No. After I was kinda cyber-stalked by a gal after posting elsewhere, my wife’s become convinced message boards in particular and the internet in general are the root of all evil. The effort required to avoid unsolicited e-mail porn was probably most responsible. That and news stories about the trouble MySpace has generated for teens and their parents.
I’ve tried to convey the good things about The Dope but, nowadays, I’m resigned (rather sadly I might add) to the fact that our fraternity and my time here is just my little secret.
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Fffft. You may look better now, but you’ve always been pretty far-removed from ugly. Besides, like I said, she seems to think I’m a huge man-slut, or something.
I’m the only Doper in my family (husband, two kids, my parents who live nearby). They call it “[my] message board,” and occasionally will ask me to post a question or something. Overall, though, none of them really get it.
My husband came with me to a DopeFest a few years ago. Afterwards, I heard him talking to the kids about it. “Imagine,” he said, “A room full of people just like your mom…” :eek:
My husband is an ex-Doper (Emofkuniv if anyone remembers him). We met here in May 2003 and were married in August 2004. He doesn’t even lurk here anymore; we don’t have the internet at home anymore and, as he works from home, he doesn’t have any access. We’re getting it installed in the next few months and I guess he might have a look see but I can’t see him joining again.
That’s almost as bad as when I’ve been out with my brother and his new baby girl, and strangers kindly ask us how it feels to be parents. :eek:
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Ok, clue the rest of us in, which poster is your brother?
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No. And I’ve sat him down…
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You’re taken ? Bummer!
Just kidding. Seriously, Mrs. Map is not a doper, but she has picked up a few phrases from me (which I picked up from the Dope) in her speech, which she now uses more than I do – like “meh”.
[off-topic]Scotticher, seeing your name in this thread reminded me to tell you that the duck PJs you sent for Whatsit Jr. lo these many years ago saw excellent use and have just now been retired now that my daughter (MiniWhatsit) has grown out of them. They’ve been washed so many times that the ducks wore off.
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I’m so glad you liked it. If they’d had one in adult sizes, I’d have gotten one for myself.
I’m happy that you got so much use out of them. That " baby shower" remains one of my favorite things I ever did here on the good old SDMB. [sub]Sorry about the poor ducks, though. Maybe they just went south for the winter?[/sub]
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Anyway, the night before last she more-or-less indicated that she thinks Dopefests are sexual free-for-alls, so either her view of online socializing has been inordinately warped by her frequent perusal of craigslist listings, or I’ve been missing out.
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[looks askance]HEY! Have you been holding PNW Dopefests without me? 'Cause that certainly doesn’t sound like any of them that I ever attended…[/looks askance]
Larry, Larry, Larry. I have told you and told you… you can’t just be telling anyone you happen to SO up with about the plan…how do you expect our Ancient Astronauts [sub]AKA “evil overloards”[/sub] to take over the world if you tell someone about it who might actually believe it? I mean, they’ll tell someone. Who’ll tell someone else. And before you know it, the whole plan is just toast. Please don’t do it again, dear. Unless you are secretly trying to deep six the whole plan. [sub]looks suspiciously at Larry…and askance again, too. What can I say? I LIKE that word, and I almost never get the chance to use it.[/sub]
