# Dopers keeping tabs on other Dopers... The DopeFiles. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 8, 2004, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-keeping-tabs-on-other-dopers-the-dopefiles/254176 "2004-07-08T21:48:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-keeping-tabs-on-other-dopers-the-dopefiles/254176/1 "2004-07-08T21:48:10Z")
I recently heard how many of you keep files that you update whenever a Doper mentions his/her birthday. I _know_ it doesn’t stop there!!! What other information are you guys keeping track of? Location, political views, marital status, likes/dislikes, occupation, kids, … who’s go the largest Doper File? And to those of you who _are_ keeping track. What information do you have saved about me? ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-keeping-tabs-on-other-dopers-the-dopefiles/254176/2 "2004-07-08T22:12:23Z")
> [@Bear\_Nenno](#): > > And to those of you who _are_ keeping track. What information do you have saved about me? That your nickname is Beer\_Nipples. 😃 Oh, and you’re in Florida. ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-keeping-tabs-on-other-dopers-the-dopefiles/254176/3 "2004-07-08T22:43:22Z")
> [@Bear\_Nenno](#): > > And to those of you who _are_ keeping track. What information do you have saved about me? That you have an _interesting_ family… ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-keeping-tabs-on-other-dopers-the-dopefiles/254176/4 "2004-07-08T23:09:21Z")
> [@Bear\_Nenno](#): > > What information do you have saved about me? That if I go to one of your family reunions, I shouldn’t expect to find any salt on the table. And the bucket of what I think is old rainwater is actually Gatorade. Put there _on purpose_. For the _ **children** _. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-keeping-tabs-on-other-dopers-the-dopefiles/254176/5 "2004-07-08T23:12:34Z")
I’ve also filed away a tidbit about **harmless**. She hates popcorn, soda and Kool-Aid, but loves Kahlua and Bailey’s. Just like me. She must have very discerning tastes. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-keeping-tabs-on-other-dopers-the-dopefiles/254176/6 "2004-07-08T23:19:56Z")
Now I’m curious about wha t people have on file about me! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-keeping-tabs-on-other-dopers-the-dopefiles/254176/7 "2004-07-08T23:26:26Z")
I, on the other hand, know exactly nothing about **Bear\_Napples** , weddings, cars on blocks, piles of tree stumps, rednecks who squander settlement checks, northern Florida in general, or children dipping Gatorade out of a bucket with the cap off a bottle of Sprite. And I guarandamntee nobody here knows anything about me, and I like it that way. ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-keeping-tabs-on-other-dopers-the-dopefiles/254176/8 "2004-07-08T23:38:22Z")
I don’t keep a file, but I have a good memory. For instance, **TeaElle** , you were once **tlw** , who lived in BTB, BPC, NYC. I got the BPC (Battery Park City, no?), but I never got the BTB. You’re a lawyer, right? Other Dopers with whom I interact ( **BiblioCat** , **JavaMaven1** , _et al._, I remember more – **Bib** ’s a teacher in Maryland (kindergarten, right?), and **Java** lives in LA County with her husband and is a cook by trade). Some more that come to mind: **Astorian** lives (puzzlingly enough) in Texas, not Astoria. **Bear** is really the IRL name our OP uses. I remember some of the gay male Dopers, (like **gobear, Homebrew, Mockingbird, Hamish, matt\_mcl, panache45, swampbear, Brandus, SolGrundy, DMark** ). I remember the genders of most of the Dopers who use ambiguous or misleading names. Just bits here and there. And of course, I remember most of the Dopers who live near me – **Ravenous Lady, bittersweet, Bear\_Nenno, Amp, Gamaliel, BrainGlutton, Lucretia / Bluesman, Shibb\_Oleth (whose name I always format incorrectly), Second Star to the Right, and Dan Turk** (cheating a little, since he lives with me). ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-keeping-tabs-on-other-dopers-the-dopefiles/254176/9 "2004-07-09T00:00:00Z")
And Bear Napples is somehow related to the Beverley Hillbillies. And his mother uses salt whereas he doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-keeping-tabs-on-other-dopers-the-dopefiles/254176/10 "2004-07-09T00:00:57Z")
;j ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-keeping-tabs-on-other-dopers-the-dopefiles/254176/11 "2004-07-09T00:07:40Z")
Jeeze, the mind plays wierd tricks. I was all set to make a snarky comment about J. Edger, and all I can hear is Ralphie Wiggum: “Miss Hoover???” ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-keeping-tabs-on-other-dopers-the-dopefiles/254176/12 "2004-07-09T01:27:41Z")
I bookmarked a bunch of posts by **Ryan\_Liam** for the purpose of putting together a humorous post about how a newbie should not behave. But it came off as being more cruel than humorous, so I never posted it. The family wedding thread definitely put **Bear\_Nipples** on my map. As a result of the “Attention Ho” thread, I now know an awful lot about **harmless**. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-keeping-tabs-on-other-dopers-the-dopefiles/254176/13 "2004-07-09T01:58:11Z")
> [@Bambi Hassenpfeffer](#): > > I remember some of the gay male Dopers, (like **gobear, Homebrew, Mockingbird, Hamish, matt\_mcl, panache45, swampbear, Brandus, SolGrundy, DMark** ). Who told you I was gay?!? I thought I’d been doing a pretty good job of keeping it under wraps. A friend told me: “I’m glad that you didn’t just come out of the closet, but burst out, tripping over the doorjamb and banging your head on the closet door.” Ah well. The novelty will wear off soon, hopefully. ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-keeping-tabs-on-other-dopers-the-dopefiles/254176/14 "2004-07-09T02:05:58Z")
> [@SolGrundy](#): > > Who told you I was gay?!? I thought I’d been doing a pretty good job of keeping it under wraps. [KANG] **I SEE ALL!** [/KANG] ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-keeping-tabs-on-other-dopers-the-dopefiles/254176/15 "2004-07-09T02:20:20Z")
you guys are freaking me out. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-keeping-tabs-on-other-dopers-the-dopefiles/254176/16 "2004-07-09T03:09:25Z")
I read the posts of **twickster** when I see them, because, as we discovered, we share the same birthday. Day _and_ year, we are exactly the same age. No, go figure it out yourself. But it’s easy. We are three days younger than Denzel Washington. ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-keeping-tabs-on-other-dopers-the-dopefiles/254176/17 "2004-07-09T03:18:51Z")
> [@lainaf](#): > > As a result of the “Attention Ho” thread, I now know an awful lot about **harmless**. You say that like it’s a _bad_ thing. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![flamingbananas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-keeping-tabs-on-other-dopers-the-dopefiles/254176/18 "2004-07-09T03:24:33Z")
Now I want to know what you people know about me. So dish! ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-keeping-tabs-on-other-dopers-the-dopefiles/254176/19 "2004-07-09T03:30:38Z")
> [@flamingbananas](#): > > Now I want to know what you people know about me. So dish! All I know is you’re way too young for me to be having this recurring fantasy about you, a swimming pool full of lime Jello, and a lemur on a leash. I may have said too much… **Baker** is a prison doctor, **Vivalostwages** lives in Kansas City, **SkipMagic** has met Phred Phelps, and \*\*Quodqop the Mercotan is a part time English professor married to **Aunti Em**. I may have a few things mixed up… ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-keeping-tabs-on-other-dopers-the-dopefiles/254176/20 "2004-07-09T03:33:41Z")
> [@flamingbananas](#): > > Now I want to know what you people know about me. So dish! I know you’re an Attention Ho wanna-be, with a penchant for aluminum foil who is currently going insane. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-keeping-tabs-on-other-dopers-the-dopefiles/254176.md?page=2)