# Intelectuallly Inferior Dopers, UNITE!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 18, 2004, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelectuallly-inferior-dopers-unite/255640 "2004-07-18T00:30:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelectuallly-inferior-dopers-unite/255640/121 "2004-07-20T12:07:43Z")
> [@Sutremaine](#): > > Oh, and to the person who asked on the last page… > > [Google](http://google.com) > > is > > [URL = [http://www.google.com](http://www.google.com) ] Google [/ URL] > > Just remove the spaces. That was me. I could pretend I just asked it to flush out the smart people, but instead I will just say thank you. Come over here and I’ll show you how to make a slack-jawed moron face! ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelectuallly-inferior-dopers-unite/255640/122 "2004-07-20T13:20:00Z")
> [@laina\_f](#): > > **Motto:** Open to discussion. (No, the motto is not “Open to discussion”; the subject of the motto is open to discussion. I hope I’m not disqualified from the club for using a semi-colon.) > > **Logo:** A messed up ASCII picture of a putz running into a pole. > > Discuss. I vote for “Open to Discussion” for the motto. As for the logo, what’s this “ASCII” you mentioned? Some fancy computer term that only smart people know? ---
**Author:** ![bittersweet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@bittersweet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bittersweet)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelectuallly-inferior-dopers-unite/255640/123 "2004-07-20T13:24:58Z")
Hooray! A group I can truly relate to. Count me in! Now I can say I’m a :wally and be proud! ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelectuallly-inferior-dopers-unite/255640/124 "2004-07-20T14:08:58Z")
The more you know, the more you know how much you don’t know. These may be the brightest minds on the board - eagar to admit that their forte is Friends trivia. Hey, Friends trivia is no less important that being able to debate SOCAS (that’s Seperation of Church and State for those that been intimidated right out of GD). ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelectuallly-inferior-dopers-unite/255640/125 "2004-07-20T14:54:18Z")
> [@Dangerosa](#): > > … SOCAS … SOCAS? Oh, that’s one of those fancy political terms they toss around in GD. Yeah, I knew that. ---
**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelectuallly-inferior-dopers-unite/255640/126 "2004-07-20T16:06:53Z")
> [@](#): > > Now I can say I’m a :wally and be proud! Looks like the basis of a good t-shirt logo. It looks like it would combine well with another IIDU suggestion. D’OhPers, a :wally and proud of it. ---
**Author:** ![Graycat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Graycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Graycat)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelectuallly-inferior-dopers-unite/255640/127 "2004-07-20T16:45:03Z")
I think I belong in this group; I always thought I was pretty smart, but since getting to the Dope I feel like the person who was always tops in the class all through school and gets to college, where everyone was tops in their class and you need to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. Also, I have been reading this thread since it started, and this is the first I’ve gotten up the courage to post. I did think about one on page one and once on page two, though. ---
**Author:** ![flamingbananas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelectuallly-inferior-dopers-unite/255640/128 "2004-07-20T16:53:19Z")
> [@](#): > > :wally Since we are the IDIOTS or whatever we are calling ourselves, what in the hell does that smiley mean? ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelectuallly-inferior-dopers-unite/255640/129 "2004-07-20T18:39:57Z")
Me too! I’m so oblivious, I _just_ saw this thread! 😛 Here’s my cite: [Post your DOH!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=251322) See? I couldn’t even spell D’oh correctly. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TheFaerie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c57346/32.png) [@TheFaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFaerie)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelectuallly-inferior-dopers-unite/255640/130 "2004-07-20T19:56:43Z")
I may I join too, please? I hardly ever post to threads because like others on this thread, I’m afraid of making a jackass of myself, and I’m shy. My friends think I’m smart cause I spell good and have a ton of useless knowledge that makes me fairly competent at trivia games, but science and higher math fog my brain and I’m not particularly good at debate, neither. 🆒 But I’m cute and interesting otherwise! ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelectuallly-inferior-dopers-unite/255640/131 "2004-07-20T19:57:13Z")
> [@unclviny](#): > > Meat is good, and I like them tater thingies too. > > Straigt D’OHpers UNTIE!!! > > Unclviny Yowza!! All right!! **Unclviny** likes meat too, _and_ Tater Thingies. Now I’m so hungry I can’t think. Wait, I couldn’t think already. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelectuallly-inferior-dopers-unite/255640/132 "2004-07-20T20:03:01Z")
So … What’s this thread about again? I forgot. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelectuallly-inferior-dopers-unite/255640/133 "2004-07-20T20:52:46Z")
> [@TheFaerie](#): > > I may I join too, please? I hardly ever post to threads because like others on this thread, I’m afraid of making a jackass of myself, and I’m shy. My friends think I’m smart cause I spell good and have a ton of useless knowledge that makes me fairly competent at trivia games, but science and higher math fog my brain and I’m not particularly good at debate, neither. 🆒 > > But I’m cute and interesting otherwise! Duh…Are you me? And welcome to the boards! ---
**Author:** ![Tygr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@Tygr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tygr)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelectuallly-inferior-dopers-unite/255640/134 "2004-07-21T15:50:58Z")
> [@Bugnorton](#): > > Wow, this is great and they have corn chips… > Corn chips are good! I dunno…they kinda smell like my cat’s feet. I haven’t posted in 2 & [sup]1[/sup]/[sub]2[/sub] months. (My last post had the vaunted purpose of telling every Doper [what songs I hate](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=254752).) The intervening time has been spent trying to figure out how to ask, in the most intellectual-sounding manner possible, how soap works. Upon reading this thread I realized that needing to know how soap works qualifies me for induction into this here club. And, while I LIKE “Keeping our uninformed opinions to ourselves since 1973, at least most of the time” as a club motto, I’m afraid I’m unable to support it simply because I CAN’T keep my uninformed opinions to myself. I post in IMHO but not GD precisely because I have plenty of opinions but very few facts. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelectuallly-inferior-dopers-unite/255640/135 "2004-07-21T16:17:55Z")
I really should be able to tell you how soap works. It has definitely been explained to me more than once. I think it’s because of polar molecules or something like that. I do remember that Zest, as they advertise, is not technically soap. And I know that model Jerry Hall doen’t wash her hair very often. The sad thing about me is that I’m well educated, but I can’t remember enough about any of it to explain or argue coherently. New suggestion for IIDU motto – a lyric from Cracker: _It’s okay to never know the answer but ask why._ ---
**Author:** ![ZombiesAteMyBrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b4bc9f/32.png) [@ZombiesAteMyBrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZombiesAteMyBrain)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelectuallly-inferior-dopers-unite/255640/136 "2004-07-21T16:23:59Z")
> [@flamingbananas](#): > > Since we are the IDIOTS or whatever we are calling ourselves, what in the hell does that smiley mean? Putz??? Isn’t that something golfers do?? ---
**Author:** ![TheFaerie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c57346/32.png) [@TheFaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFaerie)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelectuallly-inferior-dopers-unite/255640/137 "2004-07-21T16:44:50Z")
> [@Dung Beetle](#): > > Duh…Are you me? > And welcome to the boards! I don’t think so… are you wearing a lavender tee shirt and sand colored Dockers? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelectuallly-inferior-dopers-unite/255640/138 "2004-07-21T16:49:48Z")
Can I join? I know nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Astacey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f05b48/32.png) [@Astacey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astacey)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelectuallly-inferior-dopers-unite/255640/139 "2004-07-21T18:00:23Z")
Oh, I just know I need to apply to this group. My usual sig on one of my outgoing email accounts is “Just because I have a short attention span doesn’t mean I…” My husband laughs because it fits me perfectly. I’m here for the info, man. I love to learn. The humor is pretty good too. I know I can’t contribute much to this forum, however, I figured if the SD is ‘fighting ignorance since 1973’ …well, then they need someone to be the ‘ignorant’. :raises hand quietly from the back of the room. ---
**Author:** ![TwoTrouts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9adbd/32.png) [@TwoTrouts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoTrouts)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelectuallly-inferior-dopers-unite/255640/140 "2004-07-21T18:07:05Z")
Lemme in here! Sometimes I feel like the poor dunce getting his face slapped in the offical Straight Dope logo. I don’t post in GD for fear of one of the fringe elements grabbing a flamethrower, hauling my butt to the Pit, and BBQ-ing it! I have college degrees, but feel absolutely overwhelmed sometimes by the vast amounts of info on any subject out there. I can only talk intelligently on insects and 1960’s comic books it seems. Big WOW! I can bring Pie (apple) with cheese! (check the Ed Gein thread in MPSIMS) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelectuallly-inferior-dopers-unite/255640.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelectuallly-inferior-dopers-unite/255640.md?page=8)