# The SDMB Soap Opera

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 7, 2000, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854 "2000-07-07T14:38:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2000, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/41 "2000-07-07T22:38:53Z")

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… later, Persephone’s emotional problems escalate. No one can place their finger on why her behavior becomes so erratic. She almost seems like another person. Finally, the terrible truth emerges: She’s possessed by demons!

Arnold W. places a call he’d never hoped he’d have to make, a call to …

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**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2000, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/42 "2000-07-07T22:45:14Z")

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…noted deprogrammer Catrandom. For a substantial fee, Catrandom agrees to go to work on Persephone, little knowing who had found out her own darkest secret…

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**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2000, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/43 "2000-07-07T22:47:37Z")

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…Milossarian. He has just discovered that Catrandom is his long-lost twin sister. He hopes to blackmail her with information their parents, who are…

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**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2000, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/44 "2000-07-07T22:54:05Z")

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…Mafia bosses. The parents personally picked off at least 3 dozen people, including…

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**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2000, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/45 "2000-07-07T23:12:54Z")

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…the entire New York Yankees baseball team. This aroused the wrath of **Satan** , who…

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**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2000, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/46 "2000-07-07T23:18:10Z")

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…vowed he would hunt the guilty parties down and personally…

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**Author:** ![ArkonDLoC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a8b319/32.png) [@ArkonDLoC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArkonDLoC)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2000, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/47 "2000-07-07T23:38:02Z")

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…kill them, unaware that they were actually clones created by…

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**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2000, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/48 "2000-07-08T00:02:26Z")

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Ukelele Ike, who fell out of the thread quite a while back. Catrandom and Milossarian are devastated – if mom and dad are clones, what are they? The answer would soon be revealed by…

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**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2000, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/49 "2000-07-08T00:14:00Z")

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Trion’s evil twin, who recently broke out of the asylum. He know that Cat and Milo, being the offspring of genitically unstable clones are subject to violent bouts of…

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**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2000, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/50 "2000-07-08T00:20:26Z")

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…chocoholism, which results in them smearing their entire bodies with melted Godiva chocolates while they…

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**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2000, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/51 "2000-07-08T00:45:20Z")

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…danced naked in the alley. Their unfortunate unholy union resulted in…

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**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2000, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/52 "2000-07-08T00:50:25Z")

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. . . discuss various evil, devious ways to get catrandom and persephone to admit their plans for forcing Mr. Cynical to . . .

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**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2000, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/53 "2000-07-08T00:51:45Z")

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er, discussing, not discuss

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**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2000, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/54 "2000-07-08T01:16:06Z")

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…reveal that he is pepperlandgirl’s deadbeat, alcoholic no-account, millionaire father, who made all his money by…

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**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2000, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/55 "2000-07-08T01:16:07Z")

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…get plastic surgery in order to enhance his…

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**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2000, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/56 "2000-07-08T01:45:06Z")

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. . . man-flesh, but he refused and was about to walk out of the operating room when he ran into . . .

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**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2000, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/57 "2000-07-08T01:56:50Z")

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…Mullinator and his happy band of ex-commandos, just about to…

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**Author:** ![Bluepony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Bluepony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluepony)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2000, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/58 "2000-07-08T03:16:01Z")

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…ravage the unsuspecting, and somewhat cooperative **Persephone** as Bluepony watches entire sordid happenings from beach chair over Michelobs and Cheetos. Torn between saving Persephone from this band of ruffians and opening up another cold one he…

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**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2000, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/59 "2000-07-08T04:06:59Z")

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…whipped his gun out of the cooler and leveled it at…

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**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2000, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-soap-opera/24854/60 "2000-07-08T04:31:58Z")

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. . . his own foot. Suddenly he had a flashback to the Vietnam, where he shot hiw own foot so he could go back to the states and . . .

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