# Help me lure my friends to The Dope. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 29, 2006, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-lure-my-friends-to-the-dope/370649 "2006-08-29T12:11:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-lure-my-friends-to-the-dope/370649/1 "2006-08-29T12:11:39Z")
I have decided to cast a line into the rippling waters of friendship and see if I can reel two friends ( married couple) into our world. Without coughing up the sordid details of their Jetset Lifestyle ( Middle Class Whitey’s), I need some bait in this thread inwhich I will email it to them. Classic threads, discussions of intelligent matter and whatnot. (I’ve already linked Celebrity Dead Pool.) Then, after they are hooked, I can rejoice in watching their daily Real Life productivity drop like rock. Cause that is what friends are for. ---
**Author:** ![Roonwit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/54ee81/32.png) [@Roonwit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roonwit)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-lure-my-friends-to-the-dope/370649/2 "2006-08-29T12:38:28Z")
Many of the Great Classics are linked here: > **[The Top 101 StraightDope Threads...Of All Time.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=346360)** > > Okay, if E! can have the Top 101 Celebrity Oops! And Top 101 Reasons the 90s Rocked and Top 101 Reasons Lyle Lovett Has Bad Hair, etc, etc…then, dammit, I can too! Continuing with my idea of a semi-SDMB Anthology Project and after assembling almost... 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-lure-my-friends-to-the-dope/370649/3 "2006-08-29T12:42:59Z")
Yes, 14K posts to my name and I am a tard with my search-fu. Thank you Oh Roonwit! ---
**Author:** ![indecisive1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/41988e/32.png) [@indecisive1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indecisive1)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-lure-my-friends-to-the-dope/370649/4 "2006-08-29T12:53:24Z")
Doesn’t it worry you that they might search out all of your posts and find out what you said about them? A what about the little incident you posted about last year? Do you really want them to know about that? ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-lure-my-friends-to-the-dope/370649/5 "2006-08-29T13:51:05Z")
[QUOTE=indecisive1] Doesn’t it worry you that they might search out **all of your posts** and find out what you said about them? [/QUOTE] (bolding mine) Who the hell would have the _time_?? ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-lure-my-friends-to-the-dope/370649/6 "2006-08-29T14:14:19Z")
Three cheers for **Idle Hands**! The “Ask the…” Anthology > **[The "Ask the..." Anthology](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=345657)** > > Okay… I was bored, all right? And you know what happens when I get bored. I get…listy. As in, I want to keep my mind active so I make lists and put things in order. Almost OCDish in extremity, as I’m sure you’ll find with this one. Being bored, I... ---
**Author:** ![MizGrand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cdc98d/32.png) [@MizGrand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MizGrand)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-lure-my-friends-to-the-dope/370649/7 "2006-08-29T17:08:30Z")
[QUOTE=Antigen] Who the hell would have the _time_?? [/QUOTE] Oh, I sure would _make_ the time. I’m extremely cautious in regard to whom I turn on to this site. If I knew that a coworker (say a former supervisor) was a member and I knew their screen name I’d most certainly look up their posts. I’m just nosy that way, ya’know. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-lure-my-friends-to-the-dope/370649/8 "2006-08-29T17:11:14Z")
I recommend a war of attrition – send a link every few days to a good current thread. Be your own threadspotter, IOW. ---
**Author:** ![indecisive1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/41988e/32.png) [@indecisive1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indecisive1)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-lure-my-friends-to-the-dope/370649/9 "2006-08-29T18:21:20Z")
[QUOTE=Sage Rat] Three cheers for **Idle Hands**! The “Ask the…” Anthology > **[The "Ask the..." Anthology](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=345657)** > > Okay… I was bored, all right? And you know what happens when I get bored. I get…listy. As in, I want to keep my mind active so I make lists and put things in order. Almost OCDish in extremity, as I’m sure you’ll find with this one. Being bored, I... [/QUOTE] The link to “ask the dead chipmunk” doesn’t work. I guess dead chipmunks don’t talk all that much. Too bad, I have so many questions. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2006, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-lure-my-friends-to-the-dope/370649/10 "2006-08-29T22:39:59Z")
You should offer to have sex with the guy. That way, he’ll do it and she won’t and we’re at least up one member. Hey, if you can’t hav em both, one works, no? ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-lure-my-friends-to-the-dope/370649/11 "2006-08-30T12:41:07Z")
[QUOTE=indecisive1] Doesn’t it worry you that they might search out all of your posts and find out what you said about them? A what about the little incident you posted about last year? Do you really want them to know about that? [/QUOTE] I’m thinking this is just the bait **Shirley** needs for her friends. “Well, there was this one post I made back when you had that incident at work…” ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-lure-my-friends-to-the-dope/370649/12 "2006-08-30T17:44:29Z")
We’ve never worked together. I’ve known her nearly 30 years, minus the 19 years we didn’t see each other because of Life, Death and The Stuff Inbetween getting in the way. ---
**Author:** ![indecisive1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/41988e/32.png) [@indecisive1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indecisive1)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-lure-my-friends-to-the-dope/370649/13 "2006-08-30T18:29:02Z")
[QUOTE=Athena] I’m thinking this is just the bait **Shirley** needs for her friends. “Well, there was this one post I made back when you had that incident at work…” [/QUOTE] Yes, that was my intention. But I really wouldn’t want IRL people reading all my posts. Some are so dumb. And the typos and misspellings, Gah!