# Teenage Dopers **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 27, 2003, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenage-dopers/177678 "2003-05-27T01:24:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenage-dopers/177678/41 "2003-05-27T12:53:59Z")
I’d say that **Bomb Bay Doors** is the youngest doper, myself. Of course, he’s not a teenager. pan ---
**Author:** ![Ender\_Will](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Ender\_Will](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ender_Will)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenage-dopers/177678/42 "2003-05-27T13:05:23Z")
Hi everyone! My name is Will. I am 19. I am nearly done with my first year of college. When I take my final on Wednesday I will be finished. I do not know why I am using these short sentences. Or why all but two of them start with “I” or “my.” More teens than I imagend there would be, unfortunately. I had this image of myself as a lone wolf type, prowling amongst the older, enlightened crowd unnoticed. Ah well ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenage-dopers/177678/43 "2003-05-27T14:14:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by iampunha \* > **Also there’s Garf and Zoggie, who IIRC are still not yet 20.** You are correct, sir! At least about me. 19, will be 20 next February (that really is odd to think about). Just finished the first year of college at Indiana University in Beautiful Bloomington, Indiana, where I will be travelling back to at the end of summer. ---
**Author:** ![JessEnigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cdc98d/32.png) [@JessEnigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JessEnigma)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenage-dopers/177678/44 "2003-05-27T14:16:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Grelby \* > **_sniff_ how come everyone recognizes the new kids but not _me_!? I’ve been around for a year and a half! C’mon!** Ha…I’ve been around for 3 1/2 years. No recognition either! Anyway, I’m Jessica and I’m 18. I counted exactly how old a few days ago, but it all amounts to “I’ll be 19 in 6 months” in the end. My high school graduation is Friday and in the fall, I’ll be in college up in Pennsylvania. Oh, and **Ender\_Will**? I wouldn’t be too astonished by the number of teenagers on the boards. The Straight Dope as well as the SDMB tended to come up in conversation frequently on some of AOL’s teen boards that I used to visit; I myself came here on the recommendation of several people from those boards. There’s always been a surprisingly large number of teenagers, they just tend to blend well. ---
**Author:** ![Trigonal\_Planar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/0ea827/32.png) [@Trigonal\_Planar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trigonal_Planar)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenage-dopers/177678/45 "2003-05-27T16:49:37Z")
I’m 20, so until recently, I was a teenager. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Magic8ball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Miss\_Magic8ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Magic8ball)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenage-dopers/177678/46 "2003-05-27T17:23:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ender\_Will \* > \*\*Hi everyone! > My name is Will. I am 19. I am nearly done with my first year of college. When I take my final on Wednesday I will be finished. I do not know why I am using these short sentences. Or why all but two of them start with “I” or “my.” > > More teens than I imagend there would be, unfortunately. I had this image of myself as a lone wolf type, prowling amongst the older, enlightened crowd unnoticed. Ah well \*\* I know… I always thought of myself as an “intuallectual” because I could play with the big kids. Then I find out there’s hordes of other people my age out there. Wayto boost my ego. I’l survive. Oh, and I started when I was 14. Actually, the day after my antie **gingerofthenorth** was married I signed up. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenage-dopers/177678/47 "2003-05-27T18:05:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Loneraven \* > Can’t really post anything teenageriffic, but I did think of another teenage Doper: **Ryan\_Liam** (don’t look at me like that). Oh, honey, don’t feed the poor boy:D Dopefest-wise…well, I know monster, nocturne and garf have been to fests. I know M8B has been to a gathering involving lots of dopers because that’s where I met her. Coming up on a year now, soon, isn’t it, m8b?🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Vixenation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/278dde/32.png) [@Vixenation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vixenation)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenage-dopers/177678/48 "2003-05-27T18:06:37Z")
I’m 19. ---
**Author:** ![Orange\_Skinner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenage-dopers/177678/49 "2003-05-27T18:14:03Z")
Tara. 17, but my mother says I was born aged 25, with which four out of five observers agree. I’m in 11th grade, going into 12th. 11 days left of my ever-so horrorshow Junior year. ---
**Author:** ![Tanaqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Tanaqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanaqui)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenage-dopers/177678/50 "2003-05-27T18:18:48Z")
My name is Elizabeth. I’m 17, 18 in August, and in my 2nd year of community college. I’m also positively devastated that no one knows me. I’ve been registered since 2001, for God’s sake! I’m just not cool enough. ---
**Author:** ![Dawne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Dawne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dawne)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenage-dopers/177678/51 "2003-05-27T18:54:06Z")
Loneraven - So far i have done english literature, german (which is 4 exams) re islam, humanities paper 1, art and music. If you don’t count the english orals thats 9 already. ---
**Author:** ![LilCutie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@LilCutie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilCutie)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenage-dopers/177678/52 "2003-05-27T19:05:06Z")
Jenny I’m 18 and will be a Junior at Florida State University in the fall. ---
**Author:** ![Loneraven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c0e974/32.png) [@Loneraven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loneraven)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenage-dopers/177678/53 "2003-05-27T19:38:23Z")
**Dawne** - thanks for the explanation, it was worrying me. You’re apparently a person who favours the arts, I see… I’ve done my French oral, and Drama practical, and I don’t think I had an English oral, which is odd, but I guess we probably have different boards (I’ve got AQA, woe is me). I guess your next exam is on Monday? Biology? Good luck, though I’m sure you don’t need it. And addressing the subject of the thread as a whole, I never realised there were so many teenagers here. And such enlightened, intelligent teenagers as well! I’m another one who thought I was playing in the sandbox with the grown-ups, and while the other contributers to this thread may disagree, I still maintain this is a _grown-up_ message board. There’s no morons, no twelve-year-olds wanting to know how to get past AOL’s parental controls, no Britney Spears fans, no masturbating fuckwits instant messaging, “wanna cyber?!11!”, no and it’s just… Well, it’s nice. I’ve forgotten what point I was trying to make with this post. ---
**Author:** ![Dawne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Dawne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dawne)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenage-dopers/177678/54 "2003-05-27T20:07:03Z")
I apologise for the ongoing hijak for those of you who don’t want to read about eams. Loneraven, i have done more than 6 english orals so far, we really must be on different exam boards. mine are either AQA or OCR, although i think there are more OCR ones. The end is less than two weeks away for me! Yes, my next is science on monday but its a mix of all 3. Yaay. ---
**Author:** ![Loneraven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c0e974/32.png) [@Loneraven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loneraven)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenage-dopers/177678/55 "2003-05-27T20:12:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dawne \* > **I apologise for the ongoing hijak for those of you who don’t want to read about eams.** As do I, and yet… [continued hijack] **Dawne** , I have to ask - where in England are you? I’m exceedingly jealous of you - two weeks and it’s over? I’ve got until June 17th! But then, I also have separate science, no combined at all, which probably explains a few of these differences. [/end continued hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Magic8ball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Miss\_Magic8ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Magic8ball)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenage-dopers/177678/56 "2003-05-27T20:29:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by iampunha \* > \*\*Oh, honey, don’t feed the poor boy:D > > Dopefest-wise…well, I know monster, nocturne and garf have been to fests. I know M8B has been to a gathering involving lots of dopers because that’s where I met her. Coming up on a year now, soon, isn’t it, m8b?🙂 \*\* Yep. Its been almost a year since I saw you and antie and uncle, too. Miss you. ---
**Author:** ![Dawne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Dawne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dawne)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenage-dopers/177678/57 "2003-05-27T20:33:50Z")
Preview, Dawne, preview! Don’t worry, I don’t always refer to myself in the 3rd person. I’m from leicestershire, my last exam is tuesday June 10th, maths paper 2. Whereabouts are you from? Apologies if its in your location thing but i can’t see it right now. I have absolutely no motivation for revision right now, i have to really push myself. I did next to nothing today. Theres always tomorrow though, i might go to the library. Today i watched daytime tv and baked ‘cookies’. ---
**Author:** ![Loneraven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c0e974/32.png) [@Loneraven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loneraven)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenage-dopers/177678/58 "2003-05-27T21:07:10Z")
My location field is not very helpful, I admit. I’m from oop North - Merseyside. And the whole motivation thing - well, I spent my entire day on the SDMB. Should have been doing history today, but… well, no. Cookies sound good. I’m not entirely sure why they’re “cookies” as opposed to plain cookies, but still, I’m not complaining. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenage-dopers/177678/59 "2003-05-27T21:16:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mirror Image egamI rorriM \* > **I was wondering: how many Dopers are teenagers?** Well my son **PuRpLe PrIdE** , registered when he was 14. He has also gone to a few Dopefests. He’s 17 now, but hasn’t posted since the [Vikings were good](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=1032402#post1032402). ---
**Author:** ![HerMajestyLorna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7cd45c/32.png) [@HerMajestyLorna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HerMajestyLorna)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenage-dopers/177678/60 "2003-05-27T21:58:35Z")
Hello all you under-20s. I’m 18, and have one day of high school left. Next year I’ll be going to Haverford College outside of Philly. Woop woop! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenage-dopers/177678.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenage-dopers/177678.md?page=4)