# How did the Old Dopers find out about OpalCat's passing? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 13, 2013, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-the-old-dopers-find-out-about-opalcats-passing/652873 "2013-03-13T23:51:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-the-old-dopers-find-out-about-opalcats-passing/652873/21 "2013-03-14T04:04:22Z")
Phone call from a member of the juggler community. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-the-old-dopers-find-out-about-opalcats-passing/652873/22 "2013-03-14T04:08:51Z")
_runs around like mad hugging everyone_ Don’t go! ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-the-old-dopers-find-out-about-opalcats-passing/652873/23 "2013-03-14T08:25:59Z")
Huh? SDMB has a FB page? And not ONE of you thought to tell me about it? Geez, thanks fer’ nothing. 😃 :: waddles off to find the page :: BBS. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-the-old-dopers-find-out-about-opalcats-passing/652873/24 "2013-03-14T08:58:25Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > Huh? SDMB has a FB page? My thought as well. I had no idea such a thing existed. Just because I’m curious–where is this page? ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-the-old-dopers-find-out-about-opalcats-passing/652873/25 "2013-03-14T09:00:29Z")
I can’t find it…well, I CAN find a SDMB info page on FB, but nothing with postings. ---
**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:** [March 14, 2013, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-the-old-dopers-find-out-about-opalcats-passing/652873/26 "2013-03-14T09:07:44Z")
Was it this one? [Straight Dopers | Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/groups/2408464343/) ---
**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:** [March 14, 2013, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-the-old-dopers-find-out-about-opalcats-passing/652873/27 "2013-03-14T11:07:59Z")
Yeah, thassit. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-the-old-dopers-find-out-about-opalcats-passing/652873/28 "2013-03-14T11:16:20Z")
I’m pretty active here but was given the heads-up on FB from another Old Doper. It’s nice to see all the old usernames popping up to pay tribute. Maybe a few of them will stick around for a while. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-the-old-dopers-find-out-about-opalcats-passing/652873/29 "2013-03-14T12:56:03Z")
I only very rarely stop in here these days. However, I still “see” a shitload of Old Dopers regularly on Livejournal and on facebook (I am also lucky enough to see some of them in real life on a regular basis, despite living far apart). It was a livejournal post from Geobabe that alerted me to the news. I decided to come contribute to the thread when I heard on facebook that there were a number of old timers coming back to do the same. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-the-old-dopers-find-out-about-opalcats-passing/652873/30 "2013-03-14T13:03:57Z")
> [@Eliahna](#): > > Was it this one? [Straight Dopers | Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/groups/2408464343/) Ah ha! Turns out my Notifications on that page were set so that my newsfeeds shows me posts there from “Friends only”. That’s why I forgot about the page. Fixed it! ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Cymbeline](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_cymbeline/32/9244_2.png) [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-the-old-dopers-find-out-about-opalcats-passing/652873/31 "2013-03-14T13:33:27Z")
Hi everyone. Here is a thread I just posted to plan some sort of memorial for OpalCat in the DC area: [DC/Virginia/Maryland area memorial for OpalCat – planning thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=685149) Please check it out and post if you are interested or have ideas. I also want to give another shout-out to the Facebook SDMB page, please join if you haven’t already: [Straight Dopers | Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/groups/2408464343/) ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-the-old-dopers-find-out-about-opalcats-passing/652873/32 "2013-03-14T13:45:16Z")
I read about it here. I lurk, but rarely post anymore (here or anywhere else). I don’t post much anymore (here or anywhere else) because it’s gotten so snarky (here and everywhere else). ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-the-old-dopers-find-out-about-opalcats-passing/652873/33 "2013-03-14T13:50:01Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > Huh? SDMB has a FB page? > > And not ONE of you thought to tell me about it? > > Geez, thanks fer’ nothing. 😃 > > :: waddles off to find the page :: > > BBS. I was just going to post the same thing! Well, ok, not the waddling part. I knew there is a Ravelry SDMB group, but never heard tell of the Facebook option. Wow. ::limps off to search for page:: ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-the-old-dopers-find-out-about-opalcats-passing/652873/34 "2013-03-14T13:54:52Z")
I heard about Opal’s death through a trivia game I play with some Fathomites. I’d pretty much dropped out of the whole messageboard thing last year, but this made me try to get on Fathom to see what was there. Lots of connection problems there, so I logged onto the Giraffe Board to see if they had anything, which then led me here. ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-the-old-dopers-find-out-about-opalcats-passing/652873/35 "2013-03-14T14:29:41Z")
I just learned about it in this thread, just now. :sad: ---
**Author:** ![Tristam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/71c47a/32.png) [@Tristam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristam)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-the-old-dopers-find-out-about-opalcats-passing/652873/36 "2013-03-14T16:39:28Z")
> [@slackergirl](#): > > I heard it from geobabe on LiveJournal and then FaceBook. It’s so weird to be back here - so much has changed, and so much hasn’t. Good to see so many people from the past. That’s pretty much the trail that led me here as well. ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-the-old-dopers-find-out-about-opalcats-passing/652873/37 "2013-03-14T17:54:11Z")
I had gotten a call from my sister, **Anita Vacation** , who was pretty close friends with **Opal** , so Opal’s husband had called her to let her know. Then my husband started the thread, and I posted a link on Facebook, since I have a ton of friends from here on there. I realized I hadn’t even been to the boards in several years (and my next-to-last prior post was in the thread announcing that **danceswithcats** had died ☹ ). ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-the-old-dopers-find-out-about-opalcats-passing/652873/38 "2013-03-14T18:13:32Z")
> [@Winston\_Smith](#): > > [everything]…because it’s gotten so snarky (here and everywhere else). You’ve always been one of my faves. FWIW I had intended to have my last post be the dungeon thread and to basically bail on this place because I don’t fit here. Just happened to be weaning myself while lurking when I saw the Bye Opal thread. Popping in now to contribute to her Bye thread, then I’m back off the skag–Gonna do it right this time. Gonna get it sorted out, get off it for good. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-the-old-dopers-find-out-about-opalcats-passing/652873/39 "2013-03-14T18:25:51Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > You’ve always been one of my faves. FWIW I had intended to have my last post be the dungeon thread and to basically bail on this place because I don’t fit here. Just happened to be weaning myself while lurking when I saw the Bye Opal thread. Popping in now to contribute to her Bye thread, then I’m back off the skag–Gonna do it right this time. Gonna get it sorted out, get off it for good. Nothing endures but change. I’ve drifted in and out of here a few times over the years, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-the-old-dopers-find-out-about-opalcats-passing/652873/40 "2013-03-14T18:35:33Z")
> [@InternetLegend](#): > > “Old Dopers”… for some reason, I get a very vivid picture in my head of a Star Trek or Twilight Zone-type cave full of beings that have evolved into wise creatures with giant glowing heads. I’d assumed they all just _knew_. I picture them more like the Mystics from The Dark Crystal. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-the-old-dopers-find-out-about-opalcats-passing/652873.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-the-old-dopers-find-out-about-opalcats-passing/652873.md?page=3)