# Ten years of the Dope: a history **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 26, 2009, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189 "2009-10-26T15:51:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/141 "2009-10-29T00:39:57Z")
> [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#): > > Remember the “Ask the Gay Guy who used to Cruise Restrooms” thread? > > Q: Why did you stop? > A: Got older and could no longer do the contortions. Aww…you remembered! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/142 "2009-10-29T00:48:35Z")
Memorable Dopers–anyone else remember **Purplecrackwhore**? I also miss **Weirddave**. ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/143 "2009-10-29T01:10:49Z")
[Are scalar weapons for real?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=202225) which also had cocktail recipes so not half bad - and ultimately gave us “flapper zappers”. “My post is my cite” from Aldebaran. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/144 "2009-10-29T04:07:49Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > There’s two more by him that I thoroughly enjoyed, but I can’t seem to find them. One was when a friend was cooking dinner and managed to set the kitchen on fire, and the other was a problem with the electrical system in the apartment that the landlord would not fix. Here ya go. [Troll roasts a turkey](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=2735281&postcount=31) [The tale of the miswired apartment](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=2794129&postcount=22) ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/145 "2009-10-29T04:39:02Z")
Notable posters & threads Justhink - incoherent manic typist or AI text bot troll - Cecil banning Otto Pedo Guys private info getting reported to authorities by board admin Womansperm thread Doper who fell off the bridge Doper who lost a leg in a motorcycle accident Collunsbury leaves SDMB and starts [agoul](http://www.aqoul.com/) - deals with cancer along the way Pics of dopers scalp getting realigned after skin cancer surgery beaf bean and cheese burrito ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/146 "2009-10-29T05:09:10Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Don’t know. There’s no list in the mod sections as far as I know, but that doesn’t mean one isn’t kept elsewhere. One could probably be put together anyhow. Here’s the former moderators I can recall. \*\* Alphagene Arnold Winkelried bibliophage Chronos Coldfire DavidB DrMatrix Eutychus55 Frank JillGat John Corrado manhattan MEBuckner Melin Nickrz SkipMagic TVeblen Ukelele Ike UncleBeer xash \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Bacon\_Salt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/65b543/32.png) [@Bacon\_Salt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bacon_Salt)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/147 "2009-10-29T05:55:20Z")
**Giraffe**. ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/148 "2009-10-29T06:33:09Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > How about [Favorite Pimple stories](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=106449) as a "great thread. It set a standard for the ages. > > I would add Wally to the"Board Events" as our first reported death. At the time, we all pretty much bought it for face value, and it took a while for it to sink in that something just didn’t seem right. I guess as it turns out, poopah chalupa was the first confirmed board death. Similar, and equally fascinating, [The TMI thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=44749) ---
**Author:** ![minlokwat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minlokwat/32/2844_2.png) [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/149 "2009-10-29T12:21:56Z")
Let me add a few that haven’t yet been mentioned. **“Felch”** was the go-to term for all manner of descriptions some time ago. It was especially popular when linked with goats. Fortunately its usage slowly eroded away. **“Og”** , **“Og smash!”** and its many derivatives were a big hit. I don’t remember the poster who first used it as a bizarre misspelling of “god” but good times were had with that one. Pit threads would attract posters immediately chiming in with “Oooh, this is gonna be a good one,” and “Pulls up a lawn chair, pops open a beer,” for those with not a shred of substance to add but who were merely announcing their gawker status. It took some doing for the mods to stifle that practice. **Post count parties** were all the rage some years back. Evidently acquiring a large number of posts in the shortest amount of time was viewed as some form of Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence. When a poster hit 100 posts, 500 posts, 1000 posts, etc. there appeared the need to start a thread gleefully announcing this and others would chime in “congratulating” said poster and at the same time using the opportunity to pad their post count. Seriously. Mods also were successful in putting the kibosh on that one. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/150 "2009-10-29T12:31:36Z")
Melingate needs to be added to the list of notable events. **Homer** ’s thread, [I just ate three mushrooms](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=38764&highlight=Homer+mushrooms), is the one I have bookmarked for a laugh. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/151 "2009-10-29T13:00:03Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > Melingate needs to be added to the list of notable events. > > **Homer** ’s thread, [I just ate three mushrooms](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=38764&highlight=Homer+mushrooms), is the one I have bookmarked for a laugh. I really should mackdonna handheld shoehorn butterhorse that one. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/152 "2009-10-29T14:00:02Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > Here ya go. > > [Troll roasts a turkey](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=2735281&postcount=31) > > [The tale of the miswired apartment](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=2794129&postcount=22) Thanks! (There’s another one, the kitchen fire was started by a can of hair spray too close to the oven.) ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/153 "2009-10-29T14:18:40Z")
> [@Damfino](#): > > [A strange parcel arrived last night](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=440833) was posted by **Balance** some time back when I was a lurker. Is that the one? Yep! Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/154 "2009-10-29T15:28:25Z")
Well, we’ve gone this far, I might as well mention the infamous outing of the pedophile, whose name escapes me, which is what I was thinking of when I posted on the first page. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/155 "2009-10-29T15:37:37Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Well, we’ve gone this far, I might as well mention the infamous outing of the pedophile, whose name escapes me, which is what I was thinking of when I posted on the first page. Was that **StageManager**? The gigantic **TubaDiva** kerfuffle? ---
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/156 "2009-10-29T15:50:22Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > What about the supposed trans-sexual teacher faker? That one suckered a lot of us. …who? I miss all the good stuff ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/157 "2009-10-29T16:12:06Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Well, we’ve gone this far, I might as well mention the infamous outing of the pedophile, whose name escapes me, which is what I was thinking of when I posted on the first page. **Cesario**? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/158 "2009-10-29T16:26:41Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > **Cesario**? No, this was awhile ago. **TubaDiva** , IIRC, outed him on another board, signing her name along with her title, implying that she was doing it on behalf of SDMB. Quite the controversy, and I think she was suspended for a bit. As far as the tranny faker, I think that was a long time poster who “outed” himself, but there were a lot of holes in the story, and when people started poking, the whole thing fell apart. Dopers are a sympathetic bunch, and will go out of their way to help you (witness **Quasimodem** ) but woe to you if we find out you’re lying to us. Wasn’t there someone who had claimed she’d had a miscarriage, or lost her child, or something? ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/159 "2009-10-29T16:27:22Z")
Deleted. \*\*ivylass \*\*got there first. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189/160 "2009-10-29T16:29:07Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > Wasn’t there someone who had claimed she’d had a miscarriage, or lost her child, or something? That might have been Crunchy/Bratman’s SO, who posted under numerous names. Assuming that she was a real person. It also can apply to tatertot. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-years-of-the-dope-a-history/515189.md?page=9)