# what makes you unique here? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 6, 2001, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107 "2001-09-06T20:36:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/121 "2001-09-08T06:00:07Z")
Uniqueness of user names and the like have been noted. What the heck. While we’ve a handful of geologists who frequent this place (a tip o’ the hat to **Geobabe** , **Pantellerite** , **Fillet** and **Tapioca Dextrin** ), I’m as yet the only geophysicist I’ve found haunting the SDMB’s hard drive(s). And I’ll wager a stiff drink that I’m the only Doper who’s recovered from rupturing their liver and having most of it removed. What glory! ---
**Author:** ![rackensack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/122 "2001-09-08T06:03:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cougarfang \* > \*\*hey, anyone else from taiwan? ps. i live in hsinchu. anyone else? \*\* No but my wife lived there for a year. ---
**Author:** ![rackensack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/123 "2001-09-08T06:28:08Z")
I’m probably the only Doper to have attended a birthday party for Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney – at Heaney’s invitation. I’m also probably the only Doper to have prepared a variorum edition of the poems of Albert Pike. ---
**Author:** ![Angelnside](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@Angelnside](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angelnside)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/124 "2001-09-08T14:35:28Z")
I’m the only Doper that was the “in-house” Master Electrician for an off-Broadway production of 42nd Street while in college. I’m the only Doper that has been to a town called Tecuci in Romania. I am also probably the Doper that has flown the farthest to meet an online “potential-love”. From the East Coast to New Zealand I am probably the only Doper that has 2 holes pierced in one ear and 3 in the other and the 3 are pierced in a “triangle-like” shape. ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/125 "2001-09-08T14:44:41Z")
\ Betcha I’m the only one whose foot was run over by a golf cart driven by James Garner. And the only one who ever met a serial killer (John Gacy). And the only one who ever kissed Meat Loaf. \ I also bet I am the only one who currently has hand-painted autumn leaves on her fingernails. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/126 "2001-09-08T15:47:13Z")
I bet you’re the only doper who drove away from a gas station with the tank nozzly still in his car, too. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Turbo\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@Turbo\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turbo_Dog)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/127 "2001-09-08T15:55:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zyada \* > \*\*I bet you’re the only doper who drove away from a gas station with the tank nozzly still in his car, too. 😉 \*\* Nope nope… Done that one myself. (Bad morning). ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/128 "2001-09-08T16:38:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zyada \* > \*\*I bet you’re the only doper who drove away from a gas station with the tank nozzly still in his car, too. 😉 \*\* I didn’t, but my husband did! Brand new truck, too, ended up with a dent in the side. I’m probably the only doper with a black lab named Ladybug. I can’t think of much else. I know I’m not the only Techie Doper. I can’t be the only one who was salutatorian of their HS class. Am I maybe the only American Doper born in Japan? ---
**Author:** ![tempest2\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@tempest2\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tempest2_2)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/129 "2001-09-08T17:21:36Z")
Well, I guess I’m the only Doper to have worked on Death Row in Texas…hey, it was a job. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/130 "2001-09-08T17:38:57Z")
I’m guessing that I am the only doper who saw the drummer for the Murder Junkies (ex GG Allin) shove a drum stick up his ass and then sit down on my drum seat (avoiding the word stool). Also probably the only one to have a birthday cake hurled at his head while playing a show in St Petersburg Florida. Which leads me to believe that I am the only doper to hve to _clean up_ birthday cake off of a club wall. Don’t worry… I got a new seat 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/131 "2001-09-08T17:52:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Superdude \* > \*\*AFAIK, I’m the only professional or semi-professional stand-up comedian. \*\* Currently, since I used to be one. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/132 "2001-09-08T17:58:27Z")
Hee-hee! This place is a hotbed of gas pump vandals. ---
**Author:** ![Nymysys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f6c823/32.png) [@Nymysys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nymysys)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/133 "2001-09-08T18:17:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Angelnside \* > \*\*I am also probably the Doper that has flown the farthest to meet an online “potential-love”. From the East Coast to New Zealand > \*\* I think **dpr** has you beat on that one. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Bitterdrunk\_Kid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@The\_Bitterdrunk\_Kid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Bitterdrunk_Kid)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/134 "2001-09-08T18:18:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BlueMoonofKentucky \* > \*\* > > I think that I’m the only Bluegrass Music fan here. > > \*\* Nope. I love bluegrass music. However, I think I’m the only conservative, Christian, Republican guy here. I’m also probably the only one of those guys who likes to do impressions and improv comedy in their spare time. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/135 "2001-09-08T19:38:31Z")
I am the only Doper that is a vintage pornographer. I am the only Doper to have had sex with an Oscar-nominated actor. I am the only Doper whose name is in cement in Hollywood. I am the only Doper to have held almost 30 jobs in 20 years. (Not as a temp, not doing the same thing for different people… 30 completely different jobs doing completely different thingss for completely different people and companies - everything from driving a cab to refinishing hardwood floors) I am the only Doper to have gone to Disneyland with Sammy Davis Jr. and seen the semi-secret club above the Pirates ride. I am the only Doper who pissed on Fidel Castro. Granted, I was about 4 months old, but still, my little contribution to freedom and The American Way of Life. I am the only Doper who came thisclose to being killed by Bobby Kennedy before I was even born. (He was a maniacal driver) Most of my uniqueness apparently resides in my proximity to celebrated persons. On my own, I am pedestrian and generic and nearly unemployable. Oh well! stoid who shall herself be famous one day. It is in the stars… ---
**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/136 "2001-09-08T19:53:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Stoid \* > \*\*I am the only Doper to have had sex with an Oscar-nominated actor. Ohhhh do tell… Actually I was unaware you were a female! ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/137 "2001-09-08T20:19:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pezpunk \* > \*\* > Ohhhh do tell… > > Actually I was unaware you were a female! \*\* Well, that fact doesn’t give it away either since I could be a gay man AND I refer to all persons who act as "actor"s. But as it happens, I am a gurl. I cannot reveal more about this tantalizing tidbit because that would be kissing and telling, and that’s just wrong. Let us not forget that however intimate and friendly this place seems… it is still the World Wide Web and everything we say is available to be read by anyone and everyone on the planet with a computer. I think this is sometimes forgotten around here. There is no such thing as privacy on the net. I can say only this: the nomination was received sometime since 1965. That narrows it down to 670 possibilities! 😃 stoid ---
**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/138 "2001-09-08T20:31:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Stoid \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by pezpunk \* > > \*\* > > Ohhhh do tell… > > > > Actually I was unaware you were a female! \*\* > > Well, that fact doesn’t give it away either since I could be a gay man AND I refer to all persons who act as "actor"s. > \*\* You are right! However this does tell quite a bit about your sex… > [@](#): > > stoid > who shall herself be famous one day. It is in the stars… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/139 "2001-09-08T20:33:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by thinksnow \* > \*\*I’m the only doper that broke his sisters collarbone…during a pillow fight (I was 5.) \*\* Alas, you ain’t. I was swinging my sister around and around and around and…oh crap. I let go. I’m not sure if it was on purpose or not (it would be kinda funny if it was). Man can that girl scream. ---
**Author:** ![Tirona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e19adc/32.png) [@Tirona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tirona)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/140 "2001-09-08T21:01:59Z")
I’m the only one who’s been lurking and registered just to be unique in making my first post in this thread 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107.md?page=8)