# OK I'm ready to dope! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 17, 2004, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-ready-to-dope/275263 "2004-11-17T14:36:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-ready-to-dope/275263/41 "2004-11-17T17:29:41Z")
> [@smartini](#): > > I just jumped right in and started posting (where were my manners?) and did not get a goat You keep telling yourself that, honey; ‘there was no goat; there _was_ no goat; there was _no_ goat. . .’ and maybe one day you’ll be able to believe it. 😉 > [@](#): > > also did not have iampunha run through my thread nekkid for me! **’punha’s** not always nekkid when you’d want him to be; in fact, I’ve attended DopeFests where we had to take up a collection, and _bribe_ him to get nekkid! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Greenback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/2bfe46/32.png) [@Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greenback)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-ready-to-dope/275263/42 "2004-11-17T17:30:38Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > [sub] **Greenback** , we weren’t going to mention the Thing Downstairs! Didn’t you get the memo?[/sub] I’ve been gone for a couple of weeks. I must have missed it. Do you think **For the Children** noticed. Shhhhhh… here she comes. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-ready-to-dope/275263/43 "2004-11-17T17:35:46Z")
Guys, guys! We _must_ rope **For the Children** into a DopeFest! **For the Children** , state your location! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![For\_The\_Children](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@For\_The\_Children](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/For_The_Children)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-ready-to-dope/275263/44 "2004-11-17T17:35:56Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > [sub] **Greenback** , we weren’t going to mention the Thing Downstairs! Didn’t you get the memo?[/sub] The “thing downstairs”? Really starting to turn me on! Can I bring a friend? huh? huh? Can I? PLEEEEEAAAAASSSSSEEEE! I promise we WON’T behave! :o OMG - if my mother could see me now :o ---
**Author:** ![For\_The\_Children](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@For\_The\_Children](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/For_The_Children)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-ready-to-dope/275263/45 "2004-11-17T17:39:40Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Guys, guys! We _must_ rope **For the Children** into a DopeFest! > > **For the Children** , state your location! 😉 My location is…drumroll please…ACROSS THE STREET from NorineW! I’m in Cumberland, MD ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-ready-to-dope/275263/46 "2004-11-17T17:40:19Z")
> [@For The Children](#): > > The “thing downstairs”? Really starting to turn me on! Can I bring a friend? huh? huh? Can I? PLEEEEEAAAAASSSSSEEEE! I promise we WON’T behave! I know who you could take, if you’d promise to leave him down there. . .not that you’d want to misbehave with him. . . :eek: > [@Kytheria](#): > > For the Children, state your location! As she’s already said, she’s a neighbor of mine; don’t worry, I have every intention of dragging her to the next MADs gathering (I think something’s being planned around the Christmas holidays or something; maybe by **nyctea scandiaca** or **RTFirefly** ). ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-ready-to-dope/275263/47 "2004-11-17T17:41:27Z")
Brilliant! Go and post pictures when it’s done, eh? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-ready-to-dope/275263/48 "2004-11-17T17:42:49Z")
Hah! Simulpost! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-ready-to-dope/275263/49 "2004-11-17T17:45:28Z")
**norinew** , your username is actually meant to be parsed “norine-w”? I always read it as “nori-new”. 🙂 I guess having **Sunspace** _kurante senvestajxe Esperante_ through the thread isn’t good enough? It’s **iampunha** or no-one? Okay. I can handle that. _snif_ _big tear-filled puppy eyes, quivering lower lip_ :: pause :: Dear **For The Children** , do you really truly want to walk jauntily Downstairs to confront the Thing? I don’t want to tell you what happened to the last one who did that. Let’s just say that there are more - kshhhhk \* around here than ever before. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-ready-to-dope/275263/50 "2004-11-17T17:46:30Z")
Good afternoon, For the Children. How is the weather where you are? I’m just sipping a cup of tea, and watching a recording of a cricket match. As you will have surmised, I am one of the foreigh chappies here. But I seem to have the language under control, so everything is spiffy. 🙂 Toodle pip! ---
**Author:** ![For\_The\_Children](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@For\_The\_Children](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/For_The_Children)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-ready-to-dope/275263/51 "2004-11-17T17:47:51Z")
> [@norinew](#): > > I know who you could take, if you’d promise to leave him down there. . .not that you’d want to misbehave with him. . . :eek: > As she’s already said, she’s a neighbor of mine; don’t worry, I have every intention of dragging her to the next MADs gathering (I think something’s being planned around the Christmas holidays or something; maybe by **nyctea scandiaca** or **RTFirefly** ). I wouldn’t take HIM to a downstairs, a dungeon or even a DOGFIGHT! Not even if he were the one the dog got to fight!!! :rolleyes: Sorry, I went away there for a moment but I’m back now. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-ready-to-dope/275263/52 "2004-11-17T17:49:12Z")
Note how my previous post illustrates the fact that we can’t edit ourselves. Of course my use of ‘foreigh’ instead of ‘foreign’ was, um, deliberate. :o ---
**Author:** ![For\_The\_Children](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@For\_The\_Children](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/For_The_Children)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-ready-to-dope/275263/53 "2004-11-17T17:56:52Z")
Sunspace - You can absolutely run nekkid for me anytime! I may be having second thought about the basement. But, I am brave…I think I can…I think I can…I think I can…Oh HELL no I want OUT!!! YIKES! I peeked and I saw SOMETHING down there!!! Find a happy place, Find a happy place…“thinking of sunspace nekkid”… smile replacing the frozen look of horror ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-ready-to-dope/275263/54 "2004-11-17T17:57:52Z")
> [@For The Children](#): > > My location is…drumroll please…ACROSS THE STREET from NorineW! I’m in Cumberland, MD HEY! That makes you the first Doper that joined up because…OH GEE! One of us has a Real Life! :eek: :eek: :eek: This must stop at once! And **NorineW** must be flogged! **glee**! See to it immediately! ---
**Author:** ![For\_The\_Children](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@For\_The\_Children](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/For_The_Children)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-ready-to-dope/275263/55 "2004-11-17T18:01:54Z")
The weather is cold here Glee. Very overcast today. How 'bout in your neck of the woods? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-ready-to-dope/275263/56 "2004-11-17T18:02:27Z")
> [@For The Children](#): > > Sunspace - You can absolutely run nekkid for me anytime! :eek: You _really_ don’t know what you are saying there. You may prefer the basement… ---
**Author:** ![For\_The\_Children](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@For\_The\_Children](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/For_The_Children)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-ready-to-dope/275263/57 "2004-11-17T18:05:33Z")
By the way NorineW - just saw your reply on the other thread we were talking on. Noticed the southern accent, huh? I must realy stop typing with a twang. Gives me away every time. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-ready-to-dope/275263/58 "2004-11-17T19:07:16Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > norinew, your username is actually meant to be parsed “norine-w”? I always read it as “nori-new”. Y’know, the only reason I used “norinew” was that, from the first time I ever had the internet (and it’s been over 10 years now), my email addy has been "norinew@whatever.whatever. This was the first message board I ever joined, so I stuck with the familiar “norinew”; it never occurred to me that folks would read it as “nori-new” until some of them started addressing me as “nori”. By then, eh, I didn’t feel like it was worth changing. > [@Bosda](#): > > And NorineW must be flogged! Damn, I just _knew_ something good would come of my participation in this thread! (where’s the evil-winky-leatherclad smilie when ya need it?). ---
**Author:** ![taxi78cab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@taxi78cab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taxi78cab)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-ready-to-dope/275263/59 "2004-11-17T20:35:21Z")
Hi **For The Children**. I’m new here too. (As you can see, I’m still a guest!) Be careful though - I’ve already found it’s terribly addictive! Productivity suddenly drops sharply… :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-ready-to-dope/275263/60 "2004-11-17T20:41:57Z")
Hi, **taxi78cab**! Welcome! :: standard disclaimer :: :: really long disclaimer absolving all responsibility for anything that may happen :: :: even longer disclaimer absolving all responsibility for all the other things that may not happen, and may not even be possible :: :: disclaimer involving goats :: Don’t worry. It’s perfectly safe. Jump in! 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-ready-to-dope/275263.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-ready-to-dope/275263.md?page=4)