# Non-USA Dopers: Stand and be counted. Please. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 31, 2006, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707 "2006-07-31T14:02:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/221 "2006-08-09T09:24:02Z")
Just dropping in to applaud the responses this thread is getting, along with the fine work **Antonius Block** has been doing to keep the list updated and summarized. The parallel thread [Southern USA Dopers: Stand and be counted, please](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=382597) is approaching its fourth page of replies and has 163 unique Dopers accounted for. The biggest contingent so far is (ahem!) my state of Tennessee with 33. So the race is on as to which group will achieve supremacy. The combined groups can surely be seen to represent a sizeable portion of active Dopers – if or when that issue comes up in discussions. ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/222 "2006-08-09T09:54:43Z")
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**Author:** ![Antonius\_Block](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@Antonius\_Block](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antonius_Block)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/223 "2006-08-09T10:37:04Z")
_Avec plaisir_, **Severiane**. By the way, your English is excellent. [I lived for four years in [Orléans](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orleans), with a _“bon de transport”_ (i.e. free [SNCF](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sncf) train pass) whenever I wanted, and naturally I spent a great deal of time in Paris. The aspect of the [Parc des Buttes Chaumont](http://www.atkielski.com/inlink.php?/PhotoGallery/Paris/General/ButtesChaumontSmall.html) that I most enjoyed was its three-dimensional nature – a little bit of “wild” in Paris, even if much of the landscape is man-made.] Thank you for your kind words, **Zeldar**! You’ve started several interesting geographically-related SDMB threads recently – perhaps you’re the [Johnny Appleseed](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_appleseed) of the genre! [QUOTE=mr. jp] … [/QUOTE] Well, that’s just about the most efficient post that I’ve ever seen on the SDMB! With a right-click and a left-click, the _Zeldarizer[sup]TM[/sup]_ turns it into: [mr. jp](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php) ; Member ; Joined: Jan 2006 ; Posts: 372 (as of 20060809) ; Location: Denmark …and you’re on the list! Thank you .. the SDMB hamsters are grateful for your ecologically-sound use of pixels. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Monkey\_Chews](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@Monkey\_Chews](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monkey_Chews)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/224 "2006-08-09T12:47:09Z")
I was going to pop in (a little belatedly, sorry) to be counted, but it looks like there’s no need… \*I’ve been **ZELDARIZED!** [sup]TM[/sup] \* ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/225 "2006-08-09T12:53:40Z")
I should have pointed that, all things working out as planned, in December/January I´ll stop being the only poster from Montevideo, Uruguay and start being the only poster from Bangkok, Thailand; I´ll give proper notice when the time arrives. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Caparazon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b782af/32.png) [@Caparazon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caparazon)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/226 "2006-08-09T18:29:10Z")
[QUOTE=Nava] I found a guest [from Argentina](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=7633574#post7633574)! We have to stop keeping our guests in the Pit. [/QUOTE] In fact I used to post regular, (as Estilicon), nowadays I am a lurker. Suscription killed my account. I can only suscribe with a credit car and apparently not with the one I have. I would gladly pay the 45 pesos If Cecil’s sends someone to collect the bill 🙂 Anyway, I think I was the first Latin American in these boards and the prettiest. ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/227 "2006-08-09T18:44:56Z")
I’m English born, my mum’s Irish & dad’s scottish. I am also Antiguan & Barbudan (two island nation) and that’s where I live. I see the Caribbean (and/or the West Indies) has 11 dopers so far - please count me in to make a dozen! ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/228 "2006-08-10T08:43:23Z")
Morning, folks. My name’s **WotNot,** and I live in North Shields, Tyne & Wear, England. Hurrah! ---
**Author:** ![Antonius\_Block](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@Antonius\_Block](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antonius_Block)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/229 "2006-08-10T10:10:16Z")
**Monkey Chews** , thanks for coming in to confirm, even though you were already on the list. I hope the _Zeldarizing[sup]TM[/sup]_ process wasn’t too painful for you – you should only have felt a slight twinge in the stomach. I’m happy to report that the incidence of _“agonizing death”_ during _Zeldarization[sup]TM[/sup]_ is now well under 0.01% !! **Ale** , you know that you have to find a Doper to replace you in Uruguay before you can leave, right? Your offer to host a ThaiDopeFest was much appreciated, however! **Caparazon** , we need to find a way to get you fully back on board. **Bam Boo Gut** , you’ll be on the next updated list. Hope you decide to stick around – we could always use another [Bangles fan](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7662182&postcount=56)! You want to tell us which of Antigua or Barbuda you live on? [Howay](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/howay), **WotNot**! As it happens, you’re already in [**“non-US Doper List Patch 2.01”**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7653119&postcount=211), but I appreciate the extra “Location” info. Look for a “Patch 2.03” and a “Revised List 2.10” before the weekend. ---
**Author:** ![Einmon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Einmon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Einmon)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/230 "2006-08-10T10:23:17Z")
Wow, that’s one comprehensive thread…I see I’m accounted for already, thank you, **Fish Cheer** (how about that Munich DopeFest :D) (kind of reminds me of University, where I was always late but still found my name had been written on the sign-up sheet every time). Since the information that I’m a German in Munich is now not really newsworthy anymore, I’d like to volunteer the interesting tidbit that I was born in Fürstenfeldbruck, which means “the bridge at the field that the duke owns”. Thank you, German word/sentence constructs for always making me squeeze letters in the “Place of birth” space on forms. ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/231 "2006-08-10T10:35:23Z")
**Antonius Block** fished me out of the Southerner’s thread. I live in Sydney Australia, but I’m an ex-pat Yank. They won’t let me play in the Southern’s thread, but I moved farther south than any of them, so there. 😉 Cheers, G ---
**Author:** ![Surok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@Surok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surok)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/232 "2006-08-10T20:18:57Z")
encouraged by \*\* Timchik\*\*'s post, I will make my first ever paid up post on the SDMB. So nice to see there’s another RF based lurker around. I’m English, living in Moscow. For what that’s worth. Add me to your stats, **Antonius Block**! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/233 "2006-08-11T03:29:07Z")
I notice I’m not specifically specified. I live in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ---
**Author:** ![Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hypnagogic_jerk/32/4252_2.png) [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypnagogic_Jerk)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/234 "2006-08-11T17:56:23Z")
Two other people from Canada: **Valteron** from Ottawa, Ontario and **detop** from Montreal, Quebec. ---
**Author:** ![MrSquishy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@MrSquishy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSquishy)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/235 "2006-08-11T20:04:21Z")
Another Edmontonian (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) here. ---
**Author:** ![Marienee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Marienee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marienee)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/236 "2006-08-11T22:47:52Z")
American in the Netherlands. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2006, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/237 "2006-08-12T00:36:33Z")
Hello ---
**Author:** ![Pjen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Pjen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pjen)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2006, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/238 "2006-08-12T07:06:37Z")
In this thread, **RedFury** says he/she is Spanish. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7671486&postcount=116](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7671486&postcount=116) ---
**Author:** ![Antonius\_Block](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@Antonius\_Block](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antonius_Block)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2006, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/239 "2006-08-12T08:45:20Z")
Wow. This thread is keeping up quite nicely! Once again, props to **Zeldar** for starting it. **Einmon** , thanks for popping in to confirm. **Fish Cheer** had put you in Germany for us, and I’d assumed that “MUC”=Munich (airport code, right?). Always good to have confirmation, and who knows when **“The List”** will include a “Birthplace” field? (When it does, we’ll be sure to leave enough spaces for you. 🙂 ) **Gleena** , glad you made it over here safely. **Surok** , I’m flattered that you made your first paid-up post in this thread. You and **Timchik** should have a mini-RussiaDopeFest! **MrSquishy** , **Marienee** , **Struan** , welcome to the Boards! This thread has been quite an involvement for me over the last few days (more time than I usually spend on the SDMB…), but one of the bonuses has been reading posts by Dopers that I’d not seen before. **GuanoLad** , your specific specification is now specifically Melbourne, VIC. Thanks for being _The Specifier_! **severus** , thanks for the additions. Canadians still lead handily in numbers, and **featherlou** ’s prediction of [100 CanaDopers](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7630475&postcount=6) is _this close_ to being realized on **“The List”** (currently, the update due to be posted tomorrow has 97). **Pjen** , thanks for mentioning **RedFury** again. He (I know he’s a _he_) is on my “Location to be Verified” list. We know that he’s _Spanish_, but do we have confirmation that he currently _lives in Spain_? I’m almost at the point of e-mailing him. Any Dopers know for sure? [Incidentally, the other people on the “Location to be Verified” list are [Dead Badger](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php) and [Quartz](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php) (who are both in England, I’m _almost_ certain, but don’t yet have a “smoking gun” post from either). There’s also [xiix](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php), whose Location is given as “Fukang (China)”, but seems to be in Canada judging by his posts.] I’m expecting to post a full update summary of the **“non-USA-based Doper List”** (currently at **324** members!) tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon. ---
**Author:** ![Harbinger\_of\_Courteous\_Debate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8c91f0/32.png) [@Harbinger\_of\_Courteous\_Debate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harbinger_of_Courteous_Debate)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2006, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/240 "2006-08-13T01:38:59Z")
Add another Canuck to the list. Posting from the itty bitty tourist trap of St. Andrews, New Brunswick. Of course, I’m only a humble Guest… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707.md?page=13)