# How pathetic am I? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 12, 2000, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-pathetic-am-i/29082 "2000-08-12T05:41:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2000, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-pathetic-am-i/29082/1 "2000-08-12T05:41:14Z")
Okay, there’s this new game show I found the other night - accidentally, I wasn’t looking for it. It’s called **Strip Poker**. The game - two sets of contestants, a pair of guys and a pair of girls. They compete as teams to answer gender-biased trivia questions and pick cards to assemble a poker hand. They get points, and each round the losing team has to strip off an article of clothing. (I have yet to see exactly how far they go in the game.) Okay, here’s the part where I come in. The hostess lady (doing a Vanna job) announces the opening with some comment about “I’m sure you’ve all played this at home.” I was thinking, “People actually play strip poker? It’s not some Hollywood myth?” I suppose Naked Twister is real, too? Anybody else out there as pathetic as me? ---
**Author:** ![Frannie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Frannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frannie)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2000, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-pathetic-am-i/29082/2 "2000-08-12T05:46:14Z")
My father taught me the finer points of Poker at a young age – I _think_ he did so because he figured that I’d never _lose_ should I happen to find myself in a game of Strip Poker. Um, I did… I did find myself in one (or two) games, I mean, but I never lost. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2000, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-pathetic-am-i/29082/3 "2000-08-12T10:20:34Z")
I’ve played strip poker (yes, with other people) but never nekkid twister. ---
**Author:** ![lolagranola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@lolagranola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lolagranola)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2000, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-pathetic-am-i/29082/4 "2000-08-12T14:21:37Z")
Strip poker - Yes Naked Twister - No, but I’m sure I would have if it didn’t call for an actual store bought Twister game. Who would run for one at 2:53 am after too many drinks (when it would seem like a good idea)? ---
**Author:** ![Tisme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f0a364/32.png) [@Tisme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tisme)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2000, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-pathetic-am-i/29082/5 "2000-08-12T14:26:42Z")
Strip poker I’ve played (in my younger days) but not naked twister, although it sounds like fun if there are any takers. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2000, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-pathetic-am-i/29082/6 "2000-08-12T14:50:23Z")
If you ever feel like a pathetic loser, check out THIS guy: [http://www.geocities.com/lonely451\_2000/me.html](http://www.geocities.com/lonely451_2000/me.html) That page appeared in this forum a while ago. I still laugh my ass off. (Not very charitable of me, but PUH-LEEEZ!) ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2000, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-pathetic-am-i/29082/7 "2000-08-12T15:09:15Z")
Yes, Virginia, people play strip poker. I’ve also played strip I Have Never. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2000, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-pathetic-am-i/29082/8 "2000-08-12T15:12:44Z")
Once, at a rather drunken New Year’s party, we tried to play strip poker…but one person didn’t know how to play poker, and everyone was pretty much too drunk to follow what was going on, so we didn’t play strip poker. Instead, we dealt out one card to every person, and whoever had the lowest card had to take off an article of clothing. After a while we quit, though. There’s something unappealing about playing strip anything with two gay men and a bunch of straight women. As I recall, the two gay men enjoyed it, though. Too drunk to play poker. Sounds like a really bad country song. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2000, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-pathetic-am-i/29082/9 "2000-08-12T15:34:13Z")
Well, _I_ would have played strip poker with you. (Mostly because I would hope that once me and the other fag lost, you would make us play forfeits with each other.) ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2000, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-pathetic-am-i/29082/10 "2000-08-12T15:40:09Z")
Oh, how I wish, Matt. One of the fags is a 24-year-old Georgetown graduate with a degree in linguistics. Y’all seem to me for all the world to be made for one another. If only you didn’t live in Canada… ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-pathetic-am-i/29082/11 "2000-08-15T04:57:39Z")
Oh great, I’m the only one. Next you’ll tell me you got somewhere with Truth or Dare. Though I did notice a common theme amongst all the replies of drinking, being drunk, and being too drunk to drink. Or something like that. I guess that might explain it. ---
**Author:** ![dpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-pathetic-am-i/29082/12 "2000-08-15T05:04:06Z")
Strip Poker? yes Nude twister? yes Strip Chess? yes Strip Monopoly? yes Strip canasta? yes Played truth and dare that led to… something else? _sigh_ yes What can I say? Most of it was with the same girl and she and I thought it all a grand adventure. And even though we’re no longer together, we remain the very bvest of friends. See? Sometimes so-called myths DO exist. ---
**Author:** ![Space\_Vampire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Space\_Vampire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Space_Vampire)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-pathetic-am-i/29082/13 "2000-08-15T05:10:20Z")
Laugh guiltlessly, Johnny… This is not a real person. That ugly guy on the left is Yip, a Hong Kong bit-player who specializes in “ugly, gross guy” roles. And I doubt a real person would use his picture to reel in the ladies! ---
**Author:** ![Space\_Vampire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Space\_Vampire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Space_Vampire)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-pathetic-am-i/29082/14 "2000-08-15T05:12:19Z")
Oops, make that BOBBY Yip. Lousy brain. ---
**Author:** ![Byzantine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@Byzantine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Byzantine)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-pathetic-am-i/29082/15 "2000-08-15T05:23:10Z")
As to the OP. Yes. I’ve played a lot of games for clothing or down right naked (like Twister). It’s a fun seduction thing, really. But I haven’t done it in groups of more than four. Like, that really makes a difference or something. And Johnny L.A. I just had to share my thoughts on that web site: “Am I not hot?” And what answer does this lead you to? NO! “very WEALTHY as you can see” Uh, yeah, you know how to wear fake gold and post pictures of stuff you don’t have. Cute! That is really one of the saddest things I’ve ever seen. I hope to the Goddess it is a joke. No one could honestly be that pathetic! LOVE ME! I HAVE MONEY! But ya know, there are women who would probably take him up on it. Darva Conger tends to spring to mind… ---
**Author:** ![Space\_Vampire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Space\_Vampire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Space_Vampire)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-pathetic-am-i/29082/16 "2000-08-15T09:50:21Z")
What am I, chopped liver? It’s fake. And just to stay on-topic, I’ve never played. ---
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-pathetic-am-i/29082/17 "2000-08-15T12:53:13Z")
I’ve played both strip poker and truth or dare. Strip poker can be a great game of foreplay, you just might not finish the entire game is all. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-pathetic-am-i/29082/18 "2000-08-15T13:01:49Z")
> [@](#): > > That is really one of the saddest things I’ve ever seen. I hope to the Goddess it is a joke. No one could honestly be that pathetic! LOVE ME! I HAVE MONEY! But ya know, there are women who would probably take him up on it. Darva Conger tends to spring to mind… **Space Vampire** says it’s a joke. And damned funny, at that! Conger… isn’t that an eel? A snake-like thing that is often considered slimy? ---
**Author:** ![inoci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/50afbb/32.png) [@inoci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inoci)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-pathetic-am-i/29082/19 "2000-08-15T13:14:46Z")
i played strip Star Wars Monopoly two nights ago. it was fun, you should all try it. didn’t finish the game though… ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2000, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-pathetic-am-i/29082/20 "2000-08-16T09:31:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dpr \* > \*\*Strip Monopoly? yes > \*\* What do you get when you land on “Free Parking”? Besides, “aroused”, that is. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-pathetic-am-i/29082.md?page=2)