# SDMB Guilt **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 20, 2004, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-guilt/256037 "2004-07-20T18:18:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-guilt/256037/21 "2004-07-20T22:39:34Z")
> [@Troy McClure SF](#): > > When I was younger, I wanted to go to a Dopefest, but my mom had just watched an _Oprah_ about how everyone on the internet is a sick child molesting serial killer, so it didn’t really fly. > > Ever since then, I’ve been going out with friends from work. It’s not \* Bad keyboard! No canned air! …It’s not _really_ lying, since I used to work for the same company as **voguevixen** (at a different location, at a different time), and she’s sometimes there too. But we do know one person in common from work! ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-guilt/256037/22 "2004-07-20T22:39:39Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > Why do I do this? Does anyone else do this? Is there a solution? Other than not venting, I mean? Yes. I know one. Pick a message board where a foreign language is used. Nor friends nor family will ever bother reading it… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-guilt/256037/23 "2004-07-20T23:41:36Z")
> [@](#): > > I’d hate to have to explain the Dope while I’m jetting around the world filming my latest movie, Ocean’s 12, going to Matt’s premiere of the Bourne Identity, or riding my Harley around the lake. I like to remain anonymous, ya’ know. Elliot Gould, is dat you? 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Anduin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Anduin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anduin)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-guilt/256037/24 "2004-07-21T02:13:04Z")
> [@SolGrundy](#): > > I was showing a cow-orker a thread I was in the middle of one day, and he said, “Straight Dope? Is this some kind of gay message board or something?” I had to tell him, “No, not officially…” > > “…yet.” I used to be on here in the computer lab with my friends. (Back when I had friends . . .) Whenever they saw the banner with THE STRAIGHT DOPE they always assumed it was something to do with drugs!!! And I don’t do drugs!!! So I don’t know why they assumed I would be on some druggy website?!? :dubious: I tell ya, the things I do to fight ignorance! ---
**Author:** ![Mariemarie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@Mariemarie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mariemarie)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-guilt/256037/25 "2004-07-21T02:35:23Z")
Wouldn’t it suck to be famous? Other people would talk about you, make up stories about you, and they would want to know what your SDMB name was. I bet you would want to post as a made-up name in a fictitious location. Just a thought. ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-guilt/256037/26 "2004-07-21T13:39:09Z")
> [@Anduin](#): > > I used to be on here in the computer lab with my friends. (Back when I had friends . . .) Whenever they saw the banner with THE STRAIGHT DOPE they always assumed it was something to do with drugs!!! And I don’t do drugs!!! I met someone in Narcotics Anonymous who said she spends a lot of time on her computer, so after the meeting, I gave her this web address and did a very brief explanaition of it. She didn’t say much and walked away. The next time I saw her, she told me she thought I was pushing a drug site. :smack: I was pretty embarrassed, but it wasn’t until she said that, that I thought anything about the name would be a little weird to an addict. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-guilt/256037.md?page=1)