# Secret shame... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 27, 2001, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-shame/84207 "2001-09-27T23:09:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-shame/84207/41 "2001-10-03T01:59:34Z")
I listen to Yoko Ono :eek: ---
**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:** [October 3, 2001, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-shame/84207/42 "2001-10-03T03:01:44Z")
I love balding, chubby men. Jason Alexander…mmmmmmmm. ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-shame/84207/43 "2001-10-03T03:12:38Z")
I don’t think Will Ferrell is funny. At all. Every time I’ve expressed this opinion, I’ve gotten crap for it. ---
**Author:** ![frock75](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ad7895/32.png) [@frock75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frock75)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-shame/84207/44 "2001-10-03T03:13:32Z")
I find myself oddly fascinated by the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts info-mercials. If I’m flipping through the channels I will stop on it and watch it all of the way through. Every time. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-shame/84207/45 "2001-10-03T03:32:04Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally Posted by Frock75_ > I find myself oddly fascinated by the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts info-mercials. If I’m flipping through the channels I will stop on it and watch it all of the way through. Every time. You mean I’m not the only one? Sadly, I am too young to remember these, but I have seen one of the videos. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-shame/84207/46 "2001-10-03T04:16:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Esprix \* > \*\*You have a thing for Barbara Eden, don’t you? Admit it! > > Esprix \*\* Yes! I admit it! How could I not? Her with those great big… blue eyes. And that pert little… nose, and those long silky… harem pants. For years I’ve worshipped her from afar, but all she cared about was Larry Hagman. _sob_ Even when he went on to that other series, leaving her behind. But now my secret is out! And I can finally reveal the truth… **I shot J. R.!!!** I did it for her. ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-shame/84207/47 "2001-10-03T06:55:56Z")
Yah know those “World’s Wildest Police Videos” that air on FOX? And Reader’s Digest Magazine? I like both of them. And John Madden, too. So NYAH. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![eirroc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f1d935/32.png) [@eirroc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eirroc)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-shame/84207/48 "2001-10-03T09:11:36Z")
Sometimes when I have a day off I sit on the internet for half of it, and about an hour before hubby gets home, I rush around tidying up, and then tell him how busy I’ve been all day. ::hangs head in utter shame:: ---
**Author:** ![ultress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@ultress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultress)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-shame/84207/49 "2001-10-03T10:35:14Z")
Oh my, ok, here goes. When opening a box of assorted chocolates, you know, like at Valentine’s Day, I squish all the chocolates cause I don’t like the soft ones. Then I tell everyone I dropped the box. Looks like someone ran over the box when I get finished so they believe me. ---
**Author:** ![Nortia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Nortia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nortia)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-shame/84207/50 "2001-10-03T13:09:55Z")
I have been know to eat my daughters chocolate. She doesn’t like chocolate much anyway. Honest! 😛 [sub]::whispers:: I watch Countdown.[/sub] ---
**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:** [October 3, 2001, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-shame/84207/51 "2001-10-03T13:26:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Nortia \* > \*\*[sub]::whispers:: I watch Countdown.[/sub] \*\* [sub]::whispers back:: What is Countdown?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-shame/84207/52 "2001-10-03T13:39:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hello Again \* > \*\*Also, I’ve read the entire “Chung Kuo” series by David Wingrove. I’m so ashamed. \*\* :eek: I just snagged Chung Kuo from the common table (where we foreign-types leave stuff we don’t want) today!! Are you saying I should put it back before it’s too late?? ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-shame/84207/53 "2001-10-03T13:56:20Z")
Hi Nortia, and welcome to the boards. I watch countdown too. I love the math section. ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-shame/84207/54 "2001-10-03T14:17:39Z")
[hijack] Countdown is a quiz show. It’s hosted by a terrible, terrible man called Richard Whitely. You can’t imagine how bad this man is. His co-host is the Ultimate Mutton Dressed As Lamb Carol Vordeman. Thank the heavens we gave you The Weakest Link and not Countdown. Really. Saying that, I love the maths bit too. I beat Carol once. But I’ve only ever got the conundrum twice. [sub]I have a crush on Susie Dent from the Dictionary Corner[/sub] [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-shame/84207/55 "2001-10-03T14:37:36Z")
ah, Susie Dent. The Thinking Man’s Crumpet. ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-shame/84207/56 "2001-10-03T14:46:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TwistofFate \* > ah, Susie Dent. The Thinking **Man’s** Crumpet. _cough_ ---
**Author:** ![Nortia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Nortia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nortia)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-shame/84207/57 "2001-10-03T16:34:47Z")
Thankyou **Francesca** I couldn’t have put it better myself 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-shame/84207/58 "2001-10-03T16:47:01Z")
Susie Dent… the thinking Mans crumpet… and Francesca and Nortia’s, evidently 😉 As for my secret shame… I know all the words to Glen Maderos’ “Nothing’s gonna change my love for you”. the shame!! ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-shame/84207/59 "2001-10-03T17:13:08Z")
I think it is funny as hell to sneak out an SBD and see how long it takes the kids to gag. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2001, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-shame/84207/60 "2001-10-03T17:36:51Z")
Bless me dopers for I contain a secret shame… Whenever I am flicking through the stations, I will stop dead on a Lawrence Welk show. Every time. (It’s the all polyester light blue outfits and pre- B-52 beehives.) When I see it, I cannot tear myself away from a local PBS show called…uh…(I think) Quizmaster. High school brainiac teams going against other schools. I have countless projects (sewing, crochet, wood) that I have started that I have never finished. I hate cooking. I despise “home” parties for tupperware, scrap booking, stamping, party light and the rest and am looked upon as if I am a freak of nature because I have the balls to tell those who invite me that a) I’m not interested b) I have never ever been remotely interested and c) and if I ever an ever remotely interested I have promised to kill myself immediately. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-shame/84207.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-shame/84207.md?page=4)