# How many Doper specializations can you name? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 18, 2007, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-doper-specializations-can-you-name/423199 "2007-10-18T18:14:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-doper-specializations-can-you-name/423199/61 "2007-10-19T17:44:44Z")
[QUOTE=Indistinguishable] Um, maybe **GorillaMan** plays the violin? [/QUOTE] Correct - I teach it, too. ---
**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-doper-specializations-can-you-name/423199/62 "2007-10-19T18:08:35Z")
**Monty** - matters linguistic, Korean, Mormon **samclem** - etymology ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-doper-specializations-can-you-name/423199/63 "2007-11-05T20:48:44Z")
[QUOTE=Balance] **CandidGamera** –Comic books **Chronos** –Physics, Math **fessie** –art (specifically painting) **Evil Captor** –bondage **NoClueBoy** –Star Trek [/QUOTE] My life now has value. Down with the new smilies, btw. Bleah! ---
**Author:** ![cards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@cards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cards)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-doper-specializations-can-you-name/423199/64 "2007-11-05T21:07:33Z")
**Hal Briston** - ruminant quadrupeds of genus Ovis. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-doper-specializations-can-you-name/423199/65 "2007-11-27T03:50:04Z")
[QUOTE=lobstermobster] my campaign is not working. this is troubling. I really do know a LOT about murder [/QUOTE] Yeah? Prove it! \ Put down the gun I was just kidding!! ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-doper-specializations-can-you-name/423199/66 "2007-11-27T04:18:46Z")
[QUOTE=lobstermobster] my campaign is not working. this is troubling. I really do know a LOT about murder [/QUOTE] Well, we can count dosing for starters. ..Oww, stop hitting me! **tdn** , dating theory (but alas not practice) 😉 Me for umm… damnit I’ll be back in 20 years. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-doper-specializations-can-you-name/423199/67 "2007-11-27T05:38:25Z")
**Bricker** - fine scotch and obscure American law **DSYoungEsq** - soccer and finding/interpreting American laws **matt mcl** - Hispanic languages **fessie** - confusing me before my name change (and me her) **Hal Briston** - farm animals **Autolycus** - kitchen implements **What Exit?** - New Jersey **Nava** - Spain and Spanish dialects (even the rather kind ones 😉 ) **Rand McNally** - 319 TRS (seriously, I never thought I’d meet another Chair Force veteran on the Dope!) **mobo85** - Everything that’s ever been drawn and/or animated within the US > [@lobstermobster](#): > > for the record I would like to be known as having an expertise in murder. and my art. Murder and art. I always figured you for being an expert at the art of murder, which I suppose is somewhere in between. > [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Down with the new smilies, btw. Bleah! There are new smilies? ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-doper-specializations-can-you-name/423199/68 "2007-11-27T10:24:21Z")
I’m trying to avoid duplications, but I’m sure some will have passed through. **Hostile Dialect** - linguistics **Elendil’s Heir** - LOTR and US History trivia. Lots and lots and lots of US History trivia, too. **Exapno Mapcase** - Urban planning **Stranger on a Train** - Science, esp. Rocket Science **EddyTeddyFreddy** - Horses **AHunter3** - Mental Health Issues and Patient Rights (Whether I always agree with his conclusions, or not, I do recognize that he is very knowledgeble on the subject.) ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-doper-specializations-can-you-name/423199/69 "2007-11-27T10:59:32Z")
sigh. Just kick me as you go past. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-doper-specializations-can-you-name/423199/70 "2007-11-27T11:00:50Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] sigh. Just kick me as you go past. ☹ [/QUOTE] You’re the cricket expert! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-doper-specializations-can-you-name/423199/71 "2007-11-27T11:25:10Z")
I try to couch my expertise in scholarly jargon, but hell with it: my knowledge of the Japanese porn industry seems to be relatively comprehensive. I’m also a fair shake at the non-pornographic aspects of contemporary Japanese culture, with an especially in-depth first-hand view of the wedding industry here. ---
**Author:** ![nd\_n8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/439d5e/32.png) [@nd\_n8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nd_n8)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-doper-specializations-can-you-name/423199/72 "2007-11-27T12:46:46Z")
**Twickster** - Gardening (whatever happened with that Cecil Adams Helabore?) **lobstermobster** - Murder and art **tdn** - Relationship stuff **nd\_n8** - Nothing, that’s why I’m here 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-doper-specializations-can-you-name/423199/73 "2007-11-27T13:08:36Z")
**What Exit?** - Global warming, green topics in general, LOTR, baseball **Colibri** - biology in general, birds especially **WordMan** - music, books **lieu** - I think he’s an expert on poop ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-doper-specializations-can-you-name/423199/74 "2007-11-27T15:55:47Z")
I would like to brazenly put myself forward for having professional expertise on the connection of having a gut and copious beer consumption. I would also like to put forward **Chowder** as an authority on wearing cloth caps,eating mushy peas and keeping Whippet dogs. I also have it on good authority that he’s a die hard Man U supporter. Not in the face **Chowder** ,not in the face! ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-doper-specializations-can-you-name/423199/75 "2007-11-27T15:57:06Z")
**Osip** - Locksmith I should add **Missy2U** - Bonanza, but nobody cares about Bonanza but me. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-doper-specializations-can-you-name/423199/76 "2007-11-27T16:21:28Z")
[QUOTE=Santo Rugger] **Stranger on a Train** - Everything [/QUOTE] Most everything _interesting_, anyway. **Martini Enfield** - _British_ firearms. He’s no slouch on other stuff, but I believe his _expertise_ is related to his username. **Colibri** - Birds. I don’t think I’ve ever asked a bird related question, but just knowing he’s out there is comforting. **Diogenes the Cynic** - Biblical stuff. **Silenus** - Homebrewing, drinking scotch. This thread makes me want to get a little more vocal in some of the areas I actually have knowledge, but then I remember that no one but me cares… ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-doper-specializations-can-you-name/423199/77 "2007-11-27T16:49:38Z")
I forgot to mention: **Helen’s Eidolon** - Ancient Greek myth, and history. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-doper-specializations-can-you-name/423199/78 "2007-11-27T17:25:49Z")
[QUOTE=Bobotheoptimist] This thread makes me want to get a little more vocal in some of the areas I actually have knowledge, but then I remember that no one but me cares… [/QUOTE] Let me guess. One of them is positive thinking and another is assertiveness training, right? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2007, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-doper-specializations-can-you-name/423199/79 "2007-11-28T00:29:49Z")
**Ianzin** = magician **cmyk** = self-reference 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2007, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-doper-specializations-can-you-name/423199/80 "2007-11-28T03:15:16Z")
[QUOTE=Crotalus] **lieu** - I think he’s an expert on poop [/QUOTE] and flatulence. Crotalus - Hmm, snakes? Particularly rattlesnakes. Hey, I got a mention early on! Thanks, Lionne. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-doper-specializations-can-you-name/423199.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-doper-specializations-can-you-name/423199.md?page=5)