# The single greatest Dope post I read last year was...

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 5, 2010, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-greatest-dope-post-i-read-last-year-was/523780 "2010-01-05T19:30:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-greatest-dope-post-i-read-last-year-was/523780/1 "2010-01-05T19:30:49Z")

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Well, that’ll vary by poster, obviously. But I’ll nominate [this gem](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10682551&postcount=10) from **Captain Amazing** , in a thread I started called [“Let’s psychoanalyze the hell out fo the Wizard of Oz.”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=501393&highlight=wizard+dorothy) Here’s the first paragraph:

> [@Let's psychoanalyze the hell out of "The Wizard of Oz"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-psychoanalyze-the-hell-out-of-the-wizard-of-oz/480922/10):
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> As soon as Dorothy gets to Oz, the first thing that happens is that she kills the Wicked Witch of the East. This is clearly a reference to her mother, who died in childbirth bearing Dorothy. For further proof of that, note that she first lands in Munchkintown…the Munchkins, with their diminutive stature, clearly represent infants. Further, after the witch is killed, her slippers wind up on Dorothy’s feet…this is Dorothy’s “inheritance”, so to speak. Her protests to Glinda and the Munchkins that “I didn’t mean to kill her”, shows her residual guilt at her mother’s death.

\*\*Amazing \*\*earned his rank with that one.

Anybody else have a better post from 2009?

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**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-greatest-dope-post-i-read-last-year-was/523780/2 "2010-01-05T19:42:30Z")

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\*\*truthbot \*\*for the win in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=11843545):

> [@truthbot](#):
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> Sampiro, PM me with your info. I’ll gladly pay for your pet’s care.