# Couples on SDMB **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 13, 2011, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-on-sdmb/592543 "2011-08-13T03:23:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-on-sdmb/592543/21 "2011-08-13T22:03:59Z")
I was shown the way here by my distant relative, **T. Slothrop**. I suggested that my wife become a member much later, as she kept asking me to ask my imaginary internet friends various questions. My daughter just signed up a month or so ago. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-on-sdmb/592543/22 "2011-08-13T23:46:18Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Quoth **MsRobyn** :Wow, **Bomb Bay Doors** is nine already? It seems like just, well, not yesterday, but maybe last year, that there was the whole big announcement thread for the first Doper baby. He turned nine on August 1. [Here is the announcement thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=128714). ---
**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:** [August 13, 2011, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-on-sdmb/592543/23 "2011-08-13T23:50:52Z")
Sadly, I am not part of a board couple. I was, however, introduced to Dopefests by none other than our excellent **matt\_mcl** , who I had met in the Esperanto world. That almost makes up for it. ---
**Author:** ![Tracyfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f14d63/32.png) [@Tracyfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracyfish)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-on-sdmb/592543/24 "2011-08-14T00:12:11Z")
My husband is **Least Original User Name Ever**. He convinced me to join. He was also the one who got **gonzomax** , his father, to join. I went through **LOUNE** ’s previous posts a few months ago for the fun of it. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-on-sdmb/592543/25 "2011-08-14T02:37:07Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > And **Qadgop** , don’t you have a daughter who posts occasionally too? **Elfbabe** , IIRC? **Elfbabe** was a regular poster for a time, she’s my eldest. She pops in once in a great while if I ask her to weigh in on a topic. My youngest posted quite briefly as **Eowyn the Mercotan** before she got bored and wandered into other areas of the net. ---
**Author:** ![KinkiNipponTourist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9bcb4/32.png) [@KinkiNipponTourist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KinkiNipponTourist)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-on-sdmb/592543/26 "2011-08-14T02:45:50Z")
> [@MsRobyn](#): > > I’m the lovely and talented **Mrs. Airman Doors.** We met here and in SDMB chat in the late summer of 2001 and met face-to-face at a Dope-a-Ween party hosted by **Jonathan Chance**. We got married the following May and now are the proud parents of the sprog, who is now nine. **We count many MADs, current and former, as friends.** \ last sentence bolding mine. Erm, does MAD stand for Mrs. Airman Doors?? Current _and_ former? Your husband is a busy man, and you are a very open-minded woman! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-on-sdmb/592543/27 "2011-08-14T03:10:58Z")
Disappointingly enough, Mid Atlantic Dopers – DC, MD, Penna., etc. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-on-sdmb/592543/28 "2011-08-14T08:04:45Z")
I went to [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=54559). Then [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=117363) happened. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-on-sdmb/592543/29 "2011-08-14T21:10:11Z")
Don’t make myself very well known these days, but my wife, **GeoBabe** , and I met through these boards and then at a MegaFest face to face, got married, procreated and all that. Not that anyone who joined after 2006 or so would recognize either one of us. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-on-sdmb/592543/30 "2011-08-14T22:07:36Z")
My husband goes by **ironghost** : he actually introduced me to the Dope. We met in an IRC chat room. He’s moved on to other boards, although he’ll pop in if I let him know about an interesting topic. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2011, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-on-sdmb/592543/31 "2011-08-15T01:18:11Z")
It seems that the wild and wooly days of the boards are long past, and we’re a more sedate and settled-down lot… ---
**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:** [August 15, 2011, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-on-sdmb/592543/32 "2011-08-15T01:29:47Z")
**Dread Pirate Jimbo** and I are married in real life - we didn’t meet here, but we did meet through an online website. He reads more than he posts, but I often direct him to a thread that he might find interesting (usually sports-related). We try to use some good etiquette here, too, and not be too obvious about our couple-hood. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2011, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-on-sdmb/592543/33 "2011-08-15T03:27:32Z")
**Suburban Plankton** and I are married IRL (18 yrs!). He joined before I did. I lurked longer. Our son who turned 13 this past week has just registered with the moniker **Ledzepkid**. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2011, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-on-sdmb/592543/34 "2011-08-15T16:21:22Z")
Well, years ago, my ex-wife (while she was still my wife) introduced me to the Dope. I became a regular, and she mostly drifted away from the board. Then we divorced. At the end of 2009, [this happened](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=545824), and as it happens, **jsgoddess** and I have been together ever since. And now we’re living together and engaged. Oh, sure sure – there are lots of other Doper couples on the board. We’re just the most awesome among them. 😃 (Actually, having met **Shayna** and her hubby in person on multiple occasions, I’ve always thought their story was one of the best.) ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-on-sdmb/592543/35 "2011-08-16T00:58:27Z")
I’ve been a member of the Dope for a number of years before I met **Acid Lamp** , whom I introduced to the boards. He seems to enjoy it here, but we met in meatspace. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2011, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-on-sdmb/592543/36 "2011-08-16T04:56:29Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > \ We’re just the most awesome among them. 😃 \ You guys haven’t met Jim and I yet (but we are planning a trip through California, probably next summer). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2011, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-on-sdmb/592543/37 "2011-08-28T00:57:17Z")
> [@MsRobyn](#): > > He turned nine on August 1. [Here is the announcement thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=128714). And Baby Kate, that little toddler you knew, started junior high two weeks ago. I could have sworn I was still in my 20s. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2011, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-on-sdmb/592543/38 "2011-08-28T01:02:26Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > You guys haven’t met Jim and I yet (but we are planning a trip through California, probably next summer). 😃 Sure, but by then, we’ll be a WHOLE YEAR more awesome than we are even now! 😃 ---
**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:** [August 28, 2011, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-on-sdmb/592543/39 "2011-08-28T01:32:12Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > Sure, but by then, we’ll be a WHOLE YEAR more awesome than we are even now! 😃 Dammit! Your logic is inescapable! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-on-sdmb/592543.md?page=1)