# I'm not like other Dopers because… **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 9, 2004, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-like-other-dopers-because/278978 "2004-12-09T19:33:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-like-other-dopers-because/278978/41 "2004-12-10T05:05:13Z")
I’m the only doper to have attended the University of Windsor. And if this isn’t true, I want to know. As to the other people: I’ve got no interest in Star Wars or 24. Anime is a mystery to me. Never owned a comic book. My computer knowledge is nothing, unless it’s a Mac running System 7.0-7.5.3. And for the most part I stay away from arguments. I like discussions, not arguments. Maybe that’s the Canadian showing through…I also like ellipses. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-like-other-dopers-because/278978/42 "2004-12-10T05:22:00Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > -I actually LIKED the _Star Wars_ prequels, including Jar Jar. [Dr. Scratch’n’sniff]That’s not normal. I know normal.[Dr.S’n’S] ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-like-other-dopers-because/278978/43 "2004-12-10T05:44:48Z")
1. I am not an avid fan of Star Wars, Star Trek, LOTR, or the Simpsons. 2. I refrain from most SDMB’isms (“Hi Opal!”, “When come back, bring pie”, “1920’s-style death rays”, etc…) 3. I don’t use witty quotes in my sig. In fact, I don’t even use a sig! 4. I don’t open any political threads, except by accident. If I do open a thread that I cannot discern from preview is a political thread, and then it turns out to be one, I back out of it immediately. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-like-other-dopers-because/278978/44 "2004-12-10T07:17:33Z")
I am a weird _person_, but a normal Doper. I still don’t get Weebl and Bob, and am using a slow connection, so I’m afraid to check into it for fear of a crash. I know almost nothing about computers, I am not an expert on anything, and I have no comic books and do not want any. But, but…whaddaya mean, it’s just a message board? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-like-other-dopers-because/278978/45 "2004-12-10T11:23:27Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > I’m just like every other SDMB member who’s also a recovering maximum-security prison physician Tolkien uber-geek fan of vegemite and 12 year old cheddar cheese sandwiches who’s personally crashed an airplane and crawled out of the wreckage to take his doper name from an extremely obscure novel within an extremely obscure novel. > > Pretty mainstream, really. You need to have marmite! Marmite makes vegemite look like the weak cousin it is. I have never seen any of the LOTR movies. I could be deported for admitting this. I’m just here becaue I love the banter and I always learn something. It amazes me often (because of time differences) that I read something here and then see it on the evening news hours later. I am way less intelligent and amusing then my doper heroes but I’m hanging around anyway. I am here BECAUSE of the differences. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-like-other-dopers-because/278978/46 "2004-12-10T13:57:35Z")
> [@calm kiwi](#): > > You need to have marmite! > Marmite makes vegemite look like the weak cousin it is. I have marmite. 2 Jars. I save it for special occasions because it’s harder to obtain here. I had promite, but won’t do _that_ again. ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-like-other-dopers-because/278978/47 "2004-12-10T14:12:25Z")
Just once break out and have a Marmite and chip sandwich. You will love it. The chips should be plain old ready salted flavour but chicken works too. The bread should be plain old white bread. Go on do it! It is all good. Marmite and cheese is also yummy (plain old Cheddar). Vegemite just doesn’t work, it’s all too weak and flavourless. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-like-other-dopers-because/278978/48 "2004-12-10T16:55:19Z")
> [@JillGat](#): > > …and apparently that isn’t spelling. > 😉 I proved my point. (that I am unlike other dopers in that I am not a master of any subjects, spelling being one of them) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-like-other-dopers-because/278978.md?page=2)