# Doperspotting on the Web. Ever run into anyone? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 8, 2003, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperspotting-on-the-web-ever-run-into-anyone/147254 "2003-01-08T05:00:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperspotting-on-the-web-ever-run-into-anyone/147254/21 "2003-01-08T18:48:55Z")
I saw a Patrick Malone in third place [here](http://www.redmeat.com/redmeat/meatwagon/index.html) but I think it’s a false positive. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperspotting-on-the-web-ever-run-into-anyone/147254/22 "2003-01-08T20:10:20Z")
I’m sure that someone from the newspaer I buy read this board, andthe staff reports and Cecils columns as I often see stuff appear in there a few days after being on the SD. I’ll not spam the paper but the coincidences are sometimes very remarkable. ---
**Author:** ![Ceejaytee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ceejaytee/32/2956_2.png) [@Ceejaytee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ceejaytee)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperspotting-on-the-web-ever-run-into-anyone/147254/23 "2003-01-08T20:18:50Z")
I bumped into **hedra** on a mommies-to-be board. I looked at her profile here and there to make sure it was the same person (how many lower-case **hedra** s could there be?). Her son was born about 3 weeks before mine. We still both post on both boards. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperspotting-on-the-web-ever-run-into-anyone/147254/24 "2003-01-08T21:29:58Z")
I have run across **dtilque** at the wordplay message board, **samclem** at the word origins message board, and quondam Doper **jois** at sci.anthropology.paleo. Internet searches I do often turn up pages written by **The Bad Astronomer** , **bbeaty** , and some guy named **Cecil Adams**. ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperspotting-on-the-web-ever-run-into-anyone/147254/25 "2003-01-08T22:29:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by loneraven \* > \*\*I got a few comments on my Livejournal from **imthjckaz** a while ago, and as I’m a newbie here, it took me _forever_ to figure out how he knew me. \*\* It’s called stalking. 😉 Heh, I kinda sorta remember that. But I thought I responded to a comment you made in third party journal. Memory is fuzzy, fading, fading…fading…fading… ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperspotting-on-the-web-ever-run-into-anyone/147254/26 "2003-01-08T22:53:48Z")
\Tamerlane\ is a Bronzer, as am I. The Bronze Camp is my “primary” board. We both posted at the old EB Bronze before it was shut down. I know there are other Bronze Campers who read the Straightdope, but I don’t know if they post here. Not under their BC names, anyway. StG ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperspotting-on-the-web-ever-run-into-anyone/147254/27 "2003-01-08T22:55:14Z")
I _hate_ vB code. ---
**Author:** ![Skerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperspotting-on-the-web-ever-run-into-anyone/147254/28 "2003-01-08T23:25:31Z")
My experience wasn’t online, but I think I may have run across the same **Wonko the Sane** in a magazine that I read. Unless that’s a common nickname, like a character reference or something. It was odd, because when I read the article, I didn’t picture someone from the SDMB writing about the subject matter. ---
**Author:** ![Treviathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@Treviathan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treviathan)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperspotting-on-the-web-ever-run-into-anyone/147254/29 "2003-01-09T01:02:09Z")
Judging by some of the topics he’s participated in here, I’m inclined to believe that the **Jonathan Chance** of the SDMB is the same one I’ve run across at [baseballprimer.com](http://baseballprimer.com). ---
**Author:** ![dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dreamer)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperspotting-on-the-web-ever-run-into-anyone/147254/30 "2003-01-09T05:27:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DeadlyAccurate \* > \*\*Not the Web so much, but **dreamer** and I ended up at the same house in The Sims Online just the other day. \*\* Yeah, I think the Sims game and other things in life have taken me away from this board but running into you there brought me back and it’s refreshing, in a strange kind of way 😉 ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperspotting-on-the-web-ever-run-into-anyone/147254/31 "2003-01-09T05:38:59Z")
I have run across **jinwicked** on the CafePress boards. I know that at least one doper has run across my bubblewrap page, because there was a thread started about it. ---
**Author:** ![straykat23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@straykat23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/straykat23)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperspotting-on-the-web-ever-run-into-anyone/147254/32 "2003-01-09T05:48:31Z")
I saw a post by **tequila mockingbird** on the Flying Tiger Line reunion site. ---
**Author:** ![Petter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/dbc845/32.png) [@Petter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petter)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperspotting-on-the-web-ever-run-into-anyone/147254/33 "2003-01-09T06:40:08Z")
I noticed **Vanyel** ’s posts after he mentioned [www.dapcentral.org](http://www.dapcentral.org), a site I visit as well. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperspotting-on-the-web-ever-run-into-anyone/147254/34 "2003-01-09T07:51:30Z")
If it’s any help, the other name I tend to use online is Criticalpedestrian. But I don’t really go nuts on many other boards, and on not on any newsgroups. If anyone is a big fan of Tops in Blue you’ve probably come across my mom’s boyfriend (Xenon, unless he posts as something else in that context). ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperspotting-on-the-web-ever-run-into-anyone/147254/35 "2003-01-09T08:12:36Z")
This thread made me think of Technosphere - remember all the creatures running around with \_SDMB appended to their names? I’m shocked to discover I still have some living Skitty\_SDMB creatures! ---
**Author:** ![Primaflora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Primaflora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Primaflora)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperspotting-on-the-web-ever-run-into-anyone/147254/36 "2003-01-09T08:58:13Z")
DarkWriter on a writer’s mailing list – well, I’m fairly certain it’s the same one 🙂 I came across a Tequila Mockingbird on the Sybermoms site but I don’t know if it is the same one. There was a Larry Mudd at HipMama before it went down. ---
**Author:** ![RenegadeLibrarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f08c70/32.png) [@RenegadeLibrarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RenegadeLibrarian)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperspotting-on-the-web-ever-run-into-anyone/147254/37 "2003-01-09T11:31:02Z")
I, too, found JinWicked’s page long before I knew she was a doper. Now I visit her page semi-regularly. Now, if only I had the disposable income to buy some of her paintings! ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperspotting-on-the-web-ever-run-into-anyone/147254/38 "2003-01-09T14:33:03Z")
There are a few Dopers I remember from my time on another forum, where I was also Legomancer. To help others know if they’ve spotted me: - I pretty much always go by Legomancer, though there are others now (grumble - there weren’t when I first started). I don’t play quake, so the one who does isn’t me. - I used to be on the MUD ‘Medievia’ as Beebo. - Back in my BBS days in New Orleans and Baton Rouge, I went by several aliases, but the most notable were Eric the Penguin, The Rainmaker, Gothic Wombat, Ballpoint Pig, and Tequila Mockingbird (no relation). - Yes, I’m the Legomancer from the “All Your Base” video. I did the one with the kid writing on the chalkboard. - Yes, I own [legomancer.net](http://legomancer.net) - I could post my real name, but it’s easy enough to find out. ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperspotting-on-the-web-ever-run-into-anyone/147254/39 "2003-01-09T17:25:52Z")
I was reading the Absurd Notions message board today and saw someone named **Wikkit** there. No clue if it’s the same one. ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperspotting-on-the-web-ever-run-into-anyone/147254/40 "2003-01-09T17:39:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Skerri \* > \*\*My experience wasn’t online, but I think I may have run across the same **Wonko the Sane** in a magazine that I read. Unless that’s a common nickname, like a character reference or something. It was odd, because when I read the article, I didn’t picture someone from the SDMB writing about the subject matter. \*\* “Wonko the Sane” is a character from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy books. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperspotting-on-the-web-ever-run-into-anyone/147254.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperspotting-on-the-web-ever-run-into-anyone/147254.md?page=3)