# Tripler is OK and in Qatar **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 16, 2004, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tripler-is-ok-and-in-qatar/240426 "2004-04-16T21:06:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![paperbackwriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@paperbackwriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paperbackwriter)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2004, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tripler-is-ok-and-in-qatar/240426/1 "2004-04-16T21:06:52Z")
Our own **Tripler** just made contact from Qatar where he’s stationed. Evidently the base he’s assigned to doesn’t allow him to connect to the SDMB, but he wants to say “hi” to everyone and let you all know he’s safe. > [@](#): > > Tell 'em I changed my name from Tripler to my new Arabic name: bin-Sober (get it?) 😃 He’s been there for about six weeks now, and will likely be extended until September. He’s doing airfield work right now. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2004, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tripler-is-ok-and-in-qatar/240426/2 "2004-04-16T21:17:26Z")
Tell him “Hey” from me. My good thoughts are with him. Thanks for giving us this update. ---
**Author:** ![Etherman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@Etherman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Etherman)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2004, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tripler-is-ok-and-in-qatar/240426/3 "2004-04-16T23:48:02Z")
Tell him hey from a complete stranger. **paperbackwriter** has he been subscribed yet? Since he can’t from there and the deadline is coming up I’ll do it if he needs someone to help out. It’d be too bad if he missed out given the siutuation. Let me know. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2004, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tripler-is-ok-and-in-qatar/240426/4 "2004-04-17T00:33:17Z")
I was wondering about that, **ether**. Are we allowing extensions on becoming charter members to our Doper service members over in Iraq? ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2004, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tripler-is-ok-and-in-qatar/240426/5 "2004-04-17T02:23:32Z")
Thanks **paperbackwriter** I don’t know **Tripler** all that well, but please tell him ‘Hi’ and ‘Stay safe’. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2004, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tripler-is-ok-and-in-qatar/240426/6 "2004-04-17T02:40:53Z")
Tell him I said hi. Like him, I’m deployed as well, but in a much nicer place. Low stress, high per diem is the word of the day here, unlike what he’s dealing with. Give him my best. ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2004, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tripler-is-ok-and-in-qatar/240426/7 "2004-04-17T04:29:07Z")
Also let him know that good thoughts are headed his way from Iowa. Tell him to stay safe. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2004, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tripler-is-ok-and-in-qatar/240426/8 "2004-04-17T19:28:13Z")
Tell’im hi, from Long Island! And he’d better come back ASAP so he can entertain me, dammit. ---
**Author:** ![missbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2004, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tripler-is-ok-and-in-qatar/240426/9 "2004-04-17T20:13:29Z")
I don’t know him all that well either but tell him hi anyway. And thanks for being there. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2004, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tripler-is-ok-and-in-qatar/240426/10 "2004-04-17T20:35:48Z")
Ditto what everybody else said. Too bad he can’t get on the board from there. My brother had good Internet access from both Uzbekistan and Afghanistan last year. ---
**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 17, 2004, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tripler-is-ok-and-in-qatar/240426/11 "2004-04-17T20:50:07Z")
I was wondering where he was hiding. Did I miss the \*\* So Long & thanks for the Fish, Tripler UnLeashed \*\*Thread? He’s in BFE without SDMB. That’s just FU’d, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![absoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@absoul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/absoul)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tripler-is-ok-and-in-qatar/240426/12 "2004-04-18T12:50:07Z")
Gosh, I wonder if his liver is gonna survive the shock! You let him know that when he gets back that I’ll keep filling his ungodly beer mug/cocktail glass thinger of his until he passes out… several times over. OhhhhYeah… and see if he can bring back one of those [spiders](http://www.gophergas.com/funstuff/camelspider.htm) encased in lucite. Man, those things freak me out. ---
**Author:** ![robgruver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@robgruver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robgruver)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tripler-is-ok-and-in-qatar/240426/13 "2004-04-18T16:34:52Z")
> [@absoul](#): > > OhhhhYeah… and see if he can bring back one of those [spiders](http://www.gophergas.com/funstuff/camelspider.htm) encased in lucite. Man, those things freak me out. Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew. Ewwwww… \ Gross. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2004, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tripler-is-ok-and-in-qatar/240426/14 "2004-04-19T12:47:55Z")
Apparently the poor bastard can visit only some sites; the SDMB doesn’t make it through the base filters. Can you believe that? As if there’d ever be anything anti-American or subversive on here. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2004, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tripler-is-ok-and-in-qatar/240426/15 "2004-04-19T17:50:17Z")
Tripler is now a Charter Member. your humble TubaDiva Administrator ---
**Author:** ![paperbackwriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@paperbackwriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paperbackwriter)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2004, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tripler-is-ok-and-in-qatar/240426/16 "2004-04-19T19:08:48Z")
I’ve passed on your comments to **Tripler**. He appreciates the nice thoughts and says: > [@](#): > > If you would, please pass on a “Hey!”, “Hi!”, “Word up!” or otherwise husky “Yo!” in a heavy Jersey accent to everyone for me. > And ask absoul how big of a spider he wants. I can keep my eyes open for a camel spider “fighting” a scorpion–in lucite of course. Anyone else need anything eclectic? > Oh, actually if you could, I offered to get some flags flown on combat sorties over Iraq and Afghanistan for some Dopers. Could you let 'em know that I’m looking into it and if anyone wants it done, to give me an e-holler? Thanks!! > Tripler > But I can freeze a live one in carbonite, if he wants too. He has also said I can post this e-mail addy for anyone that wants to contact him with requests for such flags (or carbonite-frozen camel spiders): [baranr@gimail.af.mil](mailto:baranr@gimail.af.mil) ---
**Author:** ![My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/My_Darn_Snake_Legs)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2004, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tripler-is-ok-and-in-qatar/240426/17 "2004-04-19T19:29:23Z")
Send a “Howdy!” from Dallas if you would. I was just thinking about Tripler the other day and how I missed his crazy post style! When I saw this thread my first thought was “hey, doesn’t he live in Canada?” –==Mike==– Those spiders ook me out while being cool at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2004, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tripler-is-ok-and-in-qatar/240426/18 "2004-04-19T20:17:41Z")
Oh man. I’m glad I’m not in Tripler’s shoes. Give 'im a shout from UncleBeer. He’s always been one a my favorite reads here.