We’ve had some recent threads asking Dopers to tell us something surprising about themselves. I, for one, don’t know much about you guys…I can usually come up with only a small amount of information pertaining to any given Doper (and then, after a short while, I forget it).
If you will, give us some of the essentials we may have picked up about you. These might include gender, location, occupation, areas of interest, anything that’s happened to you on the boards, etc.
I’ll start. If you’ve been riveted to the life and times of Dung Beetle, you may know:
I’m female
Recently married
Mother of two
Live in Florida
I like Stephen King and bad 70s music
I feel strongly that the Chronicles of Narnia must be read only in publication order.
I live in Central Florida.
I run a sunglass store.
I’m from England.
I like beer.
I do not like home-brewed beer.
I play too much poker and fantasy football.
I’m 51, female, single, straight.
Worked as a puzzle editor for many, many years but am now in charge of starting a new gardening magazine.
I love reality TV and movie musicals, so you know you can find me in the “So You Think You Can Dance with the Stars” threads.
And the stuff astro says about me – 98% untrue.
Male
Born and currently live in Queens, NY; work in Manhattan
Lived most of my teens and early twenties in Suffolk County, Long Island, NY
Served as a cryptologic linguist in USAF (RAF Chicksands)
Two teenage children: son (lives with Mom in Phila.) and step-daughter
Employed as a Investment Mgmt industry consultant by a large firm. Specialize in Alternative Investment industry.
Have 2 cinnamon girls (ferrets) as pets. Read comics and play computer games. Coach volleyball. Used to play competitive racquetball.
Redneck, whiskey drinker, agnostic.
Married for 21 years now. (To the same woman, even!)
Born in Miami, been in Alabama since '65. (I like it here)
Old time rock & roller, as in Elvis, Chuck, Buddy, Fats, Jerry Lee, etc.
I also LIKE disco music, so bite me.
Live in a remote area, 2 miles from a paved road or neighbors. Like to play with horses, guns, trucks, tractors, chain saws and other cool shit.
Dialup internet connection rocks along at 24kbs on a good day.
Ashley Judd is hot!
American by birth, Auburn Tiger by the grace of…well, whatever.
Female, 51, straight, married 24 years, two sons,one of 'em grown, used to live in Denver, moved here ten months ago.
Husband just got laid off and I don’t know where we’ll be living until he gets a new job. :eek:
Male, 47 (for two more weeks), married 8 years.
Expat Canadian. Now Floridian.
Live in the suburbs with wife and 4 cats. No kids.
Have near 16,000 records and CDs. Archivist and historian.
Radio announcer and producer. Play keyboards, guitars, bass, drums. Composer.
Pronoun trouble.
Male, 40, married 17 years this November and love her more today than yesterday (yesterday she really pissed me off ).
14 y.o. son, 6 y.o. daughter and I love them madly
Inveterate punster and chronic smartass
Becoming more conservative the older I get. By the time I die I’ll make Pat Buchanan look like Michael Moore! (not really)
Addicted to parentheses and asides in my posts.
If you are a reader of the Collected Thread and Posts of carlotta (better make sure your biographer knows you message boards names!) then you already know…
Female
White
37
stay at home mom
married to an American Indian software architect
my first child, a daughter, died at 4 months old
3 living children, all sons, the youngest a baby born in Feb
lives in Durham, NC
used to get hit on a lot when younger
can’t tell left from right (revealed only today!)
Like D_Odds, I’m also male, currently live in Queens, NY and work in Manhattan. I was born in Suffolk County, Long Island. That may be the end of the similarities.
You may also know that I’m a newlywed, married to an (South-asian) Indian and going to India in December for a traditional Hindu wedding.
I’m employed as an IT Director for a medium-sized company.
*female, white, 38, Texas, T&P’d
*eventually will be divorced
*nuts
*waitress (I don’t think the two are related)
*mother is evil (this one might count)
*love horror movies and Aerosmith
*former fundamentalist, now extreme bleeding heart liberal
*puppy named Zen
*I like ellipses… (and the occasional smiley [and parenthesis] or four)
I’m male. Black. A smart-ass. A not-terribly successful freelance writing trying to sell a novel. The safety of the world depends on my never getting superpowers because, frankly, I could never be trusted with them. I don’t merely know nothing about sports, but inf fact have a negative knowledge set. I despise Peter Jackson’s adaptation of “Return of the King” except for the parts with Miranda Otto. I’m a southerner. And if I ever find myself in the same room with a Alyson Hannigan, she is getting SUCH a kissing.
Male, retired military, ::mumblemumble:: years old, prickly smart-ass, good cook, lived and traveled in a goodly portion of the planet. Alaskan by birth and live here now.
Male, married, happily, 2 cats. Teacher, brew, gun-nut, ethanol expert. Shaved-headed Buffy freak. Of an age (twickster’s). Californian by birth, Californian by attitude.
