# The "Qadgop the Mercotan-awe" thread
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-qadgop-the-mercotan-awe-thread/354822
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 30, 2006, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-qadgop-the-mercotan-awe-thread/354822 "2006-04-30T07:09:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2006, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-qadgop-the-mercotan-awe-thread/354822/101 "2006-05-02T16:32:56Z")
Why get an actor? Qadgop could do it himself. He can do anything. _dreamy sigh_
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2006, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-qadgop-the-mercotan-awe-thread/354822/102 "2006-05-02T16:39:47Z")
In my youth in the 70’s, I _was_ on occasion mistaken for [Donny Osmond](http://www.stuckinthe70s.com/images/tb1174donnypu.jpg'), if that’s any help.
No, really!
He’s aged better than I, though.
**elfbabe** looks _lots_ better than Marie Osmond ever did.
Wisdope? When? Where? Milwaukee vicinity is a bit easier on me, but for adulation, I’ll travel to Madison. Sadly, if a drunken orgy is planned, I’ll have to beg off. Tho the mere presence of some folks consuming ethanol would not be a deterrent. Nor the mere presence of an orgy. Just FYI. 😃
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### Author:  [@indecisive1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indecisive1)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2006, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-qadgop-the-mercotan-awe-thread/354822/103 "2006-05-02T18:22:50Z")
I hate travel, but I’d be willing to attend a WIdope as well.
That is assuming that Brats would be available.
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### Author:  [@Barrels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barrels)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-qadgop-the-mercotan-awe-thread/354822/104 "2006-05-02T18:33:44Z")
How about Devil’s Lake?
Kinda closer to the middle of the state!
Since I suggested it does that mean I have to plan it? I’m to much of a newbie to do a worthwhile job 😃
Barrels
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### Author:  [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2006, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-qadgop-the-mercotan-awe-thread/354822/105 "2006-05-03T02:33:43Z")
I was born in Wisconsin but I only lived there for my first year, moved to Ohio for 6 years after that. But I feel like a Wisconsonite - beer and cheese are in my blood (probably quite literally). We visited my grandparents often though, they had an acre or two around Kenosha. They always had multi-colored tulips around their house in the spring it was beautiful and tulips always make me remember my grandparents and that house. I loved that place and have often thought of visiting and seeing if it’s still around or if it’s a parking lot.
Of course I have no idea of the actual location of the former farm and my grandparents are gone and my father is gone and my mother has Alzheimers and I’ve had a couple glasses of wine, so I guess I’m not likely to find it again.
Anyhoo, if it’s not too nosey or not allowed to inquire, whereabouts in Wisconsin can one find a Qadgop.\*
[sub]\*This is not for stalking purposes.[/sub]
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### Author:  [@rbroome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rbroome)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2006, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-qadgop-the-mercotan-awe-thread/354822/106 "2006-05-03T02:44:57Z")
> [@silenus](#):
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> You, sirrah, are obviously not a connisewer of Fine Lit-ture.
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> _Qadgop the Mercoatan slithered flatly around the after-bulge of the tranship. One claw dug into the meters-thick armour of pure neutronium, then another. Its terrible xmex-like snout locked on. Its zymolosely polydactile tongue crunched out, crashed down, rasped across. Slurp! Slurp! At each abrasive stroke the groove in the tranship’s plating deepened and Qadgop leered more fiercely. Fools! Did they think that the airlessness of absolute space, the heatlessness of absolute zero, the yieldlessness of absolute neutronium, could stop QADGOP THE MERCOTAN? And the stowaway, that human wench Cynthia, cowering in helpless terror just beyond this thin and fragile wall…_
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> Children of the Lens (1948) - **E. E. “Doc” Smith**
Whoa. I remember the series-but that was some time ago! No, I didn’t read them when they first came out-it was the 60s before I got there. 🙂
Qadgop the mercotan certainly deserves the praise I see here. Go Q!
Hmm. Perhaps that is in fact what Q stands for, no?
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### Author:  [@elfbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfbabe)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2006, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-qadgop-the-mercotan-awe-thread/354822/107 "2006-05-03T04:02:59Z")
> [@What Exit?](#):
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> Well George is experienced playing Doctors and come across as intelligent. We could never buy Tom as intelligent. Brad could work if George is busy.
Well, of the three, George would be the most appropriate. But his hair would need to be curlier, and there would need to be less of it in strategic locations. I will note that **Qadgop** is occasionally called [“Krusty”](http://www.niu.edu/pubaffairs/nnow/summer02/images/krusty.jpg) when he’s gone too long without a haircut…
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### Author:  [@Ragiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ragiel)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2006, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-qadgop-the-mercotan-awe-thread/354822/108 "2006-05-03T08:08:51Z")
Just stopping by to express my deepest respect and admiration for **Qadgop**. May he be blessed with health, wealth, love, and long life to enjoy them!
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