# Who is the smartest \[Most Intelligent\] Doper here? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 24, 2000, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-smartest-most-intelligent-doper-here/34366 "2000-09-24T15:53:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2000, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-smartest-most-intelligent-doper-here/34366/21 "2000-09-24T21:32:53Z")
I’d say it’s a tossup between CKDextHavn and tomndebb. ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2000, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-smartest-most-intelligent-doper-here/34366/22 "2000-09-24T22:15:14Z")
I’m going to have to say DRY, too, because he is always amazing me with some new subject that comes up, and he is knowledgeable in yet another area that I didn’t know he knew anything about. And when someone starts a thread for “Most Convoluted Doper,” I expect someone to remember the statement I just made, and nominate ME! ---
**Author:** ![tatertot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@tatertot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tatertot)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2000, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-smartest-most-intelligent-doper-here/34366/23 "2000-09-24T22:28:13Z")
Yeah, **Scotti** , there’s that, and he’ll whine if you don’t! 😉 Just kidding, I wuvs me some DRY, and he is pretty smart, hence his choice of wimmins! ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2000, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-smartest-most-intelligent-doper-here/34366/24 "2000-09-24T22:43:01Z")
ultress ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2000, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-smartest-most-intelligent-doper-here/34366/25 "2000-09-24T23:13:45Z")
“What on earth does hearing (or lack thereof) have to do with intelligence?” Knowledge goes in the ear. Thus, those who hear not, get less knowledge, especially social knowledge. I ought to know having been at times both hearing & deaf. Most of the people here I think would say that knowledge is intelligence. Cecil doesn’t qualify, not because he is a trademark, or was one, but simply because he has a large staff that gathers information from him. I never see any posts from tomndebb [isn’t that too people?] ---
**Author:** ![darkcool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@darkcool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/darkcool)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2000, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-smartest-most-intelligent-doper-here/34366/26 "2000-09-24T23:34:45Z")
My vote : Chronos, and possibly warmgun IF we could hear from him more! ---
**Author:** ![darkcool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@darkcool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/darkcool)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2000, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-smartest-most-intelligent-doper-here/34366/27 "2000-09-24T23:36:09Z")
warmgun, are you still out there? ---
**Author:** ![warmgun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecccb3/32.png) [@warmgun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/warmgun)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2000, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-smartest-most-intelligent-doper-here/34366/28 "2000-09-24T23:42:20Z")
Always. ---
**Author:** ![darkcool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@darkcool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/darkcool)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2000, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-smartest-most-intelligent-doper-here/34366/29 "2000-09-24T23:46:20Z")
Cryptic bastard 😃 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2000, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-smartest-most-intelligent-doper-here/34366/30 "2000-09-25T00:09:22Z")
Hmmm… yeah, I’ll go with Tomndeb. I actually learn some useful things from his/her/their posts. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2000, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-smartest-most-intelligent-doper-here/34366/31 "2000-09-25T00:10:12Z")
I consider myself the smartest person in the world. Sure, many people on these boards come close to me, but not quite. I am, however, too opinionated (and too new here) for anyone else to consider me the smartest guy on the boards. I’m basically an evil genius. In fact, I know absolutely everything (including the reason that I shouldn’t prove that I do). Well, not ABOSOLUTELY everything; I could never figure out how to prepare crème brulée properly… ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2000, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-smartest-most-intelligent-doper-here/34366/32 "2000-09-25T00:11:44Z")
Er, ABSOLUTELY. I can’t type either :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![darkcool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@darkcool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/darkcool)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2000, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-smartest-most-intelligent-doper-here/34366/33 "2000-09-25T00:15:27Z")
astorian, your post reminds me of a proposal for a universal prefix covering she/ he/ it. It was… well, I’m sure you see where this is going. ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2000, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-smartest-most-intelligent-doper-here/34366/34 "2000-09-25T00:32:54Z")
I think there are lots of areas of intelligence. tatertot, your common sense, kindness, and writing style, show me that you are highly intelligent. I think that so many posters at these boards are witty, interesting, and intelligent. Some that I can remember right now are polycarp, lissener, Catrandom, Fretful Porpentine, dropzone, sandyr, Satan, oldscratch, drainbead, SouthernStyle, Scylla, Spiritus Mundi, Tradesilicon, Zenster, Libertarian, Tris, and many more I can’t think of right now. My s.o.'s son is studying Gardner’s eight intelligences in his personal economics class. The eight intelligences are described as the following: bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, logical-mathematical, musical-rhythic, naturalist, verbal-linguistic, and visual-spatial. There are probably lots of other models, but enough to include many posters in these forums. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2000, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-smartest-most-intelligent-doper-here/34366/35 "2000-09-25T01:04:29Z")
I had high hopes for [dorkbro](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?action=getinfo&userid=8017), but posted only 72 times and hasn’t posted in more than a month. I may be biased because his very first post was in one of my threads (still the best _first_ post I’ve ever seen). Among active posters, my opinion is that the most intelligent are [tomndebb](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?action=getinfo&userid=82) and [BobT](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?action=getinfo&userid=151). I’m sorry to have to be the one to say it, but based only on his recent posts on the SDMB, no one would ever guess **Cecil Adams** was at all smart. At one time, he did actually display some intelligence in his posts, but those threads date from before I registered in April. The columns are another thing entirely. ---
**Author:** ![Yue\_Han](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/eada6e/32.png) [@Yue\_Han](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yue_Han)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2000, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-smartest-most-intelligent-doper-here/34366/36 "2000-09-25T01:59:52Z")
I’d like to destroy my eloquent one word answer by equivocating and adding Polycarp and DrFidelius. –John ---
**Author:** ![tatertot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@tatertot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tatertot)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2000, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-smartest-most-intelligent-doper-here/34366/37 "2000-09-25T03:46:18Z")
> [@](#): > > tatertot, your common sense, kindness, and writing style, show me that you are highly intelligent Heh heh, fishing for compliments really works! Seriously, **Spiderwoman** made a very good point; we _are_ all very smart in our own ways. If I feel slighly stupid here, it is because I’m used to being a big fish in a small pond…it’s refreshing to be amongst so many smart, good-humored and caring people such as you, dear reader. But since this is something of a contest, and I love me a contest, I have a few nominees that I’ve forgotten: **Spiderwoman** , and not just cause she said I was smart! (although it shows great taste on her part, so 3 bonus points) **Spiny Norman** **Globe-Trotter** **Pundit Lisa** ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2000, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-smartest-most-intelligent-doper-here/34366/38 "2000-09-25T03:52:18Z")
I agree with many in this thread and I could never pick just one because different people are intelligent in different ways. However, in addition to some of the fine people already mentioned, I’ll have to add **pldennison**. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2000, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-smartest-most-intelligent-doper-here/34366/39 "2000-09-25T04:09:54Z")
Handy, WTF??? How can you have nigh unto 6500 posts and not have seen one by Tomndebb? I’m baffled. There’s aplenty of smart folks here, but I’d like to put in a special mention of Gaudere, who beautifully balances her sharp wits with a profound grace. I admire that combination. ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2000, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-smartest-most-intelligent-doper-here/34366/40 "2000-09-25T07:36:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tatertot \* > \*\*I will also vote for **DRY** , because he will get all whiny on me if I don’t. 😉 \*\* > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scotticher \* > \*\*I’m going to have to say DRY, too, because he is always amazing me with some new subject that comes up, and he is knowledgeable in yet another area that I didn’t know he knew anything about. > \*\* Thank you both, but this is one contest I wouldn’t have whined if you hadn’t voted for me, because I know it isn’t true. If I was so damned smart, I wouldn’t be pushing papers around my desk all day. :rolleyes: I’m probably the LEAST intelligent of the people that have been nominated. Sure, I’m considred above average in real life, but this is a tough group. The whining part, however, is absolutely true. :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-smartest-most-intelligent-doper-here/34366.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-smartest-most-intelligent-doper-here/34366.md?page=3)