I think we all know enough about me as it is. I’m not sure you’d want to know anymore except this:
I like beer too. . .
Tripler
One step ahead of a one-legged man.
I am relitively new around here
I lurk a DAMN lot, but rarely post (don’t know why, either)
I don’t enjoy beer, or most alcohol for that matter
LOVE video games, especially old school games (NES, DOS, etc…)
I am a penniless college student in Troy, NY, but lived my entire life in Brisol, VT until August, when I arrived here.
Until oh so recently I had a girlfriend since September (yes, we met here, but back in July at SO (that’s student orientation for the non-college linguist))
And for some strage reason I have been on a burning frenzy today (With a CD burner, not fire (though I DO enjoy fire))
Hmmm, you wanna know about me? You sure? I have issues…
No?
Too bad, I’m gonna tell you! 
I am a short, 18 year old chickie. I have thick, dark brown hair, brown-green eyes, pale skin and glasses. Everybody says I’m smart, but I hate it when they do. I’m a freshman at University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, majoring in Psychology, but I’m going to change it to English. Ultimately, I want to be a high school guidance counselor, inspired by Mrs G. My high school’s drug counselor. (no, I wasn’t on drugs. In fact, I’ve never even seen a joint. I was involved in the anti drug and alchohol clubs she lead.) IRL, I am sorta anti social, I hate crowded places and am bad at making friends. I’m engaged to a wonderful guy in the Navy, my Sailor. He has helped me step out of my shell in the past three years, 'cause I used to be painfuly shy, now not nearly as bad. He is also helping me break away from my overbearing, overprotective father, but I don’t think I’m doing too good. He still scares me 
My mom is an alchoholic, which is one of the reasons I don’t drink and hate being around people who are drinking. I have a 27 year old brother, who I love to death. He still lives at home. My Grandma has alzhimers, and I’m scared she’ll die soon. Her health has not been spectacular lately. I’ve never known anyone who has died. That’s all I can think of now. Hope you know me better.
If you want to know anything else, ask.
If you can honestly do so, and without waiting for any further prompting from me, just reply to the above question by reading the following paragraph exactly as it’s written and without making any additional comments. Please don’t call me unless you already have the following paragraph in front of you, you’ve already studied it carefully, and you already know that you can honestly speak it as you read it.
“Yes. I understand how important honesty is to you. I’m unattached, and I could meet you in person in your area. I won’t volunteer any comments or thoughts on the phone because I know that you want to get to know me only in person; except, once I might know that I want to meet you, I’ll simply tell you that I’m ready to set up a date to meet; and except, I may tell you that I may call you back or that I will call you back or that I’m looking forward to meeting you, and I may thank you or say a polite goodbye. I won’t preface any of my questions with statements and will instead ask you only direct, concise questions. I’ll only ask you questions, if I have any, that I need to ask in order to decide whether I want to meet you in person. And I’ll ask any such questions before we might set up a date to meet. Because so many men who’ve set up dates to meet you have stood you up, before I tell you that I’d like to meet you, I’ll go out of my way to take all the time I need to consider whether I really will meet you. I won’t volunteer reassurance such as that I always keep any date that I make, because you said that almost every man who stood you up had made a similar remark. I’m prepared to commit to your anti-snag points if I ever set up a date to meet you. I’ve carefully read the whole web page on which I found this paragraph, and I’ve also carefully read every other page of your web site, except for those portions marked ‘optional’ or ‘Skimming this article is sufficient.’”
Hmmm, my life…well, I’m 34, married to the most wonderful guy in the world. I have 3 cats and a black lab mix. I work as a computer tech support person and like it in spite of some of the weird “shtuff” I have to put up with. Recently got a promotion. I like sci-fi, fantasy and classic literature (and hate to admit that I love serial killer novels.)
I collect ladybugs (that’s my dog’s name–but I didn’t name her) and cat stuff and covered trinket boxes. I have about a million books in my collection. (Not really, but it seems like it…several hundreds anyway.)
I have a HUGE family (all of which I am crazy about), thanks to my divorced and remarried parents and my husband’s divorced and/or remarried parents (yes, I love my step-parents and in-laws, too.) I have one real brother and any number of step and foster and “in-law” and unofficially adopted brothers and sisters, and 2 nieces, one nephew and a step-nephew that I’m close to, as well as several step-nieces and nephews that I see only occasionally. I adore my 5 year old foster sister and when my Mom gets her legally adopted, she is going to put it in her will that if something happens to her and my step-dad, I get to finish raising her.
I have met one doper IRL (lunch next week, GolfWidow) and have a warm and flourishing email friendship with another (thanks DRY).
My life is not the stuff of which fascinating alter-egos are made, but I’m probably one of the luckiest, happiest people in the world.
My name is Mike. Actually, it’s Michael but that sounds too precious so I just go by Mike these days.
I was born in St Paul, MN, in June of 1954. A Gemini. A rather classic Gemini.
I’m married with three daughters. We live in one of Chicago’s western suburbs. We have three dogs.
I’m a drafter with a degree in Anthropology. The company I work for does home automation and theaters for the hyper-rich. Which doesn’t always sit well with the socialist I started out to be. I justify it by thinking about how I am helping to redistribute their wealth.
I like to think I’m helpful, but I’m usually a busybody who does more harm than good.
I was raised Catholic but have been going to a Lutheran church the past year. This is after doing without religion for thirty years. Lutheran or agnostic, I have reconciliation problems with my buried Catholicism.
I have no social life, partially by choice. However, the anti-depressants make me a lot less anti-social. Thus my artificial social life here. (Yeah, I haven’t really worked out my feelings about the internet, either.)
I am a bit of a hardware geek. While I am using a fairly modern computer to type this, next to me is an old Compaq “lunchbox” portable that I bought for ten bucks, got running, and now have no use for.
If you don’t already know about me, trust me, you don’t want to. Let’s leave it at that.
–Tim
Name’s Cristi.
I live in Flint, Mi. I’m a municipal employee.
I’m married to a musician, and we have two kids together.
My life is average, right now. A lot of extraordinary things have happened to me in the last 12 years, but if I tried to put them all here, well, you’d be reading my post for days.
As for my alter ego, well, she’s a rock star/ballerina/CIA agent. 
Sorry, CnoteChris, currently no pix of the fiancee to link to… if I could do attachments in the SDMB, I’d put one in! One of these days I’m gonna get around to finishing a homepage that I was working on. At that mythical time, I’ll link to it so you can view my gorgeous fiancee (and the pathetic slob who brainwashed her into promising marriage! :D).
All I’ll add to the volumes of personal info I’ve let loose of here in the past is that, unlike Demo, I have two spiders in my bathroom.
You can find most info on me in my personal site [click on ‘me’ in my sig].
I am 20 years old and my name is Lisa.
I was born in New York and moved to Florida when I was 8.
I went to high school and played tuba in the marching band.
I went to UCF and played in their marching band as well.
I met my husband, Chris, during band camp there.
We got married in august.
We currently just moved into my mothers house to pay off our huge credit card bills.
We are happy.
I like to read trashy romance novels and russian history.
I work as tech support for a internet device.
I only drink champagne and strawberry daquiris.
I smoked pot exactly 3 times and never saw pot until I was 19.
I lurk through The Straight Dope 9 hours a day.
I only post about 4 times a day.
You work for an internet device?
I’m 17 years old and I live in a shithole in Florida. I hate it here because, compared to the people that I go to school with in this area, I’m not rich. Live anywhere else on this kind of money, and I’d be considered fairly wealthy. I hate Boca Raton. Eh, at least there’s some interesting people around here somewhere, they just happen to live mostly 20-30 minutes west of me. I like to poke fun at spoiled people and I’m very honest if not completely honest. I am a natural flirt, and have no “flirt mode” unless you count the waking hours. If you stroke my ego the right way, you will make me blush, especially if I wasn’t expecting it or hadn’t heard that particular compliment before. I play volleyball on the varsity team at my school, and I am not friends with any of my teammates in the off-season. Most of them are real bitches, but they’re good players. I seem to collect acquaintances like they’re giving them away, but somehow I am only friends with a few of them. [My definition of friend is the one most people use for a “close friend.”] Right now I’m going through a phase where I like wearing skirts and tight shirts, but not in a way that makes me look slutty. That’s just not kewl. If you haven’t noticed, I ramble and I’m also quite random. Hypergirl is one of my closest friends, but, like most if not all my libra friends, is one of the most indecisive people I know, and the least confrontational. I’m attracted to this guy I met and am sort of acquaintances with now, and he is attracted also. Right now I’m just waiting for him to make up his mind about whether he wants to do anything about it or not, but either way it doesn’t phase me. At school I have good grades, and although I got a D for not doing any work in one class, I got on the honor roll for the trimester. Last time I counted, I had 4 extracurricular activities besides volleyball. [choir, thespians, lit mag, french club, and soon to be mass media club. Oops, that makes five.] At least I have one less class to worry about now that I dropped it. I used to take two foreign languages and I decided that wasn’t good for my stress level considering that French and German aren’t very similar unless you count the fact that German takes a lot of words from French and Germanizes them. I like flat coke and flat beer also. Call me weird, but this is what you get when you live with someone who drinks a quarter of a can of something and then puts it in the fridge to go flat until you drink it. Anything else you’d like to know?
My name is Amy and I’m a 25-year-old law student. Before going to law school I worked as a newspaper editor. I hope to find a job as a legal editor. My dream is to be a writer/artist/photographer.
I’ve lived in Florida for the past nine and a half years but I was born and raised in New York (Long Island, to be exact). I’ve finally gotten used to the climate change during the winter months.
I enjoy reading, writing, drawing, movies, sci-fi, comics and computers. I’m also a huge fan of MST3K and a cartoonaholic. I absolutely adore the Powerpuff Girls. My favorite color is purple. I have a huge collection of stuffed animals. Right now I’m trying to find a Gatomon beanie (from Digimon).
I’m a fairly good cook, but I usually don’t get to spend much time in the kitchen because of my school schedule. For special occasions I’ll spend five hours making bread from scratch.
I tend to be shy and quiet around new people, but once you get to know me it’s almost impossible to shut me up. I’m pretty much a homebody but I like spending time with my friends. Most of my good friends have graduated already and moved across the country, so I spend a lot of time on the phone with them.
I can’t have pets in my apartment but I would like to have a kitten. Sometimes I have unofficial “pets” when lizards manage to get inside.
Pollo Boyo is my brother IRL. He helped me learn HTML. I’m mostly self-taught, but he’s given me a few good hints along the way. I’ve designed a few websites already, and I’m working on a new one.
I’m addicted to the SDMB. I usually check the boards several times a day.
I am 18 - from Austria - hope to move to the UK in June 2001… I am attending some(thing similar to a) college…
The fucked up part of my life only ended in the year 2000…
that was when the good kind of “fucked up life” took over.
I am a pothead, I hum too much (and in a very disturbing way), I am an only child and online way too much…
I am a bookworm and a music addict… and I have a big fat wobly homepage… (http://www.horus.com/~steff)
I am also just reducing the dose of my psycho meds with help of my psycho lady - and I finished my therapy (woohoo!)- which makes me a pain in the ass a lot, because I get pretty bad withdrawal… but hey… in February I ll be “clean” and I hope to throw a party thread then
Oh - forgot - I overuse the phrase “for fuck s sake!” and “fucking hell” a lot… blame Trainspotting and my boyfriend…
dodgy
Allow myself to introduce…myself…
I’m 17 and live in a suburb of Atlanta, GA called Snellville (which I might fall over dead in a heart attack if anyone has heard of it.)
I love to read and write.
I know two dopers, one of which is at basic training (naturally he hasn’t posted in awhile), and the other is his best friend.
My parents are divorced and I don’t get along with my mom and sister, but have a very close relationship with my father.
I struggle with self-esteem problems.
I am sickened by racism and prejudice in general.
I am still very new to the boards, so most of my posts fall into obscurity and are generally ignored.
I am a junior in high school with hopes of obtaining a degree in journalism at either Oglethorpe University or the University of Georgia.
It’s nice to meet all of you…
and now I’ll decend quietly back into my little corner…
Just A Girl, corners are nice places to lurk. You can share mine with me if you’d like (just dust those webs aside). Sometimes it seems to take a while before you are recognized; hang in there!
Oh, and as to the OP:
I was born in Springfield, Illinois on July 20th, 1954, the second of identical twins (my twin died in January of 1955). I have an older brother who lurks here and reads my posts when he gets some downtime from work, or he sometimes goes in on weekends to catch up on things, and may lurk then. I have one younger brother and one younger sister, and we all now live in Minnesota, after steadily migrating northward with our family.
My father is a retired high school band director. My mother died in 1991 of lung cancer.
I have been married and divorced twice, and have three daughters; the youngest is seventeen. I have a dusty psychology degree, and worked in a factory for almost twenty-five years, until I was laid off in March of this year. Since then I have been trying to find employment in the area of my degree (no takers) and in office type of work (my temporary job at the graduate studies office at the local university ends Tuesday).
I now live with imthjckaz, who posts here also. We have met a few people at the Central Minnesota Dope Fest arranged by chique. I have also talked on the phone with my friends Cajun Man and Dr.Matrix, and with Ad Noctum.
I have been on anti-depressants off and on (mostly on) for the past twenty years, but weaned myself a little over a year ago when I learned I would be losing health insurance in March. I am doing okay but sometimes it is difficult.
I am so happy to have discovered this message board, and all of you wonderful, interesting people. Thank you for all the support, warmth, hugs and humor.
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I’m 22, and graduating from college (Rensselaer Polytechnic Intitute) after four and a half years and with a not exactly stellar GPA. This is due to being an incredible procrastinator, and having nothing resembling good study habits.
I am interested in a vast number of different and unrelated things, which isn’t exactly a useful trait for getting a degree in only one subject. I pride myself on my vast collection of mostly useless information on just about any subject. I’m still trying to figure out how to transform this into actual money, as I’m quite broke.
I like beer, but prefer stronger drinks. I’m especially fond of a good single malt scotch or a martini. Often I drink for the sole purpose of getting drunk. I enjoy getting drunk, and don’t try to hide the fact. On the other hand, I’m not an alcoholic or anything.
I maintain highly irregular sleeping habits, and rely on obscene quantities of Mountain Dew to get me through the day.
Nice to meet you all.
My name’s Jeff, but people call me Katie. They also call me Trixie, but we won’t go there right now.
Thats all.