# Have you ever ID'd another Doper? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 23, 2013, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-idd-another-doper/648107 "2013-01-23T14:37:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-idd-another-doper/648107/1 "2013-01-23T14:37:10Z")
As someone you actually knew, somebody you had “met” before on another board or as a public figure? ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-idd-another-doper/648107/2 "2013-01-23T14:48:34Z")
I recognized **matt\_mcl** , at least I’m pretty sure I know who he is at another website, though I’ve never met him in real life. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-idd-another-doper/648107/3 "2013-01-23T15:08:34Z")
I knew a certain Doper from two other boards, though she posted under a different name. She made herself known to me via a PM. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-idd-another-doper/648107/4 "2013-01-23T15:08:38Z")
I’ve recognized several Dopers on other boards I frequent. Of course, it helps that they kept the same screen name. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-idd-another-doper/648107/5 "2013-01-23T15:33:30Z")
Yep. There’s a poster here who has posted at a local blog that I also post at. I’m 80+% sure it’s the same person. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-idd-another-doper/648107/6 "2013-01-23T15:42:41Z")
I’d been hemming and hawing about emailing a girl on OKCupid and was about to ask for advice about my dilemma in the Online Dating Advice thread (a thread in which I was very active at the time). Literally, right before I was about to ask my question, through an odd coincidence, I realized the girl I had a question about was another doper, also very active doper in that thread. :smack: We did end up meeting IRL a few days later. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-idd-another-doper/648107/7 "2013-01-23T15:46:08Z")
A few Xmases ago, I ran into a guy at SantaCon/Santarchy. I forget now how we figured out who we each were, but it was cool. ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-idd-another-doper/648107/8 "2013-01-23T16:19:30Z")
I know **Shot From Guns** from a long-defunct website. I didn’t realize it until someone linked to an old photo in her Livejournal in order to win argument points. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-idd-another-doper/648107/9 "2013-01-23T16:22:29Z")
> [@MegaBee](#): > > I know **Shot From Guns** from a long-defunct website. I didn’t realize it until someone linked to an old photo in her Livejournal in order to win argument points. It was Shot From Guns for me to. She has been around these parts in a long time. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-idd-another-doper/648107/10 "2013-01-23T16:47:48Z")
SamClem ---- once I read a couple of his responses it was easy to see where our paths had crossed IRL. Although we haven’t seen each other since then. Hmmmmmm – makes ya wonder 😃 ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-idd-another-doper/648107/11 "2013-01-23T17:02:56Z")
The reverse for me… an old friend of mine who lurks here knew who I was an followed my posting history but I had no idea until just recently that she even knew about this place. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-idd-another-doper/648107/12 "2013-01-23T17:07:28Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I’ve recognized several Dopers on other boards I frequent. Of course, it helps that they kept the same screen name. 😃 Same here. A few because of the same screen name and one or two because I read a post here and thought “Wait a minute…didn’t I JUST read this somewhere else?” ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-idd-another-doper/648107/13 "2013-01-23T17:09:09Z")
The closest would be becoming more aware of Jim Beaver after he wrote his reply to the George Reeve story. I realized what a good writer he is and not just a character actor. I don’t think he has posted here after that but I follow him on facebook and enjoy his reviews of old movies. I met several Dopers at the one Dopefest I attended. No way I would have known them if they hadn’t identified themselves. ETA: I meant that before he posted here I knew Jim Beaver as “that guy” afterwards I was tuned into who he was and took note of him a lot more. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-idd-another-doper/648107/14 "2013-01-23T17:29:14Z")
Yeah, I met Clothahump at a Houston gathering and after he gave me his business card I realized he’d dated my sister in th 1960s. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-idd-another-doper/648107/15 "2013-01-23T17:41:56Z")
I’ve run across a couple of OKCupid profiles of dopers, and not from the threads on the topic. I was chatting with a friend-of-a-friend a few years ago and the subject of urban myths came up. That got us talking about snopes and I mentioned the SDMB. She knew someone else who posted here, and told me the screen name, but I can’t remember it anymore. If any of you used to know a librarian in Oregon named Jackie, PM me. ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-idd-another-doper/648107/16 "2013-01-23T17:53:33Z")
The IT guy at a company I used to work for registered here, presumably after monitoring internet usage of the employees. It was his exact email address minus the @etc. I once also caught him with a Star Wars page up on his laptop - a page I semi-regularly visited. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2013, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-idd-another-doper/648107/17 "2013-01-23T18:11:15Z")
Not directly. It became clear through some threads a long time ago that **anu-la1979** and I worked within two blocks of one another and also were on the subway at about the same time, so it was very likely that we had crossed paths prior to meeting in person as Dopers. But I can’t prove it. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-idd-another-doper/648107/18 "2013-01-23T18:21:44Z")
> [@Ringo](#): > > Yeah, I met Clothahump at a Houston gathering and after he gave me his business card I realized he’d dated my sister in th 1960s. He had THAT on his business card? :eek: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-idd-another-doper/648107/19 "2013-01-23T18:42:25Z")
> [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > He had THAT on his business card? :eek: > > 😃 I suppose it’s better then: **John Smith** _Systems Analyst, Initek_ I banged your mom. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-idd-another-doper/648107/20 "2013-01-23T18:43:19Z")
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