When you sign on AIM at night and the first thing you ask your friend is, “Anything cool tonight?” they’re not offended, and they start linking you to neat threads immediately.
I glanced at the monitor where a teacher was reading her email the other day, and almost fell over. The subject line had Q.E.D. in it, and for one blinding moment I was positive that this teacher was, in fact, a real live Doper, maybe just even possibly who knew the aforementioned Q.E.D.. Because, you know, Q.E.D. doesn’t STAND for anything else, oh no. Especially not quality educational data or some crap like that. ::kicks ground and mutters:: It was pretty cool for a moment, though.
Catalyst, who has lurked for years, talks about the Straight Dope so much around our friends that any time I mention it, I can’t get two words out of my mouth before the eye-rolling and complaining begins. It’s not like a real addiction, people, sheesh. 