# You know you're a Doper when ...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/543001>\
**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:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/543001/61 "2010-07-25T16:11:19Z")

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> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#):
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> > [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](#):
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> > … your SO/spouse says thinks like:  
> > “You should ask your Dope friends about …”
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> At my house the phrase from **Ms. Attac** k is “you should ask your imaginary internet friends”.

Oh dear. It looks like Ms. Attack has figured out that we’re one grand Turing experiment, and **Attack from the 3rd dimension** is the test subject.

Abort! Abort!

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**Author:** ![Critical\_Mass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@Critical\_Mass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical_Mass)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/543001/62 "2010-07-25T18:33:43Z")

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I was reading the local on-line newspaper this morning.

In the comments section after a story about yesterday’s football game (home team wins, Go Blue!), a poster repeatedly misused the word loose. He meant lose.

I corrected him.

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**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/543001/63 "2010-07-25T18:52:03Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> You hear on the radio or television that somebody famous died and your first thought is “how many points were they worth?”

This was what I was going to say!

I’d say you know you are a Doper when your first thought after watching/reading something amazing is not to go to Facebook or Twitter and tell your “real life” friends about it, but you post something here so you can get into a more intelligent conversation about it.

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**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:** [July 25, 2010, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/543001/64 "2010-07-25T21:46:21Z")

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> [@Mahaloth](#):
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> but you post something here so you can get into a more intelligent conversation about it.

🙂

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**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/543001/65 "2010-07-25T23:25:13Z")

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you refer to customers as the “teeming millions”.

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