# Dopers whom you have never met, but would like to **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 24, 2026, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whom-you-have-never-met-but-would-like-to/1030346 "2026-05-24T08:39:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whom-you-have-never-met-but-would-like-to/1030346/21 "2026-05-24T20:57:16Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > @ParallelLines who seems to be my twin from another continent, we need to finally hash out who’s the evil one. I would be honored to attend with you, but I haven’t even managed to meet up with the few Colorado Dopers yet! Plus, I’m having existential doubt on one of us being the evil twin. On the current global scale I’m not sure we can qualify. We may have to settle for “sauntered vaguely downwards” twin. ---
**Author:** ![themapleleaf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/themapleleaf/32/14349_2.png) [@themapleleaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/themapleleaf)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whom-you-have-never-met-but-would-like-to/1030346/22 "2026-05-24T21:02:35Z")
@Hari_Seldon Thank you for sharing. A lot of good men crossed the border into Canada in that era. @Dung_Beetle Anytime. There are individual posters that make an impression. Definitely on these forums. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whom-you-have-never-met-but-would-like-to/1030346/23 "2026-05-24T21:07:14Z")
> [@Treppenwitz](#): > > I’ve never read a post by @Ann_Hedonia that I didn’t enjoy. Seconded. And there is something about @Gatopescado 's succinct posts that gets me every time. Looks like somebody with whom you could drink a beer or two without wasting too many words. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whom-you-have-never-met-but-would-like-to/1030346/24 "2026-05-24T21:08:33Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > Plus, I’m having existential doubt on one of us being the evil twin. On the current global scale I’m not sure we can qualify. We may have to settle for “sauntered vaguely downwards” twin. Well, there’s evil and then there’s _evil_. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whom-you-have-never-met-but-would-like-to/1030346/25 "2026-05-24T21:24:28Z")
I’d love to meet ALL the MUMPers, But especially dogbutler. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whom-you-have-never-met-but-would-like-to/1030346/26 "2026-05-24T21:27:04Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I have to say I’d include @aurora_maire just because of her contributions to the monthly photo thread. Speaking of which, how about @Mean_Mr.Mustard ? Ah, thanks. I imagine it would be really fun to get all the photographers together to shoot an event like a festival or some cool space to see all the different perspectives everyone would come up with. I bet we’d have a blast. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whom-you-have-never-met-but-would-like-to/1030346/27 "2026-05-24T21:52:37Z")
I have met @dogbutler. You’re right to want to do that. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whom-you-have-never-met-but-would-like-to/1030346/28 "2026-05-24T21:58:07Z")
I want to meet the large contingent of Doper’s with great culinary skills (@pulykamell and @solost among them and in this thread), especially the smokers and bakers. Ideally at a venue where they can be forc… _persuaded_ to prepare their specialties for us. I will then also pick various brains and steal recipes even if they are to be guarded unto death. A week should be enough glutto… _research_ and conviviality! And those Doper’s in the know on quality alcohol will also be invited to share their stocks and skills! … make that two weeks. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whom-you-have-never-met-but-would-like-to/1030346/29 "2026-05-24T22:00:30Z")
🍻 On Me! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whom-you-have-never-met-but-would-like-to/1030346/30 "2026-05-24T22:10:40Z")
There are a few I’d hate to meet in a dark alley. But generally, everyone. Y’all come. 😀 ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whom-you-have-never-met-but-would-like-to/1030346/31 "2026-05-24T22:34:09Z")
I want to meet @Sherlock Preferable nowhere near Reichenbach Falls, though. It’s slippery! ---
**Author:** ![Apodder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apodder/32/17727_2.png) [@Apodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apodder)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whom-you-have-never-met-but-would-like-to/1030346/32 "2026-05-24T22:51:06Z")
This was a fun thread! ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whom-you-have-never-met-but-would-like-to/1030346/33 "2026-05-24T23:04:58Z")
I’ve only had the chance to meet a few Dopers in-person: @pulykamell and the now-inactive @WordMan , for drinks at a local hotel maybe 15 years ago, @Qadgop_the_Mercotan for lunch a year or two ago (we need to do that again one of these days!), and @penultima_thule during his U.S. driving tour. I don’t feel the need to name more names, but if we’ve interacted regularly (and positively) in the past, you’re likely to be someone I’d enjoy meeting. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whom-you-have-never-met-but-would-like-to/1030346/34 "2026-05-24T23:52:58Z")
@dogbutler I would like to meet. I think we’re on a similar wavelength. @purplehorseshoe Same. I did meet @penultima_thule and @thorny_locust a couple years ago during Penultima’s tour of the US. Was a very nice afternoon. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whom-you-have-never-met-but-would-like-to/1030346/35 "2026-05-24T23:53:46Z")
There are just so many I’d like to meet. I always enjoy posts from @Broomstick and I’d love to meet @puzzlegal . ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2026, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whom-you-have-never-met-but-would-like-to/1030346/36 "2026-05-25T00:05:34Z")
> [@Paintcharge](#): > > @dogbutler I would like to meet. I think we’re on a similar wavelength. To quote _Yellowbeard_, “With your head on my shoulders, we could wreck civilization!” ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2026, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whom-you-have-never-met-but-would-like-to/1030346/37 "2026-05-25T00:13:11Z")
Dopers I have actually met: @DrStrangelove. I enjoyed our chat at a Spacex launch. Dopers I will probably meet: @WordMan. He’s just up the coast, I know where he works, and I promised him a go at one of my guitars. He took up residence at The Gear Page after he left here and I joined in the convos there for a while. Dopers I would like to meet: plenty, would be unfair to single anyone out. Doper I most want to meet: @Super_Kapowzler I think he’d be a riot. And shit. We could meet up with @Snowboarder_Bo and throw shit into the quarry. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2026, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whom-you-have-never-met-but-would-like-to/1030346/38 "2026-05-25T00:30:10Z")
> [@Pork\_Rind](#): > > Doper I most want to meet: @Super_Kapowzler I think he’d be a riot. And shit. Alas, not seen here since 2013. That last load of weed must have been primo. And shit. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2026, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whom-you-have-never-met-but-would-like-to/1030346/39 "2026-05-25T00:44:23Z")
> [@Paintcharge](#): > > I did meet @penultima_thule and @thorny_locust a couple years ago during Penultima’s tour of the US. Was a very nice afternoon. It was indeed. Please try to schedule this all-expenses-paid fest sometime between November and March, so it won’t be during main farming season here and I can come. I’d like to meet way too many of you to list. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2026, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whom-you-have-never-met-but-would-like-to/1030346/40 "2026-05-25T02:27:47Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I’ve only had the chance to meet a few Dopers in-person: @pulykamell and the now-inactive @WordMan , for drinks at a local hotel maybe 15 years ago, I remember that! That was a good time. I’ve met a few others in person. The most random one was @Gundy. I had moved back to the US and I got a temp job at accounts receivable at a window company, and I overheard her talking on the phone in the cubicle next to me about a party for some nerdy message board and I peeked over her cubicle and said: “Excuse me, I couldn’t help but overhear. Were you by any chance talking about the Straight Dope Message Board?” She looked at me blankly, paused, and said “what’s your screen name?” What were the odds? I’m still waiting to meet @Qadgop_the_Mercotan. We’ve had a near miss or two, and I hope one day on my trips to Wisconsin we’ll finally make it happen (hopefully at that pizza place!) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whom-you-have-never-met-but-would-like-to/1030346.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-whom-you-have-never-met-but-would-like-to/1030346.md?page=3)