# Top Ten Reasons To Be a Doper **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 3, 2009, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-reasons-to-be-a-doper/491835 "2009-04-03T10:39:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-reasons-to-be-a-doper/491835/21 "2009-04-03T20:45:33Z")
I’m trying to get my friends to join so they can make money selling seeds and Grit too! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-reasons-to-be-a-doper/491835/22 "2009-04-03T20:50:53Z")
The “fresh” (wink, wink) ice cream. Plus, it’s good to have a social place where I don’t have to check my brain at the door. Also, the puns. And the religious/cosmological/physical discussions. And the Tolkein discussions. And the shared fictions. And the Hot Doper Wimmin[sup]TM[/sup]. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-reasons-to-be-a-doper/491835/23 "2009-04-03T20:57:09Z")
The classy title of “Charter Member” as seen in more than half the posts in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-reasons-to-be-a-doper/491835/24 "2009-04-03T21:04:26Z")
Not having to explain jokes, or in some cases, that there was a joke. Having any song, movie, or book identified from the merest fragment of a clue. **Sampiro** ---
**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:** [April 3, 2009, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-reasons-to-be-a-doper/491835/25 "2009-04-03T21:13:48Z")
PIE! No matter what you are geeked about, there will be someone on board who is as geeky or possibly GEEKIER than YOU about it, you dorkwad. Pushes taped birth control glasses up my nose. But, really, I think one of the definative spectacles of Doperdom has to be the Dead Pool. Let’s celebrate someone dying!!11!!! Wooooo! It’s fooked up, to say the least. oh, and any thread that is a **Recommend me** about books/movies/whatever always peaks my interest. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-reasons-to-be-a-doper/491835/26 "2009-04-03T21:45:12Z")
No 13375p34k except as the subject of derision. Though we do have to tolerate the occasional lolcatz reference. Legal (mostly) Dopefests. Source for references to all things bacon. 2 k of t in a g g ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-reasons-to-be-a-doper/491835/27 "2009-04-03T21:53:31Z")
Learning stuff. I really like that. **Projammer** , I’ll see your **Sampiro** and raise you a **Scylla**. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-reasons-to-be-a-doper/491835/28 "2009-04-03T22:01:46Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > 1. You are [this person](http://xkcd.com/386/). You know you are. This. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-reasons-to-be-a-doper/491835/29 "2009-04-03T22:02:31Z")
> [@Theodore\_Striker](#): > > Dropping the “cite” bomb whenever you damn well please. I did just that earlier this week. The lovely lady in question sent me her photo as proof. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-reasons-to-be-a-doper/491835/30 "2009-04-03T22:18:58Z")
> [@Maeglin](#): > > You have a huge penis and an IQ three standard deviations above the mean. You’re half right. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2009, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-reasons-to-be-a-doper/491835/31 "2009-04-03T22:30:17Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > No 13375p34k except as the subject of derision. Though we do have to tolerate the occasional lolcatz reference. > > Legal (mostly) Dopefests. > > Source for references to all things bacon. > > 2 k of t in a g g Lolcats are da bomb! ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-reasons-to-be-a-doper/491835/32 "2009-04-03T22:33:42Z")
1. License to kill ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-reasons-to-be-a-doper/491835/33 "2009-04-03T22:35:57Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > Learning stuff. I really like that. > > **Projammer** , I’ll see your **Sampiro** and raise you a **Scylla**. **Scylla** of yesteryear. > [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > oh, and any thread that is a **Recommend me** about books/movies/whatever always **peaks** my interest. Piques ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-reasons-to-be-a-doper/491835/34 "2009-04-03T23:00:20Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > 1. License to kill Shouldn’t that be “007. License to kill”? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-reasons-to-be-a-doper/491835/35 "2009-04-03T23:10:18Z")
> [@Scuba\_Ben](#): > > I did just that earlier this week. The lovely lady in question sent me her photo as proof. Was this from the boobs thread? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![emmaliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emmaliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emmaliminal)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-reasons-to-be-a-doper/491835/36 "2009-04-03T23:13:30Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > Pushes taped birth control glasses up my nose. [Threads about pushing things up your nose](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=209087) ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-reasons-to-be-a-doper/491835/37 "2009-04-03T23:18:53Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > . . . > > oh, and any thread that is a **Recommend me** about books/movies/whatever always peaks my interest. The SDMB is loosing income not haveing a click-through to amazon. I’ve ordered so many books via thread links. ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-reasons-to-be-a-doper/491835/38 "2009-04-03T23:49:55Z")
> [@](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > Quote: > > Originally Posted by Maeglin > > You have a huge penis and an IQ three standard deviations above the mean. > > You’re half right. Ok, ok. One-point-five standard deviations. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-reasons-to-be-a-doper/491835/39 "2009-04-04T00:03:21Z")
> [@Theodore\_Striker](#): > > Dropping the “cite” bomb whenever you damn well please. > [@Scuba\_Ben](#): > > I did just that earlier this week. The lovely lady in question sent me her photo as proof. > [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Was this from the boobs thread? :eek: Nope, had nothing to do with the SDMB. As it happened, the subject was haircuts. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-reasons-to-be-a-doper/491835/40 "2009-04-04T00:17:11Z")
> [@Scuba\_Ben](#): > > Nope, had nothing to do with the SDMB. > > As it happened, the subject was haircuts. How disappointing. My contribution: #11.) We all go to eleven. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-reasons-to-be-a-doper/491835.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-reasons-to-be-a-doper/491835.md?page=3)