# I am the most famous doper... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 3, 2004, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-the-most-famous-doper/272867 "2004-11-03T23:04:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-the-most-famous-doper/272867/121 "2004-11-05T04:45:38Z")
I have to admit, I think it’s pretty arrogant of this guy to start trolling with the tagline that “I am the most famous doper. . .”. He’s left no evidence, and as others have pointed out, he’s just lookin’ for attention from a message board which, in consequence, would give him no reward for which he’s already got. How the hell does he know some of us aren’t Nobel Laureates, Medal of Honor recipients, or Members of Parliament? I don’t want to sound belligerent, but I say “put up or shut up”. Tripler Fame? It’s all inside one’s head. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-the-most-famous-doper/272867/122 "2004-11-05T04:58:20Z")
Yea, seriously…I hope this thread has some kind of payoff. Did you start it to let us guess at who you are and you’re finally going to tell us at the end, or did you start it just to fuck with us? If the latter, how did you expect it to turn out? ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-the-most-famous-doper/272867/123 "2004-11-05T05:14:55Z")
Oh, I don’t know…this thread has engendered quite a bit of fun and entertainment. And perhaps our anonymous famous poster planned to eventually tell us who he is and that’s why he felt comfortable starting this potentially very frustrating thread, but he just wants to prolong the fun for now. It would be awfully jerkish for someone to start a thread like this and then not tell us who he/she is, and such people, when all is said and done, are pretty scarce around here. Ya hear that, **newcrasher** …you are gonna do the right thing and tell us, aren’t you? Right? Right? Oh, c’mon…be a sport. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-the-most-famous-doper/272867/124 "2004-11-05T05:53:26Z")
You’d _best_ not be Tom Bosley…'cuz if you are I want my goddamn shoes back. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-the-most-famous-doper/272867/125 "2004-11-05T06:02:10Z")
_Tom Bosley_ stole your shoes? Man, that isn’t something I would want to be admitting. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-the-most-famous-doper/272867/126 "2004-11-05T06:11:15Z")
It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. We’re all looking at this thread and thinking about **newcrasher** , and he/she/it _may_ actually be the most famous doper right now… ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-the-most-famous-doper/272867/127 "2004-11-05T06:37:27Z")
> [@Starving Artist](#): > > _Tom Bosley_ stole your shoes? > > Man, that isn’t something I would want to be admitting. 😛 Yeah, yeah…just wait 'til Howard Cunningham comes swooping down on _you_ like a manta ray… ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-the-most-famous-doper/272867/128 "2004-11-05T06:39:20Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Right, you amateurs… > > \ > > Lessee now… I’ve sung before sold out audiences in concert halls from London to Istanbul including two performances for Queen Elizabeth II and one for the mayor of Rome (whose name I’ve forgotten), I’ve been on television in over a hundred countries (including close-ups) several times, I’ve had my own statewide radio program, I’ve had over forty thousand people watch me perform live in Hyde Park, I’ve got two CDs out on commercial release and am recording a third one next spring… > > I get around a bit, me. 🆒 > > All true, too. In a way. Are you the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (or part thereof)? ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-the-most-famous-doper/272867/129 "2004-11-05T06:41:22Z")
I’m guessing CarrotTop or Marcel Marceau. But not both. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-the-most-famous-doper/272867/130 "2004-11-05T06:44:45Z")
> [@neofishboy](#): > > Yeah, yeah…just wait 'til Howard Cunningham comes swooping down on _you_ like a manta ray… Well, since you put it that way, it sound sorta scary… ---
**Author:** ![ShockingAlberto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@ShockingAlberto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShockingAlberto)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-the-most-famous-doper/272867/131 "2004-11-05T06:46:06Z")
> [@neofishboy](#): > > You’d _best_ not be Tom Bosley…'cuz if you are I want my goddamn shoes back. TOM! _puts up newspaper_ TOM BOSELY! _puts newspaper back up_ ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-the-most-famous-doper/272867/132 "2004-11-05T06:47:15Z")
Ahem…make that “it _does_ sound…etc.” See, that image got me so rattled I messed up my own post. 😛 ---
**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 5, 2004, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-the-most-famous-doper/272867/133 "2004-11-05T07:46:34Z")
I was once on the cover of my student newspaper, although I wasn’t named. (Email or IM for the link to the article if you’re interested.) ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-the-most-famous-doper/272867/134 "2004-11-05T07:48:41Z")
My guess is that he’s Kato Kaelin. He still hasn’t denied it. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-the-most-famous-doper/272867/135 "2004-11-05T09:29:39Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > It’s the Flanders and Swann song “The Elephant.” Lyrics [here](http://www.nyanko.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/fas/bestiary_elephant.html): Thank you most kindly. My dad used to play Flanders and Swann all the time when I was a kid, and I must have half-misremembered it for 25 years. Either way, it seems he’s a famous elephant. ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-the-most-famous-doper/272867/136 "2004-11-05T11:19:08Z")
Troy McClure? ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-the-most-famous-doper/272867/137 "2004-11-05T11:34:11Z")
Paris Hilton…wait…the typing is just a little too sophisticated for her… ---
**Author:** ![ShockingAlberto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@ShockingAlberto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShockingAlberto)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-the-most-famous-doper/272867/138 "2004-11-05T11:39:30Z")
> [@owlstretchingtime](#): > > Troy McClure? You might remember him from other message boards such as… ---
**Author:** ![newcrasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b3f665/32.png) [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-the-most-famous-doper/272867/139 "2004-11-05T12:36:06Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > I have to admit, I think it’s pretty arrogant of this guy to start trolling with the tagline that “I am the most famous doper. . .”. He’s left no evidence, and as others have pointed out, he’s just lookin’ for attention from a message board which, in consequence, would give him no reward for which he’s already got. How the hell does he know some of us aren’t Nobel Laureates, Medal of Honor recipients, or Members of Parliament? > > I don’t want to sound belligerent, but I say “put up or shut up”. > > Tripler > Fame? It’s all inside one’s head. Oh lighten up! I know this place is very important to a lot of people, and rightly so. But it IS onl a message board and you did NOT have to join in this thread. Geesh some people take life so seriously…relax and enjoy it a bit…or not. When i started this thread I had no agenda other than to have little fun. I am sorry it has devolved into something people take to heart. ---
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-the-most-famous-doper/272867/140 "2004-11-05T13:01:59Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Right, you amateurs… > > \ > > Lessee now… I’ve sung before sold out audiences in concert halls from London to Istanbul including two performances for Queen Elizabeth II and one for the mayor of Rome (whose name I’ve forgotten), I’ve been on television in over a hundred countries (including close-ups) several times, I’ve had my own statewide radio program, I’ve had over forty thousand people watch me perform live in Hyde Park, I’ve got two CDs out on commercial release and am recording a third one next spring… > > I get around a bit, me. 🆒 > > All true, too. In a way. Charlotte Church? My dreams have been realized 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-the-most-famous-doper/272867.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-the-most-famous-doper/272867.md?page=8)