# Time For Some Doper Updates, Please **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 4, 2003, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-some-doper-updates-please/173046 "2003-05-04T17:56:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-some-doper-updates-please/173046/41 "2003-05-06T23:37:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lainaf \* > \*\*A couple of months ago someone posted about their brother being arrested. He was living in Arizona or California (?) and was arrested for a warrant issued in Oregon, where he had worked in a child-care center, and had (without his knowledge) a child abuse complaint filed against him. > Does anyone remember the poster or know how things turned out? \*\* Update: I found this thread. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=153395](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=153395) The brother did get released and possibly the charges were going to get dropped. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-some-doper-updates-please/173046/42 "2003-05-06T23:43:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shirley Ujest \* > **I want to know about the brother in law of a brother in law of a doper ( I think, if you follow that) who was hit by a rocket or something during Operation Iraqi Freedom and ended up losing his hand. Or possibly would lose his hand. Last I heard was he was now in Germany for RX.** That was **Cardinal,** in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=173605). I’m sending him an e-mail to ask for an update. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-some-doper-updates-please/173046/43 "2003-05-07T00:23:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shayna \* > **Coldie** , first of all, **Spiny** and I are saying lots of prayers and sending lots of good wishes across the pond for your father. I think you know already that I’m (sadly) familiar with what you’re going through. It’s awesome that your dad’s prognosis is so good! Keep us posted, because we all worry about you, 'k? Thanks. 🙂 I’m doing OK myself, I’ve always been good at letting the rational side prevail when you still can. My dad does the same, pretty much: it’s my mother who seems to be suffering the most. And yes, the prognosis looks pretty good. I’ll keep the thread I started about it alive as new events occur. > [@](#): > > **Secondly, I completely agree that I wish this subject of tatertot would stay off the boards. But since 2 people did ask, and I am probably the one most closely familiar with what happened (besides being the one who started the thread) I felt like I had to give some sort of answer, at least. I tried to be as brief and matter-of-fact as I could, with what little facts any of us have and then suggested that it was better left alone at this point. I didn’t mean to misrepresent their status, just to point out that they are no longer allowed to post here due to the contradiction and the lack of any kind of explanation or apology. I think we both said the same thing, but with slightly different wording (being banned vs being inactivated and not allowed to post). Sorry if I stepped on any toes for stating it as I did. [sub][sup](Frankly, I’d just like to forget the whole thing ever happened, because it still causes some hurt to both Thomas and me.)[/sup][/sub]** Oh, not to worry, no toes were stepped on. I was just dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s, so to speak. We both know enough about this matter to realise it should be approached with some care, and we both did. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-some-doper-updates-please/173046/44 "2003-05-07T00:27:39Z")
Oh, just as an example of how positive my father is about all this, last week he went out and bought a new (well, 2 years old) caravan trailer to replace the old one (23 years old). He’s planning on traveling all across the continent with my mother, now that he has the time, what with him being retired and all. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-some-doper-updates-please/173046/45 "2003-05-07T00:41:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sassy \* > \*\*Did **Euty** ever get his banjo? \*\* No. :: pout :: ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-some-doper-updates-please/173046/46 "2003-05-07T15:22:48Z")
Did **Esprix** ever find the wintergreen toothpaste? ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-some-doper-updates-please/173046/47 "2003-05-07T17:02:25Z")
Whoa, **UncleBeer** , that’s freaky. What a story! Too bad the guy’s not active here anymore – I’d love to know what he’s up to now. **JohnBckWLD** , thanks for the update! **lainaf** , I missed that original thread. I, too, wonder what happened with **Kristi’s** brother. I hope he was indeed released! **Coldie** , 😃 **Euty** , there’s a [banjo for sale at ebay](http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2526887391&category=10177) that’s going for under $60.00! It needs strings, but you’d want to buy new ones even if it came with them, anyway. Auction’s over in a little under 4 hours, so hurry! **gallows fodder** , it looks like **Esprix** did find a [wintergreen toothpaste](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=2862876#post2862876) that met all his criteria. But apparently it had an aftertaste he didn’t like so he was going to try some of the other suggestions when the tube he had was gone. So **Esprix** , darlin’, is your tube empty yet? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-some-doper-updates-please/173046/48 "2003-05-07T17:32:16Z")
Anybody interested in an update on the situation with **Phlosphr** and the abusive mental health worker he witnessed one day at the mall, looks like there’s an [update](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=182385) on that one. ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-some-doper-updates-please/173046/49 "2003-05-07T18:22:59Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by Shirley Ujest \* \*\*I want to know about the brother in law of a brother in law of a doper ( I think, if you follow that) who was hit by a rocket or something during Operation Iraqi Freedom and ended up losing his hand. Or possibly would lose his hand. Last I heard was he was now in Germany for RX. I can’t remember more than that, but this man has popped up on my personal radar of thoughts quite a bit. Also, **Coldfire** How is your dad doing? **Aha** how are you feeling since the tongue cancer? How did the doctors discover it? Did you feel anything? Hi Shirley it’s me aha. I am feeling fine since the tongue cancer. I discovered it when I found a lump in the right side of my throat. It turned out to be a swollen lymph gland caused by the cancer at the base of my tongue. I was going to have surgery at first but then decided on radation and chemo. It is called the stanford plan and you get radiated twice a day for 6 weeks with chemo the first and last week. It was brutal but it zapped the tumor on the base of my tongue. I lost some sense of taste and salivia but otherwise am just fine. The Five Americans ( I am the lead singer) just performed at my college to a packed venue. Thanks for asking about me and you can buy my album at walmart or amazon anytime. ( Sorry mods to advertise if I broke a rule then erase this part) ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-some-doper-updates-please/173046/50 "2003-05-07T19:30:55Z")
I want to know about **Tuckerfan** ’s weird neighbors about **Evilbeth** ’s daughter. Weight? Pictures? about **Sue Duhnym** ’s daughter. Last I heard she was going through the Terrible Twos, screaming in the shower and making poor **Sue** nuts. (And I know this is ancient history, but the image is stuck in my mind.) ---
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-some-doper-updates-please/173046/51 "2003-05-07T21:37:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kyla \* > \*\*I want to know what happened to the guy who had SARS. I think it was **bernse** ’s coworker? Did he recover? \*\* Actually, I just heard some news on him the other day. I meant to post a follow up on it but never got around to it… There is good news and bad news. Good news is: He doesn’t have SARS. Bad news is: His outlook still isn’t all that good. The email we received was based on news that “He was in isolation and nobody could visit him.” This news was received at the height of the SARS scare, so the author of the email _assumed_ that it was SARS without confirmation. :rolleyes: Turns out he does _not_ have SARS, but some rare disorder or something (sorry, I don’t know what it is) and they indeed did put him in isolation at first. His entire body was paralized or some damn thing, and the news is the doctors think if he recovers it will take a year or more. I _think_ he is out of isolation now, but I do know his condition is still quite serious. Thats all I know. ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-some-doper-updates-please/173046/52 "2003-05-08T01:43:17Z")
Not that anyone asked, but my pregnancy is going just fine (and I really _am_ pregnant, and have pictures to prove it!). We don’t know the sex of the baby yet, but will find out next week, when I have an amnio done–my doc has recommended it, since I’m over 35. I’m not crazy about the thought of the reeeeeally big needle, but the payoff is the super hi-res ultrasound they do as part of the procedure. Both **UncleBill** and I want to know before the baby is born whether it’s a boy or a girl. We’re currently looking to relocate, since Miami is nowhere near any family members. The search is underway in the mid-Atlantic and Colorado. Wish us luck! ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-some-doper-updates-please/173046/53 "2003-05-08T13:22:48Z")
This has been great. I am glad to hear that **Coldie’s** dad is very optimistic about his situation. Buying that caravan is more than enough motivation to survive. Do you know how many people just give up when they hear the word cancer? \*\*Aha \*\* I had been wondering how you discovered your cancer. I never heard of tongue cancer, and, well, it is just not something I would put on my top ten lists of Diseases I’d Like. 🙂 Glad you are doing great and singing. Thanks for the link about marine who got his hand blown off in Iraq. I am glad he is doing well and his family understands how important that he is alive and in good spirits. Closure is a wonderful thing. **Geobabe** I am very happy for you and \*\*UncleBill \*\* having a bun in the proverbial oven. Good luck with the house hunting and moving. (Don’t worry too much about the amnio and the dreaded big needle. Several friends of mine had it done and they said it was not nearly as bad as they expected.) ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-some-doper-updates-please/173046/54 "2003-05-08T18:26:18Z")
Oh, and **Bosda** – how’ve you been since the car accident? ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-some-doper-updates-please/173046/55 "2003-05-08T18:28:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Geobabe \* > \*\*I’m not crazy about the thought of the reeeeeally big needle, but the payoff is the super hi-res ultrasound they do as part of the procedure. \*\* I had an amnio done at 8 months, and I’m a world champion weenie when it comes to needles. It wasn’t that bad at all. They numb the spot before they stick the big one in. Just don’t look. Good luck and congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-some-doper-updates-please/173046/56 "2003-05-08T18:43:42Z")
I’m curious about that chick from LA who came over for a weekend in Amsterdam not knowing whether she could spend $US or needed to get some of that foreign stuff … seems a while ago now. I particularly wonder if her experiences in the past couple of years of Europe and Europeans have changed any prior perceptions she may have had …. probably seems like a different world, now ? I also hope thing are working out well for hubby, both in LA and with regard employment …. On another note, I take occasional breaks from the board and tend to lose the drift. There are some posters I haven’t seen for quite a while. For example, **purplebear** who I used to like for her genuine warmth and caring nature. Nor have I seen **T\*N Hippie** , and I rather miss the limericks and his gentle nature. I know he’d had some difficult times but, last I read, things were straightening out for him … just find myself wondering what happened to them …and I’m sure there are others, as well …those just came to mind … any news ? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-some-doper-updates-please/173046/57 "2003-05-08T18:51:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by a35362 \* > \*\*Oh, and **Bosda** – how’ve you been since the car accident? \*\* Which one? Thre were 2. As it stands, I still haven’t totally gotten over the elevated stress levels. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-some-doper-updates-please/173046/58 "2003-05-08T19:11:04Z")
**Geobabe** ’s pregnant??? That means…she’s had sex!!! :eek: 😛 Mazel Tov to you both. Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![\_etalhea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/779978/32.png) [@\_etalhea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_etalhea)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-some-doper-updates-please/173046/59 "2003-05-08T19:39:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shayna \* > \*\ ***gallows fodder** , it looks like **Esprix** did find a [wintergreen toothpaste](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=2862876#post2862876) that met all his criteria. But apparently it had an aftertaste he didn’t like so he was going to try some of the other suggestions when the tube he had was gone. So **Esprix** , darlin’, is your tube empty yet? 😉 \*\* I hope he didn’t get it from **SPOOFE**! But that would explain the aftertaste. ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-some-doper-updates-please/173046/60 "2003-05-08T23:23:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BiblioCat \* > \*\*I had an amnio done at 8 months, and I’m a world champion weenie when it comes to needles. It wasn’t that bad at all. They numb the spot before they stick the big one in. Just don’t look. > Good luck and congratulations! \*\* Thanks. Bill will be there with me, and he already knows his job is to distract me. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cartooniverse \* > \*\* That means…she’s had sex!!! :eek: > \*\* Well, they told me it was my wifely duty, so, y’know. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-some-doper-updates-please/173046.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-some-doper-updates-please/173046.md?page=4)