# You know you're a Doper when ... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 13, 2010, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/543001 "2010-06-13T11:46:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/543001/41 "2010-06-17T04:37:13Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > You can’t remember the name of a movie/book/whatever and your first instinct is to start a thread. > > And check back in 5 minutes expecting to find the answer. > > And it’s usually there. Even though all you can remember about it is, “There’s a guy who dies, and there’s a Klezmer band”. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/543001/42 "2010-06-17T05:31:35Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Even though all you can remember about it is, “There’s a guy who dies, and there’s a Klezmer band”. I loved that movie! My contribution: someone cuts you off in traffic and your reflex is to call upon Og to smash them. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/543001/43 "2010-06-17T06:33:37Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > At my house the phrase from **Ms. Attac** k is “you should ask your imaginary internet friends”. I have a friend on another message board who’s spouse calls us her imaginary friends. I’m real, dammit! I’m right here in front of your face! OK here’s another one. When making a list, you always have this urge to put semi-precious stones at number three. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2010, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/543001/44 "2010-06-20T23:30:33Z")
You’ve been on a train for two days. No internet service whatsoever. Your children are anxious to have you check in. And you should check your work email. The first site you go to when you get connected is . . . ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/543001/45 "2010-06-21T00:17:06Z")
…when you can’t wait to tell your wife a joke you heard here. “Honey, heard about the boy with an orange penis…?” ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/543001/46 "2010-06-21T00:19:25Z")
> [@Superhal](#): > > ..when you can’t wait to tell your wife a joke you heard here. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/543001/47 "2010-07-22T21:57:06Z")
When you use the document management system at work to search for a document and, when you don’t find what you want, for a moment you think you’ll need to wait five minutes before you can search again. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/543001/48 "2010-07-22T22:12:04Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > … you wake up in the morning and the song running through your head is “Rio” by Duran Duran. > > Seriously. “His name is **Dio** …” ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/543001/49 "2010-07-22T23:13:50Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I’m not imaginary. I don’t think I am, anyway. I’ve never met you. I think. On the other hand, I think you’ve met **Spoons** , and I’ve met **Spoons** , so you’re _almost_ real… > [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > You hear what sounds like big news on teevee or the radio, and the first place you go is not [cnn.com](http://cnn.com), but here. I found about 9/11 _here_. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/543001/50 "2010-07-22T23:48:01Z")
You are a shining star on your trivia team. You learn much of the trivia on the Dope. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/543001/51 "2010-07-23T00:13:37Z")
> [@descamisado](#): > > When you use the document management system at work to search for a document and, when you don’t find what you want, for a moment you think you’ll need to wait five minutes before you can search again. > > :smack: OK, that made me smile. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/543001/52 "2010-07-23T13:35:28Z")
You first learn somebody died when you read it in the Deathpool thread (Good-bye, George Steinbrenner) ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/543001/53 "2010-07-23T13:59:57Z")
> [@descamisado](#): > > When you use the document management system at work to search for a document and, when you don’t find what you want, for a moment you think you’ll need to wait five minutes before you can search again. > > :smack: pfft, it’s two minutes now. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/543001/54 "2010-07-23T14:42:00Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > I found about 9/11 _here_. Me too. My first reaction was “why is he so ticked about something that happened like ten years ago?”, thinking it was the bombing in the parking garage from '92. Then I read further. ☹ You know you’re a Doper when half of your IRL funny stories start with "there’s this guy on a message board I read, and one day . . . " ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/543001/55 "2010-07-23T17:08:11Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > I’ve never met you. I think. On the other hand, I think you’ve met **Spoons** , and I’ve met **Spoons** , so you’re _almost_ real… Having met you both, I can assure you that you are both real. I’m somewhat unsure of my status at times, though… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/543001/56 "2010-07-23T17:34:08Z")
… conversationaly, you refer to people you’re quoting as “Dopers,” but the people you’re talking to don’t hear the capital D, and wonder why you place so much faith in pot smokers. ---
**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:** [July 23, 2010, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/543001/57 "2010-07-23T17:52:36Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > I’ve never met you. I think. On the other hand, I think you’ve met **Spoons** , and I’ve met **Spoons** , so you’re _almost_ real… I’m one degree of separation away from being real? > [@](#): > > I found about 9/11 _here_. I heard about it on the radio first, then turned on the tv and the computer at the same time; I was watching it on tv and reading about it from Dopers describing what was happening firsthand at the same time. That may have been the first time I got an inkling of the power of the internet. > [@Daithi\_Lacha](#): > > … conversationaly, you refer to people you’re quoting as “Dopers,” but the people you’re talking to don’t hear the capital D, and wonder why you place so much faith in pot smokers. When I was a wee n00bie Doper, I was reading about Dopefests, and was wondering what kind of degenerates I had fallen in with. Now I _know_ what kind of degenerates. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/543001/58 "2010-07-25T14:25:46Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > … you signed up for an account on the straight dope message board. verdad ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/543001/59 "2010-07-25T14:51:27Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > You are a shining star on your trivia team. You learn much of the trivia on the Dope. No joke. It’s also fun to catch mistakes because you remember a thread or column about that exact question. It’s especially fun to know that the MC got the question from a column. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/543001/60 "2010-07-25T14:54:06Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Heck, I’ve been asking creationists, flatearthers et al for cites for yoinks… they never seem to be able to provide anything more accurate than “the Bible says so!” Uh, no. Not unless you can provide book, chapter and verse, bubba, and apparently not one of y’all can. This. I acquired the _Cite?_ habit on talk.origins. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/543001.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/543001.md?page=4)