# How super-anal are you **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 5, 1999, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-super-anal-are-you/10864 "1999-11-05T21:36:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr\_Thin\_Skin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@Mr\_Thin\_Skin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Thin_Skin)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 1999, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-super-anal-are-you/10864/1 "1999-11-05T21:36:00Z")
I hope Joe Blank likes that subject 🙂 I’m in seventh heaven. I just got a steel 6" ruler with decimal equivalents of fractions from 1/64 to 63/64 etched on the back! Even better, this rule fits just perfectly in the back of my dial caliper’s case!!! Last night, while reading the _New York Public Library Desk Reference_ (with my caliper snugly in bed with me), I measured the thickness of one page: .004", ten pages: .04", 100 pages: .4". I was just tickled pink. How about you, what sort of super-anal things do you find yourself doing? ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_North](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Peter\_North](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_North)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 1999, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-super-anal-are-you/10864/2 "1999-11-05T21:45:00Z")
You sure you got that thing for measuring page thicknesses? ---
**Author:** ![Boris\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@Boris\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boris_B)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 1999, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-super-anal-are-you/10864/3 "1999-11-05T21:46:00Z")
Why is anal used as an abbreviation for anal-retentive? Couldn’t it just as easily be used as shorthand for anal-expulsive? Or is it just that nobody’s heard of the term anal-expulsive? Call me meticulous. * * * Nothing I write about any person or group should be applied to a larger group. - Boris Badenov ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 1999, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-super-anal-are-you/10864/4 "1999-11-05T21:48:00Z")
Waiting for Satan’s reply to this one. * * * Well, shut my mouth. It’s also illegal to put squirrels down your pants for the purposes of gambling. ---
**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:** [November 5, 1999, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-super-anal-are-you/10864/5 "1999-11-05T21:48:00Z")
Somehow, I thought this thread was going to be about Satan and heatherlee again. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Thin\_Skin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@Mr\_Thin\_Skin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Thin_Skin)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 1999, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-super-anal-are-you/10864/6 "1999-11-05T21:51:00Z")
You know, I would have been extremely disappointed if the first post was NOT about why I had a caliper in bed 🙂 (who else here knows the diameter of their dick to three digits?). I couldn’t measure the length however… A correction since I’m anal-retentive: It should have read: 1 page: .004" 10 pages: .04 **0**" 100 pages: .4 **00**" I hope that clears things up. ::I also pray to God I didn’t screw up the bolding:: ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 1999, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-super-anal-are-you/10864/7 "1999-11-05T21:52:00Z")
That’s okay Drain. Coldfire will be along to add his two felching cents worth. Don’t worry. * * * **Dopeler effect:** The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Thin\_Skin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@Mr\_Thin\_Skin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Thin_Skin)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 1999, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-super-anal-are-you/10864/8 "1999-11-05T21:54:00Z")
Oh shit, I meant 4 digits, not three! x.xxx not .xxx ---
**Author:** ![bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bunny)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 1999, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-super-anal-are-you/10864/9 "1999-11-05T21:54:00Z")
Not me but a girl I work with must have her money in her wallet in order of value. Thats the normal part. The anal part is the serial numbers on them must be in order also, and her money can not fold it has to be straight. She won’t buy a wallet that folds in half. * * * All we really needed to know we learned in Kindergarden ---
**Author:** ![Dirty\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Dirty\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dirty_Devil)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 1999, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-super-anal-are-you/10864/10 "1999-11-05T22:05:00Z")
When I log onto the SDMB, I have to go to GQ first, then Great Debates, then the Pit, and finally to MPSIMS. If I log out and log back in (even twenty minutes later), it’s the same thing. On occasion I’ll go straight to an individual thread if I want to hear a reply to a specific post, but when I’m done I’ll always go back to front screen and continue in the order above. ---
**Author:** ![Stevie\_Rave\_On](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Stevie\_Rave\_On](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stevie_Rave_On)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 1999, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-super-anal-are-you/10864/11 "1999-11-05T22:07:00Z")
> [@](#): > > the serial numbers on them must be in order also I want to see someone try and beat that. * * * “Trying is the first step towards failure.” Homer Simpson ---
**Author:** ![bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bunny)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 1999, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-super-anal-are-you/10864/12 "1999-11-05T22:14:00Z")
STEVIE RAVE ON The best part is once she left her wallet out. So I mixed up the serial numbers on her and then put it back where i found it. She new the minute she open her wallet to pay for something she new and got really upset. If I told her it was me that did it she peobally would not speak to me for a week. * * * All we really needed to know we learned in Kindergarden ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_North](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Peter\_North](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_North)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 1999, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-super-anal-are-you/10864/13 "1999-11-05T22:15:00Z")
> [@](#): > > You know, I would have been extremely disappointed if the first post was NOT about why I had a caliper in bed (who else here knows the diameter of their dick to three digits?). I couldn’t measure the length however… Just fold it in half… ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 1999, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-super-anal-are-you/10864/14 "1999-11-06T01:02:00Z")
Does “anal-retentive” require a hyphen? Or just a colon? ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 1999, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-super-anal-are-you/10864/15 "1999-11-06T08:38:00Z")
I can be very anal, and I’m talking about the OP, not my sex life, thank you. * * * Yer pal, Satan ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 1999, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-super-anal-are-you/10864/16 "1999-11-06T21:56:00Z")
When I sleep in bed, the covers _must_ be even; i.e., with equal amounts hanging over on both sides. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_of\_Finland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2acd7d/32.png) [@Tom\_of\_Finland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_of_Finland)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 1999, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-super-anal-are-you/10864/17 "1999-11-07T00:34:00Z")
I must tear out the subscription cards found in magazines when I come across them. Can’t just leave 'em there…nope…out they go…out, out, out, so that the magazine can close properly…whoops, there’s one now…out ya go! Sick, I know. * * * ---
**Author:** ![KJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b2d939/32.png) [@KJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KJ)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 1999, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-super-anal-are-you/10864/18 "1999-11-07T06:55:00Z")
RealityChuck: My mom has a shirt that says that on it. Funny. =) ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 1999, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-super-anal-are-you/10864/19 "1999-11-07T19:23:00Z")
When i drink soda out of a bottle with a screw top, i have to screw the lid on after each drink, even if I plan on drinking from it in 30 seconds. I also have all 400 of my CD organized alphabetically, first by band name then album name, they are also broken into categories: rock/pop punk classical musical/soundtrack comedy I finally had to do this so I could actually find them. * * * Magnificent to behold - Greatly to be praised. ---
**Author:** ![neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ab097/32.png) [@neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neuro-trash_grrrl)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 1999, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-super-anal-are-you/10864/20 "1999-11-08T02:47:00Z")
“Super-anal”? Shouldn’t that be “hyper-anal”? * * * God is dead. -Nietzsche Nietzsche is dead. -God Neitzsche is God. -Dead [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-super-anal-are-you/10864.md?page=2)