smoke or drink.
I like my privacy.
I am being pursued by trolls, for reasons which remain obscure.
If I e-mail you, pepper, then you will have my e-mail address. The reason I haven’t put it in my profile is because I value my privacy, and now, specifically, because I don’t want to have to wade through piles of obscene troll-generated spam every time I turn on the computer. Also, my kids use this e-mail account for their own MBs, too. This is our Official Family Meets the Outside World e-mail account, and I certainly don’t want them to be exposed to the ravings of loonies.
You don’t know my gender because I am performing an experiment, using the SDMB as guinea pigs. I have been involved with other MBs in the past where the response one received to one’s posts was radically different according to whether the other posters perceived you as being male or female. Female posters, when posting “deep thoughts”, tended to be ignored or dismissed with faint praise while the main conversation moved on. Male posters, when posting “deep thoughts” were much more likely to get a serious response, but were also much more likely to have other posters pick a fight with them.
I’m really not trying to jerk everybody’s chain by being deliberately enigmatic. I’m just here to talk. I’m sorry if it drives everybody crazy that you can’t picture a “man” or a “woman”, a “college boy” or a “housewife”, sitting here at the computer.
In recognition of pepper’s obvious good intentions and genuine curiousity in starting this thread, I will reveal here, for the first time ever, why I’m sitting here every day, all day, doing boards.
Last October I suffered a fairly severe injury to my foot and ankle which isn’t healing right. I have been told, “Well, as you get older, your body takes longer to heal… :: shrug :: … take ibuprofen, stay off it, do exercises…” So I’m pretty much confined to the house, climbing the walls with boredom.
I had been sitting here cruising the Internet pretty much at random, stopping in at various message boards, and putting odd words into MSN Search and seeing what came up. “eel” and “Norway” and “goat” and, one day, “poultry”. Up came an article by somebody named Cecil Adams entitled, “Why can’t chickens fly?” and, of course, I was instantly addicted. I’ve been here ever since. If my ankle ever does get better, I suppose I will go back to my real life and cut way down on my posting. (This also goes a long way towards explaining how I could amass nearly a thousand posts in less than two months, huh? I’m not a pimply college student with no life, I’m a crippled stay-at-home with no life.)
So. As for the recurrent observation that I “sound like a college kid”, well, I guess some kids just never grow up.
P.S. See what Anti just said about “I’ve never heard a male being coy about being a guy” and “I’ve never heard a guy talk about marriage that way”? Most “guy posters” are deliberately “dead butch”, as though they’re afraid someone might think they were female–“well, when I go deer hunting…” rather than, “This is what I think about deer hunting…”
And if the posts about marriage and commitment had been from a poster named JackArmstrongAllAmericanBoy, I bet a nickel I’d have had at least one post from a radical feminist, bashing me for “keeping the little woman prisoner”. As it was, I did get a couple of negative posts saying that “forcing someone to stay married because of a piece of paper” was the worst thing they’d ever heard. If I’d been obviously female, SoulSister or MotherGoddess, I bet I’d have gotten a different reaction. “You poor thing, who’s being so mean to you, forcing you to stay married?” But see, I really prefer the first responses, directed towards the non-gender specific Notthemama.
I rest my case.
Only “most of them”?
Ok, I can live with that amount of info, and I understand your reasoning behind not giving out your email account. I appreciate the info you shared, and that also answered a very important question…just how DID you amass so many posts in such a short about of time. Now I know, and I can sleep at night again. =P
Thank you again =)
Oh, let me rephrase my statement, I find the MAJORITY of your posts are intelligent.
Um, nobody here even has a CLUE who is my BF, especially not you Squared. He doesn’t even know who notthemama is.
And if somebody CAN figure it out, I will forever be in awe of that person.
Well color me chagrined. I guess someone else corrected me in another thread about Notthemama’s gender, and I got confused. (I’m to lazy to go looking for that thread, as I have no clue what it was about or which forum or when or pretty much anything other than I referred to N as female and someone said I was wrong.)
You’re right, we do tend to pigeonhole people based on gender and tailor our responses to the expectations we have on them.
Anti Pro, I don’t think you said anything hateful or rude or in any way improper. I was just adding my 2 cents on something I thought I knew.
Satan_squared, I have no idea what you are trying to say. You are making no sense whatsoever. Your quotes are complete non-sequiturs. The only thing that made sense was when you said pepperlandgirl has a boyfriend, and then quoted her stating such. Otherwise I could not make any sense of those quotes. Maybe it would make more sense if you had identified the source of each quote. But I think not. You appear to be engaged in sniping at other posters for no reason. Come back when you have something valuable to contribute.
You know, Notthemama, you can simply set up a “noncrucial” E-mail address at Yahoo or Hotmail or whatever other free E-mail service you want. You can use it for your profile and check it every week or so and see what kind of trolling you get, just for a quick larf.
I agree with Spoofe. I personally have about a half dozen email addresses that I use for various things, and all of them are free and easy to use. WHy don’t you get one?
pepper: Who are you??
notthemama: No one of consequence.
pepper: I must know.
notthemama: Get used to disappointment.