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The lefties have been more abusive lately, IMO, which drove manhattan away, everyone’s favorite whipping boy december was banned for embarassing the Left bigtime, and here we are.
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Don’t forget Razorsharp. (Though I’m thinking even you would rather forget Razorsharp. 
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[QUOTE=elucidator]
To my recollection, the reasons offered for the banning of December bear no resemblance to your assertion. Lying, were they?
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Did they give a reason? Can’t recall. And the mods won’t even allow a thread for discussing who has been banned and why.
[QUOTE=CurtC]
Funny, if you had asked me what sub-population is most noticeably over-represented here, I would have answered “atheists.”
Atheists are what, 60% or 70% of dopers?
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Just as most tall people are really two elves (E. Keebler,) many seeming theists are really atheists. It has been said, for example, that most Catholics are recovering Catholics. A vast number of folks have widened their eyes, dumbstruck, in religious services, to think, “What? I’m supposed to believe what?” :smack:
Also, the Straight Dope appears in a lot of free newspapers. The kind us liberal ne’er-do-wells read while begging on public park benches and drinking booze bought with food stamps.
[QUOTE=elucidator]
Nah. Lemme lay it down for you: the prime demographic for Dopers is fact freaks. Like a junkie’s jones, fact freaks crave data, informtion, facts. Normal people break open a bag of Fritos, fact freaks snack on an almanac. We keep a vast compendium of utterly useless information right at hand, available at the instant in the unlikely event one might prove relevent. Or even remotely relevant, we are generous in our appraisal.
Theres a niche industry in publishing built around our craven wants. We peruse the bookstore looking serious, pondering literature, but if our eye perchance befall on one of those books that are nothing more than a fact salad…694 Things Not Remotely Interesting to Anyone But You, You Pathetic Loser, Remainder House, 2005…we will buy it, we cannot help it. We will buy a copy of the existential essays of Paul Ruben as cover, or hint at the cashier that Our Precious is “for a friend”. But we will have opened the first page before we’re out the freaking door!
And half the stuff in it, we already know. Woe.
Fact freaks are loony lefty, tighty righty, straight, queer, butch, femme, top, bottom, innie, outie, purebred and mongrel. We have no other defining characteristic, but our harrowing hunger for more. More. And still more.
A friend gave me my first SD book, I bought the other one the next day, having devoured the first. I have pestered booksellers to distraction, shivering in need.
There is no cure.
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And thank Og (or Cecil…or both) that we of the afflicted have the best damn support group in history!
Bravo, elucidator , I couldn’t have put it any more succinctly than that! You nailed it right on the button.
One thing, though…I don’t “cover up” my book purchases. I wear my knowledge addiction as a badge of honor and don’t particularly give one whit what others think of it…because I know there are others who share this gift and I know where to find them.
Right here. 
“Hi, my name is Want2Know, and I’m a Doper…”
“Hi, Want2Know…”
[QUOTE=elucidator]
“Hi, my name is Want2Know, and I’m a Doper…”
“Hi, Want2Know…”
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And a “friend of Cecil A.” 
[QUOTE=elucidator]
Czech?
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Mate.
