# The Incredible Mind-Reading Powers of Dopers **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 14, 2003, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-incredible-mind-reading-powers-of-dopers/188433 "2003-07-14T17:31:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-incredible-mind-reading-powers-of-dopers/188433/21 "2003-07-15T18:51:30Z")
Wait a minute **Esprix**! Should you really be using that sig line in this thread? šŸ˜‰ And **Harli** , that is very true. But, since most things are merely annoyances, I decided to pick one and get bitchy about it. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Waenara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@Waenara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waenara)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-incredible-mind-reading-powers-of-dopers/188433/22 "2003-07-16T01:14:28Z")
When I read the OP I got the impression that it might apply in two situations: 1. Like the example **dantheman** gave earlier, where someone is opining about how another well known poster would respond (usually negatively): > [@](#): > > **Some Poster: I believe this cited evidence shows that Bush knew such-and-such and lied about it. Iā€™m sure december will be here shortly to whine about how Iā€™m maligning the Bushies.** 1. Or when the poster mentions another poster with the intention of bringing them into the thread. _coughvanitysearchcough_ Iā€™ve seen this several times, a typical example being similar to: ā€œWell, this is a very interesting topic, Iā€™m sure **PosterXYZ** will be along to comment - they know a lot about it.ā€ I think some people just do this instead of emailing PosterXYZ to point the thread out to them. ---
**Author:** ![Waenara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@Waenara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waenara)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-incredible-mind-reading-powers-of-dopers/188433/23 "2003-07-16T01:17:04Z")
ā€¦And to clarify my opinion, I find the first to rather annoying but I donā€™t mind the second. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-incredible-mind-reading-powers-of-dopers/188433/24 "2003-07-16T17:41:50Z")
Mayhaps **Eonwe** speaks of [thread?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=197902%5Bthis)Just by chance? ---
**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-incredible-mind-reading-powers-of-dopers/188433/25 "2003-07-16T18:58:40Z")
I thought it was [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=196101) one. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-incredible-mind-reading-powers-of-dopers/188433/26 "2003-07-16T19:23:20Z")
I think whatā€™s bugging the OP is that the hijackers will be along anytime a touchy catch phrase is used in a post. Start a post about Rush Limbaugh doing football commentary. Sombody mentions Al Frankenā€™s book, the title of which refers to Limbaugh as fat (or notā€¦depending on your take:rolleyes: ) Next thing you know your ESPN sportscaster debate is a fat debate. This is just an exampleā€¦the example thread had not yet dissolved into a full on fat fest last time I read it. Happens all the timeā€¦somebody will inevitably come along to plant their PC flag in any post which touches their nerve du jour, regardless of the resulting tangent the thread will take. Not just a drive by with a snarkey comment, but a whole thread hijack to (once-a-fucking-gain) state their position on why said catch phrase offends themā€¦like we missed it the last 10-fucking-thousand times. And the repetition of these hijacks/stances is what breeds the predictability of certain posters to show up, just to make sure we get the pointā€¦again. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-incredible-mind-reading-powers-of-dopers/188433/27 "2003-07-16T20:10:11Z")
Iā€™m surprised people are asking the OP for links, since this sort of thing seems to happen all the time. Iā€™ve often seen people post things like ā€œJust wait for all the gays to come along and start crying that theyā€™re being oppressedā€ or ā€œBetter watch out for the liberals/conservatives/Christians/atheists/dog lovers/whateverā€. Itā€™s more unusual for names to be named, but hereā€™s a [really long GD thread on abortion](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=162213&perpage=50&highlight=Lamia&pagenumber=2) that I remember well because my name an unusually high number of times. Beginning on page 2 and continuing on for several pages, more than one poster was wrongly called by my name. By page 5, _after_ people had expressed their confusion at being called by a name not their own, someone else was asking ā€œJust which one(s) is(are) Lamia?ā€ and saying that we all just ā€œblur togetherā€. Iā€™m not sure how I could ā€œblur togetherā€ with anyone in that thread, since I _never posted to it_! I would never have even read if it hadnā€™t kept popping up my vanity searches for days. I was initially inclined to consider this an honest mix-up, but since it went on even after people questioned it Iā€™m not so sure. I had been participating in a similar abortion thread earlier that week that I abandoned after it got a little too nasty for me. Since some of the same posters were involved in the later thread I canā€™t help but suspect this was an attempt to draw me out again. But since I didnā€™t rise to the bait at the time I guess Iā€™ll never know. ---
**Author:** ![CuriousCanuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-incredible-mind-reading-powers-of-dopers/188433/28 "2003-07-17T17:22:31Z")
I can play! I can play! Yay to more examples! [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=198329](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=198329) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-incredible-mind-reading-powers-of-dopers/188433.md?page=1)