# The Australian and New Zealand Doper Page is Finally Up! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 18, 2001, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-australian-and-new-zealand-doper-page-is-finally-up/69210 "2001-06-18T11:16:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2001, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-australian-and-new-zealand-doper-page-is-finally-up/69210/1 "2001-06-18T11:16:22Z")
Well, it took me long enough, but the Downunder Doper site is finally online, right [here](http://www4.tpgi.com.au/brownlee/). With a grand total of _nine_ Doper profiles, we aren’t exactly about to overtake the People Pages, but at least we’re _here_. I’ve gotta send an arse-kicking email to those Aussie Dopers I know of who haven’t yet added their names ( **ahem** **Redboss** ), so I’m sure we’ll get a few more. If anybody’s profile is inaccurate, please let me know, and I’ll fix it up. Also, anyone who would like to help with the site, or who has an uncontrollable urge to take over as webmaster, don’t be shy. Anyway, feel free to check it out. Dunno how it looks on Internet Explorer yet (mine crashed and burned). I’ll bump this up tomorrow when there are more Aussies online. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2001, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-australian-and-new-zealand-doper-page-is-finally-up/69210/2 "2001-06-18T11:38:50Z")
Not bad, **TLD** , not bad. The error message after I hit “submit” kinda freaked me out a tad, but then I found the post went through anyway. Bizarre! Very cool site. “The Teeming Handful”. Heh. ---
**Author:** ![Kayeby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@Kayeby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kayeby)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2001, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-australian-and-new-zealand-doper-page-is-finally-up/69210/3 "2001-06-18T13:58:58Z")
I have IE and it looks great. =) So great, in fact, that I was filled with an incredible urge to send in my profile and a photo. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2001, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-australian-and-new-zealand-doper-page-is-finally-up/69210/4 "2001-06-19T00:35:41Z")
Just a gratuitous bump. Going out for the day, so hopefully this thing’ll survive US peak time and still be on the front page when the Aussies come home from work. Congratulations **Beatle** for being the first to sign the guestbook. You win $5! Oh hang on, that’s five _Australian_ dollars. Naah forget it, you don’t want Pacific Pesos. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2001, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-australian-and-new-zealand-doper-page-is-finally-up/69210/5 "2001-06-19T00:47:05Z")
I tried to register, but I’m on the network at work. Although I was using IE, the Email attempt opened a Communicator window. Since this PC is not configured for me to use Communicator I don’t know what happened. I’ll try again from home. Looks good - a welcome Antipodean portal. ---
**Author:** ![Broken\_Doll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbce88/32.png) [@Broken\_Doll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broken_Doll)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2001, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-australian-and-new-zealand-doper-page-is-finally-up/69210/6 "2001-06-19T03:34:45Z")
Yay! I checked it out and it looks great, I also signed the guestbook 😉 ---
**Author:** ![woolly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ebca7d/32.png) [@woolly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woolly)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2001, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-australian-and-new-zealand-doper-page-is-finally-up/69210/7 "2001-06-19T12:01:00Z")
I’ll add my toadying to the tumult … very well done Sir! ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2001, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-australian-and-new-zealand-doper-page-is-finally-up/69210/8 "2001-06-19T14:21:20Z")
Good job TLD. I’ll get something to you soon. Thanks for the effort. ---
**Author:** ![JillGat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2001, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-australian-and-new-zealand-doper-page-is-finally-up/69210/9 "2001-06-20T06:14:17Z")
A question for you guys… Cecil gets lots of mail from downunder, too. How did Australia find the Straight Dope? It isn’t published in any papers there, is it? Jill ps - Nice site! ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2001, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-australian-and-new-zealand-doper-page-is-finally-up/69210/10 "2001-06-20T06:25:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JillGat \* > \*\*A question for you guys… Cecil gets lots of mail from downunder, too. How did Australia find the Straight Dope? It isn’t published in any papers there, is it? > \*\* Not that I know of. I found the site only weeks ago at work. Google led me to a classic in answer to a workmates question. What luck, eh? My only worry about finding it is how cunningly addictive the boards are. Psst, buddy can you spare a thread? ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2001, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-australian-and-new-zealand-doper-page-is-finally-up/69210/11 "2001-06-20T06:50:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JillGat \* > \*\*A question for you guys… Cecil gets lots of mail from downunder, too. How did Australia find the Straight Dope? It isn’t published in any papers there, is it? > \*\* For years, my dad used to wonder how flies landed on the ceiling, so I googled that one day, and found one of Cecil’s old columns. I read the column, got a satisfactory answer, then hit the “home” link to see what the hell this Straight Dope bizzo was all about. I went back there a few times, but didn’t discover the boards until a bit later. I’ve never seen the column in any of the papers here; a shame really. I should get onto the papers and hassle them about it. Or maybe _you_ guys should. Hint hint, **Jill**. They’d be really popular here. Cecil’s writing style and humour would go well in Australia and NZ. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JillGat \* > \*\*ps - Nice site! \*\* Awww shucks. 🙂 Ta luv, yer a bonza sheila. ---
**Author:** ![Sue\_Duhnym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2001, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-australian-and-new-zealand-doper-page-is-finally-up/69210/12 "2001-06-20T07:17:18Z")
You people down there are a good-looking lot. And I have to say that **woolly’s** redhead is the cutest! (Behind ToddlerNym, of course.) ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2001, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-australian-and-new-zealand-doper-page-is-finally-up/69210/13 "2001-06-20T07:19:08Z")
Okay, stupid question LD, what the hell is a “bloke”? I have heard the term a million times but in my understanding of Great Britian (sp) and Australian terms I am not privy to that kind of information. I am just a lowly American that lives in Colorado with a very distinct Coloradoan accent (meaning I have none, we have your basic English-American accent that is pretty sterilized much like Tom Brokaw or any other news media driven person.) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2001, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-australian-and-new-zealand-doper-page-is-finally-up/69210/14 "2001-06-20T07:25:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by techchick68 \* > \*\*Okay, stupid question LD, what the hell is a “bloke”? > \*\* In general usage, _bloke_ = _guy_. You can pretty much call any adult male a “bloke”. If you want to get technical, then a bloke is probably more likely to drink beer and watch football and other “blokey” pursuits than say, retiring his study for cigars, port, and fine aged cheeses. Hope that helps. ---
**Author:** ![Redboss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8baadc/32.png) [@Redboss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redboss)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2001, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-australian-and-new-zealand-doper-page-is-finally-up/69210/15 "2001-06-20T07:35:16Z")
And I bought the first book [(available here)](https://securesite.chireader.com/cgi-bin/dopestore/buystuff.bat) as a present for a friend about ten years ago, and have been borrowing it off him ever since. When through the exploration of Urban Legend sites I came across the name Cecil Adams. I thought “Oh I remember him, he was funny”, and dived in. January of this year. [Brief Hijack back to OP - sorry] **Loaded** mate - you are a beauty!! the site is **EX-cellent!** I will put up my profile as soon as… A: I’ve had the studio photographer finish the airbrushing on the “boudoir studies” - (god it’s hard holding a pout for twenty minutes at a time) and B: I can think up things to put in my profile as funny as the people who are part of the teeming handful already. (We breed 'em full of sardonic wit down here y’know folks) If anyone’s reading this that hasn’t been there, go and have a look! [you may now return to interesting off-subject chit-chat) Redboss ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2001, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-australian-and-new-zealand-doper-page-is-finally-up/69210/16 "2001-06-20T07:37:20Z")
Well sheesh LD, got any BLOKE buddies that are willing to meet a fabulously strange Coloradoan and move to America and willing to drink beer and watch American football with me? I like a fine sharp chedder but I do enjoy the occasional aged Swiss. A bloke is just what I need! \< snort \> ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2001, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-australian-and-new-zealand-doper-page-is-finally-up/69210/17 "2001-06-20T07:47:35Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Redboss \* > \*\* > god it’s hard holding a pout for twenty minutes at a time_\* Yeah? That’s not what they told me about you at The Laird… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2001, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-australian-and-new-zealand-doper-page-is-finally-up/69210/18 "2001-06-20T12:44:23Z")
Excellent page, **LoadedDog**!! You’ve done well, and we’re all proud of you. 🙂 **JillGat** - I was given the link to the Straight Dope Website by my cousin, who also lives in Australia. No idea how he got it. I visited, read, laughed, and then promptly forgot about the site for months. Then there was a reference to it in the Harry Potter fan newsgroup I was frequenting at the time, but it pointed to the forums (I didn’t find them on my first visit). Well, once I found them, I signed up and have been a member ever since! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2001, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-australian-and-new-zealand-doper-page-is-finally-up/69210/19 "2001-06-20T13:08:01Z")
Ooh. Cazzle! Cute, **and** a Harry Potter fan. It’s all good 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rosebud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rosebud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosebud)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2001, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-australian-and-new-zealand-doper-page-is-finally-up/69210/20 "2001-06-20T13:46:31Z")
Hi, **Redboss**! It looks great, **TLD**. I adore the fat-arsed wombat. In fact I just like saying “wombat.” It is now my intent to move to Austrailia so I can put a profile up on your page. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-australian-and-new-zealand-doper-page-is-finally-up/69210.md?page=2)