well, duh. :smack:
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.
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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…’”
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. 
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”?
Yes, I did. I wouldn’t add the added - I think Og Trans Fat is poifect.
You know you’re a Doper when you figure out a work-around to being blocked at work. 
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.
Thank you.
I’ll pester the appropriate mods with a PM tomorrow.
You know you’re a hard core Doper when that workaround is to change jobs.
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.
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.
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.
The main reason that I got my first smartphone (which cost me $450) was so that I could read the dope at work.
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…