# What would your "Ask the..." thread be? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 21, 2006, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-ask-the-thread-be/345463 "2006-02-21T13:54:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-ask-the-thread-be/345463/41 "2006-02-22T00:41:59Z")
Ask the Lap Band patient Ask the Sweet Adeline btw - > [@Mr Bus Guy](#): > > “Ask the guy that _never_ posts in the ‘Ask the…’ threads” too late ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-ask-the-thread-be/345463/42 "2006-02-22T01:11:32Z")
Ask the small, insectivorous mammal. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-ask-the-thread-be/345463/43 "2006-02-22T01:18:55Z")
Found it! [“Ask the” anthology.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=345657) Enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-ask-the-thread-be/345463/44 "2006-02-22T01:22:04Z")
Ask the guy who forgot he opened this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-ask-the-thread-be/345463/45 "2006-02-22T02:11:02Z")
“Ask the guy with the terribly dark, inappropiate sense of humor.” “Ask the former ticket scalper” “Ask the guy who’s been backstage to a LOT of really cool concerts.” ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-ask-the-thread-be/345463/46 "2006-02-22T02:42:36Z")
May I turn your attention to post #43, ladies and gentlemen, THE ANTHOLOGY. Mine would be “the gay, but otherwise pretty much average, California teenager” or something. Not that interesting, which is why I haven’t started one. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-ask-the-thread-be/345463/47 "2006-02-22T03:13:00Z")
Ask The Doper Who Went Cross-Country Via Rail Ask The Doper Who Dabbles In Knowledge On Numerous Subjects Ask The Doper Who Knew A Man That Was Not There ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-ask-the-thread-be/345463/48 "2006-02-22T03:35:04Z")
“Ask the electrical engineer / computer geek” But then about a hundred electrical engineers and computer geeks on the board are going to say “Huh? why should we ask you?” I suppose I could do “Ask the old bald fat guy” but there’s lots of those here too. Always remember that you are unique, just like everyone else. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![Both\_Michael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Both\_Michael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Both_Michael)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-ask-the-thread-be/345463/49 "2006-02-22T04:05:28Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > I have tried to search on this, but find my SDMB search-fu to be sorely lacking - since the words “ask” and “the” get filtered out as too common, I don’t know how to check how many “ask the” threads there have been… > > So if there are one or more threads like this out there, please forgive me and mods, shut this thread down… > > So, without further ado: > > If you were to start an “Ask the…” thread - what would it be on? > > When I was filling out the thread on the SDMB Community Poll, I realized that I _may_ be relatively uncommon on the thread in that I am an executive for my company - report to the CEO, attend Board of Directors meetings, yada yada yada. So I suppose one I might consider would be “ask the executive” in case some Dopers out there want to ask questions of an exec-type in a relatively safe environment. Having said that, I fear that putting myself out there as an executive would come across as snooty (NOT my intent), or, even worse, no one would want to “ask the executive” thankyouverymuch - either way, it could end up a bad thing, so I refrain and instead come at the topic from this angle. > > So - how about you? What do you think your “ask the…” thread might be about? Ask the guy who rigs the elections so if you try casting actual ballots the barrels wind up someplace else and if you try casting them electronically they seem to melt away and change before your very eyes before they’ve even left the screen, whom no-one will impeach, even if he say sells us out for forty pieces of silver and is about to hand control of our ports to a foreign power…a foreign power his stooge calls our “ally” but in reality is a foreign power…and one that has harboured and recognised our mortal enemies…ask him what they could possibly pay him that would be worth that…and why he couldn’t have had his own boot on their necks by now instead of licking theirs and selling us for forty pieces…but ask him above all who he is 'cause I have absolutely NO idea who I’m thinking about! No way JOSE! ---
**Author:** ![gooftroopag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gooftroopag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gooftroopag)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-ask-the-thread-be/345463/50 "2006-02-22T04:37:29Z")
> [@Charger](#): > > Ask the Guy Who Owns the General Lee from The Dukes of Hazzard. Do tell! > [@Anne Neville](#): > > Ask the convert to Judaism. I’m interested in this. Are a lot of your friends Jewish? How did you adjust to the religious traditions? Which did you convert to, Reform Conservative or Orthodox? Mine would be: “Ask the coastal engineer” “Ask the smartass” - occasionally, I’m rather anti-“The Straight Dope” ---
**Author:** ![vinniepaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b4bc9f/32.png) [@vinniepaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vinniepaz)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-ask-the-thread-be/345463/51 "2006-02-22T07:27:17Z")
> [@sunacres](#): > > Ask the Houseboy. > > Of all the things I’ve done in my life, those two years living with 60 women in a Berkeley sorority still get the most inquiries (and that was almost 30 years ago). Explanation? I have no idea what you even mean by this. ---
**Author:** ![vinniepaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b4bc9f/32.png) [@vinniepaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vinniepaz)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-ask-the-thread-be/345463/52 "2006-02-22T07:46:59Z")
Oh, and mine would be… “Ask the guy with a speech impediment” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-ask-the-thread-be/345463/53 "2006-02-22T07:57:12Z")
I’d do “Ask the Marx Brothers Fan,” but **Exapno Mapcase** (and probably several other posters here) know much more about them than I do. Maybe “Ask the Journalist,” although I’d say that we have other journalists here and at my age, I don’t know if I have enough war stories or brushes with celebrity to sustain anyone’s interest. Maybe “Ask the Tennis Nut,” or “Ask Me For My [Name of Major] Predictions” though tennis threads never do too well around here, or “Ask the Standup Comedian,” as somebody else almost did, when I get some more experience. ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-ask-the-thread-be/345463/54 "2006-02-22T11:02:41Z")
Ask the Non-Commissioned Officer (Army) thread… It would be a lighthearted look at solutions for problems via the Army method of corrective training to a civilian population. Fail a test a school, and in danger of losing your scholarship? Do 200 pushups. Nothing like a little pain to engage the brain. Show up late to work for the third time this month due to a traffic jam? Arrive every hour on the hour on a Sunday afternoon in a different outfit of my choosing at a place to be determined at each meeting. (And inconveniently out of the way) Somehow, I don’t think this would be a popular thread 😃 Sgt Schwartz ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-ask-the-thread-be/345463/55 "2006-02-22T13:19:48Z")
**Anaamika** - thanks for finding that thread! Wow are there a ton of those - and thanks to **Idle Thoughts** for the compilation - that was an effort! For those of you who have gotten feedback on your “ask the” ideas - go for it; there is clearly interest! I, for one, want to hear from **SHAKES** about his backstage stories - who have you seen, or, more importantly, _what_ have you seen? And, for all that, it certainly seems like an “ask the executive” thread would land with a resounding thud. I mean, who can compete with someone who owns the General Lee? :smack: Carry on! ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-ask-the-thread-be/345463/56 "2006-02-22T14:56:11Z")
Ask the Certified Floodplain Manager. Ask the Doper who’s hitchhiked from Mississippi to Los Angeles. ---
**Author:** ![shy\_kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@shy\_kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_kat)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-ask-the-thread-be/345463/57 "2006-02-22T15:44:05Z")
Ask the girl who plans to quit her job and travel indefinitely Ask the bisexual polyamorous girl Ask the editor ---
**Author:** ![Megyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@Megyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Megyn)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-ask-the-thread-be/345463/58 "2006-02-22T17:23:53Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > I have tried to search on this, but find my SDMB search-fu to be sorely lacking - since the words “ask” and “the” get filtered out as too common, I don’t know how to check how many “ask the” threads there have been… > > So if there are one or more threads like this out there, please forgive me and mods, shut this thread down… > > So, without further ado: > > If you were to start an “Ask the…” thread - what would it be on? > > When I was filling out the thread on the SDMB Community Poll, I realized that I _may_ be relatively uncommon on the thread in that I am an executive for my company - report to the CEO, attend Board of Directors meetings, yada yada yada. So I suppose one I might consider would be “ask the executive” in case some Dopers out there want to ask questions of an exec-type in a relatively safe environment. Having said that, I fear that putting myself out there as an executive would come across as snooty (NOT my intent), or, even worse, no one would want to “ask the executive” thankyouverymuch - either way, it could end up a bad thing, so I refrain and instead come at the topic from this angle. > > So - how about you? What do you think your “ask the…” thread might be about? Mine would be “Ask the former Microsoft Employee, who isn’t anymore only because the guy that reported to the guy who reported to the CEO shut our office down”. not that I’m bitter. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-ask-the-thread-be/345463/59 "2006-02-22T17:35:31Z")
Ask the ex GCHQ employee. Problem is most answers I’d have to say sorry I can’t answer that I’m still bound by the official secrets act. Ask the UK ex-pat living in Silicon Valley ---
**Author:** ![archmichael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@archmichael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/archmichael)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-ask-the-thread-be/345463/60 "2006-02-22T17:41:06Z")
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