# You know you're a Doper when.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 24, 2006, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/341355 "2006-01-24T03:57:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/341355/41 "2006-01-24T20:01:43Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > …when you use SDMB HTML coding on another website. It’s [BBCode](http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/faq.php?mode=bbcode#0), and is used on many other message boards. I’m sure some folks were using it before this place was a twinkle in Cecil’s eye. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/341355/42 "2006-01-24T20:56:58Z")
When you get warm fuzzies from a whole thread full of folks being just as freaky as you. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/341355/43 "2006-01-24T21:04:04Z")
…when you get irked at another poster on another bb and type, “I Pit you!” and then get 10 replies asking wtf you meant… ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/341355/44 "2006-01-24T21:43:11Z")
When your wife asks “Anything interesting on the Dope today?” _before_ she asks “How was school?” When you say “Cite?” to your students. When a student asks you a question you don’t know the complete answer to, but you are sure that **Bricker** or **John Mace** or **Sam Stone** or **lissener** or **Qadgop** or…will know more than the kid ever wants to know on the subject. When you say in conversation “A buddy of mine in Afghanistan…” and you remember that 1) you’ve never met **Tripler** anywhere IRL, and 2) that you still consider him a buddy. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/341355/45 "2006-01-24T22:05:46Z")
When your work surfaces (whether computer desktop or coffeetable or office desk) are littered with text notes for potential thread ideas being subjected to careful contemplation and development. (The currently successful moments-of-absent-mindedness thread is the result of a week of consideration and refinement. Yay! On the other hand, the predict-the-next-collectible thread I started a couple of years ago, after a similar period of fine-tuning, died like a roach in a deep-fryer. Boo!) ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/341355/46 "2006-01-24T22:12:19Z")
When one of my employees does something worthy of me blurting out, “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!” ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/341355/47 "2006-01-24T22:13:52Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > \When you say “Cite?” to your students.\ I think if we work at it long enough, that one will pass into general usage. So many of my conversations are started with, “The other day on this message board I’m a member of…” or “I read the other day that…” and expecting other people to get as jazzed about stuff I read here as _I_ do. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/341355/48 "2006-01-24T22:25:05Z")
When you get pissed off at something in the news, and realize you’re not going to be able to let go of the anger until you pit the idiots involved. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/341355/49 "2006-01-24T22:49:25Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > When you get pissed off at something in the news, and realize you’re not going to be able to let go of the anger until you pit the idiots involved. Or the reverse–some celebrity makes an ass of himself, and rather than getting pissed, you think, “I can’t wait to see the Pit thread that _this_ spawns!” ---
**Author:** ![Thalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@Thalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thalion)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/341355/50 "2006-01-25T03:04:02Z")
When you have to start claiming that you “heard it at work” because your wife is tired of hearing about the SDMB twenty times a day. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/341355/51 "2006-01-25T04:09:44Z")
While someone’s speaking to you, you’re looking over his left shoulder, checking his join date, post total and location. The Straight Dope logo is burned upside-down into a corner of your retina, purple letters on a yellow background. When you have an orgasm, you yell, “Oh Og!” ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/341355/52 "2006-01-25T04:31:00Z")
Hearing of an event somewhere in the world and thinking “I wonder if we have someone there?” and then reading first hand of the volcano in Alaska, the hurricane in the Gulf, the shooting in Florida or a cyclone in Australia. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/341355/53 "2006-01-25T09:07:04Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > It’s [BBCode](http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/faq.php?mode=bbcode#0), and is used on many other message boards. I’m sure some folks were using it before this place was a twinkle in Cecil’s eye. 😉 …when you make a goof like this. :o I have no excuse. I’ve seen the notation “HTML code is off” on this message board for years. Maybe I’ll go eat worms. ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/341355/54 "2006-01-25T20:24:24Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > …when you get irked at another poster on another bb and type, “I Pit you!” and then get 10 replies asking wtf you meant… I’ve done it on another board… and…actually said it to someone - and I’m a newbie. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/341355/55 "2006-01-25T21:15:34Z")
When your SO becomes a member of the Dope and you spend 20 minutes debriefing her on the overall rules of the board and the rules for the individual forums. I felt like Lee Ermey screaming at Vincent DiNofrio in _Full Metal Jacket_. However, she would’ve left me if I made her walk around, pants around ankles with her thumb in her mouth. ---
**Author:** ![bubastis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d07c76/32.png) [@bubastis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubastis)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/341355/56 "2006-01-25T23:49:52Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > When you hear a celebrity died and your first thought is “DEATHPOOL.” Especially if you sound like Seinfeld saying “Newman!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Atticus\_Finch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Atticus\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atticus_Finch)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/341355/57 "2006-01-25T23:57:58Z")
When you say to someone, “Well, I’m not sure, but I know this (prison doctor / soldier in Afghanistan / expert on the postmodern aspects of Paul Verhoeven’s films) who might know…” ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/341355/58 "2006-01-26T02:03:55Z")
When your co-worker, at the bookstore, shows you the copy of _Angelina Ballerina_ she just bought for her niece and you are compelled to direct her to the [relevant thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=353705&highlight=Ballerina) ---
**Author:** ![BrattiAtti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@BrattiAtti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrattiAtti)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/341355/59 "2006-01-26T03:51:23Z")
When making plans to travel out of town, your immediate thought is, “Hmm. I wonder if [vacation spot] will be having a Doper gettogether then. If not, maybe I should hold out until they do.” Yeah, that’s me! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/341355/60 "2006-01-26T03:56:26Z")
> [@BrattiAtti](#): > > When making plans to travel out of town, your immediate thought is, “Hmm. I wonder if [vacation spot] will be having a Doper gettogether then. If not, maybe I should hold out until they do.” Yeah, that’s me! Nah – a real Doper would announce his or her iminent visit in MPSIMs and start a dopefest from scratch! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/341355.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/341355.md?page=4)