# Are there any celebrities who are members? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 1, 2003, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-celebrities-who-are-members/178958 "2003-06-01T16:58:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-celebrities-who-are-members/178958/61 "2003-06-06T22:25:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Exapno Mapcase \* > \*\*Although the people who think I’m famous wouldn’t know me if they bumped into me on the street, I am the world’s leading lay expert in my own tiny little field of expertise. > > My name is so powerful in the field that it’s been used as a _front-cover_ blurb on new books being published. The other professional writers here will go into insane fits of jealousy when they read that. 🆒 > > Too bad for my ego that it’s an accomplishment that means absolutely nothing to the vast majority of humanity. ☹ > > Just to show you how famous I am by doing a little namedropping, I [sub]bought[/sub] Jon Stewart’s book, _Naked Pictures of Famous People_. \*\* A few months ago, a post of yours made me wonder whether you’re someone I used to know. I could just e-mail you and ask. But that would be boring. Instead- Are you fascinated by centaurs and those mythical beasts, trolleys? Do you hold a high military rank? Or-going with possibility #2 Are a big fan of The Wicker Man? Can you tell me what Final Mints are? Or-Possibility #3 You know both of the above folks, but I met you rarely and can’t remember your name(sorry). Or-Possibility #4 You’re somebody else entirely. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-celebrities-who-are-members/178958/62 "2003-06-06T22:56:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ring \* > \*\*And what does _Exapno Mapcase_ mean in Russian? \*\* If **Exapno Mapcase** is the _real_ “Xapno Mapcase”, reports of his death were quite premature. And **Ring** : Google is your friend. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-celebrities-who-are-members/178958/63 "2003-06-06T23:39:38Z")
**Ring** , I can’t figure out how to do Cyrillic characters on this board. (They look right purty when I use the symbol set in Word, but they won’t cut and paste - !CA? ;!C7E - see?) But Google will work, as long as you remember that the Exapno Mapcase that comes up as the first hit isn’t me. **jr8** , Nonsense. The “real” Exapno Mapcase will never die. [rimshot]You don’t know what a lay expert is? My wife says that I’m one in a big way. And who am I to disagree?[/rimshot] Seriously: > [@](#): > > Not of or belonging to a particular profession; nonprofessional: a lay opinion as to the seriousness of the disease. I’m nonprofessional, but I know a hell of a lot. **DocCathode** , since I read your post with an increasing sense of Huh? I guess the answer is #4. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-celebrities-who-are-members/178958/64 "2003-06-07T00:19:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Exapno Mapcase \* > \*\* > **DocCathode** , since I read your post with an increasing sense of Huh? I guess the answer is #4. \*\* Blast! With your knowledge of publishing and a reference to Scithers as “famed”, I thought that you might actually be him, or one of his close colleagues. ``` I worked for Mr Scithers[sub]*[/sub] for a brief time a few years ago. Mostly, I read through the slush pile. It was a great learning experience. Best of all, I worked for him just before he lost the Weird Tales name. It was unbelievably cool. Then, I screwed everything up. ``` Upon leaving, I forgot to return his keys. By the time I remembered, months had passed and I was very embarressed. I panicked. This started off a vicious cycle. By the time I finally mailed his keys back, I figured that I had managed to ruin any trust he had in me and any chance of ever working for him again. Worse, I’d ruin any chances of maintaing a friendship with him. Have you seen Never Ending Story? A boy enters a strange bookstore and takes a very special book. Mr Scithers is the bookstore owner-seeming to be plain and ordinary but filled with wisdom and magic. His house is the bookstore -with wonder stacked upon wonder, each room filled with impossible treasures. ``` He enjoys drawing centaurs pulling trolleys. ``` Darrell Schweitzer was an editor and contributor to Weird Tales. He’s the author of The Shattered Goddess, among other things. ``` He likes designing strange t-shirts including- Tibetan Olympic corpse wrestling team, Final Mints-breath mints for the dead, and a shirt celebrating the festival from the horror film The Wicker Man(can't recall the name. still haven't seen the movie.). * He'll always be Mister to me. He was an officer and it shows. With but the slightest effort, he can become the most intimidating person you've ever seen. He's generally a friendly, cheerful man. But when he wants to, his voice could stop a pack of charging banths. This and his vast expertise mad me feel like it was blasphemous to even think of him as George. ``` ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-celebrities-who-are-members/178958/65 "2003-06-07T00:20:33Z")
I am Zaphod Beeblebrox. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfgrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wolfgrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfgrrl)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-celebrities-who-are-members/178958/66 "2003-06-07T01:17:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lemur866 \* > \*\*Well, if you do a google search on my name it is revealed that I’m playing defense for the Montreal Canadiens. So THAT explains all those unexplained blackouts I’ve been having lately… \*\* My mom used to work with a guy named Ray Bourque. He and a bunch of his buddies went up to Montreal for a game and stayed at the same hotel as the Bruins - he kept getting hockey playin’ Ray’s phone calls. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-celebrities-who-are-members/178958/67 "2003-06-08T00:23:21Z")
Does appearing on an episode of COPS, Jerry Springer, Maury, Sally Jesse, Montel, et al count as celebritytudiness? I got a bunch of salicious Instant Messages from females when that New York Hockey team won the Stanley Cup. Dunno why. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-celebrities-who-are-members/178958/68 "2003-06-08T00:39:08Z")
**DocCathode** , I’ve run into Darrell at many cons, but oddly, for all that I’ve been in the field for over 30 years, I’ve never gotten closer to George Scithers than the business end of a rejection slip. But I know much about him, and to describe him as “famed” within the field is an understatement. ---
**Author:** ![Drabble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8491ac/32.png) [@Drabble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drabble)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-celebrities-who-are-members/178958/69 "2003-06-08T01:07:34Z")
😛 I’m infamous in my home town as a defender of gay rights and for promoting evolution…you can see one of the articles I wrote on my web site under ‘fun stuff’. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-celebrities-who-are-members/178958/70 "2003-06-08T05:49:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shirley Ujest \* > \*\*I am Zaphod Beeblebrox. \*\* Shirley – are you Canadian? ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-celebrities-who-are-members/178958/71 "2003-06-08T06:36:45Z")
Well, I’ve acted, on my church drama team Written books,unpublished and poems for one of those “contests” and been on TV at a protest I guess you could say I’m working on it! ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-celebrities-who-are-members/178958/72 "2003-06-08T08:17:21Z")
Fame is underrated. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-celebrities-who-are-members/178958/73 "2003-06-08T20:04:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Exapno Mapcase \* > \*\ ***DocCathode** , I’ve never gotten closer to George Scithers than the business end of a rejection slip. > > But I know much about him, and to describe him as “famed” within the field is an understatement. \*\* Hmm, I’m not surprised. I remember one day that he mentioned he had to leave early to go meet some friends for dinner. He didn’t consider it worth mentioning that one of the friends was Isaac Asimov. ``` I'd very much like to hear more about him. ``` ---
**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:** [June 8, 2003, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-celebrities-who-are-members/178958/74 "2003-06-08T21:43:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Flowerchild \* > \*\*The bad astronomer and Ianzin are like, debunkers? Would they have been on anything ,like on Tv, could he get me sylvia brown’s > Autograph? \*\* If I had her auotgraph, it would be a signature under the words “I am a huge fraud and have bilked people out of their money for years.” Otherwise, I wouldn’t care to have it. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-celebrities-who-are-members/178958/75 "2003-06-08T21:46:57Z")
Well, you could just write that bit in later . . . ---
**Author:** ![Flowerchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/858c86/32.png) [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-celebrities-who-are-members/178958/76 "2003-06-09T06:02:41Z")
I said: FOR MY MOM didnt i ? she loves her, I cant stand those people ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-celebrities-who-are-members/178958/77 "2003-06-09T07:43:39Z")
Maybe brown can have a spirit sign some piece of paper you have lying around now Flowerchild. That USED to be a pretty common medium trick: spiritgraphy or something. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-celebrities-who-are-members/178958/78 "2003-06-10T03:04:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shirley Ujest \* > \*\*I am Zaphod Beeblebrox. \*\* “THE Zaphod Beeblebrox?” “No, A Zaphod Beeblebrox. Haven’t you heard? They sell us in six-packs now.” ---
**Author:** ![TaxGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@TaxGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TaxGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-celebrities-who-are-members/178958/79 "2003-06-10T03:24:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Drabble \* > \*\*😛 I’m infamous in my home town as a defender of gay rights and for promoting evolution…you can see one of the articles I wrote on my web site under ‘fun stuff’. \*\* And really, what’s more fun than gay rights and evolution? I bet that paper’s a laugh riot! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-celebrities-who-are-members/178958/80 "2003-06-10T04:11:33Z")
I’ve always hoped that **RickJay** was famous magician/actor/author/really cool guy Ricky Jay. Of course, statistically speaking, it’s far more likely that he’s one of several million Richard Johnsons in the world. But I still get a little kick from imagining that the M/A/A/RCG might be rubbing shouders (electronically) with us ordinary folk. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-celebrities-who-are-members/178958.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-celebrities-who-are-members/178958.md?page=5)