# How well do you want to know me?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-you-want-to-know-me/84232
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 28, 2001, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-you-want-to-know-me/84232 "2001-09-28T01:21:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@VitrolicBump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VitrolicBump)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2001, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-you-want-to-know-me/84232/1 "2001-09-28T01:21:07Z")
I know that I have made my presence known to at least a few Dopers, but how much do you really know about me? Do you really want to know? Well if you do, then just ask me a question that pertains to _me_. I will do my best to answer them and I hope that you will learn more about me (even though I have been pretty open).
Well, gentlemen (or ladies. I don’t care), start yer engines!
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### Author:  [@NerdBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NerdBoy)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2001, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-you-want-to-know-me/84232/2 "2001-09-28T01:23:17Z")
_What_ is your quest?
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### Author:  [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2001, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-you-want-to-know-me/84232/3 "2001-09-28T01:26:42Z")
Do you know what a “Personal Web Page” is? Ever heard of a profile?
Okay, so that’s two questions. Sue me.
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### Author:  [@VitrolicBump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VitrolicBump)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2001, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-you-want-to-know-me/84232/4 "2001-09-28T01:26:48Z")
_What_ is my quest.
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### Author:  [@NerdBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NerdBoy)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2001, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-you-want-to-know-me/84232/5 "2001-09-28T01:27:56Z")
That has to be the best answer I have ever heard to that,
_boggles_
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### Author:  [@VitrolicBump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VitrolicBump)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2001, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-you-want-to-know-me/84232/6 "2001-09-28T01:29:23Z")
You two are just sooo hilarious. :rolleyes:
Anyway. If you really want me to answer your questions, I will. Here are the answers - yes and yes. I don’ wannna to 'splain them, so I don’t hafta. 😃
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### Author:  [@NerdBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NerdBoy)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2001, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-you-want-to-know-me/84232/7 "2001-09-28T01:31:23Z")
I was being serious.
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### Author:  [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2001, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-you-want-to-know-me/84232/8 "2001-09-28T01:35:41Z")
Me too. But, hell, if you aren’t going to answer the questions anyway, why the fuck start a thread that says, “Hey, ask me questions about me!”??
:rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Primaflora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Primaflora)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2001, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-you-want-to-know-me/84232/9 "2001-09-28T01:46:22Z")
I don’t want to know you very well at all. If I happen to feel the need to ask you questions, rest assured I would ask you via email or in an appropriate thread.
Or you could get your ego strokes by having a Personal Web Page. You could even link to it in your profile.
Oh the possibilities!
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### Author:  [@Nicklz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nicklz)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2001, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-you-want-to-know-me/84232/10 "2001-09-28T01:49:02Z")
huummm…
what are your turn on’s/turn off’s?
music tastes?
drug(s) of choice if any?
age
and where do you see yourself in five years?
I’ll think of more later
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### Author:  [@VitrolicBump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VitrolicBump)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2001, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-you-want-to-know-me/84232/11 "2001-09-28T02:02:20Z")
Thank you for asking answerable questions, **Nicklz**. To all the rest of you, I am sorry if I hurt your feelers by answering the way I did. Truly I am. Ask me some others. I will try to answer to the best of my capabilities.
**NerdBoy** , I don’t know what my quest is. Sorry.
**Silver Fire** , your questions seem a little, well, demeaning. I don’t know if you are being silly, but I will play. A Personal Web Page is well, a web page that is about you or some aspect of you. It has your “touches” in it. It is personal. A profile (at least the one I’m thinking of) is a simple biography (i.e. where you live, likes, dislikes, etc.).
Oh, and Primaflora, I am sorry if you find the fact that I have a Personal Web Page linked in my profile so offensive. :rolleyes: I can’t please everyone. Geez.
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### Author:  [@Primaflora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Primaflora)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2001, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-you-want-to-know-me/84232/12 "2001-09-28T02:06:57Z")
Oh my goodness!
Bwahahahaha! Ummm nope, I don’t find your web page offensive!
I guess I foolishly assumed that if someone felt moved to do a thread like this then they had not discovered the full glory of the web and the ability to post personal info on a personal web page.
::wanders off giggling madly::
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### Author:  [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2001, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-you-want-to-know-me/84232/13 "2001-09-28T02:09:41Z")
Hey all - Why don’t you fucking lay off dlgirl? This isn’t the Pit and there’s no reason to shit on someone here. IMHO, most people who shit on others for no reason just do so cause they feel shitty about themselves - and are trying to make everyone else feel just as bad.
I’m sorry your life sucks, hers obviously doesn’t. She’s been “pursued” a great deal around here lately so there’s no reason she shouldn’t address her many admirers.
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### Author:  [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2001, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-you-want-to-know-me/84232/14 "2001-09-28T02:13:42Z")
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> \*Originally posted by dlgirl \*
> \*\*Thank you for asking answerable questions, **Nicklz**.
My questions were “answerable”. If fact, a “yes” or a “no” would have been good enough.
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> **Silver Fire** , your questions seem a little, well, demeaning. \*\*
Oh really? How so? (Are these questions “answerable” enough?)
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### Author:  [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2001, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-you-want-to-know-me/84232/15 "2001-09-28T02:19:48Z")
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> \*Originally posted by leander \*
> Hey all - Why don’t you fucking lay off dlgirl?
'Scuse me?
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> This isn’t the Pit and there’s no reason to shit on someone here.
Did I shit on someone? Darn, I _hate it_ when that happens!
:hands dl a tissue:
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> IMHO, most people who shit on others for no reason just do so cause they feel shitty about themselves - and are trying to make everyone else feel just as bad.
Dude, you nailed it. You know me better than anyone. How’d you get to be so smart?!
Oh, better not forget this - :rolleyes:
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> I’m sorry your life sucks, hers obviously doesn’t.
My life sucks?! FUCK, why am I _always_ the last person to know??
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> there’s no reason she shouldn’t address her many admirers.
I dunno. If they admired her that much, wouldn’t they already know this stuff?
And I even previewed this time so as not to mess up the coding.
GOLD STAR FOR ME!
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### Author:  [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2001, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-you-want-to-know-me/84232/16 "2001-09-28T02:21:24Z")
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> \*Originally posted by leander \*
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> She’s been “pursued” a great deal around here lately so there’s no reason she shouldn’t address her many admirers. \*\*
Well, there are something like 140 members actively on the boards right now (10:15 p.m.). There are 17,000 registered members (albeit not all of them active). If all the members who had admirers (or detractors) started threads to let other posters learn more about them via q-and-a sessions, there wouldn’t be much room for other stuff.
That’s the value of a webpage, a profile, and gradually revealing parts of your personality through your posts and participation.
I suspect that this is the reasoning behind the neagtive reaction to threads like this. Not jealousy, or our lack of non-sucky lives.
Most threads, even the personal ones, allow a variety of posters to post about themselves, their experiences, their opinions, or whatever. Threads like this really don’t.
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### Author:  [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2001, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-you-want-to-know-me/84232/17 "2001-09-28T02:25:10Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Silver Fire \*
> **My life sucks?! FUCK, why am I _always_ the last person to know??**
Sorry, that’d be my fault. I forgot to give you this phone message I got:
“ **Silver Fire** , I regret to inform that your life does indeed suck. Best of luck to you.”
- God
I was supposed to email it to you, but it slipped my mind. I guess I’ll be going to hell for that one. ☹
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### Author:  [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2001, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-you-want-to-know-me/84232/18 "2001-09-28T02:36:52Z")
Silver Fire - I’m sorry your life sucks. That’s a shame. But thanks for proving my point.
And Crunchy Frog - I love Sad Robot. Thanks for dat.
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### Author:  [@VitrolicBump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VitrolicBump)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2001, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-you-want-to-know-me/84232/19 "2001-09-28T02:39:00Z")
**Silver Fire** , I did answer yours with a yes on both accounts. The problem here is the way you “said” it. Like I don’t know what those are and I don’t have either one. Anyway, the reason I don’t put more info on my site is because no one asks. Therefore I don’t know what everyone else wants to know about me. I know I should probably take this as no one cares to know, but I know that at least one person does.
Thank you, **leander**. I guess this thread isn’t turning out the way I wanted it to. I didn’t know that this was such a touchy subject. :shrug: I guess I started it off, thinking **NerdBoy** and **Silver Fire** were being sarcastic. I know Silver Fire was, but I still haven’t heard from **NerdBoy**. Anywho, for those that don’t like these things, don’t post in them. And, everyone, please don’t put others down. That is what the pit is for. Talk about me or these threads there. I don’t care (unless there is reason to defend myself).
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### Author:  [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2001, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-you-want-to-know-me/84232/20 "2001-09-28T02:40:13Z")
Can I just say “carnally” and leave it as that?
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