# Info about other Dopers **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 10, 2000, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-other-dopers/19151 "2000-05-10T19:10:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Osip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4491bb/32.png) [@Osip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osip)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2000, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-other-dopers/19151/41 "2000-05-12T00:27:24Z")
Ok, maybe I am not mighty and only a honorary Osip. I am 29 years old. Single as can be. I can out run most of the redneck women here. Those I can’t simple math will confuse them long enough to plot an excape. I work as a locksmith and live alone with my two dogs. I have all my fingers, toes and original teeth. I spend to much time reading the boards and not much posting. I read anything with Aha, ultress, Wally, coldfire or swimmingriddles as the author. I have a strange facination with soviet poetry. I tell myself every morning I am master of my fate and captian of my destiny. Then cry “Oh shit” anything else just ask. ---
**Author:** ![Elthia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e274bd/32.png) [@Elthia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elthia)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2000, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-other-dopers/19151/42 "2000-05-12T00:30:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > I think it’s so cool that Someone actually wants the details on GaWd! 🙂 Details? Baby, I’ve been watching your posts like a hawk - when I can find 'em. _grin_ > [@](#): > > My name is Sam Roza, I live in the S.F. Bay Area(San Jose actually). I work for a company called Resonate( [http://www.resonate.com](http://www.resonate.com) )and we make a software-based program that load balances(\*\*mods take note:\*\*SDMB could use this!). Oh, leave that to the marketing guys. Tell us about YOU, not yer company. 🙂 [/quote] I have a decent, but thankless job, working the graveyard and watching our customers websites. Oh, and I’m 23. \*\* [/QUOTE] Graveyard is a tough shift, I’ve heard. How do you handle it? What are your living conditions like (place/style/type of home, etc)? What else can I get outta ya? (email? ICQ? AIM? Anything else I can either use in Win or fake in Redhat? _grin_) -Elthia ---
**Author:** ![Elthia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e274bd/32.png) [@Elthia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elthia)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2000, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-other-dopers/19151/43 "2000-05-12T00:35:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > **Mr. Cynical: _SMOOOOCH_ better? Poor widdle thumby-wumby. _pet_ Want some cran-tangerine juice? 🙂** > > At least one of you knows what joke I would normally make here, but I’m not going to. Whyever not? I can take a sick joke as well as the rest of 'em - maybe better, I like 'em. _Grin_ > [@](#): > > Yes, I would greatly appreciate any cran-X juice you have. And ice. To chew on. > \*\* One cran-tangerine coming right up! In a blue plastic cup (taking advice from later _Grin_). And ice. -Elthia ---
**Author:** ![Elthia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e274bd/32.png) [@Elthia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elthia)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2000, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-other-dopers/19151/44 "2000-05-12T00:38:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > How 'bout if I just spill the beans about some of the New Yorkers; would you find that helpful? > > Ukulele Ike - He’s really a Caribbean pirate and comes complete with peg leg and parrot. The U.S. Coast Guard took his sword away from him though, so he’s pretty harmless. Arghhhhh, matey. Ooh, Ooh, a PARROT! Does it bite, or can I pet it? 🙂 > [@](#): > > Manhattan - His true name is Manny Peoples. He sleeps at a bus terminal under the men’s room sink and spends his day filling his wobbly-wheeled shopping cart with pointed objects and dead ppgeons. Rudy Guliani is his uncle. Oh, so HE’s the relative Rudy is trying to get rid of with his War on the Homeless. It all makes so much more sense now. > [@](#): > > Eve - Eve’s nom de guerre is Flora McFlimsey and believes in past lifes she was Lucretia Borgia, Ellery Queen, Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus and Zona Gale. No one has yet had the heart to tell her that Ellery Queen is a fictional character. The proper response to which, of course, would be ‘well, it was someone much like her anyway’. > [@](#): > > SaxFace - Although SaxFace is very female (and extant), she is the true-life model of the Simpson’s character Bleeding Gums Murphy. You can often see her shooting nine-ball on the professional women’s tour shown on ESPN. When she’s sober that is. Oh my. > [@](#): > > I’ll search my archives and see what else I can come up with about the NYC’ers. > \*\* You certainly do have an interesting set of archives. You aren’t peeking into the mental hospital’s records, are you? _Grin_ -Elthia ---
**Author:** ![Elthia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e274bd/32.png) [@Elthia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elthia)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2000, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-other-dopers/19151/45 "2000-05-12T00:40:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*\* > > > > Argeable: Uhhh… yeah. Riiight. _blink_ I have a four-year-old who’s worse. You can’t out-obnoxious him, so don’t worry about it. _grin_ > > \*\* > > Yea, I’ve gotten better…as a result, my skin is much less purple and more of a healthy color 😉 > > \*\* Hahahaha! I laughed loudly enough at this that people around me were asking what was so funny. Have your ears recovered from the fingers that were always stuck in them too? 🙂 -Elthia ---
**Author:** ![Elthia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e274bd/32.png) [@Elthia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elthia)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2000, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-other-dopers/19151/46 "2000-05-12T00:42:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Nice to meetcha. I’m pretty new here, just trying to keep from pissing too many people off, and reading lots 'o good stuff. Work is good, (no, really) I mostly tinker with supercomputers. Cool 🙂 What KIND of supercomputers? Don’t just leave me hanging like that, tell me what you’ve GOT! 😉 [/quote] Right now I’m looking at the latest processor technology which is as yet not released, new OSs and new memory due to come out soon (for Intel based machines). Can you say “Geek”? Gotta have a drink some time soon though… [/quote] _pant_ _pant_ oooooooooooooooooooo WHERE do you work, that you have your hands up to the elbows in that stuff? -Elthia ---
**Author:** ![Elthia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e274bd/32.png) [@Elthia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elthia)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2000, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-other-dopers/19151/47 "2000-05-12T00:51:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > It’s difficult to carry on a conversation on a message board. Feel free to chat me up any time on ICQ (#423201) or in #straightdope on IRC. Well, I loaded up ICQ for the first time in ages just for you and you aren’t there, so here I am again. 🙂 > [@](#): > > You can also look at my web site. I really don’t talk much about myself there, but you’ll see a lot of things I find funny and/or interesting, and get a little peek at my mind from that perspective. I love the very first thing it has to say - about copper armor. _cackle_ Oh, why no junkbuster link? You have anonymizer, why not that? 🙂 And what types of proggies do you write? > [@](#): > > Anything else you’d like to know? > \*\* um…everything? But I’m told the human brain can’t handle that, so I’ll settle for everything I can learn. -Elthia ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2000, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-other-dopers/19151/48 "2000-05-12T00:51:48Z")
Well, since zyada and ultress seem to want to know, I’ll be glad to tell. I’m male, straight, 50, and working on being single (wouldn’t it be nice to just fill out a form and be done with it?). I live in Burnaby, B.C. (in Canada, next to Vancouver, for those who don’t know), and pretend to work at computer support for a local college. Since that seems not to say much of anything significant, feel free to ask, either here or by mail ---
**Author:** ![Delta-9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@Delta-9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delta-9)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2000, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-other-dopers/19151/49 "2000-05-12T00:52:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\*Me, I want to know who the single straight men are here! Along with an age. > \*\* ::gives zyada _the look_:: Hellooo. . . Ed 38 Sagittarius 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Elthia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e274bd/32.png) [@Elthia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elthia)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2000, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-other-dopers/19151/50 "2000-05-12T00:53:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Geeks.unite()! > > I’m a programmer in woodland hills (san fernando valley, near/in LA, CA). Doing what, and for whom? > [@](#): > > Um… 22… male… getting married in July… What’s she like? -Elthia it’s a start. ---
**Author:** ![Elthia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e274bd/32.png) [@Elthia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elthia)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2000, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-other-dopers/19151/51 "2000-05-12T01:00:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Hi, I’m SwimmingRiddles. AKA Swiddles. I’m 20, and have a mundane job working for very nice bosses. I live alone with one Siamese cat named Tiki Tiki Tembo Nosirembo Cheri Beri Ruchi Pip Peri Pembo. It has been _so_ long since I heard that name that it took me a second to figure out how to say it (then it just rolled off my tongue like it used to). Wow. > [@](#): > > My website is listed below, but it hasn’t been updated in about a year. Because my job is so mundane, That bad? > [@](#): > > I post a LOT from work. Right now I am eating a delicious salad that has lettuce, shredded cheddar cheese, chick peas, and sunflower seeds with Caeser salad dressing. It’s quite delightful. Welcome to The Boards. > \*\* Hehe, thanks. -Elthia ---
**Author:** ![Elthia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e274bd/32.png) [@Elthia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elthia)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2000, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-other-dopers/19151/52 "2000-05-12T01:10:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > I haven’t been reading much lately. I promise I wasn’t ignoring this OP. > > Let’s see. I’m 22. I’ll be graduating from college (Ohio State) in December, with a degree in English. After that, I’ll be going to law school, I hope. I’ll know more about that after I take the LSAT in a month. _shudder_ Good luck. I’ve heard it’s not nearly as bad as you’d think. Of course, I heard that from a certified (and certifiable) genius, so take it with a grain of salt anyway. 🙂 > [@](#): > > Oh, I’m female. I hope you didn’t need to know that. Even if I’d been trolling for partners (which I wasn’t), I wouldn’t have needed to know that. However, no, it doesn’t make a difference - actually, you were one of the people who were on my list there, but DB worked better than ‘dain bread, no, drain bread, no… um…’ 🙂 > [@](#): > > I’m also quite happily engaged to Satan, also something I hope you didn’t need to know. Noone _needs_ to know, but it’s kind of neat to know - how did you two meet? > [@](#): > > I like kitty cats and the Buffalo Bills and Sharon Olds and cooking. My favorite stress reliever is Playstation–I’m currently attempting to beat FF8, which I’ve had since it came out but haven’t had time to really mess with on any grand scale. I loved FF7. But I’m the type of player who spent literally days worth of hours _breeding_ _chocobos_. _laugh_ -Elthia ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2000, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-other-dopers/19151/53 "2000-05-12T01:30:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Details? Baby, I’ve been watching your posts like a hawk - when I can find 'em. _grin_\*\* > > Wow…I guess I just wasn’t paying attention 🙂 So, when are you visiting California?😉 > \*\* > Oh, leave that to the marketing guys. Tell us about YOU, not yer company. 🙂 > > Graveyard is a tough shift, I’ve heard. How do you handle it? What are your living conditions like (place/style/type of home, etc)? What else can I get outta ya? (email? ICQ? AIM? Anything else I can either use in Win or fake in Redhat? _grin_) > > -Elthia > \*\* Allrighty Elthia darling, you asked for it. First off, I’m single and straight(I saw further down in the OP). Graveyard sucks, but when you begin to live it like a life and not just a day job, it gets easier. I resisted the first couple weeks and was miserable as all getup…then, I assimilated!! 🆒 I live in the ghetto(what we consider the ghetto around here, it ain’t really that bad). Uhh…it’s a mess! It is a turn of the century house(california bungalow style). It’s just my brother and I sharing a 3 bedroom house, both bachelors(trouble). Well, saince you asked…I’ll give you the straight dope on Sam’s contact info… [gawd@local420.net](mailto:gawd@local420.net) AOL/AIM–TheFab1 and I don’t ICQ. 🙂 How about you Elthia??? ---
**Author:** ![Shadowfox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Shadowfox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadowfox)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2000, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-other-dopers/19151/54 "2000-05-12T01:33:21Z")
> [@](#): > > I post a LOT from work. Right now I am eating a delicious salad that has lettuce, shredded cheddar cheese, chick peas, and sunflower seeds with Caeser salad dressing. It’s quite delightful. Welcome to The Boards. sigh…now I’m hungry. Diet-be-gone! Back to the OP. I think it was agreed upon by virtually everyone on the board that I have probably the worst ex-spouse out of everybody on this board. Not going into any more details because frankly I’m sick of bitching about him all the time. There has got to be something more in life to talk about. I’m married (to hubby number two) and have four kids and four stepkids, which I guess also gives me the record for having the most kids out of anybody else on this board. I was born and raised in the burbs of San Francisco and Detroit and my grandparents are all originally from the hills of Arkansas and Tennessee and the swamps of Louisiana. I may have spent most of my life in the Great Lakes, but I have too much hillbilly blood in me. I mean, God forbid, I have found myself listening to country music lately and feeling this deep down urge to watch Wrestlemania. Anything else you want to know? ---
**Author:** ![Shadenwawa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Shadenwawa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadenwawa)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2000, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-other-dopers/19151/55 "2000-05-12T05:39:41Z")
> [@](#): > > What’s she like? Hmm. She and I are very different. We are opposite in just about every way… but I guess that old “opposites attract” thing works for us. I’m a really down to earth person, she’s… not, really. But she’s caring and sweet and all that fun stuff that really matters, and we agree on the fundamental values level so everything is peachy. “awwwww.” 🙂 I expect my doper friends to be thinking of me on July 4. I work for a computer sales/leasing company called El Camino Resources. I support internal applications, mostly working on the app that the sales people use for submitting deals and one that people use for document generation. Both are VB apps. Currently I’m trying to get Adobe (acrobat) to work with Microsoft (vb and word), but they aren’t playing nice. As usual. And **Cosmin** , unfortunately Xorlords is lost. It only runs on SGI’s anyways, but I’m sorry its gone. Oh well. It was so _cool_ too… we even added our own sound effects! Bah. This is a cool thread. Interesting stuff. Anyone else out here near me? San fernando valley, CA? -Shad ---
**Author:** ![Cosmin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/54ee81/32.png) [@Cosmin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmin)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2000, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-other-dopers/19151/56 "2000-05-12T19:26:28Z")
Aww… no Xorlords? ☹ Oh well… I guess it’s my turn to talk now anyways. I’m a 16 year old guy, in Ontario, Canada. I was born in Bucharest, Romania and came to Canada when I was 9. I don’t do much… I don’t really work… I plan to leech off my parents for a while, and then get a job at MacDonald’s and move into a tiny apartment or something… Right now I waste most of my time by sitting around the house listening to my mp3s, playing Quake, reading and posting on here, and talking to people on ICQ and IRC. I like music and computers and stuff… Has anyone here heard of Slipknot? They kick ass 🙂 That’s about all I have to say… ---
**Author:** ![KimKatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@KimKatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KimKatt)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2000, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-other-dopers/19151/57 "2000-05-12T20:08:05Z")
Okay, here goes. I’m 29, and that’s not a euphamism, I really am. I was born in Windsor, Ontario and now live right next door in Tecumseh. I have somewhere between one and four kids, 2 cats, and my husband has a dog. I am married to an absolutely fabulously wonderful man who adores me, which is his best quality. 😃 His worst quality is that he likes pro wrestling, by the way. I am a total computer geek - I work as a Network Engineer, and am constantly pursuing new certifications. I have my MCSE, A+, and just completed my CNE. I love to travel - so far I have been to Thailand, Ireland, Mexico, and Chicago 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![KimKatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@KimKatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KimKatt)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2000, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-other-dopers/19151/58 "2000-05-12T20:12:10Z")
Oh, and I almost forgot. I have a crush on Arnold Winkelried, especially since having seen that picture of him in the other thread. Yowza. 😃 His SO needn’t worry. It’s purely a platonic crush, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2000, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-other-dopers/19151/59 "2000-05-12T20:12:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > BTW, Big (and Sax and Uke), can I talk you into Dinner at Sweet Mama’s next time I’m in Park Slope? > \*\* **Grean Bean,** if you’re in the Slope and you want soul food, pass Sweet Mama’s by and come over to my crib (just a block away). I may be an ofay Yankee boy, but my fried chicken, ribs, pork chops, fried fish, red beans and rice, Hopping John, pintos with ham hocks, gumbo z’herbes, cornbread, etc., are ten or twelve times better than that place, if I do say so myself. Sweet Mama’s. Pfui. They put SUGAR in their cornbread. Their chicken, their beans, taste of NOTHING. They’re only popular because nobody knows how to cook that kinda stuff themselves any more. Except me. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2000, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-other-dopers/19151/60 "2000-05-12T20:14:37Z")
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