Every once in a while, because I live just outside the Twin Cities, and in many ways it still is a small town, I notice the other posters are from the area. I am sure if we ever had a Dopefest here, there would be at least one vaguely crossed path through the years. It’s almost a hobby around here, trying to find a connection to someone you meet, and sometimes you won’t rest until you find one. Where do you live? Where did you grow up? Where did you go to college? Where do you work? What was your maiden name? Usually by then some connection has been established, and the threat of stranger-ness has been mitigated. We can then all proceed to get drunk and make pompous asses out of ourselves while discussing the merits of hotdish and the need for someone to go shoot that Garrison Keillor guy.
That would be be me! How’d you do in finals?
You started a thread a long time ago about Alpine Village, and it turned out we were there on the same sparsely-attended day as well.
Someday we will actually meet and talk.
I live in a small town, but it disproportionately contains about five regular posters and at least one lurker. It seems strange that I haven’t managed to find on yet. Although, I could already have found them. This is creepy.
I know there are a couple of posters who live in Victoria, but I don’t know them in Real Life. So, nope.
Impossible. All Dopers but me are Turing-test-capable AI programs.
That’s not just on the SDMB; it’s everyone you know. Take the red pill.
Nope, but when AwSnappity joined up (as Fireunderpantsboobs), I strongly suspected her of being an ex-but-still-friends-girlfriend from college (same locale, similar attitudes and interests). When I asked the ex about it, though, she said she’d heard of the place but doesn’t post here.
There are 5 regular posters in Kamloops? Who are the other 4? :dubious:
I think my cosmology professor in college was a Doper; at least, I think she made a passing remark or two to things I remember reading about from the SD columns. I never actually asked her, though.
There’s others, too? Cool!
Yup. And I can’t believe I didn’t realize it sooner, considering the username. :smack:
I don’t currently know anyone that posts here (well, that I am aware of) but I am moving to NYC in a few months and I think it would be neat to get a chance to meet some of the people from the city that post here once I move.
I went to college with Bambi Heissenfeffer
Was that you I knocked over getting onto the packed Q37 the other day?
Considering the way the only other Spaniard I know of around here thinks and the ways my friends and relatives think…
Uh-oh.
David? Is that you?
Unless it is no, I don’t know of anybody “irl” who reads the Dope.
No, but I’ve googled stuff unrelated to the Dope, and I’ve hit a Doper’s website. I’ve also stumbled across one on an Australian railway board I visit.
Nope. However, I suspect I WOULD have met matt_mcl anyway, we have so many random friends in common.
I discovered I knew Scuba_Ben when he posted about a poker game we both played.
Ohhh, was that **you ** that I gave my best angry-black-man-eyes-of-daggers-don’t-you-dare-make-me-slap-you-'cause-I-don’t-want-to-break-a-Lee-Press-On-nail glare to? 
Naw, man, I’m generally a (Manhattan) subway and PATH train (and occasional NJ Transit #126 bus) kind of guy, but perhaps one day. Perhaps one fateful day indeed. 
Okay, this was cool – we were talking about “dope-slapping” here at the office, so I went to Urban Dictionary for a definition – and who wrote it but (I assume our own) JonathanChance – link. (What adds layers of delightfulness to this bit of serendipity is that Johnathan Chance is someone whose advice I sought when I was applying for this job – so the fact that I’m in this office to be having this conversation is due to him.)