# I really need a favour... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 16, 2009, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-need-a-favour/486163 "2009-02-16T20:56:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![I\_Have\_Hippos\_In\_My\_Garden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4491bb/32.png) [@I\_Have\_Hippos\_In\_My\_Garden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Have_Hippos_In_My_Garden)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-need-a-favour/486163/1 "2009-02-16T20:56:20Z")
Hi, I would love it if another Doper could do me a favour?! Its nothing dodgy I promise, but if you are interested please send me a message! The favour will take you about a minute. Thank you 🙂 From a very desperate Hippo. P.S Payment will be my neverending love and admiration 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![legalsnugs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@legalsnugs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legalsnugs)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-need-a-favour/486163/2 "2009-02-17T11:03:36Z")
Did you get your favor done? ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-need-a-favour/486163/3 "2009-02-17T11:21:17Z")
> [@legalsnugs](#): > > Did you get your favor done? Heh. Good question. I signed in this morning just to find out. ---
**Author:** ![Risha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-need-a-favour/486163/4 "2009-02-17T15:05:31Z")
I PM’d him but no response yet. Maybe he needs bail posted and can’t get back to the computer? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-need-a-favour/486163/5 "2009-02-17T16:06:26Z")
Well it _looks_ normal but I’d still check with a doctor. Oh, wait… This is this a PM, right? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-need-a-favour/486163/6 "2009-02-17T16:10:36Z")
Wait, I don’t even know if I’m biologically, financially, or ethically capable of this favour! How do I know whether I should PM? ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-need-a-favour/486163/7 "2009-02-17T16:17:13Z")
I’d PM you but I know next to nothing about garden hippo extraction. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-need-a-favour/486163/8 "2009-02-17T16:18:37Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Wait, I don’t even know if I’m biologically, financially, or ethically capable of this favour! How do I know whether I should PM? The OP only asked for interest. Presumably, then, [s]he will provide further details in PM to everyone who does PM, and will not take offense to anybody who claims any sort of incapability upon hearing them? (Does it make me a bad Doper that I’m not really that interested in doing another Doper a favour?) ---
**Author:** ![I\_Have\_Hippos\_In\_My\_Garden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4491bb/32.png) [@I\_Have\_Hippos\_In\_My\_Garden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Have_Hippos_In_My_Garden)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-need-a-favour/486163/9 "2009-02-17T19:13:59Z")
Hello!! Wow I’ve never felt so popular…thank you so much to everyone who pm’d me, I’m slowly working through getting back to you all individually, its just taking a while. The favour has been done by a very kind Doper…thank you 🙂 You will have to pm me if you really want to know what this is all about because for a week or so I can’t talk about it publically…its a very good thing though 🙂 Thank you again ---
**Author:** ![I\_Have\_Hippos\_In\_My\_Garden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4491bb/32.png) [@I\_Have\_Hippos\_In\_My\_Garden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Have_Hippos_In_My_Garden)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-need-a-favour/486163/10 "2009-02-17T19:22:23Z")
O and I’m a She 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-need-a-favour/486163/11 "2009-02-17T19:27:16Z")
> [@I\_Have\_Hippos\_In\_My\_Garden](#): > > O and I’m a She 🙂 If you would have stated that at the outset you would have received even more responses. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-need-a-favour/486163/12 "2009-02-17T19:33:09Z")
> [@I\_Have\_Hippos\_In\_My\_Garden](#): > > … > Payment will be my neverending love and admiration 🙂 What?! You’re offering us as payment something we thought we already had? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-need-a-favour/486163/13 "2009-02-17T19:35:31Z")
> [@clayton\_e](#): > > Well it _looks_ normal but I’d still check with a doctor. It could be lupus. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-need-a-favour/486163/14 "2009-02-17T19:44:45Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > It could be lupus. It’s _never_ lupus. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Have\_Hippos\_In\_My\_Garden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4491bb/32.png) [@I\_Have\_Hippos\_In\_My\_Garden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Have_Hippos_In_My_Garden)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-need-a-favour/486163/15 "2009-02-17T19:47:49Z")
> [@](#): > > If you would have stated that at the outset you would have received even more responses. Well that is maybe true, and hence why I am glad I didn’t state my sex! > [@](#): > > It could be lupus. No no I promise its nothing serious! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-need-a-favour/486163/16 "2009-02-17T20:17:01Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > It could be lupus. Peter Lupus? I don’t wanna be doing him any favors. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-need-a-favour/486163/17 "2009-02-17T20:39:49Z")
> [@I\_Have\_Hippos\_In\_My\_Garden](#): > > You will have to pm me if you really want to know what this is all about because for a week or so I can’t talk about it publically..its a very good thing though 🙂 If it’s – you just won a billion dollars and you have to take a week to figure out what to do with it all – I just wanted to say that I always liked you. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-need-a-favour/486163/18 "2009-02-17T21:06:39Z")
Needs a major favor… takes about a minute… a woman… SHE WANTS TO HAVE OCTUPLETS! OR NONUPLETS OR HEXTUPLETS! She’s read about how much the other woman has been offered and wants to go for the gold. Don’t do it! ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-need-a-favour/486163/19 "2009-02-17T21:14:44Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > It’s _never_ lupus. Plus, OPs always lie. Everyone lies. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-need-a-favour/486163/20 "2009-02-17T21:28:39Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > It’s _never_ lupus. I happen to know that this is the Lupin Express. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-need-a-favour/486163.md?page=2)