# Any celebrities on the SDMB? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 25, 2001, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrities-on-the-sdmb/95164 "2001-11-25T17:29:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stupendous\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Stupendous\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stupendous_man)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2001, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrities-on-the-sdmb/95164/1 "2001-11-25T17:29:29Z")
I saw someone has a username RIngo and while I don’t believe that it is a former Beatle as his sig proclaims, it got me wondering: Are there now, or have there ever been any clebrities (musicians, tv/movie actors, etc.) posting messages here? ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2001, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrities-on-the-sdmb/95164/2 "2001-11-25T17:38:19Z")
What, you don’t consider **Cecil Adams** or **The Bad Astronomer** to be a celebrity? 🙂 Seriously, though, if there were celebrities on the board, I doubt they would be inclined to reveal who they were. I know that if I was a celebrity and saw too much of my life being spent in a media fishbowl, I would certainly appreciate being able to interact with other people without them freaking out about who I was. Not to mention the strange mail that celebrities sometimes get. They would want to cut down on that. Personally I doubt that there are any famous people on the board, except for the ones I already mentioned, and if there are, they are likely to keep quiet about who they are. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2001, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrities-on-the-sdmb/95164/3 "2001-11-25T17:50:23Z")
Well, among urban planners I’m something of a celebrity – a **lot** of people recognize me from my name tag at planning conferences, and my work been mentioned in several planning publications. Outside of the profession, though, I’m rather anonymous. ---
**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2001, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrities-on-the-sdmb/95164/4 "2001-11-25T17:55:43Z")
Depends on what you mean by “celebrity”. Harrison Ford? I somehow doubt it. But we clearly have a few published authors, people that are well known within their fields, and a few people whose names have graced movie credits. Given the number of people, I imagine there are one or two who are being very carefully mum about their real-life identity for one reason or another. How actually “famous” those people might be, we have no way of telling. And I believe Ringo is the former “beatle” in the sense of that having been his old username. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2001, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrities-on-the-sdmb/95164/5 "2001-11-25T17:57:46Z")
**Eve** A published writer. ---
**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2001, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrities-on-the-sdmb/95164/6 "2001-11-25T18:08:45Z")
BTW - something interesting - I just did a search on messages by “beatle” and came up with all the “Ringo” messages. Apparently, when you change your name, they keep the old one in the database as an alias, rather than simply changing a single name field. I wonder if they ever prune former names? ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2001, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrities-on-the-sdmb/95164/7 "2001-11-25T18:08:57Z")
I’ve had artwork published in several books and magazines; not especially great as far as illustrators in general, but moderately well-known among my niche market. If there’s an A-list of artists in my niche, I’m probably on the B-list… ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2001, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrities-on-the-sdmb/95164/8 "2001-11-25T18:15:05Z")
Well, there is [some history](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=95356) to my user name, but message boards being the medium they are, [alternate perceptions](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=1763711#post1763711) of what we post abound. I may have to revert. Sheesh. To answer the question, **Eve** and **Reality Chuck** are authors, and there are a couple of others as well, and **aha** had some hit records in the '60s and is a _bona fide_ rock star. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2001, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrities-on-the-sdmb/95164/9 "2001-11-25T18:31:46Z")
[tangent] **yabob** , I just tried a couple of searches and found that if I search for “beatle” I get messages where my name shows as “Ringo” now, but they’re only the messages that I originally posted as “beatle” and if I search on “Ringo” I get only the messages originally posted under that name. [/tangent] And WTH… ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2001, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrities-on-the-sdmb/95164/10 "2001-11-25T19:03:22Z")
I work for celebrities, but that really doesn’t count, does it? ---
**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2001, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrities-on-the-sdmb/95164/11 "2001-11-25T19:19:10Z")
\ odd. I didn’t look that close at the dates. It implies they are storing a lookup key used by the search, and the displayed username as distinct entities, and there’s two “users” whose displayed names coincide, or some kind of date ranges associated with the lookup key, or some other arrangement I haven’t thought of off the top of my head. If there are two actual user records, it’s clearly aggregating them for the post count. Oh well. I shouldn’t be surprised - I’ve seen some very strange data schemas in my time. \ ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2001, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrities-on-the-sdmb/95164/12 "2001-11-25T20:27:59Z")
Off to MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2001, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrities-on-the-sdmb/95164/13 "2001-11-25T21:21:19Z")
I have it on good authority that **manhattan** is, in real life, Charo. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Bad\_Astronomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@The\_Bad\_Astronomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Bad_Astronomer)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2001, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrities-on-the-sdmb/95164/14 "2001-11-25T21:33:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Atreyu \* > What, you don’t consider **Cecil Adams** or **The Bad Astronomer** to be a celebrity? 🙂 Cecil who? 😉 Actually, I am not much of a celebrity; I’m still in the “wannabe” status. My book comes out in March, though, and I’ll be selling myself mercilessly then. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2001, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrities-on-the-sdmb/95164/15 "2001-11-25T21:35:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ukulele Ike \* > \*\*I have it on good authority that **manhattan** is, in real life, Charo. \*\* No, no, you must have heard me wrong. Damn cell phones. I didn’t say _Charo_, I said he’d probably be drunk again _tomorrow_. ---
**Author:** ![Stupendous\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Stupendous\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stupendous_man)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2001, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrities-on-the-sdmb/95164/16 "2001-11-25T21:37:23Z")
Bad Astronomer: That’s right! I forgot about you being here. Certainly having a column in a science mag, articles on the net, interviews and the whole Fox Moon hoax thing have made you a certified celebrity. In fact, if I was in charge of certifying celebrities, I’d stamp your forehead as “Officially Stupendous Man Certified Celebrity!” right now. Cheers. ---
**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2001, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrities-on-the-sdmb/95164/17 "2001-11-25T21:48:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cuckoorex \* > \*\*I’ve had artwork published in several books and magazines; not especially great as far as illustrators in general, but moderately well-known among my niche market. If there’s an A-list of artists in my niche, I’m probably on the B-list… \*\* Any examples I might know of…? ---
**Author:** ![Mercutio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Mercutio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercutio)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2001, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrities-on-the-sdmb/95164/18 "2001-11-25T22:05:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by woodstockbirdybird \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Ukulele Ike \* > > \*\*I have it on good authority that **manhattan** is, in real life, Charo. \*\* > > No, no, you must have heard me wrong. Damn cell phones. I didn’t say _Charo_, I said he’d probably be drunk again _tomorrow_. \*\* Coochie-Coochie! ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2001, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrities-on-the-sdmb/95164/19 "2001-11-26T00:32:50Z")
I’v met **manhattan,** and I can confirm that yep, he’s Charo. [sub]damn, what a way to use my 6000th post…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Dirty\_Earthworm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Dirty\_Earthworm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dirty_Earthworm)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2001, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrities-on-the-sdmb/95164/20 "2001-11-26T00:38:21Z")
Not a celebrity yet. But some day… -Syko [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrities-on-the-sdmb/95164.md?page=2)