# What's your "Ask The \[blank\]"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 21, 2003, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-ask-the-blank/163098 "2003-03-21T14:56:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-ask-the-blank/163098/61 "2003-03-22T16:16:58Z")
Ask the Englishman in Ireland. ---
**Author:** ![Witch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Witch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Witch)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-ask-the-blank/163098/62 "2003-03-22T16:38:39Z")
Ask the Former Manager of Several Really Good Tribute Bands ---
**Author:** ![moi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@moi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moi)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-ask-the-blank/163098/63 "2003-03-24T04:31:34Z")
I was actually thinking about this over dinner and then, _viola!_, a thread in which to share my thoughts: **Ask the…** [ul] [li] married bisexual[/li][li] editor[/li][li] modern and contemporary art enthusiast![/li][li] art museum employee[/li][li] young feminist[/li][li] Subaru driver[/li][li] graduate student[/li][li] sister of an FAE/FAS kid[/li][li] child of divorce (mom’s been married 4 times and counting)[/li][li] chick with multicolored hair[/li][li] Web comics fan[/li][/ul] Hmmm. There might be more to come, but that’s a start. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![njufoic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/278dde/32.png) [@njufoic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njufoic)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-ask-the-blank/163098/64 "2003-03-24T04:45:57Z")
Wow, a thread that allows me to make claims of knowledgeability _without actually having to answer any questions_! What could be better than that? 🙂 Without further ado… Ask the hubcap dealer Ask the unexplained-phenomena buff Ask the automotive triviamonger Ask the computer science major Ask the rabid Dave Barry fan Ask the guy with embarrassing musical taste -Andrew L ---
**Author:** ![hocow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hocow/32/4112_2.png) [@hocow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hocow)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-ask-the-blank/163098/65 "2003-03-24T05:04:35Z")
[ul] [li]Ask the fag-hag[/li][li]Ask the neurotic golden girls fan [/li][li]Ask the Jimmy Fallon worshipper [/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-ask-the-blank/163098/66 "2003-03-24T05:26:51Z")
Ask the former psych major Ask the retail clerk Ask the newly minted grad student (this thread would have to wait until August) Ask the formerly suburban middle-class white chick ('cause we’re such an exotic and mysterious bunch) Ask the agnostic (The likely answer: I haven’t decided.) Ask the compulsive reader Ask the near-sighted girl (big letters, for preference) Ask the Scrabble and Trivial Pursuit enthusiast ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-ask-the-blank/163098/67 "2003-03-24T05:57:31Z")
1. Ask the woman who dined privately with the former palace chef for the Hapsburgs in Vienna. 2. Ask the woman who collects Davids. 3. Ask the woman who celebrated her Twenty-Fifth Wedding Anniversary with her ex-husband, her current husband and the ex-husband’s wife. 4. Ask the high school teacher whose former principal branded her a “troublemaker” in sworn testimony before the local media. 5. Ask the woman who was robbed at gunpoint but made the thief give her back her favorite handbag. ---
**Author:** ![TheOtherOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@TheOtherOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheOtherOne)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-ask-the-blank/163098/68 "2003-03-24T06:05:17Z")
Ask the Paintball player/Paintball gun expert Ask the drummer Ask the broke guy Ask the drunk guy Ask the guy with no fashion taste Ask the guy with nothing to post about Ask the lazy guy Ask the guy who follows Phish around the country Nothing new really, just felt like tossing in my change 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![indyz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/fbc32d/32.png) [@indyz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indyz)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-ask-the-blank/163098/69 "2003-03-24T07:06:59Z")
[ul] [li]Ask the skydiver (so many misconceptions about the sport)[/li][li]Ask the geocacher ([http://www.geocaching.com](http://www.geocaching.com))[/li][/ul] Wow, I’m boring. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-ask-the-blank/163098/70 "2003-03-24T09:26:09Z")
> [@](#): > > _originally posted by Zoe_ Ask the woman who was robbed at gunpoint but made the thief give her back her favorite handbag. :: pricks up ears :: **Zoe** _tell_ me! Thieves are not the obliging kind, no? If you like, I’ll exchange your story for my own: how I averted a robbery of my and three friends in Hyde Park, London, after dark, by simply not _noticing_ I was being threatened. I actually was so busy telling a story to my three friends that I bumped into one of the people that were walking a yard behind us, and apologized. They were so flabbergasted they fell back a few yards. A minute or so later, a policecar came around the corner and drove up to the edge of the park, and the robbers fled. I asked my friends then why they were so quiet and pale and what had happened to those people who were just overtaking us on our slow stroll. My boyfriend wiped the sweat of his brow and said: “you mean you did not _see_ those knives?” ---
**Author:** ![mooka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@mooka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mooka)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-ask-the-blank/163098/71 "2003-03-24T12:15:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by brainfizz \* > \*\*I could put : > [ul] > [li]Ask the Old Skool Raver[/li][/ul] > So, what common, unusual or just plain bizarre field of knowledge/experience do you have? \*\* We should team up - i could be Ask the (current) UK clubber, between us we’d probably cover most of the history of dance music and club/rave culture, well in the UK anyway! ---
**Author:** ![phraser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a88e4f/32.png) [@phraser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phraser)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-ask-the-blank/163098/72 "2003-03-24T12:38:19Z")
Ask the: Veterinary Student Public Health Veterinarian Itinerant Farm Worker Trannyboi Dykes On Bikes member Australian (or Queenslander, if you must be specific) Student Activist Baritone Saxophonist Umberto Eco nut StraightEdger I could go on for hours! My life is strange… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-ask-the-blank/163098/73 "2003-03-24T13:51:01Z")
Ask the male teenager(already started) Ask the guy who’ll reply in rhyme Ask the comic guy(somebody already beat me to it) ---
**Author:** ![SouthernStyle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@SouthernStyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SouthernStyle)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-ask-the-blank/163098/74 "2003-03-24T14:08:54Z")
Ask the American that was an illegal alien in Red China! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![lovelyluka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f475e1/32.png) [@lovelyluka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lovelyluka)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-ask-the-blank/163098/75 "2003-03-24T14:52:13Z")
[ul] [li]Ask the piano teacher[/li][li]Ask the college band director’s daughter (yes, it was miserable, thank you)[/li][li]Ask the staff member of a liberal student-run university newsletter[/li][li]Ask the Presbyterian living in the Bible Belt[/li][li]Ask the beneficiary who has to fight her family for her father’s estate[/li][li]Ask the medical researcher in molecular biology and genetics…well, in about ten years[/li][/ul] Oh yes, and finally, [ul] [li]Ask the person who has no willpower and will read the boards to put off studying for the Anatomy and Physiology exam she has in two hours[/li][/ul] Thank you very much. ---
**Author:** ![swannguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@swannguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swannguy)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-ask-the-blank/163098/76 "2003-03-24T15:58:06Z")
Ask the gay guy (been done before) Ask the Dutch guy (Competition from ColdFire and TTT) Ask the gay Dutch guy (Unique?) Ask the guy who never has done drugs Ask the Dutch guy who has never done drugs Ask the gay guy who has never done drugs (Yes - he does exist!!) Ask the Dutch gay guy who has never done drugs Ask the Dutch guy living in DC ---
**Author:** ![Nichol\_storm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Nichol\_storm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nichol_storm)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-ask-the-blank/163098/77 "2003-03-24T23:47:31Z")
**Ask the Melungeon** I’ve toyed with doing this one, but wasn’t sure there’d be enough interest to warrant it. **Ask the amateur expert on the genealogies of medieval and royal nobility of Europe (with some crossover into the Mongol Hordes, Safavid Persia, the Mamluke Sultanate, the Ottoman Empire, and misc. other non-European dynasties)** Too specialized to be of use to the vast majority of people. I mean, how many folks _really_ want to know that the maternal grandmother of Shah Ismail I of Persia was a Trapezunt princess, and that this connection makes him a fourteenth cousin once removed of his contemporary King Henry VIII of England? Besides me, that is? .:Nichol:. ---
**Author:** ![Winnie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e480ec/32.png) [@Winnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnie)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-ask-the-blank/163098/78 "2003-03-25T01:32:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Nichol\_storm \* > **Ask the Melungeon** No kidding? I’m fascinated by this… I’ve been highly intrigued by the Melungeons since I read about them in Bill Bryson’s _The Lost Continent_. Where are you from? VA/TN/KY/WV? I think you should post an **Ask The Melungeon** thread… I’d probably be one of your most active posters! I’ve got tons of questions I’d love to ask… ---
**Author:** ![mooka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@mooka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mooka)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-ask-the-blank/163098/79 "2003-03-25T12:33:01Z")
@Nichol_storm I’d be very interested in the Melungeon thing. I’d have a general interest in the nobility thing too. I never knew that the Shah of Persia was distantly related to King Henry 8th! Is this kind of thing common? I know european royalty is quite closely connected, but i did think it went outside europe… ---
**Author:** ![TwungTister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TwungTister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwungTister)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-ask-the-blank/163098/80 "2003-03-25T13:28:29Z")
[someone else I’d like to hear from] [ul]Ask the Prostitute[/ul] [can speak for myself][ul] Ask the former Catholic. Ask the medical transcriptionist {well, completed a course for it} Ask the Communication Assistant {relay operator} Ask the crossword specialist.[/ul] um, you can’t count wannabes, can you? [wannabes][ul] wouldbe jigsaw assembler. wouldbe hacky-sacker.[/ul] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-ask-the-blank/163098.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-ask-the-blank/163098.md?page=5)