Ask the Lap Band patient
Ask the Sweet Adeline
btw -
too late
Ask the small, insectivorous mammal.
Ask the guy who forgot he opened this thread.
“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.”
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.
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
“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.
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!
Do tell!
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”
Explanation? I have no idea what you even mean by this.
Oh, and mine would be…
“Ask the guy with a speech impediment”
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.
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
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!
Ask the Certified Floodplain Manager.
Ask the Doper who’s hitchhiked from Mississippi to Los Angeles.
Ask the girl who plans to quit her job and travel indefinitely
Ask the bisexual polyamorous girl
Ask the editor
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.
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
Ask the Korean guy married to a black woman
Ask the Korean guy living in the Deep South