# Signs you've been a doper WAY too long. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 3, 2001, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-youve-been-a-doper-way-too-long/96601 "2001-12-03T09:06:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Genseric](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Genseric](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genseric)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-youve-been-a-doper-way-too-long/96601/21 "2001-12-04T04:35:11Z")
How about roughly 80% of your conversations with RL friends start with “Well, I was reading on the internet the other day…” and your friends say “Oh, on that message board thing you’re always talking about?” ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-youve-been-a-doper-way-too-long/96601/22 "2001-12-04T04:51:30Z")
For me, it’s the usernames. They get stuck in my head like bad songs. Especially the exotic or rhythmic ones - Bosda d’chi tricor (sp?), poopah chalupah, etc. I walk around mumbling them under my breath sometimes. Is it just me, or am I a bigger freak than I ever suspected? Oh yeah, and **Daowajan** , I dreamed about your username one night. It was the title of a book, or something like that. This stuff just gets stuck in my head, ya know? ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-youve-been-a-doper-way-too-long/96601/23 "2001-12-04T05:39:33Z")
> [@](#): > > Omigod. What if you’re only dreaming that you’re on the boards right now, and none of us really exist, we’re just characters in your dream? Just hope I don’t wake up… 'cuz then you’d cease to exist. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-youve-been-a-doper-way-too-long/96601/24 "2001-12-04T05:52:19Z")
_blip_ ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-youve-been-a-doper-way-too-long/96601/25 "2001-12-04T05:58:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > -Omigod. What if you’re only dreaming that you’re on the boards right now, and none of us really exist, we’re just characters in your dream? \*\* Shhhhhh, **Eve** , don’t talk so loud you’ll wake him u… ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-youve-been-a-doper-way-too-long/96601/26 "2001-12-04T06:10:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Genseric \* > \*\*How about roughly 80% of your conversations with RL friends start with “Well, I was reading on the internet the other day…” and your friends say “Oh, on that message board thing you’re always talking about?” \*\* That would be me. I won’t even get started on how they reacted when they found out I was taking an eleven hour bus trip to see people whom I only know through the internet. “And you say they AREN’T going to rape or kill you? I’m confused.” ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-youve-been-a-doper-way-too-long/96601/27 "2001-12-04T06:17:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bouv \* > “And you say they AREN’T going to rape or kill you? I’m confused.” Of course we weren’t! [sub]Groping doesn’t count, does it?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-youve-been-a-doper-way-too-long/96601/28 "2001-12-04T08:14:47Z")
> [@](#): > > Now it’s infiltrated my sleep. Check. I had a dream a few weeks ago that **Monster104** was pounding on my front door. > [@](#): > > Heck, when I type something in Microsoft Word, if I want bolding, italics, underlining, etc., I type in the VBulletin commands… Check. > [@](#): > > I tell the people in my instant message boxes, “Brb. Gunfire.” Ok, not SDMB related, but been there, done that. > [@](#): > > When I’m bored, I think about threads I could start. Check. Keeps me entertained on the drive home. > [@](#): > > you can’t go more than an hour without being reminded of something you once saw on the SDMB. Check. > [@](#): > > I use Doper’s screennames a lot in conversation, too. That gets me some looks! Check. > [@](#): > > Your best friends are in your cell phone’s phone book by their screennames. Check. Oh dear. Sounds like SDMB’s got me by the short and curlies. ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-youve-been-a-doper-way-too-long/96601/29 "2001-12-04T08:40:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by iampunha \* > \*\*[sub]Groping doesn’t count, does it?[/sub] \*\* _Sidles away carefully from 'punha_ ---
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Shadow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@Dragon\_Shadow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Shadow)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-youve-been-a-doper-way-too-long/96601/30 "2001-12-04T08:56:45Z")
today **cougarfang** i related the latin word “zoo” to zoogirl . . . i haven’t been here long enough to start replacing my html, but i think that will happen soon ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-youve-been-a-doper-way-too-long/96601/31 "2001-12-04T10:30:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cougarfang \* > _Sidles away carefully from 'punha_ Oh, pshaw:) I only grope people who I know don’t mind. That’s why I can safely grope **Geobabe, RTFirefly, gobear** , and several others I haven’t met IRL yet. And I know I’m forgetting a few I have groped. [sub]And of course I’m deliberately leaving out a few …[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-youve-been-a-doper-way-too-long/96601/32 "2001-12-05T03:13:46Z")
When I’m bored I think abou threads to start. When I couldnt go to bed last night until I made 700 posts. When I can convince other people to join the SDMB. Using vB coding when I type anything. When I see something and, think “What would the SDMB say about this?” ---
**Author:** ![Essured](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-youve-been-a-doper-way-too-long/96601/33 "2001-12-05T03:30:58Z")
When being scolded by a mod sends you into a downward-spiralling funk ☹ When the first thing out of your SO’s mouth (after hello and a kiss) is “so what happened on the Dope while I was at work ?” (only because he knows he’s going to hear it anyway) (And he’s so sick of hearing me say “Hmmm, you gotta cite for that?” in our arguments/discussions.{I couldn’t honestly call them debstes hehehe} ) ---
**Author:** ![Pessor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pessor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pessor)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-youve-been-a-doper-way-too-long/96601/34 "2001-12-05T03:49:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cazzle \* > \*\*You know you’ve been a doper too long when… > … you can’t go more than an hour without being reminded of something you once saw on the SDMB. \*\* …and every time you want to tell your wife about something you read in a thread and you lie about where the information came from just so she doesn’t think that you spend your entire day at work/night at home in a “friggin’ chat room” (her words, NOT mine. AND I married her before I got here!). ---
**Author:** ![Daowajan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Daowajan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daowajan)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-youve-been-a-doper-way-too-long/96601/35 "2001-12-05T03:54:53Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Goo \* > \*\* > When the first thing out of your SO’s mouth (after hello and a kiss) is “so what happened on the Dope while I was at work ?” (only because he knows he’s going to hear it anyway)_\* I am in awe. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-youve-been-a-doper-way-too-long/96601/36 "2001-12-05T03:54:54Z")
I had a dream that Cecil once said “hello Clayton” to me in a forum. Not sure what thread it was in, or why. Was extremely happy. ---
**Author:** ![Essured](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-youve-been-a-doper-way-too-long/96601/37 "2001-12-05T04:02:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Daowajan \* > \*\*I am in awe. :eek: \*\* Sorry, I know I’m having a very dense day today, but what is so awesome about that ? ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-youve-been-a-doper-way-too-long/96601/38 "2001-12-05T04:39:56Z")
I still have to think a second about my fiancee’s real name–anytime I have say her name, my first thought is always “racinchi–waitaminute…” Yes, I am engaged to a girl I met here. ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-youve-been-a-doper-way-too-long/96601/39 "2001-12-05T04:45:25Z")
Another sign you’ve been a Doper too long is when someone [posts a link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=102298) in a thread you started requesting your attention in the Pit. Welcome to the club, Paddy. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-youve-been-a-doper-way-too-long/96601/40 "2001-12-05T06:48:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Montfort \* > Another sign you’ve been a Doper too long is when someone [posts a link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=102298) in a thread you started requesting your attention in the Pit. > > Welcome to the club, Paddy. Well gosh, then I’ve been a doper “WAY too long” since around February. I wonder if this is a good thing or a bad thing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-youve-been-a-doper-way-too-long/96601.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-youve-been-a-doper-way-too-long/96601.md?page=3)