# GQ- What are you an expert in? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 25, 2009, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-what-are-you-an-expert-in/504207 "2009-07-25T06:59:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-what-are-you-an-expert-in/504207/81 "2009-07-28T16:26:36Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > I’m reasonably well-qualified to answer questions relating to the hotel industry, the restaurant industry, bartending, sales/marketing, and starting/operating businesses. Seems pretty lame, compared to all of the -ologists and -osophists around here! Like others have mentioned, though, I also have wide-ranging and oddly random interests which may someday be useful for something other than bar trivia… …and yet most of the -ologists get to answer one GQ question a year, and you probably get to answer 15. 😃 My favorite thing about the boards in general are the GQ threads where some incredibly unusual question is answered by some lurker who decloaks just for that one thread. “How effective were the QF guns on Royal Navy Tribal-class destroyers?” “Well, we only lost one engagement during WWII, and that was to a heavily armored German experimental cruiser design.” “How do you know?” “I was Captain of the HMS Punjabi until her sinking after a collision.” ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-what-are-you-an-expert-in/504207/82 "2009-07-28T17:55:47Z")
Coming up with snarky answers a minute too late. “If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an **expert** saying it can’t be done.” Peter Usinov ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-what-are-you-an-expert-in/504207/83 "2009-07-28T21:15:36Z")
I’ve been an amateur paleontologist since I was 4. I coulda, woulda, shoulda gone straight into grad school after graduating from college. But I was burnt out on school. I think I probably would have been able to keep up in academia. So that’s a whole other life that I should have had. Now I’m depressed. ---
**Author:** ![gone2thedogs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@gone2thedogs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gone2thedogs)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-what-are-you-an-expert-in/504207/84 "2009-07-28T23:19:48Z")
Ph.D. in virology, molecular a specialty. ask me about this ridiculous flu “pandemic”. Also STDs, don’t ask how i got roped into doing that, but am on national committee for Chlamydia guidelines, treatment/management ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-what-are-you-an-expert-in/504207/85 "2009-07-28T23:40:13Z")
Credit reporting, nutrition/fitness, woodworking. And it has never come up, but nitromethane-powered remote controlled cars and trucks (especially the 2-stroke engines). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-what-are-you-an-expert-in/504207.md?page=4)