# Is it "Bring a Dope to the Dope Week"? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 31, 2009, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-bring-a-dope-to-the-dope-week/515806 "2009-10-31T02:42:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-bring-a-dope-to-the-dope-week/515806/1 "2009-10-31T02:42:00Z")
And I didn’t know about it? Some dude is complaining in GD [because he’s harmed by “Girls Gone Wild”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11707376&postcount=155) and by girls wanting to have sex with him. Thirteen-year-olds are saying [it’s okay for 5-10% of women to die seeking abortion](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11715107&postcount=238). Oh, and don’t forget asking [if slaves were lucky](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=537021) or if [God hates sissies](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11723417&postcount=25). The [ever stunningly clueless](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11721308&postcount=261) thinking that Dick Cheney defends people’s rights (plus extra ellipses, because they… make any point… more effective…) Curtis LeMay is everywhere, raindog (like always) is going nowhere fast, and my god, if SmartAlx isn’t someone burning off a sock by presenting the board with “Starving Artist, Jr.” then I weep for humanity. Oh, to hell with it. I’ll weep for humanity tomorrow. I’ll point and laugh at this chuckleheads today. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-bring-a-dope-to-the-dope-week/515806/2 "2009-10-31T02:45:39Z")
I just want to point out to these youngsters that it’s okay to swear here. You don’t need to say “####” or use any other symbols to convey bad words. You can say fuck, shit, ass, bitch, cunt, shoo-be-dee-doo-wop, skippity-bebop, a-Christopher Reeve, Sonny Bono, skis, horses and hittin’ some trees, and whatever else you want to, as long as it’s not directed at another person. Aside from that, please swear away. Your grandmother is not watching you. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-bring-a-dope-to-the-dope-week/515806/3 "2009-10-31T02:47:30Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > Your grandmother is not watching you. Even if she is, she can use those words, too. Fire when ready, Grandma! ---
**Author:** ![ReuvenB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@ReuvenB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReuvenB)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-bring-a-dope-to-the-dope-week/515806/4 "2009-10-31T02:47:57Z")
You could even say “santorum”. ---
**Author:** ![torie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@torie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torie)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-bring-a-dope-to-the-dope-week/515806/5 "2009-10-31T02:52:35Z")
Someone should let SmartAlx know that we are all exposed to a wide variety of things we don’t really approve of or want in our lives. That doesn’t mean that we get to force others to live the way we want them too. Christians affect me by having their churches on every corner and their preachers on TV all the time. Does that mean they affect me so much that I get to tell them to stop being Christian? What if my boyfriend breaks up with me because I’m not Christian? (That’s happened to me.) Do I get to claim that Christians are bad now? ---
**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:** [October 31, 2009, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-bring-a-dope-to-the-dope-week/515806/6 "2009-10-31T03:37:17Z")
Who is the cable company to dictate to **SmartAlx**? They are infringing on his _rights_ by allowing him to access the Playboy Channel when he calls and asks them to (generally on Saturdays at 11 pm). ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-bring-a-dope-to-the-dope-week/515806/7 "2009-10-31T03:43:33Z")
Anyway - no, it is not “bring a dope to the Dope week.” However, starting this Monday, it _will_ be “Take a Worm for a Walk Week”, for all the Karate Kid fans out there. Seriously - the scene where Bobby yells out the greatest insult of 1980s cinema takes place on the first day of school after Halloween (remember, Daniel’s pivotal beat-down and subsequent rescue by Miyagi occurs right after the Halloween Dance at the high school.) So, it literally will be Take a Worm for a Walk Week. Everyone should celebrate by wearing their matching Cobra Kai motorcycle jackets and riding a dirt bike to work. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-bring-a-dope-to-the-dope-week/515806/8 "2009-10-31T03:49:45Z")
> [@torie](#): > > …What if my boyfriend breaks up with me because I’m not Christian? … I would say you got off easy. ---
**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:** [October 31, 2009, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-bring-a-dope-to-the-dope-week/515806/9 "2009-10-31T04:07:38Z")
Yeah, a lot of guys would kill you for that. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-bring-a-dope-to-the-dope-week/515806/10 "2009-10-31T05:34:49Z")
May I just say that after all this time I get someone with a substantially similar username around here and it has to be that fucking stupid a person. FML. Also, thirteen year old boys don’t get to have an opinion about abortion until they’re at least old enough that it might possibly be something other than totally academic for them. Sorry the idiots are out, **jsgoddess.** I’m just here taking a break from the sock storm over at the 'Raffe! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-bring-a-dope-to-the-dope-week/515806/11 "2009-10-31T05:40:39Z")
> [@SmartAleq](#): > > I’m just here taking a break from the sock storm over at the 'Raffe! 😛 Good god, I hope someone did laundry first. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-bring-a-dope-to-the-dope-week/515806/12 "2009-10-31T05:56:04Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Some dude is complaining in GD [because he’s harmed by “Girls Gone Wild”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11707376&postcount=155) and by girls wanting to have sex with him. From SmartAlx link above: “I don’t want sitcoms to portray the belief that sex should be a normal part of dating.” Damn you Ginger!, You too Mary Ann! For the wasted years of my youth. Ward, you really must have “that talk” with the Beaver. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-bring-a-dope-to-the-dope-week/515806/13 "2009-10-31T07:24:44Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Good god, I hope someone did laundry first. Trust me, with the way people are carrying on it’ll be much wiser and much less work to wash the socks AFTER the weekend! Fuck, no yuk, grossout or barf smilies–what kind of ghetto message board is this again? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-bring-a-dope-to-the-dope-week/515806/14 "2009-10-31T21:52:28Z")
> [@XWalrus2](#): > > You could even say “santorum”. But never, ever, “semprini.” ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-bring-a-dope-to-the-dope-week/515806/15 "2009-10-31T22:38:46Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > Your grandmother is not watching you. And it’s a good thing, too. She’d be ashamed at my lack of swearing ability, since she could cuss the screen off a door. ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-bring-a-dope-to-the-dope-week/515806/16 "2009-10-31T22:48:28Z")
> [@Telperien](#): > > And it’s a good thing, too. She’d be ashamed at my lack of swearing ability, since she could cuss the screen off a door. That’s a great phrase- mind if I steal it? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-bring-a-dope-to-the-dope-week/515806/17 "2009-10-31T22:58:41Z")
Too late. Mine. Back off. ---
**Author:** ![emcee2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emcee2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emcee2k)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-bring-a-dope-to-the-dope-week/515806/18 "2009-11-01T00:16:55Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > …Everyone should celebrate by wearing their matching Cobra Kai motorcycle jackets and riding a dirt bike to work. That’s how you celebrate Take a Worm for a Walk Week? That’s a little counter-intuitive. ---
**Author:** ![wierdaaron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eada6e/32.png) [@wierdaaron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wierdaaron)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-bring-a-dope-to-the-dope-week/515806/19 "2009-11-01T19:15:05Z")
If you haven’t noticed, Curtis LeMay does nothing but post obscurely banal hypothetical questions with obvious answers. Some of us here have… theories about him, that aren’t to be talked about in public. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-bring-a-dope-to-the-dope-week/515806/20 "2009-11-01T19:29:21Z")
But y’know when I was thirteen I was an opinionated, obnoxious, little shit, who thought I knew best too! I have a theory that without that misplaced know-it-all confidence we’d never make it to 18 yrs. Them’s some difficult years, in between 13 and 18. And maybe, just maybe, the universe gives us that, let’s call it bravado, so we’ll make it through to the more circumspect age of 18. Wherein we are still pretty full of ourselves and perhaps even still overconfident, but have stopped believing we know everything about everything, especially as it pertains to things which we have no actual life experience with. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-bring-a-dope-to-the-dope-week/515806.md?page=2)