# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 57
**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. 😃 --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-doper-when/543001)._