# What kind of "Ask the" threads are you hoping for? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 11, 2007, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-ask-the-threads-are-you-hoping-for/418813 "2007-09-11T18:50:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-ask-the-threads-are-you-hoping-for/418813/161 "2007-09-20T23:07:12Z")
[QUOTE=Sleeps With Butterflies] I think it would be interesting, for sure. [/QUOTE] How… cryptic… ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-ask-the-threads-are-you-hoping-for/418813/162 "2007-09-20T23:47:54Z")
[QUOTE=bigbabysweets2000] How… cryptic… [/QUOTE] How so? ---
**Author:** ![Randy\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee7513/32.png) [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-ask-the-threads-are-you-hoping-for/418813/163 "2007-09-21T01:32:26Z")
I would like to see a **Ask the Holocaust survivor** thread. And if it’s been done, I want to see more. [QUOTE=Sleeps With Butterflies] I wonder if there should be a thread where people come in to say what they could offer in an “Ask the…” capacity. [/QUOTE] That’s essentially what everyone’s doing with _this_ thread. In that vein, I personally could do: **Ask the former bank teller who got held up Ask the former fireworks salesman Ask the first-year law student Ask the carpenter Ask the former loan processor Ask the guy in a long-distance relationship Ask the Kansan Ask the recovering English major Ask midwestern ex-pat who has just moved to the East Coast Ask the guy who’s spent a long day studying at the library, and is now about halfway through his second double bourbon on the rocks** …but I don’t see much demand for any of those. Except maybe the last one. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-ask-the-threads-are-you-hoping-for/418813/164 "2007-09-21T15:33:13Z")
[QUOTE=Mr. Excellent] I think **Eva Luna** was something of a Russia/Easten Europe wonk - don’t think she ever mentioned living in the USSR, but she had some good threads on her trips to former soviet states. By the way, is she still around here? [/QUOTE] Still here, just haven’t been around as much because work and happy personal things are sucking up all my Internet time 🆒 And yes, I did start a [thread like that once.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=380640&highlight=Soviet) I spent the fall 1989 semester in then-Leningrad and the summer 2005 semester in Novosibirsk - it’s been far too long. I need to get back to the former USSR one of these days. ---
**Author:** ![Slander\_Q.Libel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Slander\_Q.Libel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slander_Q.Libel)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-ask-the-threads-are-you-hoping-for/418813/165 "2007-09-21T18:55:50Z")
Ask the Glossophobiac? ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-ask-the-threads-are-you-hoping-for/418813/166 "2007-09-21T20:12:18Z")
Definitely ask the [trepanist](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trepanning) (trepanner?). ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-ask-the-threads-are-you-hoping-for/418813/167 "2007-10-05T03:04:25Z")
Okay, I’m sorry. I know it’s been 13 days since there were any replies to this thread. I kept seeing it and meant to answer but I couldn’t think of anything, but I have an answer now: Ask the Drug Enforcement Administration special agent. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-ask-the-threads-are-you-hoping-for/418813.md?page=8)