# The stereotypical doper **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 2, 2011, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186 "2011-03-02T08:05:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silence_of_the_clams)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/41 "2011-03-03T09:35:39Z")
I always imagined the common doper to something like the comic book guy. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/42 "2011-03-03T10:32:21Z")
> [@Chief\_Pedant](#): > > Dopers: > > The second greatest joy is being first to post the best answer. > The greatest joy is finding a fine point to demonstrate why it’s not quite the best answer. > > (IMHO, of course.) The third greatest joy is to say hi to Opal. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/43 "2011-03-03T12:34:15Z")
SDMB: a bunch of folks looking for an interesting refuge from the inane conversations and behaviors around them…resulting in a message board that regularly drifts into inane conversations and behaviors… …but which also occasionally fights ignorance and helps us feel like like we belong. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/44 "2011-03-03T12:50:27Z")
Dopers are mopers, gropers, elopers, microscopers, jump-ropers, interlopers, no-hopers, but, most of all, copers. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/45 "2011-03-03T13:01:15Z")
**Annie Xmas** wrote: > [@](#): > > Someone once asked in a thread about fleching "That’s disgusting. Is anything too sick for you people to discuss? I agree. It’s disgusting to talk about making arrows. Especially if you leave out the “t”. Dopers pounce on typos and spelling errors and make lame jokes about them. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/46 "2011-03-03T13:20:17Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > -Atheist > -Politically modern “progressive” > -Middle class and professionals Why is progressive in inverted commas? ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/47 "2011-03-03T18:02:21Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > Why is progressive in inverted commas? He reversed the polarity on [sup]_±_[/sup]liberal.[sup]_±_[/sup] ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/48 "2011-03-04T04:04:24Z")
> [@Silence\_of\_the\_clams](#): > > I always imagined the common doper to something like the comic book guy. I’m sure that a lot of people do. Anonymity has its privileges. 😃 ‘To be’ but not ‘to be’; that was the quotation. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/49 "2011-03-04T04:38:43Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > Why is progressive in inverted commas? To indicate a difference from the early 20th Century Progressives. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/50 "2011-03-04T14:46:04Z")
Despite their love of bacon, Dopers are not known for their iron stomachs. Consider the reports of projectile vomiting and emergency room visits from eating a appetizer at chain restaurants. Also, don’t even think of using a leaf blower within a mile of one. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/51 "2011-03-04T15:05:31Z")
> [@Silence\_of\_the\_clams](#): > > I always imagined the common doper to something like the comic book guy. Yeah right. I _wish_ I were that good-looking and charismatic. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/52 "2011-03-04T16:12:57Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > To indicate a difference from the early 20th Century Progressives. I inferred you meant self-proclaimed progressives who weren’t really actually progressive. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2011, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/53 "2011-03-05T00:51:14Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > That’s too easy. Bribe the central IRB and CROs to exert undue influence on the FDA to accept ridiculous, yet funny amendments to the protocol to weaken the i/e criteria. Promise your coordinators a Porsche for every 100 patients randomized. Sign a BPA with an obscure proxy of the CRO to take the heat for any coercion charges as you gleefully randomize patients with abandon who don’t have a chance in heck of surviving the retention phase of the trial. Finally, promise each patient $100 a visit, payable upon conclusion of the study of course, and see your LTFU problems disappear overnight. Next? 🙂 Oh, thank you, I needed that. ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2011, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/54 "2011-03-05T15:08:30Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > Dopers: sometimes you have to fight ignorance WITH ignorance! Because a negative times a negative is a positive! ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2011, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/55 "2011-03-05T15:19:21Z")
> [@Illuminatiprimus](#): > > Dopers have a need to redundantly state their identities. 😛 Hey! Whatdya’ mean by \*\*\*that crack? - Jack\*\*\* 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2011, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/56 "2011-03-05T15:40:10Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > I inferred you meant self-proclaimed progressives who weren’t really actually progressive. No, they were progressive for their time-ie regulations on food and drugs, women’s suffrage, etc. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2011, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/57 "2011-03-05T16:00:31Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > No, they were progressive for their time-ie regulations on food and drugs, women’s suffrage, etc. I think you miss my point. Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Walmarticus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Walmarticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walmarticus)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2011, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/58 "2011-03-05T17:15:41Z")
Typical doper conversation: **Firefly Reference** : “I’m an atheist, but is the Hebrew tradition more accepting of Jewish apocrypha than Christians are of Christian apocrypha? Again, I’m not a Christian.” **Something About Zombies** : "Well, I’m not a theist, however I’d think the oral tradition of early Judaic law sort of makes it so. Correct me if I’m wrong, but the Jewish tradition has more apocryphal works. Looking at it that way, I’d have to say yes. " **Prétentious** : There is no god. **Firefly Reference** : " > [@](#): > > correct me if I’m wrong Cite?" **I love Firefly448** : “Regardless of the status of Judaic apocrypha, religion enslaves and exploits the minds of the ignorant (for whom I have no sympathy). Name one rape that was not caused by religion.” ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2011, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/59 "2011-03-05T18:43:53Z")
> [@Illuminatiprimus](#): > > …I think mine would be: “Dopers: no topic too silly to argue vehemently about.” **What**? :mad: \*\*\*How dare \*\*\*you say that about me-- uh, I mean us?! I’m gonna’ open a pit thread tonight just to flame you properly for saying that! _ **Grrrr!** _ But meantime, have a nice day. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2011, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186/60 "2011-03-05T19:10:49Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Yeah right. I _wish_ I were that good-looking and charismatic. Yeah, me too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stereotypical-doper/573186.md?page=4)