# So what did you do without the dope? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 19, 2002, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-do-without-the-dope/128665 "2002-09-19T23:53:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-do-without-the-dope/128665/41 "2002-09-20T11:19:59Z")
Kept clicking “Refresh” over and over and over… until it finally was up again. No, I actually worked, because I’m not as good a college student as Cecil: “The principal game played in colleges in the east–and everywhere else, for that matter – is called ‘Snoozing Your Way Through Four Years of Monotonous Drivel So You Can Collect a Piece of Paper That Entitles You to Make Twice as Much Money as the General Run of Mankind While Doing Half the Work.’” – from [this](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_309b.html) column. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-do-without-the-dope/128665/42 "2002-09-20T12:12:02Z")
My other favorite board, FameTracker. Read a lot of personals. Answered a couple. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-do-without-the-dope/128665/43 "2002-09-20T13:51:01Z")
I found that I spent a lot of time at Fathom talking about the SDMB, and I notice a lot of other Dopers were over there spending a lot of time talking about the SDMB. I think if this had been down much longer, it may have turned into the Chris Farley Show over at the FFF. “Remember that one time when Fenris wrote that one thing? And it was real funny? Hahaha. That was cool. And remember what manhattan said? That was awesome.” Happy, glad to be back ---
**Author:** ![TelcontarStorm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@TelcontarStorm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TelcontarStorm)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-do-without-the-dope/128665/44 "2002-09-20T14:10:39Z")
I just chatted a little more than usual over at Yahoo. I however, did run over to bbboards to see if the “Winter of our Disconnect”" threads might have been reopened. No such luck then either.(which was rather a bummer, I wanted to see who killed the thread) ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-do-without-the-dope/128665/45 "2002-09-20T14:38:39Z")
. . . Got a lot of work done. Oh, and went over to [James Randi’s](http://www.randi.org/) message board and noticed a lot of shakey Dopers suddenly registering . . . ---
**Author:** ![EggNogg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@EggNogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EggNogg)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-do-without-the-dope/128665/46 "2002-09-20T15:05:48Z")
I rendered my testicles inoperable in a game of frizbee. egg ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-do-without-the-dope/128665/47 "2002-09-20T15:08:51Z")
Decloaked at the Unaboard. Hit a few other sites more. Researched were to find find cheaper PC800 RDRAM ([www.googlegear.com](http://www.googlegear.com)) was the winner. Wasn’t the same. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![sirtonyh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@sirtonyh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirtonyh)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-do-without-the-dope/128665/48 "2002-09-20T15:28:47Z")
Went to Holland for a couple of days and tried the other dope 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-do-without-the-dope/128665/49 "2002-09-20T16:02:21Z")
[Internet Infidels](http://iidb.org/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi) has a message board which is a reasonable facsimile. Not as good, of course (all praise be to Cecil), but I’m keeping it bookmarked for future emergencies. ---
**Author:** ![Daerlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Daerlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daerlyn)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-do-without-the-dope/128665/50 "2002-09-20T17:04:42Z")
I actually worked. Frightening. ---
**Author:** ![dalovindj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/65b543/32.png) [@dalovindj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalovindj)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-do-without-the-dope/128665/51 "2002-09-20T17:16:41Z")
There was a half off sale at the DVD store, and I got the first 3 seasons of “The Sopranos” and the whole first season of the Kieffer Sutherland vehicle “24”. I have a television, but no cable, no antenna, and no VCR. All I have hooked up to it is my PS2. I hadn’t been able to catch all of those shows and I really wanted to see them. In the last 5 days I’ve watched damn near 40 hours of The Sopranos. Something like this, it affects your mind. I can’t stop talking like a gangster now. Fugeddaboutit. Damn that’s good television. My eyes and neck hurt from sitting in bed watching non-stop for huge stretches of time. Thank goodness the dope is back. Incidently, as a backup for future breakdowns, my production company (which does things like make short films, put together rock concerts, produce plays, and run an improv troupe) has just about gotten the website ready for broad public use. I got a copy of vBulletin, and we will have forums very similar to what is here (with a better color scheme). Our focus will be more on the arts and socializing, but the quest for knowledge and philosophical musings will have their own place too. I’ll post a link next week sometime so you kids have another party to crash when this one gets busted up. DaLovin’ Dj ---
**Author:** ![Doubting\_Robert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e495f1/32.png) [@Doubting\_Robert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doubting_Robert)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-do-without-the-dope/128665/52 "2002-09-20T18:05:29Z")
Worked. Read part of the National Geographic from July, 1997. (I’m a little behind on my reading.) ---
**Author:** ![Alto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Alto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alto)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-do-without-the-dope/128665/53 "2002-09-20T18:43:24Z")
I learned Sanskrit, sewed matching curtain sets for my office, invented a renewable, nonpolluting energy source, wrote three novels, founded a theater group, mounted a successful campaign against street crime, and discovered a cure for the common cold. See what you can accomplish when you’re not wasting time on the computer? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-do-without-the-dope/128665.md?page=2)