# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-idd-another-doper/648107/61 "2013-01-24T19:05:34Z")
I personally know Cecil. He’s 13 feet tall and can heat soup with only his mind. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-idd-another-doper/648107/62 "2013-01-24T19:23:25Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > I personally know Cecil. He’s 13 feet tall and can heat soup with only his mind. I can heat soup with my stove, a microwave, a campfire … ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-idd-another-doper/648107/63 "2013-01-24T19:40:10Z")
**ITR Champion** and I were in the same class at college. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-idd-another-doper/648107/64 "2013-01-24T21:50:20Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Cool! Remember the old joke about “Rose”? That big noise you heard was a huge WOOSH going right over my head. My husband screwed up our TV this morning and we’ve now spent more than 12 hours trying to make things right/get them back to normal. He’s a total luddite and I’m kinda stupid - but at least I figured out how to actually DO it so that’s why my brain can’t wrap itself around what you said. As if anyone cares. But thanks! Maybe! I can’t remember. GOD what a day. 😃 ---
**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 24, 2013, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-idd-another-doper/648107/65 "2013-01-24T22:17:42Z")
Not exactly, but by meeting a local Doper on the boards I realized I worked with his wife. We’re all friends now IRL. ---
**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:** [January 24, 2013, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-idd-another-doper/648107/66 "2013-01-24T22:23:02Z")
All those debates I had with that total nimrod… who turned out to be my wife online in the next room! not really **Doc Jack** , good one. 😃 . ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2013, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-idd-another-doper/648107/67 "2013-01-25T20:08:21Z")
**General Mung Beans** over on CF used to be (a different) Aur Force general here before becoming Emperor of China. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2013, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-idd-another-doper/648107/68 "2013-01-25T20:25:10Z")
> [@Missy2U](#): > > Ok, I just spent some time searching. I am, apparently, also related to **Meatros.** That’s not who I was thinking of when I posted it the first time, though. But, in any event, **Howdy, Meatros! Looks like we might be cousins!** 😃 > > Extremely distant cousins, but cousins all the same. Eh? My brain is foggy. What are you talking about? What’s my first name? ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2013, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-idd-another-doper/648107/69 "2013-01-25T20:33:19Z")
> [@Meatros](#): > > Eh? > > My brain is foggy. What are you talking about? > > What’s my first name? We’re both distantly related to Edgar Alan Poe. You posted about it a few years ago. I have no idea what your name is. 🙂 [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5642165&postcount=14](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5642165&postcount=14) ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2013, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-idd-another-doper/648107/70 "2013-01-25T20:35:18Z")
> [@Missy2U](#): > > We’re both distantly related to Edgar Alan Poe. You posted about it a few years ago. I have no idea what your name is. 🙂 > > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5642165&postcount=14](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5642165&postcount=14) Ah, okay - I was stumped as to what you might be referring to. Okay, that makes sense. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2013, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-idd-another-doper/648107/71 "2013-01-25T20:37:53Z")
I’ve been the ID-ee. While reading a thread a couple of years ago, fellow doper _Philliam_ realized that TreacherousCretin sounded like his cousin’s husband. A glance at my profile confirmed his suspicion. Neither of us had known about the other’s StraightDopery; He recognized me by what I was saying. We live in different states, and he waited a couple of months to unmask me at a family gathering. Made me feel like Superman and Batman (50’s comic book versions) sharing secret indentities or something. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-idd-another-doper/648107.md?page=3)