# Opal, what the fuck is your problem? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 16, 2008, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368 "2008-12-16T06:10:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 35
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/681 "2008-12-18T19:11:16Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > Thanks. It’s a gift. Sure, you tell everybody it’s a gift, until your friend starts asking where his twenty went. (Somebody had to do it.) ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/682 "2008-12-18T19:15:31Z")
Thanks for the links and information, **catsix**. I appreciate it. One interesting item from the third link: > [@](#): > > Some of you may remember that I had a September 17 surgery date that was postponed because of some busybody on the web emailing my surgeon with a pile of crap saying that they didn’t think I was a good candidate for surgery. I wonder what that was all about? (And this is just general nosiness on my part.) ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/683 "2008-12-18T19:20:14Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > You asshole! What do you have against people in wheelchairs? Nothing. They can roll with me. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/684 "2008-12-18T19:22:55Z")
> [@Green\_Bean](#): > > Thanks for the links and information, **catsix**. I appreciate it. > > One interesting item from the third link: > I wonder what that was all about? (And this is just general nosiness on my part.) If she was a legit candidate for surgery, then why did she have to go to South America? ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/685 "2008-12-18T19:23:52Z")
I think the reason most people go out of the country for surgery is that it’s waaaay cheaper. Not sure what her reason was. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/686 "2008-12-18T19:35:14Z")
> [@Hockey\_Monkey](#): > > Nothing. They can roll with me. I dunno if you’re hip enough to roll with this guy: [Hawking Lecture (with sound)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8AG5RPOCjA&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/687 "2008-12-18T19:36:46Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > My eyes taste great. > > Also, I am requesting a name change. Nothing big, just change the T to another E, place it after the Y… I love this! ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/688 "2008-12-18T19:44:01Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > Thanks. It’s a gift. As are you. A shining gift upon our lives. A gift right from the breath of baby Jesus. ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/689 "2008-12-18T19:54:57Z")
> [@](#): > > **Green Bean** said: > I wonder what that was all about? (And this is just general nosiness on my part.) Don’t know. I just did some Googling and that stuff was right there. **Opal** seems to post her business all over the intarwebs. ---
**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/690 "2008-12-18T20:07:22Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > [The thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=113522) and the resulting [Pit thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=113958). Man, that takes me back… ---
**Author:** ![rhythmonly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee59a6/32.png) [@rhythmonly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhythmonly)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/691 "2008-12-18T20:23:08Z")
You folks can run the Queen of Doper Town down as much as you want. I wish I was one of her tits. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/692 "2008-12-18T20:25:10Z")
> [@rhythmonly](#): > > I wish I was one of her tits. You wish you had been operated on in Brazil? ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/693 "2008-12-18T20:28:46Z")
> [@rhythmonly](#): > > You folks can run the Queen of Doper Town down as much as you want. > > I wish I was one of her tits. Not the lotus pod one, though. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/694 "2008-12-18T20:33:20Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > Not the lotus pod one, though. 😉 Game, set and match. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/695 "2008-12-18T20:42:43Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > I dunno if you’re hip enough to roll with this guy: [Hawking Lecture (with sound)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8AG5RPOCjA&feature=related) That’s just wrong Auto. So so wrong. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/696 "2008-12-18T20:43:43Z")
> [@Green\_Bean](#): > > I wonder what that was all about? (And this is just general nosiness on my part.) I don’t recall if it was **Opal** or not, but I remember someone threatening to tell someone else’s surgeon that the patient wasn’t mentally competent or something. Much hysteria ensued–but I remember none of the participants. I don’t recall the surgery posts, but after said surgery, she posted a thread asking people to guess when [she’d take her first poo after the surgery](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=147854&highlight=surgery). That was closed. At about the same time, [Dex](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=147909) posted an IMHO parody thread which prompted a [pit Thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=147920&highlight=surgery) complete with **Zotti** himself appearing. Most of this wasn’t **Opal’s** fault, but there was certainly a lot of mileage gotten out of **Opal’s** poo. ---
**Author:** ![Orbifold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orbifold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orbifold)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/697 "2008-12-18T20:52:43Z")
Jesus fucking Christ. Opal’s reaction in the original thread was fine, but you’ve managed to drag this out to _fourteen pages_? You all have issues. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/698 "2008-12-18T20:59:20Z")
> [@Orbifold](#): > > Jesus fucking Christ. Opal’s reaction in the original thread was fine, but you’ve managed to drag this out to _fourteen pages_? You all have issues. But but but…did you read any of it? This is the best thread ever! ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/699 "2008-12-18T20:59:56Z")
> [@Orbifold](#): > > Jesus fucking Christ. Opal’s reaction in the original thread was fine, but you’ve managed to drag this out to _fourteen pages_? You all have issues. Well, _trypophobia_ for some. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/700 "2008-12-18T21:01:12Z")
Two more posts and it will be 15. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368.md?page=34) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368.md?page=36)