# Who are Special Dopers? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 22, 2010, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-special-dopers/551052 "2010-08-22T11:27:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-special-dopers/551052/41 "2010-08-23T15:37:57Z")
I miss **Beryl Mooncalf**. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-special-dopers/551052/42 "2010-08-23T16:18:32Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > > [@Ann\_Onimous](#): > > > > We’re all Special Dopers . . . > > If everyone’s a Special Doper, then nobody’s a Special Doper. There’s battle lines being drawn Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-special-dopers/551052/43 "2010-08-23T16:34:52Z")
I’m special because I ride the short threads. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-special-dopers/551052/44 "2010-08-23T16:36:31Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I’m special because I ride the short threads. Maybe any thread with you in it _becomes_ short. Thought of that? Hmmmmm? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![GHO57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df788c/32.png) [@GHO57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GHO57)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-special-dopers/551052/45 "2010-08-23T16:45:49Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > > [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > > > I’m special because I ride the short threads. > > Maybe any thread with you in it _becomes_ short. Thought of that? Hmmmmm? :dubious: What? \*Only \*those threads? That sounds pretty special to me. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-special-dopers/551052/46 "2010-08-23T16:47:46Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > > [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > > > I’m special because I ride the short threads. > > Maybe any thread with you in it _becomes_ short. Thought of that? Hmmmmm? :dubious: TLDR ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-special-dopers/551052/47 "2010-08-23T16:52:21Z")
I remember that bag of Special Doper I bought from that strange hippie dude at Burning Man a few years ago. That shit was primo! I was blasted off my ass for days! ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-special-dopers/551052/48 "2010-08-23T16:55:54Z")
All Dopers are special. Didn’t your Father tell you that? Didn’t he?!? ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-special-dopers/551052/49 "2010-08-23T17:27:34Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > I’m both Special and Spacial. > > ok, I’m just fat It’s “spatial,” so that makes you extra-special. Aren’t you proud? 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-special-dopers/551052/50 "2010-08-23T17:34:12Z")
Funny, you don’t _look_ special. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-special-dopers/551052/51 "2010-08-23T17:51:42Z")
As the late, great George Carlin said, “I’ve been pre-wash, pre-cooked, pre-heated, pre-screened, pre-approved, pre-packaged, post-dated, freeze-dried, double-wrapped, vacuum-packed and, I have an unlimited broadband capacity.” Now HE was special. BTW, the whole amazing ‘A Modern Man’ text can be found at [http://www.kilcher04.net/2008/10/08/george-carlins-modern-man/](http://www.kilcher04.net/2008/10/08/george-carlins-modern-man/) Highly recommended for special people only. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-special-dopers/551052/52 "2010-08-23T23:52:12Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > > [@Ann\_Onimous](#): > > > > We’re all Special Dopers . . . > > If everyone’s a Special Doper, then nobody’s a Special Doper. You’re trying to mess with my head 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-special-dopers/551052/53 "2010-08-24T00:13:07Z")
> [@descamisado](#): > > It’s “spatial,” so that makes you extra-special. What does this have to do with [spats](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spat_(footwear))? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-special-dopers/551052/54 "2010-08-24T00:15:05Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > > [@Ann\_Onimous](#): > > > > We’re all Special Dopers . . . > > If everyone’s a Special Doper, then nobody’s a Special Doper. No. If everyone’s a Special Doper, then everyone’s a Special Doper. Only if nobody is a Special Doper is nobody a Special Doper. I think we can all agree on that. Or possibly none of us can. ---
**Author:** ![Perciful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Perciful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Perciful)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-special-dopers/551052/55 "2010-08-24T13:29:59Z")
I’m special but not in the way most dopers accuse me… Usally of being a bad speller, or a dumb ass or totally off topic. Those are all true but not what makes me special. I’m bionic. I have a battery taken off the space shuttle in my back that is rechargeable for 200 years. I recharge myself every 6 months from a wall socket. I have a neurotransmitter in my head. I am waiting for the upgrade so I can scale tall buildings and understand men. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-special-dopers/551052/56 "2010-08-24T13:53:33Z")
I’m Special! I’m also, apparently, No-one… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-special-dopers/551052/57 "2010-08-24T13:58:05Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > > [@panache45](#): > > > > If everyone’s a Special Doper, then nobody’s a Special Doper. > > No. If everyone’s a Special Doper, then everyone’s a Special Doper. > > Only if nobody is a Special Doper is nobody a Special Doper. > > I think we can all agree on that. Or possibly none of us can. Shouldn’t that be “only if **Nobody** is a Special Doper is **Nobody** a Special Doper”? But by virtue of being a Doper, if everybody is a Special Doper then **Nobody** is a Special Doper too! Are we having a Sesame Street Special or something? And why am I having these cravings for The Incredibles? ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-special-dopers/551052/58 "2010-08-24T14:00:55Z")
Can’t we all just get pretty ribbons with medals hanging on them around our neck and declare ourselves all SPECIAL? ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-special-dopers/551052/59 "2010-08-24T14:21:31Z")
I’m Special - I am the only one here who is not unique. Regards, Shodan [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-special-dopers/551052.md?page=2)