# You Know You're A Doper When ... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 31, 2009, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/523206 "2009-12-31T18:18:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/523206/61 "2010-01-05T17:39:35Z")
> [@dhkendall](#): > > 😊 - a thread I started actually made it to the “Threadspotting” part of [straightdope.com](http://straightdope.com)! > > You like me, you really like me! well, duh. :smack: ---
**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 5, 2010, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/523206/62 "2010-01-05T17:45:03Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > The famous one. I was at home ill from work that day; I woke up around 10:00; fired up my computer, and guess what was near the top of the list. I had no TV set at the time. Once I read the thread, I started checking news sites, and fired up the radio in my boombox. After I turned on the television that morning, the next thing I did was go check the Dope. It was amazing to be watching things happen on tv, and read posts from people who were watching them happen outside their windows at the same time. **dhkendall** , you made Threadspotting already? I’ve been here 10 years…! Okay, well, I don’t start many threads, and the ones I do usually sink like a stone, but still. ( 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/523206/63 "2010-01-05T17:50:47Z")
You’ve crushed an appendage, suffered a compound fracture, and/or are spouting arterial blood and you **remember Doper advice** to, _“Call 911 first before starting a thread about it that leads off with, ‘need help fast…’”_ ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/523206/64 "2010-01-06T16:15:28Z")
> [@dhkendall](#): > > I was having lunch today, and on the wall of the place I was eating at they advertised one of their sandwiches with this phrase (among others): > > - 0g Added Trans Fat > > And, so help me Og, I read that as (yup, you can see this coming): > > - Og Added Trans Fat > > (for those who made the same mistake I did, the first “word” in the first one is “0g”, that is “zero grams”, my misreading in the second one had the first word as “Og”, that is, SDMB quasi-deity.) > > (Side rant, why say “0g trans fat”, why not just “_no_ trans fat”??? > > Anyone else had these moments like that? > > (And I’ve only been a doper for two months or so, ye gods! :eek:) > [@Stauderhorse](#): > > I had the nearly the exact same thing happen to me about a year ago. I was leafing through a magazine and came across a beer ad with “0g fat” in big white letters. It didn’t click for me right away that it was a 0, so I said “What the hell, why are they making a reference to Og in this magazine?” Then I got it. Felt pretty damn stupid for a while, but at least I’m not alone. 😃 **You’re Not Going to Believe this Department** More than a year ago, I considered changing my username to “Og Trans Fat” and even sent a note to this effect to the powers-that-be. I probably e-mailed it, so maybe the note was lost in a crowded inbox. I never followed up. I had the idea, in part, because it seemed to better fit my sometimes pugnacious style. But also, I could see everybody looking at a bag of chips, or whatever, and thinking: GEE! WHAT’S "JACK "doing with his doper name on a bag of chips?! And, finally, I would diligently search the board periodically and be able to yell “YOU RANG?” every time my “name” was taken in vain. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/523206/65 "2010-01-06T16:19:44Z")
Now that’s just fun. ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/523206/66 "2010-01-06T19:44:52Z")
> [@melodyharmonius](#): > > Now that’s just fun. Did you mean my post? Assuming you did: Okay, let me ask you, then. Should I stick with “Og Trans Fat” or go with “Og Added Trans Fat”? ---
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/523206/67 "2010-01-06T19:48:26Z")
> [@True Blue Jack](#): > > Did you mean my post? Assuming you did: > > Okay, let me ask you, then. Should I stick with “Og Trans Fat” or go with “Og Added Trans Fat”? Yes, I did. I wouldn’t add the added - I think Og Trans Fat is poifect. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/523206/68 "2010-01-06T19:54:37Z")
You know you’re a Doper when you figure out a work-around to being blocked at work. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/523206/69 "2010-01-06T20:00:32Z")
You dream about the Dope. I remember having a bizarre dream in which a lizard with toxic ejaculate had me trapped in the bedroom, and I wanted more than anything to get out of there so I could ask Dopers what they knew about that kind of lizard. ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/523206/70 "2010-01-06T20:02:09Z")
> [@melodyharmonius](#): > > Yes, I did. I wouldn’t add the added - I think Og Trans Fat is poifect. Thank you. 🙂 I’ll pester the appropriate mods with a PM tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/523206/71 "2010-01-06T20:06:56Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > You know you’re a Doper when you figure out a work-around to being blocked at work. 😃 You know you’re a hard core Doper when that workaround is to change jobs. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/523206/72 "2010-01-06T20:07:26Z")
You know you’re a Doper when … you ask for advice and there’s no unanimity of opinion. I think you should have the “Added” in the new username. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/523206/73 "2010-01-07T20:14:15Z")
> [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](#): > > …You have an accident, and instead of calling your family first, you post it on the Dope… Some Doper (well, probably more than one) once posted a “Here we go! We’re off to the hospital!” thread when his wife went into labor. Not the first thing I’d think of doing. One guy had great sex with his wife and, while she was in the afterglow, logged on to ask us why she reacted to this and that while they were at it. ---
**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/523206/74 "2010-01-07T20:22:01Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > I think you should have the “Added” in the new username. > [@melodyharmonius](#): > > Yes, I did. I wouldn’t add the added - I think Og Trans Fat is poifect. Being kind of the one who started this, I’ll say I’m with **twicks** on this, “Og Added Trans Fact” is actually a gramatically correct sentence, “Og Trans Fat” might be read as, yup, “zero grams trans fat”, and thus the joke is lost. In fact, I might not have noticed the sign, and thus not started this whole thread, had the sign read “0g Trans Fat”. ---
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/523206/75 "2010-01-07T20:28:37Z")
> [@dhkendall](#): > > Being kind of the one who started this, I’ll say I’m with **twicks** on this, “Og Added Trans Fact” is actually a gramatically correct sentence, “Og Trans Fat” might be read as, yup, “zero grams trans fat”, and thus the joke is lost. > > In fact, I might not have noticed the sign, and thus not started this whole thread, had the sign read “0g Trans Fat”. Point taken! 😃 I herein retract my previous ‘poifect’ and concur with twicks and dhk. ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/523206/76 "2010-01-08T06:18:55Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > You know you’re a Doper when you figure out a work-around to being blocked at work. 😃 The main reason that I got my first smartphone (which cost me $450) was so that I could read the dope at work. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/523206/77 "2010-01-11T18:21:00Z")
You’re living in a college dorm, your hallway sector is shared by eight males and two females, you (female) realize that the Nigerian who does his washing in the communal bathtub instead of the washing machine is in one of the toilet rooms, taking Little Nigerian out for a walk with the door wide open, and wonder whether to a.- open a thread asking whether this is normal in any of the cultures Dopers are familiar with (assuming that the toilet in question does have a door, of course, last I checked dudes peeing against a tree didn’t have any doors available to close) b.- ask the same but limiting it to the MMP c.- just post it in this thread… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/523206.md?page=3)