# History geek meets World of Warcraft **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 10, 2008, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-geek-meets-world-of-warcraft/459485 "2008-08-10T08:07:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-geek-meets-world-of-warcraft/459485/1 "2008-08-10T08:07:40Z")
I was playing World of Warcraft earlier tonight. I was trying to get a group together for Blackrock Depths, an instance for 50ish level players. What follows is our conversation as best as I can recreate it, the names of the players are in brackets: [weirddave](in general chat, a place where what you type can be read by everyone around you. I was looking for players to help me complete a task that took multiple people) Looking For 2 more people for Blackrock Depths. [irwinrommel] Hey, I want to go to BRD, can I join your group? [weirddave] Would you like some [Anti-venom](http://thottbot.com/i6452)? (To be clear here: Anti-Venom is an object in the game that a player can take if his character has been poisoned, to cure the poison) [irwinrommel] There’s no poison attacks in BRD [irwonrommel] Oh wait… [weirddave] Get it yet? [irwinrommel]Dude! Lol! You sure know your history! [irwinrommel]That was fantastic! Great job! And I basked in the glow all night. I’m way to much of a history geek. Do YOU get it? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-geek-meets-world-of-warcraft/459485/2 "2008-08-10T10:48:17Z")
No. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-geek-meets-world-of-warcraft/459485/3 "2008-08-10T11:05:31Z")
No. (And I know about the treaty of Schelswig-Holstein 😛 ) ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-geek-meets-world-of-warcraft/459485/4 "2008-08-10T11:11:45Z")
Yes. Also something you could use on player Socrates. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![CatInASuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3be4f8/32.png) [@CatInASuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatInASuit)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-geek-meets-world-of-warcraft/459485/5 "2008-08-10T11:12:44Z")
Yes [irwonrommel] aka Erwin Rommel the Desert Fox, who commited suicide from poison IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-geek-meets-world-of-warcraft/459485/6 "2008-08-10T15:36:46Z")
Argh, I got it. That was bad. ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-geek-meets-world-of-warcraft/459485/7 "2008-08-10T16:31:41Z")
And here my first thought was the lousy spiders… (Which, on rethought, is LBRS. Wow, been a looong time since I’ve been in BRM it seems.) ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-geek-meets-world-of-warcraft/459485/8 "2008-08-10T17:02:52Z")
That’s kind of bad, man. On the other hand, I got some “what the hell is wrong with you?” looks a few days ago when I was helping a girl find her grandfather’s birthday front page on the microfilm for a birthday present, and there was some article on “Smoot speaks on tarrifs” and she was all \ “Smoot? What’s a Smoot?” and I said “He’s probably that guy from the Smoot-Hawley Tariff.” What, that’s not obscure!