# Have You Ever Recognized a Doper as Someone You Knew IRL?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-recognized-a-doper-as-someone-you-knew-irl/449130>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 13, 2008, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-recognized-a-doper-as-someone-you-knew-irl/449130 "2008-05-13T03:18:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![bathsheba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@bathsheba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bathsheba)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-recognized-a-doper-as-someone-you-knew-irl/449130/21 "2008-05-14T23:56:57Z")

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I noticed that my husband works for the same organisation as another poster here, which is a bit weird because there aren’t that many posters in our location.

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**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 15, 2008, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-recognized-a-doper-as-someone-you-knew-irl/449130/22 "2008-05-15T01:08:05Z")

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[QUOTE=Ellen Cherry]  
What does it prove? Both of those terms are certainly not exclusive to Straight Dope.  
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Umm…I don’t really think Bob Costas is a Doper (nor Drew Carey, for that matter). I believe the operative word here is “joke”.

Just because it wasn’t funny doesn’t mean I wasn’t kidding

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